~~i'm such a dork >
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reenkais it wrong that when i read awkward writing that has a lot of fans who just adore it, i want to cackle and say, ahahahahah!! I AM BETTER THAN YOU!! ahahahaahah. (in a really bad anime villain cackle, you know).
even if i don't have the fan adoration or any adoration, it matters not, for i am not horribly awkward. i mean, ok, i can have -really- convoluted sentences and ... stuff. but. ahahahah. *points and laughs* ... it's just. i can -feel- the way a writer's brain works from the stuff they write. it's nothing i can pin down. but with a lot of stories, i can -tell- that the writer is one of those people who don't catch any stars, and are nice and normal and sweet-tempered and "understanding". oh yes, i've read a lot of romances, yes i have. there's such a thing as "typical", which is separate from cliche, because it involves the -writer- and style of writing rather than plot. i mean, every romance is "cliche" as far as plot, so that doesn't matter. what matters is whether you feel a sparkle, a depth of some sort. or, whether it looks like it's written by a member of the Future Housewives of America, who has her cocoa on sundays and her laundry day on tuesdays and her coupons and her `chicken-soup for the postmodern soul' book.
i'm overly sensitive to awkwardness in phrasing, i'm sure. but. i hate awkwardness. i don't care -what- you're saying, if you're saying it smoothly i will most likely be positively predisposed, and vice-versa. although i must say, it's usually some sort of gooey obvious plot/action that goes with the awkwardness. yes, i do so hate obviousness. no, not straight-forwardness, that's different altogether, and in fact straight-forward prose is rarely awkward. it's when you feel the need to say things obtusely that you start to sound like a complete dork. obviousness is when everything is -transparent-. ugh. and then you see things like, "another outburst of colourful language flowed from his mouth" and you laugh. and laugh. and laugh.
yes. i am petty & nit-picky like that.
no one must know!
... too late, now you all do :D
and, *sigh*. it seems all i do lately is act snarky and stuff. but yes, i'm kind of bipolar between snarky dorkyness on one end and mushy gushing at the other. i think i'm actually both at the same time, because honestly, i -read- this stuff, now don't i. so obviously, i -want- the insipid goo, even as i cackle at its staleness.
even if i don't have the fan adoration or any adoration, it matters not, for i am not horribly awkward. i mean, ok, i can have -really- convoluted sentences and ... stuff. but. ahahahah. *points and laughs* ... it's just. i can -feel- the way a writer's brain works from the stuff they write. it's nothing i can pin down. but with a lot of stories, i can -tell- that the writer is one of those people who don't catch any stars, and are nice and normal and sweet-tempered and "understanding". oh yes, i've read a lot of romances, yes i have. there's such a thing as "typical", which is separate from cliche, because it involves the -writer- and style of writing rather than plot. i mean, every romance is "cliche" as far as plot, so that doesn't matter. what matters is whether you feel a sparkle, a depth of some sort. or, whether it looks like it's written by a member of the Future Housewives of America, who has her cocoa on sundays and her laundry day on tuesdays and her coupons and her `chicken-soup for the postmodern soul' book.
i'm overly sensitive to awkwardness in phrasing, i'm sure. but. i hate awkwardness. i don't care -what- you're saying, if you're saying it smoothly i will most likely be positively predisposed, and vice-versa. although i must say, it's usually some sort of gooey obvious plot/action that goes with the awkwardness. yes, i do so hate obviousness. no, not straight-forwardness, that's different altogether, and in fact straight-forward prose is rarely awkward. it's when you feel the need to say things obtusely that you start to sound like a complete dork. obviousness is when everything is -transparent-. ugh. and then you see things like, "another outburst of colourful language flowed from his mouth" and you laugh. and laugh. and laugh.
yes. i am petty & nit-picky like that.
no one must know!
... too late, now you all do :D
and, *sigh*. it seems all i do lately is act snarky and stuff. but yes, i'm kind of bipolar between snarky dorkyness on one end and mushy gushing at the other. i think i'm actually both at the same time, because honestly, i -read- this stuff, now don't i. so obviously, i -want- the insipid goo, even as i cackle at its staleness.
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Date: 2003-01-26 05:14 pm (UTC)...
you're one of two people who can do this to me, you realize?
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Date: 2003-01-26 05:29 pm (UTC)*pulls your hair* ;)
PoL was second on my reading list today, after the utter sap that is `welcome to the real world'. oh my GAHD is it awkward and transparent and such. you're -never- transparent (eheheh, yah, right) and i can't remember you being awwakrd, though you definitely go over the top a lot of times, which is, like a i said, an entirely different thing~:)
in fact, it's almost the opposite end of the spectrum...
sort of, going from "too mundane" to "too much stardust" or some such.
i'll take the latter over the former any day, you know~:)
*hugs*
and that doth please me, of course. though bewilder me slightly, just like when maya says stuff like that after one of these rant-bits.
because dude. if you're on my "read everything by" list, you know i think even your flaws are adorable~:) hee!
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Date: 2003-01-26 08:27 pm (UTC)yeah, welcome to the real world is... well, it's brain fluff. we read it when we don't want to think (by which i mean hotaru and i).
you're -never- transparent (eheheh, yah, right)
do i hear wishfulness, there? you know, i'm almost tempted to name the chapter you're getting dedicated to you 'True Love's First Kiss' but then you'd have to kill me. XD
sort of, going from "too mundane" to "too much stardust" or some such.
i'll take the latter over the former any day, you know~:)
:sticks out tongue then hugs:
because dude. if you're on my "read everything by" list, you know i think even your flaws are adorable~:) hee!
i'm on your 'read everything by' list? wow. :hugs and preens:
that thought -should- be enough to get me through the rest of my classes. oh, the hell. *_*
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Date: 2003-01-26 08:42 pm (UTC)no one is like, "perfect", but usually i go for some sense of vision, and voice, more than anything.
and besides that, someone's a storyteller. i dunno... i didn't include some people whose fics i like, but who didn't really go through on their potential most of the time, and it was ... kind of "yes to this, but no to that, and yes, but", with most things.
whereas i get really nit-picky with you it seems like, but there's that underlying thing where i think it's thick and hearty enough to be able to take it~:)
plus it's an emotional element, which is probably completely subjective. like, some fics i admit have nothing -wrong- except that i don't get really all that involved.
and like with `love under will' or `brief interval' i don't know -what- is it about them anymore, except that i care, and that's about the deepest reason.
but it's always like that....
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Date: 2003-01-26 10:07 pm (UTC)call me miss oblivious. ^^;
whereas i get really nit-picky with you it seems like, but there's that underlying thing where i think it's thick and hearty enough to be able to take it~:)
=^-^= hee. thanks. erm, and i -hope- it's thick enough. :thinks of the hours spent plotting:
i mean, yeah. sometimes, though, PoL is so gen i think that there needs to be a slash version of it. erm, and then i remember that it -is- slash. :laughs:
and you are *going* to have to stick with the entire thing, if only to read your promised chapter! hah! :hugs:
plus it's an emotional element, which is probably completely subjective. like, some fics i admit have nothing -wrong- except that i don't get really all that involved.
very true. and then there are some fics where i get incredibly involved, but at the same time realize are completely flawed. fics that continue to pull me in despite my issues with them. which is also a sign of a strong writer. just perhaps not a strong fanfiction writer.
but it's always like that....
reenka is ruled by her heart... it should be your byline, or something.
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Date: 2003-01-26 10:47 pm (UTC)hmmm... that makes me sound mushy. whereas i'm tough, and mean, and green, and delusional~ ^^;
wah. brain meltdown. must... finish... fic...
plus i want to be mysterious and cold-seeming, like... er... david bowie.
can't you see it? me? david bowie?? yes!
and, i've never actually quit reading a chaptered fic on purpose before.
weird but true. i forget sometimes but i don't think i've -stopped- unless i -hated- it and even so, i read the recent chapter of `checkmate' which...
god i HATE checkmate. it's not -that- bad, but still.
it would be an interesting contest to see whether checkmate or `welcome to the real world' is worse.
both of them would be tolerable with lots of graphic sex, violence, or angst. eheheh
of course that'd make 'em different fics.
which is why i will always love `tower with a view'. sex! i can't not love it! hee -.-
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Date: 2003-01-26 11:08 pm (UTC):beat: riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
and for some reason, no. i cannot see you as david bowie. no more than i can see myself as gackt. :sniffs:
i've stopped chaptered fics before, yes i have. though not often in the very middle. but i've done it. erm, and i stopped reading 'checkmate' back in may or so. i had little respect for it, and then when she posted chapter 6 or so i knew it was all over. :feels nothing for 'checkmate' but a mild sense of disgust:
i can at least deal with 'welcome to the real world', whereas there is no dealing with 'checkmate'.
and if you lurve sex so (and write it so well, yes yes), then why not simply just dedicate yourself to erotica?
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Date: 2003-01-26 11:23 pm (UTC)oh. it may be that i'm mostly out of it and giggly now, but that just makes me laugh. just... something about that.
it's already bad enough, you don't need to -encourage- me -.-
and ... *laughs more* it's not that i "lurve sex"... ok that just sounds all kinds of wrong (right now anyway)
i'm probably all for anything that is visceral and powerful and emotional and stuff. that has an -effect-.
comedy, also. angst. sex is up there ^^
but, i'd -never- be able to just write that. first of all, i only do it really well when i'm in "that point" of my lunar cycle for some reason. weird but true. it's just a mood, really.
i can always -read- it because unless the writer sucks -really really bad- it's still entertaining on some sort of neaderthal level....
much more into relationship stuff (love, hate, stuff) than sex per se. and fantasy, i love fairy-tales MUCH more than sex. eheheh though that too sounds mondo weird.
*giggles again* dedicate myself to sex, huh
that makes me think of those people who pretend that their call-girl occupation is really some sort of Higher Calling because they're all spiritual and worshiping aphrodite and they do some sort of "psychic massage" or whatever. "whores for the soul" ehehehe. er.... -.-
and i know i'm not david bowie (yea right) but it does amuse me because it's so not true~:)
nah, i probably am more enamoured with kissing than with "sex"
if i say it over and over it sounds ridiculous. "sex. sex. sex"
i just .... think it helps out fics that don't have much else going for them, that's all~:)