So, guess what I did?

I read all of My Immortal...

My IQ dropped... I dunno... maybe by 45-55 percent or something... But I can regain it by reading Kingdom Keepers or Duma Key... and maybe even by doing some equations from my Pre-Algebra class last year... I'll do all three just in case, I think...

But I read it so I could bury it in the depths of my mind and walk away from it skipping happily and singing "Here Comes the Sun".

BUT it's not working.

So seeing as how I can't forget the horror I just read, I think I'm going to do some things that'll make me remember it as "full of lulz".


~First step: Listen to the amazing dramatic reading of Chapter 17 (i think that's it, right?).

"HE HAD LONG BLACK HAIR, AND A LONG BLACK - bread? - ...bread!"

I laughed so hard I started crying.


~Second step: Find at least three good quotes

Three obvious ones:
-"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!?!"
-"Why did you do such a thing, you mediocre dunces?"
-"Snap was spying on me and he was taking a video tape of me! And Loopin was masticating to it!"

And one not-that-obvious but still hilarious (but because of the dramatic reading):
-"He had lung black hair and a looong black bread."

Is it even possible for one to have a long, black loaf of bread? (or did she mean just a long slice of charred toast?)


~Third Step: Do my own dramatic reading with someone.

Maybe I can do that this weekend? Aliss, you and I should totally get together at my house and stuff.


*Possible Fourth Step: If I still remember this fanfic when I turn 21 (or if I'm 16 and beyond fucking bored), play the drinking game.

...I doubt I'll still remember it by then though.

-SHORTENED-ISH VERSION OF THIS POST THAT PROBABLY MAKES MORE SENSE-

*~Please do not point out that I did not have to read the fanfic, My Immortal. At least not without reading this first.~*

I read that whole fanfic purely for the sole reason of getting it out of my system, but since the fanfic was so horrible it made me feel like I should murder my laptop before murdering the one person I hate most, its language and terms (goffik, fangz, geddit, etc) continually show up in my vocabulary like a bad penny. On top of that, I listen to some of the bands that the writer lists as "goffik", and I listen to them almost all the time because I've done so since I was in third grade (at least Evanescence, Linkin Park, and Good Charlotte). The fact I am unable to get myself to stop listening to them for more than a week, it only makes the fic pop up into my mind even more.

Usually, what I do when something like that happens, I try to think of all the good parts about the thing/person. It's hard to do that with this fanfic though because of it's atrocious spelling, horrid plot, wangst-overload... well, if you've read it, I guess there's no need for me to make a list on what you obviously already know.

So, I want to turn it into something that I can have at least two positive thoughts on. I already have one: there are (I suppose) quite few lulz-y moments in it. The second one can be made through doing a few dramatic readings and watching/listening to a few with friends (for some reason, when I have company with me that enjoys things that I normally don't, I manage to enjoy it anyways). If I can remember the fun times I had reading it and goofing off with my friends at the same time...

I can bury all of the memories of the fanfic, but not in the back of my mind where the horrible ones are, and I can walk away from it and maybe return to it in a few years and laugh, I guess like it's a mental time-capsule.

As a final little note, if I do a dramatic reading with someone, I will do everything I can to keep my corrections and commentary to myself (which most likely won't be too hard because I'll be with friends and having fun).

So - who wants to get together sometime and do a dramatic reading or two?