Oh look! I'm not dead! I just lost interest in cricketing I guess. There's too much stupid out there to battle alone. It's much like banging my head against a wall of steel. It only gives me a headache.
What have I been up to lately? Just following wank and occassionally reporting some like this Classic Gem from Anne Rice.
Currently, I'm following this disgusting situation with some low life plagiarising the writings of a late beloved fan. It's sickening really. It's people like that who make this cricket very sad.
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I've been MIA as of late. I'm sure that you all missed me, especially the trolls. I just haven't had the time or energy to do any reviews lately. It's not that fiction quality has improved, because truthfully it only seems to get worse. That's the rather sad part. You'd think that people would enjoy producing quality, but they're more interested in churning out page after page of utter shite. I can only read so much of it before shaking my head in disgust and going off in search of more intellegent fare. I'll try to get back to my usual mean and nasty self. There are a lot of new fandoms to explore. Naruto seems to have a lot of very promising crappy writers. Isn't that lovely? Ah, bad fic, where would we be without you? Oh yes, in a much more pleasant state of mind.Current Mood:  tired |
Like OMG! I'm a real Interw3b celebrity!!11!!1
Why?
Well, a post in OTF Wank is about Nicky. Nicky is a favorite "victim" of LJ Drama. He has a whole section devoted to him.
Nicky is very homophobic and vocal about his hatred for gays. So a thread starts about what he would do if someone slashed a character based off of him. This leads to a comment about slashing Nicky with LJDrama's other favorite looney toon, Mediacrat of "I'm rich and I'm beautiful" fame.
Plot bunnies are very evil creatures. Those comments lead to my posting The Story of TRU LUV!!!. It's spur of the moment and badly written on purpose, which is harder to do than it looks, but it amuses some folks because someone posts it on LJ Drama here.
So there you have it, I'm internet famous. And someone even had my internet babies! I feel so special!
Now to sit back and wait for the shit to hit the fan.Current Mood:  amused Current Music: Modest Mouse = This Devil's Workday |
There is no big bad essay today. Today you get an actual journal type entry/rant! Wow!
people + stupidity = rant
Everybody is different. Everybody has different tastes. Variety makes life interesting. So why in the hell to people always insist that everyone else should be like them? Then life would be boring as hell. Not everyone can be like everyone else, it's against our basic makeup. You shouldn't force yourself onto others and they should respectfully reciprocate by not forcing themselves and their beliefs onto you. You don't like something, you have the right to say so, as long as you can represent your opinion in a responsible manner! If you say "You suck!" or "Fuck you!" what kind of image are you leaving your opponent with? How will you ever convince them that you have a valid point if you sound like a spoiled child that can't have a cookie? Is it really so hard to treat people with a bit of respect? That's how you'd like to be treated, so that's how you should treat others. On occasion, you'll get those jackasses, but if you keep your cool, you'll always come out the bigger person.
rant - steam = the endCurrent Mood:  annoyed |
I was reading a book, and after reading over the chapter on style, I felt the need to write an essay. All too often people, when criticised, will pitch a fit and cry out "But it's my style!" Actually it's not, it's just you being stupid. Anyway, read the essay, the cricket commands you! Please? :)
( It's my STYLE! )Current Mood: amused |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bakayaro_onna! What the hell are you thinking? Or are you thinking at all?
Damn you smirnoffmule! I want those pictures back now!
All right, that was terribly amusing, but I'm going to stop now. Slander is too much fun for my little cricket heart to handle. I really need to finish that diatribe on prostitution for creating the ANGST so I have something worthwhile to post in here.
In the mean time, play with the slander and ponder this sentence. It made me cry.
"Severus never had become a renounced potionsmaster, he'd never had had the time or muse for it."
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Do you know what I hate? I really really hate? When a character's long hair is referred to as a "silken mass". Silken mass? How is that supposed to be even remotely sexy or whatever it is that they're trying for? The word "mass" pretty much cancels out the silky part. It certainly does not evoke a nice image of pretty shiny hair for me. I think of a shiny bird's nest when I read that. It's terrible!
I have hair that swings past my waist and I assure you nobody has ever pointed at me and said "Hey! Look at that silken mass!" Nobody has ever said, "Can I bury my fingers in your silken mass?" Not a single person has ever snuggled with me and said, "I love to run my fingers through your silken mass."
It's a terrible description and yet, I see it much too often. It seems particularly popular in the Gundam Wing fandom in reference to Duo Maxwell's hair. Yes, he has nice hair. It's shiny, silky, smooth, long, and even Rapunzel-like, but it is not a silken mass! So please, next time you are dealing with hair, do not call it a silken mass. Use your imagination!Current Mood: annoyed |
1. I have begun screening anonymous comments. If you don't have anything useful to say in the journal, then I'll just delete it. Trolls, if you feel the need to comment, at least have something smart to say, your pathetic comments are just wasting space.
2. I changed my bio crap around. I think my old bio was throwing people off too much. I have a mission statement now and some other random things I tossed in there. Check out the new bio here.
3. I've been busy with other things so I have been neglecting this journal. It feels lonely. I read this typo today and thought of this journal, so I'm going to do another Typo of the Day because I don't have anything more useful to contribute.
Today's typo of the day comes from a really lovely Lord of the Rings fic I was reading. It goes a little something like this:
"...he was both incredibly grateful to Erestor for deciding he wasn't working well enough and brining him on this trip..."
It's only a forgotten "g" but it makes all the difference. I don't know about you, but I don't really like my elves floating in pickle jars.
At any rate, that concludes this small and useless update. Stay tuned for something that is hopefully more interesting later on down the road.Current Mood:  lethargic |
There's this great poster on the wall in my workplace. I didn't realize I'd written it down until I came across the crumpled note. It's an amusing look at making and recognizing some common grammar errors.
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Writing Checklist
Don't use no double negatives.
About them sentence fragements.
Try to not ever split infinitives.
Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
Between you and I, case is important.
Correct spelling is essentail.
When dangling, watch your participles.
Use your apostrophe's correctly.
Avoid cliches like the plague.
Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.
Proofread you writing.
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My favorite spelling error of the day. This comes from a Due South story called Is that a Proposal?
"He had told Fraser earlier that he wouldn't be offensive about kissing him and Ray had meant it so he was trying to keep this kiss as plutonic as possible."
What they said: plutonic
What it means: Formed by solidification of magma deep within the earth and crystalline through-out.
What they meant: platonic
What it means: Of, relating to, or being in a relationship marked by absence of romance or sex.
It's quite an amusing little typo because at first glance I actually read "plutonium" and thought to myself "Well, it must have been a stellar kiss to go radioactive!" Anyway, the spellchecker wouldn't have picked this one up because the spelling is correct, the usage is just off a bit. A plutonic kiss must be ten times better than those that send you to the moon, don't you think?Current Mood: amused |
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