Onassis dumped Maria Callas after she practically abandoned her career for him. Feh on him for that.

Well, they wouldn't email, or say WTF, I expect. They'd probably just sit and not say anything, potentially stewing.

Yuppers. And post random and anonymously snarky comments to random places, alluding to the "self-proclaimed arbiters of good fic"...

No, I'm not bitter. See me not being bitter here.

I used to worry about fandom politics and reccing. Mostly, it's just too exhausting. What goes up at PolyRecs goes up, and people can deal.

I am aware of fandom politics and reccing. But it's not gonna make me change my stance, except insofar as I've stopping giving even limited qualifications of recs on my page. In other words, I say, "great prose, challenging characterizations, worth reading." I don't say, "great prose, but I found Zhaan's actions to be entirely contrary to everything I know about the character. However YZhaanMayVary, and it's a great story otherwise, so read it and make up your own mind."

Because no matter how much I emphasize the subjectivity of my responses, people get their poor sensitive feelings hurt. I'm tired of the snarky emails and all, but I won't stop reccing stuff I find worthwhile, and ignoring the self-indulgent wish-fulfillment fantasies that pass for fiction in so many places...

Sorry, I haven't had my first caffeine of the morning.

Heh. Unfortunate Harry Potter ff.net summaries. My favorite by a hair:

Its the annual staff Christmas party! Severus brings his jellyfish wife and Hermione gets serenaded.

...because, well, jellyfish? I mean, I understand that this is a fandom that has squid slash, but...

t /catty fandom politics

my (least) favorite? When the person can't summarize her story and then says "But it's really good." argh.(And I know my summaries aren't much, but that? Bugs.)

Of course! It was a natural romance for Snape; they met on holiday in the tropics, her wit had a natural sting, he was interested in her initially as a potions ingredient but then they fell in love...

mind boggles so hard it starts leaking out of ears

Diana is a princess and she is going to Hogwarts, what wil happen when Voldemort starts to fancy her, what will HAPPEN!

This I find strangely plausible; why, only ten minutes ago I was proposing Draco/Prince Charles!

(no, really.)

Hr/R, H/G, Neville/New girl Full of cheese and corn!

But surely "cheese and corn" is Smallville?

I am taken away, leaving Harry, Lizzya, Ron and the others behind, I am left with Voldemort and I cannot contact anyone but any death eaters....Which suxs!

And they'll kill you for that sort of spelling.

Not Slash! The hatred of Sirius Black and Severus Snape is further explained when a new DADA Prof. is pulled out of the sorting hat.

chokes

The trio are in they're seventh year.But Hermione has a dark secret.If she dare tell anyone,they'll never talk to her again.Will she tell Harry and Ron that she-Hermione Granger-is the new dark lord?

Dark Lady, surely?

t /snark

Thanks, Katie. I needed the laugh.

Yuppers. And post random and anonymously snarky comments to random places, alluding to the "self-proclaimed arbiters of good fic"...

Hee. Yup.

I am aware of fandom politics and reccing. But it's not gonna make me change my stance, except insofar as I've stopping giving even limited qualifications of recs on my page.

Yeah. If active reccing was already a part of my life, I wouldn't be changing it for politics. It's not, and active reccing would mean way more reading than I do at the moment, so I'll continue to post the occasional "whoa!" in my LJ when something (Holli's ghost story, for example) catches my eye.

Umm.

Anyone have any Giles/Faith recs?

No. And I'm surprised.

Secret Slasha 2003 is up!

Because of drop outs, I wrote two, and SA wrote 3. See if you can guess which ones are ours.

Also, I got Gunn/Wes for Christmas again. I'm happy. Also possibly easy. I'm not sure.

As are the Yuletide Treasure stories.

I got Goon Show Fic! I am in heaven.