if the music ain't good well that's just too bad

[throughadoor]

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[traveller]

I, for one, welcome your Star Trek fictions, because there are only three people still writing good shit, as far as I can tell.

[throughadoor]

Dude, no promises that this will be good shit. Right now it's 55% technobabble, 40% Cold War analogies and 5% wretched feelings.

[queenofalostart]

AND IT'S 100% RIGHT UP MY ALLEY!

You know I will beta / pre-read that shit for you. Come now.

HUGE OFFICE IS NEVER EMBARASSING.

[throughadoor]

OH GEEZ I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED. I make Julia listen to me talk about it in the mornings sometimes, it's awesome.

RE: Huge office, it's embarrassing because it's one of those old sandwiched Downtown Crossing buildings with a triangle-shaped floor and everyone else on the team is packed with desks up against the wall like sardines and if the floor space that my office constitutes was open to the rest of the space, they would use it to fit, like, six people. So I feel embarrassed chilling in an office canonically bigger than my bedroom while they're out the door sitting in each others' laps.

that song will always be about Justin Timberlake

[imogenics]

Also, your subject line reminds me -- I've been doing lots of pre-show Scissor Sisters listening, as you do, and the other night my housemates were decrying pop culture, tediously, as they do, and I found myself doing my Britney Apologist routine from circa 2003, and it went like this:

me: whatever whatever, I went to a Britney Spears concert in 2004 and I would do it again.

them: OMG WHY??

me: Because you can't see tits on the radio.

[crickets]

Aaaand scene.

Re: that song will always be about Justin Timberlake

[throughadoor]

Hahah -- literally as you were leaving this comment, I was sending Katie an email about some other concert and added that I've been listening to the eponymous album for the same reason and REMEMBER WHEN THAT ALBUM COMPLETELY RULED THE SUMMER OF 2004? Good times, good times.

[gigantic]

I was telling my sister that I'm just waiting for them to package Memento, The Prestige, and Inception together as Christopher Nolan's version of the Baz Luhrman trilogy and call it by some Ryan Adams lyric or another. That's the only option that makes sense to me.

I'm glad the new job is going well! Also, kind of jealous of your big office, let's not lie about it.

Also also, 16,000 words of Star Trek reboot fic sounds eeeexcellent.

[throughadoor]

Just three four words, my love: you meant everything it's called the prestige.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[throughadoor]

Hahah, feel free to quote, my lameness and secret love for Return of the Jedi is well documented. Also, yes, wrt: Katniss' PTSD. The choices that Collins made were totally possible and accurate and whatever, but were they really the most compelling? Ugh, I don't think so.

[annakovsky]

I saved this to read until I finished Mockingjay, which I just did, and YES, WORD TO EVERYTHING YOU SAID. Ugh, I totally loathed the Katniss of this book, which was very aggravating. I mean, she's never been my favorite character ever (I think because, as struck me when reading this book, she is a little bit a Mary-Sue for the girl who hates other girls), but I found her very sympathetic and compelling in the first two books -- but from the very beginning of this one I just wanted to punch her in the face

[annakovsky]

Having finished writing that comment, I feel like... I mean, I kind of feel like sometime between the second and third books the author had come to hate Katniss or something, because this book feels like -- well, not exactly character assassination, but character BASHING. From an author. About her own character. Like Peeta's hijacked view of Katniss is the correct one. And like Katniss not being able to decide between the two boys, which was SO SYMPATHETIC AND REASONABLE AND AWESOME in the other books, because exactly, she is just trying to keep everyone alive here, she doesn't have time for your emo lovesick nonsense, is somehow in the final word judged as Katniss being heartless and selfish. D: D: D:

Ugh, I don't know, I don't feel like that's quite exactly what I mean, I finished the book like five minutes ago, but something along those lines anyway.

[throughadoor]

UGH. I saw a girl on the bus reading the first book yesterday and I wanted to be like STOP NOW, STOP WHILE THE GETTING IS STILL GOOD