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[erastes]

Mostly, I don't subscribe to the Cult of Nice - I believe in being generally polite but I do tend to say what I want - and in the main I do prefer honest critique than mindless squee (specially when something doesn't deserve it) but sometime the Cult of Mean is just as bad when people attack for very little reason. When one is heading into dotage-dom, one finds some histrionics to be very fanbratty. I just thought that original fiction land was going to be full of pipe-smoking, tweed wearing intellectuals, discussing Proust and making me feel like an airhead. Instead sometimes I just feel old.

Meh.

Watched Cape Wrath last night (called Meadowlands in the USA, possibly because the schedulers thought that Americans would think it was a sequel to Cape Fear or something.. *headdesk *) and although I wasn't terribly impressed (I didn't bother to switch to digital to catch the second episode a week early, for example) I did give it a go and was at least intrigued that there was a MC death straight away. However, I was expecting - when he died and said "I'm getting out" that someone would have panned to a clock or something because he HAD been told he'd be "getting out" at midnight.

So, I am intrigued, for now, but if it starts doing a "Lost" and never answers any questions I won't be hanging around. Not really seeing the point of it, as yet, there doens't actually seem to be any coherent plot. But - well, I'll hang around for now. What did you lot think?

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[logophilos.livejournal.com]

the Cult of Mean is just as bad when people attack for very little reason

Details?

[rosie-red73.livejournal.com]

BAh. I missed it. I was out at the cinema watching Bruce blow stuff up in Die Hard 4. You know what else I missed? Two very important things this week. The making of OoTP (Ken WATCHED it and 'didn't think' to either tell me it was on or tape it for me! GIT!) AND Jekyll, which I'm extremely pissed off about. Was it good?

[rwday.livejournal.com]

Is there new wank, or is this the one I already know about?

And when are you going to see OotP? I want to talk about it with you!!

[rmanley.livejournal.com]

I just thought that original fiction land was going to be full of pipe-smoking, tweed wearing intellectuals, discussing Proust and making me feel like an airhead. Instead sometimes I just feel old.

I've yet to see my first novel published, but I've already learned early on the beauty of reclusiveness. I prefer to keep a cautious distance from many of my peers.

[rwday.livejournal.com]

I hear that. I find the SF/Fantasy crowd to be much easier going and less prone to wank than romance writers seem to be. At least some romance writers. To be perfectly frank, I think writers involved in Internet wank are probably not the good ones. The good ones are...um...actually writing.