Getting stuff off AO3 on my Kindle has been very easy.

I have lots of fic on my Nook, but I send it through Calibre first for the epub format. Though sometimes weird things happen to spacing. Nooks are love.

Anyway, apparently I can either email fic to myself through the Amazon interface, or upload with a USB cable, right?

Yes. The USB cable is easier and better in my experience; for one thing, the email-it-to-yourself method tends to use your email address as the author's name, which tends to be confusing.

GoT fanvid to Johnny Cash's "Cut You Down."

What do you think? I thought it was almost too literal.

There's probably not anyone who hasn't heard if you knew Sandy Herrold, but she passed away early this morning from cancer.

If you didn't know her, she was a vidder, a writer, a reccer, and a person who *did* things in fandom. Her influence on vidding and meta in particular is incalculable.

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I meant to say earlier, thank you for posting this, Dana. I only met her once and I think I knew her more or better from people's reaction and emphatic love of her than from anything else. Because people loved her so damned fiercely. She was epic.

She was epic.

She was marvelous. I liked her enormously, and it's just so sad. She touched a lot of lives.

I never got to talk to her one-on-one, but she was one of those people who would walk into a room, and the energy level in the place would instantly go up by 200%. A big, generous, warm personality. She had the best laugh.

I would imagine the Vividcon staff is planning something in her memory during the con this year, the way they did with Abby after she passed. The place is going to be a wreck. She was incredibly well-loved by everyone who knew her, it seems.

I would imagine the Vividcon staff is planning something in her memory during the con this year, the way they did with Abby after she passed.

I should think so, if they have time in the schedule. Laura mentioned the possibility of a vidshow of Sandy's work, which would be entirely appropriate.

FSM save me from the fannish police.

Apparently there's this (I assume) young woman in Narnia fandom who is so affronted at the prevalence of OCs (particularly Mary Sues and self-inserts) in the fandom, that she's taken to remixing them publicly, and very mean-spiritedly. When challenged, she *sighs* and asserts that clearly none of the characters ever had a romance, because then Lewis would have written it. All fic that includes OCs or things not mentioned in the canon is, in fact, AU, by her lights, and she gets to police it.

It's all very... 17. Not to bad-mouth any 17-year-old Buffistas, but I remember being so self-righteous then. The sad thing is that she's hurting these poor enthusiastic teens and tweens, who are having great fun in their first fandom, and not only does she not care, she's enjoying the damage and the drama.

One can only hope that in three years, or five, she'll look back at this in horror at her lack of charity.

(As an aside, Narnia fandom? Really weird. There's this whole seriously evangelical side to it...)