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So I read this latest chapter of Viewfinder
The most evil and manipulative character in the series is, in fact, Tao.
*dies laughing*
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On an issue that has nothing to do with the above: I think seme/uke versus not (and "not" is not the same thing as "reversible") is comparable to metred verse versus free verse. On the one hand they say, "No offense, but if it doesn't have structure it just doesn't seem like poetry to me," on the other hand they say, "What's the point of following those rules - what are you, some sort of blinkered reactionary?" A more moderate view would be that both are poetry, they're just different kinds of poetry. Sometimes you are writing a sonnet and sometimes you are writing free verse. One of the points of writing a sonnet is that you have to negotiate the rules; with free verse you have to take into account other, often more subtle aspects. Neither is necessarily harder nor better than the other. Both have their pitfalls; both can be managed badly. And sometimes a sonnet is the form best suited to the inspiration at hand, whereas sometimes it isn't.
*dies laughing*
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On an issue that has nothing to do with the above: I think seme/uke versus not (and "not" is not the same thing as "reversible") is comparable to metred verse versus free verse. On the one hand they say, "No offense, but if it doesn't have structure it just doesn't seem like poetry to me," on the other hand they say, "What's the point of following those rules - what are you, some sort of blinkered reactionary?" A more moderate view would be that both are poetry, they're just different kinds of poetry. Sometimes you are writing a sonnet and sometimes you are writing free verse. One of the points of writing a sonnet is that you have to negotiate the rules; with free verse you have to take into account other, often more subtle aspects. Neither is necessarily harder nor better than the other. Both have their pitfalls; both can be managed badly. And sometimes a sonnet is the form best suited to the inspiration at hand, whereas sometimes it isn't.
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It varies completely by pairing (and sometimes even depending on a particular view of a pairing) for me. Some pairings scream 'seme x uke dynamic' to me. Some make ME scream if I see people using too heavy a hand when applying said dynamic to them.
downhill ace (gutterrun remix)
It's odd, but while I like eg sonnets written of the Elizabethan era - while Donne I think is one of the greatest poets if not the greatest, perhaps for way his lines fight their metre - most modern attempts at any metered verse read to me not as verse so much as doggerel. Kipling, Housman, ManleyOpkins I loved as I child and now read thinking 'di dum di dum di dum di WHITHER VARIATION BITCH'; by Owen and Sassoon my credulity's strained by any more than a half-rhyme.
As if I can accept metre only when the language is made unfamiliar by age. Or as if poor free verse, being little more than prose with line breaks, were easier to accept.
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Re: downhill ace (gutterrun remix)
I like Dylan Thomas, Edna St. Vincent Millay and others (broadly speaking) of that generation. To be honest there's a wide swathe of the 19th century that doesn't do much for me - post-Blake and pre-Swinburne. ^^;
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You can't say that and not at least vaguely explain it! xD