It's running!

[astridv]

The auto-archive is running.

Alas, the last two or three times I said that, I immediately found a huge, ugly, creepy bug that took me all day to fix. But right now, this very minute, let me just revel in the fact that the bloody thing is doing what it's supposed to do. So for the time being, I shall speak of the archive no more.

Because, I want to read some fanfic again, dammit. A new episode of Three Deep is out, and I barely had time to get past the first act. How much do I love that setup! I can't wait to read the rest.

And for the past week I've been stuck on page 136 of my Japanese Prisoner of Azkaban... first Divination class with Professor Trelawney (Or as the Japanese say, Toreroonii... that one took a while.) The Professor uses Keigo (very polite speech) when she talks to her students - I find that's an interesting touch. It's interesting in general to see how the translator finds substitutes for the various forms of British slang. That conductor on the Knight Bus is hard enough to understand in English. In Japanese, not a chance. Good practice though.

*peeks*
It's still working. Wow.
I'd really like to shift two of the attributes. But right now I don't even dare breathe around it. Ah well, if it's still there tomorrow, I'll try it.

Oh yeah, funny thing I read in Tod Goldberg's blog the other day and wanted to share... have to see if I can hunt it down *browse* Ah, here it is. It's by a commenter. "This ties in to the second point: virtually all fanfic is terrible. Really awful, retched dreck. Worse than Tono's shit, really. Therefore, I hold that fanfic is no threat to anybody. Every bit of it that I have ever read has sucked in a really large way, and nobody is ever going to mistake it for the real thing."

I'll leave that uncommented, such a thing of beauty can stand by itself. He also states that "these people are, indeed, cape-wearing losers"... so excuse me while I don my cape and crawl outta my parents' basement... ;op

Will play catch-up with flist tomorrow. Provided that you-know-what is still working.

Comments

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I'm awed that you got to page 136 of your Japanese Prisoner of Azkaban. Golly. I'm trying to think up a query in Japanese, but I made deadline today and my head is soup. Somehow I think a real effort would kill me.

I sent you an email re: SD Con: we are personae grata. Or persona. Whatever. Ho for the beach. Ato yon-shukan.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Head, soup, I get that. Mine steamed over that wretched archive software for days in a row. Also, today I spent all day in the blazing sun; head feels a bit mushy... but man, it was fun! One of the first real summer days we had. My skin tone just moved up one from vampire-white.

I sent you an email re: SD Con: we are personae grata. Or persona. Whatever. Ho for the beach. Ato yon-shukan.

Hah. Excellent!

[makd.livejournal.com]

Not a fanfic writer, but I've read well over 1,000 pieces of fanfic, so I feel quite justified in saying that the writer who wrote this: "This ties in to the second point: virtually all fanfic is terrible. Really awful, retched dreck. Worse than Tono's shit, really. Therefore, I hold that fanfic is no threat to anybody. Every bit of it that I have ever read has sucked in a really large way, and nobody is ever going to mistake it for the real thing." has never read ANY of the writers on my flist. To which I add: too bad for him. He's missed some great stories!

[astridv.livejournal.com]

has never read ANY of the writers on my flist. To which I add: too bad for him. He's missed some great stories!

Yup, his loss.

I do remember well that my first reaction when confronted with fanfic was more than sceptical... I'd looked up the xf newsgroup and saw alt.tv.xf.creative right next to it. I was convinced it couldn't be anything but dreadful and stayed clear of it for two weeks. Then I took a peek at one.

Ten years later... :o)

I mean, yeah, I can understand how people may react sceptical to the concept of fanfic. But these guys (http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/a_writers_life/2005/06/whats_stupid_ab.html#c6313695), they cling to their prejudices and misconceptions with a stubbornness that's mindboggling. That wank seems to erupt once a month, maybe it's connected to the lunar cycle or something... think I'll go over there now and read some. I'm easily amused ;)

[lakrids404.livejournal.com]

The Professor uses Keigo but of course she do *grins*
Perhaps would a little visit to the Japanese folk high school in Denmark? (http://bogense.homepage.dk/)
could help you to improve your Japanese (Japanese folk high school here in Denmark, such a strange concept)

Tod Goldberg i can't believe that he is serius, especially when one consider that he is really a paid fanfic write. He is just one big flame-bait.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Tod Goldberg i can't believe that he is serius, especially when one consider that he is really a paid fanfic write. He is just one big flame-bait.

Lee is the main wank source, actually. Tod is just the bother. Though they're both not to be reasoned with, particularly when it comes to the subject of fanfic. I don't know whether Lee makes these dismissive posts on fanfic once a month because
a. he needs the attention and knows that the wank invariably brings traffic to his journal, or
b. as a tie-in writer, he feels secretly threatened by fanfic, which is why he refuses to acknowledge the existence of good fanfic.

Probably a bit of both. And I honestly think that tie-in writers have a reason to feel threatened... because bitch as they may, a well-written fanfic is more often than not superiour to the average tie-in. Heck, since I discovered fanfic I've all but stopped reading published novels. I buy a lot of books, but it's all non-fic.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Tod is just the bother.

Brother, was what I meant. Freudian slip much? ;)