this is more banal shit that you will die of boredom to read

[apiphile]

1. Parts of my life appear to have been written by a fanfic author. I'm content with this, I just find it howlingly ridiculous and when next someone complains about romcoms being unrealistic because "normal people would just talk to each other" I will tell them to get fucked OH MY GOD HAVE YOU MET PEOPLE? WE'RE TERRIBLE. AT. COMMUNICATING. People

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[wolfy_writing]

1. I think the communication thing is one of those areas where people complaining get confused between badly-written communication failures and the idea that those things never happen. If a character is going to run around lying or avoiding conversation when the truth would fix everything, there needs to be some indications of why. However, what sounds like a convincing reason is going to vary depending on the kind of communication one is used to (culture and family environments being big factors), and everyone's kind of stuck with disagreements on what's plausible. (There are clear-cut cases of bad writing, but there are also cases where individual interpretation comes in

[apiphile]

Purple eyes? :D

"Why does everyone have to be as sensible as possible about sex? Lots of people are not-perfectly-sensible thrill-seeking risk-takers!"

Argh exactly! People are full of fail! And who the fuck is sensible about sex? Or negotiates terms? Or -- loads of people are complete idiots about sex and with so many characters it just feels like they would be too especially when they idiots in EVERY OTHER AREA.

[wolfy_writing]

Sort of a blue-green color that changes with the light and really big, with just a trace of heterochroma so people take a moment to realize they don't match. I have actually had strangers come up to me and comment on them in oddly poetic terms. Basically, the stuff in fanfic everyone says doesn't happen. (Although no one has ever called them "orbs" to my face

[apiphile]

Oh! Linds has eyes of that sort of green/blue/whatever i am today hue.

And hardly anyone does the constant string of "Yes, I consent to being touched here, and I consent to being touched here, and I consent to being touched here" thing that's sometimes presented as The Right Way To Have Sex.

If that was mandatory I would never get laid because I would get fed up with being asked and just decide that I didn't want to have sex after all. HOW ENORMOUSLY TEDIOUS AND ANNOYING. "Do you give your full and free consent to--" "NO BUT I WANT AN ORGASM SO HOW ABOUT STOP TALKING AND START FUCKING"

But writing everyone as making the most sensible possible decision, whether in sex or communication, is implausible and bad writing.

HEAR HEAR!

[mssamyx]

1 What are you up to now?

[apiphile]

Mostly having massive communication fails right out of a fanfic.

[finmagik]

I found that too. As I dated a giant scorpion for a month, his idea of romance was bringing random corpses and dead dogs. I told him: "Corpses of my ENEMIES, but I've never liked dogs, so thanks!"

He has since departed for Las Vegas we talk on facebook chat. He says no one else caresses his Carapace like me.

Also I have some very girly booze on me St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur comes in a Art Deco bottle.

[apiphile]

Oh man the dead dogs definitely wouldn't work with the guy he's wooing, John's a vegetarian!

ST GERMAIN. I LOVE ST GERMAIN. AAAAAAH. Yes! I think I initially bought it in part because of those utterly beautiful bottles (also because it's delicious and goes really well in white wine).

[strangefrontier]

I totally memory-failed on the rosary while I was looking at your box of jewellery stuffs. High-five of derpitude.

NOW I KNIT.

[apiphile]

Oh wow goddamn we are good.