The Snark Crew

Meet the crew!  Here you will find a list of each of the critics, their online pseudonyms, title, and specialties (if they have any.)  Also, a list of what qualifies them as a full-time member of the Snark Crew and a link to their collection of submissions.

Snarker: Lyle
Title: That Damned Librarian
Media Specialty: Books and movies, with the occasional anime
Topic Specialty: Harry Potter and (by process of elimination) DBZ *headdesk*
Genre Specialty:  Any
Qualifications:  Reformed MarySue fic writer.  I’ve been there and have proven one can break away from the horribleness and become a good writer if they actually put some effort into it.  It should be noted that I absolutely despise fanfics that are written in first-person perspective.  I hardly tolerate actual published works in first-person, let alone horrible works of fandom.
Personal Blog: Ramblings of a Lyle
Submissions

Snarker: TacoMagic
Title: RumpyBottomed Walrus Emasculator
Media Specialty: Video games
Topic Specialty: Video Games, Sci-fi, and Fantasy; both in books and TV.
Genre Specialty: Mature, teen angst, and crossover.
Qualifications: As a bad writer of cliche fantasy, I feel I have a lot to add in the destruction of my brethren and sisters of bad fiction. What can I say, with a mixture of egotism, sarcasm, and cynicism you can’t go wrong when snarking about the works of others.  I can barely spell, rarely use punctuation correctly, and don’t really understand the grammatical structure of English.  This should make for a wonderful mixture of snarking on bad fiction and ironically making unintentional grammar and spelling errors while making fun of the grammar and spelling errors of others.  It is my dream to someday find that one of my mocking critiques has been mockingly critiqued itself.  Such a moment of meta would be a pure joy.
Personal Blog: TacoMagic’s Random Insanity
Submissions

Snarker: Ghostcat, A.K.A. Ghostie
Title: Princess of Gumdrop Island
Media Specialty:  primarily Books, Television Shows, and Movies
Topic Specialty: Any but I loves me some crossovers
Genre Specialty: Any
Qualifications:  Long time fan of the written word; I’m willing to read anything, no matter how gut-wrenchingly horrible, and then snark about it. Joining me on my journey is Mr. Crowbar, a twelve inch pry bar with an attractive and easy-to-clean enamel finish and a quiet, reserved manner. He is easy to anger and tends to THWACK! first and not really ask any questions later. Recently I have gotten addicted to manga and holy crapstacks are manga-based fanfics insane.
Personal Blog: Ghostcat Chronicles
Submissions

Snarker: Frozenpoodlemeat
Title: Gnome Novelist
Media Specialty: Books, Television Shows, and Movies
Topic Specialty: Any
Genre Specialty: Any
Qualifications: I like to write and I read a lot (not to be confused with Alot-he hasn’t written anything worth reading yet). There is a plethora of great stuff out there to read. Sadly, the internet has made it possible for anyone to share their “literature” with the world. I just want to keep the world safe from terrible writing.
Personal Blog: None
Submissions

Snarker: The Psychic Librarian
Title: She who knows which book you want before you do
Media Specialty: Books, movies, and television
Topic Specialty: Really weird and horrible one-shots
Genre Specialty: Horror it would seem, although I wouldn’t have guessed that to begin with.
Qualifications: Psychic abilities regarding your literature preferences. Well, not really, but that would be awesome. Mostly I just have a sense of humor and the absurd. Most importantly, Bcuz I’m a bear.
Personal Blog: None
Submissions

Snarker: Addicted Reader
Title: The Red Pen Slasher
Media Specialty: Books
Topic Specialty: Any
Genre Specialty: Mostly-coherent fics with terrible grammar or spelling.
Qualifications: I am descended from a long line of librarians and English teachers.  I always read with a red pen in my mental hand.  I’ve read enough to know bad-but-still-entertaining from bad-but-really-just-terrible.  I read anything that stays still long enough:  books, blogs, books, instruction manuals, books, cereal boxes, and books.
Additional: AR has been working very hard to rid the world of TacoMagic’s explosive semicolon usage.  For that, she deserves our undying devotion.  -Lyle
Also, the semicolon usage is highly contagious according to AR. -Taco
I blame ninjas. – Ghostie
Personal Blog: None
Submissions

Snarker: Herr Wozzeck
Title: The Music Librarian
Media Specialty: Video Games, Movies, Opera (if people would write
more fanfiction for opera, that is)
Topic Specialty: Mass Effect, Sci-fi, Fantasy, Music-related stuff
Genre Specialty: Any
Qualifications:  Well, for one thing, I wrote the Mass Effect fanfic
Mass Vexations, with which I attempted to deconstruct a few tendencies
I saw that tend to pop up in self-insert fanfiction all over the
board. So I like to think I know a thing or two about what makes a
character and a story work. It also helps that I once wrote a really
terrible fanfic that had something along the lines of fifteen Gary
Stus in it. Probably more, I don’t remember. (Don’t bother looking it
up, my sense of shame wouldn’t let me keep it on the internet.)
Personal Blog: None
Submissions

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