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[ SECRET POST #4417 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4417 ⌋

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What did you recently try that you couldn't stand?

Roasted beets. They just taste like dirt to me, and I so want like them, but...yeah. Taste like dirt.

Roasted dirt!

Might've been an improvement in flavor, tbqh.

I just watched the first 5 episodes of The Rising Shield Hero, the new mega-popular anime.

Man, it sucks. It has a modicum of potential by trying to subvert some of the elements in RPG stories, but its treatment of women is terrible. (Can't believe I just typed that, but seriously.) Super icky.

I've been browsing heaps of scanlations lately, reading lots of obscure isekai, and there's some real hot messes in there. Filtering down to the shojo gets me free of most of the perv-pandering panty shots, but there was one where every second page was "I've been reborn as a fat girl! I'm fat! This is the worst thing ever! Being fat is so disgusting! I'm so fat and disgusting! I'm sweaty and gross and smelly because I'm fat!" and I just had to nope the fuck outta there.

ginger orange yogurt. which didn't taste like ginger or orange.

Siggi's?

yup

Siggi's is awesome, but I can honestly I haven't tried that flavor twice. I don't hate it but it's just... eh? The other flavors are better.

DA
I love Siggi's ginger orange yogurt, but I can see where you're coming from. Tastes kinda odd to say the least.

The Name of the Wind. People LOVE that book. It read like the average stuff people handed in in my college workshops, not awful but in need of some serious restraint.

I read that recently and was also underwhelmed. I really don't get it, unless it's just one of those books that arrived when the planets aligned just right to blow up big.

I suspect it feeds into that "special but misunderstood lonely white dude" demographic that makes up a significant portion of the SF/F readership.

A really bad tapioca pudding. I used to love my mom's growing up. We bought some at the store, but it was really gross.

Watched the first 4 episodes of Titans. I was setting ten to one odds I'd find it bad, and was not surprised. I find it obvious, meandering, often cloying, and over the top, with mediocre acting and some terrible special effects. The fact that it can be a little bit gritty and the characters can swear is just enough of a bright spot to make it feel utterly wasted on a C-grade show.

I read the first 20K or so of a really bland Johnlock fic, in which Sherlock is a young, inexperienced aristocrat aboard a Regency era passenger ship and John is one of the ship's crewmen. I very much wanted it to be good (which is why I stuck around so long, hoping it would improve) but it wasn't good at all. There was almost no characterization to speak of, and very little plot apart from Generic-Love-Interest!John and MarySue!Sherlock falling madly in love and both angsting that they're not good enough for the other. (Which are things I'm totally here for, if there's also a plot and good characterizations, but alas, there was not.)

That's such a bummer. It's so rare for people to have good AU ideas, and actually execute them at the length they deserve, so it's super disappointing when the writing just isn't there.

I've always felt really blessed in the Sherlock fandom, because IMO it's one of the rare fandoms that has a lot of really good AUs. Mostly because it's an incredibly adaptable canon. Pretty much everything that defines the characters is something they can take with them into any number of AUs.

That said, after seven years reading Sherlock fanfic, I definitely feel like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel, and coming up with a lot of the bland, poorly characterized fics people on this comm are always accusing AUs of being.

so it's super disappointing when the writing just isn't there.

There's a fanfic flamingo that says "Summary is everything you ever wanted; writing makes you weep tears of blood." It is very relatable, I think. :P

And honestly, it's kind of worse when the writing is like... competent, but juuuuuuust not good enough.

Because if the writing is obviously incompetent, you can at least close it and move on right away. If the writing is semi-competent but not actually good, you can get sucked in because you want it to be good so much so you read, like, 1/4 of the fic before you finally realize it's actually not good enough and move on.

Or maybe that's just me...

Re: That terrible thing you recently watched/played/read. Tell us about it!

(Anonymous) - 2019-02-08 03:21 (UTC) - Expand

Re: That terrible thing you recently watched/played/read. Tell us about it!

(Anonymous) - 2019-02-08 08:01 (UTC) - Expand

That's a shame. AUs often disappoint me this way, though...great idea /setting, but it's only superficial.

I feel like I'm lucky to have read quite a lot of really wonderful AUs. But lately, yeah, I've definitely been finding an abundance of AUs where the writer seems to have just wanted to write original fiction, with the names of their faves attached for, like, emotional motivation or something?

Rampage on Netflix. It probably gets more action-y and I just need to skip some bits but I just wanted action and I'm bored.

What part did you stop at. The scene with the wolfbat in the woods was probably the only redeeming thing to me.

People were talking movie science and I tuned out.

Because for some reason it kept popping (ha) up everywhere, I took a short look at "Dr. Pimple Popper" because my morbid curiosity made me do it. I suffer from acne myself and, mean as it sounds, sometimes looking at people who got it worse than I can be cathartic. Not in this case though. It made me physically sick just to look at the preview images.

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