Fanfic documentary and other stuff
Nov. 27th, 2012 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayFirst order of business, BBC Radio 4 did a short (thirty minute) thing on fanfic and it didn't make me want to stab someone. Go that researcher! Take a listen on the iPlayer if you're interested. And feel free to chastise me in comments if you hated it, everyone feels differently about these things.
After the terrible articles in mainstream newspapers lately (one in the Guardian make me highly stabbity because so much of it was just wrong), it's nice to see a mainstream article that doesn't make us sound like a bunch of depraved lunatics.
It's even got Ika sounding very academic and brilliant! Note to self: book plane tickets for Redemption this week. No kidding around, get those plane tickets bought.
Mum went back to England on Saturday night and I've been reveling in my lovely empty house. It's so awesome! I'd got so used to enduring Mum's need to talk over breakfast that I'd forgotten how beautiful a quiet, no talking breakfast could be. Getting out to work has been so much easier as well without the talking and the necessity of sacrificing valuable eating and coffee drinking time to respond to Mum's questions. Much as I love my mother, I also love it when I get a nice long break from her.
As I'm now entering the frantic writing point in my year due to seasonal fics and Yuletide (I've got one big standalone and two Damage Limitation fics planned in addition to Yuletide, although the standalone is nearly done), not having Mum here is particularly handy. If I want to spend two hours madly typing after supper, I don't need to justify it or get interrupted constantly because she's got stuff she needs to talk to me about. I got so much done yesterday evening it's unreal.
Long may this continue!
At some stage this week I need to sit down and start writing lists of what needs doing when to be ready for Christmas. Mostly it's figuring out timelines for the mince pie production line :-D
After the terrible articles in mainstream newspapers lately (one in the Guardian make me highly stabbity because so much of it was just wrong), it's nice to see a mainstream article that doesn't make us sound like a bunch of depraved lunatics.
It's even got Ika sounding very academic and brilliant! Note to self: book plane tickets for Redemption this week. No kidding around, get those plane tickets bought.
Mum went back to England on Saturday night and I've been reveling in my lovely empty house. It's so awesome! I'd got so used to enduring Mum's need to talk over breakfast that I'd forgotten how beautiful a quiet, no talking breakfast could be. Getting out to work has been so much easier as well without the talking and the necessity of sacrificing valuable eating and coffee drinking time to respond to Mum's questions. Much as I love my mother, I also love it when I get a nice long break from her.
As I'm now entering the frantic writing point in my year due to seasonal fics and Yuletide (I've got one big standalone and two Damage Limitation fics planned in addition to Yuletide, although the standalone is nearly done), not having Mum here is particularly handy. If I want to spend two hours madly typing after supper, I don't need to justify it or get interrupted constantly because she's got stuff she needs to talk to me about. I got so much done yesterday evening it's unreal.
Long may this continue!
At some stage this week I need to sit down and start writing lists of what needs doing when to be ready for Christmas. Mostly it's figuring out timelines for the mince pie production line :-D
