Photos? Cute. Cloying captions? Cutesy.
Jan. 26th, 2007 03:41 pmSeveral photographs of baby pandas.
You know, this is as good a time as any for me to note that I do, in fact, enjoy the occasional photo of baby animals, looking as adorable as only baby animals can. In fact, I belong to several LJ communities that exist specifically for the dissemination of such photographs; sometimes, after a really crappy day, I do indeed take comfort in the fact that there are several billion photographs of adorable wide-eyed baby animals out there, which are almost guaranteed to cheer me up, at least briefly.
What I do not enjoy is the relentless need of the poster to drizzle some absurdly sugary caption on top of said photographs, as though the photos themselves were somehow lacking in cuteness, when unadorned. (Cute_overload posters are particularly getting on my nerves in this regard.) Also, if I ever see the word "asplode" in a post again, I'm going to. See the word in the header of those photos I linked to? Explosion.1 Thank you.
1 I personally don't think they needed an exclamation point here, but let it pass. (I'm also a bit dubious about the heading "panda explosion," which makes it sound like some sort of whale footage offshoot. Still, it could have been worse: "panda-monium," or some such horror.)
You know, this is as good a time as any for me to note that I do, in fact, enjoy the occasional photo of baby animals, looking as adorable as only baby animals can. In fact, I belong to several LJ communities that exist specifically for the dissemination of such photographs; sometimes, after a really crappy day, I do indeed take comfort in the fact that there are several billion photographs of adorable wide-eyed baby animals out there, which are almost guaranteed to cheer me up, at least briefly.
What I do not enjoy is the relentless need of the poster to drizzle some absurdly sugary caption on top of said photographs, as though the photos themselves were somehow lacking in cuteness, when unadorned. (Cute_overload posters are particularly getting on my nerves in this regard.) Also, if I ever see the word "asplode" in a post again, I'm going to. See the word in the header of those photos I linked to? Explosion.1 Thank you.
1 I personally don't think they needed an exclamation point here, but let it pass. (I'm also a bit dubious about the heading "panda explosion," which makes it sound like some sort of whale footage offshoot. Still, it could have been worse: "panda-monium," or some such horror.)