Miscellanea.

[tenlittlebullets]

This is now my official, Ol' Vic-approved mental image of Enjolras. (NSFW if W disapproves of hot Roman ass. It's educational, really!)

I am incredibly tempted to buy a HP Mini-Note laptop. Because it's $550, probably smaller than most of the books I've read lately, and still has decent screen resolution/memory/hard disk space. And for serious, if I bought it direct from HP, I could get an extra gig of RAM and a laptop case loaded with goodies still for under $700.

Today I ended up working a completely dead closing shift without my computer, so to keep myself from dying of boredom I bought a trashy romance novel when I went to grab food. I have actually never read a trashy romance novel, unless you count certain egregiously bad fanfic, and now I kind of wish I'd bought a magazine instead. Because after fifty pages of our Fiery Regency Heroine endlessly repeating "Scoundrel! Blackguard! Oh, how I despise you! I shall never give in to your--say, is that Eau de Brooding Antihero you're wearing? ....villain!" I got bored and skipped to the sex scenes. And wow, what a waste of five bucks.

Comments

[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who finds brooding antiheroes raging asshats? They always come off as ripoffs of actual Victorian characters, mostly actual villains (Heathcliff, Lovelace, etc). The authors don't seem to realize that those characters are only seen as attractive today because the heroes- who were good guys by Victorian standards- are mostly tedious milksops. /nerdliness

Did the sex scenes have amusing euphemisms?

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

I don't usually mind brooding antiheroes, even raging asshats, as long as the author acknowledges that they're raging asshats and doesn't try to explain it away as being excusable in the name of Twu Wub. Or instantly forgotten in the face of the heroine's overpowering Twu Wub. Or whatever. Gag me with a throbbing ramrod of manliness spoon.

And yes! It was all full of love honey and womanly petals and I sporfled muchly.

[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

Heh. My English teacher was telling me how Thomas Hardy glossed over the sex by having his heroine "lying under a tree"- and then she's pregnant in the next chapter, and none of the students reading it could understand how. *sporfles*

A lot of people seem to have a Raging Asshat Is Redeemed By True Love fetish, because it pops up in every genre. (The werewolf hunter falling for the werewolf, the criminal falling for the feisty female detective, etc) If it were me, I'd tell him to go fuck himself and move on to the shy geeky one.

Womanly . . . petals? Who wrote it, Dan Brown?

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. Raging asshattery is a turn-off, not something that will make me instantly succumb (protesting ineffectually all the way!) to the indomitable power of Asshat's masculine allure.

Womanly . . . petals? Who wrote it, Dan Brown?

Nah, some lady whose picture on the back cover obviously dates to about 1985. Scary perm ahoy!

[josiana.livejournal.com]

>__> I tend to use that picture as one of my Enjolras references, for obvious reasons.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

One reason on the right and one reason on the left, and they're both exceedingly well-formed too.

[in-a-greenhouse.livejournal.com]

thought: if you're going to Smith, I have a feeling they'll say "HP machines do not play well with our network"-- at least, they did when I was there :p

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Hm, my current machine is a HP too. I wonder if it's a hardware thing, or if it would be okay running Linux.

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

I love you :) (so does Kristin, who is standing behind me and laughing along with me)

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

O:) For what, romance-novel sporking or naked Enjolrass?

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's why I love trashy romance novels. They have no bearing on reality, whether past or present. They're something for me to giggle at (and satisfy my craving for cute fluffy snuggle wuv).