things I hate in fic #54903

[mimesere]

If I read one more GODDAMN STORY about how LA is full of fake people I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL PUNCH SOMEONE IN THE FACE.

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[missmollyetc.livejournal.com]

But--but everyone IS fake around here! MY ROOMMATE IS A CARDBOARD CUT-OUT, OKAY? DON'T JUDGE.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

secretly, I'm a robot.

Shhh, don't tell.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I KNEW IT! UR A CYLON OMG!!!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Damn! You have found me out!

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

Oh, you sockpuppet people are just too sensitive, sheila.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*snorfle*

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

[snickers]

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Seriously, though! I'm really frustrated by it!

Because it's just. It's like like saying New York is full of neurotic hipsters who wear black all the time. Rargh.

[joemorf.livejournal.com]

There are 3.8 million people in L.A.

Most, if not all of them, are fake.

I suppose we could limit ourselves to nonfiction...

;)

~j

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

In fairness, the people who aren't fake in LA are the ones who occupy the seedy noir underbelly of the city of angels.

[tigress35.livejournal.com]

I wish people in LA were fake. Then when they piss me off, I wouldn't feel bad about punching them in their not-real face. And it might even shatter or something, which could be cool.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heee. Punching in the face is always the answer! Especially if there's some sort of grand destruction that goes along with it.

[skywardprodigal.livejournal.com]

Pravda.

I have met so many good, honest, sincere, straight-up, people from LA.

[minna.livejournal.com]

you mean LA =/= robot alien pod scientologist models?

WHEN WILL THE LIES END ;___;

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

The truth shall make you fret free!

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

I see you, and I'll raise you one "everyone inside the beltway is a sleezy political criminal. Or a spy".

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Awwww.

wait, you mean you're *not* a spy? My world! It is all askew!

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

Huh? Don't you mean you'll say "Let's have lunch!" without any intention to ever do so, and then quietly scheme to destroy the offending party behind his or her back?

;)

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

Rather than punching, I mean.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

...but can't I do both?

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

I think you should write a story where LA is full of fake raptors.

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

OMG you are the win!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

...come on now, everyone knows that raptors are native to the desert and/or small tropical islands.

How can a raptor survive volcanoes, Amy? Huh? Did you think about that? VOLCANOES. Or the tornadoes that will come when the polar ice caps melt. Or the aliens that we shoot at.

God, it's like you don't even care about the raptors. Why do you hate America?

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

Also love? Can I make a post relating to this in my lj? Since you started an entire train o thought in my head.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Of course you can :) I can't wait to read it!

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Well, apparently everyone living in London is either really ridiculously posh or else a heartwarming cockernee carikter. Maybe LA and London should breed and have little fake snobby children with mockney accents and drug habits. Oh, wait, that's Tunbridge Wells...

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*laughs and laughs and laughs*

*adores you*

[speshope.livejournal.com]

But! But! They have to be fake. TV says so!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heeee. Oh, tv. Why the love/hate relationship with the city that makes you?

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

this is my favorite description of los angeles, though i don't know if it's any more true than all the others.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I think it's partially true. Like, LA really isn't a city that gives a damn about you. But it's also a city that can be very casually kind or where you can find a community that fits you or where you can make a community that fits you. So I don't know. I think it is very. It is very southern Californian and determinedly Not New York and it is where the hippies and the upmarket consumers can shop at the same places and no one blinks an eye.

I like it.

[donella.livejournal.com]

My favorite quote about LA:

The reason Weetzie Bat hated high school was because no one understood. They didn't even realize where they were living. They didn't care that Marilyn's prints were practically in their backyard at Graumann's; that you could buy tomahawks and plastic palm tree wallets at Farmer's Market, and the wildest, cheapest cheese and bean and hot dog and pastrami burritos at Oki Dogs; that the waitresses wore skates at the Jetson-style Tiny Naylor's; that there was a fountain that turned tropical soda-pop colors, and a canyon where Jim Morrison and Houdini used to live, and all-night potato knishes at Canter's, and not too far away was Venice, with columns, and canals, even, like the real Venice but maybe cooler because of the surfers. There was no one who cared. – Weetzie Bat

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

That is a pretty awesome quote, dude.

I just. I love LA for what it is and it bothers the hell out of me when people assume they know LA because they assume they know all about Hollywood or Southern California and whatever and then I just want to start giving people a good kicking.

[donella.livejournal.com]

Francesca Lia Block is one of my favorite authors. A lot people write urban fantasy, but she manages to make her stories actually feel just as potent as traditional fairy tales.