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21 Nov 2006
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man, it's really too bad when someone has a great plot and apparently a perfectly adequate grip of character motivation and just can't write dialogue. the result is inevitably, at best, what could have been a good story. if only she'd gotten a co-writer or something! i feel genuinely saddened by those potentially good stories. i feel they are wasted on their writers - i mean, i'm aware someone else could use the idea, but still. waste!
sort of like by the moron i encountered earlier today who obviously didn't know the meaning of "respectively", which (somewhat atypically, but not, like, extremely atypically) reduced me to incoherence. and genuinely saddened me, i mean - although more in a "despair for humanity" way than a "why aren't you embarrassed to post this with dialogue like that?" way. (but seriously, what even prompts you to want to use a construction like the "__ and __ respectively" construction if you don't know what it means? nnnrghh)
or hey, speaking of despair for humanity! the diana k williams wank (new variation on Nice Girls - oh wait, i mean, same old variation on it). you might have heard about how if you can't say something nice you shouldn't say anything at all, but you might not have heard that gone are the days when a man would automatically stand up because a woman entered the room, which is intimately related to how fandom is seething with rudeness because kids these days just don't get their mouths washed out with soap often enough. or have the door held for them, or something. oh, and also that a Nice Girl is only rude if she thinks she was rude to you, and not if you think she was, but a Mean Girl is rude when the Nice Girls say she is. that all kept me entertained for a while this morning despite being, well, just as infuriating (because even if the morons don't get the point, seeing it delivered explicitly and logically to them by someone else makes me feel better).
sort of like by the moron i encountered earlier today who obviously didn't know the meaning of "respectively", which (somewhat atypically, but not, like, extremely atypically) reduced me to incoherence. and genuinely saddened me, i mean - although more in a "despair for humanity" way than a "why aren't you embarrassed to post this with dialogue like that?" way. (but seriously, what even prompts you to want to use a construction like the "__ and __ respectively" construction if you don't know what it means? nnnrghh)
or hey, speaking of despair for humanity! the diana k williams wank (new variation on Nice Girls - oh wait, i mean, same old variation on it). you might have heard about how if you can't say something nice you shouldn't say anything at all, but you might not have heard that gone are the days when a man would automatically stand up because a woman entered the room, which is intimately related to how fandom is seething with rudeness because kids these days just don't get their mouths washed out with soap often enough. or have the door held for them, or something. oh, and also that a Nice Girl is only rude if she thinks she was rude to you, and not if you think she was, but a Mean Girl is rude when the Nice Girls say she is. that all kept me entertained for a while this morning despite being, well, just as infuriating (because even if the morons don't get the point, seeing it delivered explicitly and logically to them by someone else makes me feel better).