Any of you who have been on this site more than once will notice that Font has now been removed. I apologise if this is annoying/a shock to anyone who enjoyed reading it, but I've been thinking a lot about it and I decided to take it down. I'll explain why:
1) I cannot produce anything of any quality within the timeframes I'd given myself. An entry is be written, edited and posted within a week. I didn't get any chance to edit the work properly, or to think about the situations and the actual writing. Several times I've put up entries which were mostly filler, or terrible.
2) The format of the webnovel means that I have to leave out so much backplot, character development and exposition, and that further ruins the writing.
3) I really love the characters, and the world, of Font and I feel like I'm cheapening the ideas and the plot by writing so badly about them.
I think that this is a bit of a long shot, but if anyone is unhappy about this then please drop me a line. Who knows, I may be convinced, but for the time being Font is down.
On a more positive note, I feel like I'll be able to actually do some writing soon! I'll probably end up posting up another novel in the next week or more.
Sunday 23 September 2007
Tuesday 28 August 2007
Blocked
I am currently suffering from what I like to think of as 'Writer's starting block'.
It is really hard for me to start writing something new at the moment; I just don't have the impetus to work at anything new. It hasn't helped that the site went down on Sunday and I've been stressing about that, but it isn't just this.
I've been quite deflated since I sent ADM off to agents, and I've found it really hard to start a new project. I've had ideas, and I'm still coming up with random little plots and worlds, but they just kick about in my head or end up in my working diary.
I had finally gotten myself worked up to start writing a new short story on Sunday, but with the mess of the site I just didn't end up doing anything.
Font is easy, as that's an ongoing project, but I can't even get the drive to edit some of the half-done short stories which are laying languid in my hard drive.
I guess I'm just quite useless whilst I wait forrejections replies from agents... which is annoying.
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It is really hard for me to start writing something new at the moment; I just don't have the impetus to work at anything new. It hasn't helped that the site went down on Sunday and I've been stressing about that, but it isn't just this.
I've been quite deflated since I sent ADM off to agents, and I've found it really hard to start a new project. I've had ideas, and I'm still coming up with random little plots and worlds, but they just kick about in my head or end up in my working diary.
I had finally gotten myself worked up to start writing a new short story on Sunday, but with the mess of the site I just didn't end up doing anything.
Font is easy, as that's an ongoing project, but I can't even get the drive to edit some of the half-done short stories which are laying languid in my hard drive.
I guess I'm just quite useless whilst I wait for
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Friday 17 August 2007
Random thoughts
Do you know what's sad? That we have mapped the entire globe, and that no-one will ever have the profession 'Explorer' again; it can only be "Aquatic Explorer", or "Space Explorer".
This also has an impact upon fiction; writers from before we mapped the earth could create tension and impart terror by speaking of far off and terrible places/landmarks which the reader could not, with absolute certainty, disprove the existence of. Now, people would just have to look on Google Earth.
There is always the mystery of the ocean depths, and so I'm holding out hope that R'lyeh will rise at some point. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu f'tagn!
Something else that's sad is the way in which media has brainwashed my generation; I've grown up to expect that, if your life is dull or not perfect, something interesting, cool and amazing will always happen to make everything better.
How's this been imparted onto us? I'll explain my logic;
Almost every movie, kids show and book involves someone with an imperfect life as the main character.
It is rare to see, especially in media which people below 18 are likely to see, someone who does have an imperfect life in a noble light.
Everyone views themselves as the main character in Life.
Thusly, my generation expect that they will be famous, rich or have amazing lives. Why do you think people jump at the chance to get on Big Brother, or why so many young women want to become Glamour models? Why are there so many people who write things online and expect to become J.K. Rowling? (Please ignore the irony of this statement)
I am entirely guilty of it; I expectantly hope that everyone will come to this site and be enamoured with my writing and return constantly; spreading the word to their friends as they do. I also hope to be snapped up by an agent, and then by a publisher, and get a massive advance.
I'm only glad that I can say that it is a mere hope; I know that if I am going to be able to make a living from writing then it will be a long process, and that I am likely to get rejected several times before I get an agent. But, there are people who don't have my cynicism/self-deprecation...
Finally, it's sad that I'm going to be alone for the weekend. I miss you, my love.
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This also has an impact upon fiction; writers from before we mapped the earth could create tension and impart terror by speaking of far off and terrible places/landmarks which the reader could not, with absolute certainty, disprove the existence of. Now, people would just have to look on Google Earth.
There is always the mystery of the ocean depths, and so I'm holding out hope that R'lyeh will rise at some point. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu f'tagn!
Something else that's sad is the way in which media has brainwashed my generation; I've grown up to expect that, if your life is dull or not perfect, something interesting, cool and amazing will always happen to make everything better.
How's this been imparted onto us? I'll explain my logic;
Almost every movie, kids show and book involves someone with an imperfect life as the main character.
It is rare to see, especially in media which people below 18 are likely to see, someone who does have an imperfect life in a noble light.
Everyone views themselves as the main character in Life.
Thusly, my generation expect that they will be famous, rich or have amazing lives. Why do you think people jump at the chance to get on Big Brother, or why so many young women want to become Glamour models? Why are there so many people who write things online and expect to become J.K. Rowling? (Please ignore the irony of this statement)
I am entirely guilty of it; I expectantly hope that everyone will come to this site and be enamoured with my writing and return constantly; spreading the word to their friends as they do. I also hope to be snapped up by an agent, and then by a publisher, and get a massive advance.
I'm only glad that I can say that it is a mere hope; I know that if I am going to be able to make a living from writing then it will be a long process, and that I am likely to get rejected several times before I get an agent. But, there are people who don't have my cynicism/self-deprecation...
Finally, it's sad that I'm going to be alone for the weekend. I miss you, my love.
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Monday 6 August 2007
Plot hooks, lines and stinkers
What happened to sense in modern media production?
Think about it; how many times have you shouted at a TV programme/film/video game because the characters, world or actors do something that just isn't right. It's not sensible or intelligent, or people do something entirely out of character, and it's all just to fit in with some stupid plot.
Or, what's even worse, the writers just don't know what to do in the situation they've written themselves into, or what do with the character because they have developed so much, and so they massively reduce character's charisma, intelligence or powers in order to finish the story. Badly.
(X-men 3 spoiler, if you've not seen it)
Witness Magneto in X3; for that long combat scene where he moves the bridge onto that remote island he pointlessly sacrifices most of his mutant army for no good reason, especially considering that he could have simply bombarded the installation from a height of 100 feet with cars until all of the guards were dead. Hell, he could have dropped the damn bridge onto the building and killed the boy.
(end of X-men 3 spoiler)
There are other many other occasions where this kind of thing happens; physics is constantly abused by action and sci-fi movies, or villains will just die stupidly or suddenly, or when main/important characters just don't turn up until it's cinematic (i.e. a bad point for all of those people he was fighting with, as they will have been beaten badly by this point), for no good reason. The list just goes on.
What's the point of this rant? Well, it's mostly so that, if I ever write something that people think lacks basic sense, they have something to point out to me to make me think twice.
So, future Sean, heed your words!
Think about it; how many times have you shouted at a TV programme/film/video game because the characters, world or actors do something that just isn't right. It's not sensible or intelligent, or people do something entirely out of character, and it's all just to fit in with some stupid plot.
Or, what's even worse, the writers just don't know what to do in the situation they've written themselves into, or what do with the character because they have developed so much, and so they massively reduce character's charisma, intelligence or powers in order to finish the story. Badly.
(X-men 3 spoiler, if you've not seen it)
Witness Magneto in X3; for that long combat scene where he moves the bridge onto that remote island he pointlessly sacrifices most of his mutant army for no good reason, especially considering that he could have simply bombarded the installation from a height of 100 feet with cars until all of the guards were dead. Hell, he could have dropped the damn bridge onto the building and killed the boy.
(end of X-men 3 spoiler)
There are other many other occasions where this kind of thing happens; physics is constantly abused by action and sci-fi movies, or villains will just die stupidly or suddenly, or when main/important characters just don't turn up until it's cinematic (i.e. a bad point for all of those people he was fighting with, as they will have been beaten badly by this point), for no good reason. The list just goes on.
What's the point of this rant? Well, it's mostly so that, if I ever write something that people think lacks basic sense, they have something to point out to me to make me think twice.
So, future Sean, heed your words!
Sunday 29 July 2007
Grammars are existing for a reason's
My name is Sean, and I am a Grammar Knight. I hope that the title of this post burns you as much as it does me, but I need to break some of you out there.
Why? Why must I hurt you with my woeful grammar? Well, because everyone else does!
It's thrown into our faces by rappers, morons and people who just don't use their brains! Not that some people aren't all three.
The popularising of incorrect English started with poets, unfortunately. They often decided that they weren't going to let the basic structures and rules of our language get in the way of their damn couplets. I can kind of forgive people who use slang in order to rhyme (The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft agley and all), but just butchering sentences, doing the language equivalent of forcing a round peg into a square hole, is wrong.
And from there it's gone on to rappers. Even Timbaland, bless him, has released a song called "The way I are", and even typing that hurts.
We mustn't forget the plight of the poor apostrophe, who is constantly misplaced or missed whenever a word is possessive or multiple (my girlfriend, whenever she sees a sign that says CD's, always rightfully asks "The CD's what? What belongs to the CD?").
Now, I understand that sometimes grammar can be difficult. I myself haemorrhage commas sometimes when I write, and I also thought that its should be written as its', but it is EASY to just look up the rules of grammar! There are hundreds of websites that explain them all!
I think the main problem is the way that we communicate nowadays. We post on forums, email and send IMs or texts more than we talk, and nobody (apart from a few Grammar Knights like me) ever picks up on the abominable language that people use.
We just accepted people who are write like this!
Or we let ppl get away w/just writing like they dnt ave ne 3 time.
Linked to this lack of grammar is the culture of 'Business Speech' which a lot of large organizations foster; it is common practice to make your letters as simple as possible, so that even a concussed five year old could understand what is being said. I HATE this; I feel insulted whenever I get a letter that has been simplified to a mush palatable to morons, and I can't stand writing such letters either. The point is that if we treat people like idiots then they are going to ACT like idiots!
ARGH!!!
So please, people of the world, do not accept poor grammar in any of its forms. If you see anything that displays a less than cursory knowledge of how our language should be used, then please point it out. Please let it be known that it is not good enough.
My hope is that we can try and raise the bar for our language, and teach children that they should use English correctly.
Victus nil abutor!
Why? Why must I hurt you with my woeful grammar? Well, because everyone else does!
It's thrown into our faces by rappers, morons and people who just don't use their brains! Not that some people aren't all three.
The popularising of incorrect English started with poets, unfortunately. They often decided that they weren't going to let the basic structures and rules of our language get in the way of their damn couplets. I can kind of forgive people who use slang in order to rhyme (The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft agley and all), but just butchering sentences, doing the language equivalent of forcing a round peg into a square hole, is wrong.
And from there it's gone on to rappers. Even Timbaland, bless him, has released a song called "The way I are", and even typing that hurts.
We mustn't forget the plight of the poor apostrophe, who is constantly misplaced or missed whenever a word is possessive or multiple (my girlfriend, whenever she sees a sign that says CD's, always rightfully asks "The CD's what? What belongs to the CD?").
Now, I understand that sometimes grammar can be difficult. I myself haemorrhage commas sometimes when I write, and I also thought that its should be written as its', but it is EASY to just look up the rules of grammar! There are hundreds of websites that explain them all!
I think the main problem is the way that we communicate nowadays. We post on forums, email and send IMs or texts more than we talk, and nobody (apart from a few Grammar Knights like me) ever picks up on the abominable language that people use.
We just accepted people who are write like this!
Or we let ppl get away w/just writing like they dnt ave ne 3 time.
Linked to this lack of grammar is the culture of 'Business Speech' which a lot of large organizations foster; it is common practice to make your letters as simple as possible, so that even a concussed five year old could understand what is being said. I HATE this; I feel insulted whenever I get a letter that has been simplified to a mush palatable to morons, and I can't stand writing such letters either. The point is that if we treat people like idiots then they are going to ACT like idiots!
ARGH!!!
So please, people of the world, do not accept poor grammar in any of its forms. If you see anything that displays a less than cursory knowledge of how our language should be used, then please point it out. Please let it be known that it is not good enough.
My hope is that we can try and raise the bar for our language, and teach children that they should use English correctly.
Victus nil abutor!
Sunday 22 July 2007
Sunday 15 July 2007
Potter the grand scheme of things
The hype around Harry Potter, to me, is more interesting than the books ever were. I've tried reading the first one, and just didn't like they style, world or the characters, but that doesn't mean I don't admire and respect JK Rowling for the media/public frenzy that the last book in her series has whipped up.
Again there will be thousands of people out at midnight in order to have the book the instant that it comes out, and they will go home and lock themselves away to finish a story that they love before it can be spoiled for them by the internet/idiots (though I do think that there will be some bastard who will go to one of these events, turn to the back page and shout out what happens, but they will have a very short-lived notoriety).
I love that Ms (or Mrs?) Rowling is keeping reading alive for the younger generations, and training the geeks of tomorrow. Granted they will be dressing up as Dumbledore instead of Obi-Wan, and wanting to be with Hermione rather than Leia, but they will be proper, honest-to-God geeks and this makes me happy.
I almost, and this is a seriously big-headed/over-ambitious way of thinking, believe that she is helping train people who will (hopefully. I feel that I need to inject some realism into this statement) be my readers to appreciate the finer points of Geekery and light obsession.
I do salute JK Rowling, I really do. I just don't like her actual books.
Talking about vague career dreams, I feel like I'm getting to the point where I can start trying to get published; I've almost had ADM fully read by another person, and they have loved it so far which is giving me such a confidence boost. All I need is for them to finish and to have a decent discussion with them about what they thought, liked and didn't like, and then make some changes, and I'll be happy to get an agent and enter the world of novels.
It's very... bizarre. It's terrifying, and awesome, and thrilling, to think about actually being published. I bought a book which has a list of agents/publishers, which also explained a lot about the industry, and it has helped me put my potential new career in the cold light of day. I know I won't be getting a major advance, or earning enough to quit my day job, or being published within a few months of trying. My idiotic, naive ideas of instant grandeur have been destroyed.
And yet, I'm excited. I guess I really was born to be a writer, which is a highly bizarre thing to realise. The foreword to the book was all about being a writer, and it felt like the author there had reached into my head and explained to me exactly what I felt about writing. It was exhilarating and breathtaking to feel that.
I'm rambling, and so I shall stop..... now.
Again there will be thousands of people out at midnight in order to have the book the instant that it comes out, and they will go home and lock themselves away to finish a story that they love before it can be spoiled for them by the internet/idiots (though I do think that there will be some bastard who will go to one of these events, turn to the back page and shout out what happens, but they will have a very short-lived notoriety).
I love that Ms (or Mrs?) Rowling is keeping reading alive for the younger generations, and training the geeks of tomorrow. Granted they will be dressing up as Dumbledore instead of Obi-Wan, and wanting to be with Hermione rather than Leia, but they will be proper, honest-to-God geeks and this makes me happy.
I almost, and this is a seriously big-headed/over-ambitious way of thinking, believe that she is helping train people who will (hopefully. I feel that I need to inject some realism into this statement) be my readers to appreciate the finer points of Geekery and light obsession.
I do salute JK Rowling, I really do. I just don't like her actual books.
Talking about vague career dreams, I feel like I'm getting to the point where I can start trying to get published; I've almost had ADM fully read by another person, and they have loved it so far which is giving me such a confidence boost. All I need is for them to finish and to have a decent discussion with them about what they thought, liked and didn't like, and then make some changes, and I'll be happy to get an agent and enter the world of novels.
It's very... bizarre. It's terrifying, and awesome, and thrilling, to think about actually being published. I bought a book which has a list of agents/publishers, which also explained a lot about the industry, and it has helped me put my potential new career in the cold light of day. I know I won't be getting a major advance, or earning enough to quit my day job, or being published within a few months of trying. My idiotic, naive ideas of instant grandeur have been destroyed.
And yet, I'm excited. I guess I really was born to be a writer, which is a highly bizarre thing to realise. The foreword to the book was all about being a writer, and it felt like the author there had reached into my head and explained to me exactly what I felt about writing. It was exhilarating and breathtaking to feel that.
I'm rambling, and so I shall stop..... now.
Saturday 23 June 2007
Spoilers
Class, today I will be ranting about spoilers, and their effect on me. Please take notes, as this WILL be on the exam.
I hate it when the media feels it must put spoilers into adverts in order to get people's interest. Hate! Why do television channels feel like they must shove down our throats what will happen in the next ten episodes in order to get us to watch the next one? Do you know what it actually does?
Well, do you?
What it actually does is ruin the program. There is no point watching an episode of CSI, Lost, Grey's Anatomy or ANYTHING if you advertise the ending, or the big suprise in the middle or even the first ten minutes as part of your campaign to rival other channels!
The same goes for films; if you show something which happens in the last ten minutes in your trailers/promos, then you will just annoy the eagle-eyed viewers, as they will know that they are still expecting something huge and cool to happen. It also lessens the experience of the film.
I do actually know why it's done; it's because almost everything good that we watch is American, and they design all of the promotional material for their program for their stupid, attention-span-less audiences, and we just get it filetered down to us. What this has done is set some kind of stupid precedent for our own channels, who think that they have to live up the these other promos in order to get viewers.
Here's a suggestion; how about you use what happened in the last episode and remind us of why we're desperate for the next one? Or you could make something intelligent which just gently reminds us to watch the program. And if it's a film, you could just make something small and seperate to advertise the film, like Disney did for The Incredibles; their trailer contained an amusing little scene which wasn't at all used in the film.
And another thing; do NOT tell us what is about to happen in the episode just before it starts! We're already there to watch it, and if you're wanting to get people who are randomly flicking through the channels to watch it then how about you just talk about how funny/interesting the episode is WITHOUT giving specifics?!
Argh!!!
Thank you class. Your homework for this week is to go find a TV executive and explain the contents of this lecture to them. With a pointed stick, if necessary.
You are now dismissed.
I hate it when the media feels it must put spoilers into adverts in order to get people's interest. Hate! Why do television channels feel like they must shove down our throats what will happen in the next ten episodes in order to get us to watch the next one? Do you know what it actually does?
Well, do you?
What it actually does is ruin the program. There is no point watching an episode of CSI, Lost, Grey's Anatomy or ANYTHING if you advertise the ending, or the big suprise in the middle or even the first ten minutes as part of your campaign to rival other channels!
The same goes for films; if you show something which happens in the last ten minutes in your trailers/promos, then you will just annoy the eagle-eyed viewers, as they will know that they are still expecting something huge and cool to happen. It also lessens the experience of the film.
I do actually know why it's done; it's because almost everything good that we watch is American, and they design all of the promotional material for their program for their stupid, attention-span-less audiences, and we just get it filetered down to us. What this has done is set some kind of stupid precedent for our own channels, who think that they have to live up the these other promos in order to get viewers.
Here's a suggestion; how about you use what happened in the last episode and remind us of why we're desperate for the next one? Or you could make something intelligent which just gently reminds us to watch the program. And if it's a film, you could just make something small and seperate to advertise the film, like Disney did for The Incredibles; their trailer contained an amusing little scene which wasn't at all used in the film.
And another thing; do NOT tell us what is about to happen in the episode just before it starts! We're already there to watch it, and if you're wanting to get people who are randomly flicking through the channels to watch it then how about you just talk about how funny/interesting the episode is WITHOUT giving specifics?!
Argh!!!
Thank you class. Your homework for this week is to go find a TV executive and explain the contents of this lecture to them. With a pointed stick, if necessary.
You are now dismissed.
Saturday 9 June 2007
Ill and III are the same in this font
I have come down with a nasty flu; we think that I became a carrier a couple of days ago, gave it to my g/f who then mutated it and gave me it back. I HATE being ill because it hits me so hard; I am so used to being healthy that it takes me backand I just cannot take it. I hurt and ache... blah.
The worst thing is that I was feeling so motivated to write... I really wanted to be able to sit down and knock out some work, and I just can't. Too ill!
The reason that I was so motivated was that one of my friends gave me an intial opinion about my novel, and it was positive. He's the first person to have actually given me any comments (apart from my g/f), and his liking the novel really spurred me to believe that I could be a writer; I thought that if one person likes the novel then, maybe, more people will; that if one person could get into the worlds I create and enjoy being in them that I might be able to do it for more than one person.
But all of that creative power has merely bounced around in my head. I have refined a couple of ideas that I've been toying with, but that's been in between the headaches, tiredness and all of the other symptoms. It's almost not fair... but oh well.
Oh, and :-F is my ill face.
The worst thing is that I was feeling so motivated to write... I really wanted to be able to sit down and knock out some work, and I just can't. Too ill!
The reason that I was so motivated was that one of my friends gave me an intial opinion about my novel, and it was positive. He's the first person to have actually given me any comments (apart from my g/f), and his liking the novel really spurred me to believe that I could be a writer; I thought that if one person likes the novel then, maybe, more people will; that if one person could get into the worlds I create and enjoy being in them that I might be able to do it for more than one person.
But all of that creative power has merely bounced around in my head. I have refined a couple of ideas that I've been toying with, but that's been in between the headaches, tiredness and all of the other symptoms. It's almost not fair... but oh well.
Oh, and :-F is my ill face.
Wednesday 6 June 2007
Inn-sewer-ants
I apologise for the previous entry; I had been reading about the new faith-based 'museum' being set up in one of the Southern States in America and realising that I couldn't really mock someone on the basis of their beliefs not matching science, when I don't believe in anything and even scientists only have the word of their fellow scientists that something is true. I guess I just felt very weird.
Anyway, I've recently started a new job in an insurance company. Learning about the laws and understanding the wording of the policy has been fine; the difficulty has been in learning that we DO pay out for stupidity! People can be absolute idiots, and we will still pay them for the damage they have caused a lot of the time. Obviously I can't mention specifics, but still it's insane.
Another thing is that anything someone agrees with the customer is legally binding, even if it's entirely wrong. Yet another thing is how much we talk down to customers; we do not use words over a certain number of syllables and we treat customers as if they are all morons. Granted, some of them are, but the 90% who aren't must feel quite aggrieved when they get a letter which a five year old could have written.
Still, I'm dreading the prospect of turning someone's claim down. When buddying the other day the person I was listening in on had to decline a claim, and the poor customer just went "Oh... okay..." Anger I could have coped with, but sounding so dejected really got to me.
I know that, logically, they should be getting their homes maintained, or they should have had a survey done before they bought the house, or they should have read the policy booklet... but still. Quite depressing, but it's a part of the job I'm going to have to get used to.
Oh, and raking is fun.
Anyway, I've recently started a new job in an insurance company. Learning about the laws and understanding the wording of the policy has been fine; the difficulty has been in learning that we DO pay out for stupidity! People can be absolute idiots, and we will still pay them for the damage they have caused a lot of the time. Obviously I can't mention specifics, but still it's insane.
Another thing is that anything someone agrees with the customer is legally binding, even if it's entirely wrong. Yet another thing is how much we talk down to customers; we do not use words over a certain number of syllables and we treat customers as if they are all morons. Granted, some of them are, but the 90% who aren't must feel quite aggrieved when they get a letter which a five year old could have written.
Still, I'm dreading the prospect of turning someone's claim down. When buddying the other day the person I was listening in on had to decline a claim, and the poor customer just went "Oh... okay..." Anger I could have coped with, but sounding so dejected really got to me.
I know that, logically, they should be getting their homes maintained, or they should have had a survey done before they bought the house, or they should have read the policy booklet... but still. Quite depressing, but it's a part of the job I'm going to have to get used to.
Oh, and raking is fun.
Saturday 2 June 2007
Monday 28 May 2007
Rappers and Bones
Rappers are one of my least favourite kinds of people when it comes to the media; they portray themselves as gangsters, pimps and man-whores, and what's worse is that they are made to seem cool because of this! They, and the people who fund them, are giving the idea to young people (i.e. anyone under my age of 21) that being a criminal is cool as long as you're rich.
This is wrong; being a criminal is cool as long as you are intelligent about it! The criminals which are actually cool are the ones that don't just commit crimes to get money, girls and cars; The Joker, Lex Luthor, Batman, Kingpin, Magneto, John Travolta and Halle Berry in Swordfish, Jigsaw, Prince Arthas and Kerrigan.
Kids, I know you're listening. If you want to find cool criminals/villains then you should turn to geekery!
On a related note, I'd have a lot less of a problem with rappers if more of them were like Timbaland. Bless him, he seems to have fun in everything he does and cannot suppress what seems to be a bubbly and joyful personality. If you seem him in his, Justin Timberlake's and Nelly Furtado's videos then you'll see that he just can't help but have fun. That's a decent role model, I say, if children cannot get on board with geekery.
This bring me along to another media constant; incredibly thin women. I hate really thin women; I have a bit of an issue with the internals of the human body anyway but, putting that aside, women under a certain size just aren't attractive. I do not want to see all the bones on a woman's back, espescially not every ten second on television!
It's not attractive. To those kids who haven't left already after my villain tirade I say DO NOT think that you need to be a size 4 to be sexy. It is not attractive to have the same size body at 20 that you had at 12! Eat, for the love of Cthulhu, eat!
I'm honestly beginning to think that there are a few women and a couple of sadistic men at the top of the advertising industry that are both forcing models to starve themselves and making women and young girls feel terrible about their body shapes.
Now, I don't want to be hypocritical here; if you feel comfortable in a size 6 body, then whip-crack away. I just don't think that the majority of women on adverts should be less than a size 12, mostly because it makes most women feel terrible and partially because seeing a woman's shoulder blades and ribs every twenty seconds is horrible.
Join me again next time kids!
This is wrong; being a criminal is cool as long as you are intelligent about it! The criminals which are actually cool are the ones that don't just commit crimes to get money, girls and cars; The Joker, Lex Luthor, Batman, Kingpin, Magneto, John Travolta and Halle Berry in Swordfish, Jigsaw, Prince Arthas and Kerrigan.
Kids, I know you're listening. If you want to find cool criminals/villains then you should turn to geekery!
On a related note, I'd have a lot less of a problem with rappers if more of them were like Timbaland. Bless him, he seems to have fun in everything he does and cannot suppress what seems to be a bubbly and joyful personality. If you seem him in his, Justin Timberlake's and Nelly Furtado's videos then you'll see that he just can't help but have fun. That's a decent role model, I say, if children cannot get on board with geekery.
This bring me along to another media constant; incredibly thin women. I hate really thin women; I have a bit of an issue with the internals of the human body anyway but, putting that aside, women under a certain size just aren't attractive. I do not want to see all the bones on a woman's back, espescially not every ten second on television!
It's not attractive. To those kids who haven't left already after my villain tirade I say DO NOT think that you need to be a size 4 to be sexy. It is not attractive to have the same size body at 20 that you had at 12! Eat, for the love of Cthulhu, eat!
I'm honestly beginning to think that there are a few women and a couple of sadistic men at the top of the advertising industry that are both forcing models to starve themselves and making women and young girls feel terrible about their body shapes.
Now, I don't want to be hypocritical here; if you feel comfortable in a size 6 body, then whip-crack away. I just don't think that the majority of women on adverts should be less than a size 12, mostly because it makes most women feel terrible and partially because seeing a woman's shoulder blades and ribs every twenty seconds is horrible.
Join me again next time kids!
Tuesday 22 May 2007
Should I be worried?
Whilst playing Pokemon Emerald today I had the following series of messages;
Foe's LUVDISC uses ATTRACT.
GARDEVOIR falls for foe's ATTRACT.
GARDEVOIR is in love with foe's LUVDISC.
GARDEVOIR uses PSYCHIC.
It's a critical hit!
Foe's LUVDISC has fainted.
...?
Foe's LUVDISC uses ATTRACT.
GARDEVOIR falls for foe's ATTRACT.
GARDEVOIR is in love with foe's LUVDISC.
GARDEVOIR uses PSYCHIC.
It's a critical hit!
Foe's LUVDISC has fainted.
...?
Wednesday 16 May 2007
It's a kind of ennui...
Well, I've finished another draft of my novel. I was happy, but now I've gone quite down hill over the whole thing. I don't know... it's just strange. I loved what I had written, but now I'm scared.
Scared that I'm just stupid to have tried writing... scared that I'm not good enough... scared that the novel isn't good enough...
I've kind of lost my impetus to keep writing, despite the fact that I start a job soon and I'll not have anywhere near this much free time. I am forcing myself to keep up to the deadlines that Font will impose when the site is up and working, but apart from that I... I don't know.
I think I'm just worried about what people are going to say when they read the novel. I've never been able to handle failure well (yeah, I know, how the hell can I not have learned to cope with failure when I'm a man?!), and I'd feel like a failure if people over-criticised the work.
Then again, I might feel like a failure if they don't fall in love instantly with the novel and beg me to write more. I'm just that stupid!
It's been affecting other parts of my life; I'm just feeling very down, and I've been unfairly taking it out on my girlfriend. Hopefully this little bit of ranting will help.
Ennui is a good word for how I'm feeling, but I can't let it get to me anymore. Need to pull myself up by my own bootstraps, as it were. Not that I've worn proper boots since middle school...
Scared that I'm just stupid to have tried writing... scared that I'm not good enough... scared that the novel isn't good enough...
I've kind of lost my impetus to keep writing, despite the fact that I start a job soon and I'll not have anywhere near this much free time. I am forcing myself to keep up to the deadlines that Font will impose when the site is up and working, but apart from that I... I don't know.
I think I'm just worried about what people are going to say when they read the novel. I've never been able to handle failure well (yeah, I know, how the hell can I not have learned to cope with failure when I'm a man?!), and I'd feel like a failure if people over-criticised the work.
Then again, I might feel like a failure if they don't fall in love instantly with the novel and beg me to write more. I'm just that stupid!
It's been affecting other parts of my life; I'm just feeling very down, and I've been unfairly taking it out on my girlfriend. Hopefully this little bit of ranting will help.
Ennui is a good word for how I'm feeling, but I can't let it get to me anymore. Need to pull myself up by my own bootstraps, as it were. Not that I've worn proper boots since middle school...
Saturday 12 May 2007
Beaten by a banana and peanut butter
I am a big fan of Bruce Campbell, and on his website he talks about how he was in an advert for Old Spice recently. Unfortunately the link on his site involved you downloading the advert, and I just couldn't be bothered with that so I headed over to YouTube to watch it.
It was quite amusing, and very Bruce, but that's not really why I'm posting. I'm posting becase of one of the related videos that came up. It was ominously titled Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare.
I decided to watch it, but couldn't carry on after about half of it. It basically claims that evolution is wrong because peanut butter, or anything for that matter, does not spontaneously create life when subjected to the normal levels of background heat and light experienced in a supermarket.
As if this wasn't bad enough, the Christians have found another way to scare non-believers; the Banana!
That's right; because a banana doesn't squirt you in the face when you open it, and because it curves towards the face, God must exist.
My life, my philosophies, everything I am is a lie. All because those crafty Christians thwarted my theories with peanut butter and a banana...
It was quite amusing, and very Bruce, but that's not really why I'm posting. I'm posting becase of one of the related videos that came up. It was ominously titled Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare.
I decided to watch it, but couldn't carry on after about half of it. It basically claims that evolution is wrong because peanut butter, or anything for that matter, does not spontaneously create life when subjected to the normal levels of background heat and light experienced in a supermarket.
As if this wasn't bad enough, the Christians have found another way to scare non-believers; the Banana!
That's right; because a banana doesn't squirt you in the face when you open it, and because it curves towards the face, God must exist.
My life, my philosophies, everything I am is a lie. All because those crafty Christians thwarted my theories with peanut butter and a banana...
Thursday 10 May 2007
Some bitching
One of my biggest bugbears is when an artist/group user their name as part of their song. This mostly happens in rap, thought Beyonce and Shakira proved that it can happen anywhere, to anyone, at any time.
It just annoys me so much because it's lazy songwriting! "What do we do here, man?" "I know! We'll use our band/artist's name!" "Yeah! That's completely original, and it's sending a message. Because, that's who we/they are!"
Bah.
Then again, a lot of my kind of music has some terrible lyrics as well. Disturbed even use their name in their song Dropping Plates. That doesn't make it right, though.
In fact, it's worse because Disturbed should know better!
It just annoys me so much because it's lazy songwriting! "What do we do here, man?" "I know! We'll use our band/artist's name!" "Yeah! That's completely original, and it's sending a message. Because, that's who we/they are!"
Bah.
Then again, a lot of my kind of music has some terrible lyrics as well. Disturbed even use their name in their song Dropping Plates. That doesn't make it right, though.
In fact, it's worse because Disturbed should know better!
Tuesday 8 May 2007
Well, here's the site..
Basically, this is me being quite happy that the site is now up and working.
Wahoo!
Wahoo!
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