Disjointed thoughts

[featherynscale]

I don't have a lot of brain today for real posts with connective tissue and narrative structure. So this is what it is. (Hey, back off, I been sick.)

Compliments - I don't respond to compliments very gracefully in any area of life, but I am particularly graceless when it comes to expressions of attraction. Apparently, when my various parts fought for control of function, that function was grabbed by my inner 15 year old boy, who also runs my gaming compulsion, my sex drive, and my fashion sense. I'm ambivalent about whether or not anything should be done about this.

Being Human - Prepping to teach Excellence in Ritual again is making me ultra-sensitive to violations of the values system we use in the class. One of the key components is thinking well of others, which is to say that we 1) try not to mind-read people when they do things we don't understand, and 2) if we must assume something about their motives, to try to assume positive or neutral things about their motives until we know better, rather than assume they are trying to be evil dick monsters. I try to make this part of my practice for living a sane and happy life all year, but in the lead-up to class, it's very sharp in my brain.

Series Fiction - I'm disappointed in Laurell K Hamilton. I read her for the smut, and the smut in her latest was... lame. If I wanted to read about perfect people fucking perfectly, I'd read Harlequin romances. Laurell, I am depending on you to provide something a touch kinkier than that, and you are not delivering. I voiced this complaint to triadruid and he recommended that I read fan fiction instead. I'm not sure I want to go there.
On the other hand, I'm in the middle of Kushiel's Scion, which I'm not particularly reading for the smut, and it's been very good so far. I had forgotten how much I loved Phedre and Joscelyn, and Imriel is shaping up to be a worthwhile, if overly angsty character, too. Much better. Also, now that Jacquleyn Carey has three books in the series under her belt, she's decided that she doesn't have to stop and explain masochism to the vanillas every three pages, which makes this installment somewhat better than the others, in my estimation.

Icons - saffronhare pointed me at the crinkly_things icon community the other day, and I have some new shinies. Like this owl, for example. Thanks, saffronhare. :)

Comments

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :)

I'm really looking forward to reading Kushiel's Scion too. The intricacy of storylines and societies and pantheons is fascinating, and the sex is surprassingly hot. ::squirm:: I suspect Imriel is just going through an angsty stage -- much like Hyacinthe did. Pouting boys are sometimes easier to tolerate if they're pretty. Sometimes.

Later, babe. XO

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I have some degree of faith that he will grow out of it. I like him immensely.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Yes. He's got some enormous...er, potential to be fascinating.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

surprassingly? Is that like surpassingly+surprisingly?

Whoops.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

And typos abound. (reposted comment)

My fingers want to be somewhere other than on the keyboard, that's all. Seems I can fantasize OR type. :)

Re: Whoops.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It's like fuck OR drive, but for the internet. I approve.

Re: Whoops.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

For now, I am not voting for typing. :)

shiny pretties

[duriyah.livejournal.com]

That is a fantastic icon community. I joined. Yay!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

What I actually said/meant was that you were headed down the road of writing some Sholto fanfic yourself, and that the better solution would be to find some to read. But I agree that it still might not be a good idea.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Was not!

[kellan-m-solan.livejournal.com]

Of course most people, myself included, are evil dick monsters much of the time. Even if we aren't trying to be. So while it is certainly a noble goal, and may even be necessary for a sane and happy life, it's worth cutting yourself some slack for the difficulty.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Could be true. Doesn't do me a bit of good to proceed as if it's true, though, so out it goes.

[kellan-m-solan.livejournal.com]

--Sorry for the edit!--

grins* Well, you're a better person than I. Even if I were to undertake the quest of altering my personal reality such that people weren't dangerously clumsy entities to be wary of; I'm pretty sure I would need the comfort of thinking it was an awfully difficult quest. To console myself when the experience of people's assholishness overwhelmed my convictions.

What I was trying to say, though, was only be as hard on yourself as YOU want to be and no harder. Most people don't have the introspective wherewithal to try to alter their tendency to jump to conclusions, or even notice it. You certainly don't loose points in my book for needing to revisit that one a few times.

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

I'm currently re-reading the Blake series (on Lunatic Cafe atm). I need to pick up the rest of the Gentry series. I've got the first one & have read the next 3. I wasn't all that impressed with the 4th book though. It ended...abruptly. There should have been another chapter or 2 on that one.

I'm also trying to start the Kushiel series. I'm having trouble getting into it because the beginning is so...meaty? I'll try to pick it up again later. I just don't have the attention span to devote to learning everything she's laying out yet. I'm hoping that it does get better though.

[rio-luna.livejournal.com]

love the owl! quite noble.