thank viggo football's almost over
How excited are you I charged the battery in one of the cameras?
Like a quarter of the country, we had some shitty weather here this week. The thing about winter is that if you don't have to go be out in the shitty weather for work or other sundry reasons, it's nice to look at. Under the cut are pictures of 1. my puppy (whose name ended up being Tallulah) and 2. the yard with ice and snow adornment.
( Photos taken a couple days ago. )
I have TWO fics open in my not-Word word processing program. I never ever have unfinished fic laying about. One of the stories is Merlin and one is Supernatural. YES, I am not making that second part up. Maybe with the football hoopla I can get one of those finished. Not writing is contributing to my subpar mental health, I believe.
I'm already two behind in the new run of Umbrella Academy? SHIT! Are there scans? The closest comics shop to me is in the ass end of nowhere. DAMN IT ALL TO HELL.
In other news, guess who my publisher is...if your guessed Tor, you are correct! Don't boycott me because other people are assholes, I beg of you! Or if you do, I understand and sympathize. I think one way of looking at what's happening with the editorial staff at Tor in light of a flame war involving a HUGE BNF would be helpful. That's basically what's happening with the fandom being the whole of the scifi publishing community rather than say, BSG or Buffy fandom. The cognitive dissonance is that when you're the big fish in a small pond you often lose the perspective of how far off the shore is. Someone has beached themselves and is unaware of it as of yet. I guess we'll see what the larger fall out is for being an idiot on the internet. I don't know of any examples that have had the kind of impact that this recent NH clusterfuck could have. Also, I think there is some serious commentary that could be made that while ready access to readership is beneficial to genre publishers that the downside of that is that free access also can rebound on you when you do something really crappy and everyone sees it. Was it worth cultivating the culture on Making Light when now a large portion of loyal scifi/fantasy readers are now embittered enough to reach out to people who AREN'T part of the online community to tell them what transpired on the internet? Will fans of color unite to push this beyond the internet and into scholarship about the false construct of accessibility with regard to direct online interaction (because, let's face it, the reason people inhabit chat boards and blogs where publishers frequent is in hopes of publication/desire to brush against cult figures much the same way people read the ljs of BNFs to interact with people who create fan content they appreciate). Idk, I personally have reservations about authors who use what to me is fanspace for advertisement (here I am talking about the originators of this whole horror show) to begin with. Get off lj with that crap and stick to your damned websites and incestuous publishing chat rooms.
Anyway, my bottomline on the nonpublishing aspect of this: I think it's GOOD when supposedly liberal, "free thinking," "progressive" people are exposed as carrying colonizing attitudes because that often sparks OTHER people into considering their own pre-programmed attitudes and beliefs. I myself like to read those threads and posts because they make me examine my own thinking and consider the perspectives of people who aren't me. Often enough, my own prejudices just get reinforced just like all other self-righteous assholes' prejudices do (I am exceedingly self-righteous on a good day and more so on holidays and Tuesdays). What I do NOT enjoy is seeing people I care about deeply suffering because other human beings refuse to realize that their whims and airs HURT people. Why would someone maintain something so useless as an assumption or an attitude when that affectation is so casual that it can be tossed aside in favor of deciding whether or not to have ham or pastrami for lunch when that assumption or attitude causes another human being anguish and suffering? What does a simple apology cost? Pride? Sense of self-worth? Is your self-worth valid when offering a simple apology is impossible in the face of your belief that you're better/righter/smarter than someone you've caused grievous hurt? We all make bad choices. We all make mistakes. Honor comes from acknowledging to an aggrieved party that you realize you've done something to hurt them. There is no shame in that, but many people are socialized to cling to pride.
I actually don't think the NH's are being disingenuous in their claims to believe they're being trolled by people with grudges. I believe they believe that. It does actually happen. The rest of what's happened during this entire scandal (that is what it is) surpatheth understanding, for real. I hope some people walked away from it having learned the lessen to err on the side of being a bigger person, because otherwise there's just a lot of hurt to go around for no reason. I mean, how much of everything that went wrong could have been avoided by simply following the GOLDEN RULE?
I had a disclaimer here, but whatever. If people who don't know me arrive in the comments I'll live.
And one more thing since this appears to have turned out to be one of my random catch-all posts An explanation of why grammar zealots are silly. From my fl to your fl.
Like a quarter of the country, we had some shitty weather here this week. The thing about winter is that if you don't have to go be out in the shitty weather for work or other sundry reasons, it's nice to look at. Under the cut are pictures of 1. my puppy (whose name ended up being Tallulah) and 2. the yard with ice and snow adornment.
( Photos taken a couple days ago. )
I have TWO fics open in my not-Word word processing program. I never ever have unfinished fic laying about. One of the stories is Merlin and one is Supernatural. YES, I am not making that second part up. Maybe with the football hoopla I can get one of those finished. Not writing is contributing to my subpar mental health, I believe.
I'm already two behind in the new run of Umbrella Academy? SHIT! Are there scans? The closest comics shop to me is in the ass end of nowhere. DAMN IT ALL TO HELL.
In other news, guess who my publisher is...if your guessed Tor, you are correct! Don't boycott me because other people are assholes, I beg of you! Or if you do, I understand and sympathize. I think one way of looking at what's happening with the editorial staff at Tor in light of a flame war involving a HUGE BNF would be helpful. That's basically what's happening with the fandom being the whole of the scifi publishing community rather than say, BSG or Buffy fandom. The cognitive dissonance is that when you're the big fish in a small pond you often lose the perspective of how far off the shore is. Someone has beached themselves and is unaware of it as of yet. I guess we'll see what the larger fall out is for being an idiot on the internet. I don't know of any examples that have had the kind of impact that this recent NH clusterfuck could have. Also, I think there is some serious commentary that could be made that while ready access to readership is beneficial to genre publishers that the downside of that is that free access also can rebound on you when you do something really crappy and everyone sees it. Was it worth cultivating the culture on Making Light when now a large portion of loyal scifi/fantasy readers are now embittered enough to reach out to people who AREN'T part of the online community to tell them what transpired on the internet? Will fans of color unite to push this beyond the internet and into scholarship about the false construct of accessibility with regard to direct online interaction (because, let's face it, the reason people inhabit chat boards and blogs where publishers frequent is in hopes of publication/desire to brush against cult figures much the same way people read the ljs of BNFs to interact with people who create fan content they appreciate). Idk, I personally have reservations about authors who use what to me is fanspace for advertisement (here I am talking about the originators of this whole horror show) to begin with. Get off lj with that crap and stick to your damned websites and incestuous publishing chat rooms.
Anyway, my bottomline on the nonpublishing aspect of this: I think it's GOOD when supposedly liberal, "free thinking," "progressive" people are exposed as carrying colonizing attitudes because that often sparks OTHER people into considering their own pre-programmed attitudes and beliefs. I myself like to read those threads and posts because they make me examine my own thinking and consider the perspectives of people who aren't me. Often enough, my own prejudices just get reinforced just like all other self-righteous assholes' prejudices do (I am exceedingly self-righteous on a good day and more so on holidays and Tuesdays). What I do NOT enjoy is seeing people I care about deeply suffering because other human beings refuse to realize that their whims and airs HURT people. Why would someone maintain something so useless as an assumption or an attitude when that affectation is so casual that it can be tossed aside in favor of deciding whether or not to have ham or pastrami for lunch when that assumption or attitude causes another human being anguish and suffering? What does a simple apology cost? Pride? Sense of self-worth? Is your self-worth valid when offering a simple apology is impossible in the face of your belief that you're better/righter/smarter than someone you've caused grievous hurt? We all make bad choices. We all make mistakes. Honor comes from acknowledging to an aggrieved party that you realize you've done something to hurt them. There is no shame in that, but many people are socialized to cling to pride.
I actually don't think the NH's are being disingenuous in their claims to believe they're being trolled by people with grudges. I believe they believe that. It does actually happen. The rest of what's happened during this entire scandal (that is what it is) surpatheth understanding, for real. I hope some people walked away from it having learned the lessen to err on the side of being a bigger person, because otherwise there's just a lot of hurt to go around for no reason. I mean, how much of everything that went wrong could have been avoided by simply following the GOLDEN RULE?
I had a disclaimer here, but whatever. If people who don't know me arrive in the comments I'll live.
And one more thing since this appears to have turned out to be one of my random catch-all posts An explanation of why grammar zealots are silly. From my fl to your fl.