HASA and GIP and Turnip Vocabularies!

[shebit]

'Tis a momentous day, boys girls! I have actually had a piece of fiction accepted by HASA. If you scroll down my lj you'll see the piece in question, because it's the poem I've been using as my free text for a while now

Comments

[kortirion]

*G*

Congrats are in order then!!

Are we ungrateful or are we not ungrateful? While one wants the validation of one's peers - you're sometimes left with the suspicion that this 'peer' group's demographic leaves something to be desired! My personal bug-bear is I can never punctuate to their total satisfaction - and do I care? Answers on a post-card! But if you can't say something constructive about the content, don't bother telling me you don't like it because my 'speech marks' are in the wrong place! I know I shouldn't... as much as you know you shouldn't - but grouching about the nimwits makes up for the pain of rejection - especially when they don't know what they're talking about! ^_~

[shebit]

Yes indeed, picking on the reviewers makes the rejection a little less like ash in the mouth.

I think one of my previous rejections had a reviewer make a comment on punctuation - my punctuation in drabbles tens to be...creative, but it always suits the drabble, in my opinion.

Thanks for the congrats!

That's two poems on there now.

I also submitted my terzanelle and my mammoth Turin peotic saga, and the drinking song I put on The Five Armies, so we'll see what they think of my rhyming poetry. There's also my slightly implied slash story, so I don't know what they'll make of that.

The reviewers do at least seem fairly un-fangirlish.

F-U-N-E-R-E-A-L

The reviewer didn't leave a name, so I can't stalk them to throw a dictionary at them, sadly.

[pewterfish]

HASA took another one, huh? Nice work: they're not exactly easy to impress, as far as I've seen.

Spelling indeed. Funereal isn't that uncommon a word, is it? You'd expect people reviewing for a site like this to pay just a little attention to the Oxford English Dictionary before making such claims...

[shebit]

Quite. If the reviewer had had the balls to leave their name I might have pointed them at the dictionary.com definition.

It amuses me that, with my appalling spelling, someone should accuse me of a misspelling when for once there are none.

[littlexander]

Well done! And yes, a moron.

[shebit]

Thanks.

I quite like my insult of 'the vocabulary of a turnip'. I seem to like comparing people to turnips in insults. I believe that when I met Jennifer Lien I later commented that she had all the charisma of a particularly uncharismatic turnip.

I feel I should appologise to turnips.

[shebit]

I'd actually prefer to insult a turnip that eat it. I've never been particularly keen on them.

[trinalin]

Still willing to cap for you. Just let me know where in the flick and I can do so. (Still don't have the extended edition either - I'll rectify that some day...)

[shebit]

Ah, I won't be able to tell you exact frames, then, becuase I only have the extended.

Basically it's the bit immediately after Legolas takes down the mumak, where Gimli says it still only counts as one. I need a couple of shots of Gimli - one looking rather shocked/surprised/impressed - and a couple of Legolas, including at least one of his smug expression.

Oh, and there was another icon too. When Gandalf and Aragorn talk at Meduseld, the "Do we know that Frodo is alive?" "What does your heart tell you?". Again, it's a conversation icon, so a couple of shots of each of them, including, if you can find them, one of Gandalf looking long-suffering, and one of Aragorn looking a little crazy.

I would greatly appreciate it. These icon bunnies have been bouncing around my head for ages now, and need to be released.