Linkspam is disorganized (and still no one has replied to email)
It's the fifth anniversary of the introduction of truthiness. Heh.
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If the prospect of Clarence Thomas' wife calling Anita Hill to ask for an apology leaves a bad taste in your mouth this morning, I have a lovely palate-cleanser:
Jeeves and the Creature of the Night by
fuselden, who is rapidly becoming one of my favorite multi-fannish writers. Oh, Bertie. And the Easter Rabbit sampler! Heee!
Speaking of fic, you know that phenomenon where you write something very casually, like you just kind of toss it off in a comment or something, and you don't think much of it because you have stories on your archive that you have agonized over--and then it's the tossed-off casual thing that hits the fannish zeitgeist and gets loads of comments and recs?
... Yeah, that happened again. The last time it really happened to me might have been Debrief, which was a throw-away response to the decision-making clusterfuck in the SG-1 episode "Ethon", and it really startled me how many people responded to that.
So, you know, I guess nearly everyone who read the Narnia Chronicles as a child really wants an explanation for what happened with Susan, that doesn't involve "She grew up and was kicked out of heaven for liking makeup and dancing." If only I could hit the fannish sweet spot when I consciously aim for it, instead of accidentally!
Anyway. Oddly enough, the most popular story on my AO3 page is The Cat Came Back, an SPN story that got a nice but average response on LJ/DW, but it's been recced on TWOP and so the hits keep coming even though almost no one has commented on it. It's an interesting cultural difference there, especially if one compares it with the next-most popular story, which is Carpetbaggers, which has almost ten times as many comments. ::shrugs:: Interesting dynamic.
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So apparently some Virginia elementary schools are teaching their children that two black battalions fought for the Confederacy under Stonewall Jackson. Source? The internet, which as we know, never lies.
::facepalm::
Someone send Ta-Nehisi Coates some scotch, quick.
Speaking of the internet never lying: Someone was impersonating China Mieville on Facebook. He had a very hard time getting FB to take the profile down.
John Scalzi talks about dogs in science fiction movies, including spoilers for I Am Legend. And I have to say that the dog in I Am Legend, Sam the German Shepherd Dog, was just, man, she was perfect. She was the ur-GSD, attentive and smart and affectionate and prey-driven and beautiful. (TNG is much of that, but add on neurotic and over-sensitive, which makes her somewhat less perfect, if still loveable.)
The NYT acknowledges Sunset Magazine, which I find bemusing. It's such a regional thing, Sunset: I don't expect to find the Times talking about it. But also quite important: I don't know a gardener out here who doesn't have a copy of the Sunset Western Garden Book, or a cook who doesn't have a couple of Sunset recipes in his or her repertoire. (My favorite is an Oreo-cheesecake recipe from the late 1980s.)
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Noted for later reading: The Queen in Exile. (Narnia, CD warning.)
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
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If the prospect of Clarence Thomas' wife calling Anita Hill to ask for an apology leaves a bad taste in your mouth this morning, I have a lovely palate-cleanser:
Jeeves and the Creature of the Night by
fuselden, who is rapidly becoming one of my favorite multi-fannish writers. Oh, Bertie. And the Easter Rabbit sampler! Heee!
Speaking of fic, you know that phenomenon where you write something very casually, like you just kind of toss it off in a comment or something, and you don't think much of it because you have stories on your archive that you have agonized over--and then it's the tossed-off casual thing that hits the fannish zeitgeist and gets loads of comments and recs?
... Yeah, that happened again. The last time it really happened to me might have been Debrief, which was a throw-away response to the decision-making clusterfuck in the SG-1 episode "Ethon", and it really startled me how many people responded to that.
So, you know, I guess nearly everyone who read the Narnia Chronicles as a child really wants an explanation for what happened with Susan, that doesn't involve "She grew up and was kicked out of heaven for liking makeup and dancing." If only I could hit the fannish sweet spot when I consciously aim for it, instead of accidentally!
Anyway. Oddly enough, the most popular story on my AO3 page is The Cat Came Back, an SPN story that got a nice but average response on LJ/DW, but it's been recced on TWOP and so the hits keep coming even though almost no one has commented on it. It's an interesting cultural difference there, especially if one compares it with the next-most popular story, which is Carpetbaggers, which has almost ten times as many comments. ::shrugs:: Interesting dynamic.
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So apparently some Virginia elementary schools are teaching their children that two black battalions fought for the Confederacy under Stonewall Jackson. Source? The internet, which as we know, never lies.
::facepalm::
Someone send Ta-Nehisi Coates some scotch, quick.
Speaking of the internet never lying: Someone was impersonating China Mieville on Facebook. He had a very hard time getting FB to take the profile down.
John Scalzi talks about dogs in science fiction movies, including spoilers for I Am Legend. And I have to say that the dog in I Am Legend, Sam the German Shepherd Dog, was just, man, she was perfect. She was the ur-GSD, attentive and smart and affectionate and prey-driven and beautiful. (TNG is much of that, but add on neurotic and over-sensitive, which makes her somewhat less perfect, if still loveable.)
The NYT acknowledges Sunset Magazine, which I find bemusing. It's such a regional thing, Sunset: I don't expect to find the Times talking about it. But also quite important: I don't know a gardener out here who doesn't have a copy of the Sunset Western Garden Book, or a cook who doesn't have a couple of Sunset recipes in his or her repertoire. (My favorite is an Oreo-cheesecake recipe from the late 1980s.)
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Noted for later reading: The Queen in Exile. (Narnia, CD warning.)
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.