glittering little pieces

[kaigou]

...that's what my brain is, right now.

Got to about episode 15 of Ergo Proxy last night, and couldn't take any more 'just a few episodes here and there'. I have them all, so I watch... until 4am.

Dog: *pronk*
Me: I know, I know, bedtime, but one more episode!
Dog: *pronk*
Me: Oh, oh, oh, just one more episode!
Dog: *pronk*pronk*
Me: Almost there! Last one!
Dog: *goes to bed without me*

My brain is thoroughly, completely, utterly broken in former-philosophy-student happiness. Oh, the shiny is beyond shiny; the references to mathematics, physics, epistomology, eschatology, the questions of god and evolution and restoration and despair, such a fine existentialist work that's more than the usual mishmash of "this looks cool" squished in with "throw in enough and no one will notice the flaws" -- or maybe there was just so much, who cares about flaws?

Getting it on DVD, and rewatching. Ergo Proxy is what Texhnolyze wants to be, when it grows up. So many glittering pieces of wow.

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In other fandom news: if I don't know your work as an author, then it's really quite ignorant to think it's my problem that I've no interest in reading your fan-based story when you won't tell me jackshit about it. And it's truly arrogance beyond measure to assure me -- when you can't even bloody well spell -- that you're going to tell me a fabulous story and I should just trust you. Right. Even professional authors, with their gatekeepers of agent, editor, copy editor, and publisher, aren't so stupid as to think it'd be a selling point to put on the back of the book nothing more than: "this is a great book I've written, and you should read it."

Someone asked the question, "if I don't include pairing information or clear warnings, is this turning people off of reading my story?"

I said, yes, and then tried to explain why -- reasonably, and fairly. The sum is basically: you ain't there yet, kid, at least not with me. Kracken could say, "not giving the pairings away," and I'd read; Maldoror could say the same, and I'd read. But I know their work, and they've never let me down in the past. Can't say the same for some unknown, too-arrogant spellcheck-challenged author floating around in the pixelated world. Risk adverse? Not really. Time limited? Yeah.

But mostly? Just not that fucking impressed when someone tells me that their fanfiction is gonna 'surprise' me. Don't make me laugh. There is no pairing I've not read at some point, and "who Heero ends up with" just isn't in the category of "omg! what a shocker!"

Well, the kid asked, I answered, and I suspect it really wasn't worth the effort on my part.

Comments

[roseya19.livejournal.com]

Well, the kid asked, I answered, and I suspect it really wasn't worth the effort on my part.

Heh... maybe you don't think so, but I certainly *loved* reading that post from you. It was brilliant! It's so nice when you let the crumbs of authorly wisdom fall from your brain now and then. Said author's response was a little self-serving, so who knows whether any of your message actually got through. One can hope. I bet a lot of other people were sitting there nodding their heads in agreement, though. Right along with me. ^__^

(and now you've got me wondering what Ergo Proxy is...)

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Heh, that was 4+ years of hard slogging through the fandom to learn those lessons, buddy! Rather annoying when someone doesn't acknowledge your greatness for, uhm, surviving long enough to pass the word along.

Hah.

But then, I suppose it's one of those things you have to live through, before you grok it.

[windsorblue.livejournal.com]

You were much more polite in your reply than I was in the one I was composing in my head. What the hell has been wrong with that list lately? Rar.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

My subsequent response was far less polite, but then I deleted it. I need a variation on the phrase about dressing up the pig -- the one that concludes, "it doesn't achieve anything, except to piss off the pig" -- but a version that's about teaching self-important morons.

*ponders*

Except then that all the rest of ya'll will use it to describe having a conversation with me, so let's not, after all.