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I'll tell you why I've come to love livejournal so much. Odds are, if you post, you get feedback. It's just so easy. You hit reply, it pops up. For other sites, for archives, etc., if you just hit the author's name, my computer tries to open up Outlook, and it's a big mess. So then I have to open up a new window, sign back into my mail... I do it, sometimes, but I understand that it takes more effort than simply hitting Reply, and many people don't care to do it.

So I like LJ, and it's one of the reasons I stuck with ff.net as long as I did. But now I go back there, and it's so... I just want to rip my hair out. I don't understand good authors who stay there, because there's so much crap. And there are a few good authors there. But not many. And they're few and far between, and most of them post other places as well.

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I saw Brokeback Mountain yesterday, finally. And yes. Everything I hoped/knew it would be. I thought some of the theater laughed at some inappropriate times, but I also think that there were some really awkward scenes, and when you have a theater with as much energy as this one did, you have to let it out somehow, and laughing is what happens, even as we're laughing and going, "Uh oh. Oh no." And some of it, you could tell, was simply at the way everyone talked. Which, immature, but still, I felt like I was seeing the movie with people who understood what it was about.

( spoilers ahead )