The random conversation thread

@Freezair: The second is the coolest. Do it. Take a risk!

@nobody: I hate Jane Eyre so much. So much freaking Diabolus ex Machina. Gee, it sure is romantic how all these stupid obstacles keep coming up. Romance my ass. I'd like to read about a couple just getting together once in my life, even if it's boring.

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Then you might be pleased to know that I would like to write something like that one day. Unfortunately, I think I'll have to be in a relationship before that day, and I don't really know if that'll ever happen.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."

I think that it might happen in Spice And Wolf, but the version I read was unfinished, so I don't know. Like it says on Happily Married, "Why do stories always stop when the couple gets together? Because it's 'boring'? That's when things get interesting!".

I also hate it for this Victorian plot. "Oh noes, he's already married! How immoral!" I mean, if they were fighting society that's one thing, but the girl's all concerned that he married an Automatically Violent psychotic in Jamaica! How immoral! Graaaaaaaaaa

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Yeah, there really aren't enough good stories that explore the relationship of a couple who are actually a couple. There's Pushing Daisies but then that has the not-touching element, there's Twilight but nothing ever happens in that, and then there's...I don't know.

The man was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the best at both killing and not killing - Stranger

Wow this place is impossible to keep up with when you can only get on some days apart @__@ but ah well it's too addicting for me to really care XD

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After seeing Haven's post a page or so back, I feel tempted to deredere the thread and hug everyone.

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Oh, and then I look at the Happily Married page, and guess who's there?! Ugh.

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Well, first thing that comes to mind is the second and third books in the Howls Moving Castle series; we get to see Sophie and Howl after they're married. They're explicitly described as fighting a lot because that's how they keep each other on their toes.

Also, Harvest Moon games, if those count.

And I've decided on my persona for the Gmail, once I finish the book. I'm a 23-year-old astronomy student named Andrew Donald Birmingham. I'm looking for money for grad school, which is why I took the villainess up on her offer. (She advertises herself as "wealthy.") I'm also secretly working for the Good Guys, who canonically suspect her, and I'm trying to gain info on her for a sting.

If I'm lucky, the response will just be automated. If I'm really lucky, the other end will be live—and they'll play along...

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

I would hate Jane Eyre far less if it weren't for the fact that I was forced to read it in grade 8 for no discernible reason, procrastinated on reading it, was given a deadline to finish it on the first day back from March break, and ended up skimming through most of the book in a mad rush on the last few days of the break to finish it. In the end I hardly absorbed any of the text, and flopped the test. I would later learn that the deadline was for reading half the book, though my biggest mistake was not going back to re-read the book proper. Not that, given the same situation again, I would have done any different.

So yeah, I really, really,really hate that book. I hate everything that has to do with the Victorian Age. I fail to sympathize with the characters because their all so uptight and well-mannered I want to bludgeon them with a rusty shovel.

edited 23rd Aug '09 7:27:03 PM by Bill

'I'll show him a martyr! I'm going to do die SO HARD'

I could go for a bit of shoveling. Dunno if I'd kill them, though. Maybe I could be a psycho killer to force Jane and Mr. Rochester to be a Battle Couple. Yeah, that would work.

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I have a visual in my head of an Enormous Library in the future, with floors covered in shit and the walls covered in dusty outdated large orange notices and illegible graffiti. Men are running around throwing books at each other and screaming about the wording of sentences. A librarian, covered in post-its and surrounded by flashing lights and ringing bells, is beating off an enormous mob of unintelligent teenagers, who are screaming strange questions, with a frying pan as she is screaming "Shut up! Shut Up! SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

The Library is Wiki Pedia in the future.

I am very tired.

edited 23rd Aug '09 8:09:08 PM by occono

Dumbo

I am writing about one. The only obstacle is fake.

Some writing.

Be sure to link to it so I can read it, please!

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I mean, it's too big to link to and I'll have to publish it first. I hope you like high pressure blood, too.

Some writing.

Of course! I'll buy your book for sure, then.

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Do They Fight Crime!?

'I'll show him a martyr! I'm going to do die SO HARD'

Wellll...sort of not really; the main character is a city guard, but has never had to do any actual fighting because it's a boring job and they put the youngest ones in the boring center of the city. Furthermore, it's a good thing he hasn't, because mind rape disorder puts a jarring mental block in front of one's ability to cause pain.

Some writing.

The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters is a nice use of a happily married couple. They meet in the first book and are married between the end of the first and beginning of the second.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

@Tzetze: have you read The Eyre Affair? Stuff happens, some people get happy ending they may not have deserved.

You must agree, my plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity! My Tumblr

Yes, The Eyre Affair is a great story whose final chapters are greatly enhanced by a familiarity with the plot of Jane Eyre.

No, but Meta Four brought it up way back when  

when I mentioned starting the book. Yet another book for my list.

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It would be bad of me to report the Fan Dumb thread to fandom_wank, wouldn't it?

I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.

Actually, I think that it would be refreshingly meta. Also, it would probably improve their opinion of non-Cosmetor tropers.

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It'd be ironic, meta, and... y'know what? Sometimes Good Is Overrated.

And so I was reborn... and no-one noticed anything had changed.

I'd be happy if you reported it, Nornagest.

edited 24th Aug '09 6:40:09 PM by Eriksson