I meet you at the cemetery gates

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I'm annoyed with Britishness, livejournal.

I'm quite happy to be British: indeed, I'm about as much an anglophile as someone born within a hundred miles of Big Ben can legitimately be. I do think if I'd grown up in England I'd have been significantly more of a Japanophile than I already am, but that's by-the-by.

What I am annoyed with about

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[snakey]

"Wanda, do you have any idea what it's like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing, of saying to someone "Are you married?" and hearing "My wife left me this morning," or saying, uh, "Do you have children?" and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday. You see, Wanda, we'll all terrified of embarrassment. That's why we're so... dead. Most of my friends are dead, you know, we have these piles of corpses to dinner. "

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I've never seen this film! For some bizarre reason I took a dislike to the idea of it when really young and avoided it completely. I think I'll watch it tonight! I'd say "and get drunk on rum", but I can't afford that; still, the sentiment is there.

[shane_mayhem]

Hell, I'm excited RIGHT NOW!!

Actually, Portland is the most trans* place on Earth, I'm pretty sure.

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Excitement everywhere! Exploding above the mountains! Thanks to the Fish Called Wanda quote, I'm thinking of the Lumberjack Song now. Oh dear.

It does seems that way when you hear about some band or somesuch, that it is. Portland, Oregon!

Hopefully see you on Skype at some point! You can prod me to write, and I can do likewise, and it will be awesome.

[shane_mayhem]

XD yes! More properly called, Portland Fucking Oregon (they sell T-shirts that say so, at my favorite all-night diner).

I'm gonna go get the rent and then come back and try to write, so I'll be on then!

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Awesome! I need to get a lightbulb, and then try to write, or at least get tipsy and watch a Fish Called Wanda. Speak then!

[iphisol]

Haha, I do tend to be pretty stoked. Perhaps interestingly, in real life, it's very rarely reflected in my tone of voice!

Also, as you acknowledged you're aware, there is plenty of stuff for Americans to be embarrassed about. PUH LENTY. We just tend to be focused on the exclamation points.

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Yes! Different approaches. This is at least as much about figuring out where I've been going wrong in mine.

It's worth bearing in mind that relentless positivity in writing stuff isn't the same as, say, relentless positivity in running a major investment bank, but we managed to hose that up too. I do think it's worth focusing on the exclamation points.

[jinxremoving]

Thank you for supporting Ioana! I should add that copies of the zine are only available from my website until 26 March, because I'm leaving the country after that and it'll be too awkward to sort out mail order. But copies will also be available from Marching Stars (UK) and Sticky Institute (Australia) and it'd be worth e-mailing them to check even if it doesn't say on their websites.

Oh, and she doesn't write for The Skinny any more. So.

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Wow! Yes, I totally forgot about Ioana! Even although I commented on the article