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Post by KarotsaMused on Aug 10, 2004 14:28:07 GMT -5
What in the -world- does the tagline under your name mean? Acronyms confuse me! Oh, and I like the quote at the end of each of your posts, too. Major shibbies
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Post by kanshu on Aug 10, 2004 15:00:25 GMT -5
Oh, that's fairly simple, if you know that I love to write angsty fics, hurt/comfort and drama... LSL = lass sie leiden (let them suffer) LHS = let him/her suffer LTS = let them suffer It's the war cry of any decent h/c and angst author. The quote is one of my mottos for life. It's from a filk song for the movie 'Ladyhawk'. Filk is basically a sung fanfic, a song made by fans. Here's another one for you: "Usually, what one wants and what one needs to become the person they are meant to be are two different things. Life will provide you with what you need, when you need it. All you have to do is open your eyes and accept it. But when you insist on wanting something different then what you need, life will kick you in the butt until you get the hint. And life wears heavy boots." ;D Lee
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Post by KarotsaMused on Aug 10, 2004 17:58:11 GMT -5
I... LOVE ...that quote. Whoa. Very reminiscent of Terry Pratchett. Nice acronyms, now that I understand them. See, me being wired the way I am, when I saw "LHS" I immediately thought "L'Hssein" because... well, LHS together in a row. And if you don't know who L'Hssein is, you might not want to know (unless you feel like getting embroiled in quite a gigantic gush of fangirl talk from me...and I've heard I can get quite verbose...). ANYWAY. Thanks for clearing that up - if ever I hear such a warcry coming in my general direction, I'm breaking into a sprint to get away! Because I feel like playing the quote reciprocation game and I've already mentioned Pratchett earlier on in this post, here's one that may not change your life, but it'll sure give you the giggles: "It killed old Vincent the Ripper," said Boy Willie. "He choked to death on a concubine." There was no sound but the hiss of snow in the fire and a number of people thinking fast. "I think you mean cucumber," said the bard. "That's right, cucumber," said Boy Willie. "I've never been good at them long words." "Very important difference in a salad situation," said Cohen. (Quoted from Terry Pratchett's "The Last Hero") ...Yet another point to my argument as to how those who speak English should know what they're talking about
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Post by kanshu on Aug 11, 2004 5:22:32 GMT -5
Glad you liked the quote. Part of it is something a friend of mine once said. The rest is pitiful life experience. Not to say that maybe someone else summed it up like that before, of course. So, you don't like it when the guys are suffering? Language mix-up... yes, I know that so well. Nothing better than mixed up vocabulary. And not just when you get a character stuck in the dessert.
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Post by KarotsaMused on Aug 11, 2004 11:52:41 GMT -5
Oh, no, I don't mind character abuse at -all- It's me I worry about. ;D I laughed aloud at the 'character stuck in the dessert' line - I have read that so many times, and every time I get this mental image of an irate Sanzo dipped to the waist in a gigantic vat of chocolate mousse. After a few moments of catatonic drowsing, I then giggle at the typo and move on I do so love vocabulary mix-ups, especially when people forget apostrophes for the specific homonym they want. Your, You're. Their, There, They're. Et cetera. Heck, after all, that's how Goku got his pet Cute. ;D
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Post by kanshu on Aug 11, 2004 13:37:14 GMT -5
Well, I guess that some of your readers will let out that cry after youdish them a cliff-hanger. Mhm... I really will have to draw that pic now. I can't stop grinning, and how can I write serious Sanzo-angst, when I see him 'stuck in the dessert' before my mental eye? BTW, wouldn't that be something for the Breakroom? Have the guys return, covered in dessert? Though, Goku would probably be happy...
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Post by Me-Nuriko on Aug 11, 2004 14:58:31 GMT -5
;D I haven't really got anything to say here, except that I just picked myself up from the floor where I was rolling laughing at the image of Sanzo in Chocolate Mousse. OMG. Stuck in the dessert... By the way, I know I'm guilty of all kinds of typos. It's so easy to let your fingers drive by themselves, writing how you hear the word inside you, instead of how it should be spelled. (or 'righting how you here the world...')
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Post by kanshu on Aug 11, 2004 15:29:36 GMT -5
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Post by KarotsaMused on Aug 11, 2004 15:29:45 GMT -5
;D ;D I do love this message board! It's given me two ideas already!
Yeah, the mental image of Sanzo in chocolate mousse, while appetizing, would probably be quite dangerous to carry out without some form of restraints on said monk. If I continue on that mental path, however, I'll never get any work done!
As for typos, I often see quite understandable ones in large blocks of text that ... are actually words, but not the correct ones for that particular sentence (See: Cucumber vs Concubine) And, you know, those are normally okay because at least the author ran SPELLCHECK. It's when you get these strange and unnatural jumblings of letters that bothers me. Like, "See you tommarow." <- the little red squiggly line on your Word document means something! No lie!
Oh, and as for cliffhangers, I'm afraid to dish them out not only for violence perpetrated against me, but I once had someone attempt to strangle my fiction. I'm not quite sure how this is humanly possible...but I'm still afraid!
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Post by kanshu on Aug 11, 2004 23:26:30 GMT -5
Ow, being restrained and in the dessert is too much. I rather just take his gun away. And the Sutra. Besides, I still have to see him levitating yet. I know he's fast, but I don't think he has caught up with all the things he's supposed to know. Yes, as long as spell checkers are used, it makes things a bit more readable. Unless one's spellchecker insists on 'shave Gojyo'
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Post by KarotsaMused on Aug 12, 2004 12:03:09 GMT -5
I hadn't seen that sketch before. My only plausible response is: XD ... and guhbibble. Wonder who's on the end of that spoon? Lmao @ 'shave Gojyo' ... because you know my spellcheck likes replacing Gojyo with 'goodie'... That in and of itself is pretty funny, but then one's got to wonder why spellchecks insist upon having shaved goodies. And after that, -everything- goes downhill. I'm not even going to come -near- the idea of Sanzo levitating...o.O;
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Post by kanshu on Aug 12, 2004 12:55:27 GMT -5
Hehehe... you know, the shaved goodies started an idea that now smoothly bubbles under the surface. I might even write that story. Maybe. You know, the levitation fun stuff set aside, but Sanzo really needs to do a lot of catching up if he wants to wn the final battle. Ever after the Kami arc, and knowing who trained that Sanzo-kid... It makes me fear the worst for when Sanzo and gang will have to face Bad Guy. I know from the manga and the anime that Sanzo by now has a pretty good idea who he's up against. I know it bothers him, because he' having more frequent nightmares about his past, and the Bad Guy is clawing into old wounds with delight. I do fear the worst for the final chapters of Saiyuki...
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Post by Me-Nuriko on Aug 12, 2004 14:06:01 GMT -5
Personally I have no problems with 'shaved goodies' . Sounds right, too me. Sha Gojyo - shaved goodie, yeah, that's not much difference, right? Final chapter of Saiyuki: Well, Gyumaoh is never being resurrected, Kougaiji-tachi becomes friends with Sanzo-ikkou, Hakkai and Gojyo marry each other, they make it a double wedding with Sanzo and Goku... Happily ever after! Right? Eh...
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Post by kanshu on Aug 12, 2004 15:38:15 GMT -5
*eye twitches Sanzo style* Yeah. Right. *steals Sanzo's paper fan and smacks Me-Nuriko over the head* ;D You know what would be the fun thing? If Kougaiji would become Sanzo and keeper of the Seiten sutra. I think, our dear Genjo Sanzo would go ballistic.
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Post by KarotsaMused on Aug 12, 2004 17:09:03 GMT -5
As for Me-Nuriko's suggestion: *twitch* I've read far too many Gundam Wing fictions like that...*twitch*
As for OptiMoose: ...That's a mental image that will -haunt- me for a very, very long time. Sanzo would have a cow. *laaaaaughs*
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