fuck jane eyre, where is my dinner

[apiphile]

So here's a thing that's tiresome - when people rather gauchely feel the need to point out something that everyone else has been hinting around. There are different levels of this, so if everyone has been hinting very heavily and someone brightly and ironically just smashes it out of the park then it's a fair cop, because everyone ELSE was being

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[lanyon]

there is nothing feminist about shitty writing. Shitty writing is shitty writing.
I think that should be a t-shirt.

Also, though I loved Jane Eyre the book (largely for sentimental reasons relating to my mother), I found the most recent movie... difficult. And flat. Though I adore Fassbender, I didn't love the movie.

[apiphile]

It at the very least needs to be an icon.

The movie is proving such a DRAG.

[myselftheliar]

E READER ENTHUSIAST RANT: I am so tired of people trying to sell me on e-readers. One of my greatest joys is carrying a book in my purse and thumbing through its pages, jotting notes or bookmarks on postits etc. Things to re-think about on my next readthrough months, maybe years later having forgotten I ever left myself a note. You can't get that from reading a screen. And it will never be the same for me. yet people feel REALLY ADAMANT about trying to convince me that e-readers are the wave of the future and I am a crazy luddite and omg why carry a thick book when I could read tiny flat screenwords. Nadia loves tiny screenwords. Nadia loves having 5,000 books at her disposal at any moment. I'm so happy there is finally a technology that allows her to have this. But people need to stop telling me ~everyone~ needs it

[apiphile]

Yeah that's the thing. And people just use it as another fucking tribal identifier, if you're not WITH ME you're AGAINST ME oh god it is so unutterably SAD.

if I wanted to see dithering women swoon over cock morons i can watch Desperate Housewives

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[wolfy_writing]

It will start the tedious eReader enthusiasts off on another defensive rant about how everyone who likes books is an elitist luddite cunt who needs to shut their goddamn whore mouth. Leaaaaaaave the Kindle-users alone. They have their eReaders for whatever reason is relevant to them (weight, accessibility, long journeys, eyesight problems, just liking gadgets a lot) and starting the whole thing off again is just bastard annoying and means I have to use the scroll wheel more to get past the unending squabble over APPROXIMATELY NOTHING.

I hate the book-versus-eReader argument. It is boring, and being one of the people who owns both (I finally got one! And yes, I did buy your books!), I'm tired of being told that I'm simultaneously a technophobic Luddite with a paper fetish and a soulless gadget-junkie who doesn't really read books.

On the subject of "don't rag on people for writing Mary-Sues" - there is nothing feminist about shitty writing. Shitty writing is shitty writing. You write your wish fulfillment character with flare and

[apiphile]

YAAAAAAY. So you manage to occupy BOTH SIDES of the argument at once...

Plus, aren't most Sues these days the ultra-victimy types who spend all of their time being beautiful and accumulating a tragic history until a man saves them from everything?

Precisely, a lot of them are, but apparently just making a woman the central character in your story is something we must uncritically applaud and WOMEN ARE WRITING and it's important not to tell them to maybe WRITE SOMETHING BETTER. IDK. I am against this notion that my sex are unendingly fragile (I am also against associating with people who are unendingly fragile).

[wolfy_writing]

YAAAAAAY. So you manage to occupy BOTH SIDES of the argument at once...

Yes, and everyone seems to agree on only one thing - I am READING BOOKS WRONG by using the wrong type of technology.

I am against this notion that my sex are unendingly fragile (I am also against associating with people who are unendingly fragile).

Yeah, on a political level, actively encouraging the "I am just a fragile little girl and if anyone says anything mean or critical to me, I'll cry!" attitude among women by setting a social standard that makes "Yay, your story consists of words! Good for you!" 'support' the only acceptable response seems like a really bad idea.

On a personal level, I'd rather stick my head in a piranha tank.

[apiphile]

Well at least you're reading them at all ;)

It seems to be the opposite of everything we were working for in the first place? But then I am unsure as to what it is we're supposed to want now.

So would I, if only to get a better look at the piranha - primarily insectivores!

[origamicage]

I haven't got a eReader yet. I love love love paper books but sometimes my hands cramp up while holding them and I think an eReader would help with that.

[apiphile]

It may well do!

[apiphile]

DON'T JOKE ABOUT SUICIDE KASPER YOU HAVE NOT-DEAD PRIVILEGE OMG