Just a brief note that I finally found a title for the song I posted yesterday. 🙂
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Chair of Georgia Filkcon; musician, songwriter, essayist & dilettante-at-large. Almost certainly not what you expect. (they/them)
altoidsaddict has a fascinating essay on fanfiction and RP, and why people engage in it. The conclusions he reaches are interesting, and a lot of food for thought.
Comparing fanfic to original writing is not quite like apples and oranges. It’s more like grapefruit to tangelos. Okay, so fanfic is writing – but it has a different purpose than original writing, and to urge fanficcers to stop wasting their time and write something original ignores that the act of writing is almost incidental. (Yes, yes, you who are about to object, you’re precious, creative stars in the galaxy of craft. Just a sec.) How I communicate to a reader as a writer is drastically different in purpose from how fanficcers communicate with other fandom folk. Yes, they have a lot in common – but the primary purpose is different, the human motivations are different, and that changes everything.
Go read the whole thing. It’s chewy crunchy thoughtfood.
Aural Vixation
by Rob Wynne
TTTO: “The Girl Who’s Never Been” by Michelle Dockrey
This last weekend I had gone to an SF music con
And I sat down at the concert Friday night
Songs of battle filled the room, torch songs followed none too soon
And the classic songs were all a big delight
Having heard all of the rest, the last set would decide the best —
On the stage there stepped a girl with hair of red.
And she sang to us this song; although it wasn’t very long
Since that moment it’s been trapped and it won’t get out of my head!
Save me! Save me!
It’s trapped in my head, you see!
Oh no, I think it’s starting up again!
Save me! Save me!
It won’t leave my memory!
I swear, this is the song that never ends!
Many other songs were played, I’m not quite sure why this one stayed;
Four days later and it’s still on endless play.
Other earworms can’t prevail, even “It’s A Small World” failed,
But it’s stuck in here and it won’t go away
So I went to see the girl who let it loose upon the world
She said “My lord, aren’t you guys sick of it by now?”
I suppose it could be worse, at least this is a pleasant curse
But I would send it out of my head if you’d only tell me how!
Save me! Save me!
It’s trapped in my head, you see
Oh no, I think it’s starting up again
Save me! Save me!
It won’t leave my memory
I swear, this is the song that never ends
Just another west coast filker singing her songs late at night
Sitting with her pers’nal guitarist and notebook held too tight
Just a singer in the circle with a smile bright as the sun
But I don’t know how she does the things she’s done
“Oh, take pity on me please! I’ll even get down on my knees!”
I begged her to relieve my aching brain
She said “Well, now since it’s you, I guess I’ll see what I can do”
And with a wink began to sing again
Well, I sat and listened well as she began to tell the tale
Of the man who makes a family of his crew
And it wasn’t very long until she finished up the song
And now where there’d been just one song, there suddenly were two!
Take love! Take land!
Take the place where I can stand!
But you can’t take the sky away from me!
Take out! To black!
Tell them that I won’t be back
I swear, you cannot take the sky from me!
And she faded, leaving just this parody
So the meme going around town today is complete stories in six words. Fun! (Ganked from *everyone*)
Can’t buy me love. Leasing’s fine.
Just wanted to check in. We got back home from OVFF yesterday at about 5pm Atlanta time. We had a wonderful time. More detail and pictures to follow.
My pants are not entirely bankrupt, but are certainly experiencing a budget crunch, so let me know if there’s something I should see that I may have missed while I was away.
As I do every year, I’m collecting con reports in my memories. I’ve been skipping posts (like this one) that just say “Got home, great time, more later”. If you see any con reports I’ve missed, please point me at those as well.
Back to work…
Meme from smallship1…
If Your Life was a Movie, What Would the Soundtrack Be?
So, here’s how it works:
1. Open your iTunes library
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool…
Been suffering a migraine all weekend. Not how I’d planned to spend two days off. :/
Inspired by a conversation with folkmew over in kitanzi‘s journal
Naked Ambition
by Rob Wynne
TTTO: “Close To You” by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Why do I, every time I dream,
Picture you….and whipped cream?
It’s just like me to want to see
Clothes off you….
I forget what I meant to say
When you wear lingerie;
That is why I long to spy
Clothes off you…
On the day that you were born
You came out wearing nothing
That’s the reason that it’s called a birthday suit…
Please understand, from where I stand
That birthday suit you’re wearing is a beaut!
I admit…I’m not a subtle guy.
It’s not hard to see why
I approve each time you remove
Clothes from you
It’s been far too long since I posted a new entry in the Improbable Gifts catalog, and Christmas is coming up, and I just got this from kitanzi who got it from telynor who got it from folkmew who got it from Agnes….
The Incredible Edible…..underwear knitting project.
Just like grandma used to knit!
Meme taken from many sources, text stolen from kitanzi:
The first five people to respond to this post, will get some form of wearable art/art/food, by me, about them that they like. I make no guarantees about quality or type, but I will assure that I will give it good effort and that the wearable art/art/food will be individual to you, so if you get a mixed CD or some sort of painting doodle, jar or baked good, yours is the only one like it.
The only catch, of course; as with most memes, if you sign up, it is desireable that you put this in your own journal as well.
Also, I make no promises about response time – seriously, I procrastinate as an art form. I’ll try to do them in a timely fashion, but I can’t guarantee inspiration will strike immediately 😉