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shadowkat1. Started A Dance of Dragons by GRR Martin finally. I got bored of my trashy novels and decided to read something a bit denser for a change of pace. I reviewed the last trashy novel I read on Amazon, won't do it here. It was erotica, true, but damn the sex scenes were bad. The story was interesting, but not enough of it, and the erotica was just repetitive and silly. I've come to the conclusion that sex scenes are rather hard to write without coming across as rather silly. One person online, years ago, said that a lot of people who wrote sex scenes obviously had never had sex. And I thought, no, you idiot, they like you just don't understand or have a grasp of human anatomy. Take a life drawing class sometime...it's quite informative. Because I hate to break this to you - you suck at it too. Because no one can do a back bend and have sex at the same time unless they are working for cirque du soleil - very funny episode of Big Bang Theory addressed that.
This brings me to the book meme from hell. Which explains why no one but frenchani is doing it on my flist, wise people.
Occurred to me on the way to work this morning that if no one wrote another book for the next 20 or 30 years - I still would have enough to read to last until I died. Seriously there are one too many books at there - it's enough to give one permanent writer's block. I tell stories in my head now, frak writing them down.
Day 08 – Most overrated book
I don't know there are so many to choose from. Eeny meany miney...how about Atlas Shrugged? It's the only I can think of that won't piss anyone off, unless there's a few closet Ayn Rand fans lurking out there. If so...just scroll on by.
I'd say Lord of the Rings, but I rather liked that series. Or Dune, ditto. Then of course there's the usual suspects, Jeffrey Eugendies The Marriage Plot, Gillian Flynn over-hyped and over-marketed Gone Girl, and anything by Jonathan Franzen or Cormac McCarthy. I've read both and admittedly like their shorter works. Haven't read Gone Girl - because I can't stand the author and refuse to give her any more money as a matter of principle. I have a short list of authors I refuse to read on principle - they include Gillian Flynn, Bill O'Reilly,
Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Hilter, and that insane preacher guy with all the self-help books that my landlord kept giving me for Xmas. There's also, least we forget, the literary tomes that many people think - why are you torturing me by making me read this thing? Ulysses by James Joyce (which I actually loved and was obsessed with - but I like stream of consciousness generally speaking), Marcel Proust (who put me to sleep - maybe it's better in French?), Moby Dick...which I managed to avoid completely, don't ask me how - apparently none of my English Lit teachers felt the need to order me to read it? And of course anything by the trio from repressed Victorian heck: Henry James, Nathanial Hawthorn, and Edith Wharton. Wharton wasn't bad - I liked Wharton. I avoided James and Hawthorn however, except in short story format. I was lucky I went to a Western Liberal Arts College not a Northeastern one.
I have, however read a lot of Ayn Rand. Don't particularly like her philosophy - it's rather myopic in scope. I read her.. mainly because I understand where she's coming from - Stalinist Russia. She escaped from Stalin's version of communism. If I escaped from Stalinist Russia, I too might have a rather myopic view of the world. Her followers/devoted readers are another matter entirely. They did not escape from Stalinist Russia, so don't have an excuse.
That said, I think her book Atlas Shrugged often quoted as the best book ever by many conservatives (it's basically their porn), is overly long, poorly researched, and badly written. The book's about a woman who is fed up with running a government regulated and union run railroad. She can't get a good price on steel to save her life. And the unions are driving her bonkers. She discovers a group of like-minded CEO's who have banded behind a top dog individualist/libertarian named John Gault who has decided to go on strike. They all go on strike, with the view that their companies can't function without their foresight and vision. Which of course happens, society falls apart in their absence. While they set up their own little utopia. It's basically "the 50 Shades of Grey" for the libertarian/conservative set, except lacks a sense of humor. Ayn Rand took her philosophy far too seriously and lacked wit. When someone tells me that this is the best book they've read...I wonder about them. Seriously dude - you do realize that 90% of the book is Rand preaching? You can get the same sermon at a much cheaper price and in far more condensed form in Rand's first novel Anthem.
Also as an aside, the book is also loosely about railroad management. Now that I actually work for a railroad, I can say with absolute certainity that Rand knows even less about railroads then she knows about architecture, which is actually saying something.
Day 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 10 – Favorite classic book
Day 11 – A book you hated
Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore
Day 13 – Your favorite writer
Day 14 – Favorite book of your favorite writer
Day 15 – Favorite male character
Day 16 – Favorite female character
Day 17 – Favorite quote from your favorite book
Day 18 – A book that disappointed you
Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie
Day 20 – Favorite romance book
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people have read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time
2. Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
The somewhat easier TV Meme. Although this is a hard one, because what do I pick? You can't watch a lot of tv and not be disappointed. Sort of goes with the territory. The writers never quite do it the way you wish. And the more obsessed you are with a tv series the more likely you will be gravely disappointed with it. Which is why it really should come as no surprise that the tv series and writer that disappointed me the most was...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Joss Whedon.
Damn writer left me hanging. He left so many plot threads unresolved. And when he had an opportunity to revisit them he still didn't resolve them, instead he appeared to forget about them or consider them unimportant. Which made me wonder about the writer and whether I'd been giving him a wee bit too much credit.
The problem with becoming overly invested or emotionally invested in a tv series is that your expectations are often raised a bit too high and you start to put the writer and the series on a bit of a pedestal. You overlook the flaws. You fanwank. You give the benefit of the doubt. Certain they will give you what you want eventually. Eh. No. Save yourselves the time and energy - not going to happen. It's impossible. The writer is not in your head.
The show they are writing isn't the show that you are seeing. Strange I know but there it is.
That caveat aside...Whedon pissed me off royally when he did not resolve his plot holes, left things hanging, gaps in storylines, focused on silly mucmuffin's or treasures, and forgot previous plot points.
Granted he may not have seen them as plot holes - which is a different argument which I will restrain myself from entering into at the moment.
There were four major things that disappointed me about Buffy:
1. The hanging plot threads: Example - How would Buffy react to Spike being still alive and did she really love him? If Whedon had left Spike dead and showed her mourning him, as she mourned Angel and to an extent Riley, oddly enough...I'd have been fine with that. Or not shown it, and just ended it with Chosen...that would have been okay. But no, Spike returned from the dead in Angel. And we got the comics. And we still got no closure for either character. It would have been one thing if he hadn't built up the stupid romance, and done that great "I love you" /"no you don't" love scene at the end...but he did. The writer wanted his cake and eat it too..eh no, you left a plot-thread hanging. I want that plot thread resolved. The only one who bothered to try and resolve it was Brian Lynch and various fans. The problem I had with the Buffy romances - was Whedon left the audience hanging. He only resolved three of them - Buffy/Xander, Buffy/Parker, and Buffy/Riley. The big romances Angel/Buffy and Spike/Buffy - he left hanging. And he also had huge gaps in them - so you didn't quite know what the status was. I was tired of trying to interpret it.
I also had issues with how Willow's plot line was resolved and how it played out. The magic as crack bit...felt a bit too cliche in places and wink=wink, nod-nod. I wanted Willow to turn evil - because I was bored by addicted by magic Willow. Why Willow and Spike had any more scenes together made no sense. Nor did it make sense that Dawn and Spike didn't. They had quite a few scenes up until Buffy returned. Nor was Willow's relationships with Dawn, Xander, Buffy and Anya clearly resolved. She jumps into a relationship with Kennedy rather quickly and the relationship feels awkward. I felt as if the writers were forcing characters together and avoiding writing other characters together for fear of how the audience would relate to them. Instead of writing the story, they were paying far too much attention to their viewers and what was happening online. I felt at certain point they began to lose the thread of their story as a result of this. But I didn't want to see it. I wanted the show to be better than it was.
2. The stupid scythe...came out of nowhere and was never clearly explained or built up.
This was an on-going issue I had with the series. Plot twists dropped in out of the sky. The demon eggs in S6, the whole Willow going evil plot which was filled was stupid red-herrings.
And often were never resolved or brought up again. As if the writers either forgot about them or just came up with it. How can you write a brilliant episode like OMWF, The Body,
Hush, or Restless - and be that clumsy with your plot? How? Lazy writing.
3. Inconsistencies in world-building. Torturing Spike by water-boarding him in Bring on the Night. Okay...so Spike can't breath under water but Angel can? Another bit that makes no sense? Spike can't see in the dark - he needs a flashlight or a lighter? And his reflection pops up on windows? Lazy editing.
4. Dawn as the key. This is dropped after S5. It doesn't appear to matter any longer. She's just Buffy's bratty kid sister. You've made her this mystical key that can open portals if bled and you never again do anything with it? Alrighty then.
This was a tv show that had so much potential - it could have been amazing, and it was in places, but more often than not it failed. And I was so disappointed by the last four episodes of S7 and S6, I wanted those episodes to be brilliant, instead they reminded me of cheesy X-men comics that I'd read in the 1990s. You'd have this brilliant episode at the start of the season - like say Once More with Feeling or Beneath You or Conversations with Dead People and end with a half-assed cluttered episode like End of Days, Two to Go, Grave and Chosen. It's almost as if the writers didn't know what they were doing and hadn't plotted this out ahead of time...wait, they hadn't. We have evidence of this in interviews - where it is revealed that Espenson pitched Robin Wood as Nikki's son literally the night before she wrote the episode First Date, where it is revealed. It dropped in out of the sky.
Or the fact that Whedon hadn't figured out what to do with Spike until the end of S4.
Granted some of it worked out anyhow due to the actors and others involved. But if the writing had been better, plotting more on target...think how great this series would have been? It may have even gotten an emmy.
I think in retrospect, I would have been less disappointed if I hadn't become a fan. Becoming a fan, interacting with other like-minded fans, if anything underlined the flaws in the series. Also watching the series one too many times. It was almost as if...I thought, if I watch this enough - I can figure out what is bugging me, or I'll find that missing bit and be satisfied. But no matter how often I watched...I'd get to the end and I'd always feel that weird nagging dissatisfaction, as if something crucial were missing, but I could not figure out what it was. Felt somewhat the same way about Angel - that something was missing, one vital piece of the puzzle. I think that's why I read so much fanfic after both series ended and why I read the comics. Brian Lynch came the closest to resolving those issues but because he wasn't one of the main writers/creators - I saw his resolution as fanfic. Unfortunately it was more satisfying and better fanfic than what Whedon was doing on the Buffy comics. And this disappointed me. I wanted Whedon to address the issues Lynch had, but instead Whedon was obsessed with politics and a storyline that had nothing to do with Buffy and jarred with the universe he created. The writer had moved on ages ago and was trying to get back to his original creation, but had clearly lost it. He was no longer invested in these characters stories, just external themes. And as a result, I never got the closure or the satisfaction that I craved and I never will. Which sort of in retrospect makes it really difficult to continue to be a fan of the writers work or to follow him. Because I know I'll always be disappointed in whatever he writes. He'll lead me on...get me all excited and thrilled, then scamper off.
That my friends is in a nutshell why I refuse to get too invested in another tv show series or fandom. The writer will always disappoint you. It's inevitable. Particularly tv writers.
There are a few that don't - Farscape oddly didn't. Nor did the Wire. But I watched both long after they had been cancelled and saw them on DVD. So there is that. Maybe there is a difference between watching a series on DVD or tape, and watching it live, speculating on what will happen next, and waiting ages for the next installment? I think there is. I think you are less prone to build it up in your head...and get disappointed when it doesn't turn out the way you wished, even if you have no idea what that is. (I don't. I still no idea how I wanted Whedon to resolve the Buffy series, just that it wasn't in a way that worked for me.)
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death.
Sigh, I've read this damn thing through three times now, corrected it, and no matter what I do...I still have weird typos and gaps here and there. Perfection and the writing on the internet are unmixy things.
This brings me to the book meme from hell. Which explains why no one but frenchani is doing it on my flist, wise people.
Occurred to me on the way to work this morning that if no one wrote another book for the next 20 or 30 years - I still would have enough to read to last until I died. Seriously there are one too many books at there - it's enough to give one permanent writer's block. I tell stories in my head now, frak writing them down.
Day 08 – Most overrated book
I don't know there are so many to choose from. Eeny meany miney...how about Atlas Shrugged? It's the only I can think of that won't piss anyone off, unless there's a few closet Ayn Rand fans lurking out there. If so...just scroll on by.
I'd say Lord of the Rings, but I rather liked that series. Or Dune, ditto. Then of course there's the usual suspects, Jeffrey Eugendies The Marriage Plot, Gillian Flynn over-hyped and over-marketed Gone Girl, and anything by Jonathan Franzen or Cormac McCarthy. I've read both and admittedly like their shorter works. Haven't read Gone Girl - because I can't stand the author and refuse to give her any more money as a matter of principle. I have a short list of authors I refuse to read on principle - they include Gillian Flynn, Bill O'Reilly,
Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Hilter, and that insane preacher guy with all the self-help books that my landlord kept giving me for Xmas. There's also, least we forget, the literary tomes that many people think - why are you torturing me by making me read this thing? Ulysses by James Joyce (which I actually loved and was obsessed with - but I like stream of consciousness generally speaking), Marcel Proust (who put me to sleep - maybe it's better in French?), Moby Dick...which I managed to avoid completely, don't ask me how - apparently none of my English Lit teachers felt the need to order me to read it? And of course anything by the trio from repressed Victorian heck: Henry James, Nathanial Hawthorn, and Edith Wharton. Wharton wasn't bad - I liked Wharton. I avoided James and Hawthorn however, except in short story format. I was lucky I went to a Western Liberal Arts College not a Northeastern one.
I have, however read a lot of Ayn Rand. Don't particularly like her philosophy - it's rather myopic in scope. I read her.. mainly because I understand where she's coming from - Stalinist Russia. She escaped from Stalin's version of communism. If I escaped from Stalinist Russia, I too might have a rather myopic view of the world. Her followers/devoted readers are another matter entirely. They did not escape from Stalinist Russia, so don't have an excuse.
That said, I think her book Atlas Shrugged often quoted as the best book ever by many conservatives (it's basically their porn), is overly long, poorly researched, and badly written. The book's about a woman who is fed up with running a government regulated and union run railroad. She can't get a good price on steel to save her life. And the unions are driving her bonkers. She discovers a group of like-minded CEO's who have banded behind a top dog individualist/libertarian named John Gault who has decided to go on strike. They all go on strike, with the view that their companies can't function without their foresight and vision. Which of course happens, society falls apart in their absence. While they set up their own little utopia. It's basically "the 50 Shades of Grey" for the libertarian/conservative set, except lacks a sense of humor. Ayn Rand took her philosophy far too seriously and lacked wit. When someone tells me that this is the best book they've read...I wonder about them. Seriously dude - you do realize that 90% of the book is Rand preaching? You can get the same sermon at a much cheaper price and in far more condensed form in Rand's first novel Anthem.
Also as an aside, the book is also loosely about railroad management. Now that I actually work for a railroad, I can say with absolute certainity that Rand knows even less about railroads then she knows about architecture, which is actually saying something.
Day 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 10 – Favorite classic book
Day 11 – A book you hated
Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore
Day 13 – Your favorite writer
Day 14 – Favorite book of your favorite writer
Day 15 – Favorite male character
Day 16 – Favorite female character
Day 17 – Favorite quote from your favorite book
Day 18 – A book that disappointed you
Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie
Day 20 – Favorite romance book
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people have read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time
2. Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
The somewhat easier TV Meme. Although this is a hard one, because what do I pick? You can't watch a lot of tv and not be disappointed. Sort of goes with the territory. The writers never quite do it the way you wish. And the more obsessed you are with a tv series the more likely you will be gravely disappointed with it. Which is why it really should come as no surprise that the tv series and writer that disappointed me the most was...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Joss Whedon.
Damn writer left me hanging. He left so many plot threads unresolved. And when he had an opportunity to revisit them he still didn't resolve them, instead he appeared to forget about them or consider them unimportant. Which made me wonder about the writer and whether I'd been giving him a wee bit too much credit.
The problem with becoming overly invested or emotionally invested in a tv series is that your expectations are often raised a bit too high and you start to put the writer and the series on a bit of a pedestal. You overlook the flaws. You fanwank. You give the benefit of the doubt. Certain they will give you what you want eventually. Eh. No. Save yourselves the time and energy - not going to happen. It's impossible. The writer is not in your head.
The show they are writing isn't the show that you are seeing. Strange I know but there it is.
That caveat aside...Whedon pissed me off royally when he did not resolve his plot holes, left things hanging, gaps in storylines, focused on silly mucmuffin's or treasures, and forgot previous plot points.
Granted he may not have seen them as plot holes - which is a different argument which I will restrain myself from entering into at the moment.
There were four major things that disappointed me about Buffy:
1. The hanging plot threads: Example - How would Buffy react to Spike being still alive and did she really love him? If Whedon had left Spike dead and showed her mourning him, as she mourned Angel and to an extent Riley, oddly enough...I'd have been fine with that. Or not shown it, and just ended it with Chosen...that would have been okay. But no, Spike returned from the dead in Angel. And we got the comics. And we still got no closure for either character. It would have been one thing if he hadn't built up the stupid romance, and done that great "I love you" /"no you don't" love scene at the end...but he did. The writer wanted his cake and eat it too..eh no, you left a plot-thread hanging. I want that plot thread resolved. The only one who bothered to try and resolve it was Brian Lynch and various fans. The problem I had with the Buffy romances - was Whedon left the audience hanging. He only resolved three of them - Buffy/Xander, Buffy/Parker, and Buffy/Riley. The big romances Angel/Buffy and Spike/Buffy - he left hanging. And he also had huge gaps in them - so you didn't quite know what the status was. I was tired of trying to interpret it.
I also had issues with how Willow's plot line was resolved and how it played out. The magic as crack bit...felt a bit too cliche in places and wink=wink, nod-nod. I wanted Willow to turn evil - because I was bored by addicted by magic Willow. Why Willow and Spike had any more scenes together made no sense. Nor did it make sense that Dawn and Spike didn't. They had quite a few scenes up until Buffy returned. Nor was Willow's relationships with Dawn, Xander, Buffy and Anya clearly resolved. She jumps into a relationship with Kennedy rather quickly and the relationship feels awkward. I felt as if the writers were forcing characters together and avoiding writing other characters together for fear of how the audience would relate to them. Instead of writing the story, they were paying far too much attention to their viewers and what was happening online. I felt at certain point they began to lose the thread of their story as a result of this. But I didn't want to see it. I wanted the show to be better than it was.
2. The stupid scythe...came out of nowhere and was never clearly explained or built up.
This was an on-going issue I had with the series. Plot twists dropped in out of the sky. The demon eggs in S6, the whole Willow going evil plot which was filled was stupid red-herrings.
And often were never resolved or brought up again. As if the writers either forgot about them or just came up with it. How can you write a brilliant episode like OMWF, The Body,
Hush, or Restless - and be that clumsy with your plot? How? Lazy writing.
3. Inconsistencies in world-building. Torturing Spike by water-boarding him in Bring on the Night. Okay...so Spike can't breath under water but Angel can? Another bit that makes no sense? Spike can't see in the dark - he needs a flashlight or a lighter? And his reflection pops up on windows? Lazy editing.
4. Dawn as the key. This is dropped after S5. It doesn't appear to matter any longer. She's just Buffy's bratty kid sister. You've made her this mystical key that can open portals if bled and you never again do anything with it? Alrighty then.
This was a tv show that had so much potential - it could have been amazing, and it was in places, but more often than not it failed. And I was so disappointed by the last four episodes of S7 and S6, I wanted those episodes to be brilliant, instead they reminded me of cheesy X-men comics that I'd read in the 1990s. You'd have this brilliant episode at the start of the season - like say Once More with Feeling or Beneath You or Conversations with Dead People and end with a half-assed cluttered episode like End of Days, Two to Go, Grave and Chosen. It's almost as if the writers didn't know what they were doing and hadn't plotted this out ahead of time...wait, they hadn't. We have evidence of this in interviews - where it is revealed that Espenson pitched Robin Wood as Nikki's son literally the night before she wrote the episode First Date, where it is revealed. It dropped in out of the sky.
Or the fact that Whedon hadn't figured out what to do with Spike until the end of S4.
Granted some of it worked out anyhow due to the actors and others involved. But if the writing had been better, plotting more on target...think how great this series would have been? It may have even gotten an emmy.
I think in retrospect, I would have been less disappointed if I hadn't become a fan. Becoming a fan, interacting with other like-minded fans, if anything underlined the flaws in the series. Also watching the series one too many times. It was almost as if...I thought, if I watch this enough - I can figure out what is bugging me, or I'll find that missing bit and be satisfied. But no matter how often I watched...I'd get to the end and I'd always feel that weird nagging dissatisfaction, as if something crucial were missing, but I could not figure out what it was. Felt somewhat the same way about Angel - that something was missing, one vital piece of the puzzle. I think that's why I read so much fanfic after both series ended and why I read the comics. Brian Lynch came the closest to resolving those issues but because he wasn't one of the main writers/creators - I saw his resolution as fanfic. Unfortunately it was more satisfying and better fanfic than what Whedon was doing on the Buffy comics. And this disappointed me. I wanted Whedon to address the issues Lynch had, but instead Whedon was obsessed with politics and a storyline that had nothing to do with Buffy and jarred with the universe he created. The writer had moved on ages ago and was trying to get back to his original creation, but had clearly lost it. He was no longer invested in these characters stories, just external themes. And as a result, I never got the closure or the satisfaction that I craved and I never will. Which sort of in retrospect makes it really difficult to continue to be a fan of the writers work or to follow him. Because I know I'll always be disappointed in whatever he writes. He'll lead me on...get me all excited and thrilled, then scamper off.
That my friends is in a nutshell why I refuse to get too invested in another tv show series or fandom. The writer will always disappoint you. It's inevitable. Particularly tv writers.
There are a few that don't - Farscape oddly didn't. Nor did the Wire. But I watched both long after they had been cancelled and saw them on DVD. So there is that. Maybe there is a difference between watching a series on DVD or tape, and watching it live, speculating on what will happen next, and waiting ages for the next installment? I think there is. I think you are less prone to build it up in your head...and get disappointed when it doesn't turn out the way you wished, even if you have no idea what that is. (I don't. I still no idea how I wanted Whedon to resolve the Buffy series, just that it wasn't in a way that worked for me.)
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death.
Sigh, I've read this damn thing through three times now, corrected it, and no matter what I do...I still have weird typos and gaps here and there. Perfection and the writing on the internet are unmixy things.
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Date: 2013-02-21 10:38 pm (UTC)