If I only spent eight of the last twenty-four hours awake, why am I still tired?

I was surfing around Quizilla today, looking for DG fics, and I noticed a strange trend in the OC stories. I'm sure you've all come across it. It's the 'you' fic, written in second person to make the reader feel that the OC is their story avatar - or at least, that's the aim ( Read more... )

I always thought that Freud was a bit of a nutjob, but this whole 'civilisation and its discontents' thing - the idea that we are civilised but resent it - is a really interesting one.

Yes, I am planning on applying this to Deepground, why do you ask? :P

There's certainly seems to be an uncommon amount of bad characterisation around the Tsviets. I suppose it's inevitable. Dirge didn't do a fantastic job of fleshing them out, and half the time it seems that people haven't even heard of the Online Mode. Even with that, some of them are still shadowy figures. And that pun is only partially intentional ( Read more... )

The problem with taking the dog for a walk early in the morning at the moment is that on the way back to the sun is right in my eyes. Other than that it's delightful. Once I get warmed up a bit, anyway ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for the entire season of Ergo Proxy, circular thinking )

I don't know why this is, but threes are hard for me. When we used to go on camp, I would always get really homesick on the third day. When I'm trying to form a new habit, it's usually the third day that tests my resolve. I don't know why. It's a bit of a strange observation ( Read more... )

( Warning: Spoilers (both direct and vague) for the whole series; more literary, philosophical, historical and mythological references than you can poke a stick at; rambling; speculation; disorganised thinking; tenuous connections; and above all, tl;dr and lots of it )