Standish - Fiction Alley - Meme

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Heard from the second editor at long last!  She's sending the Standish Mss back with the edits "tomorrow". Gah. Now I'll be all bichon frisey and be staring at my inbox for the next 24 hours.

Also heard back from the Mods at Fiction Alley re my complaint about the plagiarism, CC has taken her fics down (but she was going to do this before the shit hit the fan) and they say the other authors are or are in the process of editing, and revised versions either have been or will be posted in due course.

Which is more than mildly dissapointing, all I can say is that if I owned an archive (and I do, in a way, from hp_literotica) and I had plagiarism pointed out to me, I would remove those fics and the author. However, Fiction Alley is far too big to worry about my ethical concerns, and if they wish to condone it, that's up to them. Yes, yes, I've heard all the arguments in gehayi's thread here, but I'm afraid that's just my opinion.

meme gacked from thistlerose

Name five characters you like who did something wrong:

1. Pip - He shouldn't have snubbed Joe when he came to town to see him.  Dear sweet Joe was horribly hurt - but then Pip did have rather Suey people around him, everyone forgave him in the end.

2. Ratty. In my favourite chapter of Wind in the Willows, Dolce Domum which is worryingly homoerotic and I even thought so when I was a KID) Rat ignores (well, to be honest he didn't hear him) Mole's pleas to stop at his house and Mole ends up in tears. It breaks my heart every time.

3. Linda (oh I so love Linda) in Pursuit of Love/Love in a Cold Climate for allowing herself to get pregnant again. I wept BUCKETS. still do.

4. Smith in 1984 - for trusting ANYONE and for really believing that he was unobserved.

5. Jude in Jude the Obscure. Did the man do anything RIGHT????

Oh and OMG - ST-TOS - Evil Kirk in "The Enemy Within" is on! He tried to rape his yeoman!

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[bawdy-letters.livejournal.com]

2. Ratty. In my favourite chapter of Wind in the Willows, Dolce Domum which is worryingly homoerotic and I even thought so when I was a KID

LMAO YES! IT IS!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Isn't it though? I didn't really understand it, but I remember thinking that they seemed like they were in love or something.

I probably didn't let my kiddie brain dwell on the wrongness.

*G*

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

I must say, I adored the way Mitford wrote Linda after she gave birth the first time - the total indifference, the very bitchy "howling orange with a wig", the "Oh you can't call it Moira - yes I can, it's a total Moira" kind of thing. It reads deliciously shocking, in literature where motherhood is often so romanticised. Oh, and Linda's term for pregnancy: "In pig" is still my favourite ever.

I tend to weep over "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn".

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that's why I loved her so much - I've never been at all into kids, and thankful every day that I didn't have any! I completely agree with you about "in pig". It was terrible to have her want the last child so much *cries again*

Oh yes! I cry at that too!

[maidenform.livejournal.com]

Good luck with Standish! ♥♥

I agree with you. FA should not allow plagiarists on their website. That is some serious shit they're getting into.