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Slightly Flaky and Really Moronic

I didn’t just realize it but it just hit me that I’m kind of flaky when it comes to my features on this blog.  Write It Wednesdays, Poetry Hits and Writing Rules have all kind of farted out with hardly anything fueling them to begin with.  Which then led me to re-think just what it was I was posting on this blog.  I don’t want people seeing this site thinking that I can’t commit to anything which is just not true.  Check out my book blog if you want consistent meme-ing.  But what I might consider doing is re-organizing all of my posts, at least so it doesn’t look like I have some dead categories hanging out in the sidebar there.  I have a nice long weekend coming up that I think I could fill some of that with.  Next to restuffing a site that I accidentially deleted.  Awesome.

As for the moronic, I just found out that in SMeyer world, Rio de Janeiro has a west coast.  Don’t believe me?  Check out the Twilight Lexicon’s description of where Isle Esme is.  The western edge of Rio where the nards boarded a yacht.  Was the yacht trailered on a truck because that’s the only way you  can get on a yacht on the western edge of Rio.  Did someone fail cardinal directions class?

I know this wench has already come out and said she was too lazy to research anything.  Yeah, at least she admitted it  but I’m surprised there wasn’t a rash of writer suicides across the planet.  But really?  Western edge of Rio?  I quick look-up on Google maps can tell you about the glaring error in that statement.  Come on.  Okay, you’re lazy.  But that’s like not wanting to get up to get the remote when it’s in your own lap.

And sad thing is, when the Twitards try to defend horsehit like this, it’s usually done with a thorough rape of the English language and/or a dismissive “who cares about that stuff? just enjoy the story” statement.  They claim she’s such a better writer than JK Rowling but can’t actually substantiate those claims without making death threats to the people questioning them.  Or claiming said questioner is lacking a life when said person is exhibiting an equally lifeless position.

I’m sure I can dredge better quality work from the anals of fanfiction.net.  At least those authors have the decency to utilize Google if the situation calls for it.  Sure, they say fuck it to the spell check function but at least they are smarter than fifth graders and can tell you where the oceans are.

My brain, she hurts.

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