A teensy bit of rec'ing...

If you've been reading then you know that I'm a fan of sarcasm.

So let me, without further ado, mention one of my favorite things recently:

the_snarkery.

In this community members dissect OotP chapter by chapter in a delightfully snarky manner. I really, really love this community. They point out inconsistencies, skewed characterizations, and they don't seem to hold back. I don't always agree with the points that get brought up, but each commentary usually has a few things that ring true, and a couple laughs.

If you hate things like deleterius and pottersues you will not care for this community at all. If you enjoy seeing things skewered then this could be the culmination of all your sarcastic HP desires. I'll warn you, it's mean-spirited and deconstructionist. But well worth it if you are a fan of MST3K.

sistermagpie's commentaries are my favorite.

A day of very little brain.

Nearly ready for sleep...just thinking about today's accomplishments.

I wrote up a fun little LJ entry that I will save for a few days from now, when people are back from the holidays, because I so hope it will be fun and I want people to play along. It's about creativity and the creation of art and I hope lots of the flist will participate.

I also completely overhauled a LJ entry I started a few weeks ago called Common Mistakes Beginning Fanfiction Writers Make. It is absolutely huge now, and I will be waiting to post this one as well, because it needs polish. Someone very kind (thank you, mortifyd) is taking a glance at it for me, and I'm really hoping that I haven't wasted a tremendous amount of time and energy with it...I hope it's of use to someone out there. I think I'll send a notice to daily_snitch when I finally do upload it. Only thing is, I'm a little worried that it's too long to be a single entry. Yeah, it's that big. Wow, I just checked it, and it's at 6,500 words. Whew.

But chapter 60? I am still stuck. Worse than ever, though I finally made headway and have added six sentences. I don't think I've ever been this badly stuck. I just keep coming up with ideas and rejecting them. I've gotten way too picky all of a sudden, when I need to just write.

I chatted with the witty mortifyd about Teh Pudge...anyone interested in the rather silly (and nearly endless) chat we had about poor Alan Rickman's pudge should check out his entries here and here. I must take delight in the fact that I actually wore out Mort and the topic of Pudge, which, before today, I would have thought impossible.

There was also brief chatting to be had with the lovely ginarsnape...so the day was entertaining, really, if nearly completely unproductive. What a way to begin the new year.

Oh, and I watched Shrek 2. Do children even understand this movie? I was hard-pressed to hear Puss-in-boot's dialogue (though I have to say he had some of the funniest lines in the movie, and I enjoyed his screentime the most), and I can't imagine that most kids would get half the jokes. It was fun, I suppose, but I guess I liked the first one better. And Mike Myer's accent was not as broad as in Shrek. I just...well, it was still enjoyable, but I have a large stack of DVDs from the holidays that I really would rather have watched instead. At least now I know where the giant-eyed cat icon that junediamanti was sporting for so long came from.