Update for Measure of a Man
Aug. 16th, 2005 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynI finally posted the latest chapter of The Measure of a Man last night...yes, seven months after ch. 8. I suck. What can I say but that my whole world kind of crashed and burned between 8 and 9, and that I have a hard time writing anything I began in the Before part of the world.
So, Chapter 9, Read the Fucking Manual, is here, and it has not been beta'd yet. But I head out to VVC at 3:15 in the goddamn morning on Wed/Thur, and considering all the burninating of discs and the stuff to get ready and whatnot, I just didn't have any extra time, and I wanted to post while I could. Once I get fixes and edits, I will make them. I am sure I'll have more time after the con. The chapter's around 6,000+ words, and that link will take you directly there, but I'm sure the few people who are reading this have probably forgotten the story by now, so all the previous chapters are linked at my home page.
I'm in a cranky blue funk mood about Spike right now. Yet again I've been treated to a flist series of nasty-ass posts about Spike and how everyone who likes Spuffy/Spike has the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old girl, and I'm getting really, really tired of it. I've had to listen to shit-talk about my vids because I had the temerity to make a couple vids about Spike that weren't, you know, hate-filled vitriol, which apparently is the only thing the character deserves, and I'm just kind of tired of seeing the same old crap arguments made for how Spuffy lovers are the dregs of humanity. I'm just... really annoyed. Not all of us who enjoy the character are little girls who think Spike is a poor wee ickle mistreated woobie, who have an agenda to spread the gospel of Spike to the rest of the world, who want to play the apologista game. Some of us just think he's a damn fascinating character (at least, the one before Marti Noxon fucked him up) who gives us a lot of possibilities for vids and stories. We like him in all his messed up stupid funny selfish cruel devoted lovesick glory. And every time I have to listen to the asshats talking about "all" of us Spike fans, I just want to knock them on their hats of asses and say "how about a nice big cup of shut the fuck up?" /rant
So, Chapter 9, Read the Fucking Manual, is here, and it has not been beta'd yet. But I head out to VVC at 3:15 in the goddamn morning on Wed/Thur, and considering all the burninating of discs and the stuff to get ready and whatnot, I just didn't have any extra time, and I wanted to post while I could. Once I get fixes and edits, I will make them. I am sure I'll have more time after the con. The chapter's around 6,000+ words, and that link will take you directly there, but I'm sure the few people who are reading this have probably forgotten the story by now, so all the previous chapters are linked at my home page.
I'm in a cranky blue funk mood about Spike right now. Yet again I've been treated to a flist series of nasty-ass posts about Spike and how everyone who likes Spuffy/Spike has the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old girl, and I'm getting really, really tired of it. I've had to listen to shit-talk about my vids because I had the temerity to make a couple vids about Spike that weren't, you know, hate-filled vitriol, which apparently is the only thing the character deserves, and I'm just kind of tired of seeing the same old crap arguments made for how Spuffy lovers are the dregs of humanity. I'm just... really annoyed. Not all of us who enjoy the character are little girls who think Spike is a poor wee ickle mistreated woobie, who have an agenda to spread the gospel of Spike to the rest of the world, who want to play the apologista game. Some of us just think he's a damn fascinating character (at least, the one before Marti Noxon fucked him up) who gives us a lot of possibilities for vids and stories. We like him in all his messed up stupid funny selfish cruel devoted lovesick glory. And every time I have to listen to the asshats talking about "all" of us Spike fans, I just want to knock them on their hats of asses and say "how about a nice big cup of shut the fuck up?" /rant
