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Mar. 21st, 2005 11:55 pmSometimes (...a lot of times) it's almost impossible for me to be anything but negative; I just want to complain about things that annoy me-- and man, do a lot of things annoy me. And it's not that I feel self-righteous about it... usually self-righteousness is one of the things that annoys me most. Give me someone who questions rather than states things and I'm happy; funny, people think I state things too confidently all the time. Mostly it's that I'm often in the grip of emotional conviction, while my rational side is aware I'm just spewing hot air. Since my way of self-expression is halfway coherent(??!), people assume I'm being serious. This is like my curse, I swear to god. So I'm telling you all right now, okay: I'm almost never "serious" (if by that one means self-righteous conviction). If I am, I'm just pissed off, nothing more (which again isn't serious).
Anyway, that was a tangent. My point was that I keep wanting to rant about one thing or another, and I realize how lame that is-- well, actually 'cause it's about the same thing. Like: number one of the things that annoy me (recently) is using the language of rhetoric or propaganda of any sort-- obscuring the truth by over-emphasizing the point. Why does this make me so frustrated...? It's everywhere, though; exaggeration, advertising, trickery of all sorts-- basically, intentional use of misunderstanding to make people think in a certain way.
The point is, I really want to squee (you know, up my positivity) about some shoujo manga... even though the author I'm currently reading, Shimaki Ako, is both funny and depressing, but mostly kind of depressing. It seems to be that if a shoujo mangaka dares to be... I dunno, sober (rational?? ahahah) rather than melodramatic, the intelligence and daring is automatically higher. The pay-off is higher when the writer doesn't always give the reader what they want to see & hear-- well, if there -is- a happy ending. If there isn't, I for one just sort of pretend I never cared ^^;;
( Blah-blah shoujo-manga-stuff-no-one-cares-about-but-me-blah. )
Anyway, that was a tangent. My point was that I keep wanting to rant about one thing or another, and I realize how lame that is-- well, actually 'cause it's about the same thing. Like: number one of the things that annoy me (recently) is using the language of rhetoric or propaganda of any sort-- obscuring the truth by over-emphasizing the point. Why does this make me so frustrated...? It's everywhere, though; exaggeration, advertising, trickery of all sorts-- basically, intentional use of misunderstanding to make people think in a certain way.
The point is, I really want to squee (you know, up my positivity) about some shoujo manga... even though the author I'm currently reading, Shimaki Ako, is both funny and depressing, but mostly kind of depressing. It seems to be that if a shoujo mangaka dares to be... I dunno, sober (rational?? ahahah) rather than melodramatic, the intelligence and daring is automatically higher. The pay-off is higher when the writer doesn't always give the reader what they want to see & hear-- well, if there -is- a happy ending. If there isn't, I for one just sort of pretend I never cared ^^;;
( Blah-blah shoujo-manga-stuff-no-one-cares-about-but-me-blah. )
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