Stargate: Atlantis

( Spoilers... )

LOLOL

I think my favorite thing ever is the bizarre logic that if you do anything that can be construed as "mean" it's because you're "self-hating". I think it ties into the geek fallacies. Some people have this idea that since we're all geeks (whatever defines that, though I suppose spending significant amounts of time on the internet is probably enough, really), we should never say a bad word about each other, and that any meanness towards or mockery of a fellow geek (despite the fact that is it, you know, an incredibly broad category) is born of self-hatred, rather than, you know, intolerance of bad writing*, or a belief that furries are really weird.

*I mean, so if I mock Dan Brown's writing is that self-hatred, too? I don't know if he's a geek or not, but he is a fellow writer. What about Go Fug Yourself? After all, the celebs they mock (and at whom I laugh) wear clothes, and I wear clothes. We're all human, too. I mean, seriously, feel free to think I'm mean, whatever. But the self-hatred thing is about as loltastic as Freud** in terms of psychoanalysis.

**If you don't think Freud is loltastic, please board the failboat to your left.

Last chance for Sweet Charity

There's just about two hours left to bid.

Mo's Bacon Bar review

Bruce and I have been hearing a lot about Mo's Bacon Bar by Vosges, but at $8 a bar, it's not something we probably ever would have bought, even if Bruce wasn't out of work. However, thanks to the wonderful anthimaeria, we now have one in our possession!

( You know you're curious. )

Now I really want to try out these bacon chocolate chip cookies!

More on why I write fanfic

Reading some more on elfwreck's post and was prompted to comment again. There's a lot of condescension going around there, and implications that if you don't agree, you either don't know your own motives, or if you write for different reasons, your writing sucks and is more illegal than her way of doing things. So...I think I'm going to try really hard to stay away from anything to do with her from now on. Best for my blood pressure. :p

Anyway, I wanted to c&p my response here and expand upon it, because it actually made me think about some interesting things.

What I disagree with about her post is the idea that this is why it has to be fanfic. Almost nothing I write has to be fanfic (there are a few stories that are so completely tied to a canon plot point that they couldn't be rewritten as original fic, but those are few and far between; most of my stories deal with themes that are universal and not specific to one canon universe or character). If I decide to write it as fanfic, sure I make sure it's IC and works with canon, etc. etc. But I could also write it as original fiction. Or tell the same story in a different canon universe. And in each case I would make sure it worked for that scenario. But there is nothing that makes it have to be fanfic.

That's what I said, now ( to expand on it... )