It's the kind of day where you get home and take your shoes and pants off and feel like you're simultaneously expanding and melting. Yeah
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I'm not opposed to Literary Theory in general. I think I'm just opposed to today. SIGH. I have ONE PARAGRAPH to email a professor and then I can lie here like a slug, eat coconut tapioca pudding and watch TV. I suppose I should get on that instead of writing butt ass long rambly LJ posts. :P
It does make sense, I just wouldn't necessarily apply it across the board to like, all other people who are not me.
I mean, you've noticed the switch with me, right? I love Sammy and Matt Saracen and Piz... Dude, I want a guy who will wash the dishes without being asked. Also, one who watches good TV regardless of whether it's a "girl show." In fact, I would not date someone who didn't watch TV I don't think. It would not work.
Hey, you're telling ME. We go from Logan Echolls to SAM WINCHESTER. And Mattie, and Piz, and well, there was Max Evans first so there goes the curve. But I can out and out say at this point I love me some good boy and I don't even bother defending myself to the "bad girls" anymore. :P
Ah yes, but Max Evans was a PINER and I likes me some boys who pine. *cough* Gilbert Blythe*cough*
Things is though, I think a LOT of "bad girls" like "good boys." It's often "nice girls" who like the "bad boys." Of course, I still like bad girls, kinda.
Of course, these things are so relative. I really don't think of myself as a ever having been a really "bad girl" but then I run across people where um, in comparison I've been slutty. Or like, I tell stories that are just like MY LIFE blah blah to me and people are shocked. *shrugs*
Oh, A Humument! I was really obsessed with that for a while, and for years searched far and wide for a copy of it, but I never found one (they were like $150 on ebay) but now there is a website for me to stare at for hours! Thank you!
When was the last time you checked? Phaidon press released a wee version that costs like $30 at most, I think. That's what I got my brother. Of course that was almost two years ago.
Yeah, I just checked and Amazon has one for $18, so maybe I will finally buy it now. It must have just been out of print at the time - it was more than a couple of years ago, I think.
I'm a thoroughly reformed* "bad" girl, yet a Dean girl by a narrow edge.
(Though this is perhaps because I'm seriously attracted to characters who share my worst characteristics.)
(Regardless, Sam's the one I'd rather take to bed.)
(Apropos of upthread, I require a partner who'll do dishes, because I just won't, even if I'm perfectly happy to scrub the toilet. Actually, what I really need is a robot maid.)
*Mostly, at any rate. I'm coupled and stable and all that kind of nonsense. I'm only really bad inside my head these days.
I don't really identify with either of them, I don't think. And you know I love Dean too, yes? It's just...
Of course, I think a lot of times identification can be confusing. Like I really don't feel like I identify with either Faith or Dean at all, but writing them can exhaust me emotionally for some reason. Fandom, it brings out our latent issues through porn. :P
And jesus, now when I think about it, sometimes when I write girl!Dean it freaks me out because of the my old nurturing my brother(s) stuff from when I was young. Eeeeeeeeh.
I have seriously never had a partner who I didn't have to nag to do ANY kind of housework whatsoever. There are reasons why I'm cautiously single now. I'm not sure I trust my own taste. For lo, but the men I date are overgrown children and the girls are CRAZY. [Of course, many are really awesome *people*, but.]
My Deanish traits had to be, err. Pointed out to me. I was, of course, claiming confusion about Dean being slightly easier to write when clearly I had more in common with Sam. And then I was laughed at, albeit gently. Mocked with love and all that shit.
I grew up in a house that was constantly under destruction, and have a huge tolerance for mess. Combine that with my utter lack of a time sense, and me and housework tend to not mix. By the time I notice it, it's out of control.
Back when I was still sowing the wild oats of half the planet and using far too many chemicals, I loved to clean when I was high, because then I really, really noticed it. I'd usually get one section utterly perfect before I got seriously distracted.
I'm REALLY not an especially tidy person at all, either. I mean, it's a good thing I'm (theoretically) going to actually become a professor because I've got "absent-minded professor syndrome" to a serious degree and right now I'm...just absent-minded. Heh.
Nothing to teach you what your limits are though when you're put in a position where you have clean up after someone else all the time as well (I mean, an adult person who should be able to take care of themselves).
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Literary theory is lame. Everyone should just read books and then say cool stuff about them. Who needs a theory for that?
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You know, that makes sense. Being bad is fun and all, but now? At the end of the day Lu? I just WANT A GUY WHO WILL HOLD ME FOREVER. SIGH. <3 <3
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I mean, you've noticed the switch with me, right? I love Sammy and Matt Saracen and Piz... Dude, I want a guy who will wash the dishes without being asked. Also, one who watches good TV regardless of whether it's a "girl show." In fact, I would not date someone who didn't watch TV I don't think. It would not work.
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Things is though, I think a LOT of "bad girls" like "good boys." It's often "nice girls" who like the "bad boys." Of course, I still like bad girls, kinda.
Of course, these things are so relative. I really don't think of myself as a ever having been a really "bad girl" but then I run across people where um, in comparison I've been slutty. Or like, I tell stories that are just like MY LIFE blah blah to me and people are shocked. *shrugs*
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Thank you!!!!
My Sam fic got Jossed. (I watched the season premiere on I Tunes). :P
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My Sam fic got Jossed.
Are you going to finish it anyway?
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I just have to change the ending.
And the theme.
And the POINT.
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(Though this is perhaps because I'm seriously attracted to characters who share my worst characteristics.)
(Regardless, Sam's the one I'd rather take to bed.)
(Apropos of upthread, I require a partner who'll do dishes, because I just won't, even if I'm perfectly happy to scrub the toilet. Actually, what I really need is a robot maid.)
*Mostly, at any rate. I'm coupled and stable and all that kind of nonsense. I'm only really bad inside my head these days.
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Of course, I think a lot of times identification can be confusing. Like I really don't feel like I identify with either Faith or Dean at all, but writing them can exhaust me emotionally for some reason. Fandom, it brings out our latent issues through porn. :P
And jesus, now when I think about it, sometimes when I write girl!Dean it freaks me out because of the my old nurturing my brother(s) stuff from when I was young. Eeeeeeeeh.
I have seriously never had a partner who I didn't have to nag to do ANY kind of housework whatsoever. There are reasons why I'm cautiously single now. I'm not sure I trust my own taste. For lo, but the men I date are overgrown children and the girls are CRAZY. [Of course, many are really awesome *people*, but.]
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I grew up in a house that was constantly under destruction, and have a huge tolerance for mess. Combine that with my utter lack of a time sense, and me and housework tend to not mix. By the time I notice it, it's out of control.
Back when I was still sowing the wild oats of half the planet and using far too many chemicals, I loved to clean when I was high, because then I really, really noticed it. I'd usually get one section utterly perfect before I got seriously distracted.
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Nothing to teach you what your limits are though when you're put in a position where you have clean up after someone else all the time as well (I mean, an adult person who should be able to take care of themselves).
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