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Site Suggestions & Support / Re: Officially ticked off
« on: February 29, 2012, 02:37:04 AM »At the rate you're going, you'll be ahead of Shecky before Christmas
Nobody's yappier than I am. I'm not proud of it per se; it's just a fact.
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Nobody's yappier than I am. I'm not proud of it per se; it's just a fact.
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Author Craft / Re: North and South
« on: February 18, 2012, 12:42:58 PM »
Mmm, hot desserts. Hot fudge sundae? *ducks* 
Seriously, you've touched on one unspoken assumption that's ALL through F/SF: the location of the story in the northern hemisphere of the world. Put one in the southern hemisphere and there's your story location.
Seriously, you've touched on one unspoken assumption that's ALL through F/SF: the location of the story in the northern hemisphere of the world. Put one in the southern hemisphere and there's your story location.
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Site Suggestions & Support / Re: Officially ticked off
« on: February 18, 2012, 05:43:59 AM »Thanks for the replys. In the past no one mentioned having to have 100 posts, that should be in posted somewhere in the setup, ya think?
Nope. It forces interaction.
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Display Case / Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« on: February 14, 2012, 03:41:04 PM »I've only got two actors that I can even remotely see for Michael in my head - Tom Selleck (iffy) and Liam Neeson (definitely). I can't think of any other actors who are the right age/height/physicality and have the gravitas to pull it off.
Paul Gross. He may be a little beyond the age now, but he's definitely got the look and character projection.
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Site Suggestions & Support / Re: Unauthorized ebook downloads
« on: February 10, 2012, 07:37:50 PM »That would be what's causing that softness your feeling.
I don't eat the things. My wife does. Now say that to her. But give me a ten-minute warning; I want to be sure to be out of the blast radius.
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Site Suggestions & Support / Re: Unauthorized ebook downloads
« on: February 10, 2012, 07:34:39 PM »
Priscellie fixed it. I must be getting soft. *looks for Iron Rod of Discipline* *finds frozen Snickers bar instead*
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Site Suggestions & Support / Re: Unauthorized ebook downloads
« on: February 10, 2012, 07:04:47 PM »
No, I meant "here in this thread". And I COMMENTED on it without advising WH to remove the link itself or giving the same suggestion that Priscellie made. That's what I meant.
Getting slack in my old(er) age.
Getting slack in my old(er) age.
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Site Suggestions & Support / Re: Unauthorized ebook downloads
« on: February 10, 2012, 06:52:02 PM »
... and the fact that such a link as that was sitting out in the open went right past me. *facepalm*
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Site Suggestions & Support / Re: Unauthorized ebook downloads
« on: February 10, 2012, 06:11:51 PM »
Passing this on to Penguin. Thanks for your vigilance!
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Author Craft / Re: Disabled main carictors?
« on: February 08, 2012, 02:41:56 AM »
^ What Meg said.
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Author Craft / Re: Disabled main carictors?
« on: February 07, 2012, 11:00:25 PM »I don't think the issue is with privileging certain viewpoints (proud vs wanting to change) over others. That's just diversity of opinion. It's more of an issue when there's a long pattern of people (particularly people who don't have disabilities) writing about how curing disabilities makes disabled characters normal/happier/better etc.
It's not an argument that can be applied to individual works (like, say, Vorkosigan) because all things can, theoretically, be justified in the text. It's more about the broader context and implications of what you're writing, which can be something you ignore, but is still not something you can avoid, if you see what I'm saying.
I do, but I fear that the larger picture gets obscured when one character has to represent an entire subpopulation. Unless the story is designed to be in the about-society's-problems vein, I think it's asking far too much of an author to take up the opinions and wishes of everyone whose situation bears some resemblance to that of the character. Let's let the character be the character, not an entire group.
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Author Craft / Re: Disabled main carictors?
« on: February 07, 2012, 06:01:29 PM »
I've often wondered about that. If I understand correctly, differently-abled people are often lambasted for seeking to eliminate that difference. If this is the case, are we to privilege the differently-abled-and-proud-to-stay-that way viewpoint over the differently-abled-and-desirous-of-changing viewpoint? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole point of correctness, of equality, is to accept and see the good in all viewpoints.
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Author Craft / Re: Disabled main carictors?
« on: February 07, 2012, 11:40:19 AM »Back on topic, one popular character with disabilities is Miles Vorkosigan. Pre-natal poisoning left him with long bones that had the consistancy of chalk. (Kind of like Mr. Glass in the Bruce Willis flick "Unbreakable.") He's hunchbacked, and breaks very, very easilly. He's also clinically bi-polar as hell.
Good point. Miles is LOADED with weaknesses. He more than compensates for them, though, which is a great story in and of itself.
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Author Craft / Re: Disabled main carictors?
« on: February 05, 2012, 12:38:46 PM »
That's actually a very good question. While there have been (in books and on the screen) a lot of characters with disabilities (often developing abilities that counter their disabilities), I can't recall many MAIN characters with disabilities. Professor X is a given example of the first (and probably the closest to being a main character of all the examples I have in mind), and Destiny of the X-Men universe also comes to mind: a blind woman whose mental vision more than makes up for her blindness, yet she's still a side character. So it would probably be an interesting read to see a main who is disabled and does NOT have a compensating power/ability.
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DF Books / Re: Did you discover the books because of the TV Show?
« on: February 04, 2012, 01:19:16 AM »Indeed! It tripled Jim's readership!
Brought my wife and me into the fold. I'm sure you'll all forgive Jim for that.