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Drove all night...got home at 2am this morning so that I could be at my sister's house at 10:30 this morning to help her out.

Am quite tired.

Flist is way over the top. Had to skip back to 450 entries to get caught up...am now at 240 to go. Wow. (I'm starting to see why people go through mass de-friendings.) That's after unfriending twenty-one communities. I think I need to unfriend little_details as well. It was described as a place where you could post a writing question about anything and the community would try to answer. At first I thought it would be really interesting...especially given LJ's international audience...but it's been flooded with questions like do horses eat olives and I have a crystalline entity that is asexual, but is insulted by being called it, what sort of pronoun should I use. (I'm much more interested in questions that could be easily answered by LJ writers, such as which classes of British men most commonly still wear nightshirts and how angry do Australian men get when one of their mates gets away without purchasing a 'shout' during a hard evening's drinking. And let's not even get started on who really makes the donuts.)

Look, I don't need to know about martini-drinking equines. And may I just mention that if you have an asexual crystalline entity in your fic then I would imagine that its first language---if a spoken, word-based language was actually involved at all---would not be English. And I can't imagine that it would particularly care what pronoun you used to refer to it. Honestly. I really don't think it would feel constrained by our general feelings of gender, seeing as it has none. And it's your fic, so if this is such a problem, make up a word...it isn't that difficult. Refer to them as "zumwerger" or "kl''m". Problem solved. Hee! I'm such a nasty little wench sometimes.

I won't even get started on the so-broad-they're-unanswerable questions like what was Paris like in the twenties. That's what research is for. Rawr!

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[absurdwords.livejournal.com]

The questions asked on little_details are sometimes hilarious, but I also don't always appreciate the flist spam when I want to catch up with the things that really matter.

And I seriously hope some of those authors are doing research besides posting their questions there.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I have now un-friended it, and added it to the bookmarks...I guess I just didn't expect it to be so popular. I'd rather read about what my flist is up to...as you say, the things that matter.

I agree about hoping the authors would do research first, but it's obvious from some of the questions that they're not. I think it'll be a good resource in some ways, and I'm glad they're being so careful about classifying everything in the memories.