[FLocked] People wot bug me today

[clex_monkie89]

teaatsix. It's not really personal with her, she just annoys me because she has this habit of commenting on the NL with a link to a podfic (which are hard as hell to code when the header is done wrong). And then commenting ten minutes later with another. And ten minutes after that with another one. Because doing all three at once is impossible or something.

apieceofcake. My OCD makes me number how many icons/headers/banners/whatever are in a post when I link on the NL. And she always tends to post batches of about twenty at a time with not even any numbering on them.

twasadark. It's personal now. She's just plain rude. She left this comment randomly on my journal. A) what the fucking fuck? Don't spam me with the LJ equivalent of a flyer on my windshield, dammit. That's just not on. Second? I'M ALREADY WATCHING THAT COMM. And then today she drops this comment on iheartsmeckles. If she looked at the userinfo or the main LJ or anything she would see this and it would tell her that this is purely an emergency LJ of clex_monkie89. I do not like her and I will forever more continue to make faces whenever I see her post anything anywhere.

People who don't respond to their emails when it's something about a deadline.

People who say they will update a certain post weekly and then wait a month to get to the fucking comments.

People who look down on me because I've seen the HP movies but not read the books (No, Steve, I don't mean you). I only play in the fandom sporadically (and not in the fic parts) but I hate that feeling. That I'm less than someone else just because the books fucking bored me. I'm sorry, if it can't hold my attention I don't bother. It took me two weeks to read Good Omens and I love that book. I get distracted easily and I'll read eighty pages in two hours and then not touch the book for a week and a half and then come back and devour another 150 pages. I just couldn't do that with HP. It's like back in LotR all over again. There's a reason I only stuck to the LotRips side.

Me. I'm having one of Those Days. I have this problem (that is very possibly connected to the time I stopped breathing for a while when I was a baby) where occasionally I'll read something and not understand it. It comes in varying degrees, sometimes I can reread a paragraph ten times and not be able to tell you anything that was said in it and sometimes I can push my way through pages and pages of something, read it all, be able to tell you the gist of what happened and yet not actually understand anything complex. At the moment I'm sludging my way through a Numb3rs fic and now it's less about pleasure of reading it and more about having to finish it now that I've made it this far. I don't know whether it's that the fic is convoluted and thick on it's own (it does vary between Charlie and Larry's POVs, neither of whom are actually talking to anyone and thus don't need to dumb anything down out of their voice for the audience) or if it's me. I can tell you the basic outline of the fic up to where I am and even thrown in a few line-by-lines from it but nothing makes sense.

Me (redux). I have 130+ comments in my inbox and I just can't seem to make myself answer any of them. They're almost all comments on fic and meta or comments to fic commentaries and they're all things that require intelligent thought and not just throwaways of "I'm glad you liked it! Thank you!" and I don't seem to be able to fucking force myself to do anything.

PMS. Fuck this shit. Maybe later I'll be able to drag my ass out of bed (big-ass futons FTW) and walk to the store and get chocolate or something, I think I've got about a dollar in change. (Note to self: Give Phil back the ten bucks you no longer need.)

Comments

[slytherinblack.livejournal.com]

My userinfo says no comm advertisements if I don't know you or I'll make 'em as spam. :P And be gleeful about doing it.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Dude. I forgot you could mark comments as spam! I'm so doing that later!

[causette.livejournal.com]

ohmygod, I HATE it when someone does that whole flyer advertisement in my journal!! Makes me start wanting to stab people. And what I hate most is that one time when someone did it and then deleted the comment right away so I only got it in my inbox but was then unable to reply with to her with a bitchy comment. That was frustrating!

I'm also one of those that only sees the HP movies. And I tried to read Lord of the Rings but I gave up after 50 pages of tree descriptions *rolls eyes*

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Is it not one of the most fucking annoying things ever? ASSHOLES.

I made it to page 82 of Fellowship of the Ring and then had to give up. The language is just WAY too rich for me.

[causette.livejournal.com]

I'm just too impulsive. Reading the books takes too frickin long when the movies are just 2-3 hours. I've been trying to listen to the 6th HP book on audio on my iPod but my mind tends to wander and I don't remember what I've heard.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Dude, wandering minds, man. I usually have three or four different things going on at once because of it. Chat and a fic or three and sometimes PS open (when it isn't spazzing on me) and my FList because otherwise I just stare off into space randomly.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

I didn't make it past the first chapter of HP (and yes, I do watch the movies, even in theaters; even at the IMAX when they are playing them there) because I thought the language was fucking terrible. Like typical bad children's book language. Of you know, bad children's books. I hear they get better in the later books, but if I can't read the first one, what's the point of reading the later ones.

I made it to the middle of the second LOTR book but then I quit because the language is just too wooden for me. Aside from Bormir, all mian characters are heroic cardboards.

*hides out of fear of being stabbed by fans of the books*

[slytherinblack.livejournal.com]

Ugh. The Hobbit bored me to death, I didn't even bother with the LOTR trilogy. You seem to have come to the right place.

It really drives me up the wall that one of my favorite authors is compared to Tolkien. No, they both write epic fantasy. Other than that, the elements of their stories are as different as they can be (as you said, Tolkien writes the Heroic fantasy. Hero character, heroic quest...which these other books are not at all.)

[thelana.livejournal.com]

I've always had this theory that in fantasy and SciFi most writers are either good writers or good world builders. Tolkien was so clearly a world builder, NOT a writer. His world building of course is fantastic, with languages, myths, calender ect... But that doesn't mean that he could write.

[slytherinblack.livejournal.com]

You may be right about that. I know I'm an AWFUL world builder and that makes it hard for me to write fantasy. [laughs] I've tried, but I suck at it...I usually try for urban fantasy instead.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

BTW, why not declare a comment moratorium for yourself? Make a main post where you say "Guys, I love you, I'm so thankful for all of your comments but I'm not in the position to answer them right now and many of them are sooooo far back. If you had something really important to tell me, post it in this post".

[jeyhawk.livejournal.com]

*snuzzles*

Some days are just like that.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

*Snuzzles back*

[softgraysky.livejournal.com]

Not reading the books isn't a sin. I was young enough when I started them that the 'boringness' didn't seem that obvious. And my parents actually read LotR to me when I was young, so...

But I hear you on the sporadic reading thing. Even the books I love, I'll put down for ages.

But you know, fandom is your personal thing. Shouldn't matter to anyone else if you've read the books. Half of the fandoms I've been in have been of television shows I've never even seen.

I hope the chocolate helps, but in case...*gives internets love*

[nu-breed.livejournal.com]

People who look down on me because I've seen the HP movies but not read the books

Oh thank GOD. I thought I was the only one! I too found the books boring and gave up from Book Three on.

[ciaan]

That's how I always feel when (as now) I am finding links and coding for sv_ledger. People all do the most annoying things.

[annella.livejournal.com]

I HATE when people advertise on my journal. GAH. D:

Looking down at you for not reading Harry Potter is STUPID. They're not for everyone. O_o

[velithya]

Dude, that bitch needs a slapping.

It took me three tries to make it through the Lord of the Rings books, and I love reading, so I hear you on that.

*hugs* hope you get that chocolate.

[frayen.livejournal.com]

That twaswhoever left the same comment in my journal. Wot, did she go and comment to EVERYONE in that comm? Geez, that's just...sad.

[brynspikess.livejournal.com]

My Attack of the Marblemen guide - hope it helps!

[breathe-me.livejournal.com]

I've discovered most people suck in varying degrees.

I got a journal spam a while back and it annoyed the crap out of me. People should know not to go into someone's personal journal.