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fishpatrol

I don't understand how it can be mid-May already...! D:

May 13, 2011 00:30

1. I keep writing up LJ entries in my head, but I guess they are of very little use if I don't post them. ;;; postingwhore kindly nudged me to remind me that I haven't posted in over three weeks. I want to post more regularly, but I keep getting distracted by other things! Also, school is still kicking my ass, big time. If I posted more regularly, I suspect my ( Read more... )

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lemniciate May 13 2011, 09:27:58 UTC

DID YOU JUST CLIFF SHEP. DID YOU ACTUALLY JUST-- DDDDDDDD':

i had more to say in comment but need to run. i shall come back once i'm no longer horrified for poor john bb...

fishpatrol May 14 2011, 00:40:37 UTC

/o\ I had to! I can't cliff Dean! And John would be terrible marriage material! I had no choice! RODNEY WILL SAVE HIM, I PROMISE

(were you not a Hyotei fan, back in your PoT days? :>:>:>)

lemniciate May 15 2011, 14:27:14 UTC

I...would have just shagged Dean and cliffed Atobe ahaha. idk idk I wasn't too big a Hyotei fan XD though tbh it was so long ago I don't really remember who I liked best! (No, I lie, it was Eiji. He was too adorbs.)

Oh, why are people so keen on this marriage thing and why are they so vocal about it? My grandmother keeps talking to my mother about why I'm still not married and my mother is beginning to despair for my future happiness. We're 23! THIS IS FAR TOO YOUNG TO BE WORRIED ABOUT BEING ALONE FOREVER, GOSH ( ... )

fishpatrol May 15 2011, 19:23:11 UTC

Eiji was pretty freakin' awesome, I'll agree to that. :>

I'm grateful that no one in my family is particularly pushy re: marriage -- my mom, very occasionally, tells me that I should consider dating more and giving the guys I date more of a chance, but she doesn't really push me on it. We are still young! AND IF WE CHOOSE TO LIVE ALONE FOREVER, THEN WE DAMN WELL CAN.

Anything pretentious or obscure I skip straight past.

I'm kind of D: at the writers who don't capitalize anything because, while I understand that it's a stylistic choice, I don't understand what it's supposed to mean (or symbolize or whatever!). :<

I don't mind the occasional capslocked statement in dialogue (used very, very sparingly), but as soon as there is an appearance of "!!!" or "???" in the dialogue, I'm backspacing. What is your opinion on multiple uses of "said" followed by adverbs (e.g. a la JK Rowling)? XDD

lemniciate May 15 2011, 19:38:45 UTC

I said that to my mother the other day! I told her that if I wanted to live alone and never get married then THAT'S OKAY and SHE ACTUALLY SAID TO MY FACE: stop trying to be original, you're not being clever

DDDDDDDD':

SOMETIMES I CAN'T EVEN HANDLE HER.

Ahahaha, JKR is a brilliant storyteller but she bloody well is not a good technical writer. XD It's not an automatic backspace trigger for me, but it does get annoying. I can't really think of many things that could make me backspace prose-wise, mostly it's to do with dialogue.

Someone mentioned elsewhere about the Britpicking issue and omg, YES. I mean, when you're writing about an English character in an American show/fandom (e.g. Eames) then, sure, I can live with that. But when you have Merlin talking about trashcans and jello and not having any clue on how anything in the UK works, then that's a backspace. And Eames would identify as ENGLISH, not British. omg, that drives me mad.

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