cornerofmadness

but sometimes I'm just slow about it. I told kiramaru7 I'd put this meme in my LJ and well here it is...a week late.

( fanfic meme )


Hey I'm hosting another author on my blog. come meet Nicole Forcine

And origfic_bingo is open for another round. It's a great way to stimulate the muse and it's low pressure

Sometimes the faculty union isn't a safe place to be. We need to learn to treat people better. I do like our new chair's way of handling things (like a stern mom with her errant, idiot children). I wish some of more active people hadn't decided they aren't doing anything this year. Honestly, I could see it because of family obligations but there is the whole 'punishing us' feel to it. Whatever. I have enough problems of my own.

Remember Aunt S2 who lost her twin over Christmas in 2011? Her mom is dying. She was doing fine but the cancer took hold in a major way and in less than three months she should be gone by the end of the week. Needless to say Aunt S2 isn't doing well but partly it's her own fault. She had a spotty work record, jumping for low paying job to another, ignoring better paying more stable ones because it wasn't what she wanted to do and now she has very very little money in her senior years and her mom and her mom's sisters inherited the house from their mother, never bought one or the other out so her aunts plan on selling the house out from under her (which she knew was coming but has done nothing all this time to make other plans). And naturally she's dumping all this on my mom. Sigh.



Apropos of nothing, can I ask you all a question? (besides this one). I was writing something I had started for one publishing house's anthology and it's ballooned well past that. I was still thinking of sending it to them (the whole let's not put all our eggs in one basket, or publishing house) anyhow. However, they do publish some things I'm not comfortable with. On the plus side, I hear they're wonderful to work with and I've enjoyed stories I've bought from them (and a few of you have worked with them). That said, while I have no problems with fanficcers doing incest (I mean I have Dean/Sam, Ed/Al and other shippers on my list), and I've read manga with that idea (looking at you Saiyuki I'm hugely uncomfortable with it.

I've dealt with people who were victims of incest. Granted most of them were non-consensual (and the books they publish with the incest them are consensual). I have listened to the horrible affects incest has had on them and have done since I was really quite young. I will never forget this older study back when I was an undergraduate, somewhere around 87 or 88. Non-trads were rare then so she would have stuck out anyhow but often it was only me and her in the computer room late night. I was there writing a novel on the school's Apple IIe, you know the ones with the REAL floppy disks, the big ones? She was writing, too. However she was writing her memoirs. She was a many times over victim of incest, first her father who then encouraged her brother to pile on. Then came the drugs/alcohol and a husband who believed wives couldn't say no and held her down and made her son rape her. I can't imagine living thru this. She was working at a battered woman's shelter and sometimes I'd go with her. I'll never know why she decided to tell an 18/19 year old girl this, maybe as warning, maybe I looked like someone she could talk to.

I find nothing sexy about incest. I don't really care if fan ficcers take their fiction that way. Apparently I do have an issue with it being published, not for the horror of it, but for the sexy of it. So finally to my question, would you have an issue with a publisher that puts out volumes like this (they are limited run since many places wouldn't carry them)? Or would you rather no associate with it? I'm not going to judge your answer either way. I'm mostly just curious. I think I already know what my own answer would be.

And to switch gears again, I LOVE this tea. mischief tea, Loki blend. Okay I'm not sure gunpowder/tiger eye/ginger = chaos god but it's a sight better than mint and/or marigold petals that others want to include. And can we just agree no hero/villain wants to be rooibos? The tiger eye is sweet with notes of caramel and chocolate. THe gunpowder is smoky and the ginger is a hint of heat on the finish. YUM. (i.e. yes my 2 pounds of tea arrived and a) it wasn't raining on it & b) my neighbors didn't steal the box)


ETA _ I forgot to wish a L'shanah Tova to my Jewish friends! apples and honey all around.

I quite love this song


declutter day 122 item tossed.jean shorts - why kept -worn for years why tossed - too big one me