The tragically ludicrous? The ludicrously tragic?

[scarlet_carsons]

• 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

Comments

[findmyantidrug]

Re: Chapter 10 - YAY 8D -starts refreshing friends page-

Re: Prose - I don't think your stuff is bland at all, though. Things don't have to be poetic to be charged with emotion, which I think your writing is (emotional, that is) - because you set up the world around the characters. You give us a reason to care besides 'we know these characters!' by setting up a real sense of the world and how these characters fit in, which makes them feel more human. Little emotional statements seem much larger because of it. For instance, your take on the Roche case? It really stood out because of the atmosphere you set up; you didn't depend on the horror of the case itself, which in the end made it a stronger piece, I think. You do stuff like that all the time and maybe some people would think it's bland? But I definitely don't. SO BASICALLY WHAT I'M GETTING AT IS DON'T WORRY.

Re: Zugzwang - ...I must find an excuse to use that word. Also, that Wikipedia page is exactly why I will never, ever be a good chess player.

[scarlet_carsons]

'Re: Prose - I don't think your stuff is bland at all, though. Things don't have to be poetic to be charged with emotion, which I think your writing is (emotional, that is) - because you set up the world around the characters.'Thanks. :) I learned to write through online RP, and 'brevity is the soul of wit, less is more' was always drummed into my head. (Probably as a reaction to the fact that a lot of RPers wrote in a way that was REDONKULOUSLY FLOWERY, and there were entire forums dedicated to taking the piss out of them.) I'm still trying to find that happy medium between 'terse' and 'descriptive', and when in doubt, I usually lean towards 'terse'... Which isn't really a bad thing, but I'm not always a great judge of my own writing. I think I just want my prose to be clean, more than anything else

[quietprofanity]

Oh goody, I'm going to keep worriedly rubbing my nose expecting fungus to come out for the rest of the day. THANKS A LOT! DX

I've never found your writing narmy, and I think you show a lot of underlying emotion through your restraint. (I'm thinking of the story where Rorschach flies the Owlship, here.) I understand the worry, though, OH BOY.

Rorschach is so hardboiled that he shits wide-angle lenses.

FFFFFF. Best description ever.

[scarlet_carsons]

I keep secretly hoping that fungus will come out of my nose. It looks strangely satisfying. The relief of removing that thing must have been tremendous.

'I've never found your writing narmy, and I think you show a lot of underlying emotion through your restraint.'

Whew, good. I've noticed that whenever I edit my stuff, I tend to look very closely at how the characters emote, and I usually end up toning them down a bit. I seem to have this idea in my head that Narm is one of the WORST THINGS that you can do as a writer, and I'm not quite sure where it came from. Maybe it's a reaction to the common complaint that fanfic tends to be cheesy and over-melodramatic, and when melodrama fails, it fails hard.

I don't know. I like camp. I like absurdity. But I'm deeply wary of narm, because narm is unintentional camp and absurdity. I'm still trying to figure it out.

OH GOD WHAT

[whiskerslily]

It's like his nose is giving birth.

OH DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN.

Also, after clicking on Narm, I've been sucked into the black swirling vortex that is TV Tropes.

Re: OH GOD WHAT

[scarlet_carsons]

I'm a TV Tropes enabler.

It's amazing what you can fit inside the human sinuses. Ah, the miracle of nature.

[cdiar]

You know, I love gross things and all, and I read what you said about the Wilhelm Scream before I even watched the video, and I still made almost that EXACT face on impulse. Guuuuh!

[scarlet_carsons]

The same guy on youtube has videos of other medical procedures (earwax removal!) but I don't think any of them really live up to the Lovecraftian horror of nosefungus.

[cdiar]

I might have to check them out. that sounds like fun. I almost wanna watch the nose fungus one again just because it's.. crazy. How does one get NOSE FUNGUS?

[scarlet_carsons]

I have no idea! Fungus just likes infecting mucus membranes, so I guess you can just inhale spores and... bam.

I know diddly squat about medicine but I'm betting that the dude in the video probably had a compromised immune system for it to get that bad.