Today

[quinara]

I've had a really nice day today, for several reasons. It started with snickfic leaving some massively juicy feedback on As Good as a Rest, which I hope she won't mind me linking to over here, as part of the More Feedback Week she's running. I don't know if Snick's up for debate or anything, but I do want to take the opportunity to say that if you ever want to talk to me about thematic stuff in my fic, you can do it any time of ever. I overthink most stuff I write, so I'll always have something to say back!

Otherwise, I spent the day actually reading the text that I'm working on (believe it or not, this rarely happens) trying to make sense of how I was going to talk about it in relation to all the other reading I've been doing, and actually managed to develop some ideas. All preliminary stuff, natch, because we're only halfway through term, but I now have a notebook page with sections and passage references and questions to be answered. This is not the level of achievement I usually expect to perceive!

Also went out for a lovely meal with friends (only slightly scuppered by my high-waisted skirt and remarkably poor digestive system, which for some reason turned a cheesy pizza into enough pain that I felt nauseous for the whole journey home and a little while afterwards, but let's ignore that).

And then I watched this interesting slideshow on the BBC website about the history of British housing. For some reason I'm often drawn to documentaries about housing, so I knew quite a lot of what was covered, but I still thought it was interesting.

So there you go. It's rare that I look back on a day and really think 'well, that was pleasant, wasn't it?', so I thought it deserved a post.

ETA: Although, also, side note, just because it appeared above my post on my DW reading page and I think it's probably my turn to mention it, but - Mark Watches? Are we all agreed he's basically given up anything even vaguely resembling review-writing now? I think I might have to keep reading just to see how the heck he manages to spin this out for another four seasons of material, but, otherwise, yeesh.

Comments

[snickfic]

I don't mind you linking, and I'm totally up for debate/discussion if anyone else wants to chime in. :)

That British housing thingy looks very intesting. I'm going to run over there and check it out.

[quinara]

Hooray! I don't know if anyone will have anything to say, but obviously I would be massively interested in seeing people chat...

Hope you like it! The narrator (who's a fairly familiar personality over here from property programmes) is a bit shaky on mentioning which dates she's talking about, but as a quick overview it's quite fun.

[snickfic]

As for Mark Reads, yeah, I enjoyed his reaction posts at first but I'm finding them basically unreadable now.

[quinara]

It's utterly bizarre; he seems really upset on the characters' behalves, but nonetheless seems to have absolutely no sense of what he's watching as a story with its own momentum, rather than a series of machinations from the writers. I get calling things as OOC, but there has to be a critical mass at some point where you realise that things are just different from how you thought. Also that plot exists.

[snickfic]

seems to have absolutely no sense of what he's watching as a story with its own momentum, rather than a series of machinations from the writers.

Yes.

I haven't done more than skim in a while, so I hadn't noticed him calling things OOC, but it does seem a peculiar complaint if you see the characters as mere puppets on strings anyway.

[quinara]

Well, I may have gone a bit far about him calling things OOC; that was poor shorthand for him complaining about the writers putting characters in situations that break them out of the positions that he likes them in (he's just got to Helpless and complains that David Fury deconstructs the father-daughter relationship between Buffy and Giles by putting him in a position where he has to betray her trust). I dunno. It's all too much about his feelings on Joss Whedon, which I feel is something like a comeuppance for all my ranting about Joss over the years, but I really don't understand how it counts as reviewing the series.

[deird1]

I've started mainly reading the reviews by his commenters. Some of them are really fascinating (and series-spanning, if I have the energy to un-rot13 them all).

[quinara]

Alas, I fear I don't have the energy. :/ They should all get blogs...!

[evilawyer]

It is always such a shame when clothing makes an otherwise nice meal into something uncomfortable.

[quinara]

It seems to be more and more of my clothes that will just rebel every now and then. None of my waistbands are especially tight - I don't even feel them when I sit down - but apparently that's enough to send my intestines haywire.