Greta's Journal

27 weeks ago...?

2008-10-06T15:40:10Z

I logged in on my page here in LJ today and I saw that it has been 27 weeks sine I last updated....

So, first things first! I;m currently doing my practice semester, and my dissertation, which means that by March 31st I will be done ...done ....DONE with university. I'll be a Librarian officially now baby! No classes left. ZIP! NADA!

*sighs* I feel so good about that! However, that is then...Shouldn't get ahead of myself. Because right now...well I am doing the practise thing in the mornings....and then have work in the evenings. LOL

Doesn't that sound fun? Leaving home at 06:30 and returning at 00:30. Yeah man....I AM doing this and I'm not crazy. Mostly.
So any and all afternoons or mornings I have off I work at my dissertation and hope to God it will be done in time for me to go and graduate. If people wanna help I'm shamelessly begging you to. LMAO.

In other news, Christmas will unfortunately be spent here, but the weekend before that it's either London or Moscow...Ah, feel much better about working hours just by thinking about that. The other thing that's always a pick-me-up is that in March as soon as practice is over many many applications will be posted. Several campuses should be careful what they wish for because next year, they just might get it. Preferences are always lead by Glasgow and Edinburgh but the Peak District has shown much promise of late. Oh how I'll love next year!

In sad news, a my grandma the hobbit is in the hospital..she's been there since last week and she's probably not gonna make it, however I'm mostly worried about my mom. She's so down and sad about it. I try to remind her that gran has led a great life and after all she is 102...but yeah, that doesn't mean that I won't be ....down to say the least when the worst happens.

So that's it...whoever you are that reads this. LOL

Still love you all even though have no time to talk much, Hope I will sometime soon..or will have when I'm filthy rich from all the money from all the jobs.

Greta

P.S. Have jacked the icon from someone....whoever it is I am sorry but it is in sync with my mindset! LOL

P.S. 2 excuse the typos...have no time to check

Of me and shallowness

2008-03-28T13:24:51Z

I don't want to write this post. I really don't. But DAMN it's been a while since I've ranted.

There are tastes and tastes. There are tastes in books, different tastes in msic, in movies, and of course there's chocolate but that's nt the kind of taste I want to talk about right now. (I just want to eat it).

So, why do I feel defensive when people ask me whih are my favorite books, or films are? Why, -even though I feel no regret in loving my books and films- do I feel ready to cringe as I answer Pride and Prejudice, the BDB or Bridget Jones' diary?

I can already tell you why. It's because most people out there think that surely a being that likes such unsophisticated and ''light'' stuff could never appreciate the more serious stuff and/or have no depth, no aspiration of furthering their knowlesge and expanding their intellect through ''serious'' and ''deep'' books.

GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!

Okay, I'll put it more eloquently. I am 3 classes short of graduating as a librarian. I've read stuff, from Arundhati Roy, Baudelaire and Elytis (Nobel prize winning Greek poet) to Jane Austen, Sherrilyn Kenyon, JR Ward and JK Rowling and found that I most enjoy the latter than the former. Why. Now that is a question. I won't use my usual explanation and say that reading for leisure does not include imersing myself even more in reality. I can point out that boos shouls allow you to escape the confines of your everyday life and expand your imagination to worlds that you haven't known and probably never will. I should say that books and films should take you to journeys of faraway places, unexplored depths and never-before felt emotions. But I won't say that.

Instead I'll tell you what my chic-lit films and my shallow romance novels -if one could include Austen to that- are to me.

The mastery of Austen's words flowing in such a way that even the most insignificant sentences make up for a world of emotions of their own. She escaped the -then- confines of society and was the cause of much controversy among the readers back then. A rich man with a poor woman? How dare they? Oh, yes. Austen was a radical. As for the depth? Well to me one would have to be inexplicably dumb, not to grasp the depth in Austen's writing. Some would say that it's just a love story. Deal with it.

Oh but my dear, fellow book lovers...You would all be first class hypocrites to claim that love is shallow. That a love story has no meaning. It's what every sinle one of you is secretly or openly search so desperately for in life.

I'm making this long but I don't care much. I want to get this out. About the romance novels? Well, I could argue in this that a lot are written by people with little to none talent. I concider myself among them. It's the easiest thing to write, right? Throw in two people, some sex, some adversities, the man ends up a misunderstood saint and the woman can do no wrong by him so they fit.

Yes, those are romance novels. They sell. Cheap paperbacks thrown on a shelf for us poor, naive, dreamy females.

Ever pick up one? No, not one of the thin ones with the hunky guy on the cover. I mean the other ones. The ones with admittedly lame titles, but those who have a slightly less conventional cover. Now THOSE are called romance novels as well, but mostly they're not. They're love stories. Love stories by writers who actually have talent and prove it in every page. You probably won't read it. If you do you'll get sucked right in. But then..oh, I know. You'll just dissmiss them even though you've enjoyed them and tell people they're crap. Because it's not your style. It's not ''deep'' enough to claim a spot on your bookshelf. God forbid anyone learns you read them...they're sex books aren't they? But of course if a ''deep'' book mentiones someone pissing, it's all good. It's a metaphor.

I'm actually impressed by those people's ability to selectively find offence in sex and not give a damn about other more important stuff.

*sighs* I'm getting tired of this. I really am. I think, to wrap this up I only need to sy this. People who think ahuge part of readers around the world is shallow should get their effing heads out of the sand and stop being the pretentioun assholes they are -in addition to sexists since the whole of their arguement is mostly targeted towards us women who mostly read love stories.

I don't think I lack depth and sophistication. However I DO think I lack that chromosome that should have mediated my tastes towards more earthly and serious stuff. I believe I may lack the serious-gene altogether.
I have a perpetual pink cloud hovering above my head, and then librarianship, curation of digital materials, industrial psychology and the Dublin Core occupying half my mind.

If my tastes to you sound shallow, well I AM shallow then. Air-headed, stupid little girl, her head in the clouds. Color them pink and you have a case. Just for you I saved these two quotes for the end. One I was reminded of -how couldI have forgotten it I have no idea by a great book I read recently: Eclipse.

"Some say the world will end in fire. Some say with ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire."
-Robert Frost

It suits me to break the verse there, so :-P.

As for the last thing I want to say? I'll alter Jane's words a bit, but the meaning is very very obvious.

"A person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good [romance] novel must be intolerably stupid."
-Jane Austen

[/rant]

P.S. I'm ot attacking anyone personally with this one. At least not an online person. I just read a post and then went to work and had another ''deep'' convo about this and I had to get it out.

So....Twilight!

2008-03-15T22:14:35Z

So, I've been seeing in several of you guys posts that there is a book I should check out. Of the top of my head, I remember Ham, and Linda definitely mentioned it. and when I went to the bookstore guess what? I bumped into it. Very nice cover, first page gripped me

And frankly since thursday I haven't resurfaced for anything other than returning to the bookstore and demanding (I really thought the clerk was scared) the next two in the series -or is it a trilogy?-

Now don't go spoiling it for me, cause I haven't finished Eclipse yet....but really...Who is tis woman?

She made me read 1st person POV and turn pages faster than if I had a fan to do it with. I was so hooked by her storytelling and all the complete absolute....earthyness of the books that I couldn't wrap my mind around it. Still can't.

I do still root for my lighthearted Dark-Hunters and the wonderfuy gritty Black Dagger Brotherhood but this set of books was a whole new experience.

A kind of teenage tale I'd never encountered before, set in a mind that wasn't just straight out of reality -even with supernatural elements flying back and forth- while not becoming boring, but that also held the right amounts of wistfulness that a book should inspire to readers. It really was just beautiful. Finally a teenager not about one-uping the mean girls or becoming a princess, but just focusing on what was important each mment.. And yeah,half those things aren't possible but the tight grip on ''reallity'' never waivered for me.

The characters were just beautiful and the sentiments expressed, so vividly and so appealing just ouldn't make me turn away. The love stor was incredible, but that just wasn't all there was. Friendship, loyalty and even all the million other noble qualities that are expressed in books, were put in such a context that made me realize we do posses tem, each of us in every day life, even though we mostly thnk we could never be as a hero or a heroine of a book should be.

So, I guess what I wanted to say is, THANKS F-LIST for the awesome rec, it was more than worth it. It even made me wanna write again:-DD

P.S. Linda? Could I join the team? LOL

So...News from Greece

2008-01-31T10:25:53Z

First of all....I GOT A LAPTOP!

Which has been a desperate 'dream' of mine for a very..VERY long time. So now I can do what I always wanted....sit in bed and write to my heart's content! Which I haven't done yet but soon my sweet laptop...soon. * evil laughter*.

Other stories in the Breaking (or not so much) Georgia news:

I'm in the middle of exams and am happy to say it's looking good. Very good and I hope I won't jinx it..and a break from work is always nice!

Oh...and another tinsy tiny little thing....This summer...with Nicole...

WE'RE GOING TO SCOTLAND, BABY!!!

I'm so excited! Can't wait to show her everything not to mention return to that paradice of a bookstore and buy everything this time. Am so happy.
I dunno ...everything's been so good lately and it was really bad before...I hope it lasts...I really do. Bu I'm still overjoyed for the present and savoring every moment of it. I hope soon I'l have lots more time to spend online and chat with people bu for now it's back to Databases for Social Sciences and Communication and PR.

Signing off
as myself...cos I couldn't think of a cheeky name. LOL

Finally!

2007-10-12T09:50:15Z

After a month or so of constant anxiety and a year of worrying I have things in order! Yay!

I got a job, which seems pretty good, if you ask me and it pays really well, so I'm good with that problem at least and I've passed several of the classes and now only a few left for my practice semester. I'm not going to have that as I originally planned in Britain, but I find that the alternative is much more suiting to me. A year for my post-graduate in Britain sounds lovely, and if all goes well, that might happen during 2008!!! It's all been realigned into place actually. So, FINALLY I can take a deep breath and smile. I've been watching many many period dramas and they're so good, plus I'm making some serious progress in my originals. That's also, so good. :-D

My friends have been fantastic over this period of being half-dead and I love them so....But oh! I forgot. There was a new show in Greek TV the other day, called 31 Streets. New show, new actors, filmed half in Athens half in NY...and the weird part?

The director and one of the leads were friends of mine a couple of summers ago when I was in my country house. Had an actual crush with the director actually, but people got in the way and nothing happened between us. Was so weird to see his name as director and watch his brother acting. So funny.

PLUS, I have some things to say and I will in my next post soon, but for now, let me just send my hugs and love to D and Laree for their comments in my previous posts. I know I didn't reply but I'm very forgetful. I hope you know that.

And Lover Unbound was AMAZING. Simply Amazing. Go buy it guys. J.R. Ward has done it again and now it's so much better than before. All the angst and drama...*smiles happily*

Numb...

2007-09-09T22:55:29Z

My Godfather died yesterday...I saw him once a year...maybe twice, but it really doesn't matter.

I loved him and still do.

You know the one person that you look up to? Not to what he has achieved or how much money he's made or where he is in life at his/her age.

The one person you look up to and say, "Damn I hope that I can be like that."

The principles, the character and personality. The love given and received.

My Godfather was and is that to me.

God, I hope I can live to be like him. To be a genuinely good person. To have that sense of humor that everyone remembers him by. See, that's what bonded me and him. Everyone said I got his sense of humor and his outgoing way, since no one in my family is as quirky as I. Yeah, stupid for non-blood relatives huh? But that bond made me love him even without getting to see him so much.

My heart broke a little bit today.

And even though I felt like it, and even though custom says I should I did NOT wear black. I did NOT cry.

Why?

Because I KNOW him. He's inside me. And his voice in my head told me to go for red and screw the weeping crones. They only have a couple more years in them anyway.

I love you, wherever you are...and I know that Penelope and all the ones I've lost will have already made you feel at home.

Shit, you're probably laughing your asses off at me right now...Privileged buggers!

Going Away

2007-07-20T15:38:42Z

Okay, after several days of coping with the heat and how I don't get to go to the sea while others can, I'll be going away probably hours after getting my hands on HP and the deathly Hallows. I know it's kinda anticlimactic to read it on my own and then have no one to discuss it with for about a week if not more, but yeah...I'm going crazy staying in this stinking city and showering five times a day plus both my sis and bro are over there for the weekend and I kinda missed the assembled chaos that is all my family together. So I feel pressured to go and I want to, too...but I wanna stay for HP as well...to geek out...Damn!

So, I just wanted to tell all the bah over at the bahfest as well as to the lovely D, that I'll probably (though there's a small possibility of the opposite) won't be here tomorrow (/tonight) to talk HP with you all online. I hate it yeah...but if I don't get to be with you guys over there, then I guess I'll have to settle for the seaside.

So, yeah...I'm crossing my fingers for either possibility for entirely different reasons for each.

God, how I wish I could do everything at once...why do I torn like this? *sighs*

Though you don't seem to miss me that much over there at Alabama. Who knows what you're all up to? *smirks* Shameless bah, forgetting us outside the grazing field of the flock. You with me, D?

Oh, well..I'll just go and bah alone then...

:p

Greta

Old and New Fandoms

2007-07-12T14:51:11Z

The end is NIGH!

Yes, The final HP book comes out in about a week or so, and even if I will go and buy it as soon as I can, and even if I will read it all at once, I'm really not troubled anymore. Yeah, meh, maybe Harry will die. I'm sure J.K. will make it natural if it comes to that. Maybe we'll get OBHWF, she will get it to make sense as well.

So I'm not that anxious anymore.

Talking to JPx the other day, we reached an agreement. We decided that it's probably because Harry outgrew us. We stayed teenagers at heart and geeks all around, but he matured. LOL

It's an explanation *shrugs*

But...omg...would you look at that?

Yeah, I've entered a new fandom. All shiny and new and damn it, it's such a great playground! You know what slightly miffed me in HP? There were so many different ships out there, so many people defending their ship, refusing canon etc etc.

So now I found Bones. *grins*

Where the reigning ship is one and only one, and it's what you read about mostly everywhere. I've found I can do anything I want really.I can write as much romance as I want without getting too OOC, I can write angst and sometimes drama and it doesn't seem that hard anymore. It's a smaller fandom so I'm not too concerned whether things have been done before or not. I write what I want and post it. Plus, The episodes really give me new stuff to work with every week (at least when new ones are aired).

And yeah, many of you guys on my f-list love other fandoms as well, but or me it was a first. I haven't entered any other fandoms than HP, so to get into a new one now, and a tv show one at that is really weird for me. Weird but in a nice way.

Hehe, and guess what? People really like what I write too...I've written 7 -SEVEN!- new stories for Bones in the pat month and the response I got was overwhelming to say the least! For instance....100 reviews for 4 chaps...and it's still a WIP! I was floored!

Not to mention I can't resist watching David Boreanaz as Booth over and over and over again.

So...here I am...I'm intoBones and Damn...it's GOOD!

Hello, I'm Georgia and I'm a Fangirl! -crowd greets "Hello Georgia"

2007-04-30T22:52:57Z

I shall assume my most dreaded serious expression for this post, to say the following:

And before you rush to agree with me and nod your head mumbling: "I'm like that too, what's new?"

WAIT!

You see...we're all fanboys or fangirls in some sense,right? (If some of you are not what are you doing reading this? I'm an alien to you! And completely shallow and immature of course!)

But! (Again, there's always a "but", isn't there?"

I'm a weird fangirl I think? You think I'm joking? Well, what would you call someone who has a minor crush with a different actor/singer/model every ten days? Plus, the crushes linger!

Want a list?

At first it was HP which started everything when I saw hawtness potential in all the MINORS that starred in it (yeah they may be hot now but imagine me saying they're little stars! Years ago! OMG)

Then it was Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy (That was right after my Pride&Prejudice obsession started and of course I still think he's gorgeous! Wretched, wretched man to be in his 50s!)

After that I went into the whole Bridget Jones obsession, a movie I still love, but I was obsessed with it. I even started a diary...omg I can't believe I'm actually gonna post this...anyway. P&P Led to other historical-drama-watching and I ended up with...
Richard Armitage as Mr.Thornton from BBC's North and South (The man's evil eye gave me the chills each time). As you understand another crush on the guy then. For about 10 days...20 tops. I watched the four hour show countless times in that period. But then there was more.

Phantom of the Opera....even before 300 I crushed severely on Gerard Butler and loved it too. LOL Again countless times of watching the movie.

So had enough of movies? I can give you books too. After much hesitation and severe book withdrawal (at least that's what I say to people when they look at my bookshelves) I bought a romance, and as I said before I got addicted. And then the Dark-Hunters came. Big, vampire-like men, gorgeous at that, who hunted uhm...vampires. That's when I started liking vampires in general, and men in leather pants...what can I say? I'm a weird fangirl. Fell in love with fictional characters.

And thanks to another fan of the series started liking male models (who as much as I hate to admit it, I agree with pup, they mostly are gay. BUT look absolutely yum nonetheless.) Searching for those male models to make banners and icons for the DH, I ran into this guy, with whom I had a crush again for several days.

And now? Now it's BDB time. Vampires again, but these ones listen to hp hop and are much more interesting! Which of course led me to finding more nice looking men...which led me to current crush.

David Boreanaz. (see icon)

Yeah, I know, I'm ages behind the current U.S. tv show rage but he's in Bones, isn't he? And that show goes well, doesn't it? If not, who cares? The man is 38 and he still looks not a day past 28 and what a 28 it is!

So, in conclusion? I'm an enormously weird fangirl, who crushes on men that other women find unattractive and evil-looking AND are nearly twice my age! How's that?

Feel free to gape or (though highly unlikely) sympathize. Though I should say: I do so love being the most immature 24 year old on the planet!

Random whims of a decaying brain

2007-04-25T22:40:22Z

First things first! I dare you to find someone better looking than

Now that you've been fed with cuteness tell me this: In a perfect universe we would all look and get what we liked right?

However with the end being nigh I would like to answer mum's question (that means LewlinX a.k.a. Linda *waves madly blowing kisses*)

What would make me chuck book out the window?

For HP7 especially it would take a lot, but basically I think it would take for Voldie to win, Bellatrix winning Miss World, and Harry time travelling from the spirit world over to the MWPP and saving his self via spiritual guidance he would provide to Sirius.

OR if Harry died in such an unspectacular way that would make me gag.

See? Not too needy. As for my other books? Well if JR Ward ever made her lovely vampires wimps (which if that happened the world would end) I would chuck that out the window too.

But now my beloved f-list. The question of the hour!

I want you to please comment with your answers. How do you write? What's your favorite time of day to do so? How do you discipline yourselves as far as pages per day or hours per day devoted to writing? How do you focus? How do your characters "talk" to you?

Tell me everything whether it's writing fan fiction or originals that you are writing. I do need your help. Can't get my a$$ down on the chair to do it even though I know what I wanna write.

Love you all btw...even if i don't comment that much.

Last but not least a HUGE thank you for the b-day wishes to everyone. I love you all jeep, sheep and mum especially.

Signing off from Four Toys and heading to mess with V's mind,

Greta

P.S. Updating is so good...true? ;-)

The Endless Pleasures of Life a.k.a BDB, baby!

2007-03-12T19:26:48Z

So, yeah I know I've been gone for a while and nephew along with RL half played their part in it. I won't start enumerating what's happened in my life in this post. There will be another for that if anyone's interested.

What this post is about is life's pleasures and specifically one of my favorite ones: books!

And good books to boot!

Recently -well even before Christmas to be exact- I've been on a fierce rampage. Visiting my bookstore and getting everything that I could to pass my time.

As most silly women I went for the guilty pleasures: Romance Novels.

And yes, call me silly, call me a dork or even plain dumb! But I liked them. I really did but not the contemporary ones. I picked up the first one, the last to a series of Lisa Kleypas and then the virus was inside me...a time passed and I thought 'What the heck, why not?"

So I picked up another one, and another one...until there was a shelf of them alone. LOL

However after a time I just got bored...the plots were nice but nothing that intriguing until I stumbled on an author that was recced to me by Amazon. Knight of Darkness by Kinley McGregor it said. Arthurian legend/romance and I thought yeah ok, I'll get that too. I loved the writing style and finishing the book I wanted more from her. When I Googled her I found myself in luck. She goes under Sherrilyn Kenyon as well and she had a 12 book series of paranormal romance with very good reviews.

So I bought them all. What happened next you say?

Well, it was like when I first entered the world of books through HP. I found out that a whole new genre with many authors and books had become my favorite with Kenyon topping the list. The Dark Hunter series are absolutely fantastic feeding both my fantasy-thirsty imagination and my romantic side. Zarek, Vane, Valerius and every single one of the characters captivated me. Now I'm just waiting for Ash.

BUT! There's always a but, isn't there? As Mrs. Gaskell would point out through Mr. Thornton (*smirks*)

The series made me want more. More of the genre, more wll written stuff. I joined the boards she has on her site and a few ladies over there pointed out another series to me.

AND HERE'S THE POINT OF THIS POST!

The Black Dagger Brotherhood.

You want darkness? Fantasy? Horror sometimes? Romance as well? (and of course a HEA) This is for you.

Great writing skills by J.R. Ward the author of the series, and I do mean GREAT! If you consider the fact that even James is hooked you'll know that by our different tastes in books that almost everyone will enjoy this.

Why I'm pimping you'll ask? Well, put it this way, I really haven't read anything that gripped e so much as this series since HP. And yeah I do get gripped easily but not this much.

So yeah I'd say (especially to Squiggles cos she likes this kind of books and I know it) Go grab Dark Lover to start off, and then it's Lover Eternal, Lover Awakened and the new one Lover Revealed.

I've never shamelessly pimped before but the above boos are sooo worth it.

P.I.M.P. Signing off,

Greta

P.S. When you read those tell me what you think, true? *grins like the devil...*

Pilfered from a Jeep

2007-02-22T23:54:04Z

Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me.

It can only be one word. No more.

Then copy & paste this in your journal so that I may leave a word about you.

greta_prewett @ 2007-02-23T01:05:00

2007-02-22T23:04:06Z

Create your own Friend Test here

Perfect Nightmares

2007-01-16T23:55:12Z

Ok let's break those two apart, shall we?

What is it? Well, simple. My dad gets sick 'cause of me and it's the flu. And then he can't breathe and we get him to the hopital. Where they keep him and it's been almost a week. While he's in there he gets better....Lots of better. And yes, Thank God for that.

BUT! (yes, there is a but...as Mrs. Gaskell would say)

He gets better...yes...I'm repeating myself but while he's in there, mom has that forlorn look on her face and is unable to do stuff, sister lives in an island and works and can't be here, SIL has a baby to manage and protect from sickness, brother works and can't be here cos he can't get sick too. So who's in charge? Oh, yes, you guessed it. The Baby Sister. Me. And while I really don't think I've been whiny about it, now I'm ranting? Why? 'Cause even after I've been there, when I finally sat by dad's bed and wanted to spend my time there while he slept reading my book, he started on me. Nagging on what rubbish books I read, and why I spend money on them etc etc etc So, yeah, hardly enough sleep, exhaustion and nagging?

Isn't that a nightmare?

Well...that's it... I'll be back when I have time....that's in case you miss me.

greta_prewett @ 2006-12-04T17:29:00

2006-12-04T14:29:33Z

Hee....isn't my nephew all cute and fluffy and very very very nice? Heh...thought so...runs in the family....

And by the way the eyes are a gray/blue similar to the little jacket he's wearing...I think his eyes will devastate women in the future...heee....me too methinks. LOL

greta_prewett @ 2006-11-14T03:03:00

2006-11-14T00:03:33Z

MY NEPHEW WAS BORN ON OCT
22nd!!!! Click and admire people!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's soooo cute with big deep blue eyes.....heee.....Am a CRAZY AUNTIE!!!

Fics and...ok I won't type what rhymed with that...

2006-09-04T19:47:27Z

OK guys...here's the thing...remember my fic? Eternal Rival...well it has recaptured my interest. I've started not only writing it, but giving it all sorts of twists and nice things to make it nicer. I hope it turns out all right. Now what I don't know is whether people like it.

A LOT of people turn away after reading the Prologue where *SPOILER*

I have Percy turning to the Dark Side...

So I need your opinion...Is this too far fetched. Is this something that would turn you away from reading a fic?

The Poll is below. I'd appreciate it if you left comments elaborating....

Cheers! Greta

greta_prewett @ 2006-09-04T22:46:00

2006-09-04T19:45:57Z

View Poll: Fics

We didn't Start the Fandom

2006-08-13T20:34:11Z

^^^^^^^^^My feelings exactly. Watch it and learn, people....or not.

P.S. To the one who created this...BIG KUDOS

greta_prewett @ 2006-06-24T17:09:00

2006-06-24T14:09:23Z

Ok Here's the thing....you should never....EVER be as curious as I am. LOL

The thing is my Beta from PS.net, pirateginny (Hey Jenn! I just friended you! :-D ) she just dropped a JournalFen community name in her email the other day, saying how absorbed she was in reading. And I couldn't help myself. I went there...and guess what? I found out more about the HP fandom than I ever knew (and parts of what I didn't wish to know. For anyone who's interest it's bad_penny alright.)

Take care kids! I know I've ranted before about psychos in the Fanfiction Potterverse, but this one was.....wow. I was so enthralled in charlottelennox's narration that I read all the chapters at once. Very, very disturbing thing, mind you, as the truth always is.

I'd like to wish every one who was involved with this things to quickly forget them and move on, but what I'd really really like to see is for everyone of us, authors and readers of HP fanfiction, to just stop.

Stop worshiping authors. There's no need to. Someone writes a cool story? That's great! They're cool writers, but that doesn't mean that they are Gods. I happen to know several people who have written great stories. Some of them well, some of them not. The thing is, that even though I talk to them and compliment them on their stories, I draw the line there. They do NOT lead me , they are not role models. I admire them and that's it.

Granted, I have friends in our fandom. Many friends that happen to be some excellent writers. And yes, I have defended them, gave and took advise and am proud they are my friends. Not my leaders, not my followers.

Yes, I may not be a BNF (or whatever we call it these days) and yes, I would like people to like my stories. But the point is: I'm not going to be depressed over that. I'm not going to go wild trying to promote myself. Let my stories do that, if they are good enough then that's it.

Deal with it people.

It's not about the sound of the bang you make, it's about the debris after that.

greta_prewett @ 2006-05-25T23:24:00

2006-05-25T20:23:27Z

Ok Once again, the movie meme! You know the rules now! I promise though that it is easier than James' last one!

Movie1:

Character1 :" But she is unique! 5'10, braids, great legs and... she's a man! "
Operator: In San Francisco, that is not unique!

Movie 2:

Did you ever stick your arms out and spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like.

Movie 3:

Oh, isn't there someone else you can annoy? Friends? Family? Poisonous reptiles?

Movie 4:

Character: A cute button nose? Thick, wavy locks? Taut, round buttocks? I'm...
Maiden #1: Handsome.
Maiden #2: I'll say.

Movie 5:

Character One: Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home... they marry the
good guy.
Character Two: I can be the good guy.

Character One: _____, the good guy sticks around.

__________________________________________________

Wanna try?

It's mine of course...not stolen at all....(half-mine anyway....ohhh ok...it's Jeep's)

2006-05-22T18:01:43Z

The Movie Meme

I’ll list 5 quotes from movies, you guess the movie and I’ll mark them off. Extra points if you get the character.

No IMDB or Google, where’s the fun in that?

Jack, steal, gack away.

31:Character: Get this man a doctor!
Security Guard: What about him?
Character:[fires gun] He's dead.

(and to make it easier if it's not apparent enought: "Character1:I just killed a man!
Character2: I just bought a hat. "

#2: "Enough. Enough now. " (very general I know but it really was touching)

#3:Character 1:"Say it, I'm doomed."
Character 2: "You're doomed"

#4:"I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." (ROFL)

#5: Character 1: "Watch out for the weirdos, girls. "
Character 2: "We are the weirdos, mister. "

Hope you like it...:)

Shamelessly stolen from Zayne and SarahLuna

2006-03-31T09:07:42Z

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 10 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from. NO USING GOOGLE TO GUESS. I will know.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

Now, rem ember these songs maybe weird...

1.So now I'm down and, oh, my soul's so weary....
2.There you are, in a darkened room and you're all alone looking out the window
3. ~~And I'd give up forever to touch you...cos I know that you feel me somehow.~~ (:-D)
4.You were right, I don't wanna be here if you're gonna be there...
5.Every endless night has a dawning day, every darkest sky has a shining ray
6. ~~Do you wanna go back to the way we were/ do you wanna stay how it used to be? (Do you wanna pretend that the Dark Lord didn't come back? LMAO)~~
7.~~Eres como una prediccion de las buenas~~
8.~~I wanted to be like you, I wanted everything~~
9.The way you're bathed in light, reminds me of that night...
10.~~No me preguntes mas por mi,Si ya sabes cual es la respuesta..~~

Hehe...some are so hard to guess...:-D

greta_prewett @ 2006-03-22T23:50:00

2006-03-22T21:49:53Z

I don't think I'll ever see things the way they are intended.

I try, I really do, to make things better all the time, but sometimes it just doesn't feel enough. People keep thinking that I am simply silly for trying to see things in an optimistic perspective. I don't think I am silly though. Have you ever fought for things in your life that seemed impossible? I do that every day. Who knows? Maybe some day it will all come down to whether you fight or not, and not about the outcome.

If it is so then I'd llike to believe I'll be a 'winner'. Yes, I may not be the brightest of the lot, and yes, I certainly am not the most responsible one (God bless me, especially with money), but I do know this:

I am a dreamer, at times even more so than I should be.
I am a fighter...for my dreams to come true of course.
I am in love with the idea of love emboded in a certain person, and no matter how crazy or silly that may sound, I do not give a damn.
I am hopeful, at all times for all things.
I am resourceful when things don't go the way I want them to.
I am happy even though I am slightly overweight.
I am sensitive and mellodramatic most of the times.
I am spunky with people I know and shy around people I don't know.
I am overprotective to a fault, and get carried away by everyone that I trust.
and I do trust people easily.

I needed to say the above things, because for once, I'd like to see them in writing. I am not all faults...at least I hope not.

And even though what people always say and keep saying might be true, (and I DO truly know that some things they say, are true about me) I just needed to list my good qualities because not many people have pointed them out to me or anyone in the past.

Yes, I may not be the brightest nor the cleverest of the lot, but you can't say I'm modest, can you?

That's me...How about you?

Greta

I am A Burden...

2006-03-07T14:49:49Z

Yes...I am. Infact I don't know what everyone thought when they allowed me to come into this world. Ok, maybe as a baby I was nice...but after I grew up? Bleh..

I'm so irresponsible, you know? Everyone always told me so, but oh well, I just ignored it. Consequently I am a burden...all us irresponsible people are. Whenever I get a job, I just spend my money unwise and quit my lessons in school. Irrespondible.

Whenever I quit a job to devote my time to school I'm a slacker. What if I pass my exams whenever I'm not working that is. Who cares? I should be in control of my life. I should be like other girls and go shopping instead spending my money in cabs and phone bills. But if I buy a shirt more than I have to...BEEEP irresponsible again.

I go out= "We never see you here at home"
I stay in= "Get out more!!!"

We may have almsot literally supported your sister until now her late 20s but YOU! You made us pay phone bills!You were always the rebel! You might have saved us the schol money by getting into a government uni (which is the best Greece can offer and it's free) BUT you always spend money!"

The money I earn from the job...well I am immature about it...

Irresponsible! Stupid! Unrestrained! Impossible!Immature! Slacker!

Worthless!

BURDEN!

I wish I was home...