What type of music do you listen to while reading fanfic?

[campylobacter]

You know that adage "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it"? I need to find a busy person, or clone myself. Or just blow off everything & blow a Ba'al clone.

I am so frelling behind on some of my favorite fandom activities:

• finishing my stargate_summer  Big Bang story, due in a few weeks
• reading fanfic rec'd to me
• leaving feedback for fanfic I've read
• posting about the next phase of the daniel_vala  Layout Contest
• nominating my favorite fanworks for the Gatefic Awards
• posting a boring update on my battle with comment spam
• polling about story length preferences

I've experienced 2 consecutive days of WiFail, and y'all know what dialup is like. Anyway, my "reading stack" is formidable, but TICKY BOXES might amuse you:
[Poll #1739325]

Random question: If anyone is using a variation of Flexible Squares as your LJ layout, have you noticed any random default re-setting? I think LJ has rewritten some of its core code to thwart comment spam, and inadvertently broken layouts that may have had incompatible CSS.

Comments

[lc59.livejournal.com]

Well I don't read particularly slowly,lol but if the characters and storyline are absorbing then I'm definitely thinking about everything going on...I'm also hoping as I write that my readers do the same thing...so when I'm throwing out foreshadowing I'm hoping that someone is picking up on it.
I also like the term 'intuitive' reader...readers who can create and understand the settings/characters without reams and reams of narrative. Once again it's how I read and because of that I assume that others read the same way so it's the way I write...for example if I describe a reception in the formal living room of an ambassador's home and there is a black marble fireplace at one end of the room, an "intuitive" reader should be able to picture the entire scene including the people there and how the room is decorated without me having to give them details.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

I read slowly enough to subvocalize -- especially Vala's dialog; I'm in LOVE with Claudia's voice. It also gives me time to notice motif, symbolism, alliteration, extended metaphor, and pacing.

I prefer the Show vs. Tell style of writing; instead of TELLING readers that Daniel's instinct is to talk/study/analyze to resolve a conflict or situation, and that Vala's is to take action, SHOWING them is more fun:

DANIEL: (restraining Vala's pickaxe) Wait! No, no, no, no, no! You can't do that! I told you, this is a piece of technology. You could damage it.
VALA: It's been buried for millions of years, Daniel.