Oh, for grin, and you're totally welcome to my icon! The ones I use tend to be more reflecting my moods/themes than being "things I find cool," but I like yours a lot. Who designed it?
And I hope my commentary hasn't been among that you've hated. :p
Nah-- you're always very reasonable and intelligent and such, and I'm glad you're there. I just got annoyed for the last few chapters at the "OMG Mack is such an EVIL ALCOHOLIC ABUSIVE DEMON and Two is such a STUPID BRAT and STEFF TRIED TO KILL TWO BY GIVING HER PERFUME! and OMG POOOR IAN THE MAGNIFICENT WHO DESERVES SO MUCH BETTER OMG!" When, in fact, they're all pretty awesome, they're all dealing with pretty awful backstories which mean that none of them are brilliant at relationships or self-esteem, and they're all making lots of mistakes in the process of doing the best they can. Which is why I like the story so much. But in the comments-- I feel like yeah, Ian's being very cool lately, but people are cutting him a lot of slack when he does stupid/entitled/insecure/bigoted/sexist things (like leaving his handcuffed girlfriend alone at a party she didn't want to go to in the first place), and the other characters are getting whaled on. And it annoys me.
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Date: 2008-05-08 12:10 am (UTC)And I hope my commentary hasn't been among that you've hated. :p
Nah-- you're always very reasonable and intelligent and such, and I'm glad you're there. I just got annoyed for the last few chapters at the "OMG Mack is such an EVIL ALCOHOLIC ABUSIVE DEMON and Two is such a STUPID BRAT and STEFF TRIED TO KILL TWO BY GIVING HER PERFUME! and OMG POOOR IAN THE MAGNIFICENT WHO DESERVES SO MUCH BETTER OMG!" When, in fact, they're all pretty awesome, they're all dealing with pretty awful backstories which mean that none of them are brilliant at relationships or self-esteem, and they're all making lots of mistakes in the process of doing the best they can. Which is why I like the story so much. But in the comments-- I feel like yeah, Ian's being very cool lately, but people are cutting him a lot of slack when he does stupid/entitled/insecure/bigoted/sexist things (like leaving his handcuffed girlfriend alone at a party she didn't want to go to in the first place), and the other characters are getting whaled on. And it annoys me.