[wheee, vigilanteees!!1]

[reenka]

When 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:
    

Comments

[nopejr.livejournal.com]

You are smart! Smart people are scary! They may well be able to kill us with their brains!

I think it's 'cause you get the body language and stuff instantly without having to read it as well as the talking, so it doesn't drag on so much.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

But I'm not like that :( I'm like, a harmless weirdo, honest~:) Although somehow it sounds untrue when one just -says- it like that, I dunno what it is. It's just, I have this theory that only actually logical/rational smart people are scary-- y'know, the aggressively argumentative ones. I'm just one of those losers who rambles about nothing and acts like she's high 80% of the time ^^;; Not that I -mind- being smart... I guess... I just can't help going 'but no, that's not me, look, it's THAT PERSON OVER THERE!!1'

...and yeah, I agree. There's probably a reason people make boring stuff like the Bible into comics when they wanna appeal to younger and/or less attentive people... or maybe that's just me... er...

[nopejr.livejournal.com]

That's modesty, that is. Good sign of the truly smart person! Ah-hah! Hoist on your own petard as they say, 'cept I dunno what a petard is, so maybe that's not the right word. Hoist on something anyway!

Although usually it's the dumb people that are agreesively argumentative -- *generalises the entire population, whee* -- 'cause the smart people are all, like, "I have played this conversation out from a million angles and in all of them I win, so there's no point any more, good day sir!" and the other people are all "no u r wrongzors omgwtf!!!" (Hee! Wrongzors!)

Comics! They're like propoganda in a way!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Haha I -wish- that was modesty-- I'm actually sort of weirdly full of myself but not in the usual way?? I dunno. I just have a distinct differencce in my mind between 'those' smart people who're logical and -good- at rational arguments (vs. stupid people-- yeah!-- who just -like- arguments for their own sake). Y'know, the people who're... uh... 'thinky'.I dunno if you know of the Myers-Briggs system, but I'm not a 'T'-- I'm intuitive, not thinky, though I -can- think-- I uh, just don't prefer to. Thinky people are different from me in a basic way, and while I get along with them & understand them, they're not my... uh, people, y'know?

So when non-thinky (touchy-feely 'F') intuitives say they're intimidated by me in any way, it's just like... a misunderstanding. I feel like it's just because of the stuff I talk about rather than who I am or what I -say- about that stuff or how I say it, most importantly. 'Cause how I say it is 'sloppily', 'over-generally' and so on. I think book-smarts or overall intelligence is important-- but that's the sort of thing that's intimidating, and that's also the sort of thing I have less of than just a tendency for creative guessing :> Anyway, it's not so bad being a Hermione type, but I'm not. I'm a Luna. Heh. I'm... 'different' ^^;; And my insistence on that is partly why I ix-nayed the 'modest' 'cause that's pretty ego-centric, y'know, to insist :>

Also, I was just thinking of the comics-as-propaganda angle recently 'cause of this quote by Terry Moore (who does Strangers in Paradise), and it also makes me wonder about how this holds up against animation or movies:
"You can read a novel and it may describe somebody shoving a crucifix up their ass, but to see it illustrated on the page and to leave that page open on your desk all day-- it haunts you. So you could use your books to do things like that, or you could illustrate the answers to life, or the cure for cancer, and put it out there for all the world to see. There it is. In your face, boom-- good or bad-- in a graphic language everybody can understand. Comics and graphics novels... they're well worth the time of grown men and women." :>