Jim's stand on fic?

[Shecky]

And though i know exactly what Harry means by that, every time I read it I still think of Calvinists first and neutrality later.

*snort* And I can't help but thinking he's either a fan of the "watchmaker God" belief system or that his theology is full of holes.

[Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon)]

And though i know exactly what Harry means by that, every time I read it I still think of Calvinists first and neutrality later.

There's a kind of mild blurring there between the Catholic tendency to refer to all non-Christians/Jews as pagans, and the way some Wiccans claim "Pagan" as basically meaning Wicca, which I find a bot bothersome because it's disrespectful to Classical pagans, Asatru, and other flavours of contemporary self-identified pagan.

:: Snerks:: Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks that, re: Calvinists

And yeah, I get aggravated with that too, though I want to think the term used was Pagan with a capital P, which generally is applied to modern followers of earth-based religion(s).

[Infamous as Elle!]

<------tree huggin' dirt worshipper.  Oh and Bacchus.  Wine is god.  Go drink.

[Kali]

<------tree huggin' dirt worshipper.  Oh and Bacchus.  Wine is god.  Go drink.

I'm at work, where our only patient, Lucky the Cat, is currently getting quietly drunk thanks to 4mLs per hour of a Vodka solution.  See, he drank antifreeze.  The easiest, most cost-effective, and just plain effective, solution is to give the body something it would rather digest than ethylene glycol (antifreeze).  So you give it ethyl alcohol.  The body parties it up with the ethyl alcohol, and meanwhile the kidneys slowly start to process out the ethylene glycol which is just hanging around like a wallflower, waiting for somebody to notice it but everybody's hanging out with the liquor.

True story.

[Mickey Finn]

My cat's name is Sachi...which is Japanese for Lucky...because as a kitten, before we got her, she should have died several times ( a week old with pneumonia, stuff like that)

"After all, not even a writer of Jim's talent can keep a Mary Sue from being regurgitatingly awful..."
Do NOT taunt the writer. He's currently finishing a series that started on an argument that said a good writer couldn't do anything with pokemon and a lost roman legion.


I'd rather see the science fiction series he wants to do, than him get the idea for a Mary Sue series.

[Heretic]

I'd rather see the science fiction series he wants to do, than him get the idea for a Mary Sue series.

Are the two ideas mutually exclusive?

[Uilos]

Are the two ideas mutually exclusive?

For the love of God, I hope so.

[Tribblechomper]

"After all, not even a writer of Jim's talent can keep a Mary Sue from being regurgitatingly awful..."
Do NOT taunt the writer. He's currently finishing a series that started on an argument that said a good writer couldn't do anything with pokemon and a lost roman legion.


I'd rather see the science fiction series he wants to do, than him get the idea for a Mary Sue series.

Has this Pokemon thing been published, and if so, where?

[Guardian 452]

Has this Pokemon thing been published, and if so, where?

You may have heard of it...it's called "Codex Alera"...

[Tribblechomper]

You may have heard of it...it's called "Codex Alera"...

Was trying to figure the Pokemon angle...I guess I was thinking too literally

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

Are the two ideas mutually exclusive?

I have heard people argue that Harry Dresden is a Mary Sue. 

This only works if Jim is really masochistic.

[Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon)]

I have heard people argue that Harry Dresden is a Mary Sue. 

This only works if Jim is really masochistic.

No, Gary Stu doesn't nearly get his hand burned off, and if he does, it regenerates within a few chapters. Molly initially set off my Sue-dar, until Harry threw the pitcher of water over her at the end of Proven Guilty. Mary Sue would have been knocking boots with him at the end of that book.

[Infamous as Elle!]

No Mary Sue!  At the sake of ruining Harry's sex life.  *grin*

Although I seriously cheated.  I kinda browsed Small Favor.  Kinda weird....

"Hey I uh, shot your body in the back of the head but would you like to talk over chinese?"

[DragonFire]

I have heard people argue that Harry Dresden is a Mary Sue. 

Nah, Mary Sue's don't get injured. Or embarrassed.
They dont' get crippling injuries or, you know, fight vampires in yellow ducky boxers.

[Infamous as Elle!]

Nah, Mary Sue's don't get injured. Or embarrassed.
They dont' get crippling injuries or, you know, fight vampires in yellow ducky boxers.

Also don't Mary Sue's get laid....a lot?

I mean, you have to have some sort of sick, masochistic tendencies to purposely make your Mary Sue go without.....