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More linkspam! Yeah, some of this is old, but I've been out of the loop for a good two weeks, so nyah. So here we go.
Proof that Oh My Goddess! volume 25 was actually written by Chris Claremont.
If Shakespeare had an online fandom in the sixteenth century...
A metaphor that is so universally useful that it's scary.
This made me cheer. For Fox News. Yes, I actually cheered for Fox News.
And in the "How to Not Be Kenneth Eng" files: An excellent post about writing CoC.
Memoir Week at Slate. Really great stuff, but it all just confirms my conviction that I am never, ever, ever going to write a memoir. About anything. (Er, that other blog about my real life doesn't count because I say that it doesn't.)
Last bit of writing-related spammage: Despite its flaws, I really do like this post by Keith DeCandido about profic versus fanfic. For those of you not following![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom, the post has inspired a lot of reaction, some of it very smart and well-written and thoughtprovoking, some of it extremely wanky. And a lot of strawmen. But what really made me LOL was the "Soul of a Writer" BS that kept popping up in the comments on Keith's post. Because apparently, if you're paid to write fiction you're a hack, but people who write it for free do it because we have the TRUE ARTISTIC SOULS of writers!!1!11! Um, memo to fandom select idiots in fandom: Isn't this exactly the type of language that we usually mock Lee Goldberg for? You're not doing anyone favors by arguing that amateur fiction is always an act of pure, inspired, deeply arteesteec passion, whereas writing that you actually get paid for is just a job that you do to put bread on the table. Um. You do realize that DaVinci and Shakespeare got paid for their work, right?
And finally, here is a piece of news about Anna Nicole Smith's surviving family that actually brings hope to my heart.
Meanwhile, this is what I have to deal with on a daily basis: Japanese customs that Japanese people think are most difficult for foreigners to understand. Look at the winner. Go ahead, look. Look at the by-far-and-away clear winner, I should say. How difficult, exactly, is it to explain to foreigners "Well, we give gifts to people at the end of the year"? (*headdesk*) Although the cynical part of me is suprised that "chopsticks" didn't end up on the list. The cynical part of me is NOT surprised, however, to see "Not wearing shoes inside houses" in the top ten. A couple of Japanese people that I've talked to about this seriously believe that Japan is the only country in the world that does this.
Proof that Oh My Goddess! volume 25 was actually written by Chris Claremont.
If Shakespeare had an online fandom in the sixteenth century...
A metaphor that is so universally useful that it's scary.
This made me cheer. For Fox News. Yes, I actually cheered for Fox News.
And in the "How to Not Be Kenneth Eng" files: An excellent post about writing CoC.
Memoir Week at Slate. Really great stuff, but it all just confirms my conviction that I am never, ever, ever going to write a memoir. About anything. (Er, that other blog about my real life doesn't count because I say that it doesn't.)
Last bit of writing-related spammage: Despite its flaws, I really do like this post by Keith DeCandido about profic versus fanfic. For those of you not following
metafandom, the post has inspired a lot of reaction, some of it very smart and well-written and thoughtprovoking, some of it extremely wanky. And a lot of strawmen. But what really made me LOL was the "Soul of a Writer" BS that kept popping up in the comments on Keith's post. Because apparently, if you're paid to write fiction you're a hack, but people who write it for free do it because we have the TRUE ARTISTIC SOULS of writers!!1!11! Um, memo to And finally, here is a piece of news about Anna Nicole Smith's surviving family that actually brings hope to my heart.
Meanwhile, this is what I have to deal with on a daily basis: Japanese customs that Japanese people think are most difficult for foreigners to understand. Look at the winner. Go ahead, look. Look at the by-far-and-away clear winner, I should say. How difficult, exactly, is it to explain to foreigners "Well, we give gifts to people at the end of the year"? (*headdesk*) Although the cynical part of me is suprised that "chopsticks" didn't end up on the list. The cynical part of me is NOT surprised, however, to see "Not wearing shoes inside houses" in the top ten. A couple of Japanese people that I've talked to about this seriously believe that Japan is the only country in the world that does this.
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As for Kenneth Eng guy. Um... Is it some kind of an April fools joke that I wasn't aware of? Because he's so blatantly idiotic and incoherent that if I saw someone like him on the internet I'd call troll within seconds. (Also as a Philosophy major I was muchly amused by his discussions of reality and religion . I know someone should have paid more attention in classes instead of obsessing with evolution of dragons...)
Uncanny X-Goddess was great too. I liked that arc and I wish there was more stuff like it, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm ready to wordy mcword every letter of that article.