The Office Chart #20

Beautiful songs for what I hope are some beautiful chapters.

It's struck me I am listening to the same music over and over again, writing House of Cards. It's as if it's a movie in my head, so some songs become "Toshiya's theme" and some become "Kyo's theme", and some start to get associated with certain settings, and so on.

So maybe they add something; who knows?

If you feel like having literally MINUTES of fun you can try and match up the song with the character or setting. Har har har.

1. The Rip - Portishead (low fi 101, perfectly simple)
2. Gentle Hour - Yo La Tengo
3. Try Try Try - The Smashing Pumpkins (and it's simpler alternate version. its redneck cousin, if you will. and YOU WILL.)
4. Something In The Way - Nirvana
5. Ana - Pixies
6. Afraid of Everyone - The National
7. Falling for You - Weezer*
8. E-bow - Sigur Ros**
9. Amber - Dir en Grey


*'Pinkerton' is the best Weezer album, and I ain't even mad
**Sung in a made-up language based on the vocal sounds of the band's native Icelandic, and all the better for it

Questions AND answers

It's a Q&A! Only with one question, and one answer. And the answer doesn't answer the question. I'm asking you the question.

Q: When I was scrabbling round for Gazette source information, one of you lovely folk gave me a link to a tumblr that translates Aoi and Ruki's tweets.

I went back as far as I dared in my inbox (suffice to say I have never cleared it out and there is just so much weird stuff in there) and I still can't seem to find out who that person was. I feel like I need to thank them all over again because Aoi's tweets give me life with their (tragically accidental) hilarity.

[Although they are trying to inspire me for something and that needs to stop RIGHT NOW because of House of Cards and my inability to multitask. They are trying to make me write a fic in which he understands nothing and everything is a nightmare~ drama~ and then somebody slaps some sense into him; like As Good As It Gets, but with stupidity.]

So if you are that person and you want an imaginary bouquet of flowers that you can show off to all your friends, please come forward and accept my lovings.

I think this person also said that they found the dynamic in most Aoi/Uruha fics problematic because Aoi is also presented as this majorly aloof sex symbol whom Uruha desperately craves in a girlish fashion, and I didn't even realise how much I agreed with that until I looked at House of Cards and saw how I am starting to write the relationship dynamic.


A: It's not really an answer, but it's something I have to address.

In my entry a few days ago about the new LJ 'who's in your journal' feature, I made some jokes about feeling paranoid about the strangers who consistently visit my journal.

But these were jokes.

Because of the amount of worried messages I've been getting, I'd just like to clarify: no, I'm not mad at anyone. I don't know why I would be. Yes, I love getting feedback, and when I'm insecure about what I've written I can feel like I need to get feedback, but that doesn't mean that I hate you because you don't comment. On the contrary, I love the idea that I have way more readers than I ever thought.

As for those who take the time and push themselves to comment regularly, maybe you don't know how grateful I am.

But one day soon I will come for you. Maybe not today - maybe not even tomorrow.
But soon.
And you will know I am The Lord when I lay my hand upon you

But seriously, I take critique too. Critique is the only chance I have of fixing the problems that bother you. I am absolutely happy to recieve critique in the comments, but please don't message me saying "your writing has done this wrong for X Y and Z fics". Ya could have helped me and you kept quiet all that time? In this case, I won't fix it out of pure spite.

SIMILARLY, AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: if you are these people who have never left a comment, never established any dialogue with me - do not suddenly start messaging me telling me how "unfair" it is that I don't focus on shipping YOUR OTPs. Don't you dare write to me and say how stupid it is that I "waste my time" writing AU.
Here's a bit of trivia for you: THERE ARE ACTUALLY NO HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THESE BAND MEMBERS AND THEREFORE IT IS ALL AU. THE BANDIEST OF BANDFICS IS AU BECAUSE IT. ISN'T. REAL.
These people: you know who you are. I don't owe you anything. I have lots of lovely readers who are able to frame these types of thoughts as requests - "I would love to see what you think of X pairing", "a bandfic could be interesting" - and these? These are the ones I'm going to take notice of.

TL;DR: strangers, please be nice and remember that I don't actually owe you anything. regular commenters, thank you for ever and be aware that I owe you everything.