......argh
EDIT: I fail at my own obsession. Stupid switching lyrics.
I love how when LJ starts cooperating again, my Firefox goes on a one-browser crusade against the site. And Google. Just those two. I don't even want to know.
Sasuke-neko is no longer allowed to spend the night in my room, as she kept me awake all night scratching everything in sight and made me late to work.
Recap on Goblet. On my trip with Tom, we had an amusing Snape, courtesy of the theatre staff. He mocked the little kiddies when they couldn't perform his magic tricks. For their budget, he wasn't so bad. Much better than my last Goblet trip, where I had fangirls screaming "OH MY GOD" when Harry Potter took off his shirt and got in the tub. For God's sakes, women, it's Harry Potter! The fangirling never stopped, as everything single scene was cause for some sort of squealing or sobbing. They sobbed through the last 15 minutes of the movie. I wanted to slap them.
This trip just had a massive argument over the quality and significance of fanfiction. One of Tom's friends claimed it was worthless writing because it involved using the characters and worlds another had already established. I pointed out that published authors also do this, like the author of "Wicked" or the fantasy writers who do their own take on established stories/characters. He said there was a line but couldn't explain what that meant. It got pretty heated. I told him he was generalizing an entire genre based on a few (ok, maybe a lot of) crappy examples. He said as an English major, he found fanfiction a perversion of the author's genius. I think this is where I snapped. I wanted to knock this around in fanficrants just to see the reaction, but I guess I'll test-drive it here first. What's your take on the whole argument on the merit of fanfiction?
*sniffles* I'll never finish my icons by premiere date.
I love how when LJ starts cooperating again, my Firefox goes on a one-browser crusade against the site. And Google. Just those two. I don't even want to know.
Sasuke-neko is no longer allowed to spend the night in my room, as she kept me awake all night scratching everything in sight and made me late to work.
Recap on Goblet. On my trip with Tom, we had an amusing Snape, courtesy of the theatre staff. He mocked the little kiddies when they couldn't perform his magic tricks. For their budget, he wasn't so bad. Much better than my last Goblet trip, where I had fangirls screaming "OH MY GOD" when Harry Potter took off his shirt and got in the tub. For God's sakes, women, it's Harry Potter! The fangirling never stopped, as everything single scene was cause for some sort of squealing or sobbing. They sobbed through the last 15 minutes of the movie. I wanted to slap them.
This trip just had a massive argument over the quality and significance of fanfiction. One of Tom's friends claimed it was worthless writing because it involved using the characters and worlds another had already established. I pointed out that published authors also do this, like the author of "Wicked" or the fantasy writers who do their own take on established stories/characters. He said there was a line but couldn't explain what that meant. It got pretty heated. I told him he was generalizing an entire genre based on a few (ok, maybe a lot of) crappy examples. He said as an English major, he found fanfiction a perversion of the author's genius. I think this is where I snapped. I wanted to knock this around in fanficrants just to see the reaction, but I guess I'll test-drive it here first. What's your take on the whole argument on the merit of fanfiction?
*sniffles* I'll never finish my icons by premiere date.