Slow, quick, quick, slow.

[whatho]

I really need to stop being quite so excited about the dancing. Not right now, but one day. Oh the dancing. I want Jan to stay in. I think she's a bit great. Lots of people are telling lots of other people off for voting for people they like rather than people who can dance well. Like when Julian stayed in all through the second series. As if that was some description of problem. Basically I think they can vote for people who they like provided they like the right people, which, to be fair, they sometimes don't. Mostly I think if they want people to cease and desist from voting for people they like, they ought to stop putting recognised characters whose work we might actually admire a bit into the competition. And they shouldn't let us know anything about the competitors ever, lest the viewing public feels contrarily like rewarding improvement or effort or entertainment value over pure talent. And obviously they'd have to get rid of Ian and Anton so people would stop voting them in just to see them being in love. Patently some people feel the resultant programme would be somehow better. Personally, I think recognising doggedness and angsty rubbishness (and slash) over blatant brilliantness is kind of a decent thing to do anyway, 'cause mostly it's the opposite of what the world does. But what do I know. I think these things seem to sort themselves out fairly well by the final anyway. Well, sometimes. Not last year, when Colin and Erin sort of didn't win. But I'm quite glad Julian didn't win in a way as well.

I don't mind if that Georgina woman goes out though, because her man is a beast.

Hello. All the computers are broken (except this one, obviously), a few days before the start of Nano. Apparently I am destined to write the more difficult option. Well, FINE. I can blame YOU for my failure. Also my father's trying to make Sims 2 work again. It's been dead for about a year and I love it very much and it'd be oh so great if it was working again, but not in November. December. That'd be jolly. Oh Nano why? Also I started writing a long short story a few days ago and drew together in it loads of subplots that I'm rather wishing I'd kept for the novel. I know very little about the novel as yet. I would like to know rather more about it by Tuesday.

An hour, an hour, an hour. I'm going to eat some bread now. Bye.

Comments

[jekesta]

OH I LOVE THE DANCING SO MUCH!:):):):) I love Jan and Anton, and I don't mind if Georgina goes out, no, but I think Matt Dawson should go out because he is rub, and I totally EXPECT the last remaining black man to go out just because the public is terribly racist in my eyes now. I love Jan and I love Carol Smilie and I love Karen who is dancing with Mark Ramprakash and it is yayful that he is good, and I love Erin and Schmichael. And generally OH I LOVE THE DANCING SO MUCH.

So much more than nano. I know nothing about my book. I should get on that.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. I do actually very much want the British public to stop being racist in their voting. That would be nice of them. I like Ray. He's an ActOR with all the stress on the last syllable and I want to see him doing his caping tonight. I like a lot of them now. Karen is greatness. It would be nice if Mark would talk sometimes but he's a bit shy so bless really. And Erin and Schmichael's fairly yay. And Claire, but not Brendan. Claire and Brendan confuses me because she's great and he's foul, so I don't know to what extent I should be wanting them to stay. But mostly Jan and Anton.

COMMENT NOT POSTED WHY? Hang on. There.

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think recognising doggedness and angsty rubbishness (and slash) over blatant brilliantness is kind of a decent thing to do anyway, 'cause mostly it's the opposite of what the world does.

TRUE.

Mostly my opinion is very much in keeping with whether or not I like the person in the first place. What little I saw of the second series, I spent JUDGING the public for not having voted out Julian sooner. But I love Jan Raven far more than I ever expected to and therefore I hope she stays FOREVER. I also really quite like Georgina and would happily get rid of more competent people so she could stay. This was my stance last week and then the public voted out Spoony and I was full of OUTRAGE because, really. So I have NO OBJECTIVITY and I will never be satisfied, but that's okay, becuase my interest in the dancing is quite a distracted sort of interest anyway, yes.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

That's the thing - I am precisely of your opinion, because I was thinking about what I'd posted and then thinking that if, say, Mark or Ray or someone went out instead of Georgina purely because of the sympathy vote, that would make me cross, so I'm just being a great big hypocrite really. But if someone better than Jan went out, I'd be mostly happy that Jan stayed in. And I do think voting out Spoony when there were patently rubbisher people than Spoony who were yet not Jan was fairly poo really.

So basically, so long as what I want happens, it's okay. That seems to be the rule.

[alicamel.livejournal.com]

I love the dancing alot. It's a great thing to love. Anton is just fabulous and he and Jan are great and should just stay in forever. I'm sad that Ian went out, but they are just bringing him back at every possible opportunity. Erin made him dance with her, did you see? She knows Ian so well, the Ian/Anton ship is the truest ever. Also I sort of want angsty Ian/Erin fic now. Oh dancing, so much joy. Also Arlene said Anton and Erin's quickstep made her cry because it was so great. I think she has decided to like Erin for a bit this year which is yay.

I am talking on and on at you instead of posting about it in my own journal. Oh well. I love the dancing. It's on soooooon yay!

[alicamel.livejournal.com]

Oh! I also meant to say, did you see how utterly gay and on love Georgina and Louisa are? I almost want her to stay just for that. Perhaps the general public occasionally votes for the slash.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I didn't see that! Go them. I am a great advocate of voting for the slash.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Yay! I like have the dancing talked about me lots. I love Jan and Anton more than is decent and Erin is also very very good and why are Erin and Anton at the bottom of the table why? And where are my commas? I liked Arlene tonight. I can't remember why. I think because she said that evil man was evil. Yay.