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[yuuago]

Writing centre shift this morning was blah. And then the rest of the day was equally blah. Two of my students met with me to discuss their essays. The first one, now, that went fine. Her paper had Very Serious Issues and we discussed how to address that. But the second one, oy. What I said in my head was thus: "Dude, it's an okay paper, but it's Blah. It's unremarkable. It's not terribly insightful. It might get you an A in high school, but this ain't high school."
I can't remember what I actually said, but it was much nicer.

Also: Tristram Shandy might very well be one of the worst novels I have ever read. And normally I'm not the sort of man to say that. But I mean this truly, that if I had my way, I would not finish it.

I'm reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy for the intro class, and my gods is it ever depressing. A good read, but depressing. I love the way this guy writes. Beautiful. Minimalistic. It's the sort of writing I aspire to when I write prose-poetry. But dear gods. Fucking post-apocalyptic novels. If this thing doesn't give me nightmares I'll be quite surprised.

Saa, saa. It's fucking cold out. This means it's also cold in my house. Booo. And the past few nights that I've been at the Roastery, it has been so loud and so busy and guuuh. I used to think Just Us was bad. No, no. Just Us on a busy day doesn't even come close to the Roastery, holy Jesus. Well, I guess I'll have to do my homework at... home. Alas?



"Clearly, the solution to all angst is More Freakin' Poland."

Truer words have never been spoken. At least, that's how I feel right now, at any rate. I'm sure by tomorrow morning I'll have another phrase that I'll hold up as the trust thing ever spoken. That's how I roll.

Somehow I've been roped into writing a certain Epic Showdown fic. Not sure how that happened. It was kind of an accident. Why do I get myself into these things? I say, "Hey, this would be a great idea!" And then... I want to do it. Oh, dear. Well, I suppose as soon as the Big Long Fic is finished, I'll start on that one. Or possibly before. Depends on how long I can restrain myself. Either way, it needs to be done before the snow melts.

Also: "Your fics make me so sad :( Please to be writing one where Sweden isn't a total fucking asshole!" I know what they mean, but seriously, this comment made me laugh so hard. xD Oh dear. Honestly, what on earth is wrong with me? Ah, well. Clearly this means I need to write some happy stories next, instead of moar angst. Fortunately the Big Long Fic is a happy one, and so will be the Epic Showdown.

Oh yeah. I revised that untitled weird-ass fic with the plucking out of eyeballs and so on. It was posted as a meme fill so I added it to my master list.

Aaaaand that should do for an update for now. Whoo~

Comments

[jesusphreaq.livejournal.com]

It is BRUTAL out there. ;_; on the other hand, this morning it was nice and I got lots of pictures of hoarfrost.

Ahahaha, "that's how I roll." That is such a Fort Mac-ism.

In the RP I'm in, my character is a total angstmuffin. And his life is about to get worse. Why do I find that fun? :D

[yuuago]

Because it IS fun. Most of the time.

aslkdjfkasdf Arrrgh, Fort Mac, why can't I quit you. D: That city is gonna follow me around for the rest of my life, I just know it.

[hokuton_punch]

YAY MORE POLAND!

I keep meaning to read any Cormac McCarthy at all and The Road is high up there on the list of ones to try because the setup makes me think of Chelidon and Aedon oh gods I'm made of fail and self-centrism, but I have a horribly low tolerance for sad in my stories lately (and by "lately" I mean "since I played KHII so it's been like two years now and I should really be over this"). DDD: Er. Fic obviously excepted. XD

[yuuago]

You should read it anyway! And then you can be depressed and I can have nightmares and we can share our sorrow. :D :D :D

[fyretoppaaa.livejournal.com]

"Clearly, the solution to all angst is More Freakin' Poland."

/DIES LAUGHING

THAT WAS ALSO ME. XDDDDDDDDDDDD

The Sweden thing, however, was not. |D Haven't gotten around to reading the Estonia/Finland stuff yet, dfjdkfjls POLAND STOP DISTRACTING ME. WHY ISN'T THERE MORE OF HIM ON THE KINK MEME.

[yuuago]

Keep tissues by when you do read it, 'cause it's all very sad. I've made several people cry, or so they say. D:

AND WHY ISN'T THERE MORE OF HIM, I ASK THAT TOO.
Obviously, there's only one solution: I need to write smut with Poland in it. Of course.

[fyretoppaaa.livejournal.com]

/has a box of tissue right behind her 8Db

SERIOUSLY, HE IS SO AWESOME. WHY DON'T MORE PEOPLE WRITE HIM. ;__;

Also DO IT DO IT DO IT I hope you realize you're to blame for my Canada/Poland shipping SIGH.

[yuuago]

What? I am? Really?
OMG.
I feel so... EEEE.
I know that isn't a proper word but I don't care. Seriously, that makes me feel so totally awesome.
After I finish the sequel to Small Hours, and the Epic Snowball Fight thing, I'll be working on the sequel to the Canada/Poland. And there will be smut in it, yes indeed.

[fyretoppaaa.livejournal.com]

:] /gives you cookies for awesome, fufufu

8D YAY SEQUELS. I kept going back and poking at the D.C. fic because it felt incomplete, so IT'S GOOD TO KNOW THERE'S SMUT FORTHCOMING. ♥!

[yuuago]

Mmmmmcookies. (Damn you, now I want some! FFS It's 10:30 at night, it's too late for me to make cookies....)

Yes! Smut! And before that, Lithuania playing matchmaker, hah.
It'll definitely be a while before it's finished, but now that you have me friended you'll know when I'm working on it, and when it's done. So YAY FOR THAT.

[katfur.livejournal.com]

'The Road' is the one Provencal was talking about in the Iliad course, eh?

[yuuago]

Eh... I'm not sure. I vaguely remember him mentioning something that might be it. So, maybe? x.x