Posts by recordari
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Oh well. Since Sacha is one of the nice people mentioned, I’ll repost it.
I think we should never underestimated the power of social media and group discussions to make people feel very self-conscious, even amongst the nicest of people. Sometimes this can be a good thing, as lord knows we all need a good look in the mirror at times, but occasionally, and often due to the meta-psycho-physical stuff going on that you can’t see, it can be downright depressing.
So at these times one shouldn’t participate, right? But then it’s at these times when the right reciprocal response from one of the aforementioned ‘nice people’ can make all the difference.
So I do my best to make you laugh or resonate with a song or book, sometimes without much success. When I can make you cry, I’ll know I’m getting somewhere.
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There was quite alot of reader harassment going on back in 2009 over the release of the second in the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss, Wise Man's Fear.
His cartoon on his blog about the online exchanges kind of sums it up.
What seemed to happen is a first time author made much more of a splash than he, his publishers, or many of the early reviewers, ever expected. Particularly when Ursula K. Le Guin agreed to write this on his blurb;
It is a rare and great pleasure to come on somebody writing the way (Patrick Rothfuss does), not only with the kind of accuracy of language that seems to me absolutely essential to fantasy-making, but with real music in the words as well.... Oh, joy!
-Ursula K. Le Guin,...he wisely thought he'd better check the next book was even better. Two years late(r) he released the book this March. I'm just past half way through it, and while it is no grand battle scene epic, I really like the main character, and as fantasy goes, it seems much more rooted in some kind of deep mythology than plain old witchy-poos flying around on broom schticks.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I can separate Emma from Plant Physiology.
That honestly cracked me up.
With some really good, well-thought-out replies and responses. And that often makes me feel very stooopid.
Will you stop? You are erudite and brilliant and a shining star, and I won’t have this putting down of yourself.
Yeah, seriously. A complete lack of evidence to support your thesis makes this beyond ridiculous. While in my case…
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Megan Wegan,
troll snackdown
LOLZ. What's their favourite food?
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Emma Hart,
It's gone.
Thanks. The Interwebz; it's a jungle out there. Note to self: read to the bottom of the page, dumbass!
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Muse: Rugby World Kitsch, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I don't see a dido in that at all
What's she doing in there?
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If I hadn't run out of time, I'd remove that Trollcats link. It goes to a level I didn't believe possible. That will teach me for assuming the first one set the tone for the page.
Really really sorry, and Emma you might want to remove it.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Russell Brown,
So we both beat Close Up and Campbell Live ;-)
Chuffed.
Congrats. Ratings are not a reflection of quality. More evidence at 9.15pm Thursday.
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'This is my truth, please don't tell me yours'.
It's not what we tink, it's how we're tinking.
And what's wrong with twink? Although it's hard to get off an LCD screen.
'I tink a taw a puddy cat. I did, I did taw a puddy cat.
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ETA:
Clap if you believe in fairies?
Clappity clappity.