2006 Retrospective

[dawn_felagund]

Firstly and most importantly, Happy New Year to my flist! May everyone have a wonderful 2007 filled with joy, love, and plenty of inspiration!

I got this idea from pulsarkat, to do retrospective of the last year. I agree with her reasoning that it will be interesting to look back from year to year and see what major events influenced me, what goals have

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[dawn_felagund]

If you're going to dress up like a monkey, recognize that you will get a certain reaction from it, and plan your monkey-dressing-up around that reaction.

*snerk* My personal belief--and I recognized then as I do now that I was a minority among activists in this--is that this sort of protest does very little good. It makes what might be a legitimate issue look foolish. It makes those who care about said issue look like clowns. And it makes people who know nothing about said issue laugh or deride those making a big deal out of it...and walk away knowing nothing new or caring no more than they did before. Possibly--in the event of activists who are disruptive or destructive--caring even less.

That's part of the reason why I stop participating in certain groups and movements (not mentioning any names here). I couldn't see giving my time to groups that will put up big animal torture photos on the DC Mall without ever stopping to tell ordinary folks why they should care about testing beauty products on animals (or whatever) and suggest some moderate changes that they can make to stop/change it.

Sorry, you didn't ask for the rant.... I'll behave now.

He has to consider how he remembers it, what he remembers, what he doesn't remember, what he possibly never knew in the first place, who his audience is, and what said audience might understand of the complexities of this tale.

That's really interesting. I'm intrigued to see how you work this into a story.

You were cut off from that, too? Horrors! How did you ever survive?

It was rough, but I made it. I can now get SoA, OSA, and HASA on my work comp. ff.net, Tolkien Fan Fiction, and LJ are no good. It depends on how Websense has those sites listed. Those listed as "Entertainment" are accessible. Those listed as "Message Boards and Clubs" are not.

Which is interesting considering that TFF's forums are dead and HASA's are still alive and kicking...but who thought Websense would make sense?

I only read Chapter One of TGW.... *wince* But I'll finish it soon, since I can read at work again.

[frenchpony]

I once asked a couple of Loud Christians who were doing street proseletyizing whether or not they'd ever actually managed to convert anyone that way. I got the distinct impression that they hadn't, but it made them feel good about themselves anyway. Of course, these were the same people who, when I told them that I had a copy of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien in my backpack, asked skeptically, "Is he a Christian author?"

I'm intrigued to see how you work this into a story.

The secret, as with a lot of things, is in the setup.

Good that you can read at work again. I don't know how I'd have made it through some days back at Ye Olde Real Job if I hadn't been able to read fanfiction online. I'd be interested to hear what you think of "Grass Widow" and maybe even the end of "Four Hands Around" when you get around to it.