that looks like it really hurts / predicting a drunk post

[oiran]

You want to know what I hate? I hate it when I add an interest to my LJ info page (which, since this is a new journal, I have done recently) and apparently no one else in all of LJ-land has it, and I'm pleased about my incredible uniqueness and verve, but then a couple days later I notice that someone else now has that interest, and I click over to see who it is (thinking: oh! maybe a kindred spirit) and it turns out to be a really crude porn community full of pictures of women with things like power strips and beer bottles in their vaginas. And now I want to dump the interest or add a disclaimer, except I had it first, so they should give it up or stop being gross, right?

Yeah, that's the worst.

I am supposed to be doing RL tidying, but instead I spent a couple hours organizing image files and moving them from one drive to another. When I do things like this, I feel organized and calm and accomplished, and it's always a bit of a surprise that I don't seem organized, calm or accomplished to anyone else. Instead, I apparently appear to be lost in daydreams and irritatingly oblivious to squalor. It's one of those poTAYto/poTAHto things, I guess.

Now I have to do some errands before rhiannonhero gets here. We are going to make poor Mr. Glove stay home to try to fix her external hard drive while we go and ogle boys (and perhaps in my case, some girls as well) at the gay bar that plays decent music, serves strong drinks, and actually looks like a real nightclub in a real city and provides high-quality fun. Yay! I haven't seen Rhi since Christmas, and that was only for, like, three hours. This time, though, she's going to be here for days! Well, two days - but that is a plural, after all.

Comments

[shaggirl.livejournal.com]

You know what I really hate? When people have the choice between reacting to a fairly benign situation (http://www.livejournal.com/users/shaggirl/107542.html?thread=1929238#t1929238) in a helpful way or reacting in a kneejerk non-helpful way, and they pick the kneejerk (http://www.livejournal.com/users/fiendling/511635.html?style=mine). It really sort of pisses me off.

Thank god I'm going to be without internet access this weekend. I think I need a little fandom break. Before I break fandom.

[oiran.livejournal.com]

That person's first language isn't English, right? Or is she just...not good with words. And what's with the just assigning a time and insisting everyone else go along with it? Whatever. Unless she's the most popular fanartist in HP circles and thus everyone will automatically fall in line and do her inarticulate bidding, she's not doing a very good job of planning this thing.

You rock. She sucks. I hope I'm making this clear ;)

This Witching Hour thing sounds like a good time even if one doesn't particularly care about HP. A fandom with built-in uniforms that aren't superhero tights does lend itself fairly readily to silly, drunken dress-up, and that does have some appeal...

[shaggirl.livejournal.com]

Meh. I don't think she sucks (I quite like her, actually, and she is a wonderful artist), but I do think she picked a not very constructive way to react to my post. She didn't even vote for herself!

And yeah, I'm so very geeked about this whole thing. I'm really amazed by the way it's being organized - they've been working on it for like 18 months already, and there's going to be a ton of stuff to do, more than I'll have time for. Plus, Salem! At Halloween!

[oiran.livejournal.com]

Okay, then. I'll turn the bitch knob down to 7 and throw a random apology out into the ether. You know, it's just because I love you that I'm so willing to hate people I've never heard of on your behalf :)

This does seem amazingly well-planned. I wish I were going just for the hell of it. You're going to take lots of pictures, right?

[shaggirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was exactly the response I was hoping for, hahaha. *feels better*

Of course I'll take lots of pics! But you could come, you know. There's going to be lots of panels on writing and fanart, and tours of Salem, etc. Boston is really close, too.

[alee-gothphyle.livejournal.com]

*pets you*

Silly things happening all about, I say! Why is she being so ridikulus to my froend, eh? I'm going to blame it on somehting nutty in the water near Gainesville, as I believe she is a student at UF and all the faculty members in my department have been having a meltdown this past week, what with grants being due and such...

Still, no sense in over reacting! *huggles you*

Also -- have been wondering about proposing a round table idea based on determining where the "character" truly "lives": i.e., author's words in a vacuum, actor's performance for a section of the public, or audience/reader's interpretation as Final Determiner, as goal for any fictional work is willing suspension of disbelief which occus only in the audience mind... Think there would be any interest in this??

[shaggirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think your topic is a good one, and especially apt to Harry Potter since so many people either strongly identify the actors as the characters or else hate, hate them. (I'm on the side of reader interpretation, myself.) Yes, you should definitely submit and abstract for that!

[ilexa.livejournal.com]

We are going to make poor Mr. Glove stay home to try to fix her external hard drive while we go and ogle boys (and perhaps in my case, some girls as well)

You are so my role model.

[oiran.livejournal.com]

As you know, I take my responsibilities as a role model very seriously. I think it's a crying shame when little girls grow up not understanding the inherent hotness of two guys sticking their tongues in each other's mouths, so I feel it's my duty to enjoy PDAs between fantasy boywhores attractive young men whenever possible.

[alee-gothphyle.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I am so jealous! See that? That unbecoming, somewhat petty shade of pale green? It's me. Beaing jealous because you and Rhi will be having all the fun, gay adventures and I shall be home alone. Because, you know, it's all about *ME*! mwahahaha ;P

Do something naughty on my behalf, won't you? *mwah*