GIP! And more, of course.

[tabaqui]

Isn't that a lovely icon? I have my Brigitta von Trapp icon, with her peeking out from behind a book, but i needed a 'fannish' reading icon, too. Now i have *three*. Yessss.
*cough*

paxlux was kind enough to post some of her reading icons, and this one was made by notquite_there.

too_rational added the prompt ficlet 'Billion Dollar Baby' to her pdf of my 'Generation Landslide' 'verse, which is very awesome of her. Thank you, bay-bee!
You can get it here.

Yes, i'm still working on prompts. I'm also working on my apocalypse fic and it's over 8,000 words and counting, wheeee!

I'm also seriously considering the spn_j2_bigbang, sign ups on the 11th. If i can get a coherent narrative cobbled together by then, i'm gonna do it. :)

But! Right now, i'm a little...scattered. And so i'm gonna do a meme thing, which i pretty much *never* do, but hey - why not? I know i have a lot of flisties who are new/er, and sorry if i never say hi - i have no clue when i'm de/friended, i don't have any alerts or anything, so hello!
*filched from lunabee34 but i fiddled with it a little*

Ask me one fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Favorite character, favorite moment, unpopular opinion, something about a fic of mine... whatever. Or, you know, any old questions you fancy. :)

Also? It's snowing. And so very chilly. Yay for spaceheaters! :)

Comments

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

That surprises me. :) Is there something in particular you don't like about his writing?

[tabaqui]

I don't....know. There's just something about his books that irritate me. Maybe i need to try again, as it's been ages and ages since i've read anything at all. My brother had a few and i just...didn't like 'em.

I like Larry Niven much better, despite his flaws, heh, and Roger Zelazny.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Well, the sex does get to be a little stupid at times. He's his own grandpa? Really? LOL And I always get cheesed the way H is so careful that the sex in Stranger in a Strange Land not be homosexual, even though it really should be to fit the mission (not just cause I always have my slash goggles on). But I still really like a lot of his story ideas.

[tabaqui]

It's funny, i remember reading a lot of the 'old guard' of Sci-fi and being annoyed at how they dealt with the women in the stories and the sex. Way too 'patriarchal' for me a lot of the times, and i find it only gets worse with age.

Which is a pity, because i do *love* some of that stuff, but even James Tiptree, who is a *woman*, did it. Grrr! I could still read her stuff over and over though.

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

I was going to comment to say 'oh please do a bigbang fic this year!', but I'm also going to be a bit rude and thread-crash to say I agree about Tiptree.

Have you ever read, I think the title is Brightness Falls From the Sky, where the gorgeous heroine in the fabulous relationship gets accelerated forward in time to her 80s? Her husband immediately stops loving her because now she's all Eww Wrinkly!, she immediately stops loving herself, she ceases to be active in the plot, and it's all treated entirely unproblematically by the text? That book infuriates me!

And then there's Sherri Tepper, who just goes way too far in the other direction. Sheesh, Sherri, stop preaching for one page, wouldja? ;)

[tabaqui]

Heeeee! Threadcrashing is fine.

I have read that, yeah - i've read most of her stuff. I really *like* her but yeah, her women are all kinda helpless and 'oh, save me big man!!' and hoping to have babies or whatever. I know it was kind of the times but...it's really a bummer, too, to think she either forced herself to write that or she thought that that was good. I dunno.

And yeah - Ms. Tepper can kind of make me wanna toss her books at a wall.

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read any Joan Vinge? Her women (and men, and aliens) are wonderfully strong and complex and sympathetic.

[tabaqui]

I'm familiar with the name but no, i haven't. I really like C J Cherryh - her characters are awesome in the same way.