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quantumreality's LiveJournal:
| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | |
| 12:05 pm | An Offshoot of A HMS STFU Post This exchange, which was an outgrowth of a meta regarding Sirius Black and Dumbledore, was a segue into gift exchanges in the HP books; the original HMS STFU entry regarding the entry by terri_testing is here. ( Saving Friends Lists and Monitors Worldwide ) I never cease to be astonished at the tortuous tl;dr crap that can get spewed all over by people who appear to just not be able to accept a simple, salient fact: Had JK Rowling never written these books the characters would be no more real or physical than they are now. Literature is not intended as a therapy tool or as a validation for a person's life experiences. It may accidentally do so, but personal experience is subjective and can't be used to create authoritative claims that extremely non-canonical interpretations of the literature are the only valid ones. Credit for any concepts or ideas put forth by other STFU-ians is hereby acknowledged. If anyone wants specific credit given I shall edit this post forthwith. |
| Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | |
| 9:32 am | LiveJournal Layoffs Just found out LiveJournal laid off 20 of 28 people on staff. Ouch! The most visible sign yet that the crappy economy is biting harder on people now. :( |
| Saturday, September 13th, 2008 | |
| 9:13 pm | Minor Wank About Fic, Again Reviewed a fic a while ago in which the author showed an astonishing lack of understanding of basic concepts such as the proper name for an omniscient POV. Makes me wonder what they're paying attention to in class these days. |
| Sunday, July 27th, 2008 | |
| 2:53 pm | More on Reviewing... This time, it's about fanbrats. WHY do they review fics as though they were hyped up monkeys on crack? "OMG LIKE YOU KILLED HIM!!!!! UPDATE SOON OR I'LL BEAT YOU WITH A SPATULA!!11oneoneone" Like, WTF? Spastic flailing like that is not 'cute' nor is it 'cool'. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I like to think even at that age I didn't feel the need to blast away at my keyboard as though I were trying to imitate a machine gun. |
| 12:58 pm | Reviewing Bad Fanfic Sometimes it really does feel like bailing out the ocean. Especially when authors commit such elementary mistakes as to say that an airplane flight from, say, Seattle, Washington to Albany, New York would take ten hours nonstop. Or when a perfectly good slash fic gets ruined by using stupid anime names for the original character dating Harry Potter, as well as for the OC's sisters. As noted on GAFF, *headdesk*. |
| Monday, July 14th, 2008 | |
| 8:40 pm | Communities, etc... So I recently joined HMS_STFU. I ran across it by accident, don't remember how now, but anyway... it was very amusing seeing the kinds of examples of serious-minded batshittery among the more rabid Severus Snape fans. The snark was also very amusing. I'm glad I joined JournalFen now. :) |
| Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 | |
| 11:03 pm | Minor Fanfiction Wank I think I'm getting into a bit of a pissy mood lately. I'm in a fandom which is rife with Mary Sues, self-inserts and so on and so forth ("aren't they all?" the peanut gallery helpfully exclaims). Unfortunately I seem to be getting a tad snippy in my reviews, and while I enjoy the thought of crushing some suethor's ego with a well-aimed barb, it kind of makes me feel bad later on that I didn't just restrain myself and do my usual Mr. Spock like impression in the kinds of reviews I usually leave (So instead of writing "Your fic is a fucking trainwreck of a Mary Sue littered upon the wastes of your fertile lack of creativity", I write "You have a Mary Sue character which makes your fic poorly set up and not well-executed, etc and so on."). So, is this a sign of burnout or just displacement of moodiness? Heh. End minor wank. |
| Thursday, May 29th, 2008 | |
| 11:45 pm | Whee So here I am at JournalFen, after having read the fandom_wank section numerous times and having a good laugh at the acerbic wit people employ in the comments section. :) I decided to register because I wanted to start commenting on JF's Fandom_Wank entries, too, since I just can't fathom the degree to which some humans prove the aphorism that runs roughly like, "there are no fights so vicious as when the stakes are exceedingly small". (Incidentally if anyone has the 'real' version of that quote, let me know. :) ) The userpic I have, as befits my JF handle, is a schematic representation of one of the f orbitals in an atom, the fz3, to be exact. :) Yay quantum mechanics. (Yes, I see you all running in fear now. Sorry about that.) |