Accomplishment!

[lassarina]

I totally accomplished all but one of the things on my to-do list tonight, and it was the one I didn't really expect to get to, anyway. So I'm shiny!

omg, being a grown-up is hard :( responsibility! do not want! I mean, hell, I barely remember to take care of my cat, who in the heck thought I could take care of myself? A person is totally

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[lassarina]

I am amused that your comment is probably longer than your last 3 LJ entries put together!

Yeah, I'm very impatient with fanfic these days. An author has, on average, three paragraphs to keep my attention. I'll click on anything with a coherently-spelled title and/or summary that has characters or pairings I like, but after that, you get about 300 words and if I'm not interested, I'm gone.

There's a flip side to this, as well, which is that there are some authors I read who I will read anything they've written, regardless of whether I know the fandom (and some of those people have dragged me into fandoms I would never have touched! *glares at KH*) and for whose sake I am willing to give [x pairing I never thought of] a chance. Usually it works out well.

I try really hard to make my chapters reasonably self-contained. They can't stand alone, of course, but they can be read in different sittings. Like "A Summoner's Faith," my Yuna fic, which is basically five connected scenes of a summoner's journey. Each one could probably stand alone, but taken together, I like them better :)

[venefica_aura]

No no, they can't all be completely stand alone, oh, I know that. But self-contained is wonderful. I think that's the story of yours I keep meaning to read, as I know it won't be dumb Yunafic (that's kind of my pet peeve in FFX/2 fandom, it's always about Yuna/Tidus or Yuna/[insert person who replaces Tidus], I rarely see much that is about Yuna or Yuna-involved gen).

And that comment was deceptively long, as I make crazy paragraphs that contain one or two sentences all the time. XD

There's a flip side to this, as well, which is that there are some authors I read who I will read anything they've written, regardless of whether I know the fandom (and some of those people have dragged me into fandoms I would never have touched! *glares at KH*) and for whose sake I am willing to give [x pairing I never thought of] a chance. Usually it works out well.

Yes, I have that problem with rabbitprint, he's wonderful and actually knows a couple of my small anime fandoms (RahXephon, which is a large fandom but has very little fanfic, and Last Exile which has my favorite villainess of all time). I mean, he got me to read Kill Bill fanfic, and I thought that movie was dumb dumb dumb (no offense if you like, it, but Quentin Tarantino and I do not get along well). Then again, it was about Go Go, who I thought was cute in the way that baby predators are cute.

To be honest, I don't really browse for fic much anymore. I wait for ff_press to pop up with something different (the five billion Cloud/Sephiroth/Zack/Aeris/Your Mom fics are pretty much always a guaranteed fail, but if I see a Kimahri/Rikku under PG-13, I kind of jump on it to see what it's about or anytime I see femmeslash ever).

I'm actually a little afraid to read about my favorites sometimes, because they're often my favorites for less obvious reasons that tend to clash with the popular interpretation? (Like Cid Highwind is more intelligent than he looks, Aeris is catty which is wonderful, Seifer bottoms, Auron doesn't need to be paired with anyone, I actually LIKE Lulu/Wakka, Edea and Cid Kramer are wonderful misguided people... etc)

Ha... long again! This is what happens when I check my email first thing in the morning.

~Cendri

P.S. I see your Yuna icon and raise you an Amano!Yuna one. XD

[lassarina]

omg, pretty icon!

I'm a lazy thing, and so I've set up my LJ friends list to bring me the maximum amount of fic with a minimum amount of effort. All of the FF Just-In sections of FFNet stream to my F-list, which means I get to see the few good fics that pop up and can skip right past the bad ones. I read ff_press although I confess I click on very little from it, and I read a zillionty comms (I was around 125 last I checked, I'm sure it's higher now.)

I totally agree that Seifer bottoms. I think I have some slightly odd interpretations of characters, as well.

[venefica_aura]

Yeah, but odd interpretations are the fun ones! XD

Damns, I should really finish that very meta-fic about FFX and marriage and how they handle it... Sev's fault. How I made that logic leap confuses even me.

It's always the ones that try too hard to be manly that take it. Honest. This is fact. XD

And I really need to play with the new RSS features on FF.net. I live and die by RSS, which helps me waste time efficiently.

~Cendri

P.S. I have no more Yuna icons on this journal. Failure! Hmm, if I move into the lounge at work they won't notice I'm making icons... I mean, I don't really have much to do today.

[lassarina]

You can steal all the RSS feeds from my profile :)

[venefica_aura]

Sweet. Since I get the RSS directly (as I don't actually check my f-list through LJ... sounds complicated, but it allows me to read only what I want to read and not hurt feelings...) I'll prolly play around with it. XD

~Cendri