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1. The characters in my SnuSa fic-in-progress keep surprising me. This is pretty cool, even though it means the fic is still chewing up my brain.
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sistermagpie is one of my favorite meta writers, and she's apparently a regular participant in LJ's deathtocapslock comm, which I stumbled across this morning. I haven't gone through all their archives yet, but I'm overjoyed by the posts I've read so far, both because the Jabootu Bingo cracks me up and because misery loves company: I've spent far too much time this week trying to reconcile sections of the Potterverse that make no freaking sense when one peers at them too closely, which is what one strives to do when trying to write a fic that doesn't totally draw-and-quarter its source and grind its bones into pimento-polluted sandwich spread...
Er, uh, where was I? Oh yeah. Canon driving me batshit. I happened upon several threads yesterday in which the majority sentiment came across as "anyone who criticizes Jo on anything is an ingrate, an entitlement whore, or a delusional shipper," which made me wibble over the future of our planet. So it soothed and reassured my snarky skeptic's soul to see the good folk at deathtocapslock echoing my "Bzuh? WTF? Squid on the mantelpiece sighting! Um, no..." (albeit more coherently and in more detail).
Also, the following exchange endangered my laptop:
(A confession: I actually like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged -- but I see them as soap operas for meritocrats. The Objectivist clique in my first college dorm had a collective reputation for being insufferable and out of touch with reality.)
3. I find the sloppiness more crazy-making than it should be, but JKR still gets mad props from me when it comes to the Potterverse's ability to inspire other people and make them think (even when they go down routes she neither intended nor endorses). A week ago I told another fan that DH had killed my interest in analyzing the books as literature (as opposed to treating them just as source material for fandom mayhem), but two nights ago, I started research for a proposal I'm now planning to submit to Reading Harry Potter, to Terminus, or both, and right now it's simmering at that delicious early stage where I'm feeling rather clever and inventive and full of possibility (as opposed to the "OMG what was I thinking and why did I get myself into this!?" part. Which is as inevitable and aggravating as dog fur on my sofa, but there I go digressing again).
4.sigune's Knave of Spades portrait of Snape.
5. Readers are still finding and commenting on the Lord Peter/Bunter I posted last month.
6. Trading e-mails with a friend about an author (not JKR) who'd made a provoking post-canon statement about one of her characters. My friend, addressing the author in question: "Eh. Win me over, writermonkey."
And now it's back to the SnuSa fic, with the hope of doing exactly that.
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sistermagpie is one of my favorite meta writers, and she's apparently a regular participant in LJ's deathtocapslock comm, which I stumbled across this morning. I haven't gone through all their archives yet, but I'm overjoyed by the posts I've read so far, both because the Jabootu Bingo cracks me up and because misery loves company: I've spent far too much time this week trying to reconcile sections of the Potterverse that make no freaking sense when one peers at them too closely, which is what one strives to do when trying to write a fic that doesn't totally draw-and-quarter its source and grind its bones into pimento-polluted sandwich spread...Er, uh, where was I? Oh yeah. Canon driving me batshit. I happened upon several threads yesterday in which the majority sentiment came across as "anyone who criticizes Jo on anything is an ingrate, an entitlement whore, or a delusional shipper," which made me wibble over the future of our planet. So it soothed and reassured my snarky skeptic's soul to see the good folk at deathtocapslock echoing my "Bzuh? WTF? Squid on the mantelpiece sighting! Um, no..." (albeit more coherently and in more detail).
Also, the following exchange endangered my laptop:
kaskait: Ginny is like an Ayn Rand heroine for kids. *shudder*
baeraad: A surprisingly great deal of HP is like Ayn Rand for kids. Except that Ayn Rand had this thing against laying down your life... =]
(A confession: I actually like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged -- but I see them as soap operas for meritocrats. The Objectivist clique in my first college dorm had a collective reputation for being insufferable and out of touch with reality.)
3. I find the sloppiness more crazy-making than it should be, but JKR still gets mad props from me when it comes to the Potterverse's ability to inspire other people and make them think (even when they go down routes she neither intended nor endorses). A week ago I told another fan that DH had killed my interest in analyzing the books as literature (as opposed to treating them just as source material for fandom mayhem), but two nights ago, I started research for a proposal I'm now planning to submit to Reading Harry Potter, to Terminus, or both, and right now it's simmering at that delicious early stage where I'm feeling rather clever and inventive and full of possibility (as opposed to the "OMG what was I thinking and why did I get myself into this!?" part. Which is as inevitable and aggravating as dog fur on my sofa, but there I go digressing again).
4.
sigune's Knave of Spades portrait of Snape.5. Readers are still finding and commenting on the Lord Peter/Bunter I posted last month.
6. Trading e-mails with a friend about an author (not JKR) who'd made a provoking post-canon statement about one of her characters. My friend, addressing the author in question: "Eh. Win me over, writermonkey."
And now it's back to the SnuSa fic, with the hope of doing exactly that.
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