wtf, mate

[fahye]

What Ashie said. There are no zombies in Australia. Clearly I was they were thwarted by timezones, and the whole girt-by-sea aspect. All unaffected Americans on my flist are most welcome to come and stay with me, if you can get out safely (and learn to fly a plane, but whatever, Bruce Willis does it all the time, right?). Though be warned: anyone showing the least amount of shuffling-and-moaning behaviour will be shot on sight. Uh. With the guns that we don't have. SOMEONE BRING GUNS.

ETA: _leareth has the latest update regarding the refugee situation.

What we do have in Australia, or at least in Canberra, is an 8-degree day with winds sweeping down from the Snowy Mountains to pile wind chill on top of that. And beautifully heated buses/shops/exam rooms, certainly, but after I'd gone from OMG FREEZING to OMG WARM five or so times in the space of an hour, the blood vessels in my head just kind of gave up and are now staging a (very painful) protest.

Owwwwwww.

*takes Panadol*

If anyone needs me, I'll be in bed.

Abnormal psych exam went fine - I finished with 20 minutes to spare, having wandered my way dodgily through the short answer questions (half a page on triggers for specific phobia? seriously? HOW?) and then kicked some serious ass with my essay on the aetiology, features and treatment of Major Depressive Disorder.

Finally: I think I am developing a serious crush on the HCL fandom. The amount of intelligent analysis that these people put into their feedback is awesome. Nothing like a thoughtful five-paragraph reaction to make one want to write more fic for a fandom.

Comments

[miscellanny.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha OMG I am never writing HCL.

That is all.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

WHAT.

*kicks up a screaming fuss*

[miscellanny.livejournal.com]

Dude, I just handed canon over to two of the most analytical and OMGWOW writers I know. I write entirely on instinct and understand nothing and ;sklefh;alskdj;lkgj!!!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Writing entirely on instinct is NOT BAD, do you not realise this? Instinct means you have a feel for the characters. Which you do. And I absolutely do not believe that you could write them as well as you do without SOME SMALL MODICUM OF UNDERSTANDING, so I'm afraid your excuses hold no water with me! My faith in you is too strong for that!

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

SHUT UP AND WRITE, BITCH. YOU OWE ME FIC.

... :D?

[pat-trick.livejournal.com]

be warned that honolulu is not a safe stop over point for getting to australia right now.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Good to know.

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

HCL fandom is awesomely thinky and articulate, aren't they? I love it.

Congrats on finishing your exam, and I hope the headache subsides soon!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

YOU. OMG YOU. With your wonderful wonderful feedback and your bloody phenomenal fic about RHUBARB FIELDS JDKSHDASB both of which I have read and neither of which I have time to respond to right now. Imagine me jumping up and down and wishing like mad I lived in Seattle or v.v. so that we could watch HCL together and then stay up until dawn over-analysing it excitedly.

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

YAY you liked my fic! *glees* I knew I should've finished it before I read yours, because then I was like OMG WHY AM I BOTHERING, but I'm so thrilled that you liked it. And my feedback, too, because it wasn't even close to what I wanted to say, but your writing has a way of leaving me incoherent and flailing.

And: so that we could watch HCL together and then stay up until dawn over-analysing it excitedly. Fahye. FAHYE. It is UNACCEPTABLE that we should not have the opportunity to do this! (And discuss Shakespeare, and pilots, and OT3s of Great Awesomeness, and poetry, and, and... !) I just. THIS WILL HAPPEN SOMEDAY. SOMEHOW. I am DETERMINED.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

You know, it is kind of ridiculous how much we are both entirely convinced that the other person is a MUCH BETTER WRITER.

YES PLEASE. YES. THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME THAT WORDS FAIL ME.

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

HEE. It IS sort of ridiculous, isn't it?

And I am not kidding--I am a bit put out with the universe that it saw fit to put us on OPPOSITE HEMISPHERES, but I am determined to rectify that mistake, even if only for a limited time!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

We're on so much of a common wavelength the rest of the time, you'd think we'd be able to agree on this :D

I am dying to return to America one day, but the Aussie and US university holidays have such little overlap. The best time for ME to travel is January, but everyone's all...busy. Plus, I have a teensy tiny income (dang and blast that inconvenient student lifestyle!) and all of my savings will become my living fund for the next four years, if all goes according to plan. SIGH. I'll keep an eye out for opportunities.

Randomly, I am not going to be able to watch dS now without really wishing CKR would get rid of that Chicago accent *winces*.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Unless it was Jan 01-Jan 10!

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

HEE. You'd think! And yet. You are very smart, but you are wrong about this. *nods*

And yeah, the logistics of this whole different-hemisphere thing are tough. I'd love to get to Australia, too, and my funds are slightly less limited, but my vacation time is more so. Sigh. But I will keep an eye out, too! This will happen somehow!

And awwww. Poor Kowalski. *pets him* You know, I don't even really notice the accent now? But then, his dorktasticness is one of my favorite things about him, and the accent only adds to that, so. :) (You should check out Twitch City when you have some time--it is COMPLETELY cracked out, but it is hilarious, and CKR is hysterically awesome in it.)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Finally: I think I am developing a serious crush on the HCL fandom. The amount of intelligent analysis that these people put into their feedback is awesome. Nothing like a thoughtful five-paragraph reaction to make one want to write more fic for a fandom.

This makes me want to incubate that bunny liek woah. (Says the girl who can never manage more than four lines of feedback).

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Ah, but quality counts! Four lines of insightful feedback beats out eight lines of exclamation marks and hearts and FANTASTIC!! WRITE MORE!!!!. (Which is delightful in its own way, but less fun to respond to.)

Incubate! I find that jotting down whatever prose-bits come to mind and then emailing them to someone helps, because that will generally spur interest/questions/exortations to keep going.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

It keeps changing on me, which is very weird. So far I have the beginning, which is a series of phone calls that didn't actually happen because Billy is still asleep, and then the stuff out in the desert.

This would be so much easier if I'd a) seen the film more than once and b) seen it while sober.

I do agree on the quality front. Although personally I think I like people quoting lines back the best, because then you know *precisely* which bits were stand-out good and which need work.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Sounds interesting! My fic changed itself on me at least five times when I was writing it, but I think considering the dichotomy of inexorable narrative and random footage that makes up the movie itself...that is perfectly acceptable.

Mm, yes. I am always fond of lines being quoted back. Often it surprises me which ones are.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think with HCL as well there's this element of multiple truths (John's babbling about honesty kind of put me onto that), or multiple layers of truth. So in effect every variant of the story being told that comes up is equally valid.

Yeah, it is strange the things that people notice, but nice.

[miscellanny.livejournal.com]

You will soon. On its way, I promise. ;)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

*loffs*