Ok, I think I might have written this before, but since I want lots of people to read my Snape fic (it already being on FF.net, Fiction Alley, and HPFF.com) I submitted it to Sycophant-Hex (Occlumency) and The Petulant Poetess. Ok, so I got this e-mail from Occlumency this morning, listing an INSANE amount of corrections I needed to make to my first chapter. Now some of them were totally reasonable, like I had a couple of typos I never noticed (which is insane given the number of times I've read it through) so that was really good to know about. And, ok, their comma corrections were PROBABLY correct, but I'm of the school of thought that if you have an introductory clause, you only need a comma if you would naturally pause there, like to offset something. So I found them to be a little bit comma-Nazi. But THIS just freaking pissed me off:

"--My eyes rested on a wizard, a little older than me,['me' s/b I] {Knowing when to use 'I' or 'me' can be tricky, but if you complete the thought: ...a little older than I am... it can help you decide which to use.}"

Ok, who the hell would actually say, "A little older than I"?!?! HELLO! IT'S CALLED COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH, YOU BAKA-HEADS! The whole point of my fic being in the first person was that I wanted it to sound like the character was actually talking to you. So, yeah, maybe for Severus I might want to do it their way, but Avrille is laid back and cool and wouldn't worry about picky stuff like that in her speech. Ok. I'm done. I just had to rant. That e-mail reminded me once again why I decided to not pursue an English degree in college. Bunch of uptight, rule-obsessed, holier-than-thou morons. I guess it just really made me mad given the sort of fics I was reviewing myself yesterday. I let a LOT slide. And I'm sorry, but I think my fic is a LOT more sophisticated and clean than most others out there. God dammit that made me angry.

UPDATE: Apparently The Petulant Poetess lives up to their name and have their wands even further up their bums than Occlumency. Besides other things, they wanted me to put spaces after all of my ellipses (...'s) WTF, PEOPLE?! IS THAT REALLY ENOUGH TO DENY ME POSTING? YOU BLOODY COMMA, ELLIPSES NAZIS!

But yes. I'm done with that now. I'm obviously NOT going to correct most of those mistakes and I am no longer going to submit to them since I am NOT going through that for 38 more chapters (where I also have to put in my own html tags. Cheap bakas.) So we'll see how TPP turns out.

Well I had to work today so I'm kind of tired. Probably going to take a nappie now, and then get some more reviews done tonight. Yay! Looking forward to that. The requests I put in for my own story to be reviewed are going through now, so it's nice to check my HPFF page and see there's new stuff to read! Before I go I wanted to share a few pictures with you guys of my two insane kitty-babies, A-chan (named after the lead singer of BUCK-TICK, Sakurai Atsushi) and Nimue (named after the character in Arthurian legend). These were just too awesome not to share.