1) Ungrateful.

This fandom is always saying things like “They should have just stopped the books/Should have gotten a female GW/Should stop it all NOW” but when something they like (Landry Series, Music in the Night) finally comes out they are all too willing to read it and praise it, but when they say the ghostwriter should never have been hired (they do that so much I want to hit things) they don’t give a second thought to those books they liked and the fact those wouldn’t have existed.

2)Hypocritical guesses.

This one doesn’t annoy me so much because it rather amuses me. It seems unanimous in most of this fandom (ie; everyone except me and one other person) that GW work and VCA work are vastly different and VCA work is vastly superior. Still, no-one seems entirely sure who wrote what in Garden of Shadows. There seem to be to main theories: VCA wrote up until Corinne’s birth, after which the GW finished, and that the GW wrote it all. But it’s not agreed, despite everyone claiming the writing styles to be so different.

3) “Loyal V.C Andrews fan(s)…”

Okay, I’ve only seen this about 3 times, but it REALLY REALLY annoys me. Sometimes, when the ghostwriter is being discussed some will say something like “fans of the true VCA like ghostwriter bashing/Loyal VCA fans will fight the ghostwriter” etcetera. This one vaguely offends me with it’s implications, that if you like all the GW’s stuff you’re not a “true” V.C Andrews fan or something equally bullshit. Or maybe I’m being over sensitive.

4) Exaggerations

“Both My Sweet Audrina and the Gemini series feature a sibling filling in for another, so the ENTIRE GEMINI SERIES is just a rip-off of MSA!” (Yep, the entire plot is just a rip-off), “Olivia Logan is a bitch for being a bit bitter when her little sister gets pregnant by the only man Olivia was able to love!” (what a horrible person!), “Secrets in the Attic has to be a rip-off of Flowers in the Attic!” (oh yes, more than the title, one is about for inbred children getting locked in an attic for 3 years so their mother can claim her inheritance, the other’s a tale of a girl who murdered her sexually abusive stepfather hiding in her best friends attic, COMPLETELY THE SAME AND NOT JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE HIDES IN AN ATTIC!!!!!!), “The title Scattered Leaves is a rip-off of the title Petals on the Wind!” (wind could scatter leaves, YOUR NOT THINKING TO HARD!!!), …etcetera…

5) Makin’ in personal

Okay, this is mainly attributed to the “GW WRITES ABOUT RAPE HE IS SICK” thing. Uh, what series by the real VCA doesn’t involve rape in some way? Lets see, in the Dollanganger Chris rapes Cathy, Bart Snr. rapes Cathy, Malcolm rapes Alicia but no-one’s really sure who wrote that one, in My Sweet Audrina the entire plot is propelle by a rape, in the Casteel series Tony raped Leigh (we find that out in Dark Angel). People talk about about the GW “glorifying rape/the girls enjoy it”. Um, WHEN did this happen? One slightly ambivelent sentence in “Celeste” (“Elliot slotted himself between my legs comfotably,” which probably is meant to show Elliot didn’t give a fuck what he was doing to Celeste and didn’t care that she didn’t want him) and a slightly sloppily written passage in Heart Song, which was probably just a lapse in concentration on his part (yes, people have them, even VCA herself!) and wasn’t really meant to be rape.

6) Hypocricy

Not as related with 2 as it sounds. More related with 5. In that one we talk about the fans saying the GW is sick for writing about “girls enjoying rape” which he doesn’t even do and meanwhile in Flowers in the attic Chris rapes Cathy and the next day Cathy says she wanted it as much as he did! Later, Bart Snr rapes Cathy and, she fall in love with him! People say that the ghostwriter includes incest that happens for no reason- Uh, did VCA give us a reason for Christopher Snr. and Corinne? Not really! And besides, Phillip and Dawn, Ruby and Paul were accidents, like Heaven and Troy, they didn’t know. Ian and Jordan, Cary and Laura were never really confirmed. Phillip raping Christie was because of his fixation with Dawn. Annie and Luke, Dawn and Jimmy, Christie and Gavin, Roy and Rain, Summer and Harley aren’t actually related, but step/adoptive relatives, Cary and Melody are related, but these pairings are like Christopher Snr. and Corinne.

7) Presuming

Fans always say things like “People don’t like GW books/They won’t attract new readers,” etcetera. Well the first VCA books I read was April Shadows, and I loved it! But I had known about FitA and found April Shadows at the library looking for that, so I might not be the best example, but I’ve seen a few people who’s first VCA book was Dawn! “The GW doesn’t know what readers what!” well, someone’s buying them, I like them and I don’t think one girl who only found out about VCA about 5 months ago is enough to sustain a book range that’s been going before I was born!

Anywho I have been making lots of icons and been sick a bit and I have quite a few story ideas. They are slightly demented stories. -shhhh-

Yeah, so, just, um, REMINDING YOU I EXIST.

SCHOOL PLAY 1 DAY, 4 HOURS AND 54 MINUTES AWAY NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

I further exercised my stupid when the bell rang for second period and I thought it was recess, so I headed out iced coffee and museli bar in hand… Then Chris told me it wasn’t recess. I am stupid.

Er, after my stupid moment, we had English. Whilst we were waiting for Ms Wickham, all the guys (and the girls who’d been told) were discussing some weird incident in PASE where they were playing rugby (I don’t know why either. o.O) and Nick somehow ended up hugging Emil and it looked all romantic and gay and like they were going to kiss or something (Josh Apter: It looked romantic and like they were going to pash (I think that’s what he said anyway.)). Nick proceeded to be a git to Emil because Nick is a misanthropic bastard. And somehow this whole incident seemed to be forgotten by the end of the day. And everything I’m saying here is based on heresay (except for the ‘misanthropic bastard’ bit), so… If either Nick or Emil find this blog, please don’t kill me.

Nothing happened in Materials. So bleh. At lunch I had to borrow money off Tiara to buy green tea… I love green tea…

In PASE there were a few funny things, like… My friends playing badminton sitting down… Or hitting 8 shuttlecocks at a time… Or me accidently whacking the shuttlecock onto my nose…

When I got home… Mum was drunk. I hate that. But… that’s her.

I should be doing my Science homework.

…And now she’s singing. I don’t know. Anyway, earlier today (well, like, 10 minutes ago) I was watching FNL happily (or, um, the ads XD) and Jess said “Can I please have a cup of tea?”. I was all like “Nuuuuuuuu I don’t wanna bother getting you a cup of tea get it yourself,” because I’m a lazy bitch so she… stole my blankets (yeah, I was bed because… it was warm). Then my parents came in and she had to get her own tea. Hah. XD

On a note that makes sound less like I hate my sister (which I don’t, no matter what she says), when her/our friend Cassi came over, I like… showed them how to use the True Love/TL (or Tilly, as I randomly named it one day -shrugs-) thing. And they also tried it in Esperanto. Fun times. I must tell Stefen that he got 98% with MS. PORTER on the TL thing… Haha… Fun…

I also have been randomly looking at wikipedia. About very random things. Mainly films… with I haven’t seen. Don’t ask me. Ask… George! Whoever George is. But whatever. I also look up Romeo and Juliet on wikipedia… Wikipedia says Mercutio could very well be gay…Must tell Stefen that. XDDD

Jess is still singing. I don’t know WHY. She just IS. Oh, she says it’s because she likes singing. And history since she’s singing Les Miserables (except with an accent on the first ‘e’ but I can’t be bothered with the character map and all ). It starting to annoy me actually.

Bleh. I started writing a fanfic. And I’ve got to hurry up and write the second chapter. But… I don’t think anyone’ll care. Yay! 8D Knowing the inactiveness of the RD FF.N community I’ll probably even stay on the front page. XD

This is… A very random entry. Which I wouldn’t have made were it not for my sister, who is still singing. She like… Threatened to close one of my windows (not a physical window. A computer window). So… yes. I’m giving you this random entry which talks about my sister way too much. I’m not entirely sure why she’s still in the room, as her just sitting there and singing is a little boring for me but oh well.

Okay, I’ll publish this before I start talking gibberish. I hope. Bye bye.

~Emma

…Y’know , despite the fact a whole bunch of things have happened in the two months since I posted, I have no freakin’ clue what to say… I do have this rather spiffy incomplete pack of playing cards next to me though. -shuffles them-

…Is this what I get for writing in my Blog at 11:30 pam? -____- Greaaaaaaaaat.

Oh, yeah. My mother got a syst in her stomach, it MIGHT’VE been Cancer. Which would’ve made it what, the fifth time? Depressing business, that.

Oh. Yeah. I was sick for two weeks. X( I basically… Watched a helluva lot of Red Dwarf. I have also read some fanfic, like a suspected, it is FULL of slash. However… In some ways they (the slash writers) have a point… And in other ways they have no point at all. Yay for nonsensical things!

…I probably have homework. D: Homework=no fun kthxbai. Plus my eyes are tired now. -_______-  I am randomly researching fanfiction and fandom, as a whole, right now. ‘Cause I’m random like that. ‘Tis fun. 8D

Blah blah yada yada I’m tired. XP And I can’t thing of anything borderline-interesting to say to you. So, um… Bye?

~Emma

We had SOSE first. SOSE is a good class (plus 1 good point), and we worked on the Tollund Man, which is fairly interesting. Small argument between Emil and Tiara (well, not rewally, more Emil going “YOU’RE WRONG DUMBASS >O”), which is BAD for me because I ship them (plus one bad point).

Maths. I don’t particularly like Maths, but it’s okay. However, writing in all these different number system was TOO CONFUSING -huggles ours- (plus one bad point).

Recess was okay… Sunny went and asked Mr. Linhow old he was. Mr Lin said 21. Yeah. Right. XD

Back to Maths. More confusing number systems. However, stories about movies+hanging were interesting (plus one good point).

Science. I… don’t really like Science. I think Sunny’s the only one who does. We had a mini-test. One bad point.

Lunch time. I had forgotten to bring my notice about Lawn Bowls (WHY we had to bring a new one when we brought the one for last week, I’ll never know). But Mr. Reynolds let me call Mum so I could go. Plus a good point.

So, we… went to Lawn Bowls. Heh. I was actually not-too-crap-at-it, plus a good point. =D At the end, we got icypoles and coke. Plus another good point.

…However, this caused me to miss BOTH BUSES. I had to walk home -__________-. Plus TWO bad points.

Okay, this is… the Sunday after this all. And all in all it was 4 good points, 5 bad points. -_____- Great.

Um… Less random topics… First class of the day was SOSE, which was cool. We had to read out opinions we had written down, and debate over them. EVERYONE went all “GZGDJBJVCGUVKVFGGVDSGUJBGG WHAT?????”at Emil when he said all animals found on the street should be put down immediately and turned into dog food themselves. Nick came up with the diss of the century; “If you think animals are retarded stupid creatures you should take a look at yourself.” Uh. Emil was kind of setting himself to be yelled at then.

Second class was the first period of Maths, and we were doing the review of chapter twelve because Santa has gone and given us a BIG FAT TEST for Boxing Day in Feburary. D= Anyway, Maths was not particularly memorable except for the air conditioner malfunctioning all the time and all of us getting really hot.

Recess. Here was where I bought my Sour Spike. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to eat my Sour Spike, which was all like.

Yet again; Maths. This was basically the same as our last  Maths class; not interesting.

Then, Science. We actually had our Music Teacher, Ms. Maryanovsky, for Science. We had to do questions 1-12 about the states of matter. Ms. Maryanovsky said we’d get detention if we don’t finish them; but I only got 9 done and didn’t get detention. =D

Lunch! Where I finally got to eat my Sour Spike! Well, more like drink it because it had melted since recess. ‘Twas still nice.

During Lunch, Sunny and I went to find Ms. Sanchez to enquire about Lawn Bowls. Ms Sanchez said Lawn Bowls would be after Lunch, so Sunny and I were like “:3″.

Then, Lunch ended. We waited for Ms. Sanchez so we could go to Lawn Bowls, but she took a while to show up. When she did, we all piled into her car went off to Lawn Bowls. At Lawn Bowls, we played Lawn Bowls. Big suprise there. At the end, we got soft drink. The Malvern people gotsoft drink and icy poles.

That was… basically  yesterday in a nushell.

Yesterday I… went to school, instead of wagging and going to Chadstone. Which’d get me a detention, which I don’t think would be very fun. So, I went to school. First we had SOSE, which was okay. We did somew more stuff on Primary and Secondary sources, despite the fact we all know what they are by now. We didn’t get any homework, which made me a happy panda.

To Maths. Where we did Line Graphs. Not particularly interesting, what the fudge, the teachers don’t care. Mr Willems said that him saying the sentence “Fred Blodds like walking on his hands,” would be part of our 20 minute memory as it wasn’t important. I remembered it just to spite him.

Then we had recess, which wasn’t important to my day at all really. So back to Maths…

We just… Did more Line Graphs (boringboringboring), and, as per usual, I didn’t finish before the class ended. TEH HOMEWORKZ DDD=. Mr. Willems got instructions on how to make crash dummies (the laws wouldn’t let him use us year 7s =3). He wouldn’t let Emil see the piccu of one of the crash test dummies, so Emil was all 3= and such.

After Maths we had… Um. -checks planner- Science. Where we got to do some… stuff. Like checking our homework. I, of course, did not finish everything Mrs. Templer told me to do, so I got more homework. Plus, I still got the normal homework…

Then, we had Ceramics, where I had to draw stuff made out of clay on the front page of my Sketchbook. ‘Twas okay, and I’m not being very specific in this post, am I? -sweatdrop- Sorry.

Then, finally IT. Where my account stopped working, but I got a new one of something like that. We had to write letters to Osi about ourselves, using lots of different types of formatting stuff that would not really fit into a normal letter but who gives, anyway?

Then… I went home. Pretty average, really. I went on the computer, ate stuff, took a shower and… Um. Yeah. That’s basically it.

That’s yesterday in a nutshell, and this post makes my life seem really boring.

~Emma

I keep getting distracted from this thingzo. Sorries. Anyhoo, me and my sister went to school, on the bus per usual (and I saw Nick there. And Sasha). Then, we arrived at school and I did what I normally do before school starts: wander around aimlessly. Luckily, school did start before I died of boredom, so I had to get my books and go to… Dammit I forgot what class I had. GAH. Er… Um… Eek… Well… I had double Maths, two periods… ceramics, that makes 3… I had IT last, which means I had two more classes… I had SOSE, just one more… Science, that’s the other one. Those are not in order. Just in the order I remembered them. Which one was first… Maths was periods 2 and 3… Science was period 4… IT was 6… Ceramics would have been 5… So SOSE had to be first. So yeah, I went to SOSE, where I finished off the letter I had to start for homework last night (or was it the night before…?). Mr. Pana also talked about game consoles for a bit, which actually interested me (yes. I’m a nerd. Haven’t you figured this out by now?). Finishing the letter was set as homework for those who hadn’t finished it. I did finish it, so I didn’t have to bother with that.

Maths. There we did stuff about… Grouping data. Putting things in a range (like 20c-40c, 40c-60c-, 60c-80c, 80c-$1.00 etc) when drawing up our frequency table. This was not really that interesting, and not much interesting happened in it. Then, we had recess. I had no snack unfortunately, which meant I got REALLY hungry. Grace and her friend I don’t actually know the name of (I will call her Lauren from now on for… No real reason) plotted to climb the fence, but eventually decided against it. That’s really all I remember from recess. so, we went back to Maths, where we learnt about Means (averages), Medians (middle numbers) and Modes (most frequent numbers). Mr. Willems even threw in a few Latin Symbols for free.

Science, where we did no actual science. We just were told about some safety rules. We had to write rules that would prevent disasters that were happening in these little piccus in our Science book down, yet we weren’t allowed to use the word “don’t” or stuff along those lines. Miss Templer said they had to be in “Positive” speak (WHY? They’re RULES for god’s sake). Also some Years 10s (I’m guessing) said we had to come down to the Gym at lunch and meet our “Peer Support Group,” a bunch of random Year 10s we don’t know, at lunch. I was not happy about this. AT ALL.

Then, lunch itself happened. I went down to canteen and ordered myself a hotdog and Pepsi Max, both of which were nice. I also talked to Sunny a bit, but then we had to go over to the gym to meet our “Peer Support Group”. Which was basically learning random peoples’ names and being insanely bored. Stephan whinged about it, and I suggested he run away. He said it was a good idea, but yet he didn’t. Pity. I wanted to see him do that.

After lunch, it was ceramics. This was one of the many ceramics lesson we’re gonna have where we see no hide not nor hair of any clay (okay, technically clay doesn’t have hides or hair… Not that I actually no what hides are. o_o). We just… Leanrt about clay. I didn’t really pay much attention. So nyah. >P

IT then. I really had nothing to do during IT because the Technician didn’t make me an account… So I just doodled in my sketchbook, and talked to Sunny. It wasn’t that memorable.

HOMETIME! I gathered what I needed for Homework, then started to head out to the bus stop and my sister. Then I realised I’d left my metcard in my locker, so I went back toget it. On the bus, I found out I had in fact taken my metcard from Yesterday. The bus driver kept asking me “Are you going to take another bus or train,” because I am a moron, I didn’t get what this meant. Eventually he just told me to go sit down, even though technically that was illegal ’cause I still hadn’t bought a ticket. Ah well…

When me and Jess we found out the door was locked. And Dad was out. And neither of us had our keys. BAD. BAD BAD BAD. Eventually, we had to pry open a sorta window-door enough for Jess to get her hand through and get my key off the kitchen table. But it worked and we got in.

A few hours later, we went to visit Mum, where she said she may be out in a few days! YAY! We did not go to 7 Eleven where I could get a Slurpie again. Dammut. What? I like slurpies. And there’s nowhere I can get them from close to where I live. >P

So… That was basically my day. 8D

Anyway, I didn’t actually miss the bus. Yay! So, my bag was very heavy. No. Really. I just about died on the way to school, and started telling people it wanted to kill me. Before school actually started, I just spent my time whinging about it to Winnie, who in turn whinged about carrying her books. So it all evened out.

We got to go in, and had a period just informing us about the school, which was boring. Really. Boring. We also got our lockers and locks in that bit, which was good. For some reason, when I was getting my lock, I wasn’t on the register ’cause we didn’t hand in the enrolment form… Or something… Ah well. This is the bit where Ifirst discovered my lock hated me.

Second period: I think this was maths. We took a while to get to Maths, ’cause we had no idea what so ever as to where the Maths room was. Eventually, we figured out where it was, and went there. Our teacher was Mr. Willems, you happened to be new. We did stuff about Chance and Data, which was really easy. So I was like “:)” and the rest of the class was like “:)” and Mr. Willems said 0 was the greatest gift the Arabs gave to us. So yeah, Maths was cool.

Recess. I don’t really remember much of what happened at recess. o.o I sat with Grace, Lauren (I think that’s her name) Sunny and Kerrie. Uh. I think. -sweatdrop-  I alsoate my lunch at this time, because I was hungry. I regretted it later.

Then, it must’ve been S.O.S.E, which was okay. We had to play a Getting-to-Know-You™ game, which, as I’m sure you all know, are rather boring. I did not even get half my squares filled in. You see, the aim was to fill in all your squares (little things with facts: ie Has a cat, can surf, etc.) with a name of a classmate, but it had to be a different classmate for each one. I think Stefan was the only one that filled it. This is also where I got my first homework for the day, to write the first paragraph of a letter to Mr. Pana telling him about me.

English, where our teacher was Ms. Porter. There we had to bunch into pairs (I was with Sunny,) and make up a story based on a newspaper headline or picture Ms. Porter gave us. Sunny and I got “The Gathering Storm”, and we (well, uh, mainly me actually) came up with a story about and annoying person who thought herself perfect and randomly threw an apple at the sky getting killed by a thunder god who was woken up by the random apple. I have to finish it off for homework. My second bit of homework.

Lunch, which was probably the most boring part of the day. I basically just sat next to Sunny and near Tiara/Natalie (…don’t ask me) and Kerrie, and we basically just went on and on about how bored we were. The fact I was really hungry due to my eating my lunch at recess and having no money to buy something from the canteen from didn’t really help matters.

Lunch ended, and we headed to double Ceramics. We spent half of this time just going over the rules of the class so we didn’t get poisoned or other such things. We were meant to bring our pencil cases, but I think I was the only one that actually did. Then, in the second period of Ceramics, we got to make these Pinch Pots, which were fun. We had to role our clay into a ball, stick our thumb in the middle, then flatten out the ednge of it with our other fingers. Which got they clay all over our hands, but oh well. This was the last class of the day, so after this I got to go to my locker, get the stuff I needed for my homework, leave the rest of it in my locker, find my sister, catch the bus and go home. This, annoyingly, took longer than it probably should’ve due to Jess having to wait 10 minutes at the office to get a school planner. I blame the people that were taking so long to fill out a form, and I still haven’t got a school planner.

Then, we caught the bus and went home. That bit isn’t really interesting, so I won’t bother  describing it. When we got home, I decided to go and buy some stuff we needed (Something for dinner (we got pizza), school drinks, biscuits for recess lunch etc.), so I did. We ate our dinner of pizza (Cheese and Bacon, the only kind I’m not like “EW. XPPPP” at), and went to visit  Mum at the hospital, and she asked about the first day back at school. We told her it waspretty good, which was the truth. So, we talked to Mum about random things, Dad said he was going to steal Mum’s sandwich, but didn’t eat any of it when she offered him a bite. Silly Dad. So, Mum went outside for a cigarette, and we went back home. I think that brings us just about up to now. So… yeah. x3

Yours,

~Emma

P.S: Maybe I should start on my homework now…