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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

- Neil Gaiman (The Kindly Ones)


Also, an opportunity to tell me to shut up in a context where I can’t actually trace your IP:

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

The quote and the meme are unrelated though it occurs to me that posting them together implies otherwise. Regardless, I somehow doubt that a critique of my writing would really equate to a criticism of my personal qualities, which are of course: astounding. Bearing in mind that astounding is a rather neutral term by way of positivism and simply implies extremes.

Comments

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

Wordy comments aren’t necessary though they are nice at times. As for your ESL status I’m always impressed by the fluency of most ESL-speakers and in this case please bear in mind that I recognise non-native-speaker indicators in English quite easily because I’ve interacted with enough non-native-speakers to become familiar with those mistakes. If you ever listened to a Burmese speaker attempting to translate a sentence directly into English you’d find that the gender pronouns are usually all over the place for example.

Wieder is terrible in terms of plot and it does seem that a lot of new fans have been draw in due to it which puts them at a disadvantage. Then again, considering that one English language fansite for the series seems to suggest that under an Athenian democracy everybody had a vote, I’m fairly convinced that there are enough fans who really don’t want anything like actual history or politics getting in the way of their bishounen.