[2015-02-26 00:14:50 UTC] The chat is unstable because you'll see when you log in it's called "TPP Updates withâ„¢ [UserName]" [2015-02-26 00:15:13 UTC] Fun fact: 50 Shades started out as Twilight fan fiction. [2015-02-26 00:15:29 UTC] I thought Twilight also started out as Harry Potter fan fiction, but now I can't seem to find a source for that. [2015-02-26 00:17:32 UTC] And I'm not surprised you're not a fan of Mrs. Dalloway. High Modernism can be sort of an acquired taste and based off the people I've met who disliked reading Virginia Woolf, I'd figure you would have a similar response. [2015-02-26 00:20:21 UTC] Anyway: TPP update, they caught 50, which was the minimum needed for Exp All. Traded Slowbro for Kadabra. Were going to get the old amber but decided to fuck around and go back into the Pewter Gym. [2015-02-26 00:20:42 UTC] Final team projections, which are laughable to begin with, have thus far included the Mr. Mime even though it is terrible. [2015-02-26 02:27:14 UTC] Hell of a standoff. They're trying to catch a metapod. Keeps hardening. They keep playing the poke flute instead of throwing a ball. "Now that's a catchy tune!" it says. Over and over. [2015-02-26 03:28:59 UTC] What does it mean that the metapod is hardening? [2015-02-26 03:35:54 UTC] Now the chat's changed again! This is delightful. [2015-02-26 03:36:44 UTC] Metapod has a move called "Harden" that increases its defense but otherwise does nothing. Sometimes it's the only move a wild one has. The poke flute also does nothing. [2015-02-26 06:05:59 UTC] well uh... for modernism we had to read D H Lawrence, Mrs Dalloway and Katherine Mansfield, and the funny thing is that I got a 3.8 on my first exam even though I kinda bullshitted many points on the questions [2015-02-26 06:06:39 UTC] apparently I did really well talking about how Woolfe portrayed Septimus' condition and how this related to other portrayals of mental illness in modernist literature [2015-02-26 06:06:41 UTC] I aint complaining.. [2015-02-26 06:07:33 UTC] THOUGH now we're doing post modernism, and I've read two books, Waterland and Written on the Body [2015-02-26 06:07:55 UTC] I do enjoy these way more, although both books decided for whatever reason to be SAD [2015-02-26 06:08:38 UTC] especially written on the body, which starts out really humorous, then at the end the narrator, who has neither name nor sex, is unable to find the woman he TRULY loves [2015-02-26 06:08:41 UTC] i cri evertim... [2015-02-26 06:12:05 UTC] o_0 I just read a summary of it online... apparently I got the ending wrong and he actually DOES reconcile with the woman he loves [2015-02-26 06:12:22 UTC] this is why I don't read books in my free time btw [2015-02-26 06:25:12 UTC] Oh, D H Lawrence is good fun. Limited experience with Mansfield though. [2015-02-26 06:25:38 UTC] The post modernism entries, I've never actually heard of. That's my own interest in post modernism speaking. [2015-02-26 06:26:42 UTC] But I would guess that your prof there is youngish and possibly interested in gender studies as both of those were fairly recent writings whereas when I've studied postmodernism, it's been a lot of 60s and 70s fare. [2015-02-26 07:00:33 UTC] nope, she's like 60 or 70 and is from Australia... and wait, since these were fairly recent for you, does that mean you grew up in the times of those dark doldrums that I'm currenlty reading?? mind blown.. [2015-02-26 07:26:20 UTC] Nah, I'm more saying that It's not common for me to see work from the 80s-90s studied in a critical setting. Usually people wait several decades for critical opinions to have settled somewhat. [2015-02-26 07:28:10 UTC] The Australian part makes sense though, both novelists are from the UK. [2015-02-26 22:50:33 UTC] <> *** Warning the chat is becoming more stable ***