I find that I am coming to really dislike the word purist ( Read more... )

carthia has asked some questions about fandom and what attracts us to it, and I thought I'd put my response here. It gets a little confusing, referring to fandom alternately as an interest and a community. Hopefully it's understandable.

I had intended to post this as a response to carthia's post, but it exceeded character length and wouldn't post, so I'm ( Read more... )

I'm bored! Wah ( Read more... )

I'm cold. *blows into hands*

Wedding was nice. Reception was underwhelming. More details later.

I really just wanted to say that it's posts like this that make me really sad ( Read more... )

Somebody on Austenblog asked why anyone who's read the book would defend P&P3. So here goes ( Read more... )

Okay, so I finally took the time to read the P&P3-relevant posts on Fandom Wank. Hee! Resisted a slight urge to respond to something-or-other, which is good, because now I can't even remember what it was. Whenever something Austen-y ends up over there, though, I always end up reading the posts, wondering "Who's that? Do I know her ( Read more... )

Squee!

In other news, I got my driver's license today! Double squee!

EDIT: A more informative articleSo they'll be going with Davies' NA, but someone else will be doing MP3 and S&S3. I can live with that. Even if Davies does take NA more seriously than it was intended, at least it should be a serious treatment of the novel ( Read more... )

I don't know if anybody on my flist could do this, but I'm putting it out there anyway ( Read more... )

I wish people would stop talking about Oscar possibilities for Keira Knightley. I mean, come on. I'm excited about the film, but I'm not that excited. Judging from the clips, it's not exactly Oscar material. These kinds of expectations bother me almost as much as the persistent bashing.