How do I sum up this week?

[cornerofmadness]

"Goodnight Demonslayer (Angel/Connor)" (Watch on YouTube)

(and much of the footage from this is from Angel and Bones

or

"Goodnight Demonslayer (Angel/Connor)" (Watch on YouTube)

check this out. Beautiful Book stores keep these in mind every time you give Amazon another dollar (and more and more their policies and greed are turning me off, no joke. They're making me sad)

Speaking of making me sad, as predicted the bamboo garden is already gone. WAAAH! It had such good sushi. I was just there last week. sobs.

My friend is going to see Lady Antebellum. I'm not. This also makes me sad.

I couldn't even exercise today. the stretching alone sent me over 300 and my dr's appt isn't next week, it's the week after. Well I'll have more info for him.

I wrote a blog post I'm pretty happy with. check it out here. I'm thinking about the craft and all.

Ego boost - two different someones have found my FFN stories and between them have favorited over 100 of them in the last 3 days.


Does anyone want to take a stab at helping evil_little_dog editing my FMA big bang. We're both trying to write and edit the damn things (she's succeeded far better than I)

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I want to go to almost all of those bookstores. Or open one. Especially the one with that amazing staircase.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

aren't they just amazing

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

They are, really, really.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Love that first video. He really is a dork.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

he is.

[sp23.livejournal.com]

That photo of the one bookstore in Paris actually looks a lot like a used bookstore here, the Paradox. It's cramped and crowded and books are strewn everywhere. I haven't been there in years, but I used to love going there.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

wow. Maybe I'll have to road trip there next time I'm back home. that sounds amazing.

[sp23.livejournal.com]

It's really tiny, but it's amazing how many books he has piled around. LOL

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

we have one like this columbus, inside an old white church. unfortunately sometimes the mildew smell drives me out

[bay115.livejournal.com]

All of the bookstores mentioned look lovely. I probably should go check the one out in LA eventually (don't live too far from there, but the drive will freaking suck due to traffic, haha).

I would like to help out with editing your Big Bang, but am scrambling to edit my own Big Bang and also need to edit/write my help_japan fic. D: If no one else offered though I'll see about making some time to look it over.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that would be cool. Is it safe to take public transit there?

Don't worry about it. I k now you're busy. I'd rather leave you free to do that chapter you have of mine from the original fiction

[bay115.livejournal.com]

I can be able to take a train and then perhaps the bus there too. I'll have to plan accordingly if I decide to take public transit.

Ack, sorry for not looking over your original fiction yet. At this rate I probably won't until after Big Bang. -_- If you do need it soon though don't hesitate to kick me in the butt, LOL.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

there are many reasons I don't like taking public transit all the planning is one (and well it doesn't EXIST here)

no, there's NO rush. I haven't touched it in months

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

The bookstore in Portugal with the double stairway is my favorite. It is my Platonic ideal of a bookstore and I want to marry it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hahaha good luck with that

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

I love that bookstore link (consider it stolen hehe), and clicks for you :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. steal away

[alasse-mirimiel.livejournal.com]

What wonderful bookstores!! O.O I love the one in Taipei, the one in Paris, the one in Mexico, the neo-gothic one is just amazing and so is the Dominican church. El Ateneo too, I loved it when I went there, but I didn't realise it was so big!

I liked the post about fantasy. I particularly agree with: "In our world, we know that there often aren’t nice tidy happy endings and as an escape mechanism, taking these terrible ideas of war, Diaspora and suffering and giving them the ending of peace and hope that most of us wish for, fantasy serves us well."

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

aren't they amazing? How jealous am I that you got to see El Ateneo (though I hadn't looked before this to see where you lived)

thanks. I'm glad you liked the fantasy post.

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Those bookstores are amazing -- I wish some of the designers and architects who did those would do some libraries. A lot of the ones designing libraries these days are so UNcreative, and don't have much appreciation for what readers truly want, need, and enjoy (much less what library STAFF want, need, and enjoy!)

I really liked your post, and agree wholeheartedly. One of the things that bothers me about a lot of fanfiction is that to much of it starts to sound formulaic after a while - too much is about convention rather than creation. One of the things I try to do (not that I always succeed) is not follow all those conventions, and think outside of the box, instead. I definitely would not see lack of exposure to a medium as a handicap, if one has an idea and the gift to develop it. Every convention developed as a new thing at some point because someone had an original idea that did NOT come from a convention, and dared to develop it, to go in a different and original direction.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they are and yes most librarians tend to be very utilitarian and dull

thanks. And yes fanfic can start sounding formulaic. I worry about that often.

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

It's not the librarians I am complaining about, it's the ones designing the libraries. The last building I worked in had to have been built by someone who had never been in a public library - it had so many stupid design flaws (like put the reference section, where people want to work and study quietly, in a big loft right up over the children's area!Brilliant!)

FWIW, I have never counted your fanfics among the ones I find formulaic. Actually the ones here on LJ are far less guilty of that in general than the ones over on ff.net, all in all. But I watch myself for it, there are a lot of pitfalls that are easy to slip into, and I do, too often.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sorry that should have been LIBRARY not librarians. I knew what you mean.

it is very easy to fall into formula