a little table which i am too tired to prettify

[cimorene]

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my hand and wrist still hurt from that four hours of writing.	shopping expedition payed off:  kicky new boots, interior decorating magazine.
i thought i had a week off between terms, but it turns out that this week (ie the week for exams) is the week off.  i have exactly two weeks till the next allmän tentamens tillfälle, when i really, really should take the book exams for that polisci course.	i thought i had to take both national economics and information management next year, but instead i get to choose between them.

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[special-trille.livejournal.com]

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resonant's latest fic

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um. can't think of one. that's right, baby! I'm high on life! whoo! maybe the fact that you can't make tables in lj comments.

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and when I say "can't", what I mean is "too lazy to even consider it". but, see, I don't consider that a con at all. that's a pro. could I have such a lovely life if I went around making an effort all the time?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hmm, yeah. make an effort when you want to and it isn't an effort, or when you absolutely can't avoid it: this is my philosophy. it has served me well.

uhmmmm. how about!

+ wikipedia is love!
- wax lost my ipod's protective little (HAND-SEWN)(BY ME) polartec case.
+my next term's sociology class is*also* taught by the lecturer from this term i was planning to write real-real-person slash about but didn't quite get around to.
- we're out of chocolate.
+ there is now a finnish netflix!
- but they hardly offer any movies.

i could totally think of more minuses but perhaps, despite our often eerie synchronicity of brain, you don't wish to hear unsolicited cattiness about people whom i consider bad writers, but many other people apparently don't.

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heh, I have to admit that sometimes, without noticing it, I am all about effort making. sometimes I even have a clipboard. It's surprising how competent I can feel when I make an effort with a clipboard.

+ wikipedia is automatically a plus on everyone's list
- I have to get up in 6 hours time
+ I have unread Nightwing in my house!
- I have to get up in 6 hours time
+ I haven't lost anything related to my ipod
- ...because I don't have an ipod

oh! MINUS: VM205 refuses to download for me! There are not! enough! exclamation marks of indignation to express how this makes me feel!

well, I recced at you without solicitation, so feel free catty away at me in response. I'll get to it in the morning when I am ready to truly hate the world and everything in it.

speaking of catty, what's this I hear about an exclusive #pnp spinoff chat where the grass is greener and John keeps taking his shirt off?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i know we have vm because wax mentioned it. but our version is probably either from isilya or isilya got it from us, so i guess that is no help to you.

and in that case what i was going to say was that my initial yay reaction to new resonant fic was slightly tarnished by my automatic, pavlovian "ew badfic!" reaction to the words "zoe rayne".

...would i like some cream with that?

if john keeps taking off his shirt in the secret room i don't know about it. ...because i keep being busy, and having to discipline myself into doing schoolwork by cutting myself off entirely from chat. *facepalm* nobody told me i was missing the good stuff!

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see, I thought you were going to be all "res is *such* a bad writer" and then I was going to have to be sad and confused, but you weren't, so yay.

I've found I like relatively little sga. I mean, the fandom is huge so I'm ok with my fraction of acceptable-to-me fic, but I am definitely, I don't know...picky. It's my strong affection for the characters, I think, maybe. It's similar to dS in that. Whereas in HP, as long as something is well written, I don't at all care about characterisation having anything remotely in common with canon, just so long as the fic has internal consistency. Not so much in SGA. Also, first times and gen are pretty much all I'll read. If I can't jump straight from where they are in the show to where they are at the start of the the fic, I don't really want to bother. And because it's all about the characters I want it to be character driven, so a lot of PWPs, humour fics etc are out, just because they aren't.

re VM

Aha. Thanks, but I got it from somewhere else, and it was there waiting for me when I got up. And I watched it this afternoon. And it was good. And I ate cashews while watching it. And they were good too.

if john keeps taking off his shirt in the secret room i don't know about it.

in my head, wherever there is John, there is John taking off his shirt. Or at the very least he'll lose it a lot, in an artfully ripped, Kirkian manner.

...and if there's cream with that, I would not say no.

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ahahah, i can't even tell if you're insulting kirk or making innuendo. not that it matters! and you know, john's shirt SHOULD get artfully ripped more often. if he lost it as often as kirk loses his, i would be only too happy. and so would thousands of other fangirls!

there was this post about how the more you loooove a canon the higher your standards are, recently. i think it was by mirabile_dictu or something. anyway, she theorises that the desire for fanfiction is a desire to read something better than canon. even if canon is nearly flawless, or if you love it almost to DEATH, if the romantic relationships you want to see are never explicitly consummated, that still counts as a flaw you want to improve on. but the more you like it, the harder the fic has to work to make you like it more than you like the show--even if it's providing the slash, you know? the less you love the show, the more you forgive in the fic, because on the whole, when you weigh all the bits of like and dislike, the fic still comes out ahead.

and no no no, res is one of my very favourite fanfic writers at all. top five, i'm sure.

i still haven't seen vm because wax keeps going to bed. *impatient*

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if there's ever any doubt, always assume I'm making innuendo.

Oh yes, top 5 for me too. I remember when I got into the sga fandom, my friends and I would sit around in each other's living rooms, listing fantastic authors we knew from other fandoms who were now writing in it and making pornographic happy noises and having insane amounts of glee over our shiny new fandom.

there was this post about how the more you loooove a canon the higher your standards are, recently.

Ha! Yes. I have to say, I don't seem to be at all picky at the plots of SGA fic (plot: not atlantis' strong suit), just in the characterisation of Sheppard and McKay. Which, you know, is precisely what I loooooove about canon. I'm not saying I don't want good plot (oh, I *love* good plot), but I don't stop reading a bad plot which is giving good character, like I would if it was the other way around.

I was never supposed to love sga canon. I'm still ashamed by it sometimes. And then I feel bad for feeling shame.

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i know what you mean--like, the science in the stargate universe is blatantly stupid (and sg1 is basically brain-sporkingly stupid from top to bottom, and frequently enragingly awful), but the character-centric writing in sga is top-notch, and external plots are easily bettered in fan fiction if you care about that. really, it's excellent and often classic sf tv.

i guess i agree--at least, i don't have any real plot *requirements* in my sga, although if the plot is there and it's bad enough, it's enough to make me scorn something and refuse to rec it.