Comments | black_eyedgirl: Nearly Harry Potter day

black_eyedgirl

Nearly Harry Potter day

Jul 20, 2007 21:44

- It's weird, nearly being at the end of what was a really big fandom for me. I'm not gonna get the book until tomorrow mid-morning, which is sad, and I had wanted to go and do the midnight thing, but my friend who would have done it with me can't go. So instead I'm going to reread Half Blood Prince and peek at the internet through my fingers for a ( Read more... )

fandom: tv!love, harry potter, fandom: lj strikethrough '07, real life: work sucks, fnl, writing: process stories, fandom: book!love, bsg, fandom: rantings

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raedbard July 20 2007, 21:22:21 UTC

I don't myself, but I know the feeling. And I will cry, I know I will. Despite all my elitism directed towards this particular thing ...

LJ Book? It's nifty. And keeps your comment threads intact, which is nice. (And was pretty much the only alternative to LJ Archive, which I am too stupid to make work. *headdesk*) And I favour InsaneJournal. [*checks email* This part of the comment just became redundant. Ignore me. ;))] But will basically favour wherever the majority go. If they go. (And am besides likely to follow you around like a lost puppy ...)

Mmmm, pay. :D

See, this is why I decided not to care about the Emmys, ever. The whole 'let's not give Martin Sheen one' thing last year angered me enormously. Plus the whole Whitford/Janney getting nommed more than Schiff. Which brings out my frothing jealousy, love them both as I do. *shrug* (Plus I think pretty much all the shows on that list that I've actually seen? Suck. I do not understand the fuss over House. It's good, but ... not that good. *hides*Did you see you got an ( ... )

black_eyedgirl July 20 2007, 21:52:34 UTC

See, I know they're not the best written books ever, but the Guardian ran this incredibly snooty opinion piece on the pedestrian prose and the dialogue tags and modifiers of said and I just wanted to say: yeah? You're not the arbiters of writing, and there are no absolute rules. I've never read a HP book and went "oh, she used six said alternatives on that page". *sighs* I know this is probably because I do it too, but they're so smug about it.

If I can figure out LJ Archive I'll use it because then I can move the pages around, but LJBook looks good as well. I'd like a record of my fic entries at least. And I'm gonna follow you, so I guess we can both follow the majority when the great migration happens!

I can't help caring about award shows, it's my embarassing love. But mostly I end up shouting at the screen and having to let Mum explain over the phone "no, it's Laura, she's shouting at the Emmy nominations again"... Some of them are good, or even really really good but they're not the best and FNL and BSG are and it's just ( ... )

raedbard July 20 2007, 22:14:05 UTC

*nods* I saw that. See, my thing is: okay, she's not the world's best manipulator of language and really I think it'd be great if kids could read people like Alan Garner *as well*, so that they could be exposed to people who are BUT, she's an amazing storyteller, say what you like. And it's not 2D stuff, as people want to make out, it *is* layered and interesting. (I do try to find nice things to say as well as criticisms.) But the Guardian feeds on smug. (Today it was 'Bloggers Can't Write', yes? Which I didn't read because it would have made me mash the keyboard ( ... )