Subject: Mine has a knob on the end; does yours?
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Posted on: 2014-02-03 19:43:00 UTC

(I'm lying. I don't actually own a walking stick. But I used to, and it did: a big greenish metallic marble.)

But yeah, there's that, too. Most things don't make me angry anymore, and if they do, I don't even necessarily want to deal with them, because being angry is no fun. I actually had a problem for the longest time where I was afraid to PPC in LotR, both for that reason and because I wasn't sure I could do it justice, not having done all the background reading like it seemed everyone else here had. ^_^;

Anyway, I tend to look for things that make me laugh at the ridiculousness. Most of "Ring Child" and "Blood Raining Night" fall into this category (except where they overstep right into disturbing and/or offensive). It's the specific word choices or faults in the logic that make funny mistakes happen, though, not the broad flaws. It's not just that Aragorn, Elrond, and Gandalf are OOC; it's that these wise and noble heroes are all cooing over some doe-eyed childthing and dandling it on their knees like little old ladies. It's not just that there are SPaG problems; it's that putting an h in the word "sitting" makes another real word that has the same function in the sentence, but an entirely different outcome. I require absurd mental images in my sporking material. (It may be telling that the only fic I claim scarred me for life was due to gross and persistent misuse of the word "as" rather than any content issues. It still hurts my brain.)

Also, anything I choose to spork has to make a good story for my characters. If it's not going to push their particular buttons, there's no point in writing about it, because it will be boring.

~Neshomeh

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