In which I am cranky

[impy]

Bah. When the BSC fandom starts blathering on about the unrealistic aspects of Stacey's diabetes, I want to fucking smack the lot of them. Even the diabetics. Because it's almost always the same. "No one in the history of EVER was like that!" They were. Maybe not for all the books, as I had a tendency to turn green if we got too graphic about any injections or whatever, plus my memory doesn't retain things so well after 20 or so years, but still... if nothing else, Stacey and my grandfather had an awful lot in common, diabetes wise. So I have no clue how realistic it was for a 12/13 year old girl, but for my 60/70- year old grandfather they totally nailed it. :p

But no one ever puts it like that, so the ass-kickings will commence the next time my mood is this foul and they're this annoying.

If he hadn't been such an ass, I would do the celebratory "Hey, I met you 11 years ago!" dance. Funny, during any other split that never stopped me. The split, I mean. But this time he's gone and killed all the joy. And much as I try and ignore it, it managed to get to me early this morning and I was/still am fairly cranky. :/

On the plus side, serious stack of books to work through. Details tomorrow.

I've been poking the ghost story book with a stick [seriously, who writes a ghost story book without a single SC mention? We're riddled with ghosts, dammit!] and trying to figure out whether I should mention that as awesome as I'm sure Washington is, if 85% of your book takes place there you should either diversify or make it known this is the haunting of Washington State. Or if you wanted to write a book focusing on ghosts and spirits manifesting in mirrors, it might be nice if more than one story a chapter actually dealt with that sort of thing. The book itself is good, but strangely disjointed. I'm not sure if this is just her style and thus not really disjointed at all, or if I was just raised on older ghost story books and that gap of ten to fifteen years in between is affecting my perception of the book. Am I holding it to standards that were probably iffy to begin with and are totally outdated anyway? *ponders*

And ohmylord, the Widge just threw an honest to god, hop up and down tantrum. *dies*

Comments

[zallia.livejournal.com]

I've thought about the Stacey/diabetes thing, but I've come to the conclusion that everyone's just doing it wrong now. I mean no freaking self-control on anyways part. I have two co-workers and my friends boyfriend who supposedly have diabetes and yet are always eating candy and sweets, but then they bitch about getting all moody or sick cause of their blood sugar, like WTF?? Diabetes means you lay off the sweets, dumbasses or you DIE. So either you don't have it or you just don't care to control it, but either way I don't want to hear about it. >_>

[mythosidhe.livejournal.com]

Uh....there's a BSC fandom? *Boggles* I used to be badly obsessed with those, but I haven't read any since I was like...11? Before I hit middle school, anyway. I know at the time I was younger than most of the characters in the series!

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, there's BSC fandom. babysittersclub can probably direct you to most of the various bits of BSC fandom, from bsc_snark to the message board to the various other snark filled things. If you go wading, beware of the jokes that I'm not entirely sure were funny the first time. Like the Jessi's black joke. :p I loved me some BSC back in the day, and still do, but I am apparently in the minority when it comes to my BSC preferences. Woe!

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

See, I thought I'd just gone insane when it came to the general attitude out there aboot zee diabetes. I know it's a crapshoot, depending on what you have, how badly you have it, and all that [my mother is/was a very, very bad diabetic, but she also doesn't bitch as much when she feels like crap and it's self inflicted.] but um, dude. Some of the things I read/hear make me stop and wonder.