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Jul. 11th, 2017 09:36 pm1. Too funny, not to share, thank you, beer_good.
Friend is reading Harry Potter for the first time. He suddenly realizes he's read a fanfiction Order of the Phoenix instead of the real one.
Clue as to whether it is fanfic, there's explicit sex with teens in a kid's book.
As an aside why is it that adult fanfic writers feel the need to write explicit sex scenes between kids and adolescents from books and television series that have no sex in them? I noticed this with Harry Potter, Sailor Moon (which okay made more sense), My Little Pony, The Hunger Games, Teletubbies (creepy that one), and Twilight (also made a bit more sense, since technically there is sex in them at a certain point, albeit not BDSM.).
2. Finished Captive Prince - King's Rising, will write about it tomorrow. The skinny? First half was great. Second half went a bit off the rails, and fell into a lot of romance novel plotting traps and cliches. (A lot of romance novelists suck at plotting for some reason. I don't know why this is. And it really doesn't seem to matter the type of romance they are writing.)
Meant to watch Will tonight, since two people I know of are enjoying it. "anne1962" and "Co-worker who loves Doctor Who and keeps lending me pulpy sci-fi/fantasy novels". Actually, co-worker loved it. But got distracted by Amazon Prime Day sales. Didn't find much, most of the good stuff was taken, and seriously I need to not buy anything for a bit.
Currently reading a pulpy fantasy novel entitled Lord of the Fading Lands -(Tairen Soul #1) by CL Wilson. I love Good Reads and Smart Bitches and Dreamwidth...they lead me to unknown pulpy cult reads, that few have heard of. My geeky self is all a-twitter.
3. Update on my apt situation.
Good news: they fixed the outlet in the kitchen. And determined what was causing the leak -- apparently a corroded hot water pipe in the upstairs apartment, which was in the floor and wall of the apartment above mine. So they kocked into the apt above mine's wall and the floor of their bathroom, yanked out the pipe, and dug a huge hole in the ceiling of my bathroom. They did clean up the floor though. So the leak is fixed in both living room and bathroom. (at least I hope it is)
Bad news: I have a huge freaking hole in my bathroom ceiling.
Good news: I'll get it fixed and a new paint job, which it needs.
Russian co-worker keeps trying to get me to find a new apt. I keep telling him that I'm fine. It could happen anywhere.
Lando and I were having fun with Russian co-worker. We told him that since Russia has basically invaded our country and co-opted our government. He will soon be appointed head of our agency, and to think kindly of us peons when this happens.
4. Agency aka work place has declared this the "summer of hell" -- our transportation system has issues. Major issues.
I don't know about you? But I am not a fan of watershed years. Where everything goes topsy turvy.
My parents are planning on moving (into a smaller house and into an assisted care retirement community), my brother is moving (into a bigger house farther north with a barn and 11 acres), my buds are moving (MD to Martha's Vineyard) and (AD to Beacon), my reflexiologist is moving about one train station away.
My government has gone insane. I decided to stop following the news, although it has gotten so absurd, it's sort of funny. I mean if this was a tv show, I wouldn't believe these plot twists were possible. And I'd be yelling at the screen -- there's no way that guy is still President. Sort of wish it was a television series. Can I live in the AU where this is a television series? And the Doofus is a fictional character like the President on House of Cards?
Oh well, at least I'll get a raise in a month.
There was an exchange on FB today regarding a posting of a car accident in my neighborhood. One of the posters took issue with the fact that someone posted the car accident.
Poster #1: Just because you have the ability to take a picture of something with your smartphone and post it to FB, doesn't mean you should.
Poster #2: Just because you have the ability to read a post and comment on it on FB, doesn't mean you should.
Me: LAMO!!! Freedom of speech at its best.
Friend is reading Harry Potter for the first time. He suddenly realizes he's read a fanfiction Order of the Phoenix instead of the real one.
Clue as to whether it is fanfic, there's explicit sex with teens in a kid's book.
As an aside why is it that adult fanfic writers feel the need to write explicit sex scenes between kids and adolescents from books and television series that have no sex in them? I noticed this with Harry Potter, Sailor Moon (which okay made more sense), My Little Pony, The Hunger Games, Teletubbies (creepy that one), and Twilight (also made a bit more sense, since technically there is sex in them at a certain point, albeit not BDSM.).
2. Finished Captive Prince - King's Rising, will write about it tomorrow. The skinny? First half was great. Second half went a bit off the rails, and fell into a lot of romance novel plotting traps and cliches. (A lot of romance novelists suck at plotting for some reason. I don't know why this is. And it really doesn't seem to matter the type of romance they are writing.)
Meant to watch Will tonight, since two people I know of are enjoying it. "anne1962" and "Co-worker who loves Doctor Who and keeps lending me pulpy sci-fi/fantasy novels". Actually, co-worker loved it. But got distracted by Amazon Prime Day sales. Didn't find much, most of the good stuff was taken, and seriously I need to not buy anything for a bit.
Currently reading a pulpy fantasy novel entitled Lord of the Fading Lands -(Tairen Soul #1) by CL Wilson. I love Good Reads and Smart Bitches and Dreamwidth...they lead me to unknown pulpy cult reads, that few have heard of. My geeky self is all a-twitter.
3. Update on my apt situation.
Good news: they fixed the outlet in the kitchen. And determined what was causing the leak -- apparently a corroded hot water pipe in the upstairs apartment, which was in the floor and wall of the apartment above mine. So they kocked into the apt above mine's wall and the floor of their bathroom, yanked out the pipe, and dug a huge hole in the ceiling of my bathroom. They did clean up the floor though. So the leak is fixed in both living room and bathroom. (at least I hope it is)
Bad news: I have a huge freaking hole in my bathroom ceiling.
Good news: I'll get it fixed and a new paint job, which it needs.
Russian co-worker keeps trying to get me to find a new apt. I keep telling him that I'm fine. It could happen anywhere.
Lando and I were having fun with Russian co-worker. We told him that since Russia has basically invaded our country and co-opted our government. He will soon be appointed head of our agency, and to think kindly of us peons when this happens.
4. Agency aka work place has declared this the "summer of hell" -- our transportation system has issues. Major issues.
I don't know about you? But I am not a fan of watershed years. Where everything goes topsy turvy.
My parents are planning on moving (into a smaller house and into an assisted care retirement community), my brother is moving (into a bigger house farther north with a barn and 11 acres), my buds are moving (MD to Martha's Vineyard) and (AD to Beacon), my reflexiologist is moving about one train station away.
My government has gone insane. I decided to stop following the news, although it has gotten so absurd, it's sort of funny. I mean if this was a tv show, I wouldn't believe these plot twists were possible. And I'd be yelling at the screen -- there's no way that guy is still President. Sort of wish it was a television series. Can I live in the AU where this is a television series? And the Doofus is a fictional character like the President on House of Cards?
Oh well, at least I'll get a raise in a month.
There was an exchange on FB today regarding a posting of a car accident in my neighborhood. One of the posters took issue with the fact that someone posted the car accident.
Poster #1: Just because you have the ability to take a picture of something with your smartphone and post it to FB, doesn't mean you should.
Poster #2: Just because you have the ability to read a post and comment on it on FB, doesn't mean you should.
Me: LAMO!!! Freedom of speech at its best.