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The Good:

-Paid several bills, had some money left over and bought myself a red Nintendo DS
-At same time, bought The World Ends With You, have great love for Joshua, but have not fished game because...
-Picked up first Phoenix Wright game, used. ... Not enough keyboard smash in the world for how much I love Edgeworth. Would hit Edgeworth so hard he'd see stars, if not for the fact that I'm sure Phoenix beat me to it.
-Purchased next two PW games in short order, am halfway through third game ( OMFG YOUNG!EDGEWORTH IS SEX ON A STICK AND HIS SPRITE WINKS AT TIMES AND IT IS THE GREATEST THING EVER AND I THINK I COULD SHIP MIA/EDGEWORTH JUST A TINY BIT (though I admit that I can shake up pairings like whoa in this, and I've already been persuing the epic kink meme with an eye toward several prompts))
-Havemercy by Jaida Jones (ladyjaida) and Danielle Bennett (whose LJ name I sadly don't know offhand) Read this book in almost one sitting, sadly heavy eyes defeated me at 4am and I had to finish the next day. Want a Balfour of my own, Hal and Royston are *adorable* beyond words and I can't help but think Rook/Thom would be awesome to a level somewhat more than epic.
-Salty Dog V comes out next week and I already have it preordered from Amazon Japan. Along with Saiyuki Reload 9 and Saiyuki Gaiden 3 (Finally!).
-Have idea and beginning for my saltydogstories fic. Haven't written this fandom before. Hope I can pull it off.
-Rough dates have been set for launching the project I'm working on with cloverflynn. I find this ridiculously exciting.

The Bad:

-Work, as I can only stand two of my immediate coworkers lately. Those two coworkers are the ones I work with least, also. It's improving, a little bit, but I still leave for most shifts with a feeling of dread.
-My car desperately needs to be inspected, especially as I need to drive it a pretty long way next week.

The Ugly:
-Speaking of next week, in with the Salty Dog V thing, is the fact that Minekura-sensei will be doing a signing for the release. This is ugly because I don't live in Japan, cannot go under any circumstances at all, and quite nearly burst into tears each time I think about it. This level of obsession is probably unhealthy.
-Due to copyright violation issues, Nitta Youka-sensei is not attending Y-Con as guest of honor this year. In her place is Yamato Nase-sensei, the author of what is probably my second favorite BL series. I had come to grips with the fact that I couldn't go this year, and now I look at Yamato-sensei's imported books on my shelves and wonder if I could maybe hitchhike across the country and sleep under a bush outside the hotel. ;-;
-Edited to add Eroica fandom to the list of the ugly. Bad form, guys. Seriously. Nobody appreciates a Sue, I know. Nobody loves OOC fanfiction, also a given. Wanna know what I was writing when I was first into fandom as a teenager? Crazy OOC fic with author inserts. Not author inserts disguised as Sues, oh no, actual author inserts. Okay, it was one time, and it was a parody. Still, the OOC was strong in this one. It was shitty fic, no two ways about it.

So, yeah, I watch a particular sporking community (at least, I think I still do) and I laugh hysterically at badfic (though I continue reading it, like a trainwreck situation) but, I don't actually mock the author to their face. There's a thing called tact, and I try and employ it sometimes. There's a particularly horrible fic that I was reading a while back, which is so OOC and terrible that I couldn't help but boggle over it, and I desperately wanted to spork it (my Snape!muse at the time thought burning it was a better solution, really), but though I mentioned things privately about this story to a few friends, I never once publicly denounced it as the crap I think it is. I've written crap, and a lot of it, and thankfully during those experiences I got lucky enough to have people gently nudge me away from writing crap and give me tips to get better. Had I ever seen someone rip apart one of my stories like I saw in castlegloria tonight, including the personal insults... Well, I sure as hell wouldn't be writing now. (Note, that while I watch a sporking community, this is also the reason I hate trolls that link authors to the sporks of their stories. Sometimes you've got to blow off steam by mocking a particularly offensive story, but don't rip the author apart while doing so, geez.)

I dunno. It's just... It's fanfiction, kiddies. Is it really such a big deal if someone is writing something you don't agree with? Hell, in this particular case I laugh even harder. All these Klaus/Dorian shippers are freaking out (to paraphrase: Dorian loves Klaus, he'd never set him up with a *woman* OMGWTFBBQ!!) and y'know what... They write Klaus/Dorian... Klaus is the biggest homophobe I've ever seen, and to be honest (though I've written it myself), I think Klaus/Dorian is so wildly OOC for Klaus that a fic where Klaus hooks up with Dorian might as well be classified a Stu. Honestly, I'll almost be disappointed if it ends up Eroica canon without something pretty huge to change Klaus' worldview. Even then, I'll have a hard time buying it. Having met several homephobes myself, I can say it's not the easiest thing in the world to change them.

Don't get me wrong, I love the pairing and their chemistry is amazing. Most of the fic for this fandom is great. However, it isn't canon or perfectly IC any more than this was. And to see a bunch of older fans (as far as I recall, most of the Eroicafen seem to be older than the typical circles, though I'm sure this doesn't apply to all of them) ripping apart a 16-year-old like this? It's disappointing, to say the least. :/

Boy, was that scattered... But, it's 3:30 in the morning and I felt the need to vent on the topic. Ah well.

ETA (again): I forgot. I was going to also say that if there's anyone out there who can point at any writer, fan or professional, and prove that writer has never written a bit of crap ever, I'd give them

a million dollars

,

my firstborn son

,

the internets

, a virtual cookie. I still write crap all the time, and I've been playing around in this writing stuff for almost as many years... On second thought, at least as many years as the girl mentioned above has been alive. Yikes.

... Boy, does this make my life look shallow. XD