Facebook flog - Jan 6 2014

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Link: Jan 6 2014, 4:44
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

One of the joys of editing small stuff for mass market is I get to reread the parts that make me smile. Still one of my favorite bits of dialogue from Affliction. "What part of sociopath didn't you understand?"

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[nightmer.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a line some teenager would have put on their Myspace profile in a really annoying font. Yikes.

[rebootfromstart.livejournal.com]

...oh, goodie, she's fucking with mental conditions that I'm pretty sure she doesn't actually have any grasp of. There's a lot more to sociopathy than "I don't have to be nice" and "I don't have friends".

Also, I love how the look is eloquent but we don't get told what it says. Just that it says it eloquently.

[deadsong.livejournal.com]

He's right about one thing.

She doesn't understand a single thing about sociopathy.

...or self-awareness, especially on that particular topic.

[plastraa.livejournal.com]

Hey but at least we get to see the "water and something thicker" description again, cuz that one never gets old. :)

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Wow...that almost sounded like a bit of a...PLOT.

Bet that's all there is, though. Le sigh.

Don't know why I bother.

[ramlatch.livejournal.com]

I am always so bothered by this thing. LKH doesn't seem to understand that a sociopath does not love a person like an equal. A sociopath MIGHT love you the way someone fondly glances at a pretty bookshelf ornament, but that's about as much as you're going to get. That she has Anita loving this guy like he's a real person just ... no. Sociopathy (easier to type than the official terms) makes you broken, and there isn't anything that will change my mind about that. That sense of morality that says hey, throwing that puppy in the garbage bin is bad? They don't have that. A person like that isn't a person. I really don't care what any bleeding heart says. That is half of a person, and someone to run the hell away from. That LKH thinks it's cute and funny or something, to have Anita being some "lol lol awww lol lol look at Anita with her ickle snuggle bunny sociopath" just gives me the creeps. It's not cute. It's not funny. It's cuddling a shark and then going "hey it likes me! we're totally besties!".

Also, I would almost bet money that actual sociopaths don't really care about labeling themselves. They are too busy being sociopaths to be all like "omg I'm a sociopath! Hi! I'm a sociopath! Did I mention I'm a sociopath?!"

[watersheerie.livejournal.com]

I get the feeling that LKH watched a lot of Dexter, and thus Nicky was created.