~~we predict the vertical and the horizontal.

in case anyone wondered, i'm all about the cute. no, really. i mean, other things are all fine and good and dandy, but where would i be without the cute?? i'll tell you where. i'd be thinking too much and being all existential and boring even myself .i would also never smile at silly antics of sillier boys and take myself entirely too seriously. and then there's stuff like this (TTT in pants-speak), and really, i never have to worry about that, do i.
     i mean, really, i think that's the answer to why some stories are brilliant and some are "ok". those stories that are "ok" all have one thing in common. they have a zero cuteness-o-meter. not even, "eeew, the gross smirkiness", not even "aaargh, the evil wrongness", and definitely not "ohoho! the dark disturbingness!"
    EDIT: hmmm. or perhaps by `cute', i mean something more like `the squee factor'. something fun. something not needed for one's plot but rather for one's pleasure. and it's not that pleasure is more important or that plot can't equal pleasure, and on top of that, pleasure is -really- subjective, but... perhaps all that's really needed is a sense of the author's pleasure in writing it. a certain playfulness and glee about even a darkfic. hmm.

ok, that may be taking it a bit too far. maybe.

i really like this pic by amegoddess. and why? its great artistic value? it's beautiful portrayal of a romantic relationship? it's touching commentary on a boy and his hair? no.
    i am waiting for the fic that really writes truthfully, sincerely, painfully, humorously, about 15 year old boys in love, dammit. i am waiting.
    meanwhile, there are pics.

( and me, rambling on about my `issues' with futurefic. i seem to have issues with nearly every sort of fic. on the bright side, i read 'em all anyway ^^; )

that said, i can't get enough of hackthis' latest triptych, with `tea for ghosts'. even though it's all wrong, somehow.
    but silvia made me happy with `neither man a martyr'. even in the future, & without any ifs, ands or buts. sometimes things are just... right. so right i could just cry, and i'm not afraid of the future after all.
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    ( wibbling is really an artform, i think. you have to wibble without seeming like the lamest dork in dorkdom. i don't think it's possible, but we all have to shoot for something, right. )