Unrelatedly, it is weird how many of my friends have never been in love. I wonder if this is a self-selecting group. Vicious, sarcastic remark about a thing I don't fancy discussing any more goes here.

I was going to do a Q&A to help me with the world-building and charactertistion for this year's NaNo but then I remembered that LJ is kind of a ( Read more... )

( wow if only i wrote as often or as much as i talk about writing )

(what I really need is an icon reading i am clever and everyone else is stupid why is this and the answer is probably you are a crazy person and you have hit the delusions of grandeur stage of your crazy person cycle again)

delilah: guys you don't need to debate whether or not the text is sexist
delilah: because the WRITING SUCKS
friend: ahahah
delilah ( Read more... )

I do actually have somewhere else for self-indulgent crying into my cleavage about how no one will ever do precisely the kind of disgusting things I want with me because I look like a hippo's infected butthole and have the kind of emotional issues that make psychiatrists positively giddy with avarice. But this is LJ! Where I am hypercritical of ( Read more... )

And by "like me" I mean white middle class Londoners & ex-Londoners who are currently doing my fucking head in on Facebook for the following reasons ( Read more... )

what the fuck is this, derek?
It is a fic I wrote with Jess.

why is it in all-caps, derek?
because that was the only way I could make myself write it without being sick in my own mouth. Jess actually threw up a little.

what is so horrific about it?
fucking soul-bonding.

why did you write soul-bonding fic if you hate it so much?
SPITE.

( THEY TOTALLY DREAMED ABOUT EACH OTHER BEFORE THEY MET, HEARTS AND FLOWERS OKAY )

The latter are a result of my continuing battle with Electronics class, in which patience gives way to rage, rage, and more rage with the increasing number of burns on my hands and inhalation of solder fumes. Invented several compound swearwords and went off on a loud and vociferous tangent about precisely what kind of dicks designed strip board to ( Read more... )

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Well, not "hate", hate is a strong word for it. "Am not overwhelmingly impressed by" is probably better.

That's right! I went to see the new X-men movie.

( and these are my thoughts )

I liked America. It has a lot to recommend it. There is a culture of generosity of spirit and "can-do", of passion and ambition which are overlooked by a lot of Europeans; curiosity and a thousand, million cultures which have arisen and blossomed in the economic and geographic space. And the parts I saw at least - the west coast, from Seattle to ( Read more... )