It's rather sad.
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animeartistjoIt's rather sad when fanfiction have been beta read and I STILL spot many, great, gaping errors in the writing: huge, obvious ones like "your" for "you're" and fragments that don't really add any impact to character voice or atmosphere at all.
In RL, V, a pal from HS, is visiting! There's not much to do in Davis at ALL, but we managed to all get the annual free t-shirt at the first home game of the season and it's beautifully designed. I got to see the new stadium, but instead of staying for the game, we went to a popular sushi buffet and gorged ourselves. Afterwards (and before, actually, after we'd gone to the farmers' market), we played many, many games of Bang!, an Italian creation featuring cowboys. Last night, when V arrived on the bus, we ate at Crepeville, they of the delicious Fuji salads and garlic potatoes. After which we (surprise, surprise) had ALSO played Bang!. I prove to be a poor player with a few brief moments of brilliance. I died early, if not the first, every single time.
So, uh. Happy birthday to myself since it's 2:13 am already over here. Later today, we'll go bowling and play pool (billards, snook, whatever) at the campus's game center, have lunch downtown, and then walk V to the Amtrak. Fun times. It's all there is to do in our little college town!
It's cool, I already celebrated the four-day, Labor Day weekend before, when I'd returned home. I got to see all the people important to me and got awesome gifts from my parents. Dad got me a portable external hard drive (500 GB, Digital Western) from Costco, and Mom and Aunt L took![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darkestnight12 and I shopping at the Macy's in S.F. Unfortunately, Dad's right arm, which he was supposed to be resting, got worse after his weekly gym visit. Of course, swinging a badminton racket like he does (aka, hard enough to de-feather the birdies and break the strings sometimes) only exacerbates what has only JUST begun to fade. It was so bad before that he had to drive one-handedly. Scary. Now he's back at work and supposedly taking it slow and easy. Kind of hard when you're the only day custodian of an entire elementary school. I've seen first-hand the kind of messes those kids leave and the kind of heavy lifting he's expected to do. Argh! Stupid Asian macho-stoicism. He has more leave time available!
Rec wise, I had spotted a gorgeous piece of fanartdarkestnight12 had bought from Fanime when I was home. So, uh, if you guys like kind, cool pretty boys who aren't loners by choice with a lucky cat bodyguard who can see traditional Japanese spirits, read Natsume Yuujinchou. If you love CLAMP's XXXholic, you'll adore this series. It's a lighter, sweeter version.
Glee's version of Take a Bow was breathtaking and heartbreaking:
Fastest Korean rapper EVER. Please ignore the weird video and just LISTEN to the tongue twisting:
In RL, V, a pal from HS, is visiting! There's not much to do in Davis at ALL, but we managed to all get the annual free t-shirt at the first home game of the season and it's beautifully designed. I got to see the new stadium, but instead of staying for the game, we went to a popular sushi buffet and gorged ourselves. Afterwards (and before, actually, after we'd gone to the farmers' market), we played many, many games of Bang!, an Italian creation featuring cowboys. Last night, when V arrived on the bus, we ate at Crepeville, they of the delicious Fuji salads and garlic potatoes. After which we (surprise, surprise) had ALSO played Bang!. I prove to be a poor player with a few brief moments of brilliance. I died early, if not the first, every single time.
So, uh. Happy birthday to myself since it's 2:13 am already over here. Later today, we'll go bowling and play pool (billards, snook, whatever) at the campus's game center, have lunch downtown, and then walk V to the Amtrak. Fun times. It's all there is to do in our little college town!
It's cool, I already celebrated the four-day, Labor Day weekend before, when I'd returned home. I got to see all the people important to me and got awesome gifts from my parents. Dad got me a portable external hard drive (500 GB, Digital Western) from Costco, and Mom and Aunt L took
darkestnight12 and I shopping at the Macy's in S.F. Unfortunately, Dad's right arm, which he was supposed to be resting, got worse after his weekly gym visit. Of course, swinging a badminton racket like he does (aka, hard enough to de-feather the birdies and break the strings sometimes) only exacerbates what has only JUST begun to fade. It was so bad before that he had to drive one-handedly. Scary. Now he's back at work and supposedly taking it slow and easy. Kind of hard when you're the only day custodian of an entire elementary school. I've seen first-hand the kind of messes those kids leave and the kind of heavy lifting he's expected to do. Argh! Stupid Asian macho-stoicism. He has more leave time available!Rec wise, I had spotted a gorgeous piece of fanart
darkestnight12 had bought from Fanime when I was home. So, uh, if you guys like kind, cool pretty boys who aren't loners by choice with a lucky cat bodyguard who can see traditional Japanese spirits, read Natsume Yuujinchou. If you love CLAMP's XXXholic, you'll adore this series. It's a lighter, sweeter version. Glee's version of Take a Bow was breathtaking and heartbreaking:
Fastest Korean rapper EVER. Please ignore the weird video and just LISTEN to the tongue twisting:
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Date: 2009-09-13 10:02 am (UTC)*balloons and streamers*
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Date: 2009-09-15 03:13 am (UTC)Awww, Shawn and Gus are doing the Mexican wave for me. ^__________^
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Date: 2009-09-13 01:03 pm (UTC)*\O/*
PS: I love xxxHoLic, so i'll definitely check this new series out, thanks!
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I know I make little mistakes in my writing and when I do it drives me crazy, but its even worse when you're reading some one else's fanfiction. I once read a fanfic (and I'm so tempted to link it, but that'd be rather mean) that I really wanted to get into cause the story had a lot of potential. But...it was so bad. Quotation marks, when she/he bothered at all, were horribly placed and wrong. Capitalization errors, comma splices, run ons...and just bad.
I had to stop reading, I couldn't force myself to continue. What made it even worse was that he/she went on like this for 90+ chapters. D:
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Date: 2009-09-15 03:15 am (UTC)The art's not as clean, but it's this sketchy, dreamy look that really suits the story. <3
The errors in your fanfiction are small and few so I just point them out for your edification and wait for the next chapter. I'll bet that fanfiction of yours was in the Harry Potter fandom, amirite?
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Date: 2009-09-13 03:24 pm (UTC)I'm with you on the beta business. I mean, I find errors in some of my posted stories -- can't catch everything -- but when I'm reading and I find five, six, seven errors...I start to wonder what the definition of "beta" is.
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Date: 2009-09-15 03:22 am (UTC)But you catch your own errors on a reread and correct them, which I'll be forever grateful. A lot of fic writers don't seems to understand what is proofreading or just don't have the knowledge of what constitutes correct writing. *claws face*
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Date: 2009-09-13 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-14 03:47 am (UTC)Yeah, so much word to the bit about beta'ing. I'm not even that anal about but persistent errors all the way through just SINK a story, no matter how good.
And, lol, I love that it looked like the captions could barely keep up with the rapping in that vid.
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Date: 2009-09-15 03:24 am (UTC)And it's mind-boggling how some people can CONTINUE writing like that for several hundred thousand words sometimes.
That was the "official" music vid and I find it baffling. The artist (pretty, ain't he?) performed it for a show if you care to youtube it. ;D
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Date: 2009-09-16 04:00 am (UTC)Dad's hand is all better now! He's back to normal I think...He hasn't said anything about pain in his hand for a while now, and I haven't seen him nursing it either, so I think he's in the clear!
I told you about Natsume Yuujinchou a LONG TIME AGO. But someone didn't believe me. WATCH THE ANIME TOO. So~ slashy~! *fangirls* Too bad the fandom's still so small...