Nov 09, 2009 15:54
- Chapter 10 of Last Days is being beta'd and tidied up.
- Oh look it's a video of a guy having a Saprophytic fungus pulled out of his naval cavity while awful 80s music plays in the background. The last few seconds made me do a Wilhelm scream. It's like his nose is giving birth.
- I've realised that if I have to choose between using prose that's dispassionate and potentially bland, or using prose that's evocative but potentially narmy... I'm probably going to go with dispassionate and bland. I live in mortal fear of being narmy. Which is funny, because 1) I am a huge sap, and 2) fanfic really isn't a genre that's known for its restraint, and 3) I'm sure that I'm sometimes narmy without realising it, anyway. No writer is safe from narm. It's like farting, everyone does it sometimes. EMBRACE THE NARM.
That said, I have no qualms about being intentionally ridiculous with Nite Owl and Rorschach, because... Well, they're Nite Owl and Rorschach. Nite Owl is the lonely, dejected science-baby of Ted Kord and pre-Miller Batman, and Rorschach is so hardboiled that he shits wide-angle lenses. They're a bit silly. (And sad. And strangely endearing. And occasionally horrible.)
- 'Zugzwang' is a marvellous word.
- Adrian Veidt would probably enjoy chess boxing. It is a gentleman's sport.
let me tell you internet,
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