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pet peeve #1: when people use "literally" as an intensifier, and not to explain that they aren't speaking figuratively. drives me totally crazy. note how I didn't say "literally crazy" there, because I actually still am in possession of my faculties.
pet peeve #2: slightly similar to the above. when people say something is a "fake cut" and it's not. A fake cut is when you make it look like you've cut-tagged something, but it's actually a link to a different livejournal entry or a different website entirely. However, people use the term when they've just linked something. to be a fake cut, it has to be bold, and in parentheses. And I think there might be a space between the text and the parentheses, but I'm not sure. A regular link, or even a link in parentheses, is not a fake cut. It has to make the viewer think it is a cut tag. People are always calling regular links fake cuts. No!
Also, people are very sloppy with apostrophes. I find myself making plurals possessive occasionally, so i really shouldn't be criticizing this in others, but it does make you (and me, presumably) look very stupid.
Anyways. I was going to write about what an awesome time i had in the city yesterday with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snortney08, and how amazing it was to see phantom and go backstage and meet the phantom!! but there's lightning so i need to shut the computer soon and you will all have to be in suspense!
oh, also! I really wish I hadn't just read the latest three issues of Robin. I really. . . obviously, I haven't gotten to read that much with Cass, the new Batgirl, because I've missed the past two years of comics. And her series started to suck before that. So I gathered that things were changing for her, that she was becoming more sort of normal and able to communicate and all that. But. . . she was sweet and charming and I really enjoyed the beginning of her series. The. . . what was it, the Puckett, Scott, Campanella times? Very good. I associate it in my mind with the Brubaker/Cooke and Brubaker/Stewart issues of Catwoman. Anyway, Cass. It was like, even though she had such a hard time doing people things, she was so sweet and there was a sort of innocence and, well, trustworthiness about her. :-/ Sad.
Also, I mourn Impulse. I mean, more than Superboy. Well, ok, that makes sense because I'm a bigger fan, but I'm warming to Kon. What I really mean is that it seems like Impulse is more dead than Superboy. SB could come back, but this stupid Kid Flash character has completely taken over Bart's body. Again--charm: destroyed.
pet peeve #2: slightly similar to the above. when people say something is a "fake cut" and it's not. A fake cut is when you make it look like you've cut-tagged something, but it's actually a link to a different livejournal entry or a different website entirely. However, people use the term when they've just linked something. to be a fake cut, it has to be bold, and in parentheses. And I think there might be a space between the text and the parentheses, but I'm not sure. A regular link, or even a link in parentheses, is not a fake cut. It has to make the viewer think it is a cut tag. People are always calling regular links fake cuts. No!
Also, people are very sloppy with apostrophes. I find myself making plurals possessive occasionally, so i really shouldn't be criticizing this in others, but it does make you (and me, presumably) look very stupid.
Anyways. I was going to write about what an awesome time i had in the city yesterday with
snortney08, and how amazing it was to see phantom and go backstage and meet the phantom!! but there's lightning so i need to shut the computer soon and you will all have to be in suspense!oh, also! I really wish I hadn't just read the latest three issues of Robin. I really. . . obviously, I haven't gotten to read that much with Cass, the new Batgirl, because I've missed the past two years of comics. And her series started to suck before that. So I gathered that things were changing for her, that she was becoming more sort of normal and able to communicate and all that. But. . . she was sweet and charming and I really enjoyed the beginning of her series. The. . . what was it, the Puckett, Scott, Campanella times? Very good. I associate it in my mind with the Brubaker/Cooke and Brubaker/Stewart issues of Catwoman. Anyway, Cass. It was like, even though she had such a hard time doing people things, she was so sweet and there was a sort of innocence and, well, trustworthiness about her. :-/ Sad.
Also, I mourn Impulse. I mean, more than Superboy. Well, ok, that makes sense because I'm a bigger fan, but I'm warming to Kon. What I really mean is that it seems like Impulse is more dead than Superboy. SB could come back, but this stupid Kid Flash character has completely taken over Bart's body. Again--charm: destroyed.
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Date: 2006-06-03 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-03 05:57 am (UTC)And yes! that is another one! I mean, lots of things about internet grammar and communication bother me (although a friend of mine hates when people don't capitalize and I do that all the time, so that's one thing that I let slip). It just makes people look so stupid! But the above are things that I really rage about ;)
hola
Date: 2006-06-05 04:31 pm (UTC)i got your phone message! haha so sorry to not call you back about it. i didnt get it till Saturday but by then you had seen that i had posted on lj so you knew i was alive. so now i am on lunch break at work and maybe you are too? and i thought i would drop you a lline. it was so much fun on thurs. the phantom is a sexy sexy man. tho i do wish i could have met raoul (spelling?). but yes. good fun. my brother had a really good time- even tho he was grouchy and tired and seemingly ungrateful the whole time. and jen left the next day so the rest of the weekend was a lot niceer. and iam getting better at navigating the city. i havent figured out the subway yet tho. that is my next step.
holy smokes i am drinking hot chocolate during the summer and it is delicious! my secret........add like 5 packets of it in one cup! wallllaaah!
hokay- lunch break is sadly ovah- but i will tlak to you soon- thanks for checking in to make sure we made it back safely- we luckily had no problems at all and had a safe drive home. also it was good to see good ole Sy Bram again! i love your dad, he is the best.
alrighties- talk to you soon. l8r.
Re: hola
Date: 2006-06-06 03:00 am (UTC)And yes! Impulse is one of the Flash family! He's one of my favorite characters. I forget how much they tell you about him, but he was aging super-fast, so he was raised in virtual reality in the 30th century, so he could sort of mentally keep up with his age. But because it's VR, nothing bad ever really happened to him and he doesn't understand that actions have consequences. So now he's aging normally and he's in our time. And he's really sweet, but, you know, impulsive. And his comic was really entertaining, and he was great in Young Justice, a team comic and my favorite ever. And then both his title and YJ were cancelled, and he's in this new team comic that still hurts to think about Teen Titans, which replaced Young Justice. And the writer of that decided it was time to make Impulse grow up, so he had Impulse become Kid Flash, and read an entire library and he's really smart and serious and pretty much a COMPLETELY different character now and it makes me really really sad.
I'm glad you guys had a good time! I will teach you about the subway soon! Although I still have a lot to learn, I only know a few lines. But I've gotten pretty good at figuring it out.
I drink hot chocolate during summer too! But that's cos the DOB building is soooo air conditioned. And I can't add as many packets as I want cos I buy it from a street vendor--a new guy this summer! I met him for the first time today, he seems really nice! :D