More Fun-Size Thoughts
May. 16th, 2010 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyMy sister remains alive and well, with only some minor neck pain and some guilt, even though the accident was totally the other lady’s fault. We are not sure if the car will be quite so lucky, but for now we still seem to have enough cars to get where we’re going.
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So you all may know this, but I kind of detest parties. I like informal gatherings, but when it’s an Official Party I will be miserable. Possibly this is because Official Parties have Official Refreshments, which normally consist of nibbly bits and nasty desserts, and Official Fun Party Games, which are pointless and depressing and always get announced just as I’m getting interested in whatever I’m doing.*
But I’m totally in the minority here, so when my friend’s sister threw her a bridal shower, I grimly assembled my cheerful face and went to Have A Good Time. It wasn’t so bad, just awkward, although I would like to say right now that if you are the bride’s parents, for god’s sake use the bleedin’ gift registry. My friend’s mother did not do this, so she gave my friend the same thing I had gotten for her reception. Now I’ve got to take the stupid thing back. She’s getting a goddamn gift card.
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Finally reading Tamora Pierce’s Trickster books. They’re pretty good, though not as good as some of her others. I’m just starting Trickster’s Queen and already I have guessed at the Surprise Twist she’s going to pull for the ending. It is a good twist, howeve,r so I forgive her.
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Just to weigh in on something else I’ve seen going about the past week, I’d like to agree with my friends list and note that Diana Gabaldon is full of shit. Fanfiction will happen, simply because we just can’t resist messing around with good stories, characters, and settings.** See: the entirety of folklore.
Also, I don’t know about you, but I myself would LOVE it if people were engaged enough with my characters to write fanfiction about them, even—okay, especially—if it’s wildly bad. I have had conversations before with friends about which of our characters are the easiest targets for slashing.
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First dinner out on the Deck today! Finally this darn valley’s starting to remember how summer works. Perhaps it will actually be warm soon!
*Usually either getting into an interesting conversation or contemplating flinging myself out a window.
**Also sometimes Twilight. OH SNAP.
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So you all may know this, but I kind of detest parties. I like informal gatherings, but when it’s an Official Party I will be miserable. Possibly this is because Official Parties have Official Refreshments, which normally consist of nibbly bits and nasty desserts, and Official Fun Party Games, which are pointless and depressing and always get announced just as I’m getting interested in whatever I’m doing.*
But I’m totally in the minority here, so when my friend’s sister threw her a bridal shower, I grimly assembled my cheerful face and went to Have A Good Time. It wasn’t so bad, just awkward, although I would like to say right now that if you are the bride’s parents, for god’s sake use the bleedin’ gift registry. My friend’s mother did not do this, so she gave my friend the same thing I had gotten for her reception. Now I’ve got to take the stupid thing back. She’s getting a goddamn gift card.
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Finally reading Tamora Pierce’s Trickster books. They’re pretty good, though not as good as some of her others. I’m just starting Trickster’s Queen and already I have guessed at the Surprise Twist she’s going to pull for the ending. It is a good twist, howeve,r so I forgive her.
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Just to weigh in on something else I’ve seen going about the past week, I’d like to agree with my friends list and note that Diana Gabaldon is full of shit. Fanfiction will happen, simply because we just can’t resist messing around with good stories, characters, and settings.** See: the entirety of folklore.
Also, I don’t know about you, but I myself would LOVE it if people were engaged enough with my characters to write fanfiction about them, even—okay, especially—if it’s wildly bad. I have had conversations before with friends about which of our characters are the easiest targets for slashing.
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First dinner out on the Deck today! Finally this darn valley’s starting to remember how summer works. Perhaps it will actually be warm soon!
*Usually either getting into an interesting conversation or contemplating flinging myself out a window.
**Also sometimes Twilight. OH SNAP.
