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Jan. 31st, 2005 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spankerellaGot a LOVELY email today. I went a little like this...
i think you should add more to the story
eternal sunshine of the slytherin mind
will you please do that. please email me back with your answer
I wonder if this was what they had in mind for a reply...
You know, my first impulse was to tell you where to put this... right up your wazoo... right where the sun don't shine. Not to be rude, but I really don't care what you think I ought to be doing. It's MY life not yours. I can do what I please with it. I can choose never to write fic again, and that would be my right. I am not writing much fic right now. My mother has cancer. I had to move back home. I am her caretaker, so writing parts to fics isn't really high on my list of priorities just now. I know you likely knew none of this, which is why I am NOT biting your head off figuratively right now, because believe me... I could have been MUCH nastier. I have a whole life offline. Most fic writers do. I don't get paid for fic, so with all due respect... get off my back about it. I'm worried about my mom. I'm stressed out, and I'm cranky as all hell. So unless you want me to unleash a little on you, I'd let up about it. Now is so not a good time for you to be ordering me about. Well, it's never a good time for that because I don't take "requests" and I don't like being told what to do. It's rude and disrespectful, and I am ending this reply before I tell you what I really think in a fit of temper.
echo
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1) "I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."
E. Eleanor Roosevelt
2) "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
D. Dorothy Parker
3) "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
A. Elizabeth Taylor
4) "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
H. Hedy Lamarr
5) "All I ever wanted to be was myself."
C. Rita Hayworth
6) "Well-behaved women rarely make history."
G. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
7) "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
J. Helen Keller
8) "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
I. Janis Joplin
9) "The best way to behave is to misbehave."
F. Mae West
10) "I know I've been a perfect bitch. But I couldn't help myself."
B. Bette Davis
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eta: I posted a Dawn/Michael mini for the FFA today. I am 10 away from my goal of 50. I have written 6 for the Valentine's theme. The latest is here...
http://www.tthfanfic.com/story.php?no=6162&chapter=6
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i think you should add more to the story
eternal sunshine of the slytherin mind
will you please do that. please email me back with your answer
I wonder if this was what they had in mind for a reply...
You know, my first impulse was to tell you where to put this... right up your wazoo... right where the sun don't shine. Not to be rude, but I really don't care what you think I ought to be doing. It's MY life not yours. I can do what I please with it. I can choose never to write fic again, and that would be my right. I am not writing much fic right now. My mother has cancer. I had to move back home. I am her caretaker, so writing parts to fics isn't really high on my list of priorities just now. I know you likely knew none of this, which is why I am NOT biting your head off figuratively right now, because believe me... I could have been MUCH nastier. I have a whole life offline. Most fic writers do. I don't get paid for fic, so with all due respect... get off my back about it. I'm worried about my mom. I'm stressed out, and I'm cranky as all hell. So unless you want me to unleash a little on you, I'd let up about it. Now is so not a good time for you to be ordering me about. Well, it's never a good time for that because I don't take "requests" and I don't like being told what to do. It's rude and disrespectful, and I am ending this reply before I tell you what I really think in a fit of temper.
echo
*~*~*~*
1) "I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."
E. Eleanor Roosevelt
2) "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
D. Dorothy Parker
3) "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
A. Elizabeth Taylor
4) "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
H. Hedy Lamarr
5) "All I ever wanted to be was myself."
C. Rita Hayworth
6) "Well-behaved women rarely make history."
G. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
7) "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
J. Helen Keller
8) "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
I. Janis Joplin
9) "The best way to behave is to misbehave."
F. Mae West
10) "I know I've been a perfect bitch. But I couldn't help myself."
B. Bette Davis
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eta: I posted a Dawn/Michael mini for the FFA today. I am 10 away from my goal of 50. I have written 6 for the Valentine's theme. The latest is here...
http://www.tthfanfic.com/story.php?no=6162&chapter=6
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Date: 2005-02-01 05:13 am (UTC)Hope you have a wonderful day. My monkey suit is at the dry cleaners (I'm being serious) so that's out of the question, but my nastiness can come out full throttle. My fuse is too short today.
And hey! Number seven I knew! Go Helen (cousin to one of my aunt's uncles or something like that...eh, we're related, so there ya go.
*hugs*
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Date: 2005-02-01 08:16 pm (UTC)You're related to Helen Keller? That's awesome. I got really into her for being so smart when I was in the fourth grade. I have read various biographies on her. Some more than once. I wrote a paper on her in middle scholl that earned my the highest composition grade I ever received. I even learned some sign language. I know the whole manuel alphabet still. I have seen both Miracle Worker movies (Patty Duke, Melissa Gilbert) and I have seen the play once on the stage. In high school I played Helen in The Miracle Worker when we did scenes from several famous plays. So my thing there goes very deep. It's a thing few people know about me.
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Date: 2005-02-01 08:21 pm (UTC)Helen is *very* distantly related, but it's there. My aunt (dad's sister) decided on a whim (weirdo) to trace back the Keller line. She did so--to about the 1500's I think (I'm German and Swedish, *snicker*) and I saw the name Helen. I did some digging, and lo and behold--sign language star.
I, too, have done reports on Helen. The woman just plain amazes me. I know quite a bit of sign language. I can't sign fluently, but I can carry on a broken conversation.
**Cool fact: In the 1600's, I found a name: Lara Kehler. I'm a twin!
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Date: 2005-02-01 08:16 am (UTC)The fic is great. Made me giggle. As for the "asshat", brake out those "flying monkeys" if you need. Some of us at this house are a bit blood thristy. ;)
Always;
J.L.
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Date: 2005-02-01 08:09 pm (UTC)And thanks for this and the other. I think I'll hang on to the other for a bit. You need any other children? I'm up for adoption. LOL.
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Date: 2005-02-02 09:49 am (UTC)Demanding Fans
Date: 2005-02-02 12:16 pm (UTC)but I have been worrying for you and sending good wishes
your way in the hopes that things get better for you. It's what my family does, we are champion worriers. I hope that this lets you know you're not alone, and I wish any and every hope that things will get better to even the smallest degree. I do not assume to understand even five minutes of what you go through on a daily basis.
I do hope that your reply let off a little steam, maybe even made you feel better for all of five minutes. I was in awe of your writing talent for the longest time, and now that I have found out what you're going through, you amaze me even more. Not many would do for their mother's what you are doing for yours. You are a wonderful human being and I'm sure your mom knows that too.
I hope my simple comments didn't intrude too much on your day, you have better things to do than deal with sappy comments from me. I'd say more, but likely you've heard all the polite, well-meaning phrases about a billion times, each one heart-felt but just making you want to scream. So, I'll leave now and I hope that I've put the smallest of smiles on your face when you've given me ever so many.
Angela B
bookyb@interbaun.com (if you want to vent about stupid fans, I'll listen, it's one of my few talents.)