Perhaps I should take up basket weaving.

[seiberwing]

I seem to have the odd hobby of occasionally going into the library, searching the electronic catalogue for the most random subjects ("horror movies", "dvil worship" or "psychology of freaks", for example) and then poking around that section for a good half hour or more.

The problem is that most of the time texts on even the most interesting of topics come out extremely dry and boring. I'd like to find whoever decided that intellectual meant dull and slap them with a wet fish.

And, to my great chagrin, "Entertaining Satan" was not a how-to guide. Very frustrating.

EDIT: Because I haven't got enough memes as it is.

What do you think are the quote-unquote "trademarks" of the fiction that I write? What type of themes or characterization notes or quirks keep on manifesting in my writing? Essentially, what do you think is a stereotypically "seiberwing" way of writing fic?

Comments

[cutiebirdgal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do that occasionally... I checked out an anthology of all the horror movie monsters once. And a book I picked up on 'the changing teenage sex scene' ended up being the stupidest thing I'd ever read. Being a teenager at the time, it reflected the sex scene of, maybe, the girls who enjoyed blowing half the football team rather than anyone I'd actually hang out with. If anyone was reading that to actually find out what their teenager was doing, I pity them.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

The "changing teenage sex scene"? What the hell was that about?

[cutiebirdgal.livejournal.com]

It was about how teenagers are promiscuous, as far as I could tell. I read up until they apparently interviewed some girl who was talking about how she talks with other girls in the locker room about how every guy's penis looks different and how it's 'really interesting.' They gave the impression (or maybe stated it, it's been a while) that they were finding this fact of life out through personal inspection.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I must get my hands on this book. And a lighter.

And I fail to see what's so interesting about a penis. I mean...well, it's just a bit of floppy meat that becomes a stiffer bit of meat and it's actually a bit icky if you think about it too long.

[moulinmeerkat.livejournal.com]

WHICH IS WHY THINKING IS NOT OPTION FOR THESE TYPE OF GIRLS GOOD GODS FIND THIS BOOK AND STAB IT.....*vent is over*

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

*offers complete collection of blades, laser guns, magical devices, and whatever Blackout keeps in his closet*

[navigatorsghost.livejournal.com]

Blackout: *looks in closet on your behalf* *rummages through collection of duster coats, suitcase of emergency cash and fake ID, a few spare black market guns that various boyfriends have dumped there over the years, and a really scary assortment of blades, sex toys and things that appear to combine both these functions* ...anything you can use, my dear, do go ahead.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Which one's got the most blades and a safety guard for my hands? Or should I simply request a Cuisinart?

[navigatorsghost.livejournal.com]

Blackout: *...raises an eyebrow and wordlessly offers you a chainsaw*

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

*tugs on the pull-tab and grins wildly*

[cutiebirdgal.livejournal.com]

It's in the Oak Ridge library. Can be accessed by typing 'sex' into the catalogue computer. It's a bit old, but the idea that girls would be doing this in any era still frightens me.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing it. Although there is a book by Ann Coulter.

[cutiebirdgal.livejournal.com]

If you restrict your search to nonfiction, there's a book that comes up called "Teens and Sex" that's probably it.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Found it.

That bad, huh?

[navigatorsghost.livejournal.com]

I'll never understand that point of view, y'know? Penises are interesting. They feel kinda like warm silk and they twitch all on their own and they fit into the hollow of your hip just so when their owner is cuddling you. They're nice.

...although come to think of it, the likeableness of a penis is pretty much directly proportional to the likeableness of its owner. So I suppose there's that to take into account...

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

...

*cannot resist the urge to giggle madly and make my roommate even more disturbed by me than she already is*

They do? Seriously? Cause that entire image is putting me flat on the floor.

[navigatorsghost.livejournal.com]

Do what, twitch? Yep. That's the whole high blood pressure/soft tissue combination at work. Make a guy's heart go thump hard enough, and simple hydraulics will do the rest. *grin*

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

And I always thought that was rhetoric in bad sexfics. O_O

Although a combination of that and the warm silk thing. It just sounds utterly bizarre.

[navigatorsghost.livejournal.com]

It's all true, I tell you! ^_^

(And I totally don't have a relevant icon. I'll use the Slaanesh one again...)

[apprentice-lurk.livejournal.com]

They feel kinda like warm silk and they twitch all on their own and they fit into the hollow of your hip just so when their owner is cuddling you. They're nice.

Maybe, but I'd still rather have a kitten.

[navigatorsghost.livejournal.com]

...okay, YOU keep the kitten, I'll be over HERE thinking about all the places I don't want claws dug into me, thanks. O____________O

[apprentice-lurk.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Each to their own, I suppose. ;)

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Never mind that certain slang for cat is also slang for femalebits...

[apprentice-lurk.livejournal.com]

Ugh, don't. You wouldn't believe the amount of comments relating to said bit of slang, people's mothers and various unsavoury habits I deal with at work... XP

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

One of my friends says, "That's what your mom said!" so much that I begin to reflexively think it on occasion.