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demon_rum

Brain needs a rest

Jun 03, 2011 12:49

Friday post out. Tried exercising: failed. Too much eating pizza/ice cream, not enough doing anything other than eating and writing. Have to shave legs for wedding and put on horrible orange "salmon" bridesmaid dress with "contrasting" yellow polka-dot shawl. Sick of researching breast cancer, pancreatitis and knee replacement surgery.

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stupid!brain

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random_hato June 3 2011, 20:05:30 UTC

i feel your pain on the seeming unbalance of comments. i try not to be THAT bitch, but it does make me question why i even bother to write some days- or even use spell check, lol. and now i'll have to run over to the kinkmeme (which i avoid like the plague for various reasons) and comment all up on your posts :)

there's probably some easier way, but i've always just used my f-page. as long as i check it about once a day so i don't get backlogged in unread posts.

*can't even comment on salmon/yellow/polka dot atrocity*

random_hato June 5 2011, 20:22:33 UTC

and i epic fail cuz i can't find it on the kink meme!!!!!

demon_rum June 5 2011, 21:16:28 UTC

this is exactly what I mean. OK, I'm venting. But I've got a horrible sunburn from the wedding and am on 4.5 hours of sleep and not 100% in my right mind at the moment. Apologies ahead of time.

See, I think your stuff is great. Really, honestly great. It's so atmospheric, and the way you manage to throw details around describes a situation perfectly without ever having to say anything like "and the room was really smoky and made them cough." And I love their relationship, which is sorta Eagle and sorta it's own thing--I certainly don't have any issues with that!

But you post your fic to Ninth Eagle and something like 3 people comment (I'm usually one of them) and then somebody else posts a story (trying not to get too specific here) that's... ok. Interesting premise, maybe, or modern or a cool AU. Not terribly literary, doesn't draw me in or leave me wanting more and I swear it always gets 45 comments.

I sound like an awful person. Yes. I'm going to crack open a beer now--it's after noon, time for beer!

random_hato June 6 2011, 02:14:27 UTC

dude, i totally did not get a notification for this comment. i just happened to be looking back through older posts and was like 'oh, more comments on there-i'll read them'. either eljay or email fail, probably little of both.

i commend you on surviving the wedding. and offer aloe vera gel for the sunburn *ouchie*

and it's your ejay. you can vent all you want, it's there solely for your venting :)

*blushes horrendously at compliment* i love your feel for the characters- how they interact and so obviously love each other and still act like human beings, guys in fact, and not caricatures.

i've pretty much decided that the eagle circle is pretty small (at least compared to the fandoms i'm accustomed to) and it's less about what is written as much as who wrote it. and i really need to start leaving comments on the ones i like, lol- i get serious inferiority complex when i go to comment ( ... )

demon_rum June 6 2011, 04:22:17 UTC

oh hooray! I saw you didn't write back and I was like Whoops! Too much bitching, yet again. Some days I think I am way too sensitive to be allowed on the internet unsupervised :)

also: I have about half an inch of aloe vera all over my shoulders. The first sunburn of the season in Seattle is always the worse: you forget how bloody pale you are, and how your shoulders have basically been in a cave for 9 months, and then you let them out into the bright noon sun for 3 hours with no protection at all and *poof* you are lobster-red and freaking out about melanoma for a week. Awesome.

ha. speaking of caricatures of people, and not being very impressed by all of what you read... I shall PM the rest of this. um, (looks at clock, looks at homework pile, looks at beer)... tomorrow. Yes. Tomorrow. Because I have some feelings on the topic, feelings TOO BITCHY even for LJ.

well, nothing's too bitchy for LJ. but etc.

random_hato June 6 2011, 11:45:48 UTC

lmao, PMs are good :)

i'm outside most of the time because of work, and i slather on spf 100, and wear a hat, and carry an umbrella (when we have them loose on the playground). by the end of summer (which is like september here) i'll be freckled all to hell, EXCEPT for my pasty white legs that never get more than a llight dusting of tan from midthigh to ankle *rolls eyes*

demon_rum June 5 2011, 21:19:22 UTC

oh, and my "not really a secret fic but I'm still anon-ing it because I am so damn shy about my writing and I can't get over taking it as some sort of insult when people say YES I WANT IT to the prompt and then never comment again, leaving me to think what I'm doing is crap" fic is the St. John/Eagle AU in prompt post two. I'll post it all here when I'm done--might want to wait until then because it's only coming out once per week. SLOW. and wordy!fic.

random_hato June 6 2011, 02:15:15 UTC

*sqees and wait in delight for complete post*

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demon_rum June 6 2011, 19:45:41 UTC

THANK YOU. I NEEDED THAT THIS WEEK. REALLY ( ... )

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demon_rum June 9 2011, 00:28:38 UTC

I also love it when someone has obviously done their homework and not just watched Gladiator too many times (unless you're just watching for Tommy Flanagan... grr) but I really feel like some authors are aiming for details at the expense of pacing, character, emotion... yes, yes, so they didn't actually have stirrups back then. We all know that. Frankly, there's a lot about the entire film that's irrational, starting with the fact that Esca somehow managed to hang on to his father's knife despite 7 years of slavery. Maybe a ring? Sure. You can hide it awkward places. A dagger? No. Is fiction. deal ( ... )