Aborted plans, crafting and idiot reviewers

[wiseheart]

We woke to thunder and rain in the morning, so we decided to postpone our valiant excursion to the supermarket, especially as Mum's joins always hurt like hell when the weather is rainy. Instead, I've worked on my matchbox-based gift boxes and made some decent headway, recycling old chocolate bar papers, Christmas stickers and the likes. I still have to glue together the individual parts, but so far I'm content.

Then I discovered that I got a new guest reviewer on FF.Net, who told me that Spock would never call Lieutenant Athena "Miss Athena", but always address her by her rank. Never mind that he called Uhura, of all people, "Miss Uhura" in one of the TOS episodes. People like this annoy the living daylight out of me. They have no idea about minute details, but they are always so eager to lecture others. Fortunately, it was an anonymous review and I have those on moderated status, which makes it easier to remove them. Either the same know-it-all or another one left another comment on the same story, one that makes no sense to me, so - since I was there already - I removed that one, too. There's a reason why I no longer update my stuff on FF.Net. Too bad, because uploading documents complete with italics and bold font and the likes makes is easy to post there.

Now it's raining again, and we're biting our nails because of the balcony. Not that biting nails would help, but it's all we can do about it. The shit part is that we have to keep the windows closed, and the evening would be the only time when we could properly air the flat. *sigh*

Comments

[meathiel]

Hope it's cooled down for you with the rain as well.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Not really, but the balcony is leaking enthusiastically. *sigh*

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I remember that episode and I found it annoying. Why would Spock of all people be that condescending to Uhura?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Actually, if memory serves me well, he said he couldn't imagine anyone better suited for some complicated repair job than Uhura, so I don't think it was so bad.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I must have remembered it wrong, I don't remember that context, just him saying "Miss" instead of "Lt." my bad.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was the only time he said "Miss", which is why it was so surprising.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

A pity your Mum didn't get her trip out - I hope it will be possible over the next few days.

As for the reviewer - FFNet does seem to attract people like that :(

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Which is why I no longer update my stuff there.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

That would be nice to be able to have the windows ope while it's raining.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the wind would sweep all the water into the flat. :(

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That would happen here, too.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

There's such a thing as con-crit and then there is just being nit-picky. How rude. Hope the rain at least dropped the temperature a bit. I feel for you re: the balcony, never ending - sigh.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Never ending indeed. I collected at least one litre of rain water last night with my clever, self-invented tinfoil channelling system.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

If that's the only thing your reviewer found to complain about they must have had to hunt very hard. At least by deleting it you won't get others jumping on the band wagon.

I hope your balcony does not flood too much.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Does roughly one litre of rain water count as flooding?