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[shark_hat]

I'm getting annoyed with my brain; I feel like my reaction to everything is on a very superficial sort of level. "I watched sum telly it was fun there were space nazis but lol Tallulah's accent slipped wtf", "I red a buk with oz in it it was fun but mr baum was clearly getting desperate for how to introduce conflict to perfect happyland, also lol how many times has origin of ozma been retconned now wtf".
I'm almost worried to read something with any depth to it in case I can only see things through a filter of trivialisation. "then he pokes his own eyes out, like eww wtf." "somehow it turns out he loves big brother, i mean wtf." "so fortinbras just wanders in and takes over the whole country, wtf." (Actually this is quite a fun game.)

Maybe I need more vitamin M (for Murrrderrrr) in my reading. Something lingering, with boiling oil in it- perhaps that'll cleanse the palate. ("they all killed him lol wtf"... No! No! No!)

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[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

lol. my brain goes dumb and it's not funny like yours, wtf?

Actually - I want to see you do the F. of T. on Fire and Hemlock, seeing the job you did on the other classics! More than just 'and it was the end and WTF??', okay?

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

Ta!
I'd have to reread it, I think- although "they have to live in revolving urns wtf" is as close as I usually come to getting it- I mean, at least with Oedipus there's no doubt about what happens and what it all means, y'know? You got yer doomed family, yer prophecy, yer sphinx, yer plague, yer terrible realisation of the truth and yer hanging self/plucking out eyes, all tending to produce a catharsis of emotion and an understanding of the capriciousness of destiny and the need for submission to the gods, but there's none of that horse in a wobbly swimming pool business.

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Hee. This is way too much fun! For starters, how about this? There's this woman, bit of a slapper, she lives *forever* by stealing other women's blokes and sucking the life out of 'em. But then she tries it on the wrong guy, Tom, and this young wan, Polly, bitch-slaps her till she doesn't know what end is up. Polly's a right heroine too, cos she sez Tom doesn't have to stay with her. But he wants to, o'course, and the slapper has to make do with another young fella, but she sez, wtf, he'll do for now. (You can fix it up better & without the Dublin slang mixed in! But it'll spare you a reread.) (Not that that's a terrible punishment, hopefully!)

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

"bit of a slapper" for Laurel is all kinds of lol all by itself.

How about "Quintano! Baladas! [trans: Watch Out! There are ballads (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006448.html)!]"? "teinds to hell suck lol"? "fairies have dysfunctional families liek whoa"? "im in ur funeral rearrangin ur pikchers"?

*flees giggling*