I'm really nervous about voting. Embarrassingly so. To be honest, I'll probably be going Lib-Dem, but I don't know what good it'll do around here (we can't stop here, this is bat Tory country! D:). I can only hope that the fact that someone had - eloquently, I feel - daubed one of those Tory signs with the words "POSH CUNT" means the tide might be changing, if only a little. Because I'm a masochist like that.
Lib-Dem is a valid choice :). I suspect your neck of the woods is much like my home constituency, back in Essex. All very green and leafy, and a sea of blue at election time :(. Still, maybe yours can be the vote that knocks your home seat to that rather fetching orange the Lib-Dems have so bizarrely chosen as their identifying colour :)
I hope it wasn't too nerve-wracking when you finally got to it. *hugs*
Oooh, I've never heard of that before. I don't even know if I could get it in Britain. Would I be able to find it in a Chinese supermarket maybe? Thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely seek it out :)
I actually discovered Diana Gabaldon quite recently via audiobooks read by the deliciously voiced Jeff Woodman. I don't read her main series (which sound a lot like bad fanfiction to me - present day heroine finds herself transported to the past where she meets dashing Scottish soldier), but her Lord John Grey books are very entertaining - aristocrat and soldier in the 1750s has exciting adventures whilst dealing with being a closet homosexual in an era when he could be hanged for it. I'm not sure I would have enjoyed them if I'd read the text versions, but I could listen to Jeff Woodnam read the phone book and love every minute.
I find Gabaldon's attitude to fanfiction disappointing, though I can understand a lot of writers feeling that way. I'm of the opinion that I would take fanfiction as a tremendous compliement, but then it's possible my attitude might change if I was actually a published writer. Expressing that strong an opinion against it, though, has to be a pretty good way to alienate fans.
As a number of the people who commented on her post pointed out, the best way to ensure that people don't check out your work is to actively attack your fans. And that's the main thing, of course. I can see why some authors might object to fanfiction, but the fact remains that the people who are most likely to write and read it are going to be the biggest, and most loyal, fans of the books, or whatever, they're writing about. How much of an idiot do you have to be to attack them so viciously. And accusing them of being immoral and no better than burglars and pedophiles? Yay. Way to stay classy
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I have no information to give you about cheese. Particularly non-dairy cheese. I'm a big fan of cheese in general. I subscribe to the American philosophy of cheese which is basically, melt it and drizzle it over something.
I hope the voting goes well.
My mother has some Diana Gabaldon books, but I've never gone near the things. I do think it's hilarious that she decided to lash out a fanfic, because who does she think she is? I mean, she's not Lord Byron. She's like, the Stephenie Meyer of old women.
Yay for your Cara pic! I am also gutted that the show has been canceled. It's so ridiculously feelgood. Of course it's not allowed to be on tv anymore.
Cheese rules. I just adore it, and I miss it so much. I went almost 10 years without touching it at all, but I'm getting more and more lapsy. I'm weak, I tell you. WEAK! (Fortunately I haven't succumbed to the lure of bacon yet. I'd have difficulty describing myself as even nominally vegan if I were to chow down on pig products on even an occasional basis :D).
The whole Gabaldon thing came across as one great big, incredibly childish (and badly written, and extremely ill-informed) hissy fit. And her objection to porn is just laughable, given her apparent willingness to go there herself. I certainly won't be reading anything by her in the future. There are more than enough books not written by self-righteous morons to have to bother about the ones that are :)
I really need some LotS icons :) Why do the good shows so often get canceled? Why? Ok, it's hardly great art, but don't we deserve ridiculously feelgood fluff? It just sucks D:
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I suspect your neck of the woods is much like my home constituency, back in Essex. All very green and leafy, and a sea of blue at election time :(. Still, maybe yours can be the vote that knocks your home seat to that rather fetching orange the Lib-Dems have so bizarrely chosen as their identifying colour :)
I hope it wasn't too nerve-wracking when you finally got to it.
*hugs*
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely seek it out :)
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I had a nice time, but it's always so nice to come home again.
(I'm such a home-body. It's pathetic really :D)
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I find Gabaldon's attitude to fanfiction disappointing, though I can understand a lot of writers feeling that way. I'm of the opinion that I would take fanfiction as a tremendous compliement, but then it's possible my attitude might change if I was actually a published writer. Expressing that strong an opinion against it, though, has to be a pretty good way to alienate fans.
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I hope the voting goes well.
My mother has some Diana Gabaldon books, but I've never gone near the things. I do think it's hilarious that she decided to lash out a fanfic, because who does she think she is? I mean, she's not Lord Byron. She's like, the Stephenie Meyer of old women.
Yay for your Cara pic! I am also gutted that the show has been canceled. It's so ridiculously feelgood. Of course it's not allowed to be on tv anymore.
Glad to have you back!
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The whole Gabaldon thing came across as one great big, incredibly childish (and badly written, and extremely ill-informed) hissy fit. And her objection to porn is just laughable, given her apparent willingness to go there herself. I certainly won't be reading anything by her in the future. There are more than enough books not written by self-righteous morons to have to bother about the ones that are :)
I really need some LotS icons :)
Why do the good shows so often get canceled? Why? Ok, it's hardly great art, but don't we deserve ridiculously feelgood fluff? It just sucks D:
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