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Irony and Animals
Dec. 17th, 2004 10:19 pmGot a bunch of emails today. One was from an author whose story I reviewed (in short: it was the most incoherent thing I ever read - I'm serious. The most incoherent. It had a sue, random parental abuse (who change into random aunt-and-uncle about 3/4ths of the way in - see previous comment about incoherent), and the overdone 'sixteen year old becomes a trainer, gets special starter, special destiny, blah blah blah' stuff.) who attempted to justify it by basically whimpering about how they'd written it when they were ten and insinuating constantly that I was a mean jerk while they pretended to be polite. (Incidentally - Jesus Christ people, if you're mad, just say you're mad. The passive agressive thing makes me want to kick you.)
Another was from someone asking me to beta-read an OT story.
Weirdness. The pokemon category is so inconsistent.
Anyway, I offered Kas-cat the ultimate toy - firebellied toads. Their hopping drove her nuts. She seemed to think, rightly, they were too stupid for her to need to do her normal 'stalk and pounce' routeen, and so she just attacked them immediately.
And failed because they were safely in their plastic cage, of course. The toads ignored the danger to the point of all hopping towards her and trying to climb out. I'm still not sure why.
The toads are really cute. I don't know why, they just are.
Also, my mom brought home the school's praying mantis (the only thing worse than her hideousness is the fact she's going to be dead soon. It's really creepy when you're staring at something and you're not sure if it's dead. I hate insects). Tomorrow(ish) we're also getting a dwarf rabbit (rabbits freak me out...don't give me that look.). My mother talked happily about Kas-cat playing with it, meaning she's either nuts or else really hates the rabbit.
Another was from someone asking me to beta-read an OT story.
Weirdness. The pokemon category is so inconsistent.
Anyway, I offered Kas-cat the ultimate toy - firebellied toads. Their hopping drove her nuts. She seemed to think, rightly, they were too stupid for her to need to do her normal 'stalk and pounce' routeen, and so she just attacked them immediately.
And failed because they were safely in their plastic cage, of course. The toads ignored the danger to the point of all hopping towards her and trying to climb out. I'm still not sure why.
The toads are really cute. I don't know why, they just are.
Also, my mom brought home the school's praying mantis (the only thing worse than her hideousness is the fact she's going to be dead soon. It's really creepy when you're staring at something and you're not sure if it's dead. I hate insects). Tomorrow(ish) we're also getting a dwarf rabbit (rabbits freak me out...don't give me that look.). My mother talked happily about Kas-cat playing with it, meaning she's either nuts or else really hates the rabbit.
