People are strange...

... especially those on the Internet. A few weeks back, I put all my backlog of fanfic on ff.nt, and what do they read and comment on? "The Passage of the Chameleon", a short one-off from a fandom that must be almost extinct by now as it was about a TV series that's mostly forgotten and that I happened to like in the late 90s. Odd, that.

On another note, I have been forced to get up early today and have to carry on as if I was going to go to work, as somebody might call me at some stage during the morning to tell me to actually come to work. That's not what "time off to compensate for overtime" actually means. Something went wrong here, and I need to right it; tedious discussions will ensue when I'd much rather use my energy on other things.-

Celebrity deaths aren't really interesting

Not really, unless one liked their work. When Douglas Adams died, I really grieved - for all the fascinating things he would now never write. I even did my book column on Areion as an obituary for Douglas Adams the next week.

Nevertheless I found it strange to hear today that Michael Kamen had died, as I had seen him present the "When Love Speaks"/RADA gala in London in February 2002. The Nazgul and I had gone to London to see Alan Rickman life on stage in "Private Lives" (no links here, as Alan Rickman is a notorious luddite who hates computers and utterly ignores the Internet, entirely unlike the delightful Sir Ian McKellen for example), and as Alan Rickman was in the "When Love Speaks" gala as well, and we could get tickets for the uppermost tier for only ten British pounds, we went there as well. All sorts of people were there; we were infinitely impressed & very glad we went. And there we saw Michael Kamen on stage as well as he'd organised the event and CD; and now he's dead...

Wow!! Great! I'm now certified as "Morally Deficient"

cob_web had this thing on her LJ, and as it turned out I don't have to come to work today after all and I got up early because I didn't know yet, I spend the morning stirring the meme pool a bit, and doing LJ randomness, and so I tested this: ( Read more... )

Meme pool dredging...

...brought up this site which I had seen before, but not quite realised the reach of: AdultFanfiction.Net, where all things banned from ff.net have found a haven. They do play with fire, though, as they openly archive even VC stories with no apparent fear of the renownedly terrible wrath of She Who Must Not Be Named. From wiebke 's recent post, it seems her teeth are much drawn these last months, but who would doubt that her lawyers are still the good little sharks they're reported to be? Ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, to quote Zaphod Beeblebrox...