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Sep. 19th, 2008 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmoore1. I have not been home since shortly after waking up. Seriously, I didn't even check e-mail/LJ until I got to work (just finished). I thought about it, and then I realized that the stomping over my head would be ALL DAY LONG and fled.
End result was poking around bookstores, even though I'm not supposed to be visiting them until after the Book Sale O Doom next month. (Anyone read Midori Snyder? I picked up a couple of her books on a whim.)
Now, Mystery Writers of the World: I realize you want to write in historical periods. I highly approve of you writing in historical periods. However, pleasepleaseplease stop using "Such-and-such historical figure/writer/character is my detective"*. Please. I beg you. Because most of thesethat I've read aren't that good.
2. Linked by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
woodburner, if you read YA fiction, you are a pedophile. PST! Don't tell this person that Harry Potter, Twilight and Eragon are YA, much less that the target age group for most licensed manga is 13! (Yesyesyes, they mentioned HP. Still...)
3. I forget where I got this site from, but I swear no manga review site has ever filled me with such rage. At first I thought it was judt that they were endlessly praising series I think are shallow at best, but more often overrated series that cater to the lowest common denominator (still on the kind end), while anything that I thought had any worth was dismissed as bad or boring for not specifically catering to the reviewers preferences. Then I read a few where manga I really liked was being praised, and got even more annoyed. I share this because I spent an hour or two tere, getting more and more annoyed. I think it may now be my anti-manga rec. I also suspect a few here will get many LULZ out of some of their recs.
4. Linked bycoraa, 5 Thoughts on the Popularity of Steampunk. I'm particularly interested in shared-gender geekery and bridging the sub-genre gap. Which makes me wonder: how much further back could the basic idea go? At the core, steampunk is tied around the idea of the industrial revolution going faster and in different ways, but what other "girly" periods could it be applied to? The Elizabethan period comes to mind. It isn't necessarily thought of as a "girly" period, but it is a romantic period in the public mind, as well as a period of swashbuckling and exploration, and you not only have people wanting new and faster and better ways to exoplore, but you also have advances in ways to wage war. And then you go back a little further and have people like Da Vinci inventing things, only have them take off. Random food for thought.
5.the CLAMP friending meme!
*I make 2 exceptions(the only 2 bearable ones I've found): Bruce Alexander's John Fielding mysteries, and Susan Wittig Albert's Beatrix Potter books. Albert's book barely even nod at the nysteries, and Sir John Fielding is the founder of the Bow Street Runners. That makes perfect sense (and even though he's the title character, the main character is his ward.)
End result was poking around bookstores, even though I'm not supposed to be visiting them until after the Book Sale O Doom next month. (Anyone read Midori Snyder? I picked up a couple of her books on a whim.)
Now, Mystery Writers of the World: I realize you want to write in historical periods. I highly approve of you writing in historical periods. However, pleasepleaseplease stop using "Such-and-such historical figure/writer/character is my detective"*. Please. I beg you. Because most of thesethat I've read aren't that good.
2. Linked by
woodburner, if you read YA fiction, you are a pedophile. PST! Don't tell this person that Harry Potter, Twilight and Eragon are YA, much less that the target age group for most licensed manga is 13! (Yesyesyes, they mentioned HP. Still...) 3. I forget where I got this site from, but I swear no manga review site has ever filled me with such rage. At first I thought it was judt that they were endlessly praising series I think are shallow at best, but more often overrated series that cater to the lowest common denominator (still on the kind end), while anything that I thought had any worth was dismissed as bad or boring for not specifically catering to the reviewers preferences. Then I read a few where manga I really liked was being praised, and got even more annoyed. I share this because I spent an hour or two tere, getting more and more annoyed. I think it may now be my anti-manga rec. I also suspect a few here will get many LULZ out of some of their recs.
4. Linked by
coraa, 5 Thoughts on the Popularity of Steampunk. I'm particularly interested in shared-gender geekery and bridging the sub-genre gap. Which makes me wonder: how much further back could the basic idea go? At the core, steampunk is tied around the idea of the industrial revolution going faster and in different ways, but what other "girly" periods could it be applied to? The Elizabethan period comes to mind. It isn't necessarily thought of as a "girly" period, but it is a romantic period in the public mind, as well as a period of swashbuckling and exploration, and you not only have people wanting new and faster and better ways to exoplore, but you also have advances in ways to wage war. And then you go back a little further and have people like Da Vinci inventing things, only have them take off. Random food for thought.5.
*I make 2 exceptions(the only 2 bearable ones I've found): Bruce Alexander's John Fielding mysteries, and Susan Wittig Albert's Beatrix Potter books. Albert's book barely even nod at the nysteries, and Sir John Fielding is the founder of the Bow Street Runners. That makes perfect sense (and even though he's the title character, the main character is his ward.)