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angelgazing) wrote2005-09-09 10:59 pm
angelgazing) wrote2005-09-09 10:59 pm
omg house fandom, you have ruined me
Um. Maybe, maybe, I am reading terrible, horrible, no good, very bad fic at that place that Julie has dubbed The Pit of something or another. Really, it's bad. And I can't stop reading it and clearly there is something wrong with me omg help me, please.
Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between well written and omgomgmyeyes for me. Sometimes I think there's a great wall of some sort. But mostly I think that writing can just be a very subtle thing, and should be. I like stories where I don't feel like I'm reading. I like stories where every word flows perfect to the next. Where every line is just a natural progression. I like stories that make me breathless with whatever is lying around, be it hopelessness or loveliness or loneliness or love. I love stories that show those things, and don't tell, unless the telling is actually needed. I like stories that make me stop switching tabs every forty-five seconds. I like stories where it doesn't enter my mind that someone wrote that. I especially like my stories where I don't know all of the author's history from what happens to the characters in them. I like stories where the characters are who they are, even if who they are is flawed, mean, addicted to painkillers and very nearly friendless. Matter of fact, if they are flawed, mean, addicted to painkillers and very nearly friendless, I'm probably going to love them more. I like a certain amount of fucked up in my characters, and in my stories, but I don't like that fucked up to be taken to far. (And it's easy to know when you're doing it, people not everyone needs to be taking anti-depressants to keep from killing themselves.)
I am a fic snob, and I'm okay with that.
In other news, I really have to stop sleeping all evening and then staying up until ass o'clock in the morning. Because it's beginning to fuck with my head. I woke up at 10 thinking it was time to get ready for work. Whatever.
Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between well written and omgomgmyeyes for me. Sometimes I think there's a great wall of some sort. But mostly I think that writing can just be a very subtle thing, and should be. I like stories where I don't feel like I'm reading. I like stories where every word flows perfect to the next. Where every line is just a natural progression. I like stories that make me breathless with whatever is lying around, be it hopelessness or loveliness or loneliness or love. I love stories that show those things, and don't tell, unless the telling is actually needed. I like stories that make me stop switching tabs every forty-five seconds. I like stories where it doesn't enter my mind that someone wrote that. I especially like my stories where I don't know all of the author's history from what happens to the characters in them. I like stories where the characters are who they are, even if who they are is flawed, mean, addicted to painkillers and very nearly friendless. Matter of fact, if they are flawed, mean, addicted to painkillers and very nearly friendless, I'm probably going to love them more. I like a certain amount of fucked up in my characters, and in my stories, but I don't like that fucked up to be taken to far. (And it's easy to know when you're doing it, people not everyone needs to be taking anti-depressants to keep from killing themselves.)
I am a fic snob, and I'm okay with that.
In other news, I really have to stop sleeping all evening and then staying up until ass o'clock in the morning. Because it's beginning to fuck with my head. I woke up at 10 thinking it was time to get ready for work. Whatever.