Three things
1. Cutest ESL mistake of the day:
Me: How old are your children?
Student: Ten o'clock and eight o'clock.
2. Mark your calendars, SFF fandom folks. Today is the day an NPR reporter mentioned Wincest by name on the air. In a positive story about fan fiction. I may not be a Supernatural fan specifically, but I feel like we've passed some sort of milestone in the perception of fandom subculture generally. I'm not surprised that it roughly coincides with social media and the ability of networks to turn fan engagement into data for (potential) business purposes. Still, as the NPR story concludes,
Fan engagement gives color and volume to dry data, such as ratings, but the question remains, how do you quantify depth of feeling? Writing a story takes longer and means more than hitting a "like" button or re-blogging a picture. How do you measure a kind of success that, by its very nature, is completely resistant to metrics?
3. Yesterday I saw a promo for the new motion picture about the Monuments Men, who hunted art during and after WWII, trying to save it from the Nazis. The existence of the movie made me feel unexpectedly annoyed, because I never wrote the fic I imagined several years ago with Torchwood agents posing as Monuments Men in order to recover museum and collectors' pieces that were actually alien artifacts. (Now it's obvious to me that this would also work perfectly as a Warehouse 13 fic.) Sigh. All the stories that could have been.
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Me: How old are your children?
Student: Ten o'clock and eight o'clock.
2. Mark your calendars, SFF fandom folks. Today is the day an NPR reporter mentioned Wincest by name on the air. In a positive story about fan fiction. I may not be a Supernatural fan specifically, but I feel like we've passed some sort of milestone in the perception of fandom subculture generally. I'm not surprised that it roughly coincides with social media and the ability of networks to turn fan engagement into data for (potential) business purposes. Still, as the NPR story concludes,
Fan engagement gives color and volume to dry data, such as ratings, but the question remains, how do you quantify depth of feeling? Writing a story takes longer and means more than hitting a "like" button or re-blogging a picture. How do you measure a kind of success that, by its very nature, is completely resistant to metrics?
3. Yesterday I saw a promo for the new motion picture about the Monuments Men, who hunted art during and after WWII, trying to save it from the Nazis. The existence of the movie made me feel unexpectedly annoyed, because I never wrote the fic I imagined several years ago with Torchwood agents posing as Monuments Men in order to recover museum and collectors' pieces that were actually alien artifacts. (Now it's obvious to me that this would also work perfectly as a Warehouse 13 fic.) Sigh. All the stories that could have been.
This entry was also posted at http://rustydog.dreamwidth.org/1174575.html. You may comment at either place.