I hope that was a totally-supportive, everyone-makes-mistakes, wouldn't-dream-of-mocking-the-ignorant howl.
Actually, no. I hope it was a howl completely at my expense; I certainly howled a bit when I realized what I'd done.
Excellent warnings, let me say. The characterizations can indeed be bad, though I don't think I've ever encountered Girly!Blair (actually, I'm probably repressing the memory).
And, oh, god, how could I forget to warn them about angst? Some authors in this canon ramp the angst level up past "Anne Rice under a pseudonym," past "Victorian melodrama," past soap opera, and past 11, all the way up to "16-year-old suburban loner girls who write lots of unrhymed poetry and have just had their hearts broken for the first time."
Though, actually, there are places on the dial even higher than that. Early Professionals slash, for example, combines purple prose and extreme angst to create a writing style I like to call "bruise."
Huh. Maybe there is a reason (beyond my fundamental stupidity) that I got the two shows confused.
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Actually, no. I hope it was a howl completely at my expense; I certainly howled a bit when I realized what I'd done.
Excellent warnings, let me say. The characterizations can indeed be bad, though I don't think I've ever encountered Girly!Blair (actually, I'm probably repressing the memory).
And, oh, god, how could I forget to warn them about angst? Some authors in this canon ramp the angst level up past "Anne Rice under a pseudonym," past "Victorian melodrama," past soap opera, and past 11, all the way up to "16-year-old suburban loner girls who write lots of unrhymed poetry and have just had their hearts broken for the first time."
Though, actually, there are places on the dial even higher than that. Early Professionals slash, for example, combines purple prose and extreme angst to create a writing style I like to call "bruise."
Huh. Maybe there is a reason (beyond my fundamental stupidity) that I got the two shows confused.