Monday, May 5th, 2008

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12:09a	Question: what is your favorite sound? Or at least a sound that you love to hear, all context aside? I say all context aside because my favorite sound is probably glass shattering. It's my favorite part of going to the recycling center (or at least it was, back when we didn't have the bins we take to the curb now). I'd take the sack of glass, stand back, and lob 'em into the big dumpster. If I was lucky, several other glasses would break inside. It always bummed me out when the dumpster didn't have a top or if there were too many glasses inside already, 'cause I didn't want the glass to explode out onto the street. Breaking glass. Good stuff right there. (36 Comments | Comment on this)
2:44p	Myanmar says more than 10,000 killed in cyclone YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar said Monday more than 10,000 people died in the cyclone that battered the impoverished nation, whose secretive military rulers made a rare appeal for international help to cope with the tragedy. Reeling from the weekend disaster, which also left thousands missing, the Southeast Asian country once known as Burma -- one of the world's poorest -- warned that the staggering death toll could still rise further. "There could be more casualties," said Nyan Win, foreign minister of the military junta which has ruled the country with an iron fist for decades, and normally puts tight restrictions on aid agencies from the outside world. (Comment on this)
5:27p	Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies RICHMOND, Va. - Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday. Peggy Fortune said Loving, 68, died Friday at her home in rural Milford. She did not disclose the cause of death. Loving and her white husband, Richard, changed history in 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their right to marry. The ruling struck down laws banning racially mixed marriages in at least 17 states. "There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause," the court ruled in a unanimous decision. (Comment on this)
5:50p	and suddenly I feel like I'm arguing against vall again I swear to Lord, I am tired of seeing the term OOC (out of character fer y'all not in the know). Using OOC as a way to complain about a story really gets me because it seems like it's being used more as a lead-in for two entirely different topics: 1, that writing the characters in a certain way is no longer "respecting the characters" and 2, the assertion that the writing of what I'd term extreme sexual fetishes or acts (and I'm thinking rape, incest, perhaps injurious S&M, etc.) is morally wrong. We'll dispense with the "respecting the characters" charge quick. Suffice to say, characters ain't sacrosanct. One person playing around with them one way doesn't diminish another person's writing them another way. The usual "if the author makes me believe it, it's kosher" argument aside, there's no requirement for the the author to put out a story to certain requirements. If someone writes a story that the reader thinks sucks, it's totally cool for the reader to complain about it. But to say that the story sucks because the characters aren't being respected is really just another way of saying that the characters aren't being written the way the reader wanted. In that case, there's no way of making that reader happy except by writing the characters in that particular way, which means that even the best story will be ignored in favor of a crapfest because at least the crapfest "respects the characters." It's a worthless argument. So much for it. ( Let's talk about extreme fetishes. ) (17 Comments | Comment on this)
5:56p	Adventure Comic Found the comics on 4chan, then got the lj page. This is a really cute and well drawn comic (at least it is so far, I'm on part 7). (4 Comments | Comment on this)
10:25p	I had a reader ask about Oath Breaker II's next chapter, and I do owe you guys some info. Yes, I'm still working on it (got several paragraphs into it lately, as a matter of fact), but it's going slowly. Part of that is real life getting in the way, part of it is other fics getting in the way, and part of it is needing to get the story arc clear in my head. Plus...I think I want to do a Lucius/Narcissa/Severus story. A little after Draco was born. Oath Breaker I mentions a foodfight at the dinner table one night, and now I want to see that play out. I think it'd be a two scene story, one for the food fight, and one years before they were all together as Lucius is meeting Severus (who's still in Hogwarts) at Hogsmeade. So...still working on it. ;_; (1 Comment | Comment on this)
10:47p	taken from whiteadelphi List a sentence (or more) of all the stories that you're currently working on, to whet the appetite of your readers. ( Oath Breaker II, Twisted Autumn, Spoils of War, Werewolf in Snake's Clothing, and Shred by a Whisper (Vidia) ) (8 Comments | Comment on this)

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