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Thanks to Gehayi for this one: Wow. Diana Gabaldon’s frothing tirade on fanfic. Goodness. She must have a lot of readers if she doesn’t care about offending many of them. That’s a whole lot of Speshul, right there. That’s me done with her books. I only read them because of Lord John (never bothered with Outlander, don’t like Mary Sues, don’t like rape = love) and poor LJ was never allowed to be happy because he was gay.

An Excellent rebuttal

Wonderful Radio 4 Programme on about Duels “Pistols at Dawn” – it’s hugely amusing that the settling of grievances has “evolved” from sword to pistol to… the civil courts. How banal!

Also this. Why “LITERACHOOR” makes this columnist head for the Penguins. I agree with absolutely everything he says here. I don’t know when “literary fiction” became the by-word for “incomprehensible stream of consciousness” with stupid similies and airy-fairy imagery. Once upon a time there were real literary novels which weren’t just passive and descriptive. Why can’t “genre” be literary?

Porn for the blind. All I can say – Poor Blind.