~~still with the randomness and the meta. oh, and the reccing.

djinanna says some interesting things in her post on the general direction buffy's taken this season. mostly, i take issue with her issues with unhappy endings and sort of the uselessness of dystopian visions, even though i've ranted against those things myself. i don't know. it seems to be that as long as you tell a good story, the things you do to the characters can be excused, because you're not being placated here, or made to feel better-- you're being made to feel.

( and my, i can sound pompous sometimes... )

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and fick_l_rene agrees with me about the insanity of ice-queen!draco. i feel good. have i ranted on this before? i must have. i can't even remember what i've ranted about yet or not. weird. anyway, it's nice to know you're a disciple without even knowing it :D or something.

( inevitably, this inspired a reciprocal, `i also feel your pain' sort of rant. because obviously, i do, i really really do. )

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wah. read `dancing queen', and am in my happy place. apparently, my happy place includes maya writing about dudley in leather. who knew??! love. love. have i mentioned i LOVE maya's dudley? and her harry? and her draco? because, yes. she could make me love ice-queen!draco and like it. yah baby yah. *sends even -more- loff to maya*
    antenora wrote more harry/draco. much squeeing commenced.
    do an interpretative dance celebrating the wonders of the noble zucchini
    ... i can't emphasize just how much i adore the creative use of fruit and vegetable in fic. heh. seriously. the inclusion of lettuce, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, pineapples, cherries, etc, are sure to win my vote of extremely pleased confidence. just so you know.
    and. ztrin wrote `playground love', which is a harry/cho/draco triangular-type-thing from cho's pov (eeee, yet another loffly, loffly pitch-perfect cho), which, if it doesn't earn -quite- as much loff (i mean... what could beat drugged-out!draco?)... still. eeeeeeeeeeee~:D me and addictedkitten might be the only insane people who sort of kind of ship this... (shutupshutupshutUP! yes, i mean, i know i fight it, but it's the only way, really, that i can excuse my shameful liking of both draco/cho and harry/cho) but yah. i mean, yah. it's trin. so. i mean. you kind of -have- to like it, you know :D
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completely unrelatedly to anything. since lasair has been reccing killa for highlander fic, i thought i'd see what else she'd written. and. i just have to say. kirk/spock smut makes baby reena cry. i know, i know. such a wuss. but. but. but! take pity on me.
    ( obviously, i have issues... )

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and, recently have been considering the many different types and possible definitions you could play with, in terms of love, romantic love, even. it's so fun to define it and then spin stories from that particular definition, and see what happens, isn't it? seems like a fun sort of thing, as far as a writing exercise. pick a couple, and try to write ficlets around like, 5 or 10 different sorts of love for them. different ways to think of love, different outcomes, different worldviews resulting from it, all the ways one could act while still under the influence. it just makes me giddy :D
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plaidder reminds me of the importance of saying no sometimes when it counts, and sometimes when it doesn't, not to anyone but yourself. so no. no, no, no, no, no, no, no i won't shut up about it.