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Quiz!meme ganked* threewalls:



EROTICA! - Wet, salty and delicious You are driven
to excite the reader into a literal froth with
your literary talents! You are a connoisseur of
the carnal side of humanity from Kink to
high-speed BJs in the front seat of a speeding
jag! Sex is GOOD. Penthouse and the Internet
after dark are your inspirations!


What Kind of Novel Should I Write?
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Everyone should read this thread from reading_genji. Because the people there are geniuses of funny. Probably funnier if you have some knowledge of Sei Shonagon or Saiyuki.

So, I've been friended by four new people since last night. Not that I mind! Not at all. I quite enjoy new people reading me, actually; it allows me to cackle wickedly as I watch my 'friends of' count grow higher and wait for the day that the whole world falls under my sway.

But it is sort of strange. Was I advertised somewhere? Was I on metaquotes without realizing it? Maybe I suddenly became more interesting (a fact that I confirm with this post, with its fascinating internet quiz and link spam). Tell me, new people.


*Is the word 'ganked' or 'gacked'? Because one is internet slang for "I took this idea from someone" and one was my-early-years-of-high-school slang for "to steal", but I've forgotten which is which.

Comments

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

Wet, salty and delicious???

Ew.

I say "ganked". I've always known "gank" as meaning "to steal." I shudder whenever I see someone say "gack."

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee.

It's never bothered me, since I just figured they were from two different dialects (okay, that is not the right word, but you know what I mean), but I couldn't remember which was which.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

Hee, porn. Never saw that one coming XP (But seriously you're one of my all-time favorite writers of smut, so I really hope you take the quiz's advice). When I tried this yesterday it told me to write 'literature' and I was like, WTF does that even mean?

Who doesn't like being friended? So validating...

I use 'gacked' for 'taken from someone' but then I'm sometimes wrong about these things, and easily confused.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

I got neurotic and looked it up on wikipedia, and I was wrong, it should be 'ganked.' Oh well.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee. I am so amused that you looked it up, which of course I could have done myself, if I'd thought of it.

I suspect that they both work, actually, but are used by different social circles.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

I think that's one of the definitions of 'square' -- someone who looks up slang in a dictionary ^^

But, really, I'm so utterly fascinated by how language develops that I'm constantly doing weird things like looking up usage histories and etymologies. So now I have at my disposal such enthralling pieces of trivia as, "did you know that 'gank' can be used as slang for crack cocaine?"

I am such a geek.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

So now I have at my disposal such enthralling pieces of trivia as, "did you know that 'gank' can be used as slang for crack cocaine?"

I didn't know that, but it's fascinating. I wonder how that relates to its use as "to steal"? Obviously I am going to have to go look this up myself.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I know, I am shocked. But awwww, thank you.

...and what does literature mean? I'd guess that they were trying for 'mainstream fiction', but I'm really not sure. Maybe as in 'classic literature'? You're meant to be the next Dickens!

[eibii.livejournal.com]

"Ganked" was our form, where I got it. I've seen it used as a multipurpose verb, I think, sometimes meaning 'gotten', sometimes 'killed'. Usually the latter was in the sense of computer problems, I think.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*snerks*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I'd never seen it used for 'to kill'. I am learning all kinds of interesting linguistic things tonight!

[angharadd.livejournal.com]

You sjould be writing erotica
What a surprise here :)

As for the friending thing, you seem like a really interesting person to me. I liked your 10 things meme immensely.
I'd like to learn you better.

And - you had managed to convert me to Tsu/His pairing (which I thought to be a) impossible; b) creepy), and I really like your Hisoka.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you.

And I'm glad I've convinced you of Tsuzuki/Hisoka! I do love my boys.