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impyI was going to bitch madly about work last night but you know what? Screw it. Work sucked and most of it had to do with the customers and how they reacted to not being the most important snowflake. I work up front at the cash register, I cannot make pharmacy drop everything and answer your call. Odds are good, especially with the number of calls we got regarding the issue, that there were about twelve of you all vying for one person's attention at the same time. You want that to change, you call corporate and point out that the store needs a tech overnight. That succinctly before you go in on the whys and hows.
It didn't help that the coworkers aren't getting along and I don't know why. The night before Ca said something Ch took the wrong way... I think. I was standing right there but only heard part of it and my one attempt at clarification got a, "it doesn't matter." Which it clearly did but I didn't push it because the mood was all wrong. I don't know what's going on but it ain't pretty.
Sigh.
The night eventually got better but then my eye turned red and scary sooooooo...
Anyone else read the "alternate ending" of The Sweet Life? (SVH's Reunion special sorta thing) I think if you go to Francine Pascal's FB page (which I am too lazy to link at the moment) you can find the DL link. I thought it was going to be another book and instead it's a re-write of the ending of the cliff-hanger for #6 wherein Bruce doesn't hook up with Annie and instead reaffirms his relationship with Elizabeth.
I'm assuming the original cliffhanger was done to try and get people to clamor for more Sweet Life but I guess they didn't? I don't know, but it was an awful way to end the series. Then again, I thought most of TSL after the first one sucked, too soooooo... I'd say I am obviously not the target audience for this, but I think that's a damn lie. I could not possibly be more of the target audience for anything Sweet Valley Nostalgia Glasses. Seriously. The only person more pro-SV is the lovely lady who runs Sweet Valley Unlimited, I think. Well, there are likely others but I am pretty big on the Valley, k? As in I genuinely enjoy it not just enjoy mocking it.
Anyway, with that in mind, I don't think I will ever be able to twist my brain around to the Liz/Bruce pairing. I'm a big fan of the hate 'ship when done right, but there has to be a spark there and Elizabeth and Bruce aren't sparking the right way. Lila/Bruce is a hate 'ship done right. They're similar enough to cause friction and different enough to leave all kinds of possibilities out there. There's depth to their shallowness, man. Liz might encourage Bruce to be a better man (and in a more adept writer's hand, I'd believe it) but I don't see Bruce bringing anything for Liz. Money? Not a selling point in any incarnation. Confidence? Liz IS confident. Even when she's not (SVU) the interest is in Liz finding her own voice and trusting it. Tom might've helped that in SVU, but he wasn't the be all and end all of it.
If anything, Bruce brings Liz down. The dynamic doesn't work and part of this is likely because I cannot get past the near date rape. It's weird because I can get over it for any other 'ship involving Bruce. He's grown, he's changed, he's not the same guy much like early!Liz isn't the same character and Jessica's not nearly as sociopathic and Lila's usually not as racist. So Bruce/Regina? Sure. Bruce/Amy as a fling? Sure, I hate them both at that time in the storyline. Bruce/Cara? I'd read that. Bruce/Jessica? Fuck yes. Bruce/Lila? Endgame.
Bruce/Liz?
Noooooooo.
And alas, this is the 'ship Francine Pascal has chosen to make her stand for and die on a hill for. I don't get it but there you have it.
It still breaks my heart that this woman has no idea who her characters are after all this time but hey, the fourteen people left in the fandom do and that counts.
Sorta.
A little.
It's not horribly written and it does fix the cliffhanger, so it's not a complete waste. It might also be stirring up plot bunnies which I probably don't have time for.
Yesterday I got a lovely box of Scentsy from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zallia! Now to figure out which one(s) to use first.
It didn't help that the coworkers aren't getting along and I don't know why. The night before Ca said something Ch took the wrong way... I think. I was standing right there but only heard part of it and my one attempt at clarification got a, "it doesn't matter." Which it clearly did but I didn't push it because the mood was all wrong. I don't know what's going on but it ain't pretty.
Sigh.
The night eventually got better but then my eye turned red and scary sooooooo...
Anyone else read the "alternate ending" of The Sweet Life? (SVH's Reunion special sorta thing) I think if you go to Francine Pascal's FB page (which I am too lazy to link at the moment) you can find the DL link. I thought it was going to be another book and instead it's a re-write of the ending of the cliff-hanger for #6 wherein Bruce doesn't hook up with Annie and instead reaffirms his relationship with Elizabeth.
I'm assuming the original cliffhanger was done to try and get people to clamor for more Sweet Life but I guess they didn't? I don't know, but it was an awful way to end the series. Then again, I thought most of TSL after the first one sucked, too soooooo... I'd say I am obviously not the target audience for this, but I think that's a damn lie. I could not possibly be more of the target audience for anything Sweet Valley Nostalgia Glasses. Seriously. The only person more pro-SV is the lovely lady who runs Sweet Valley Unlimited, I think. Well, there are likely others but I am pretty big on the Valley, k? As in I genuinely enjoy it not just enjoy mocking it.
Anyway, with that in mind, I don't think I will ever be able to twist my brain around to the Liz/Bruce pairing. I'm a big fan of the hate 'ship when done right, but there has to be a spark there and Elizabeth and Bruce aren't sparking the right way. Lila/Bruce is a hate 'ship done right. They're similar enough to cause friction and different enough to leave all kinds of possibilities out there. There's depth to their shallowness, man. Liz might encourage Bruce to be a better man (and in a more adept writer's hand, I'd believe it) but I don't see Bruce bringing anything for Liz. Money? Not a selling point in any incarnation. Confidence? Liz IS confident. Even when she's not (SVU) the interest is in Liz finding her own voice and trusting it. Tom might've helped that in SVU, but he wasn't the be all and end all of it.
If anything, Bruce brings Liz down. The dynamic doesn't work and part of this is likely because I cannot get past the near date rape. It's weird because I can get over it for any other 'ship involving Bruce. He's grown, he's changed, he's not the same guy much like early!Liz isn't the same character and Jessica's not nearly as sociopathic and Lila's usually not as racist. So Bruce/Regina? Sure. Bruce/Amy as a fling? Sure, I hate them both at that time in the storyline. Bruce/Cara? I'd read that. Bruce/Jessica? Fuck yes. Bruce/Lila? Endgame.
Bruce/Liz?
Noooooooo.
And alas, this is the 'ship Francine Pascal has chosen to make her stand for and die on a hill for. I don't get it but there you have it.
It still breaks my heart that this woman has no idea who her characters are after all this time but hey, the fourteen people left in the fandom do and that counts.
Sorta.
A little.
It's not horribly written and it does fix the cliffhanger, so it's not a complete waste. It might also be stirring up plot bunnies which I probably don't have time for.
Yesterday I got a lovely box of Scentsy from
zallia! Now to figure out which one(s) to use first.