idle thought #667

for those of you who make fun of the idea that all lowercase fiction is an artistic choice, I would like to share the reasons why I did this for a few stories, because I suspect others might be doing it for the same reasons but be unable to articulate why. And yes, I had to do it deliberately, because the word processor I was using kept capitalizing letters so I had to delete the letter and uncapitalize it or undo the autocorrect. For the few fics that I did it for, it was an artistic choice. In my case, the few it made sense for were dreamlike or dissociating, so it communicated a feeling of being unmoored from reality or the usual standards of reality. I can also point to the culprit as to who gave me the idea in the first place: E. E. Cummings, though the ‘common knowledge’ that he never used capital letters might have been a misunderstood exaggeration.

:( leave my burg alone

lotro, first you debacle your 64-bit transfer by freaking out a bunch of rpers and housing enthusiasts with the fear that they're going to be losing names and housing and massively underestimate how effective that would be and then you wanna nerf my burg when you haven't even un-nerfed them since the last time?  and this is after the LI track grind tires me out so much I don't even want to do normal questing after I drag my way through it.  do you, like, hate me actually wanting to play or something?  (Honestly I might end up ditching him and he's been my main since...I don't even remember when I started but it's been over 10 years and probably 15.)