Attn NYC People...

[rusty_halo]

2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai is speaking tonight at The Cooper Union in NYC. This is a free event. If you're in the area, you may want to check it out; it's not every day you get to see a Nobel Prize winner!

More info.

In on-topic news... I'm trying to think of shameful fannish stuff. I'm not really fond of shame as an emotion; if something makes you feel shameful, either stop doing it, or else decide that you really want to do it and don't waste your time feeling ashamed. You know. Life is too short for that kind of pointlessness. [It seems most of you aren't really listing stuff you're ashamed of, though, so much as stuff you think you should be ashamed of but really aren't...]

I dunno. Am I ashamed that I only read Spike fic? No. He's the only character I find interesting enough to read about. That's simple, and logical, and whoever thinks I should be ashamed of it can go %$#@ themselves. >:)

Am I ashamed that I like hurt/comfort, emphasis on the hurt? Nope.

Am I ashamed that I love darkfic, but would rather have a hopeful ending? Nah.

Am I ashamed to have enjoyed non-con on occasion? Nope.

Am I ashamed that I can't stand canon Xander, but read S/X as if fic Xander is a totally different character? Not at all.

I suppose I am ashamed that I haven't updated my website in way too long. Yes, there's that. I'm ashamed at how many stories I haven't read and archived, and how many good writers I've missed.

I'm ashamed that I don't contribute creatively to the community, especially now that I don't even do the archive.

I'm ashamed that, once upon a time way back in the day, I posted half of a badfic on ff.net, and never finished it, and took it down in protest when they disallowed NC-17. I think a couple of people out there saw it, and maybe one or two remember it was me, but hopefully it's been forgotten. I can't even remember what it was about, anymore... an attempt to fix "As You Were," probably. *shudders*

Oh, and yeah, I'm ashamed that I suck at replying to comments, and commenting on people's posts, and keeping in touch generally. And that 99% of the time my feedback consists of something like "Cool!" I'm not that dumb, really, I'm just lazy!

But, yeah, y'know, I don't really have that many fanfic shames. I'm proud of the fact that I'll read anything if it's well-written and contains Spike, that I don't really care about the pairing or rating as long as it's good. (The exception being Spike-needed-a-soul type stories. Ick.)

Comments

[10zlaine.livejournal.com]

Did you just add a mood theme, or am I an unobservant idiot?

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a Neverending Story one.

I need to credit it in my userinfo...