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Dear Author of the Week...

A fantastic post that lists a huge number of examples of fantastic works and their relation to fandom, how a huge number of published/professional works are derivatives of older source material/inspired by love of previous stories/are essentially fanfiction. LOTS OF THEM WON PULITZERS. Don't even get me started on Boondock Saints II which was essentially fanfiction. Or that Star Trek "reboot" and Trek fandom. Or the Jane Austen VS Zombies/Sea Monsters/Carnivorous Plants/Etc.

Author of the Week is currently pretty whiny. She also compares people who write fanfiction with people out to seduce her husband or rape her daughter. Um, just wow. That's a bit of overreaching. This whole argument that fanfiction is some illegal cabal is tired and tiresome. Don't even start here in this journal. Feel free to not enjoy fandom or to find it weird or whatever. But stop witht he hysteria and the absurd comparisons that have no basis in reality.

dragon age

The credits for Dragon Age are really long. Yay victory over the archdemon! And now, I'll have to start playing it again, because I want to see what happens when some pivotal choices are different. Also, I love Alastair so much. He's so fun. Everyone needs a best friend like him in a game.

My head hurts. I slept badly, then was annoyed by things on the internet. I really need to learn to just ignore the internet when my head already hurts. Hopefully I can lose the headache before the movies tonight. We're seeing The Good, The Bad & The Weird which is a fun Korean take on The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. But it totally isn't fanfiction or derivative because that would be horribly illegal and wrong and no real artist would ever do that! Ahem. Excuse me.

Also, please bring on the Dragon Age fanfiction. I assume it is okay to write fanfiction about video games since Roger Ebert declared they could never possibly be real art. Seriously, I need to get off the internet because it fill me with rage.

But also seriously, please with the Dragon Age fic. It's fun!

eastern western

If you have a chance to see The Good The Bad The Weird - do it. Right away. This is probably one of the great films of its kind. It has everything that makes a Western - the big sky, the duty land, riding, gunfire, the man in black, the curve of the brim of a hat, unavoidable conflict, the pale rider. It is the best Western to go outside of America, and the transplant to the early 20th century Manchuria is brilliant. It's funny, it's thrilling, it's a damned good movie.

Also, please cough up the Dragon Age fic already!