fake memory meme ( = fake memery?)
Aug. 6th, 2009 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthSorry this is long. And I've been spammity today.
I vaguely remember this meme going around before, but I didn't play last time, so:
If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.
It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.
When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.
---
The "made up" part should be easy, because you can even be lazy and wholly transpose a real memory of someone else, and I will never know. Unless you are someone I know in real life who's found this journal, in which case, I am so, so sorry. And you should probably stop reading now. And I preemptively forgive the 20+ people who are going to scroll past this on their flist, but I have the sudden urge to make shit up, and not in a fiction way, so I hope someone else wants to play.
Everyone's read bad fic, yeah? Iread glared menacingly at a fic earlier today that was so unbelievably bad that I kept skipping ahead a couple paragraphs and trying again, because I seriously could not understand its badness despite a premise with a lot of potential. Here is the thing, though: It was well- okay I can't say well-written. It was well-grammered? Spelling, sentence structure, word choice (for accuracy of definition) were all fine. But it was painfully unreadable to the point that I can't even explain with accuracy why. The dialogue was horrible, the tone of the writing was all off for the subject matter. Just, wow.
It was terrifying. It made me never want to write anything ever again. And possibly apologize for everything I've ever written, because I have never before encountered something that was this particular brand of bad, and I'm pretty sure I'm capable of writing something like it.
You know how when you dive into a new-to-you fandom, and you read all the fic that's been recced everywhere, or has been tagged a ton of times on delicious, or whatever, and you get to a point where you've read all the popular fic, and you need to wander out on your own? I always worry that once I've read everything great, that I'm going to find something horrible, and not be able to find something else to purge it from my memory. This was seriously depressing me.
This is the type of thing that taught me, if I find a new author I like, to skip back to read their oldest stuff first rather than reading a potential clunker last.
And in conclusion, have a bit of chat-log about someone else's cat (the one in my desktop image, if anyone remembers that):
D: the only thing turkey wont let me do to him.. is..
D: he hates being brushed
healingmirth: the silent killer
D: and
D: he just doesnt tolerate it for very long
D: cause he's not that bright, and eventually thinks the ball of fur on the end of the brush is another cat
D: and gets angry at it
healingmirth: haha
healingmirth: LOL even
D: jerk :(
D: He hissed at it, last time he was brushed
healingmirth: sorry, but I did :(
D: and he never hisses
healingmirth: that's the awesomest thing ever
healingmirth: if I could somehow append that to my desktop image so that I saw it every day, I would
I vaguely remember this meme going around before, but I didn't play last time, so:
If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.
It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.
When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.
---
The "made up" part should be easy, because you can even be lazy and wholly transpose a real memory of someone else, and I will never know. Unless you are someone I know in real life who's found this journal, in which case, I am so, so sorry. And you should probably stop reading now. And I preemptively forgive the 20+ people who are going to scroll past this on their flist, but I have the sudden urge to make shit up, and not in a fiction way, so I hope someone else wants to play.
Everyone's read bad fic, yeah? I
It was terrifying. It made me never want to write anything ever again. And possibly apologize for everything I've ever written, because I have never before encountered something that was this particular brand of bad, and I'm pretty sure I'm capable of writing something like it.
You know how when you dive into a new-to-you fandom, and you read all the fic that's been recced everywhere, or has been tagged a ton of times on delicious, or whatever, and you get to a point where you've read all the popular fic, and you need to wander out on your own? I always worry that once I've read everything great, that I'm going to find something horrible, and not be able to find something else to purge it from my memory. This was seriously depressing me.
This is the type of thing that taught me, if I find a new author I like, to skip back to read their oldest stuff first rather than reading a potential clunker last.
And in conclusion, have a bit of chat-log about someone else's cat (the one in my desktop image, if anyone remembers that):
D: the only thing turkey wont let me do to him.. is..
D: he hates being brushed
healingmirth: the silent killer
D: and
D: he just doesnt tolerate it for very long
D: cause he's not that bright, and eventually thinks the ball of fur on the end of the brush is another cat
D: and gets angry at it
healingmirth: haha
healingmirth: LOL even
D: jerk :(
D: He hissed at it, last time he was brushed
healingmirth: sorry, but I did :(
D: and he never hisses
healingmirth: that's the awesomest thing ever
healingmirth: if I could somehow append that to my desktop image so that I saw it every day, I would
