damn you thursday!

[tommygirl]

Dear Supernatural,

I want to marry you and have like a billion babies. You make me so happy that I'd even write my own vows and TONS of "roses are red, violets are blue...oh supernatural, you rock...and I really love you" poems.

Love,

Tommygirl

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Having just finished two books in the past week, I started Incendiary today during lunch, but I had to put it down. It's an interesting premise, but the author's lack of punctuation as a literary device/style is KILLING ME! I kept stopping every few lines and wondering where the hell my comma or period were. It's not a book for a grammar nazi like myself - it nearly gave me a heart attack until I put it down and decided to read something else.

And this is why I always carry two books around with me - because if one tries to kill me, I can read another.

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I have so much writing to do and no energy with which to do it. That's a sad thing.

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Finally, because it seems to show up quite often in various journals regarding different fandoms, I keep thinking about the use of livejournal and if a writer does need to censor/plan out what they write in order to appease their friends list/audience. I can understand how it might be sad or frustrating to reader A, who loves writer B's Gilmore girls fic, only to discover that now writer B is obsessed with Firefly instead. However, I can't get behind the idea that the readers' demands be heeded. That's right. I'm taking the John Wells' method of creating - don't give the fans what they want.

Though I don't really like to think of it like that. My feeling is that a journal or website is a person's own world to play with as they see fit. Humans can be fickle and change and be easily swayed by new pretty. It's the way things are and to waste time getting upset with someone for being a "fan" or squeeing/ranting over something that doesn't interest you, seems ridiculous to me.

I mean, there are people on my friends list that I adore that like to go on about SG-1. I have no clue what they're talking about, but rather than whining that they talk too much about it, I simply scroll on past the entry onto another one.

Maybe it all goes into some users' idea that a friends list is just that - friends - whereas, for the most part, mine is a reading list. If my reading habits change and differ from my current roster of journals, then I'm likely to remove that journal. It's not something personal. It's because everyone has the right to babble on about whatever s/he wants to and it's up to me whether I join you in your squee or ignore it.

There is no logical reason to try to sway your friends list by not-so-subtle whining in your journal about the overabundance of information on a show. Just get over it and move on. read someone else's journal instead, friend new people who still share your loves. It's just a position I can't support.

Comments

[piyo-halliwell.livejournal.com]

I kinda like having friends who are interested in other things. I may not be able to squee over the said fandoms, but their interest could spark an interest in me. Many of my personal friends can't stand some of the things I love, but it doesn't bother me. My journal is for me and whether you scroll by it or read it and understand nothing, it's there. I'm not not going to be just because someone doesn't enjoy what I enjoy.

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

I may not be able to squee over the said fandoms, but their interest could spark an interest in me.

Exactly. Be open to other interests, people! Squeeing fans on my friends list started me watching House, for which I am grateful, and storydivagirl has got me thinking I should give Supernatural another chance. (I was just so-so on the premiere, only half paying attention to it, and haven't come back.)

But if I never watch Supernatural again, I wouldn't presume to complain that you're talking about it. It's your journal, and my friends list is not a forum in which "on topic" means only things that interest me. There are really people who think this way and expect others to change to suit them?

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm the first to admit that Supernatural is cheese and that it tends to "borrow" horror stories from other places, but it's got that thing I love about writing Charmed Chris Fic. It's got brothers fighting side-by-side and all the angst to go with it. It's sort of how I envision Wyatt and Chris, if they were given their own show.

And honestly, lately, there have been quite a few of those complaining about all the posts on from their friends lists on certain things. It just boggles my mind.

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

It was that very comparison to Chris and Wyatt that made me think I should try it again! Because from what I saw in the pilot, I could totally see what you mean. If we can't have that Halliwell spin-off ... Which may be just as well, if the good Wyatt we'd get would be the goody-two-shoes Wyatt of "Imaginary Fiends." I like the good Wyatt of my imagination better, where he's always on the edge, never really well-behaved. Is that what I'd find in Supernatural? (From what I saw of it, I gathered the Wyatt parallel would be the Jensen Ackles character?)

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

Me either. I tend to enjoy reading about new/different things and if I don't have time to scroll through a lot of posts on one particular thing I'm not really a part of? I just go past it. Not a big deal and it amazes me that people think it's okay to try to dictate that sort of thing to someone else.

[piyo-halliwell.livejournal.com]

I tend to have many interests and my fandoms come and go. I'm going going to push what I like on other people. Sure, it would be great if everyone enjoyed the same things, but that would be boring. I like knowing that a friend of mine may like Charmed, but not Fullmetal Alchemist.

Be an individual!