"Your Justin Hate Makes The Baby Jesus Cry"

See, this one seems to be an offshoot of the JC v. Justin kerfuffle, which is my favorite kerfuffle ever. It gave me good ficcage.

Can I get a WOOP WOOP...the remix fic is done, bay-bee!

*does the dance of completed fic prior to deadline joy*

ETA: I'm relatively sure it sucks but I can't seem to care. Cause it's DONE!

Going for the Cereal Hat Trick:

PMM, you might want to check this out. It's another JRT casting rumor:

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Oh yeah! I can see it.

Hee!

Danke.

He's clearly on the verge of becoming a gay icon.

Kerfluffles....are avoidable. And I work with that avoidableness.

And the big news of the night? My insomnia and obsessive love of tweenie sports movies has led to to write Mighty Ducks fanfic. Please refrain from the ritual shooting.

Just tell me it's not slash and there will be no blood shed.

Dear LORD, hon.

Mighty... Ducks?

(And everything's avoidable if you go no mail, but what's the fun in that?)

A couple reactions to the fandom article that bitterchick linked:

• the author cites an article that goes off into ranting that some groups start prizing, say, excellent prose over good ideas. That really is legitimate group consensus. There ain't no "right" way to write a story, just decisions of preference as to which aspects (plot structure, characterization, prose styling, adherence to canon) are most important. Groups may well cohere around one ideal, as it is what floats their boats. They are not wrong; writers who write other story models are not wrong. But, for instance, saying that "Analog should buy more fantasy stories 'cause they're really well-written" ignores the important fact that Analog readers come to that magazine wanting their fix of a certain kind of story.

• Established writers always get breaks that newbies don't. It's true, but explainable by simple psychology. When you read a story by somebody whose writing you don't know, you-the-reader is being asked to commit quite a lot of mental resources to a pig in a poke -- will the payoff in the story be rewarding or a big disappointment? The reader of a new writer is always unconsciously looking for reasons to stop -- bad prose, iffy characterization, ridiculous departure from canon -- because such elements aren't predictive that the rest of the story will be any better. Whereas, if a known-quantity writer starts off a story where, hmmm, Buffy and Clem are running a stationery store in a mall in Iowa in the first scene of a story, a reader who is familiar with the author will grant the story start a lot more latitude, as in "I wonder how she's going to pull this one off! Squeeee!" With the close association of writers and readers (not to mention overlap of the two identities) in fandom, yes, writers who are in an in-group are going to be granted more latitude in what they are "allowed" to get away with. Newbies have to work to earn the same kind of cred -- the easiest way, of course, is to have diamond-bright brilliant openings to boffo stories. Otherwise, they have to slog away like the rest of us....