I really just want to sleep
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prunesquallormdSomething - I'm not sure what - possessed me to book Samaritans overnights on two consecutive Fridays which just ugh. By the time I realised it was too late to get out of either of them. Last Friday's one was done in a general state of malaise and achy headedness and wiped out most of my Saturday. All I had the energy to do was wander to the Anglican cathedral for only the 3rd time in 20 years (it's nice though way too big and I must admit to always being shocked when people treat sacred spaces as simple tourist attractions, but whatever). And now I just have to do this coming Friday's one and I really, really don't want to. But once I have, I'll just have the one at the end of the month and then 2 more to take me to my 10 for the end of the year, and as I've never even managed 8 before I doubt I'll do those two (it's not mathematically possible for everyone to do 10 overnights. There aren't enough shifts). Next year I'm going to be more organised about it. Next year ...
I have a strange band of burn-y and sore but slightly numb skin running from front to back on one side of my abdomen. I noticed it on Saturday and it's got worse since. I'm waiting to see if a rash develops cos right now my more than a little hypochondriacal self-diagnosis is shingles. If anyone knows how the early stages of that feels let me know. I'm putting off going to the doctor because right now nothing's visible and all I can say is what I just wrote and probably all the doctor can do is say give it a week and see how it develops, so yeah.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you my new internet crush, a hilarious, brilliant, geeky, fandom, Harry Potter, Firefly, Sherlock and Night Vale obsessed red-head called Ursa. Could I marry her please?
Her Night Vale review. Or reasons you have to listen to Welcome to Night Vale:-
Her trilogy in celebration of all things Harry Potter, which includes an analysis of the drive to write slash, which is certainly worth the attention of the one person I know of on my f-list who has disdain for it:-
And again on fanfiction:
And 2009 Star Trek:-
And Black Widow, whom I love:-
(And lots more Avengers stuff, and musicals (in which she sings, not that well) and Sherlock, and Firefly and so much more).
No really, can I marry her?
I have a strange band of burn-y and sore but slightly numb skin running from front to back on one side of my abdomen. I noticed it on Saturday and it's got worse since. I'm waiting to see if a rash develops cos right now my more than a little hypochondriacal self-diagnosis is shingles. If anyone knows how the early stages of that feels let me know. I'm putting off going to the doctor because right now nothing's visible and all I can say is what I just wrote and probably all the doctor can do is say give it a week and see how it develops, so yeah.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you my new internet crush, a hilarious, brilliant, geeky, fandom, Harry Potter, Firefly, Sherlock and Night Vale obsessed red-head called Ursa. Could I marry her please?
Her Night Vale review. Or reasons you have to listen to Welcome to Night Vale:-
Her trilogy in celebration of all things Harry Potter, which includes an analysis of the drive to write slash, which is certainly worth the attention of the one person I know of on my f-list who has disdain for it:-
And again on fanfiction:
And 2009 Star Trek:-
And Black Widow, whom I love:-
(And lots more Avengers stuff, and musicals (in which she sings, not that well) and Sherlock, and Firefly and so much more).
No really, can I marry her?
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Date: 2013-10-03 07:56 am (UTC)I do not have time to watch the whole vid but not reading an author cos she doesn't like fanfic to be published sounds like.................like....................some kind of psychosis, I dunno! We read to be entertained not so we can copy what we read!!
It's a bit like every pub singer wanting to be a big pop star. Great analogy I think!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2013-10-03 08:55 am (UTC)My own reasons for not reading Anne Rice would be that - other than Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat - she doesn't write particularly good books. The argument given in the vid is essentially that the wishes and boundaries of creators should be respected. Someone whose love of something is often expressed through writing and creation - to engage and interact with, rather than simply consume - might be too tempted to cross those boundaries, and hence the reason to completely avoid the temptation.
Fanfiction rarely has anything to do with the simple desire to copy what we read (or watch), just as it rarely has anything to do with being too lazy to write your own stuff. Mostly, at its most basic level, it has to do with love. Understanding that is fundamental to understanding why people write it.
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Date: 2013-10-03 09:03 pm (UTC)Anne Rice is one of my favourite authors I love all of her books except one.
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Date: 2013-10-07 08:15 pm (UTC)I loved Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, but Queen of the Damned didn't work for me at all and I gave up in disgust without finishing Tale of the Body Thief. I also really liked The Witching Hour though, and I was thinking the other day that I should read it again (it's been 20 years) and try the other Mayfair Witches books out.
So yes, there are times when I've really liked her work, and times when I've hated it. I tend to let the ones I've really not liked overly colour my judgement.
Which is the one you don't like? And would you recommend a particular one to convert be back to her?
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Date: 2013-10-08 12:21 am (UTC)I didn't feel you were harsh cos it can be very disappointing to like 2 books and dislike the 3rd.