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valis2Yeah, I had to break down and do it. I had no choice. Most S&H fic is pretty good, but once in a while a gem jumps out at me...
- "Shut up and shut the door," he ordered. The boy jammed his foot on the execrator making the car jump to life, the car that had been behind them squealed around them honking as it sped by.
Ah yes, the horror of the Spellchecker Gone Mad. - As she went out of the room leaving them alone, Starsky sat down on the chair at the bedside and rested his forehead on the side of the bed, next to the big blond hand.
- [Starksy] knew that being a cop meant you always had enemies, but he couldn't think of anything messy he and Hutch had been a part of lately. Could this be a procrastinated vengeance?
- “What would you like?” Mandy asked Hutch.
“I’m not feeding him too,” Joey yelled.
“You can’t starve him to dead,” Mandy retorted. “For God sakes Joey.” - Hutch was loosing his rational. His reasoning skills weren't what they used to be.
- Is the "overheard mistaken activity" thing really that funny? I'm pretty sick of it. You know, that thing where one character walks up and hears two characters moaning, or saying, "Put it in harder," and it turns out that they're building a deck.
- The faceless, grey suited beaurocrats labeled the curly haired cop as a “loose canon” and a “liability” and tried to exclude him from the meetings whenever they could.
*blinks* Wow, after years of reading the mistake of "cannon" when someone means "canon," I finally see the reverse! - Um. I have to say, I like the fics where the bad guy happens to have an obsession with tall, athletic blond men. New fandom, new weaknesses, y'know? ETA: Too bad it goes places I'd rather it not. Still, I did like the first half...
- Starsky had just finished describing Hutch’s beat up heap to the motel manger, “Yep,” the man said. “They were here.”
- Unseen, Starsky winced slightly. He knew that look in his partner´s eyes. The 'Hutchinson, Sen. Has Left The Building'-look.
Look, I read the lines before and after, trying to figure out what the hell it means, but I couldn't figure it out. Senior? Senator? No clue.
Wait--I've figured it out. It is senior. It's Hutch's dad. But this line makes no sense in the story, even though I now know what Sen. means.
Anyway, it leads to this:
[Hutch:] "You know, kindnapped. Taken. Captured. Held against my will." - "Omig-d...." She reached across [Hutch] to press the call button.
Um. I know that the author is omitting the "o" in god and I know why, but I am five years old and this amused me because for just a second I thought she was referring to a Transformer character named Oh-mig Dee. - "Ok, Ok, we'll go over the details later" conceited Anderson.... "Your detective, he's in rather delicate way, and I don't mean with child, if you catch my drift"
- ‘Well my diagnosis as a doctor is that you’re exhausted and if you’re not careful you’re going to be dehydrated as well. So you have two choices Dave. You can either lie there while I get the nurse to bring you a proper meal and a drink and then go to sleep. Or I can set up a drip and sedate you. What’s it to be?’
Starsky grinned up at her. ‘I love it when you’re so masterful. I’m not too fond of needles, so I’m gonna go with the second option’ He lay back against the pillow and closed his eyes as Judith headed back to her real patient.
Might want to think that through again, Starksy. - She smiled a bedimpled smile, her eyes shining with the light of insanity.
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Date: 2009-04-06 09:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-04-06 10:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-04-06 11:03 pm (UTC)Hutch was loosing his rational. His reasoning skills weren't what they used to be.
This is going to be another one of those phrases which I will think of during boring meetings and then have to pretend that I swallowed my coffee down my windpipe.
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Date: 2009-04-06 11:55 pm (UTC)Could this be a procrastinated vengeance?
Hmm, I think I want me one of those.
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Date: 2009-04-07 12:11 am (UTC)I'm really taken with the idea of being 'kindnapped'. It sounds like a plot in a fantasy novel: the ogre raised by elves is kindnapped by some other ogres.
I’m not too fond of needles, so I’m gonna go with the second option’
I'll be kind and say he's not thinking straight because of the exhaustion diagnosed in the previous paragraph. Because otherwise, that is hilarious.
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Date: 2009-04-07 12:34 am (UTC)If you catch me at just the right hour in the morning, I think my eyes actually overflow with the light of insanity.
I'm really taken with the idea of being 'kindnapped'. It sounds like a plot in a fantasy novel: the ogre raised by elves is kindnapped by some other ogres.
I think I'd actually read that, to be honest!
Also, amusingly enough, it is "kindnapping" in a way; the father refuses to pay the ransom for Hutch, and the kindnappers drop Hutch off at the hospital, all pissed at the father.
I'll be kind and say he's not thinking straight because of the exhaustion diagnosed in the previous paragraph. Because otherwise, that is hilarious.
Yep, I think we're agreed. Starksy's just not thinking too clearly. lol!
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Date: 2009-04-07 12:37 am (UTC)Me too! It's terribly evil of me, I suppose, but I just couldn't resist. Y'know what sucks? I was about 200 fics in when I finally started chronicling the funny lines, and I know I lost two howlers. Maybe I'll find them again someday.
Hmm, I think I want me one of those.
I have to sympathize with the sentiment of procrastinated vengeance...I put off everything, no doubt I'd put off revenge, too. lol!
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Date: 2009-04-07 12:38 am (UTC)It isn't bad--it's actually kind of nice to read, for h/c, but it is also very angsty (um, which I enjoy on some occasions) and it isn't for everybody. It ended up being...half of my cup of tea, I'd say.
This is going to be another one of those phrases which I will think of during boring meetings and then have to pretend that I swallowed my coffee down my windpipe.
*snorts* Yes! Definitely! *laughs and laughs*
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Date: 2009-04-07 05:06 am (UTC)Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-07 10:36 am (UTC)I adore the h/c aspect of it, and there are parts of it that were thrilling to read and scary. But sometimes I'm leery of the magical healing sex thing. Even though the story is well-written and engaging, that bit can pull me out.
Still, I will return and reread it, and that's something, eh?
But what I'm commenting on is the Catspam rule. It's actually so true it's insane.
Hells yes. Several months ago I wrote an entry about being really depressed and got not a single reply. But catspam? Lots. *laughs* That's LJ for you.
I've also noticed that more than one entry a day means far fewer comments, even for entries that would normally get comments. Strange, eh?
Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-07 02:45 pm (UTC)Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-08 12:35 am (UTC)LJ is a great place to get information. It isn't always the right information, but you can get it.
LJ is a great place to get help for unusual things. Not every unusual thing, but there are some. For example, I can get anything I want translated to German by at least ten LJ friends. However, Japanese? Forget it. However, that's because of the particular flavor of my flist.
LJ is a great place to get a quick sympathy hug or to vent. Not everything will provide hugs, though, and not all venting will lead to happy moments.
LJ is a great place to make a lot of friends. But just like real life, some friends will stand by you through everything, and some friends just want to high-five and talk about fandom.
The entries that always seem to net the most comments (for me, at least) are short and funny. Snarky. That sort of thing. Long, introspective posts only net comments from the core group of friends. And most people are turned off by seeing lots of "whiny" entries. I'm not saying that I have whiny entries (though I do), or that you do, or anything like that--just that people will stop responding if you keep posting sad things. I've seen it happen. So I try not to use LJ to whine too much about the whiny things. Though I can't stop myself, lol.
Anyway, I realize that this is all unwanted advice, but I couldn't stop myself on this either. lol! That's the other thing that LJ is good for: unwanted advice. And wanted advice.
I really love LJ, honestly. I'm not being sarcastic.
Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-08 12:45 am (UTC)I love it, too, and all I wanted were fandom friends in the first place so I can't complain. If people like my stories they shouldn't have to like me, too. It would just be nice.
I love giving advice but I haven't been around long enough. I can lecture on eBay all day long, though, so I know the appeal.
My sister gr8kat might be able to help with the Japanese. She went that way when I went German.
Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-08 12:53 am (UTC)heh. Well, there will always be people who like you for your stories, people who like you for your stories and for you, and people who like you for you. And people who never identify themselves and just read your journal every day and never interact with anyone. It's all very much the way LJ operates.
And if you ever feel like lecturing on eBay, I'd love to read your entries about it. Srsly. I sell on eBay, and never buy on eBay, so there's a helluva lot of eBay stuff I'm missing, and it's always nice to hear more--either from the buyer's POV or the seller's, honestly.
No worries about the Japanese--that was two years ago and thankfully the Japanese customer has never contacted me again.
Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-08 01:02 am (UTC)I always wonder if people read without commenting. I snuck around the pier for a couple weeks without even signing in and read EVERYTHING but I felt like such a peeping Tanzer the whole time. My stories are kind of compensation for that. Plus, can't resist an audience. obviously.
Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-08 01:08 am (UTC)I always wonder if people read without commenting. I snuck around the pier for a couple weeks without even signing in and read EVERYTHING but I felt like such a peeping Tanzer the whole time. My stories are kind of compensation for that. Plus, can't resist an audience. obviously.
Even though I've been here for awhile, I still am always in the mindset that only commenters have read the entry. Which is clearly not true, and is proven to me over and over again when I go to a con and someone on my flist says, "Wow, that time you had the dream about Dumbledore on rollerskates was awesome!" Seriously. People read without commenting. And people totally lurk, too, which is a bit different. Personally, I read without commenting in a lot of cases (I have 300 people friended, and 100 comms, so yeah), but I also do comment quite a bit--I'm a spammer, though I do have some limits.
Definitely get out there and friend--and definitely read the person's profile page very carefully, and their last set of entries, before you commit to friending them. Some people want to be notified that they're being friended; some people do not want new friends and will not friend back. Some people are like me, and go back and forth about friending people back.
Er, I'm sorry, I'm really babbling here.
Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-08 01:31 am (UTC)I've already made one friend snafu. She looked promising, we had a lot in common, so I dropped her a comment and put her on my list. Then she sandbagged me in her reply and her very next post was a huge thing about THE ONE thing that's always a deal breaker for me, friendwise, in real life and online. (We all have our quirks.) So I dropped her and she thinks I'm a bitch and maybe I am but that's how it is. Generally I feel safe about asking people who've initiated contact in the past, and that's why I have maybe 6 friends and one's my sister. :)
Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-08 01:38 am (UTC)Actually, no--because my flist has cycled quite a bit.
Some people show up on LJ, post frantically for awhile, and then disappear. Some people show up on LJ and are going through something big in their lives, and when it's over, they don't need LJ anymore, and drop it.
Some people are so regular you can set your watch to them--one post a day for years and years.
Some people are sporadic.
Some people spam all the time. For years.
So what happens is eventually those temporary LJers drop off LJ, and then you go and friend more people, and some of them drop off, and so on and so on. Of the 300, only about 150 are actually active, and only about 50 of those are active daily/weekly, so it's quite manageable, though I do forget who people are and get confused sometimes, too.
As far as friending snafus...well, I've definitely done my fair share, and a lot of them were because I didn't bother to really look into the person's profile/entries. Now I'm really careful about that. If I see a lot of memes I head for ze hills, lol. (And I have to say now that memes are not all bad. It's best when they're behind an LJ-cut so I can decide whether or not to view them. Um, which is 99% of the time a not.)
Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-08 01:45 am (UTC)I get the idea that memes (and I don't know what that stands for, either) are the same as email forwards. ie: something for people to do to stay in touch when they have nothing to say. I have a real life friend with whom I have nothing in common and never see but we communicate through forwarded jokes and cat pictures. (Except when she sends me some racist anti-Obama or anti-Hispanic stuff, then I lecture her into submission.) But mostly it's cats.
Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-08 01:49 am (UTC)Hey, I don't mind a few memes--though they do mess with some people's custom formatting, and let me tell you, that causes unhappiness--so don't think I'm giving you pointed advice here. It's just a general thing. ;)
A meme (pronounced meem) is an idea that spreads wildly. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme) Er, that's an oversimplification, but still.
Re: Off subject but I had to say it
Date: 2009-04-08 01:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-04-08 12:06 pm (UTC)her eyes shining with the light of insanity.
... That one pretty much killed me, though.
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