Ah, ok. I can buy the sorting hat magically bestowing the sword
Is it the sword or the phoenix that arrives when you show great allegiance to Dumbledore?
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.
'Serenity'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
le nubian - Apr 16, 2011 9:00:56 am PDT #14480 of 28293
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Laga - Apr 16, 2011 9:06:32 am PDT #14481 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
That's Fawkes.
le nubian - Apr 16, 2011 9:15:02 am PDT #14482 of 28293
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
of course.
sumi - Apr 16, 2011 10:40:17 am PDT #14483 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Table of Contents for the new Bordertown anthology.
Also, GRRM responds to the response to the NYT review of Game of Thrones:
I am not going to get into it myself, except to say
1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings?
and
(2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all.
Pix - Apr 16, 2011 10:43:47 am PDT #14484 of 28293
The status is NOT quo.
Aww, GRRM just made me love him a lot. Game of Thrones is an incredibly good book. Well written, involved, and very appealing to geek girls like me.
§ ita § - Apr 16, 2011 10:50:13 am PDT #14485 of 28293
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He remains dodgy on fanfic. I think that's...well, then again, Jo Walton said she'd stop writing if anyone wrote fic of her stuff, so I guess he's tame compared to what some people have said.
I just don't get it.
DavidS - Apr 16, 2011 11:09:15 am PDT #14486 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I just don't get it.
Do you feel proprietary about your sketchbook? Would you like somebody else inking over your pencils?
I'd guess that's something close to their perspective and objection.
Even though from our perspective the original work remains untouched.
§ ita § - Apr 16, 2011 11:14:57 am PDT #14487 of 28293
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Would you like somebody else inking over your pencils?
If they could do it and leave me with my pencils, I wouldn't care.
Anything I don't want other people to touch I don't let other people touch. If that means keeping it out of their reach, then so be it. But I guess that's what Walton is threatening to do. It just seems weird not to see your work taking root in people's brains as the natural result of it getting out there.
Amy - Apr 16, 2011 11:59:21 am PDT #14488 of 28293
Because books.
I can understand authors or artists being weirdly proprietary about their own work in the hands of others, but I can't understand why so many authors out there seem surprised by it. People have been doing this FOREVER. Shakespeare used others' characters and basic stories to write some of his plays. This is not new.
Strix - Apr 16, 2011 12:11:05 pm PDT #14489 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I can understand authors or artists being weirdly proprietary about their own work in the hands of others, but I can't understand why so many authors out there seem surprised by it.
Me, too. Esp. since people like to slap lawsuits on people: OMG this is JUST what happened in my fanfic, you big STEALY STEALER! I think if I was an author, I would have a clearly stated policy asking people not to write fanfic, knowing most would ignore it, and then I would just NOT EVER LOOK (although I would be SO curious) and would go after anyone really going with the big ol' fanfic thing.
But mentally, I would probably be a flattered AND proprietary at the same time. It would be conflicty with me, since I totally get the jones to write it.