It annoys me when anything less than 5/5 is awful. Like, I really want a 3 to be “it was fine” (not just in rating books but anything—like if you do a survey after talking to a customer service rep and if you don’t give five stars there must be something wrong and they’ll get dinged. But then there’s no real way to be like “this person was amazing” vs “they were fine and that’s all I usually need or expect from calling to ask what their mailing address is” or whatever.

(/damn kids off my lawn)

Yeah, that has been an unwelcome development that is probably warping a lot more than is obvious

Turns out someone's been plagiarizing their erotica from Supernatural fanfic. oy

She's ripping off Dira Sudis?!?

Well, I'm glad someone figured it out! What a mess.

I like the half stars on Library Thing. I love being able to give 3.5 or 4.5 stars. It would be interesting to compare my ratings across the two platforms.

I like the half stars on Library Thing. I love being able to give 3.5 or 4.5 stars.

I would love half stars on Goodreads. I'm constantly noting them in my reviews. The times I've been at Goodreads headquarters, half stars was always top of the list in terms of requests from almost everyone. I can't remember what their rationale was for not having them.

She's ripping off Dira Sudis?!?

Well, that's ballsy. Dira's a major pan-fandom writer. That's not picking out some obscure story to steal from. And Dira has plenty of friends. (Hell, I've met her, at Wiscon over a decade ago.)

An article in the paper a week (or so) ago was discussing SF books and shows, etc., made from them. They suggested that the Pride of Chanur would be good, as well as one of N.K. Jemisin's series.

Costuming, wigs, makeup would be prohibitive, along with practical and cgi, I would think. this isn't an individual, it's a whole ship's crew of another species.