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Nobody's been kind enough to fill my inbox with pointless email and journal replies today, so I'm spending my day alternating between staring at ASP and willing it to work and reading a lovely wankfest over on rec.arts.sf.composition, which started as Earthsea wank but ended up as Tolkien-elitist wank. It really hits its stride on the second page and keeps going, punctuated by wank about racism and discussions of multicultural and transgendered productions og Othello.

I think that perhaps my favorite bit is this aside:

[referring to Glorfindel]
> Death by Balrog is not necessarily an inconvenience.

For some reason, this triggered an image:

[... fast forward to GANDALF and SAURON at an impasse ...]

SAURON: You've beaten my Balrog, which means you're exceptionally
strong. So, you could have put the Ring in your own hobbit,
trusting on your strength to save you. So I can clearly not
choose the hobbit in front of you.

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...ring in the hobbit? o.o Okay, cue my overactive imagination here. x.x

FANFIC!!

I tripped up on that, too; it took me a couple of moments to realize he was parodying The Princess Bride, but after that I can't get the image of Sauron as played by Wallace Shawn out of my head, no matter how hard I scrub it.

Wrap it in some meat, they'll swallow it right down. Hobbits eat anything.

<3 Princess Bride.

Yupyup.

Oh - keep meaning to tell you that the Death Note doujin project has sort of taken on a life of its own and turned into a doujinshi anthology (mostly by me realizing that DN by itself wasn't likely to sell a whole lot, but if I got other people and other series involved, then it would have a wider audience.

What this means - it's OK if something happens and our project collapses in on itself, because I'll have other people to put into the anthology. On the other hand, since I'm doing a Rising Stars entry, I'm now officially doing *that* at the moment and won't be able to get to DN until February, so we've got until February to work out a script. On the other other hand, if a new script doesn't happen, I'd be willing to work on converting your story into a comic script and using that, so there's really no pressure all around. :)

Ohh, that's excellent. XD I feel like such a slacker lately, leaving you and the guy I edit for hanging and just generally not doing much besides school. Things should be better now that the semester is (almost!) over.

Also, I'm curious: what're the other series involved?

So far, Bleach, and nobody else has been able to pick one yet, but since I officially started inviting people this weekend, I'm not surprised. :)

I'll email you the URL I've got for the project. I have no idea why I'm keeping it private because (a) it's easy to guess and (b) there's not a whole lot of reason to. Oh well. I'll send it to ya - as a writer, you're sortofofficially part of it. :)

Ah, but if it's "secret" I get to feel like I'm a part of something speshul. XD you've seen Go-Devil-Dante's poll? She's got an absolutely enormous following.

XD Well, now you are one of only ... er ... seven people so far to know that URL. And I suspect I'm the only one who visits it other than a first curious glance, but it makes me happy to mess about with TextPattern and figure out how to configure it, so all is good. And it's good to have the technical specs online in one spot.

'Tis an excellent site. I'm envious. But, more importantly! I forgot to way congratulations for being a Rising Star! Yaaaa confetti!

The strange asides are the best thing about wank...

Oh yes. On f-w I almost never go read the actual wank and thrive on the strange asides that show up in the comments.

I've been listening to "Sweet Potato" for a while now. :) It's associated in my brain with your story so much that when I opened iTunes to drop it in I caught myself about to put it in the "J-Rock" playlist.

That song is crack. I used to play it so loud in the college radio station the speakers would vibrate...are you too young to remember Cracker?

Too young? *Googles and comes up with a date of 1992 for their earliest album release date* Heh. No, I believe the problem is that I am too *old* to remember them, graduating from college and falling right into my classic-rock phase in 1992. :)

(I have never been very aware of music other than what accidentally comes my way, though, so age isn't much of an issue when it comes to whether I've heard of someone or not.)

::hugs another old person on LJ:: See, '93 was when I went in to college. Now I'm not in college, it seems like the only new music I listen to is from the Net or LJ friends...

It's so nice to see old people on LJ XD - it weirds me out to think that many of my online friends are juuuust barely the age that I could possibly be their mother. There was one web-design board I was on last year where the average age of the participants was 14, which was even weirder (the reason I was hanging out there was that the easiest way to learn PHP is to explain it to a 12-year-old).

Anyway, I've always been musically impaired - I grew up in Bryan, Texas (Never heard of it? Exactly.) where the radio stations played only Top 40, and when I went to college I somehow managed to find a group of friends who listened to show tunes and medieval dance music and filk, and when I got out of college, I ended up discovering classic rock. And now I've got a weird-ass eclectic collection that ranges from show tunes to Goth to classical to techno, much of which nobody's ever heard of.

I even have some Goth, though not much. A lot of Celtic, and some show tunes...

No way, you're older than me! For some reason I had thought you were a bit younger. (Unless you were a prodigy and graduated really young.) I graduated in '94.

I'm so used to being the youngest person in the room/forum/group that it's weird having about half the people on my friends list in their early to mid twenties.

Nope, no prodigy. It's that indefinite air of immaturity, I expect. :)

I used to be the youngest person around, and then I moved back to College Station in 1997 and started hanging out with the Cepheids, the SF group on campus, and I then became one of the oldest people around, which has pretty much remained the same ever since.

*snickers* Ah, wank is always good.

Even better, one of the participants is someone who was reported on otf_wank last year for wanking about NaNoWriMo, because she was all "How dare they call themselves novelists after writing only 50K words!" and aggressively Missing the Point that it was all in fun and nobody was going around introducing themselves as a novelist after completing NaNoWriMo. I've got a copy of her novel, and I like the first half, but the second half turned into a slog for me. I'd list her name and the book's titles, but I figure if she does any ego-surfing I don't really want her finding this and wanking over here; I prefer to be more polite in my actual book reviews. :) She's the Tolkien elitist who doesn't use capital letters.

Reading this, finally.

What's important is Tolkien's eyes. And I, unlike Jackson, can understand Tolkien quite well.
I'm not sure if I should be disgusted or grateful that people can be completely, stupidly, arrogant and not even realize it...

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