Rec Meme Pimp and Reading Exercise

[kennahijja]

Probably quite late already to point you to the REC THIS FIC Meme by dreaminoflorien, who is aiming at compiling a comprehensive list of people's favourite fics. Rec your own favourites and second others's (five pimps qualify a fic for the rec list).

Have been rushing through 30 pages and hope I've not missed anything. And if you think that chthonya's Invictus, mctabby's Two Worlds and In Between and lazy_neutrino's Stop all the Clocks are brilliant fics, follow the links and pimp ;).
I'd have tons more, but time is short, and the bus is waiting...

But most of all, the thread alone looks like it'll provide reading material for months and months, independently of what makes it to the final list! *loves*

And a bit of... incomprehensive reading for the heck of it (filched from piratesmile331):

Can you read this? Only 40 people on livejournal can (ok, I doubt that like whoa, it's really pretty easy, but what the heck - it's a fun exercise!):

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I wuas rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

Thhe rset can be a taotl mses and yhou can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huuamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs rpsoet it.

ONLY REPOST IF YOU COULD READ THE ABOVE. Please update the number at the header to include yourself.

Comments

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[yanks02.livejournal.com]

YAY ME

Though it's probably my awful typing that allows me to read stuff like that. :)

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

I've got some recs too. The links are here:
http://dreamer-marie.livejournal.com/110183.html#comments

[liriaen.livejournal.com]

And today's st00pid award goes to liriaen who could read the text well enough, first go, (which must be because her hasty-mails tend to look equally garbled), but is too darn dumb to understand the repost instructions. Duh?

[ldybastet.livejournal.com]

heh, I have part of that on my info page... I am teh Queen of Typos! Mwahaha! But really, I've tried that one on a lot of not online people, including my parents, and they have no trouble reading it either. :-)

I have skimmed the rec post... I don't recognise many of those fics at all. Probably because there's like no Snape/Malfoy on it. *g* I don't read much.

dreaminoflorien's new hpmasterlist

[piratesmile331.livejournal.com]

I agree, if nothing else, there will be zillions of new fics to read!

[clen3k.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*

No, really. I actually read through the entire entry... until the last paragraph and then realised what was wrong with the text.

I knew there was something off before, but I just didn't realise what. Hence - *headdesk*

[bellonablack.livejournal.com]

Well, if I ever need to know how large this fandom is... o-o

Actually, that is an impressive list. I haven't read that much, I'm finding out :) I did spy Tom Riddle/Indiana Jones, and that seriously made my day.

[chthonya]

Hey, thanks for the rec! :) Though I'm amazed that TWIB hadn't reached the limit by the time I got there, which makes me suspect the list as a whole (haven't had time to skim it yet).

And what happened to LNs?


As for the muddled text - yeah, I can read it, no problem. Reminds me of a little fun I had last Friday when I attended a basic skills class and they gave us a passage in mirror writing to demonstrate how frustrating trying to read can be for someone who struggles with it. Some of the words required a bit of deciphering, but after looking through it once I could read it at normal speed, which left everyone rather gobsmacked as seemingly no one else could do it. Though I was rather surprised at the person who said, "Oh, you read it right to left", and I was thinking, well of course you read it right to left, I didn't even have to think about that. Meant not as a boast (it's not exactly a life-boosting skill, though it's handy to read notices stuck on windows from the wrong side I suppose) but as an illustration of how differently different people's minds work...