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reenkaWhen people (who're pretty much guaranteed to have never commented) defriend me these days, only one question sticks in my mind: 'What do they -want-??!' Like, what were they looking for that they suddenly stopped finding?? It's like, a question for the ages, since I have literally no clue why people read this lj (outside people who continue to tolerate me 'cause for some odd reason they like me).
Anyway, if I thought it was that they wanted H/D pr0n (unlikely, considering that most of my anemic little fics get pretty much ignored), I could say I'm still planning to release my novella (possibly unbeta'd, but hey!) on my birthday, which is like... uh, a little more than 2 weeks from now. I know, I know, I better start writing (...heh). If it was for HP meta, I could whip it up, except... there's really no way anyone wants to see me rant about fanon!Draco -again-, so I've kind of avoided following fandom, ahahah. Oh man.
So. Basically, this entry has no point-- except I'm on lj, so I'm posting. If I'm not posting, I'm not on lj (and possibly I'm not reading lj even if I'm posting). So it's pretty hard to believe some people read and don't write (comments or posts). I mean, theoretically I'm all over that concept, but the stubborn part of me says: 'BUT HOW COULD ANYONE HAVE NOTHING TO SAY IF THEY'RE INTERESTED' (which just shows you how solipsistic I am). I mean, some people have brains wired direct to their bits, right. Clearly, I have my brain wired to my fingers (meaning, I don't think, I just write-- ha! fooled you, right?). Uh, but that's neither here nor there.
Anyway, I'm still watching insane amounts of Alias (omg, MICHAEL IS EVIL AHAHAHAHAHlfakjslkajflkafljk YESSS!) umm... and I've been reading Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden: Wizard for Hire series, which is awesome. He's all snarky and everything, pretty much all the time. Like, he's the snarkiest wizard ALIVE. The Harry (Potter) in my head is a lot like him when he's grown-up, hehe (and you can see why fanfic!Harry often annoys me if you consider that Harry Dresden is my preferred fanon, 'cause -very- few people write Dresden-like!Harry). Plus, there's all kinds of nifty logical ways that the magic works-- not overly rational, it's just that it makes sense.
I love it when people write stuff that's funny, action-packed and logical while being fantastical, and with all these fights that don't seem like extraneous fan-service to me the way they do in shounen manga/anime. If it had just a -little- less simplistic vampire/demon/bad-guy stuff, I'd be totally happy (I know, I'm such a girl).
Speaking of simplistic bad-guy stuff... I found a great summary of what's wrong with over-simplifying things in Alias (Bendis' comic), so I thought I'd reproduce it here:
Anyway, if I thought it was that they wanted H/D pr0n (unlikely, considering that most of my anemic little fics get pretty much ignored), I could say I'm still planning to release my novella (possibly unbeta'd, but hey!) on my birthday, which is like... uh, a little more than 2 weeks from now. I know, I know, I better start writing (...heh). If it was for HP meta, I could whip it up, except... there's really no way anyone wants to see me rant about fanon!Draco -again-, so I've kind of avoided following fandom, ahahah. Oh man.
So. Basically, this entry has no point-- except I'm on lj, so I'm posting. If I'm not posting, I'm not on lj (and possibly I'm not reading lj even if I'm posting). So it's pretty hard to believe some people read and don't write (comments or posts). I mean, theoretically I'm all over that concept, but the stubborn part of me says: 'BUT HOW COULD ANYONE HAVE NOTHING TO SAY IF THEY'RE INTERESTED' (which just shows you how solipsistic I am). I mean, some people have brains wired direct to their bits, right. Clearly, I have my brain wired to my fingers (meaning, I don't think, I just write-- ha! fooled you, right?). Uh, but that's neither here nor there.
Anyway, I'm still watching insane amounts of Alias (omg, MICHAEL IS EVIL AHAHAHAHAHlfakjslkajflkafljk YESSS!) umm... and I've been reading Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden: Wizard for Hire series, which is awesome. He's all snarky and everything, pretty much all the time. Like, he's the snarkiest wizard ALIVE. The Harry (Potter) in my head is a lot like him when he's grown-up, hehe (and you can see why fanfic!Harry often annoys me if you consider that Harry Dresden is my preferred fanon, 'cause -very- few people write Dresden-like!Harry). Plus, there's all kinds of nifty logical ways that the magic works-- not overly rational, it's just that it makes sense.
I love it when people write stuff that's funny, action-packed and logical while being fantastical, and with all these fights that don't seem like extraneous fan-service to me the way they do in shounen manga/anime. If it had just a -little- less simplistic vampire/demon/bad-guy stuff, I'd be totally happy (I know, I'm such a girl).
Speaking of simplistic bad-guy stuff... I found a great summary of what's wrong with over-simplifying things in Alias (Bendis' comic), so I thought I'd reproduce it here:
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Date: 2006-06-06 06:29 pm (UTC)I actually started with #7, went on to #8, then read #1, and am now reading #4 to follow up with #5, so I don't think you can really go wrong since he does explain things in every volume. I think #7 ('Dead Beat (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451460278/103-4234190-8321444?v=glance&n=283155)') is a good one to start with 'cause... uh, that's when the pretty cover-artist starts :D I wouldn't have noticed them with the other covers. Plus, the bigger over-plot starts up around then. But you could start with #1, I just don't know if the writing is that great (though still funny)-- not on the level, y'know? It's more fun as a sort of 'ohh, so -that's- how it started'-- or at least, that's how I read it. The middle ones are interesting too, but in a way, #7 serves as an introduction to -all- of the world (pretty much), 'cause all the bad guys had been introduced already, y'know? Whereas the middle volumes all focus on one bad-guy/good-guy at a time (the vampires, the werewolves, the ghouls, whatever). Anyway, they work well as a series in that you could start anywhere if you liked that particular plot/bad-guy more than the rest :>
Oh, and actually that does reassure me, though I'll probably forget this and be paranoid again next time 'cause it's just my nature :))