| [Jul. 31st, 2008|09:35 am] |
Golly, now I remember why I never could jump all the way into mainstream comics fandom--it's got one of the most abusive canons ever. First it's all, "Guess what? I love you and I'm going to give you everything you ever wanted! And some cookies! And a pony!", then five minutes later it's walloping you across the face and throwing you down three flights of stairs and setting your house on fire. But the good stuff is so good that you stick around anyway.
I mean, every fandom's canon has its going-off-the-rails moments, but at least with manga and indie comics you don't have to worry so much about waking up one day to find that your Most Favorite Series is suddenly under the control of a team that's equivalent to, say, Miller and Liefeld. *sigh* Thankfully I'll always have my DCAU comics to cling to.
...I wish there was a way to leave a comment saying, "I'm sure your fic is lovely, but I can't read it because you're spelling the main character's name wrong and it distracts me" without being rude. I kept trying to find a decent phrasing for it and finally gave up. (But then, I've been doing something like this an awful lot over the past weeks--spending half an hour typing up a comment, and then just deleting it without posting because I don't want to sound like a snotty and overhelpful know-it-all, or I'm not sure of the person's feelings on comments from random strangers, or because I realize that whatever effort I put into writing it is probably going to be wasted and I might as well go read a book or play a game instead. I thought speaking your mind was supposed to become easier as you got older? With me it seems to be going backwards.)
Mass Effect: still amazingly shiny and consuming my life, though at this point I am taking the Plot What Plot approach in favor of running around going "ooooh!" at things and reading all the spiffy worldbuilding notes. And possibly making my xenokink worse...I can't believe I just admitted that. Clearly "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side" did not register properly in my brain.
Car is back and fixed. Yay! Now to get the money settled so I can finally consider this learning experience OVER. |
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