*weeps* No. Nonononono. What I have feared for so long has finally come true.
Someone's written a horrid NCIS/West Wing crossover. Frightening abuse of punctuation, terrifying characterization...
And Simon Donovan as Jethro Gibbs.
Yeah, you read that correctly. They weren't long-lost brothers, they didn't just look amazingly similar--they are one and the same.
Why? Why must this blight upon my fandom exist?
Someone's written a horrid NCIS/West Wing crossover. Frightening abuse of punctuation, terrifying characterization...
And Simon Donovan as Jethro Gibbs.
Yeah, you read that correctly. They weren't long-lost brothers, they didn't just look amazingly similar--they are one and the same.
Why? Why must this blight upon my fandom exist?
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The author doesn't bother to explain. I think it's supposed to be the "clever ruse" bit.
I'm seriously tempted to assert my Godly Modly Powerz and delete the chapter due to eye-sporkingly bad grammar and punctuation.
Do it.
Didn't we say "No un'beta'd fics allowed"? If you don't want to do it, I'll do it. No reason for you to be the bad guy-- you're the sunshiney one of the three of us. *G*
I am such a fanfic snob, but when it comes to spelling and grammar, I am merciless.
I managed to learn to speak and write English properly, and it isn't even my native language, so there are no excuses, IMHO anyway ;-)
Clearly that means she can't get somebody to correct her mistakes for her.
I guess the other girl I know with major problems in that area has got some kind of super power that lets her get a beta-reader.
And of course that disablity accounts for the gapping holes in the plot and the bad style, too.
And don't worry about the bitchyness, I get bitchy myself when someone does the "but, but, but" thing when it's =obvious= there are no excuses.
Yes, it's a shame that she's handicapped, but =especially= the internet makes most of the hurdles that can throw up a lot lower. Unless one is visually handicapped of course..
So I don't feel particularly insulted by that. The fact that the girl can't write her native language properly, =that's= insulting!
And when you know you're dyslexic, you better make =damn sure= you have a beta!
I couldn't even make out what the title of that fic was supposed to be from the way it was mangled up so.frelling.badly.
and that doesn't even account for the fact that her plot sucks.
just out of curiosity. did anybody but me call her on it?
Well, better get back to work.. looooong day of mayhem still ahead..
somebody (marine) drops dead near the oval. Gibbs and crew get called in. Awkwardness and basketball games follow.
I'm not sure, but it might have been a slash story...
yup it was. go here to read it. I think Nancy handled it very well. The pairings are CJ/Gibbs, Gibbs/tony and CJ/Danny.
IT's really good.
Come to think of, I should read it again myself.
...Now I want to write Sam/Kate fic set in that universe.
she's got an LJ (well, two).
Sorry. Well not really for what I wrote. But for breaking your rules.
I have no problem with sending negative feedback on-list, but that email had no redeeming qualities what so ever. It was insulting without literally being insulting (gotta love sarcasm).
but here I was thinking you had a zero-tolerance policy towards flames.
*shrug*. ok. not gonna test my luck. I'll just go back to lurking.
It's the only way to combat the darkness. Besides candles.
(sorry, got a bruised ego right now. I take all the boosts I can get.)
Hmmm... and just for that I think I have to write a short (v. short) Gibbs/Kate ficlet.
o_O My brain just went *OUCH DON'T HURT ME!* really loudly.
...Do you think we should shoot her?
If she is staying with the current time line in the West Wing for when Simon died and CJ is currently COS, then ah, duh! Kate should A) already KNOW CJ, since she only stopped being on the president's SS detail less than 2 yrs ago and B) ah duh, Kate would have been on the presidential detail when "Simon" was, so she would have known the whole thing.
Anyone else see this massive, how-the-hell-can-you-explain-this issue?
and we won't even mention the OCness of CJ talking to Kate like this!
I realized the Kate&the staffers issue. But damn! How could I have missed the Kate&Simon part!
Hmm.. I guess because I read this other awsome x-over, which was so good it didn't even occur to me to question the plausibility of it.
But yeah. That needs to be explained.
Hmm... maybe Kate wasn't around then.
Oh no. Now I'm trying to make sense of other people's work.
Just shoot me.
I am just thinking too much I guess.
Beginning of NCIS season 1 = beginning of WW season 5
NCIS season 1 - one year = WW season 4
With a little tweaking of the timeline (we don't know if it was exactly one year), Kate could have joined the Presidential detail just around the end of season three.