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	*tilts head* deoridhe 2004-07-23 01:25 am UTC (link)
	What a lovely fic. ... Oh, right... snark.... gets distracted Pretty. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: tilts head bishounenhuntrs 2004-07-25 12:37 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not a happy-ever-after kind of guy, but it's make you hope that it worksout as well as she wrote for someone out there, no? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: tilts head deoridhe 2004-07-25 05:21 pm UTC (link)
	laughs and nods Or, at least, that two peopl are determined enough to try for it. In any case, it is fully of lovely sentiments! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	princessdot 2004-07-23 01:27 am UTC (link)
	You beat me to it! LOL Yea when I first got his comment in my email I was like, well what makes ME so speshul? Then I went and looked. @_@ (Reply to this)

	lurker32 2004-07-23 01:42 am UTC (link)
	Oh, look, cookiecache from the AspieWank is playing too. Ah, young love. cookiecache/the_hamburglar 4EVA! omgtheirloveissoinfantileandinflammatory!!1!!!1one! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2004-08-02 03:40 am UTC (link)
	o hay sup -cookiecache (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cleolinda 2004-07-23 01:55 am UTC (link)
	starsight links to an entry that is basically slamming the whole point of magdalene1's article I r not smart. Where's this entry? I liked magdalene's post, but I kinda want to read the other one, too. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	llama_treats 2004-07-23 01:59 am UTC (link)
	I think it's just the post starsight makes in his journal commenting on the story (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Robble, robble! singe 2004-07-23 02:12 am UTC (link)
	Don't forget to flame those of us that got sniffly on the Metaquotes thread, too, OK? (Reply to this)

	*gets all misty eyed at the story* littlest_lurker 2004-07-23 02:45 am UTC (link)
	Wow, replying to every single comment? That's beyond trollish, that's just sad. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: gets all misty eyed at the story cleolinda 2004-07-23 02:52 am UTC (link)
	Seriously--that, plus "you'll never find love" seems like it's less a troll trying to piss people off than a really, really pathetic misanthrope of some kind. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: *gets all misty eyed at the story*

littlest_lurker
2004-07-23 03:19 am UTC (link)

Well either way, it's obvious they're not reading the comments, since there's been a few "that story is almost like what happened to me!" and the "[blank] years and going on strong!" posts and they still comment.

And I like this exchange:

the_hamburglar
2004-07-22 16:26 (link)
You're full of shit, and you'll never find love.
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trollprincess
2004-07-22 16:30 (link)
Mom?

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	Re: gets all misty eyed at the story kijikun 2004-07-23 03:31 am UTC (link)
	Trollprincess rocks with snark (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: gets all misty eyed at the story cleolinda 2004-07-23 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Heeee. I just found her entry on LJ where she's giggling about the whole thing--it's turned into a whole thread: http://www.livejournal.com/users/magdalene1/265176.html?thread=1546456#t1546456 (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	loki 2004-07-23 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	It looks like the comments have been turned off. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	livii 2004-07-23 02:53 am UTC (link)
	I do have the say, the_hamburgler has a fucking hilarious icon - "watch me eat children", HEE! And here is the link to starsight's comment: cynical, bitter story here. (Not that I don't find the original post a bit too treacly, but I think it's lovingly optimistic, which I appreciate). (Reply to this)(Thread)

	livii 2004-07-23 02:54 am UTC (link)
	"I do have TO say" - d'oh. Lame! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2004-07-23 02:59 am UTC (link)
	Hm, so that's what that was about. I got one of those replies to my comment. Figured it was a troll so I just ignored it. Why can't everyone just ignore stuff like this? Ah, because then we would not have the wank. ~ilanalynn on the LJ (Reply to this)

	plazmah 2004-07-23 03:28 am UTC (link)
	I thought both versions were good. I must be weird or something. (Reply to this)

	ladybirdsleeps 2004-07-23 03:42 am UTC (link)
	I saw that article and was just waiting for someone to point out how lame it actually is. Didn't get the appeal at all. Too bad it was the_hamburglar. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2004-07-23 04:22 am UTC (link)
	Neither did I. And it was rambling SOC stuff which sprained my brain trying to make sense of it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jfpbookworm 2004-07-23 04:56 am UTC (link)
	What disturbed me about the article is that it reminded me of a lot of the socially awkward folks on alt.support.shyness who would build up similar stories, casting themselves in one of the roles and usually some random person they'd seen in the other. It was really creepy, and I don't think casting a second stranger in the fantasy removes that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	iczer6 2004-07-23 05:19 am UTC (link)
	I have to agree, but in the journals you linked I think a poster made a good point when they pointed the fantasy didn't work for them because it was just unending bliss with none of the real life difficulties that couples often face. Plus I really dislike the idea that I'm some sort of loveless misanthrope because I wasn't moved by someone's LJ entry. Icz (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	big_bad_wolf 2004-07-23 01:55 pm UTC (link)
	Same here. And then one of my friends wrote the "cynic's version" of the same story, and got informed that he was a bitter, loveless, evil man. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	iczer6 2004-07-24 04:17 am UTC (link)
	Gotta a link? We loveless cynics need to stick together. Icz (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	big_bad_wolf 2004-07-24 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	http://www.livejournal.com/users/awatson/99550.html :) It's gaining on the original for comments. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	iczer6 2004-07-23 05:13 am UTC (link)
	Thank god I thought I was the only who felt that way. But the_hamburglar please stay out of the bitterness and cynicism shtick, you're making bitterness and cynicism look bad. Icz (Reply to this)(Parent)

	llama_treats 2004-07-23 11:10 am UTC (link)
	I'm afraid I couldn't get past the first few lines of sap, but I'll take your word for the overall lameness based on that. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	teratologist 2004-07-23 03:53 pm UTC (link)
	I don't really believe in love at first sight and that sort of jive but, otoh, I thought that as a piece of writing on the western concept of romantic love I've seen much, much worse. And yeah, the_hamburglar: Mindless misanthropy is, like, so over. You have to think about why you hate people now. (Reply to this)(Parent)

jfpbookworm
2004-07-23 04:45 am UTC (link)

starsight strikes me as your typical teenage misanthrope who thinks bitterness and cynicism somehow elevates him above everyone else. (Because yeah, been there. Then I graduated high school.)

I found this article through another set of posts commenting on it (here and here, if you're interested). The folk are still divided on the merits of the piece, but without devolving so far into fluffiness or bitterness. So it's possible.

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	necronomist 2004-07-24 12:39 am UTC (link)
	Funny, I saw magdalene1's post was more a meditation on what can go right in relationships rather than "OMG MEANT 2 B!!" I do not need to read other people's post to wax bitter and cynical. (Reply to this)

	sarajayechan 2004-07-24 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	Damn, she must've deleted all the replies and turned commenting off. All I saw was the article. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mydemand 2004-07-25 07:54 am UTC (link)
	She disabled the comments momentarily...they're theoritically still there, they just can't be seen. (Reply to this)(Parent)