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.

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[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

I guess you can have an affair, but try not to leave any bruises on Dean. He's too pretty for bruises! And it's my favorite show this year too - weirdly, it's the only one I find that I have to watch right when it's on rather than letting the Tivo get it. Go figure, especially since I didn't expect to like it at all.