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[devoutish]

ws lukng up infrmatn abt nu splngs usd n txt cmmncatn n fns n cmputrs etc n mst of wut I fnd ws fckng wingng abt kds toda bng lzy n nt noing hw to spl prprly as f ts wr a mdrn fckng invntn

tr r sum difs n nw tngs hv bn dn wi em tt we ddnt do n t pst wi r telgrfs ex t nos splly r clvr

inform8ion, 4warned, 2day

bt t ida ws crtnly nt invntd bi 21st cntry chldrn s py rspct 2 ur eldrs wo wr fr bttr t bng incmprhnsbl tn ur kds toda

wn i gt trd f mi tny tlfn kybrd im guna rite al mi txts lk ts




[OOC translation for people who don't hate themselves:

was looking up information about new spellings used in text communication on phones and computers etc. and most of what I found was fucking whinging about kids today being lazy and not knowing how to spell properly as if this were a modern fucking invention

there are differences and new things have been done with them that we didn't do much in the past with our telegraphs for example the numbers especially are clever

information, forewarned, today

but the idea was certainly not invented by 21st century children so pay respect to your elders who were far better at being incomprehensible than your kids today

when I get tired of my tiny telephone keyboard I'm going to write all my texts like this ]

Comments

[devoutish]

I wasn't aware of a 'proper' use for magic at all.

[trouvaille]

Well, neither was I, but I don't know anything about magic. ( half true. ) Apparently it's "unusually small". Where I'd have called it probably 'useful' or 'entertaining'.

GOD ignore me I always press enter when I mean to press delete

[devoutish]

Surely this isn't something you've been told here? They encourage our powers to an alarming degree.

[trouvaille]

Well, he was new here, from further back than you, and unironically called himself a magician.

( fucking sorcerers, man, but let's not get into gwen's biased opinions on human practitioners of magic that are about 75% unfairly based on her ex-boyfriend. )

[devoutish]

How far back?

[He likes to poke at his fellow past people.]

[trouvaille]

He looked like he wandered out of Jane Austen. Late regency, early Victorian? At a somewhat vague guess. When men were men and men wore stockings. ( was he wearing stockings, she doesn't recall. )

[devoutish]

Don't know very much about Jane Austen, I never read her. 1800s?

[trouvaille]

I can't imagine her being quite your speed. But yes, I think so.

[devoutish]

My sister liked her growing up. Balls and ball gowns, isn't it?

[trouvaille]

Posh totty for the ton. It's not really my speed, either, but some of the films are all right.

[devoutish]

If you don't enjoy the books, why would you enjoy the films? Are the stories different?

[trouvaille]

There's this lake scene that I'm relatively sure never happened in the book. To be fair, though, I never finished it, so maybe Mr Darcy does come out of a lake in a white shirt.

( yeah she totally watched it for the story )

[devoutish]

I see.

[Whatever Alfie, like you've never been happy to discover that some movies have hot, scantily-clad women in them.]

[trouvaille]

I'm not a big reader of novels on the whole, honestly, but a decent movie passes some time.

[devoutish]

I liked adventure novels as a kid. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

[trouvaille]

See, I preferred those if I was reading period pieces. Or Treasure Island, or something. I think modern audiences are reading Austen and that sort of thing as escapism, which doesn't work as well if balls, ball gowns and pushy match-makers are sort of your life. Whereas I have absolutely considered running away to be a pirate.

[devoutish]

I liked that one, too. A mate introduced me to it in school.

[trouvaille]

Did you read Robinson Crusoe? I tried reading Waverley, as well, someone told me there were beheadings and it was so boring and draggy and he was so obviously making up How To Write A Story as he went that I couldn't even finish it.

[devoutish]

Robinson Crusoe as a kid, yes. Waverly when I was a bit older,
15 maybe. That one's more of a history than an adventure story.

[trouvaille]

I liked the format of Crusoe - I'm more for short fiction and poetry, so the epistolary thing worked for me quite well. ( which is why she was reminded of waverley, and how boring it was, and how she narrowly didn't toss it across the room. COME ON, WALTER SCOTT. ) As far as Waverley goes, from an academic perspective I can appreciate the invention of the historical novel as a genre, but from a reader's perspective I was fucking bored.

[devoutish]

Haven't got that academic perspective myself, nor the head for poetry. Of course, I don't read many novels these days.

[trouvaille]

I've been publishing poetry for a few years and I used to fuck lit professors. It all sort of rubs off on you a bit if you're around it enough.

[devoutish]

Is your mouth like this in your poetry as well?

[trouvaille]

I called my first collection, written between 18-21, 'Barely Legal'. What do you think? ( welp. ) Smart interplay of subject and vocabulary makes an impact.

WHOOPS I missed this

[devoutish]

And I'm sure it was just the impact you were going for, yes.