Randomness-- Both On-T and OT

[Alicia/Sue Spinnet]

No: HPFGUIDX 102

Hello!

Kaitlin's not alone.  Starting next Wednesday, the hours previously 
spent cheerily tapping away at the computer will be occupied by 
insubstantial, insipid classes taught by lifeless excuses for 
teachers.  Combine this horror with the time taken up by my 
extracurricular activities (*shrugs* they keep my distaste for the 
apathy of my disillusioned suburbanite life at a minimum), and my HP 
time is drastically reduced.  However, I'll be making an effort to 
post when I can, and certainly checking the messages at least once a 
day!

Incidentally, I'm uncharacteristically nervous about my sophomore 
year.  Chalk it up to being the new Big Fish in the small High School 
Pond-- as the only student in my school who actually has a small bit 
of enthusiasm about their future left, I somehow wound up being a 
starter on the field hockey team, president of the Junior Rotary 
Society, band secretary, head of the AV squad, and assistant editor 
of the newspaper.  I'm still trying to figure it out... WHY did all 
of my friends have to graduate?  They're supposed to do this stuff, 
not me!  *wails and laments*

Yeah, I just got royally OT.  Feel free to flame me.  ^_^

Anyway-- a bit of randomness to drag this post back to a topical 
discussion.

--Casting: The kids are adorable, 'nuff said.  Although Daniel does 
need to get a pair of specs that wouldn't look more appropriate of 
someone three years his junior.

--Fanfic: I seem to recall a statement made by Ebony aka AngieJ a 
while back-- "Looking for fics at ff.n is a bit like being a forty-
niner."  Something along those lines.  Well, I couldn't agree more 
with that statement.  

--About 33% of the fics posted are the efforts of sweet-yet-
overzealous 11-year-olds who are trying their damndest to write 
well.  I can never bring myself to flame even the most awful of these-
- I fully well remember being 11 years old and struggling to write a 
35-page original story on the computer, and no matter how terrible it 
was, everyone always smiled and said that it was cute.  Some of these 
kids could turn out pretty well in a few years.

--A good half of the stories are written by whiny teenagers; this is 
the category into which I fall.  ^_^  Some have SPG mistakes all over 
the place; some are meticulously edited; and still some are written 
in obscene font sizes.  This is the land of the Mary Sues and 
clichés, and tends to be the breeding ground for both raw angst
and acerbically hormonal humor.  (I'm one of the scary people who 
writes the latter.)

--10% are just plain gross-out, indecent carnivals of vulgarity-- 
authors such as FuBaR and... and... well, er, FuBaR.

--And the other (wrinkles her nose as she attempts to add up the 
percentages-- math is her worst subject) 7% (?) are fics such 
as "PoU" and "ASA", which really should be highlighted when they're 
posted so that the titles stand out as much as the writing itself.
    
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--Alicia/Sue "PG-13" Spinnet

"Everybody's doin' the fish, yeah, yeah, yeah." --Reel Big 
Fish, "Trendy"

Last Movie Seen: "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
Discman's Spinning: "Rubber Soul", The Beatles
Current Book: "Angela's Ashes", Frank McCourt
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--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, ReinaKata02 at y... wrote:
> Dear friends,
> As the school year rapidly approaches, I find myself 
hyperventilating 
> at the thought of all the work I have to do <exaggerating slightly>.
> I am afraid that I will have to take a brief sabbatical from this 
> lovely group to get myself in gear.  :(