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spuffyduds margaritas my Mexican dinner*. She's writing limericks. *whimpers with joy*

But anyway the point of this disturbingly affectionate and even more disturbingly spontaneous post is this drabble. How come I didn't write that?

Also, it's because I've been meaning for a while now to wave my cane and yell at you hoodlums to stop saying things like, "She couldn't say why; this was something she just had to do." Because that means in bad-author-speak, "Yeah I don't know where I'm going with this."

JEEZ!

Which just kills a lot of the affection and spontaneity, really.

*edited for artistic purposes.

ETA2: 2am is apparently equal to crack in la vie de TKP. This is why I am not a spontaneous poster. Did you see how I deleted the other post that looked exactly like this? Another thing, kids. I'm getting tired of "straining against the confines of his pants." THINK OF A NEW PHRASE. Or. Possibly. GO WRITE LIMERICKS. And never share them.

ETA3: 3am, and all's well. Fanfic writers of the world, Michelangelo's David is very beautiful, yes. But keep in mind, if you must excessively liken Angel or Spike or who have you to him, he had a rather small schlong. Last bit, I promise.

ETA4: I lied. Right to your faces. My hair looked fabulous today, and McDonald's now has chicken biscuits like Chik-fil-a. It will be seven in 3 hours and I can go get some. I think I might need coffee, just a wee bit. Dude! Remind me never to make posts late at night, ever. Go read spuffyduds's drabble.

Comments

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

Dude, your insane potted-plant-femme idea is probably the best compliment I've gotten recently. *grins maniacally*

I wonder just how many shirtless Mal icons I can acquire so that I can keep that as my default without also becoming bored.

And in relation to your last post, I only really use the thesaurus when I'm stuck and I need the *right* word to come to me. However, I almost never use a word that I've never experienced before right off the bat--I usually have to have some kind of a relationship with a word before I'll start using it in my own writing. You know--have read it, sampled it, tasted it--looked it up a few times first. And I have certainly looked up words when reading fanfic--I'm a big nerd, didn't you know? One very funny thing to me was that while I was studying for the GRE (SO many vocab flashcards, OMG) a great many of the words on my lists were to be found in one Ms. rahirah's fanfic, someone who generally wins with me for writing excellent Buffy-voice while also throwing in juicy words in just the correct way.

And hmmm, I think of my fic as being somewhere in the middle of the smarty-pants words spectrum, but really it's one of those things where it's hard to have perspective on one's self. I do think that I tend to generally spend my vocabulary with a modicum of economy--i.e. I don't use big words just to use them--they have to serve some purpose. This applies to my academic writing as well. OTOH, sometimes I think that perhaps I could be more linguistically daring. Heehaw.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Potting you is NOT an insane idea because I said it'd be a completely non-crazy thing. See? Although truth be told, at first you were very pretty and a very bright green, clover colored, and I kept you in a hothouse with a silver water can beside you and stroked your leaves . . . both the smooth soft tops and the bumpy porous sides. For you were a fern. Then you morphed into one of those dancing daisies (with the sunglasses) that were all the rage in the 90s, and though you looked a trifle ridiculous I still treasured you and your spindley, terpsichorean figure very much. I learned the word terpsichorean from Stulti last post, and look Ma, NOT CRAZY.

Not just shirtless Mal. Broody, upset looking Mal.

I almost never use a word that I've never experienced before right off the bat--I usually have to have some kind of a relationship with a word before I'll start using it in my own writing.

Someone else said they wouldn't use a completely new word in a fic because it would feel "hollow." And I was like yeah! I did feel that way when I did it! And I thought at first it was just because it felt like cheating--shouldn't use it if I don't really KNOW it, that sort of thing. But the way you've said this here makes me realize something I *felt* but didn't know how to articulate: if you're not familiar with a word you don't know its ins and outs, you can't play with it and turn it on its head. I try to alleviate that if it's new (which again, is rare...only in that one fic) or is uncertain (which happens more often than I'd like), by Googling around and finding sentences in which its used so I can get a feel for the word. Still, not the same as having a "relationship" with it.

a great many of the words on my lists were to be found in one Ms. [info]rahirah's fanfic,

Heh, that's so cool! I'll have to take note next time I read one of her fics. I had this book for the SATs that was a novel, with the SAT words in boldface, with a glossary in the back. It was AWFUL! The story was atrocious, and having to flip back three times a page drove me crazy. Though I think I was in 7th grade or something when I was reading it, which explained why I hardly knew any of the words. I learned the word "bovine" from that book; I remember that one.

OTOH, sometimes I think that perhaps I could be more linguistically daring.

I just wish I felt like I had more words at my finger-tips. I read some books and it's just depressing a. how many words I don't know, b. how many words I would've never thought to use. I don't necessarily want to use "bigger" or more sophisticated words... I just wish I had that option.

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

I just wish I felt like I had more words at my finger-tips. I read some books and it's just depressing a. how many words I don't know, b. how many words I would've never thought to use. I don't necessarily want to use "bigger" or more sophisticated words... I just wish I had that option.

That pretty much encapsulates my feelings on the subject as well.

Broody, upset-looking Mal is so hot it's terpsichorean. /flagrant abuse of language and sense.

And then OTOH, there's always this. *points to icon*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahaha! Good one! What's funny is I don't find NF nearly so hot as Mal. Have I already said that? I can't remember. He does have a niiiice ass.

Broody, upset-looking Mal is so hot it's terpsichorean. /flagrant abuse of language and sense.

Yet, strangely sense-making to me.

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

I almost never find actors as hot as characters--it's because I like fake people, I've decided. Although I do fangirl on NF more than on most other actors because he is funny and charming and goofy, if not brooding and angsty!hot. Also, very nice and supportive of fandom, it seems.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever found an actor as attractive as a character. But it's just something I often say about Mal because I really don't find NF very hot at all. He's good looking, just...I dunno, doesn't really do much for me. But he does seem like a great person. There's nothing better than a personable star.

And omg that's a cute one too!

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

Don't tell, but I often feel that way about James Marsters.

*waits for the stoning*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

*throws pebbles*

I've heard quite a few people say that about JM...but most weren't avid Spike fans. I do find JM sexy though, even if he is small. He has a good voice. That always sells me.

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

He's sexy...I just don't care that much. And neither he nor most anyone else will ever be as sexy to me as Spike is. I think he's a good actor and has a charismatic presence and I do wish that he'd find something better to do with his talent than what he's been doing lately.

I feel relatively certain that I've met a few other avid Spike fen that were lukewarm on the Marsters, but there *are* quite a large number of JM fangirls out there. Enough for an entire convention apparently. Many of whom I love dearly, but you will not find me there. Of course, I'll be just starting school. The only real reason I'd be tempted would be to fangirl the fangirls but I can do that elsewhere...like at Writercon where it is All About Us (oh and um, words and stuff).

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Well, I've never seen JM as anyone but Spike; I've never seen an interview, nothin'. Anyway, from what I know of him, he's not appealing to me as a person, but Spike's presence is his presence and I find it attractive.

I want to go to writercon. It's for real, now, definitely not happening. Oh well. Next year! And I can't wait to live vicariously and hear what a fun time everyone had!

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

I am so sad that you are not going to be there! *whines*

*goes to bed*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

me too!
me too!

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

Broody, upset-looking Mal is so hot it's terpsichorean.

*echoes your maniacal grin* It's the word of the week! *pirouettes*

[spuffyduds.livejournal.com]

"Shirtless Mal" and "bored" in the same paragraph? I'm confused.

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

"Shirtless Mal" and "bored" in the same paragraph? I'm confused.

Hee. Good point. I just tend to change my default icon a lot but it's been shirtless Mal for awhile now and in order to keep myself from being itchy, I switch off with *slightly* different icons. I just haven't, um, wanted to look at anything else *more* for an extended period of time. *g*