Bits and pieces

[daemonluna]

- There is a small cat asleep beside me, despite my committing the terrible affront of brushing her earlier.

- Latest books: Miss Smithers by Susan Just, sequel to Alice, I Think. Every bit as tonuge-in-cheek cynical as the first book. Fun. Chu-Ju's House by Gloria Whelan. Historical, very young YA, set in communist China. Good, but not as good as Homeless Bird.

- My morning glories have started blooming! The one plant, at least. Great, big purple flowers. It's too bad they don't last longer. Nasturtiums should be blooming in the next day or so, and the asters have buds. I seem to have gotten rid of most of the aphids, but the Thai basil and cilantro are suffering from something indefinite.

- Hoping for a slash panel at Conversion, but they only want to do one fanfic panel, and are probably going to aim for something more general. (Yes, let's have a panel just on fanfic. All of it. Any of it. Makes for incredibly vague conversation and an incredibly dull panel, for the most part. Of course, that could just be residual frustration from Animethon's fanfic panel.)

- Speaking of which, still need to cobble together con report.

- Also, blueberries and cottage cheese mixed together? Yummy!

Comments

I hear you

[svartormr.livejournal.com]

...and I'm listening.

Good point - fanfic is a reeeaaallly big topic, and a more focused panel might work better.

You will have to tell me about Animethon, especially about what worked and what didn't and why. I would really appreciate your input, seeing as I have to select the panels to run from the prospects this weekend, and schedule them into the grid.

daemonluna, I value your opinions, which have helped me correct previous mistakes and already made the con better.

Re: I hear you

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Well, a panel on just fanfic CAN be sucessful if the moderator actually has specific questions. And mostly, I was getting cranky about the lack of slash panel because it was sounding like the alternative was going to be "why write fanfic?" and I am sick to the death of that particular debate. ^_^; But that's just me.

If it were more, what's the future of fanfic than justifying its existence in the first place, I think it would be much less likely to get all confrontational and judgmental. But this is just me thinking (typing?) out loud.

[(Anonymous)]

yes, residual frustration from animethon fanfic panel. then again, after a performance like that, are we surprised? a bunch of people who a) are vague and noncommittal or b) liked to talk on and on about absolutely nothing, plus one very big very loud very unwashed presence who would not shut up.

that aside... well, it could have been good. or not.

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I think the questions were too vague. Like, instead of "what do you think about crossovers?" something like "what's the best way to make two series mix together for a crossover?" Or instead of "what do you think of Mary Sues?", "Why do people write Mary Sues?"

Or maybe I'm just cranky and jaded and have heard all these things debated ad nauseum already. ^_^; This is, of course, without the recurring uninvited panelist problem.

Flower followup

[mockingspike.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'm spelling it right, but one of my delphiniums is now about eight feet tall. I gathered a selection of mountain flowers yesterday but the bright blue ones lost their color quickly. I tried to scan them but several of them were too thick to fit, and then a red line started appearing down the middle of all my scans. I hope that doesn't mean that my scanner is kaput.

There's a piece on MSN called "Sappho's Garden of Love:"

http://msn.match.com/msn/article.aspx?articleid=2466&articleSrc=6&sid=BAD10818-E9A5-4B04-9801-0F7D142F20FA&trackingid=516311&theme=213&lid=165

It gives this tip:

When it’s time to show your true colors and attract the butterfly of your dreams, drape yourself with a garland of lemon balm and lemon verbena, reputed to attract the attentions of fertile prospects. And when that rosy-cheeked maiden comes skipping down the path, a buttercup held under her chin will tell you if she likes girls.

Maybe it's not news to you, but I'd never heard of it before.

Re: Flower followup

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Huh, cool. I did not know that. I believe it about your delphiniums--my mom's are almost up to the roof.