Huh.

Historical novelist Jo Graham is teaming up with SF/F novelist Melissa Scott to write a six-volume series of Stargate Atlantis novels.

::blinks::

I have to admit, I don't know why they didn't hire Martha Wells for it. But, whatever.

Still, Fandemonium isn't exactly the place where you make your fortune...

Oooh! That's a franchise tie-in I'd for once be interested in, if only because Teyla is likely to get a fair treatment with that authoring.

OMG, I just put all of one my fanfics into one file and it is like 19K words. I don't know whether to be happy or sad.

Just got a very back-handed compliment on something I wrote. Which feels like a shitty thing to complain about, as if I'm all "Where is the extolling of my virtues?" but it's *fanfic*...it's not like I'm going to make it up later in video rights...without the occasional compliment, it's like one hand clapping. I mean, Fay liked it. Which is totally good enough. But still, nothing about that made you laugh, or anything? But I guess she's not really about the fandom, just about one of the characters.

Oh, lordie. I made a public post very politely asking podfic readers not to record over music because it makes it hard to follow the story when you do that.

I've been accused of "entitled" behavior.

Which, of course, is far worse than being ableist.

MERF. Fans! Why so craxy!

Pulling attitude, expecting to hear the story, demanding of people who are sacrificing to make you happy. Okay, not to make you happy, because you can't hear the story, but you know what they mean.

Yes, my elaborate discussion in three quarters of the post of how much I appreciate the time and effort people put into making podfic clearly indicates my entitled attitude.

Because as you know, I never contribute anything to fandom. Being a leech the way I am.

Oy.

Well, I'm entitled too. Entitled not to raise my normal frustration levels by even trying to listen to something I find difficult to decipher. And I'm entitled to call the people who think recording two concurrent streams of audible words a daring and innovative way to present a story poopyheads.

I made a public post very politely asking podfic readers not to record over music because it makes it hard to follow the story when you do that.

Yes. There is a REASON why professional audiobook recorders don't pull that stunt.

I just love how so many people are all about championing or being aware of the rights and needs of various groups--until it means having to address their own actions. Feh.

Well, I do feel rather entitled to read something written for pleasure without being aggravated. And that has come up in relation to me and ableism because I hate most "outsider" art written with what proponents call "non-traditional" spelling. I mean, yes, occasionally a piece comes out of the slush with such raw energy that you don't care that the writer spells like a LOLCat but mostly I don't think those things are worth it, no matter the number of institutions the writer got sprung from. I have been accused of wanting to censor people for implying that reading stuff like that is a pain in my editorial ass. For a job I don't get paid for. I mean, it's not that I don't understand functioning at long odds...hello? And the occasional spelling error doesn't bother me that much, but wanting to read prose not directly lifted from one's craxyhouse journal does not make me a tool of The Man. Ok, I feel better now.(I love that KOTH where Peggy gets marketed as an outsider artist.) Also shocked that the person didn't say "I'm sorry, Consuela. I thought the music set the mood really well, but I didn't think it would be distracting."