The Years of Fic and Salt
Feb. 25th, 2003 03:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dexfarkinAh, fanfic...
I am both amused and somewhat horrified. We have faltered, kids. We saw the barbarians at the gate and unlocked it in the name of fairness and democracy. Kaplen was right. A little pagen warrior chief logic could have been useful. The idea of Caesar at the gates, legions in hand is a comfortable one. Mercy is awarded by abuse.
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A bit of news. My job has become something more, leading to one which pays 60K+ and gives me 15% of the company. If everything works out, I've got that retired by 30 thing set up. If not, I at least have a better credit rating and some spiffy new electronics to go along with my new job hunt. Creepy, huh?
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Stormfreak has returned to Livejournal, if the notes from various entries are correct. Pity. I'd figured that her being left alone would have satisfied her constant rants to be left alone.
Edited post: Realized I was feeding the troll. Move along.
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Picked up the new Pratchett. Fun stuff, mostly. Pratchett really hits his stride with the Watch, telling tales of a closely hidden thriller writer in him.
Pratchett is always at his best when not working on the fantastical elements of the Discworld, but working on the human aspects. In many ways, his grip on the nature of the human condition is exceptional in it's ironicism. His look into both archatypical natures and the logical realities that shape them makes his work quasi-realistic fantasy; a method of delivering a bitter truth in a candy-coated (fantasy, easily dimissable myth) pill, dropping just the right level of awareness in a genre that is barely in snorting distance of reality.
Interesting and paradoxal, but mostly highly enjoyable.
I am both amused and somewhat horrified. We have faltered, kids. We saw the barbarians at the gate and unlocked it in the name of fairness and democracy. Kaplen was right. A little pagen warrior chief logic could have been useful. The idea of Caesar at the gates, legions in hand is a comfortable one. Mercy is awarded by abuse.
***
A bit of news. My job has become something more, leading to one which pays 60K+ and gives me 15% of the company. If everything works out, I've got that retired by 30 thing set up. If not, I at least have a better credit rating and some spiffy new electronics to go along with my new job hunt. Creepy, huh?
***
Stormfreak has returned to Livejournal, if the notes from various entries are correct. Pity. I'd figured that her being left alone would have satisfied her constant rants to be left alone.
Edited post: Realized I was feeding the troll. Move along.
***
Picked up the new Pratchett. Fun stuff, mostly. Pratchett really hits his stride with the Watch, telling tales of a closely hidden thriller writer in him.
Pratchett is always at his best when not working on the fantastical elements of the Discworld, but working on the human aspects. In many ways, his grip on the nature of the human condition is exceptional in it's ironicism. His look into both archatypical natures and the logical realities that shape them makes his work quasi-realistic fantasy; a method of delivering a bitter truth in a candy-coated (fantasy, easily dimissable myth) pill, dropping just the right level of awareness in a genre that is barely in snorting distance of reality.
Interesting and paradoxal, but mostly highly enjoyable.
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Date: 2003-02-25 05:26 am (UTC)And hey--congrats on job, hope it works out. :)
I've always loved Pratchett's way of...
Date: 2003-02-25 06:01 am (UTC)The way he writes is something I hope to be able to accomplish one of these days. Whenever I manage to get off my arse and actually start working on the original stuff that's been nibbling at my heels, anyhow.
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Date: 2003-02-25 07:44 am (UTC)Fuckwad.
Re: Fuckwad.
Date: 2003-02-26 12:07 am (UTC)Re: Fuckwad.
Date: 2003-02-26 05:18 pm (UTC)I mean, seriously. "Stormfreak's wriitng in her LJ again, but I'm not going to mention it?" What kind of 4th level of retardation is that? If you don't want to feed the troll, don't bring up the troll's name in your LJ. Maybe it's all this time I've wasted in college or maybe it's this ass-kicking logic class, but that's what I'd do.
Re: Fuckwad.
Date: 2003-02-26 11:43 pm (UTC)Alright, the woman who posts a venomous comment to the Millerworld board, about people that 99% of them have never heard about, for the sole purpose of building up her own shattered ego, is making comments about being followed around?
SF, you just managed to underlined and bold your lunacy. I'm so very glad that nothing you do ever has to be taken seriously again. Cheers, snookims. See you on the meds train.
Re: Fuckwad.
Date: 2003-02-27 03:02 pm (UTC)Two, you don't know shit about Millarworld, and I won't even bother to explain.
Three...oooooh, I take meds! Hey, did you know I cut too? Tell me some shit I DON'T know, eh?
I'm glad you're in the fandom, Dex. You take yourself so seriously that I get a prime and ongoing example (between you and Minsinoo) of conceited fake ass writers who takes themselves too damned seriously and think they're worth a damn. Don't change, dude. Don't change.
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Wow!
...If you need anyone to do industrial films or commercials, let me know. ;)
You know...
Date: 2003-02-28 12:37 pm (UTC)Frito
~Feeder of trolls from WAY Back.
*snicker*
Date: 2003-05-20 09:38 am (UTC)But I still laugh.
Shai! from Kuwait, where it sucks.