As the final Test of this Ashes series dies the death…

[wemyss]

… a last bit of fandom critical analysis (I truly do loathe the term ‘meta’).

Comments

[shezan]

THIS.

...as they say in fannish circles.

Ta, love.

[wemyss]

I know, there's nowt queer as folk, but one really is baffled, sometimes....

[steepholm]

I'm surprised - shocked, really - that you can tear yourself away from watching England chase down those runs, but everything you say here is to my mind unexceptionable. I do in fact believe that some groups are more privileged than others, but even if you think you're dealing with a privileged group, the respect (aka courtesy) due to all people demands that we err, if at all, on the side of Getting It Right, where it lies within our power to do so (and thanks to the internet, research has never been less onerous).

The key to multi-tasking in an Ashes summer...

[wemyss]

... is to write over lunch and post at tea or drinks intervals.

And, thank you.

[tazlet]

So welcome to Foaming-At-The-Mouth where, as long as we're on the subject, I just finished Jenkin's biography of Churchill, can you recommend a better?

We’re glad we walked behind the man who smoked the big cigar
Tra-la-la-la, Tra-la-la, Tra-la-la-la-la
We follow the man whose master plan has carried us through the war
Tra-la-la-la, Tra-la-la, Tra-la-la-la-la
One whiff of the old Havana,
We follow him right to Fujiyama
Tra-la-la-la, Tra-la-la, Tra-la-la-la-la
We’re just in time to hear the man who smoked the big cigar…

Well, now you've wead Woy's work...

[wemyss]

... there's a brilliant Brief Life by Sir Jno Keegan, and there is Martin Gilbert.

Re: Well, now you've wead Woy's work...

[tazlet]

Yay! Go Keegan! Go Keegan! Much of "Mask of Command" is brilliant, and he's readable!

*nodding*

[froganon]

Something there about transposing our own "views" onto a group, culture, or milieu as if we are adapting it or stealing parts of it to our own purposes...or co-opting it which is something that in general I don't much care for

In fact, worldbuilding.

[wemyss]

Quite so.

Thankee.