happy monkey

Today was the first day of spring quarter, my first day back from spring break. I don't know if it's some kind of reward for me from the universe, but I got back from my classes today to find three different amazing fics on my flist.

minervacat wrote the F/K porn I was talking about last week! And estrella30 wrote pretty pretty angsty sweet lyrical post-CotW fic. And oooooooh, serialkarma wrote Wilby Wonderful fic that makes my heart do flipflops and my insides go all warm and fuzzy.

It totally has to be the universe rewarding me. I am a happy monkey.

what's a sentence like you doing in a story like this?

There's something faintly vexing about reading a mediocre story and coming across something really good in it. It's more annoying than just reading a not-great story, definitely. The witty line or perfect snatch of dialogue or beautiful characterization description isn't enough to make it a good story, most of the time, so you're just left with a faint sense of frustration.

What a waste, you think, being stuck in the middle of an unremarkable story like that. They could have done real things with that, bringing the rest of the prose up to its level.

Of course, at least part of that reaction is probably annoyance at not having thought of that piece yourself. My jealousy is much less profound when those perfect moments are in excellent stories, somehow; those authors know what to do with their lines, I suppose.