Reposting a personal classic
Feb. 24th, 2004 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiAbout once a year I get reminded to repost an MST3K that I wrote a number of years ago.
Some background, for the newer readers:
Like a number of you, I used to belong to a listserv called Tamson House, an online gathering place for Charles de Lint fans. In early 2001, we had a guy join who was the fluffiest fluffbunny I'd ever seen. All of his posts were unintelligible and pretentious wannabe goth fluffybunny garbage. I killfiled him soon, as did almost everyone else. Eventually, not getting any responses to his bizarre writings, he left in a huff.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong later pointed out his webpage, where he keeps his "fiction." It was more than unreadable. It was an affront to nature and good writing everywhere. I felt a need to MST3K one of the stories -- I picked the one at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/4975/Mushroom.html -- and made an attempt.
It was harder than I thought. Making one snarky comment is easy. Making dozens, maybe hundreds, of them is tough. Worse, I had to read that story at least four times all the way through. Without any humerous comments. It's not easy. Even worse, as an editor, my instinct was to fix Sindar's writing whenever possible, which kind of defeated the point. In the end, I made no changes to his work whatsoever.
Upon finishing it, 'song and the other folks I sent this to liked it a lot. And frankly, I'm pretty proud of it myself, as it was the first vaguely creative thing I did in years (even if it did involve ripping into another author's work). And there are moments that still make me giggle (yeah, I laugh at my own jokes. Someone has to).
Anyway, here it is:
http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/~alipkin/mushroom.htm
Enjoy!
(For some reason, the characters have some display problems on Netscape and Mozilla. Works fine on my Mac on Safari, and it used to work just fine on my IE browser on OS9)
Some background, for the newer readers:
Like a number of you, I used to belong to a listserv called Tamson House, an online gathering place for Charles de Lint fans. In early 2001, we had a guy join who was the fluffiest fluffbunny I'd ever seen. All of his posts were unintelligible and pretentious wannabe goth fluffybunny garbage. I killfiled him soon, as did almost everyone else. Eventually, not getting any responses to his bizarre writings, he left in a huff.
shadesong later pointed out his webpage, where he keeps his "fiction." It was more than unreadable. It was an affront to nature and good writing everywhere. I felt a need to MST3K one of the stories -- I picked the one at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/4975/Mushroom.html -- and made an attempt.It was harder than I thought. Making one snarky comment is easy. Making dozens, maybe hundreds, of them is tough. Worse, I had to read that story at least four times all the way through. Without any humerous comments. It's not easy. Even worse, as an editor, my instinct was to fix Sindar's writing whenever possible, which kind of defeated the point. In the end, I made no changes to his work whatsoever.
Upon finishing it, 'song and the other folks I sent this to liked it a lot. And frankly, I'm pretty proud of it myself, as it was the first vaguely creative thing I did in years (even if it did involve ripping into another author's work). And there are moments that still make me giggle (yeah, I laugh at my own jokes. Someone has to).
Anyway, here it is:
http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/~alipkin/mushroom.htm
Enjoy!
(For some reason, the characters have some display problems on Netscape and Mozilla. Works fine on my Mac on Safari, and it used to work just fine on my IE browser on OS9)
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Date: 2004-02-24 08:46 am (UTC)I should say that the characters of the original story have more than display problems. Oh. I see what you mean. hehe.
But frankly, sir, that work is a feat. The original is, indeed, terrible, but your commentary works.
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Date: 2004-02-24 09:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-24 09:19 am (UTC)you are a creative genius, thank you :)
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Date: 2004-02-24 09:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-24 09:59 am (UTC);)
there were other ones and I wish we would have taped ourselves as we did it.. but thank you for making the writings of this individual so very much more bearable- though I had to stop reading every now and again for a different reason- I was laughing too hard!
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Date: 2004-02-24 10:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-24 10:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-24 10:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-24 11:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-24 11:35 am (UTC)I'm pretty sure that my writing is the reason
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Date: 2004-02-24 12:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-24 01:04 pm (UTC)When you join the mailing list, you get a set of "Hi, newbie!" questions. One of which is "If you were a fey/mythical/whatever creature, what would you be?"
So this guy joins. And in answer to the question, he tells us that he is - *not that he would be, but that he is* - a sex fae that can shrink to the size of six inches to be used to pleasure a woman.
*blink* *blink* yeah.
So yeah. Faery dildo.
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Date: 2004-02-24 01:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-24 02:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-24 01:53 pm (UTC)Because you SHOULD have. That was excellent. You even placed the jokes with the right person/bot. :)
And that "story" had to be the worst and most pretentious piece of drivel that I have EVER had the bad luck to read.
But it was worth it for the MST3K flashback.
Thanks!
By the way, you need an MST3K icon for your more snarky posts. :)
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Date: 2004-02-24 02:08 pm (UTC)