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[kittydesade]

To like something in these dialogues is given as нравиться/понравиться, which actually means to please and takes the dative. Note these examples:

Я вчера смотрела новый фильм. Yesterday I saw a new movie.
Ну и как? Он тебе понравился? Well, how was it? Did you like it? (lit. Did it please you?)

Я вчера смотрела новую передачу. Yesterday I saw a new TV show
Ну и как? Она тебе понравилась? Well, how was it? Did you like it? (lit. Did it please you?)
Очен! Посмотри её. Она тебе очень понравится! A lot! Watch it -- you'll really like it! (lit. It will really please you.

	правиться/понправится	любить	Book Commentary
Future	Вам понравится этот фильм.		In future tense, use понравиться.
Present	Мне нравится этот фильм.	Я люблю этот фильм. Я люблю ходить в кино.	In present tense, the verbs are close in meaning. Любить is a bit stronger. Use любить with infinitives.
Past	Мне понравился этот фильм. Мне нравился этот фильм.	Я любил(а) этот фильм. Я любил(а) ходить в кино.	I liked (and still like) this film. I used to like this film. Use любить with infinitives.

So, that didn't happen. And by that I mean either languages or guitar last night. In favor of getting to bed early and sleeping all the sleep I didn't sleep last night. Argh.

I combat the yawning don'-wannas with Bruce Boxleitner onnahorse. Do want.

Seriously, I don't know what it is about sweet guys on horseback, but that will get me every time. Both in the libido and in the heartstrings. Maybe just because I love to ride, used to do it all the time, and actually used to go out riding with an ex-boyfriend on his horses at his place a lot. Especially down here. But there's something about sweet guys on horses and I just fall over backwards with this blissful stupid grin on my face. (I also kind of wonder if Jeff Bridges rides, but that's more to do with him and westerns lately than anything else.)

Oogh. Too much to do, too little time to do it in. I managed to finish up a preliminary sort of all my googledocs last night, annoying as the new system is. And as sensitive, or maybe that's just my touchpad? But it seems like every time I try to touch the little arrow square thing to open or close a file tree it goes straight to that folder, excuse me, collection. What the fuck is up with the new nomenclature? What was wrong with the old nomenclature? Anyway, it goes straight to that instead of opening or closing it on the menu panel. And I still don't know how to close the fucking preview window. Which crowds out a third of the damn screen on my pocket ninja and really irritates me.

On the plus side, slightly clearer over yesterday's explosion of irritation. I've narrowed it down to the two things that irritate me: first, the preponderance of fandom and even a lot of original fiction writers to either write their fanfic or advertise it by leading with the slash. Which a) gives rise to way, way too many stories where the focus is the romantic/sexual relationship and b) half those relationships are badly written anyway and c) I hate the whole romance novel genre anyway. The second was much more specific, wherein someone described their story as having "unavoidable gay sex". Now, I understand that they probably meant "this is a story I'm writing so, as with most of the rest of my writing, it will almost inevitably have gay sex" but unavoidable sex is not a phrase I think I want to see ever again. It sounds, honestly, like rape. At least it does to me. It sounds like sex justified by I couldn't help it she/he/it was just so sexy, it was unavoidable, it's beyond my control and that just... no. So, there's that.

Tab clearing! Uncle Warren wrote a great piece on killing your stories. In a wonderful show of solidarity, Muslim leaders visited Auschwitz. Iowa State House is dominated by fuckheads will vote on banning gay marriage, and Yemen's president also says he won't seek another term. You have been informed.

OH. AND. Who just unlocked the skill "Make Healthy Bento in 10 minutes or less"? OH YEAH THAT WOULD BE ME.