After being offline for awhile tending to her health, my friend logged back into her DA (Deviant Art)Account and found a comment that reads: "Script format may be good for some things, but in fanfiction it annoys a whole lot of people. Plus, you're not writing the characters correctly (the canon ones, anyway)- I don't think Modo would be even capable of saying the word "vagina" without a deep blush."
So my question to all you Modo fans is: Do YOU guys think he could say Vaginally without blushing? I mean most of us have given him kids in some form or other....so what do you think? Would Modo be able to say Vaginally without blushing?
... Can't say I can think of Modo saying or doing anything without blushing.. unless of course he's alone in a room getting it on. XD
My friend has him saying that in reference to the way his first grand baby's coming into the world. This person seems to think that having him not behaving or speaking like a bachelor he once was is so far out of left field it's horrifying to think of him as a husband and father to two adult children,two teenagers and many other kids in varying ages and stages of life.
I had the some kind of garbage from somebody in a KP fanfic. I get constructive advise but pulling bits of the story to pieces is just plain immature. It's like...i don't get it when fanfiction authors put the bros in situations playing 'country and western' and i think 'yeaaahhhhh right!' but i don't go and get all critical. to me, that's just imaginative creativity at work.
Pulling bits of the story to pieces, however, can highlight mistakes that the author didn't even realize. That's essentially what constructive criticism is- taking the story, and aiming a magnifying glass at whatever seems out of place or written incorrectly. It's all up to the author whether or not they'll take the advice of the concritter and use it, or simply keep on chugging.
I know. But some people just do it to be know it all pricks. That's why we have Beta readers :)
I know. But some people just do it to be know it all pricks. That's why we have Beta readers :)
My friend originally had put in the artist comment box 'I am asking for POSITIVE CONSTRUCTIVE HELPFUL Critique. If you have nothing nice to say or are hung up on insisting that the Bro's could NEVER care for the other's children, please by pass this three part fic as I haven't time to be bothered with nit pickers.' Then she got a note from the DA Admins in her inbox saying 'We respect the rights of you as the writer of the fanfics in your gallery to ask for positive,constructive and helpful criticisim, we MUST insist you remove the following from your comment box 'I am asking for POSITIVE CONSTRUCTIVE HELPFUL Critique. If you have nothing nice to say or are hung up on insisting that the Bro's could NEVER care for the other's children, please by pass this three part fic as I haven't time to be bothered with nit pickers.' As it is offensive to potential readers and we have recieved numerous complaints about the artists comments. Please remove or edit your comment or one of the administrators will fix it for you.'
Uhh can we say 'Ignorant?' Seriously asking for positive,constructive and helpful critique and telling nit pickers to by pass is now considered OFFENSIVE?!
Pulling bits of the story to pieces, however, can highlight mistakes that the author didn't even realize. That's essentially what constructive criticism is- taking the story, and aiming a magnifying glass at whatever seems out of place or written incorrectly. It's all up to the author whether or not they'll take the advice of the concritter and use it, or simply keep on chugging.
My friend is always taking constructive criticism but there are times when people will literally rip the stories she and I post to smithereens or they'll take and copy the entire story and re-write it and post the fan fic under their name claiming they've written it without bothering to change the pen names or character names and places throughout the stories and when we click on 'Report Deviation' and click on 'Piece of Literature is stolen' WE'RE the ones that either get redemption or the person who stole the story to begin with will post in their journal 'so and so and their friend are falsely accusing me of stealing their fanfics without proof!'
Yes, he would say it no problem if it was part of an explanation (and I'd think he'd give you a "That's where babies come out you know" look if you flinched), but I think he'd have a hard time saying it just for the sake of saying it. Like if you gave him a cue card and said "say it". Bring on the red cheeks! Actually, I don't think any of the bros could do it without blushing. Of all of them, I think that Modo would be the one who could hold a semi-intelligent (read: non-gibbering) conversation about the facts of life with a child. Or his bros, which is pretty much the same thing I expect.
My take on Modo's personality anyway.
Shasta
But would he say it to a woman?
Yes, he would say it no problem if it was part of an explanation (and I'd think he'd give you a "That's where babies come out you know" look if you flinched), but I think he'd have a hard time saying it just for the sake of saying it. Like if you gave him a cue card and said "say it". Bring on the red cheeks! Actually, I don't think any of the bros could do it without blushing. Of all of them, I think that Modo would be the one who could hold a semi-intelligent (read: non-gibbering) conversation about the facts of life with a child. Or his bros, which is pretty much the same thing I expect.My take on Modo's personality anyway.
Shasta
Here's the piece of the story the person who wrote the comment's having problems with:
Throttle closes the front door and locks it then follows Carbine into the den and sits in the chair across from the couch saying: How IS the baby coming? Do you know?
Modo: Vaginally or if her sugars start acting up, a C-Section. They're both aiming for an all natural home birth but if things don't go the way they hope they do,then they resort to plan b-the med ward's birthing suite where her sugars will be monitored by Trigger and if things go wrong, Blizzard will step in and deliver the baby through a C-Section.
See, now I think he would've said something like "Naturally" or "Regularly" or something like that, not "Vaginally". It just doesn't seem right, especially since he's talking to a woman.
I don't see why he wouldn't say it to a woman - a woman would be far less likely to get all squirmy since you know, she'd have a vagina to begin with and would probably know what it's for. Go up to a man and start talking vaginal births and see how long it takes for him to remember that he forgot to close the garage door. :p
Although I do agree that "naturally" would be a better choice of words because the other is rather clinical. I have never heard anyone say that they had a vaginal birth, just a natural one (as opposed to C-section) and dear lord but the baby/pregnancy talk NEVER ends where I work. If there is anyone here looking to get pregnant, come and apply at my place of work. You'll be nesting in no time, guaranteed.
Shasta
HAHA, Well I too think that if he's going to say it without blushing, he would say it to a woman, because in the sentence he talks more like a doctor than "just to a random woman" if you understand what i mean, and like shasta said, I think he would have more trouble explaining that to his bros' (because, the bros are reaaally MACHO xD)
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Oh God, your signature. I apologize for bringing this off-topic, but that's just too damn funny to not commend.
Hahahh believe mé i Got a BiG laugh too making it :p!! I just figured since modo always tell about what hos mama says, this time though it made the other bros' stand in silence.... :D haha
I take it as a Nice compliment when other laughs at it :D - you have a good sense of humor XD!
HAHA, Well I too think that if he's going to say it without blushing, he would say it to a woman, because in the sentence he talks more like a doctor than "just to a random woman" if you understand what i mean, and like shasta said, I think he would have more trouble explaining that to his bros' (because, the bros are reaaally MACHO xD)
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He's merely repeating what the doctor told Starshine and she's just like him....tunes out what she doesn't want to hear and tunes back in when it's important like how the DOCTOR wants the baby to come not how SHE wants it to come and Starshine wants a drug and hassle free delivery but the doctor wants the nurses to have full control over her birth by administering contraction controlling drugs so they can be there when the baby starts coming into the world.
The original question was would Modo say "vaginally". My opinion is that yes, he could and if necessary, would. But I also think the word "naturally" would fit better and not because it may or may not be out of character, but that is only my opinion.
Shasta
Exaaaaactly.
Arbiter
... Can't say I can think of Modo saying or doing anything without blushing.. unless of course he's alone in a room getting it on. XD
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"Your brains, your bros, and your bikes?" Vandal asked.
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