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meridian_rose) wrote2013-08-17 02:20 pm
meridian_rose) wrote2013-08-17 02:20 pm
Misc Thoughts and Links
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fixitstory and royaltystory; two big bang challenges held at both LJ and DW. I'm not going to officially sign up to either, but I might keep them in mind as goals of my own.For LotS fans:
Craig Horner, shirtless, playing guitar: http://instagram.com/p/c91FNCOIOc/#
Had no idea that Danielle McCormack (Shota) has a child with Spartacus's Pana Hema Taylor (Nasir). Small world. Mind blown. If Nasir were not a canon gay character I'd want crossover fic of Shota/Nasir.
Which leads to
Spartacus actors in bath photoshoot
http://elprimerodelafila.com.ve/top-10-spartacus/
The article is in Danish (?) but scroll past the text and vid links and you can look at the pictures. Katrina Law et al wet and nearly naked. You're welcome.
On reality, fiction, and metafiction
I've been thinking a lot about how my online life is as real and valuable as my "real" life. My fiction is, for a given value of real, real. Everything is perception:
"Our notion of matter as a solid substance is, like the color green, a quality appearing in consciousness. It is a model of what is "out there", but as with almost every other model, quite unlike what is actually out there."
Is Reality All in the Mind? http://www.peterrussell.com/SCG/ideal.php
Which leads nicely to something I discovered via a fanfic, "The Number of the Beast" by Robert A. Heinlein, and the idea the science fiction book proposed of
World as Myth.
"According to this idea, myths and fictional worlds exist as an almost infinite number of universes which are parallel to our own. In this multiverse, Heinlein's Future History timeline is merely a few of the vast number of constituent universes that comprise the World as Myth. In The Number of the Beast, four characters traveled to multiple fictional universes, including several of Heinlein's own. Others included E.E. Doc Smith's Lensman series, L. Frank Baum's Oz books, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland."
source
Ergo, fictional worlds are real.
Which leads to this cartoon, reminding me I need to write more of my metafiction verse where the characters are very much aware that they are characters in a book being written around them:
(Click through to the Tumblr post)
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"When he was on-game Robert Heinlein was a fantastic storyteller. But too often, especially in his later years, he let his eccentricities get in the way. The Number of the Beast, first published in 1980, is a case in point. Criticising it is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel, so I won’t labour the point. Amongst the novel’s digressions, dummy-spits, inconsistencies and pure irrelevancies, there is a reasonably entertaining science fiction adventure yarn here. In this ebook era it seemed a good idea to have a go at making sense of it all, and do what Heinlein’s editors and publishers seemed too scared to do at the time – edit it. As an extra liberty taken, I’ve also retitled the novel." http://www.epubbud.com/book.php?g=8BT853TM
but it will probably be a while before I get around to reading it!
I didn't watch the vids so I can't comment on the content, just looked at the awesome pics :D Enjoy!
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I like the cartoon. Meta fiction can be a lot of fun.
From the Quotations Page, and somewhat relevant, I think: "Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines." ;)
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LOL, I love that :D I want Zedd to say that in a fic, or someone tell that *to* Zedd to put him in his place!
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Fashionablylate to comment as always:This actually makes me think of something I've been mulling over myself recently, in the wake of yet another rejection letter from an agent. And that's the fact that while mainstream society might define being a successful writer as making money off of writing, selling books and plays and etc, I don't think that's write. Being a successful writer, I'm starting to think, is just telling stories that people enjoy reading and will read more than once. And I think, hey I do that as a fanfiction writer, and just because I don't get paid doesn't mean I'm not successful. And in the end, doing something because you love to do it is probably worth a lot more than doing it because you get paid.
/not sure where I'm going with this. I'm kind of high on Nyquil rn.
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I've read plenty of meta and articles about how it's inherently wrong and damaging to society to see everything in terms of monetary value but that attitude is so ingrained that it can be hard to overcome on a personal level, let alone in wider society!
We shall persevere. Writers Who Identify as Writers Are Writers, or something :D