Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

All my films are subtitled in Japanese.

 

Not in general. I’m talking about English speaking WWII films that have English speaking Germans (Vee have zee English on zee run!) rather than subtitles.

 

The new McCarthy era, I say. XD

 

Omg, I took German in College and German accents made my brain so confused. I would expect German, but it wasn’t.

 

I watched 12th Man recently; at first I assumed it was a football movie, but actually it's a Norwegian film about a WWII commando raid. It has a quadrilingual script: Norwegian, German, English and Saami. Even if you speak Norwegian there's an awful lot of subtitles.

 

Anyone else tired of Google flagging emails incorrectly?
You know, shoving a email that's very clearly a promotion into the 'updates' tab, or even the 'personal' tab?
Putting the thing in the wrong folder is just gonna make me delete it faster google!

 

My dog deciding to go underneath the house when I need to bring her in so I can leave the house...

She's completely become indifferent to all the ways I've tricked her to come out. Not even food will convince her

 

Read a post on here that mentioned a relatives reaction to their work.

It annoys me yet again the lack of reaction i get from my family and husband when they read a new piece of mine. Just "oh. Ok" and "i finished reading. Now what?"
Then when it HAPPENS to get published, they are suddenly thrilled and have so much to say about it and bragging about it and me to anyone who will listen.

It feels false to me.

I wish i could write something that would get at least some kind of reaction from them without being published. Like, just read this and tell me what you think. Or read this and show SOMEthing. Even if you hate it.

It annoys me that this still bothers me....

 

The classical music busker who performs on the market just round the corner from my place. At first I thought it was nice... a bit of culture and a change from hearing ‘Whump! Whump! Whump!” from some arse’ole’s car stereo. But he only knows about four pieces, and I only recognise one of those. I now know how poor Dr Watson must have felt!

 

You have my sympathy and empathy, for what those are worth. I have an aunt who once responded to a piece of my art with, "I hate that kind of abstract crap." When it was published in an art magazine, she remarked, "I always liked that picture." Same with my written work. Unpublished, it's just Catriona's little self-indulgent hobby. Published, it's Real Work. More than once when a new piece has come out in a publication folks are familiar with, I've been asked, "How does it feel To Be Published?" I'm always entertained by reactions when folks find out that I've been publishing work for decades.

The hell with it. Find yourself a writers group to share with. I resisted joining such an organization for decades, and when I finally fell into one sorta by accident, it turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened.

 

The flip side is we have to consider the fact that the people who dismiss the efforts of others aren’t invested. Nor will they have the same level of enthusiasm or even interest in other’s writing. If you - and I use the word ‘you’ collectively - are serious about your writing and really believe it could be your only source of income, you need to stop hoping everyone you know will be hanging on every sentence you write.

Just think, when you get your novel published you can write a killer dedication. ‘To all those who didn’t believe... fuck you!”

 

*Looks at @OurJud's avatar *
Well, you're consistent, I'll give you that.

I've just had to accept that my family and I are too different, and they're not interested in the sorts of things that I write. Some aren't big readers at all! Weirdos. But they do like to see me succeed, so they're encouraging when I get something published. Now, raving after the fact about how they knew it was great all along? Yeah, that would probably be annoying.

 

To be fair, I'm not interested in little thingies crafted out of raffia and doilies, so tend to react politely ("Very nice colors!") but without critical input for related entries at the county fair. I also don't enjoy soccer and baseball tournaments though the same folks who shrug off my enthusiasms can't understand why I wouldn't want to spend all day sitting on a riser in the sun watching children pursue balls across fields.

 

The vast majority of people have no idea what it means to create art of any kind. To those people it's all completely mystifying. They probably aren't even used to reading anything and forming a judgement about it aside from whether they like it or not.

Plus your family see you as a part of the family dynamics. They see you as little sis or daughter or whatever, and not as an author or anything abstract like that. It isn't possible in their worldview for you to be like one of the people who actually have published books, even when you do. Somehow it's still different for them. You're still just little sis, only by some weird miracle you now have a book published,. Of course, it isn't like those other books, those were written by real authors, and they're a totally different breed of people.

They'll squeal with delight or whatever their personal reaction style is, just as they do when anything really good happens to you, but they don't change the way they see you. You'll never be a 'real author' in their eyes, just little sis who somehow managed to get a book published. Weird.

Unless one of them is also an author, that one alone understands and can see you that way. Maybe.

 

I often worry about what my parents would legitimately think about my stories, especially if I published them before they get to read them.
The few times I've tried to talk about character archs or plot, they just pretend like they don't care. But it seems like they're judging the content.
The only responses I've gotten is the occasional 'I don't think a Christian should write that' but you know, there's several Christian writers who write horror and supernatural stuff.
What does being christian have to do with what I write? The only time it's even relevant is if I'm using it as inspiration, like how the villains of a future project are based on the four horsemen.

My parents also don't seem to approve of non standard sexual preferences. But I write the characters as I feel they should be anyway. if a female strikes me as bisexual she's gonna be bisexual dammit lol

 

I write naughty stories, so probably best to not let the parents see them.
Not sure they would understand or condone it. Nor do I plan on publishing,
and if I do at some point that is what pseudonyms are for.

 

People who say "oh, you sweet summer child" as a means of demeaning them for not understanding something mostly because they are too young. It was amusing for that brief period that when GoT became popular in the early seasons, but now I equate it to the annoying Harry Potter fans who just can't read another series. Just continually requoting the same shit for years.

 

Like when a certain younger member here forgot our age difference? Kids.

 

I believe the term you're looking for (regardless of accuracy) is "okay boomer."

Spoiler

Like the Zoomers say to the Millennials

 

Im going to use this at some point.

..... Keep an eye out for my "unemployed" post

 

But does it really?

 

You know, everyone in GoT is always saying "Winter is coming" or "You sweet summer child," but what about spring and autumn? I think a few years of September would be lovely. Spring, on the other hand, could suck tremendously. Imagine breathing in tree sperm for like a decade straight...

 

Or the flooding. Christ. Entire towns would wash away.

Of course, the weather would probably have more seasons if it was really spread like that, not just the four. The season cycle in GoT always bothered me, among other things.