Oh my god I can't even function this semester it's not even funny

[rotynd]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

All I am capable of is writing Glee fanfic I swear I'm so... not even capable of doing anything this semester no me gusta.

But I'm still alive and I promised my cousin I'd read I Am Number Four so I did read it and fucking hell is it mediocre and crappy. Like, astonishingly so. I have no idea how it got made into a movie,

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[some_stars]

Horrible books read by other people are the best kind of books! OMG, I can't believe this thing went on for over four hundred pages??? OMG.

[rotynd]

Oh my god babe

440 pages

and there will be sequels

It's just so unrelentingly - not even mediocre. A step below mediocre. To be fair, I really get the impression that the author might be pretty young. Like... that's all I can come up with, here. This is thirteen-year-old writing. But because of the crappy pseudo-postmodern device of having the author pose as a character, there's no real author's bio, so idk.

(I love meta devices like that usually, to be clear. Like - I LOVE them. It's just that this person cannot even remotely handle this shit.)

[some_stars]

That is--that is amazing. Awe-inspiring. For certain very old values of 'awe.' (And also just kind of inspiring, since I will soon be setting off--hopefully--on writing my own fantasy possibly-YA novel. "I can do better than that" could be a good mantra.)

--oh LOL this explains so much, I looked it up on Wiki and apparently it's "cowritten" by James Frey. Explains so much.

[rotynd]

Ahhh katemacetak was just talking about that - the James Frey thing - and I still don't know who he is but yay here's a link! I gather he is an asspot.

Anyway, yeah, it is def. inspiring in a "if he can make money as an author, WHY NOT ME" because for serious, there are classier ways of catering to the desires of teenagers. I HAVE FAITH IN YOU. GO FORTH.

[katemacetak]

(followed you here from tumblr)

I agree with everything you said. I didn't even finish the book. I kind of still want to see the movie but only because of Alex Pettyfer's hotness.

Fun fact, Pittacus Lore is James Frey (the guy who got in trouble for publishing a fake memoir a few years ago).

[rotynd]

OH HEY BB HEY

HOW YOU DOIN'

But yeah, likewise. I mean I would have quit but I'd promised my cousin and she is my LIIIIIFE. She'd already read it and it was only fair that I suffer too. Plus we do want to see the movie, though for Dianna Agron's hotness on my part and train-wreck lulz on hers.

IS HE REALLY. Imma look into this, I've never heard of him but I admit to being obscurely pleased by this tomfoolery.

FFF I kept meaning to text you to say hello recently

[sobdasha]

I miss having you tell me what books I don't need to bother reading <3

Re: the eyes things
After I meditated on the WTF for a bit, I wonder if the first was trying to mean what is generally described as "looking at X from under her eyelashes/through her eyelashes", something along those lines anyway. That thing where you have your head tilted down, and maybe your eyes a little half-lidded, and you look up at the person and it's very demure or sensual generally.
And the second one I... I... uh... maybe they meant narrowing their eyes in determination (and so you might get some wrinkles in the skin around your eyes that somehow made you go for the word "twisting"? Although you really should have had a THEN to transition from EYES WIDE to EYES NOT WIDE, if that's the case. Maybe all the cool kids roll their eyes in determination now...? Cross their eyes in determination...?)

Speaking of books and I don't remember if you got back to me on this: over here it is omg Diana Wynne Jones festIt's a shame I only got on this after her recent

Re: FFF I kept meaning to text you to say hello recently

[rotynd]

Lol it is my noblest calling. Well at least I can tell myself that as I continue to read crappy YA and then whine about it on the internet.

As for the tops of the eyes thing, yeah, I totes get that that's what he's going for - the demure eyelashes thing - but that is just. Not how to phrase it. Because it's wrong and so unwieldy. As for the other one, man, you could be right, I honestly couldn't even come up with what he was aiming at there.

OOOOHKAY UM I THINK... yes? I was totes going to read some Jones with you, anyway. I have read some of her stuff and it all looks super cool, I just have trouble keeping her separate in my head from Diane Duane and it's confusing.

We are close now tho. And tomorrow I'm leaving to go visit some college with Mudgey so I am leaving all my cares behind me

except what if she decides to go there it's so far away

I mean like it's near the town where I grew up so that's... five hours at least or some shit

fffffff

Re: FFF I kept meaning to text you to say hello recently

[sobdasha]

You are so noble to take the blows for us~ Plus it educates me, and that is a very valuable thing!

Yeah. Somehow "top" made me think "top half" and so I have an image of eyes with a line cut through the center and...? HOW DO YOU LOOK ONLY THROUGH THE TOP HALF OF YOUR EYE??? Because you still have the other half of your pupil and retina on the bottom, it's still seeing things...

YES, YES YOU WERE GOING TO READ THE CHRESTOMANCI BOOKS BECAUSE CHRIS IS AWESOME AND I WANT TO CROSS HIM OVER WITH DOCTOR WHO IN VARIOUS VAGUE WAYS.
Diane Duane = the So You Want to Be a Wizard series? I think?

Good luck, have fun~?
5 hours is so far away. I think that's like how far away Chicago is and that's very boringly long and far away... and that was before anxiety kicked in and I still liked riding in the car just staring out the windows contentedly

Re: FFF I kept meaning to text you to say hello recently

[rotynd]

OMG BABE

I AM YOUR TEACHER

YOU ARE MY FIGHTER

WE ARE SECRET ALIENS Y/N

She is wearing contact lenses that are opaque on the bottom half. That's all I got. Unless she's an alien too and can like seal off half of her eyes. It's just one of those details, man, the meaning is there but the phrasing is SO WRONG.

Yes! Yeah she is, and I can keep that straight. Diane Duane is a goddess. She followed me back on Twitter a long time ago and now I'm incapacitated. It's just that then I want to attribute Jones' books to her too. Hang on a mo...

OH OKAY OKAY IT WAS JONES

SHE DID DARK LORD OF DERKHOLM

I FUCKING LOVED THAT BOOK

And I read a few Chrestomanci books when I was little but didn't like them, but looking back that is because I was a stupid brat and the books asked too much of my mental capacities; I think I'll actually be super into them now. And I can see where you're coming from with the crossover. I am def. on board for this.

five hours is not even a little okay. at all.

[prologi]

Oh god, I can totally sympathise about being completely useless. I'm only taking like two classes and I'm still blowing it all off to read Glee fic.

Also I haven't read this book and don't really intend to, but I feel slightly bad for how much your suffering delights me. (Er. Not because I want you to suffer through shitty YA books, because you're hilarious.) That sounds almost exactly like something I would have written when I was thirteen. Crystals! The burden of being ~special! The names nicked from Lord of The Rings! (I'm pretty sure Lorien is some sort of place in that, anyway.)

[rotynd]

I'm only taking like two classes and I'm still blowing it all off to read Glee fic.

ARE YOU ME THO

THIS IS UNCANNY

like I have almost zero responsibilities and I still CAN'T DO ANYTHING, everything is such a HUGE burden and I retreat into Glee's loving arms whenever I feel at all overwhelmed so you know. Constantly

[sekahyyh]

I've been lucky in my book choices lately, it seems. I have a manga recommendation for you, too, if you get a chance to read it.

Also, Rotyyyyynd. I've missed you terribly!

[rotynd]

HEY BABE

HEY

ILU AND I MISS YOUUUUU

BUT THIS SEMESTER IS ALMOST FUCKING OVER AND THEN

THEN

WHAT GREATNESS

you should totes rec away babe, I can add it to the list for now and try to get ahold of it over the summer

also you might have been lucky or just discerning. I keep signing myself up for this shit man

[sekahyyh]

Guess what today is, if you haven't checked your flist! And well, I've been gnawing my way through nonfiction history books and classics lately, so obviously there's less to get despondent over. There have certainly been some duds, though