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chocolatepot) wrote2012-05-26 04:08 pm
chocolatepot) wrote2012-05-26 04:08 pm
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Weekends are much more nice when you've worked all week
So I did write
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So I did write <a href="http://mimic-of-modes.blogspot.com/2012/05/museum-cataloguing-and-you.html>a million words on cataloguing</a> that probably nobody who reads my blog will be interested in, ho-hum.
I've started reading this hilariously bad romantic adventure novel, mainly because a) it was free and b) the summary included the line, "the moon oft casts a hopeful luminescence". Really? Does it oft do that? Anyway, it's the kind of Mary Sue fiction I like - where the heroine is sooo pretty that it's suuuch a problem for her and people are either touched by her sweetness or desperate to exploit her, it's just so OTT and Iddy. (The kind I don't like is when the heroine seems very average but people keep seeing how special she is - it's still OTT and Iddy, but it's just not really my Id, I guess. But the first kind always comes across as someone going, "you know what, I'm just going to do this obvious fantasy and have fun with it and maybe entertain some other people who like this," while the second, and maybe this is unfair of me, comes across like someone who can't quite admit that it's a Mary Sue-type fantasy and is trying to achieve the effect while keeping the heroine superficially normal to cover it up.)
<lj-cut text="Some bits I bookmarked">- Early on, there's a long paragraph about how Faris (the heroine, a maid) always tries not to rub her eyes too hard because it makes her eyelashes fold up under her lids and scratches her eyes, and her mother used to scold her about it because the pain used to drive her to "tantrums". I jut kind of stared at it in befuddlement. It's like a weird combination of pepper-jack-cheese and princess-and-the-pea.
- The highwayman (who is almost certainly the absent son of her new employer, lbr) speaks with an intentional raspy growl, like Batman. Also, his accent is represented with "ya" and "yar" for "you"/"your". "Ye"/"yer" is so everpresent in fiction that I can't imagine someone either not being aware of it and coming to this on her own or actively deciding that it's better.
- In Faris's new job, she's BFFs with the daughter of the house (of course) and yet Lillias feels so ~unattractive~ next to her, and thinks about how Faris's elflike eyes can see into everyone's souls. It's actually a little bit like Emily Starr there.</lj-cut>
Thinking about doing a chapter-by-chapter readthrough of Fifty Shades of Grey. It fits into that second category, so I find it very very slow going and keep going back to more amusing things.
I've started reading this hilariously bad romantic adventure novel, mainly because a) it was free and b) the summary included the line, "the moon oft casts a hopeful luminescence". Really? Does it oft do that? Anyway, it's the kind of Mary Sue fiction I like - where the heroine is sooo pretty that it's suuuch a problem for her and people are either touched by her sweetness or desperate to exploit her, it's just so OTT and Iddy. (The kind I don't like is when the heroine seems very average but people keep seeing how special she is - it's still OTT and Iddy, but it's just not really my Id, I guess. But the first kind always comes across as someone going, "you know what, I'm just going to do this obvious fantasy and have fun with it and maybe entertain some other people who like this," while the second, and maybe this is unfair of me, comes across like someone who can't quite admit that it's a Mary Sue-type fantasy and is trying to achieve the effect while keeping the heroine superficially normal to cover it up.)
<lj-cut text="Some bits I bookmarked">- Early on, there's a long paragraph about how Faris (the heroine, a maid) always tries not to rub her eyes too hard because it makes her eyelashes fold up under her lids and scratches her eyes, and her mother used to scold her about it because the pain used to drive her to "tantrums". I jut kind of stared at it in befuddlement. It's like a weird combination of pepper-jack-cheese and princess-and-the-pea.
- The highwayman (who is almost certainly the absent son of her new employer, lbr) speaks with an intentional raspy growl, like Batman. Also, his accent is represented with "ya" and "yar" for "you"/"your". "Ye"/"yer" is so everpresent in fiction that I can't imagine someone either not being aware of it and coming to this on her own or actively deciding that it's better.
- In Faris's new job, she's BFFs with the daughter of the house (of course) and yet Lillias feels so ~unattractive~ next to her, and thinks about how Faris's elflike eyes can see into everyone's souls. It's actually a little bit like Emily Starr there.</lj-cut>
Thinking about doing a chapter-by-chapter readthrough of Fifty Shades of Grey. It fits into that second category, so I find it very very slow going and keep going back to more amusing things.