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I'm your little gray cloud today.
May. 10th, 2010 10:26 am
I. am. EXHAUSTED. I think it's from a general lack of sleep as well as the big Indian feast last night. ( Griping. )
After dinner, we played Bananagrams, which is a variation of Scrabble in which everyone does their own individual crosswords. I actually like it better than Scrabble, which I suck at, even though I love almost all other word games.
I'm looking forward to tonight, because at long last, it's time for our long-awaited fried chicken dinner at Spring Hill. Yes, K. is going to break her dietary restriction for this one night because we have been planning this for so long. You can only get this dinner by reservation, and it's intended for 4. We have: me, my mom, and K., then D. and the kids will count as our "fourth" because between all of them they'll probably eat one person's worth, since the kids don't eat much and D. won't eat the chicken.
Weather wise it was really lovely this weekend, and my indoor seedlings shot up. It might have been too late for my outdoor plants; even the tomato starters are looking iffy, and the basil is long gone. If the tomato plants die I will have to go back to Flower World and get more, because I really would love to have Sun Gold tomatoes. The weather's gone back to being crappy though, and according to weather.com's 10-day forecast there are still a lot of clouds and showers in the future, sigh, so who knows when I can actually plant any of the seedlings in the bed.
I know about the big shitstorm about fanfic resulting from some posts I guess Diana Gabaldon made in her blog, and following that, GRRM's comments, which I've actually read. I have a lot to say about it, but don't know yet how to put thought into words. I'd like to respond in a coherent manner that might actually bring SOME understanding for what is, to them, completely inexplicable. I enjoy both of their work (well, I enjoyed DG's Outlander, but the sequel to it left me rather indifferent to the rest of the books) and though it shouldn't, the idea that they're both out there reviling fanfic bothers me. Maybe because, in the case of GRRM, I fear that he'll be even LESS motivated to finish ASoIaF, if he's resentful of/wigged out by the idea of people taking his characters and universe and making it their own. Most importantly, it's a reflection on ME as a fanfic writer. If I don't say anything, if I can't articulate why I think it's a perfectly legitimate form of expression, then it'll be like I agree that it's wrong and yet I do it anyway. I DON'T think it's wrong. I don't think it's necessarily cool to do if an author has expressly said that they don't want people writing fanfic of their universe(s) -- I would say to respect those wishes -- but that still doesn't mean it's inherently wrong. I just don't think that authors who oppose it, especially those who oppose it as vehemently as DG and GRRM do, really understand it or why people do it.
After dinner, we played Bananagrams, which is a variation of Scrabble in which everyone does their own individual crosswords. I actually like it better than Scrabble, which I suck at, even though I love almost all other word games.
I'm looking forward to tonight, because at long last, it's time for our long-awaited fried chicken dinner at Spring Hill. Yes, K. is going to break her dietary restriction for this one night because we have been planning this for so long. You can only get this dinner by reservation, and it's intended for 4. We have: me, my mom, and K., then D. and the kids will count as our "fourth" because between all of them they'll probably eat one person's worth, since the kids don't eat much and D. won't eat the chicken.
Weather wise it was really lovely this weekend, and my indoor seedlings shot up. It might have been too late for my outdoor plants; even the tomato starters are looking iffy, and the basil is long gone. If the tomato plants die I will have to go back to Flower World and get more, because I really would love to have Sun Gold tomatoes. The weather's gone back to being crappy though, and according to weather.com's 10-day forecast there are still a lot of clouds and showers in the future, sigh, so who knows when I can actually plant any of the seedlings in the bed.
I know about the big shitstorm about fanfic resulting from some posts I guess Diana Gabaldon made in her blog, and following that, GRRM's comments, which I've actually read. I have a lot to say about it, but don't know yet how to put thought into words. I'd like to respond in a coherent manner that might actually bring SOME understanding for what is, to them, completely inexplicable. I enjoy both of their work (well, I enjoyed DG's Outlander, but the sequel to it left me rather indifferent to the rest of the books) and though it shouldn't, the idea that they're both out there reviling fanfic bothers me. Maybe because, in the case of GRRM, I fear that he'll be even LESS motivated to finish ASoIaF, if he's resentful of/wigged out by the idea of people taking his characters and universe and making it their own. Most importantly, it's a reflection on ME as a fanfic writer. If I don't say anything, if I can't articulate why I think it's a perfectly legitimate form of expression, then it'll be like I agree that it's wrong and yet I do it anyway. I DON'T think it's wrong. I don't think it's necessarily cool to do if an author has expressly said that they don't want people writing fanfic of their universe(s) -- I would say to respect those wishes -- but that still doesn't mean it's inherently wrong. I just don't think that authors who oppose it, especially those who oppose it as vehemently as DG and GRRM do, really understand it or why people do it.
