Blegh. And double blegh.
Feb. 22nd, 2004 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estiroseI am getting zilch email on my calweb account. That means no spam, but also it means I never saw the weekly Camfic email or two review alerts for Building Family: Ancient History. I've been transferring every single thing I can think of to estirose.net so I don't lose any more mail.
In the meantime, I got this... interesting 'review' of BF: AH off of fanfiction.net.
From: anonymous user()
i just like to say that i like the way the brotherly relationship between blake, hunter, and cam is developing. those three are usually the ones who have problems. but lately i noticed that all the problems and stories about drama, angst are usually coming from the thunder brothers. i want cam to have a problem to share with the thunder brothers. and i have an idea for one. i used to have this problem. i had an eating disorder called anorexia. this eating disorder is one where your starve yourself. it was the most miserable time of my life. i felt dizzy, i felt like fainting sometimes, whenever i ate i tried to make myself throw up, i went down to an unhealthy weight (i was 13, was 5 ft. 10 and i was getting under a 100 lb. weight), and i just felt miserable. it took me a while to get the help i needed. i noticed that i was like cam. i am smart, not athletic, and was not socially active until i overcame my disease. if cam was like me and i developed this problem i want my favorite character to have a problem like mine. i want cam to have a past history of anorexia and bulimia. i also want cam to kind of develop it again and the thunder brothers help him. i am not asking you to do this just for a storyline. i want to show kids with my problem that they can get the help they need. you will be surprised to see how many kids have at least thought about doing it. please include this idea in your series.
Unfortunately, they didn't leave their email address, or I could have told them that I'm not the right person to do this. Yes, I do know the symptoms of Anorexia. But that doesn't mean I - or Beth, my co-writer - know how to write it without it sounding like syrupy prose. I've read a few fics where a canon character had anorexia, and I've never seen one done well. (One particularly smarmy "The Sentinel" story, with Blair as the anorexic, is forever burned into my brain.)
I understand that they want to be helpful, and I agree that Hunter and Blake have gotten most of the angst lately. (Thankfully, nobody angsts so far in #10.) But I'm not sure if they realized that this might not be a way to win writers and influence fanfics?
In the meantime, I got this... interesting 'review' of BF: AH off of fanfiction.net.
From: anonymous user()
i just like to say that i like the way the brotherly relationship between blake, hunter, and cam is developing. those three are usually the ones who have problems. but lately i noticed that all the problems and stories about drama, angst are usually coming from the thunder brothers. i want cam to have a problem to share with the thunder brothers. and i have an idea for one. i used to have this problem. i had an eating disorder called anorexia. this eating disorder is one where your starve yourself. it was the most miserable time of my life. i felt dizzy, i felt like fainting sometimes, whenever i ate i tried to make myself throw up, i went down to an unhealthy weight (i was 13, was 5 ft. 10 and i was getting under a 100 lb. weight), and i just felt miserable. it took me a while to get the help i needed. i noticed that i was like cam. i am smart, not athletic, and was not socially active until i overcame my disease. if cam was like me and i developed this problem i want my favorite character to have a problem like mine. i want cam to have a past history of anorexia and bulimia. i also want cam to kind of develop it again and the thunder brothers help him. i am not asking you to do this just for a storyline. i want to show kids with my problem that they can get the help they need. you will be surprised to see how many kids have at least thought about doing it. please include this idea in your series.
Unfortunately, they didn't leave their email address, or I could have told them that I'm not the right person to do this. Yes, I do know the symptoms of Anorexia. But that doesn't mean I - or Beth, my co-writer - know how to write it without it sounding like syrupy prose. I've read a few fics where a canon character had anorexia, and I've never seen one done well. (One particularly smarmy "The Sentinel" story, with Blair as the anorexic, is forever burned into my brain.)
I understand that they want to be helpful, and I agree that Hunter and Blake have gotten most of the angst lately. (Thankfully, nobody angsts so far in #10.) But I'm not sure if they realized that this might not be a way to win writers and influence fanfics?
