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[bubosquared]

For some reason, most of the LJ!celebs have ceased to be amusing. I think it's the whole 'live action' thing. I liked it better when they were 'pretending' it was an actual journal. You know? And LJ!Bono and LJ!Bowie pissed me off, too, with their fake Britishness. For fuck's sake, people, if you're gonna insist on playing a British celebrity, could you at least try to sound kind of vaguely British? I've seen Americans write Brit-based fandoms and pull it off, so it can be done. Just do a little research or something.

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[craftyeuropean.livejournal.com]

*countains herself not to say too much* I agree very muchly with you. Mpphhhh...

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Okay, stop that, dammit! No teasing! :p

[loislane11228.livejournal.com]

I thought LJ!Bono was convincing - and he's not British. 'Sides, he hasn't really posted that much, so how can he suck so bad?

I guess since it's all slashers posing as LJ celebs, they're used to writing American characters, so it's hard to get into a European mindset.

*sends Bono a copy of The Barrytown Trilogy for research purposes*

:-)

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I happen to know a lot of slashers who are used to writing British characters...but then they've been in slashdom since The Professionals. :)

My first experience in writing fanfic personally was writing fic for The Tomorrow People. I don't still have any of it, more's the pity...I'd like to see how well I caught the British and Scottish speech as a child. (The speech patterns I probably did fairly well, though the slang would have been off.)

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

OKay, no Bono's not British. But. There's something about the wording that convinces me it's an American trying to sound British. Granted, it's not that clear. Not as bad as LJ!Bowie's "you blokes." That made me cringe. Owwwww!

And, um, there's plenty of Brit fandoms, yo! (Dammit, we can adjust to different speech patterns, so should you! :p) It's less a matter of "Dammit, stop massacring my language," and more of a "Dammit, don't play a character if you can't emulate their speech patterns!" I was rather annoyed with LJ!Eminem, as well.

(Um. Did I just refer to Brit English as "my language"? Ack. Self, you are not British. Gr.)

Barrytown Trilogy? o_O?

[annerobinson.livejournal.com]

My goats and I shall ensure that your death will not be a pretty one.

DEATH TO WALES.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Your goats can go fukc themseles. And you. So there.

[rsadelle]

They all start to suck when the fake celebs start having relationships with each other in ways that are completely unrealistic.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have minded unrealistic, per se. It's the constand breakups and stuff that got annoying. For chtulu's sake, people. I used to watch Santa Barbara. If you get more complicated than that, it's time to throw in the towel.