furiosity

First, a meme from jetamors:

1. Grab a book near you.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet. Just pick up whatever is closest.

The theme is not always the subject in a sentence. An object, time definition or place definition can be used as the theme of a sentence. Carefully observe the following examples.

Japanese Step by Step by Gene Nishi

Second, I am cranky, so ( a crankypants list of irritation, with commentaryCollapse )

1110 - What's been irritating you lately?

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I apologise in advance for the spam today but I believe this is going to be the first of three posts (Bleach is due out later, and AI is still happening too. xD)

This post pissed me off. This may possibly have been because I read it a few hours after being involved in a head-on collision -- I was going straight through an intersection on a green light; the other driver made a left turn from the other direction, RIGHT INTO MY PATH. I would be all OMG WHAT A MORON but she was injured enough to require a stretcher (not life-threatening though, thank goodness), so I figure she'll remember she's not allowed to go left on a green when there are in fact cars coming from the other way. There were two witnesses who saw the whole thing, and the cops charged her and declared me not at fault (which, I knew, but it's always nice to have it all official-like in case the woman decides to try and blame me for her injuries, yikes). In this frame of mind, the aforementioned post annoyed me to no end. In another frame of mind, it may have been just mildly aggravating. >.>

Dear readers, you don't owe the writers in fandom a motherfucking thing, except, you know, not to be a total douche to them for no reason. Not leaving a comment on a story you read is not, in fact, tantamount to being a total douche.

Not everyone is comfortable engaging the writer. Not everyone should be comfortable engaging the writer. I'm just beyond annoyed by the assumptions these "thou shalt not" type posts make about who they're talking about. Fandom is diverse: it has all sorts of people in it; people who, for the most part, do not think alike. For example, a large proportion of fandom (the largest by far, in fact) lurks. There is nothing wrong with lurking, because people lurk for different reasons. Some people lurk because they're shy. They should not get even finger-wagging for that, let alone admonishments and directives on what they should and shouldn't do in their spare time. Because hi. This is fandom. It is for fun. It should not be a job -- not for the writers, not for the readers.

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Note: if you hadn't already at some point in the past done so, kindly look up "hyperbole" before you read this. You may be glad you did. >.>

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"thoughts on yaoi" jokes are strongly discouraged, as I am well aware of the irony already, thanks; I don't need any help with that. XP

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Stuff about that poll I did last week!

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Since the inevitable "concritting anon fics is mean!" discussion is once again starting up as about eleventy billion fests are happening at the same time, I think the biggest thing to remember when leaving reviews for holiday exchange fics is this:

The story you've just read was written for someone very specific, using their very specific requests. It's not for you, the way fics posted normally are (theoretically) aimed at you as part of the audience. So if you don't like it, maybe you should STFU and cope.

For example, both my merry_smutmas and hd_holidays fics contain elements I wouldn't normally put into one of my fics, because the recipients wanted to see those things in their gifts. I wrote the stories for them, not for my own amusement or for a general audience.

I will never be comfortable with "don't leave concrit because you might hurt the poor ickle author's fragile feelings". Never. However, anon gift exchanges exist for the purpose of authors and artists reading and drawing for each other. If something they wrote or drew is not to your taste, and you aren't the recipient? Tough titty.

This has been a public service announcement brought to you in part by 8 gigs of unsorted music and a couple of giggling tomatoes.

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