Brief Subreality Rant
Jan. 27th, 2007 02:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddog'Cause, you know, nobody really care about Subreality, so it's fallen apart somewhat but...
Okay, Subreality is supposed to be a place between fiction and reality where characters, muses, writers, etc, hang out. When I got into it, I was more in it for the massive crossovers that resulted in all these different characters running around. I never felt the urge to write myself as some amazing writer/author character, aside from the odd reference.
What bothers the heck out of me when people toss their author selves into the Subreality is when many of them now play the "I'm a Christan and God decided to put me on this path" card. Now, I understand that if you're religious, you may personally feel that it's wrong to claim all of the glory to yourself without giving credit to the Lord when He's the reason that you have these talents.
I'm religious too and I totally get that. This is probably the writers trying to humble themselves, but never feels quite right. It either comes across as the writer being pretentious or that the author is casting their pearls before swine. And there's also the fact that... it's not really the time or place.
If you had a character who was religious, odds are she or he wouldn't soapbox all the time and you'd use example, action and other writing tricks to express the character trait. Why is it somehow correct if you're portraying yourself? And people wonder why I don't like writers in Subreality fics - they're BORING.
Now, if you excuse me, I have an electoral campaign in Subreality to crash.
Okay, Subreality is supposed to be a place between fiction and reality where characters, muses, writers, etc, hang out. When I got into it, I was more in it for the massive crossovers that resulted in all these different characters running around. I never felt the urge to write myself as some amazing writer/author character, aside from the odd reference.
What bothers the heck out of me when people toss their author selves into the Subreality is when many of them now play the "I'm a Christan and God decided to put me on this path" card. Now, I understand that if you're religious, you may personally feel that it's wrong to claim all of the glory to yourself without giving credit to the Lord when He's the reason that you have these talents.
I'm religious too and I totally get that. This is probably the writers trying to humble themselves, but never feels quite right. It either comes across as the writer being pretentious or that the author is casting their pearls before swine. And there's also the fact that... it's not really the time or place.
If you had a character who was religious, odds are she or he wouldn't soapbox all the time and you'd use example, action and other writing tricks to express the character trait. Why is it somehow correct if you're portraying yourself? And people wonder why I don't like writers in Subreality fics - they're BORING.
Now, if you excuse me, I have an electoral campaign in Subreality to crash.
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Date: 2007-01-29 03:06 am (UTC)Of course, I can see this going completely wrong, but it could be funny.