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reenka-Good things about today:
+ Read Neil's `Coraline' at lunch and still not finished yet. Remembered why I adore him, and what superb writing is like. I think if I never read anything but Neil forever-and-ever-amen ever again, I would be content-- but I still balk at reading `American Gods'. Good times.
+ It's not windy at all. Winter is behaving.
+ I didn't get called on to do my presentation. Good thing, I would've been toasted and marshmallowed. And I don't lie well under pressure like I used to.
+ I'm not bad at figures, though drawing them in 15 minutes drives me batty. Batty, I tell you.
+ Stared at nekkid chick and drew her ass diligently. That always makes for a Good Bloody Day, man.
+ I adore Zahra's O.C. porn. Mmmmmmmmyeah.
-Not-So-Good Things About Today:
+ I really hate being timed while drawing pretty nekkid girls.
+ Why oh -why- do I think reading other people's huge flists is a Good Idea? I mean, also, why is lj sooooo very boring?? Why god, why?? I mean... what is it about people? What can they not entertain me?? Why are they so mundane and humorless and entirely uninteresting, at least in their lj's?? WHY??!
+ Contemplated mentally eliminating all boring people from the face of the planet in one fell swoop. Also, would possibly go with them since the load of work I have to do scares me like a scary thing.
+ Holy fuck, how is this a rec-worthy line (dunno about the fic)??
"Not usually. But you see, there was this fabulous creature decorating my living room, sneering and drawling in this beautiful cultured voice that made me hard as a rock. It was either her or you."
That alone is enough to give me a stomach-ache. Is that not really-really-really-awful? Come on, agree with me, people!!1 >:O
(And yes, okay, I'm being less than nice about it, but eh. I have no more pity for bad phrasing. Like... I'm too squeamish to kill roaches, but I could shoot down bad phrasings all day, for fun. Yes, it's a sad idea of fun. But still, it's just disturbing to me that this could be an example of a line to draw people in.)
+ Fact is, I hate adult!Draco. Any and all mature Draco's. I hate them all. Fierce burning H8!!1 I've also gotten to the point where I hate in-control-ice-prince!Draco. He used to just irritate me. Now I want to wring his neck. Notsogood. And then what's even more embarrassing is-- gimme some porny talk and I'm all, "what was I saying again? Because I want more. Now."
Potter laughed, the asshole. And Draco almost ran to the toilet. Where he had to wank off. He didn't remember Potter being so articulate.
(Hello, beautiful!! ...And yes, same fic. Same chapter, even. *coughs*)
The problem with HP fic is, most of it isn't nc17 like the majority of the longfic you see in Smallville & Highlander & so on. This is just... wrong.
+ Realized I hate recs. I hate reccing. Will never rec again. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. (And yes, I realize I'm overreacting, but. I'm sensitive. People... are largely incompatible with my tastes. What can I say, I'm a meanie.)
+ Made an lj post with absolutely no redeeming value. Spam, spam, spammity-spam. I'm just avoidant and bored and snappy, forgive me.
+ Read Neil's `Coraline' at lunch and still not finished yet. Remembered why I adore him, and what superb writing is like. I think if I never read anything but Neil forever-and-ever-amen ever again, I would be content-- but I still balk at reading `American Gods'. Good times.
+ It's not windy at all. Winter is behaving.
+ I didn't get called on to do my presentation. Good thing, I would've been toasted and marshmallowed. And I don't lie well under pressure like I used to.
+ I'm not bad at figures, though drawing them in 15 minutes drives me batty. Batty, I tell you.
+ Stared at nekkid chick and drew her ass diligently. That always makes for a Good Bloody Day, man.
+ I adore Zahra's O.C. porn. Mmmmmmmmyeah.
-Not-So-Good Things About Today:
+ I really hate being timed while drawing pretty nekkid girls.
+ Why oh -why- do I think reading other people's huge flists is a Good Idea? I mean, also, why is lj sooooo very boring?? Why god, why?? I mean... what is it about people? What can they not entertain me?? Why are they so mundane and humorless and entirely uninteresting, at least in their lj's?? WHY??!
+ Contemplated mentally eliminating all boring people from the face of the planet in one fell swoop. Also, would possibly go with them since the load of work I have to do scares me like a scary thing.
+ Holy fuck, how is this a rec-worthy line (dunno about the fic)??
"Not usually. But you see, there was this fabulous creature decorating my living room, sneering and drawling in this beautiful cultured voice that made me hard as a rock. It was either her or you."
That alone is enough to give me a stomach-ache. Is that not really-really-really-awful? Come on, agree with me, people!!1 >:O
(And yes, okay, I'm being less than nice about it, but eh. I have no more pity for bad phrasing. Like... I'm too squeamish to kill roaches, but I could shoot down bad phrasings all day, for fun. Yes, it's a sad idea of fun. But still, it's just disturbing to me that this could be an example of a line to draw people in.)
+ Fact is, I hate adult!Draco. Any and all mature Draco's. I hate them all. Fierce burning H8!!1 I've also gotten to the point where I hate in-control-ice-prince!Draco. He used to just irritate me. Now I want to wring his neck. Notsogood. And then what's even more embarrassing is-- gimme some porny talk and I'm all, "what was I saying again? Because I want more. Now."
Potter laughed, the asshole. And Draco almost ran to the toilet. Where he had to wank off. He didn't remember Potter being so articulate.
(Hello, beautiful!! ...And yes, same fic. Same chapter, even. *coughs*)
The problem with HP fic is, most of it isn't nc17 like the majority of the longfic you see in Smallville & Highlander & so on. This is just... wrong.
+ Realized I hate recs. I hate reccing. Will never rec again. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. (And yes, I realize I'm overreacting, but. I'm sensitive. People... are largely incompatible with my tastes. What can I say, I'm a meanie.)
+ Made an lj post with absolutely no redeeming value. Spam, spam, spammity-spam. I'm just avoidant and bored and snappy, forgive me.
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Date: 2003-12-03 05:45 pm (UTC)I can't answer why you think reading other people's friends lists is a good idea, but I think so, and I do so occasionally, so here's my justification: When you read someone else's friends list, you get a better sense of the person than you get by just reading his or her journal. Even if you've seen some of the entries on it already, you're seeing them in very different colors and in the context of wildly different posts, so you can get a fresh view on some of the things you've already seen. And the most fabulous people often friend the most fabulous people; there are lots of people on my own flist who I wouldn't have found if I didn't like looking at other people's friends lists.
What is it with the anti-recness that's going around? Did Switchknife finally post five hundred recs too many? I suppose I'll find out when I finish reading my flist. Anyway, you've had very intelligent thoughts on recs in the past, so I hope the concept of them isn't completely dead for you!
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Date: 2003-12-03 06:04 pm (UTC)I get depressed 'cause people have no taste, I guess. And also, the -way- the fics get described ("best thing since...") rubs me the wrong way. I'm very very sensitive about bland compliments. I dunno what it is. I hate them applied to myself, too. I think it's just that they seems like lies to me... like... they're supposed to feel good but they just make me ill, which in itself upsets me. I could go sentence-by-sentence and break it down to people, but it won't matter, they won't really understand.
See, it's just that... sharing my love of fiction is important to me. I want people to appreciate the gems and be able to see what's not-so-shiny, too. I want literature to be understood critically. I don't know why I'm so very invested in that. I just don't know! I was never meant to be an English major. Discussing specific works just... bugs me, if I disagree. For some reason, it upsets me much more than anything else I disagree with someone on.
Like, that quoted sentence in the rec. It's an awfully constructed sentence. Set within the larger chapter, it's less glaring, but all by itself it just sucks. How can someone not see that? How? I just don't understand. How could they rec it along with Aja's `Trade'? I don't understand that either. I mean, I -do- but I don't. I just don't have the stomach to truly withstand other people's lack of discrimination. I -know- I shouldn't take it personally, we're all different and it's okay. It shouldn't bug me! But... just... most people don't -think- about it, they just kind of say what they like.
And when I think about how people don't really have a critical eye towards stories, it bothers me. I usually can always say -why- I like something-- otherwise a rec seems pointless to me. I mean-- if someone said... "I like this-and-this-and-this and have slight issues with this-and-this but that's okay 'cause this fic hit this-and-this kink for me", that's FINE, I wouldn't feel upset. It's the sheer pimping of it that makes me go, OH YEAH? YOU THINK THAT FIC IS "JUST GOOD"? WELL LET ME USE MY HIGHEST STANDARDS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. And veryveryvery few fics can withstand my highest scrutiny. And I know I shouldn't even bother, but I'm just bitter in my anti-fangirlishness I guess. It's like the way people have knee-jerk anti-recs of IP, except I'm like that with -every- goddamn overly enthusiastic rec, man. It's scary!
It even annoyed me to read people saying that `Coraline' is better/as good as `Alice in Wonderland' & how it can displace it. FAT CHANCE!! Why does there have to be this goddamn hyperbole?? And why do I hate it so veryvery much? I don't know. I -loved- `Coraline', but no frikkin' -way- is it on the level of `Alice in Wonderland', simply because that was a groundbreaking work of fiction, so breathlessly inventing, so -nothing- like what had come before, so -new-. Nothing can be quite so new these days. It's near impossible to ever beat Carroll at his own game. The need for this sort of cheap sell makes me see RED. Which is -my- problem rather than anyone else's -.-