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About meHi. This is me. Giving unjustified ratings to books everywhere, just cause they don't push my buttons.

Cause I have mah buttons, and I likes them to be pushed. Above all, I like teh gay and slashy things. I like humor. Especially dark humor. I like snarky main characters. I like thieves and wizards. I like things that aren't actually about what they sound like they're about. I like male bonding even if it's not of the romantic/sexual sort. I like weird. I hate angst, unless it's really well done or has happy to offset it. I like quest fantasies. Slightly unhappily and certainly embarrassedly and disturbedly, I have a growing taste for the brotherly kinds of slashyness due to Sarah Monette's Melusine series. I most often want to have FUN when I read. I may find fun in strange ways, sometimes. I like a fairly happy ending. I will be horribly biased to anything that has any of these and is done decently well.

I will search endlessly for books with these qualities, read some, find them disgustingly cliche and boring, pout, turn around and read something 'literary' and probably pretentious (though at least still usually with teh gay) and like it more but keep pouting because really what I wanted to like was the one with the magical fire robots and gratuitous sex.

I am forever wanting fantastic BL. However, most of it seems to be *coughstupidcough* I mean aimed at people with different tastes than I.

Giving a character a dark angsty past makes them automatically 'well developed' and 'deep' the same way a dress and pretty jewelry make me look attractive (that is, only if you have really low standards, and are perhaps slightly drunk.)

I feel embarrassed when I find books I like, cause usually I'm not entirely sure they're actually better than the ones I hated.

Landscapes, architecture, magical systems, history, science, entire worlds, I can pretend that all manner of things that don't make sense do for a good story, so long as it makes the characters thoughts and emotions believable. If you try to make me believe your characters fell in love for absolutely no reason and then immediately start acting like an old married couple, I will scratch your eyes out with my neon claws.

Character development is the #1 sexiest thing any book can have. Humor is #2. Subtelty is #3. I guess sex can be #4.

I am a terrible reviewer because I can sometimes be exceedingly snarky, bitchy, vague and inarticulate. And if you hadn't figured it out yet, I am and will forever be hopelessly long winded. But I like writing about what I read because it gives me a false sense of accomplishemnt.

About my libraryI hate all the manga on my bookshelf because it screws up the results for the novels. (Cause I don't want to know who has the same manga as me. Everyone has the same manga as me.) But it took a long time to load up there, darn it.

...I have, like, all these Discworld books of which only a few I like. But if I get rid of them, surely friends and family will be scandalized and perhaps start noticing all the gay on my bookshelf, which will freak me out.

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