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+ 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: 2003-12-05 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-05 01:23 pm (UTC)I could see how I've been more and more "grr & argh" in my journal lately than anything else, mostly because I've been supressing my angst in real life, heh. I do kind of think that the things I squee about are likely to at least not suck. Or be porny. 'Cause I'm all about the sucking if it's porny :>
Generally, anything I like on any level is going to be either snarky and cute or porny and cute or romantic & poetic. It's not likely to ever be earnest or plotty or whatever. I like gen and complex plots, but not at the expense of my kink-- which is pretty writing and H/D, heh. I just don't care enough about HP to read anything but H/D or! Harry gen without any Harry pairing and possibly some serious Draco bits but almost -no one- ever writes that (I'm in progress with one fic, though), so I'm unlikely to rec it.
In that particular case I was particularly boggled 'cause they recced Aja's `Trade' along with this fic I've never heard of with that awful line quoted. I'm extra-sensitive to awkward phrasing. I don't know what it is with me. It's like a red flag to the bull :>
I'm completely in love with elegant writing and would forgive almost -anything- for it. I have these hot-buttons (most people do), but I know what they are and am very biased about them. I don't actually like most porn, btw-- just passionate romance. Intensity. Sparkling dialogue. Something to catch my attention. Some people like plot and complexity of world-building, but I don't go for that in fanfic most of the time unless the characterization is one I can get behind. It's easier to ignore unsightly characterization in a stylistic, shorter fic. But in a longer gennish fic, it's just awful.
I dunno where I get off, being so obsessed with certain characterizations-- I just think certain characters have become a certain way in my head by now, and I want to read about -them- or someone a lot like them, and nobody else. My issues entirely :>
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Date: 2003-12-05 03:43 pm (UTC)Thanks for the 'splaining, and I hope you don't get too stressed out by the end of term. Holidays are soon, I think. :D