itsallovernow | May. 22nd, 2006

~~It's raining. My hip hurts. I feel like a miserable failure at life.~~

Snort. That is all true, but there's something so petulantly self-indulgent about writing it all down and posting that has at least partly shaken me out of my funk.

( Cut for whining-no really )

The whole Tiptree thing really made me miss Anthropology. I wonder if I wouldn't be happier with a media and culture degree than another writing degree. I surely do love the word trope:) Fandom is such a culture - rules, hierarchies, status, and I wonder how "we" would have reacted had the nominated text designed as less of a specific story feeding a specific request or desire, and more of something mainstream, something considered by all to be well written. What if it had been one of the BIG fannish stories? Mostly I'm intrigued because like most small scale societies, we prefer to dictate our own rules, and having someone from the "outside" step in and take a text (in whatever format) and apply an outside set of rules to it is both something worthy of attack and defense. We want to be the ones giving recognition and withholding it, we want to be the ones dictating how we'll be perceived. We enforce the rules and the punishment of appropriation. Gah. As an anthropologist, I LOOOOOVE this sort of stuff.

There was even a little TV. I watched the Season Finale of BSG, and against all plausible odds, I will be back for next season because you know what? ( Sorta spoilers )

I'm reading this odd sort of book called "Treasure Forest" by Cat Bodhri. It's got a premise I love - children with knowledge that their parents lack, insight into something otherworldly (it's the whole Hansel and Gretel thing) and some of it's deftly handled, and some of it isn't, but I'm still reading because I like the idea of the forest as dangerous and embracing. And because I hit a wall with "In the Garden of Iden", partly due to 1st person narrative, and partly due to, "I know I'll care in 20 more pages, but right now, I'm kinda bored." I wish I liked Kage Baker's prose more, because the premise is just so utterly intriguing.

Oh, oh!! Also,