*BOGGLES*

[askerian]

... i'm... speechless.


> HEY!!!!!! you have some MAJOR misinformation in the header of one of
> the chapters!!!!!! trust me, i know what hell i'm talking about. Q's a
> berber, an arabic sub-group(i think that's the term) that has a tendency
> to be blue-eyed blonds. HE IS NOT FROM UP NORTH!!!!! i don't know about
> now, but in the past arabic peoples' skins were colored from the clothes
> they wore (i think a dark blue pigment) if you have a concern about his
> skin coloring, it could be from 1) a lack of contact with traditional
> clothing, 2) modernized dyes (synthetic dyes would be stabilised and
> wold not leech into the skin like animal- and plant- based dyes might)
> or (if you insist arabic skin coloring is genetic) 3) genetic
> deterioration in previous generations.
>
> i'm not trying to insult you, just trying to keep your ass out of hot
> water because you never know who may get insulted at what you wrote.
> puuulllllleeeeeaaaaasssssseeee do your research before you do something
> like that again.
>
> yours in authorhood,
>
> ((signature deleted to protect the stupid))
>
> p.s., i saw alot of typing mistakes in your story. if i may suggest that
> you print out the story, they should be alot easier to spot. overall, i
> have judged that i want more chapters.


... uhh. bzuh? wut? ... mehh?

... *dazed* ...the hell? skin color -- clothes -- wha?

*jaws hanging* ... the fuck, man. the fuck.

Comments

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

You get the most... interesting feedback. O.O

[askerian]

... that's one word for it. they weren't joking when they talked about it being a powerful curse, were they. o.o

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Damn powerful. O.O Uh... is this person implying that Quatre should have blue skin? >_>
You know... I'm thinking this is one bit of feedback that should just be bronzed and forgotten. O.o

[meanne77.livejournal.com]

But (s)he's right on one point, Q *is* beber... ;p

[qem_chibati]

*blinks* I think he was saying that you were calling Q the wrong race or something.

O.o; summs it up I think.

Weird.

[ivyadrena.livejournal.com]

O_o; wtf... Quatre is a Berber, but I don't think I've ever seen someone make an issue over it in a review unless the author had tried to call him like, Anglo-Saxon or something-- or the reviewer was just attempting to sound intelligent.

Also, I though the Berbers were a more northern band? Part of the reason for their coloring was because (I think) they took more English women as wives and whatnot.

>>; Weirdest reviews, Asuka... *shakes head*

[askerian]

... Is it officially stated that Quatre is a berber, or just one of the things that make more sense if we want him to be a blond arab?

besides, they live in space colonies, what the hell -- heero's supposed to be japanese and no one ever bitches about his blue eyes and brown hair. the "but he's ainu!!!" rationalization isn't even widespread.

[ivyadrena.livejournal.com]

I can't remember offhand if it was officially stated, but some of my friends used to work on the series, and they confirmed it-- one of them did the English translations on the manga (Yuki Ichimura), and the others were... character models, for a lack of a better term.

[askerian]

If it's not officially stated in the series or the books, then it's only third of fourth level "canon"; it's more a neat factoid that you can safely ignore than a part of the canon.

I agree that it makes sense to make him a berber, but it's certainly not an obligation. besides wtf i don't even remember what i said about that in the fic. =_=

[ivyadrena.livejournal.com]

xD I still need to read Garou... I haven't read any GW fics in a while, though I used to love 'em~ *makes mental note*

I'll let you know what you said when I do, yeah? ^_~

[askerian]

no, you certainly don't need to. I started this fic when i was just getting into the fandom, and my english sucked. It starts out full of common rookie mistakes, fangirl japanese, bad cliches and ooc. *hiss* Makes me twitch now when i think of it. ~_~;;;

[ivyadrena.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. I'll just have to make a drinking game out of it, then. ;P

[malika.livejournal.com]

From what I know about the people's coloring from that area... a lot of them are more Caucasian than most people in Europe; that and the Berber thing prolly explain his white skin... XDDD umm dyes wot. wot? wtf is she smoking D:

and WHO IS GOING TO GET OFFENDED? Nomadic Arabs who wouldn't touch ambiguously gay tv shows with a 6 foot pole?! waaa people XDD

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

and WHO IS GOING TO GET OFFENDED? Nomadic Arabs who wouldn't touch ambiguously gay tv shows with a 6 foot pole?! waaa people XDD

♥♥♥ Cracks me up, yup.

[askerian]

Seriously, she's the first person who ever wrote me about that. "omg you're going to offend people and i'mma gonna save you from cultural misconceptions now" yeah, right.

[acechan.livejournal.com]

OMG!!11! You dared to not follow a completely fanon (albeit plausible) interpretation of Quatre's background!!! How dare you!! And of course you need spelling/grammar instruction from someone who writes "a lot" as one word!

As for the "skin coloring due to clothing dyes" thing...BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA! Sorry, can't even touch that one.

[askerian]

wordity word, girlfriend. =__=;

[crazy-toffee.livejournal.com]

... you should declare this 'sht00pidmail week', and be prepared for next year's volley. XD

*snugs* Poor Asuka! Why do these things happen to you so REGULARLY?

[askerian]

nnnoooes, don't tempt the fates T_T

... because i'm more special, obviously. =__________=;;;

[complexphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yes, the better you are, the more reviews you get, and the more reviews you get, the more stupid ones there will be, since the percentage of overall reviews that are stupid is a constant for all fics.

If that makes any sense.

[melhime.livejournal.com]

I tried typing that mess into babelfish but they failed to have an "Idiot Fannish to English" language option in the drop down box.

[askerian]

*giggles*

[kiwi-socks.livejournal.com]

Dammit, now I'll have to get my native fan-boy to translate, and his accent is too hard to understand.

[melhime.livejournal.com]

people these days, huh?

[naatz.livejournal.com]

Teh fuck?

Does s/he know not about skin pigments? o_o

|Meduza|

[lukita.livejournal.com]

Help, my eyes crossed from reading the stupid and I can't uncross them. This one isn't even as funny as the girl who wants papercuts on her boobage, I give it a six because I can't read half of it.

[froggieogreen.livejournal.com]

Oh...wow. That's... I think it's funny, because it's so stupid. Silly person, berating you for "wrong information" when they don't even know what they were talking about. The Berbers _were_ a North-African tribe... although like most tribes in Africa they were nomadic so I guess maybe that could account for he/she not knowing exactly where they were from. Maybe he/she just forgot how close northern Africa is to the Middle East (OMG, Muslims exist outside of the Middle East :O No waaaaaaaay)?

Or that, hey, people born in space claim Nationalities on Earth, so why can't a dude born in say, Ireland, claim to be Chinese? ;P

You get the funniest reviews. XD

[aconite.livejournal.com]

*laughs* It's funny because it's stupid.

You really do get the most interesting feedback. XD

[nacchi-camui.livejournal.com]

._______________. alors là... tu les attires tous ou quoi ? XD (moi ce qui m'embêtait le plus dans GW c'est qu'ils parlent tous la même langue, pas que Quatre vienne du Nord ou du Sud ou de je-ne-sais-quelle partie d'une Arabie qui n'existe même pas reelement ._.)

Et "i want more chapters". Non mais serieusement >_>

[lazynin.livejournal.com]

Um. My brain just broke... x_x

I think I got that last line, though. "I have judged that I want more chapters though I dont know how thats possible because I want you to fix it and print it and make your head go boom so that you can never write again wahahaha."

I, too, have judged something: People like that shouldnt have internet access.

I dont think anyone of the fandom is going to go "omg no his skin isnt the right tone because of their clothes!" [thinking about that, did this person say "peoples' skins were colored from the clothes they wore (i think a dark blue pigment)"?? Does that mean they have blue skin? The fuck indeed]

[complexphoenix.livejournal.com]

You'd think that, in North Africa, exposure to the sun would tan them even if they were born pale. Maybe living in space made Quatre go pale.

[lazynin.livejournal.com]

Aww, but thats logical, and we can have none of that!

[chibirisuchan.livejournal.com]

...somebody WAYYYY overspiked their eggnog...

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

... yeah. I'm gonna go back to reading pr0n now.

[lomelinde-sama.livejournal.com]

Pris sur gundamofficial.com

QUATRE RABERBA WINNER


Age: 15
Ethnic origin: Arabian
Place of origin: L4 colony cluster
Height: 156 cm
Weight: 41 kg
Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Platinum gold

De plus il me semble, en feuilletant mon manga Episode Zero, que si Quatre a les cheveux blonds et les yeux bleus, c'est d'abord parce qu'il ressemble à sa mère, qui avait elle aussi les cheveux blonds et les yeux bleus et dont on ne connait pas l'origine. Pas parce qu'il porte des vêtements jaunes canari qui lui déteignent sur les cheveux ou chaispasquoi, là.

En plus il est né, dans l'espace, alors qu'est-ce qu'on en a à foutre que les Berbères viennent ou pas du nord de l'Afrique ? C'est sans doute très intéressant, et passionant, mais c'est hors-sujet.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

[aurorn.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I feel stupid now. I thought she was talking about Q as in one of the Doctors who made the Gundams, not Quatre.... though I'm not sure there was a "Doctor Q". Perhaps I'm thinking of "Doctor O". I always thought it was funny that they gave Quatre (and others) french numbers as names, because as far as I can tell, none of them are of European descent, except for the American and possibly the British-Japanese type folks (Une, Relena, Treize, Milliardo/Zechs)...

In any case, chicky-boy is a little slow on uptake with photosynthesis and pigmentation and so on and so forth. Or knows so little of the English language it is the "right" answer just using wrong and nonsensical words...
But yes, this is part of the reason why none of my writing is made available to the internet except in small drabbles. :P Better you than me, I'd say.

[stripedpetunia.livejournal.com]

You should so draw this twat a Quatre who is nekkid and white, EXCEPT WHERE THE BLUE CLOTHES DYED HIS SKIN BLUE. He can be winking and giving your new friend 'the guns'.

Those crazy Arabic folks and their habit of wearing blue clothes from their face to feet, eyelids included, and getting their skin all dyed and stuff. Pure madness, these foreign cultures. XD

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

I read that...and somehow the only thing I could think about was that South American tribal group I studied in one of my Anthropology courses a few years back, where all the men are born with NATURALLY blue penis-bits.

....

WTF?

........

I think it was the bit about fabric dye that did it. Though I STILL can't figure where my brain made THAT particular leap...or why. @_@

I am sorry that you have to deal with stupid people. But at least they can make you...um...kinda laugh?

Wow, ..... the freaks seem drawn to you.....

[gnome781.livejournal.com]

"p.s., i saw alot of typing mistakes in your story. if i may suggest that you print out the story, they should be alot easier to spot."

maybe they should have printed out thier review to make sure it made sence......

I love you by the way!
*goes back to lurking*

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

Maybe there is a website or something, for stupid crazy people. And on that website, for whatever reason, they gave a link to your fiction.

That would explain why you always attract the stupid-crazies.