discontent: the first step in the progress of a man or a nation...
Things that annoy me these days (in no particular order):
- the snow. The weather doesn't seem to care much about the fact that winter is over. No, it brings us snow, storms and temperatures around -2°C with a dedication that is exemplary. I'm so fed up with it. When there's just a thin layer of snow on the streets, people suddenly forget everything they've learned in their driving lessons, and it takes me ages to get to work. Also, it's freezingly cold. GAH.
- pic fics. They're not funny, they're not witty, they're just a bunch of bollocks made up by fangirls who like pretending they're star footballers.
- writers who don't care. I know I shouldn't take this personally, but it does make you think when you keep writing comment after comment saying the same things over and over again, and the writers say "thank you" and continue making the same mistakes. I've been disappointed by writers I used to put faith in so often recently that I start wondering if it's all worth it or if I should just stop giving constructive feedback.
- fannish nicknames in fics. It's bad style in general to use nicknames in narrative, but I'm okay with Fernando Torres becoming "Nando" because it's an official nickname. What I'm not okay with is stupid, idiotic nicknames like "Sese" for Sergio Ramos or "Iggy" for Gonzalo Higuaín because they were invented by people in the fandom and (unsurprisingly) they DON'T FIT. Is it really so damned difficult to write their proper first names?
- "defriending"-angst. I have a friending policy that states clearly that when I remove a journal from my reading list, it is NOT personal, it does NOT mean I don't want to be friends anymore, and it's also NOT irreversible. I have very little time for LJ, and I need to have priorities. And even though I keep telling people to read my friending policy, nobody ever seems to do it, for I keep getting "oh noes, why don't you want to be my friend anymore?" PMs and e-mails. It feels as if I've been talking to a wall, really.
- lj acquaintances that are going nowhere. Not sure if I'm the only one who has that problem, but sometimes it happens that I have a very exciting conversation with someone in another journal or a community, and I start thinking that it might be interesting to read that person's journal and having more exciting conversations there. But then it turns out they hardly ever reply to my comments, they don't comment in my journal, they don't write about the topic that "introduced us to each other" but mostly RL stuff, and in general we don't click at all. And when they occasionally do reply to comments, they're detached and cool to me and the complete opposite to everyone else. And then, they complain when I remove their journal from my reading list.
- friends who care. Not mentioning any names here, you know who you are. You might be living miles away, but you always know how to brighten my days. Thanks for the e-mails, the texts, the little pic gifts, and for being there. :)
- good age of sail fic. Yes, my old fandom isn't quite dead yet, and I'm probably the most grateful person on the planet. While the quality of fanfiction in the football fandom (outside footballverse) seems to be declining rapidly, there's high-quality fanfiction about the Age of Sail that keeps making my day. To just mention two fics I read recently, there is likeahurricane7's A Sobering Thought (PotC, Sparrow/Norrington, PG-13), and hammerxsword's Duty Bound (Hornblower, Hobbs/Wellard, NC-17). Watch and learn, football fandom, watch and learn.
- rupert graves. It might sound very fanboyish and silly, but I do adore this man, and watching his films always puts a smile on my face. I can't wait to do the film rec post about him, he's made of awesome. :)
- my spanish lessons. It's such fun to be in a group with people who have the same goal as I am: to learn Spanish as quickly and as well as possible. And I'm having so much fun learning! I even read Spanish posts now instead of skipping them, and I visit the AS website almost every day to get my football news.