How have we lived without this for so long? *ponders*

[rubykatewriting]

pun has come up with something fandom has been decidedly lacking: a code.

As she explains it: [It's] about those times when you meet someone and she says something, maybe it's a just a word like "snark" or "woobie" or maybe it's a comment on how lickable she finds David Tennant, and you think, "hmmm, one of us?" But maybe you're at the office, or, say, your dojang, and you really don't want to just blunder forward with the fic'ing and the man love and all the wonderful insanity of this place we call fandom. What to do then? What to do?

So. Are you a friend of Kirk?

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[briary-flower.livejournal.com]

So many things are already taken; colour coded bandanas, various shirts, secret handshakes ...

Was that the correct use of a semi colon? I haven't used one in five years so I'm not sure I'm entitled to use it anymore.


Sent you loads of pics. xoxoxo

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

Per my English professor last month: nope. You have to have two independent clauses on either side of the semi-colon in order for it be correct. HOWEVER, he did admit when he was grading my research paper (this was after I had divulged my desire to be a REAL!PUBLISHED!AUTHOR!) that he said fiction writers are allowed to get away with a more liberal usage of the semi-colon.

For all that I loathe Woolf, I loves me some semi-colons. Rae has the same problem. When she sent me her final big paper for her AP English class, she told me, "Make sure I didn't overuse the semi-colon. I already took out like twenty."

I got the beep on my Blackberry, re: pics. This is the problem with said device. You can access your email but not fully, and then I'm off to look. I'm SO supposed to be working right now, but OMG, I want to SQUISH them both!

[briary-flower.livejournal.com]

Imagine them both squishing me and you'll have a more accurate picture of the balance of power around here.

I was just remembering semi-colon addiction. I think most tyro writers go through it.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

Imagine them both squishing me and you'll have a more accurate picture of the balance of power around here.
That sounds like my relationship with my godmother and her niece. We were her "kids," only she got to send us home at the end of the day, so we got anything and everything.

Hold it - "tyro writers"? What am I missing here?

[briary-flower.livejournal.com]

(I love it so much that you're in school. I'm going to be thinking through you from now on. Ask your prof what his position on the present tense is. I lost my good lit theory quote and I need to firm up my argument.)

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

(HEE. I will, although perhaps I'll ask when/if I see him tomorrow night to drop off my essay.)

OH! Did I tell you about the MFA program at UT Austin (that's where I want to get my bachelors)? OMG! SO FUCKING AWESOME! A) They help you out financially with fellowships and teaching assistantships; and B) unlike NYU's program, their MFA program in Creative Writing requires the study of two GENRES, i.e. your primary could be in fiction with a secondary in poetry, screenwriting or playwriting.

Not to mention the allure of staying put for a few years, especially as I am so not keen on moving in 2010, then again in 2012, BUT I'm still keeping NYC as a post-grad school option.

[myhappyface.livejournal.com]

That code would be perfect for me.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

Hey there, Kirk AND Spock! MAJOR LOLZ. Yeah, I think it was just about tailor-made for you.

[allthingsholy.livejournal.com]

Alright, I want a "Are you a friend of Kirk?" button, like, twenty minutes ago. FO' REALZ.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

RIGHT? I want to make t-shirts out of this shit. IT'S RIDIC.

[blahblahologist.livejournal.com]

I love this idea! Although I'm not sure that it will spread around non-scifi fandoms...

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

As if I have any say in the matter: I say it should. Even if you're not a fan of Star Trek, this works. Come on, if babbeh and belleh and all that other nonsensical LOLer talk can infect the internets to the point I'M even doing it, then this can too!