In which football-as-cultural-narrative takes over logic and reason. Also there are baseball analogies and sentence fragments starting with conjunctions. You have been warned.

( In which my loyalties are hard-earned and fickle )

So there was a very interesting post over here about what to think about when writing AUs. I wanted to comment, but I could tell it was going to be one of those "all-about-me" type deals, so this is probably the more appropriate venue.

( Blah blah no one cares )

Okay, so I am, like, really good at suspension of disbelief when it comes to whatever bad sci-fi show I'm watching. I can rationalize/handwave away just about any plothole and am more than willing to accept technobabble explanations. I know it's a weak substitute for good writing, but I need to be able to suspend my disbelief more than I need ( Read more... )

Okay, maybe I should have been a little more coherent than 'Fuck your adverbs!' yesterday, though it was a nicely concise way of summing up my thoughts on Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin's The Good That Men Do.

( I'm not sure this actually qualifies as coherent )