Ramdom musings
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memento1I was flipping through the channels and accidently found MacGyver. Holy crap. The plots (and hairstyles) are so hideous it hurts, but RDA has not changed a bit. Well, OK, the hair thankfully did improve, but it's the same mannerisms, facial expressions, voice...in short, I squeeed (what the heck is the past tense of squee?) like the fangirl I am. I might have to watch more of that ;)
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Oh good LORD I forgot how much I love Sally Reeve. I save her fics as back-up when I really need a good read, and today I did ;) So I'm starting in on "Crossing the Line", and I'm just blown away by how WONDERFUL her writing is. She consistently writes well, so even though her fics are long, I can be blown away several times in just a few pages. Certain lines just jump out at me.
"It was no fairytale. She was no princess, and there'd be no happy ending."
"and in that look ignited a flame that, until then, he'd done a reasonable job of keeping at bay. Before it had been smoldering, now it was a fire twenty feet high."
"because of this thing that had grown between them, this thing that they had deliberately stunted before it could blossom. And now it couldn't grow, and it wouldn't die."
Obviously these don't make much sense out of context, and probably don't even sound that brilliant, but in the flow of the writing...it just stops me dead. And the great thing is, there are pages upon pages more of this. It really makes me wonder why she put all that time and talent into writing fics, when she could obviously do so much more. But I am insanely grateful for it.
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I am becoming more and more like my dad every day. He was always a history buff: loved reading about it and watching documentaries on the History Channel. It never did much for me. But today, I was enthralled by a PBS documentary on slavery and the civil war. Absolutely enthralled, and I wanted to know more. PBS documentaries and the like have always been a weak point for me. In Astronomy lately we have watched two videos - Nova's The Elegant Universe and Carl Sagan's Cosmos. I've seen both before, but I'm still fascinated by them. Strangely enough, college usually does not provide the intellectual stimulation I thought it would.
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Oh good LORD I forgot how much I love Sally Reeve. I save her fics as back-up when I really need a good read, and today I did ;) So I'm starting in on "Crossing the Line", and I'm just blown away by how WONDERFUL her writing is. She consistently writes well, so even though her fics are long, I can be blown away several times in just a few pages. Certain lines just jump out at me.
"It was no fairytale. She was no princess, and there'd be no happy ending."
"and in that look ignited a flame that, until then, he'd done a reasonable job of keeping at bay. Before it had been smoldering, now it was a fire twenty feet high."
"because of this thing that had grown between them, this thing that they had deliberately stunted before it could blossom. And now it couldn't grow, and it wouldn't die."
Obviously these don't make much sense out of context, and probably don't even sound that brilliant, but in the flow of the writing...it just stops me dead. And the great thing is, there are pages upon pages more of this. It really makes me wonder why she put all that time and talent into writing fics, when she could obviously do so much more. But I am insanely grateful for it.
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I am becoming more and more like my dad every day. He was always a history buff: loved reading about it and watching documentaries on the History Channel. It never did much for me. But today, I was enthralled by a PBS documentary on slavery and the civil war. Absolutely enthralled, and I wanted to know more. PBS documentaries and the like have always been a weak point for me. In Astronomy lately we have watched two videos - Nova's The Elegant Universe and Carl Sagan's Cosmos. I've seen both before, but I'm still fascinated by them. Strangely enough, college usually does not provide the intellectual stimulation I thought it would.
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Date: 2005-02-19 07:19 pm (UTC)Maybe I'll start posting more "intellectual" things here *L*