Sunday moaning

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I've nearly completed the first draft of another fic, and skimming over it in its present state is a thing to make me go "ergh." Okay, so perhaps that's what first drafts are for, that simple getting down of ideas in a presentable order, being able to view it in a format that isn't bulletpoints in a private Livejournal entry, or notes scribbled on

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[drazzi]

So much of that Hovis ad was filmed in Liverpool, so guess why my family was squee about it from the first second we saw it?

I totally regret losing my The Animals of Farthing Wood comics. They were amazing. In that "lazy make a comic from stills" way.

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I was always more a fan of the Farthing Wood books than the cartoon, and can't say I ever read the comics =( Were they as trigger-happy in the comics as the cartoon and books were? (Hell, the last book pretty much made it clear Fox was on his last legs, which is probably why they ended there; I would have been *devastated* had Fox and Vixen died.)

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The comic was pretty much straight from the show, so entirely gun hung.

I could never find the books, I wanted to much to read them though.

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I've been ogling them on Amazon a while now; don't know where my original copies went, probably went missing in the Great Migration where half my stuff ended up in the garage, the other in a charity shop. Fox Cub Bold was always my favourite. He gets shot through the leg and his eye torn through by a broken snare, and then he dies. So sad =( My earliest fanfics (you know the ones) pretty much stemmed from my love of those books.

[rustydragonfly]

Re Animals of Farthing Wood:

One word: SHRIKE. That's it right there.

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YES. I remember seeing the baby mice skewered to the hawthorne as a child, and thinking "HOLY SHIT THIS CARTOON IS SO COOL."

[apiphile]

Hahahaha. I had a world-beating crush on the fox and then a world-beating crush on Damian Lewis. I think that counts as comparison enough. And I had aaaaaaallllllll the magazines that came with the Animals of Farthing Wood. And read all the original books. OBSESSED.

I can't put things in a coherent order, so that they flow into one another neatly, like a proper writer should be able to.

Yeah, and most published authors can't either.

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What is it with sexy animated foxes? It's Robin Hood all over again... they just make sexy personified animals. No wonder there is such a confluence of red fox furries; if my sexuality/personality geared that way, I'd be a fox too.

Yeah, and most published authors can't either.

Yes, but I *notice*. And, you know, own harshest critic etc etc. Doesn't help that I'm writing a not-entirely-popular character, so feel I have to make it as good as possible to make up for that. Frustration, bitch bitch moan.

(I've been reading your Gwen-fic, in spite of me never seeing any of the second series of Torchwood. It is lovely, I love character pieces about maligned female characters, you deal with her with a wonderful sympathy and understanding in spite of what you might think of your ability in writing women.)

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They *are*. I think I'd want to be a hyena, but I'd definitely be dating a fox if I were a furry and, you know. WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS HOT.

Which character?

And, blaodhgwsighfiagda erm, thank you? I'm not overly impressed with it but I can't work out how to improve on it so I guess it has to stay as is.

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Hyenas are awesome too, and if I envision you as an animal that's the one for definite. Female-dominant, sexually ambiguous, opportunistic, funny, powerful, scary... one of my favourite of the animals.

Lureen. Which means NO MAN SEX, unfortunately, and very little of that blood I promised =(

[errorism]

Fox is the Tom Cruise of foxes.

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THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN INSULT *gloveslap*

[errorism]

No I just always though he has Tom Cruise's eyebrows and jawline. On a fox.

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Have you ever seen them in the same room?