(Untitled)

[liptonrm]

Ugh, am feeling a little melancholy. Fell right asleep upon returning home last night and had some very vivid dreams. The one I remember the best was about how I was going to marry some guy I had only been on a few dates with and the dream logic of it all was that he was going to die in a few weeks so that made it all right. For some reason my

Comments

[writerj]

The illegitimacy of fanfic becomes more and more illusory when compared to such "legitimate works" as How Opal ..., the novel by the supposed 19-year-old wunderkind of literature, which is slowly and devastatingly being revealed as outright plagiarism. As in word-for-word sentences and paragraphs and plots, but passed off as original. Now THAT's bad karma.

[liptonrm]

OMG, I know. I read about that in the NY Times and I could only shake my head. It's one thing to freely admit that you're Mary Sue-ing yourself, it's a completely other thing to try and pass it off as original fiction.

You'd think people would've learned from the Frey Debacle. Srsly.

[elendiari22]

I agree that the imigration issue is really tetchy and obnoxious, but you have to look at it from a Californian's point of view: it is really hard to get a decent job out here if you don't speak Spanish, and they expect to be fully catered to, like this is still Mexico but with a different econy/language/benefit/whatever. A common attitude in my old high school was "It's cause I'm Mexican, huh?". True, there's nothing wrong with wanting the American Dream, but there definitely needs to be a way to achieve it that doesn't involve sneaking into a country legally. And now I shall crawl back to my corner. :)

Sorry about that little aside. I hope you have a brilliant day and are able to shake the melancholy. Fanfic! Fanfic! Woot!

*hugs*

[liptonrm]

Don't worry, I'm a fan of all viewpoints being expressed, just so long as it's not my mother parroting some pundits gross overgeneralizations. =D

Living in South Texas was an interesting experience and quite different from SoCal in a lot of ways, it seems. The border was extremely fluid, I like to joke about how I really served in Northern Mexico. I never got the sense that illegals felt entitled to much of anything, but then people act a lot differently around missionaries.

Yay fanfic! Choose fanfic!

[lil_banik_slave]

Someone actually tried to sell their fanfic.

*LOL* Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

[liptonrm]

The stupidity of some people burns. I mean, seriously. *rolls eyes*