SO. I've been reading my old HG7 stories. OH yes, the days when I used to write us-centered fiction. Which was fun. I still play around with it sometimes. My friends are good familiar characters who I get to play around with although there are no-nos and taboos such as you know - writing sex or violence or death. It's kinda icky. Or making judgements that might be biased or hurtful. So familiar but difficult. I always worried that everyone ended up sound Mary-Suish but I think my friends were pretty good about it. When they were interested...anyway. It's strange because I used to think it was so bad. And it's...actually not. It's cohesive and legible and there were some really good ideas not to mention scenes in there. I think there's a nicely effectively over the top-dramatic, could be lifted out of any romance novel anywhere scene where I run into D in the music room after he's had a raunchy bout of sex with Gin-Gin. It's sweet and tearful and then the later scene, where I'm angry with him is appropriately justified. I like it. There's a flow I decidedly took it upon myself to ignore. I'm surprised. I had...vision back then. Anyway...
I was thinking about the relationship status of us in them.
Cathy was with George. A boy who liked her and they had gone out but now she spends time avoiding/running away from their awkwardness. Sound familiar?
I was with D. Well...do we really need to get into that? Fighting, blondeness, the unforseeability of a future between us. It's all one big self created emotional DRAMA. It's all a little gnawing. That said, no ONE is D.
Sue was with Ron. Which you know - long term relationship with someone who likes her, she likes him. It's all fine and dandy but eventually they split up due to other circumstances outside their control (in this case I think it was because D and Ron were kidnapped).
Alice lusted after Charlie. Someone who HAD a girlfriend at the time but eventually she wins him away from her when they're like travelling over seas (overseas? get it - they're actually riding dragons over oceans? SEE! PUNNINESS!) together. He acts like a sort of 'mentor' to her in an area she loves (dragon taming). Eventually they end up together but she begins to question the relationship...
The rest are negligble. But those were just...WEIRD. Oh yeah, I'm seeing a Dave. Cathy is seeing a Dave. Alice is seeing a Dave. Cameron is seeing a Dave (although everyone calls him Bailey) and I think Mish who I met on the weekend was in love with a Dave. WTF is up with Dave/David? REALLY.
ALSO. I watched
The Love Guru. IT actually WASN'T that bad. I don't know what everyone's crapping on about. It's a Mike Meyers film - if you've seen Austin Powers, you know how immature and juvenile his schtick is. I think some people are just plenty sick of it. But it's still much more high-brow than that Scary fucking Movie crowd - actually, that Date Movie crowd more like. Honestly, I thought some parts were pretty funny and I'm hard to impress. Colbert had some funny cameos. And JT ain't too bad.
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bronteana last night is so cracked I may just have to resist my better judgment and pick up a copy of Twilight to investigate the unlikelihood of the author's assertion:
incredulous
Now to decide on some purples...
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