LJ Idol Season Ten: "Love 4 You"

[halfshellvenus]

Love 4 You
idol season ten | week five | 725 words
Fear is the heart of love

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Will you ever find love, or are you doomed to die alone?

As marketing slogans go, it's a little harsh, but that's our motto. You want love? We're Love4You, and we're here to help you find it

Comments

[eternal_ot]

Well, well, I have been there and you have pretty good points/advice up here :) Loved the tone. And I enjoyed this take! Good job!

[halfshellvenus]

And it sure worked out well for you, to judge from this week's entry! :)

[hwango]

Hah, I see what you mean about similar interpretations of the prompt and then going down different paths. I think my favorite bit is when the "missing a bunch of shingles" metaphor kind of goes off the rails. = )

[halfshellvenus]

You know what he means by that metaphor, but it has drifted into the territory of absent-minded and weird. Not as bad as a high-level manager who used to work at my office, who was incredibly smart and driven and funny, but also used to shift metaphors mid-stream when talking to our engineering group. Conflation and mangling, and some malformed thing would usually fall out the bottom.

Thanks for reading!

[xlovebecomesher]

Love your take on this prompt!

[halfshellvenus]

Thank you very much!

[sarcasmoqueen]

Loved this!

I think this is the first entry I've read so far that wasn't all deep and dark, and I greatly appreciated that - well done.

[halfshellvenus]

I knew that prompt was going to bring out a lot of writing about painful topics, and I didn't want to write that... and wasn't up to reading 90 entries of it either, so light and fun and feeling was what really appealed instead. :)

[ryl]

I just read a string of dark entries, so "light and fun" was much needed and appreciated.

[halfshellvenus]

Yes, there are a lot of them, aren't there? Understandably so, with this prompt, but it's hard to read so much pain-- especially knowing that the writer experienced it.

[bleodswean]

Ha! Nice ending and it belies the sterility of this automated love finder! Clever!

[halfshellvenus]

There's nothing automated about this guy! He's kind of the advertising for doing it the opposite way-- how can you persuade people to look deeper than the obvious surface stuff if you're mainly using machine matching... which really tends toward the most obvious stuff. :D