STAR WARS POLL
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crack_van:
Gen: 44 %
Slash: 38 %
Het: 18 %
Upon reviewing PadmeKSkywalker's "Legacy of Strength", noting that there is a tinge of canon pairing with Padmé appearing in the last chapters, yearning mightily and looking long at upstandingJedi!Anakin, my question is this: does this make it het rather than gen? What of the ethereal
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relationship that Anakin shares with Obi-Wan at the very last? Does this make it slash? And so, a poll:[Poll #1837416]
Ticky or comment, please ~
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A plea for those wiser than I: I want a reader. I want to download, say, "Riding The Wheel Of If" on it. Can I do this on a Kindle? I am finally in the market.
crack_van: Gen: 44 %
Slash: 38 %
Het: 18 %
Upon reviewing PadmeKSkywalker's "Legacy of Strength", noting that there is a tinge of canon pairing with Padmé appearing in the last chapters, yearning mightily and looking long at upstandingJedi!Anakin, my question is this: does this make it het rather than gen? What of the ethereal
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
P
A
C
E
relationship that Anakin shares with Obi-Wan at the very last? Does this make it slash? And so, a poll:[Poll #1837416]
Ticky or comment, please ~
IOIOIOIOIO
A plea for those wiser than I: I want a reader. I want to download, say, "Riding The Wheel Of If" on it. Can I do this on a Kindle? I am finally in the market.
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Date: 2012-04-30 11:19 pm (UTC)I've been pondering that question and I still have no answer. In everything I've been writing recently, the line is so blurred it's impossible to distinguish. It depends on the reader's point of view, I guess.
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Date: 2012-05-01 01:41 am (UTC)Now the writing angle sounds intriguing, in that writing itself is self-revelatory and just so darn interesting. And the pressure is off, you know, in that there's no grade or Thesis Committee for one to dance before. Much good luck to you.
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Date: 2012-05-01 12:48 am (UTC)Kindle will read most things, including .pdfs. I've had a good experience with mine.
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Date: 2012-05-01 01:49 am (UTC)barbecuegreat feast last night, Aragorn, the Lady Arwen was there. Aragorn: ... " made my ears perk right up and say 'ka ching!' emo!! But upon considering the saga in total, no, it's gen to me.I'm glad to get the input upon a reader. Lame question alert: "Riding The Wheel Of If" is a monster of a story in the Q/O fandom and I hope to read it in pieces upon my travels. I'm assuming it's HTML, so that's okay, Amazon says? Would I need to convert it *if I learn how* to anything else to make it better reading, such as formatting, or to get rid of the weird question marks or black diamonds that are so darn noticeable?
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Date: 2012-05-02 03:14 am (UTC)I shall put on my thinking cap and ...
Date: 2012-05-02 04:30 am (UTC)IT'S ORDERED!!! I AM DED OF THE KINDLE SQUEEEEEE@@@@...2@@@!!!
annnnd here is the link:
http://hawksong.com/~momskitchen/Wheel_stories/wheelMain.html
Thanks a lot for whatever you may accomplish.
Re: I shall put on my thinking cap and ...
Date: 2012-05-02 04:34 am (UTC)Re: I shall put on my thinking cap and ...
Date: 2012-05-02 05:15 am (UTC)Re: I shall put on my thinking cap and ...
Date: 2012-05-02 05:28 am (UTC)I've got the first eleven chapters ready to go! :)
Wellll ... my squee has shrunk a little bit ...
Date: 2012-05-02 05:44 am (UTC)Re: Wellll ... my squee has shrunk a little bit ...
Date: 2012-05-02 05:50 am (UTC)….and I looked it up! Here is what it says:
Whispernet Delivery Options
You can change document delivery options for your Kindle devices or set the maximum charge for a single personal document sent wirelessly over Whispernet to your Kindle with 3G support. Personal documents exceeding the maximum charge will not incur a fee and will only be available for delivery via Wi-Fi or USB transfer.
So it looks to me as though what you can do (although I've never tried to actually do it) is transfer .pdf and .doc files, if you want to, from your computer via USB (comes with the Kindle anyway), thereby to avoid the charge. If you have the not-3G enabled device, then it shouldn't matter anyway? My most recent charge was $1.95, for delivering a 12mb file over "Whispernet."
If you want to search this thingy for yourself, you go to "manage your kindle" and then click on "personal document settings." It's not scary, I promise! :) Kindles are Da Bomb.
Summer school, here I come ...
Date: 2012-05-02 05:57 am (UTC)Re: Summer school, here I come ...
Date: 2012-05-02 06:10 am (UTC)So anyway. Yeah. The Kindle is a good experience, unless your personal electrical field goes haywire on a regular basis. You operate Graystache, so I'm thinking you're probably safe. I got water all over mine (tramping across campus in the rain: not advisable), and it was totally fine. I carry it in my purse and sleep with it and fall asleep on it and use it in random places and it works great in all lights, temperatures, and weather conditions. Totally cozy. I read fanfics and school assignments and smutty romance novels and Derrida on it. I put a copy of my thesis on it. You can put artwork on it, too, but it will come out black and white - kinda artsy? You can also listen to audiobooks and MP3 files, although I usually don't. I got a case for mine, but Kakkik stores hers in a Ziplock bag. I feel sure this can't be good for the electricity issue. Is it 3rd gen?
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Date: 2012-05-02 05:52 pm (UTC)I've got a little purse to keep it in and it's good to hear about the light being appropriate to read in. Good to hear about art, too. I love audiobooks, but I remember that you do not.
Re: Summer school, here I come ...
Date: 2012-05-02 06:15 pm (UTC)Ahah, the voice of experience.
Date: 2012-05-02 05:50 am (UTC)That was really fast.
Re: Ahah, the voice of experience.
Date: 2012-05-02 06:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-01 12:51 am (UTC)Now, I confess that, personally, I tend to side-eye fics labelled as gen that are not character study, which probably means I'm missing out on a lot of stuff I might like, but... I actually do have a reason that is not "fandom is about the shipping", but is complicated to explain.
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Date: 2012-05-01 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-01 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-01 06:24 pm (UTC)Hi. By no means would anyone think you ...
Date: 2012-09-29 02:59 am (UTC)After flumping around and dithering over whether or not to upload calibre, this came to my attention:
http://www.flagfic.com/
and it seems good. I just sent something to Kindle and shall post a review of its efficacy *when Kindle charges, it's been weeks since I used it*
Toodles, pronker
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Date: 2020-02-09 07:19 pm (UTC)45 minutes to the new season of Clone Wars!!
Date: 2012-09-29 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-01 09:04 am (UTC)However, as it is common practice to alert the readers when there is a same sex pairing in the story -- because a lot of people don't like same-sex pairings -- it takes far less to turn a gen story into a a story needed to be labelled as slash or, at least, as gen-slash.
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Date: 2012-05-01 06:30 pm (UTC)Some consider Anakin/Padmé the romanciest of all SW stories, because they actually married. Not like Han/Leia, who aren't shown pursuing their feelings into anything serious, despite the EU and dealing only with movie canon. I agree, it's not a romance to wish upon anyone.
/goes off to ponder the tipping point of gen to slash, gen to het, mostly in fics/
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Date: 2012-05-01 08:27 pm (UTC)And don't get me started on people who write actual romance scenes for canon relationships and still label it gen because they consider fics with canon relationships to still be gen.
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Date: 2012-05-02 04:39 am (UTC)For me, that's what it comes down to. If the relationship (a romantic one) is the focus of the story, it's het or slash.
If the focus of the story is an adventure, with the relationships (typically canon relationships) just a side-factor, then it's gen. Which makes most STAR WARS novels gen, and "The Courtship of Princess Leia" an exception.
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Date: 2012-05-02 04:44 am (UTC)Basically, genre is a completely different thing from gen/slash/het. Those latter categories aren't even used, generally, in the publishing world. They are mostly fanfic classifications.
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Date: 2012-05-02 11:20 pm (UTC)Pretty much what I was going to say.
Example. Last year, I read a pretty epic fic that for the most part was comedy although it also had its darker moments. It starred several characters, including a same-sex couple but they weren't the focus of the fic and there was at least one character who got more page-time than they did. They could have been written as just friends and the main plot would have been unaffected. Therefore, I would call it gen rather than slash.
Aha, thanks for replying ...
Date: 2012-05-02 05:38 am (UTC)How interesting to think that canon relationships would remove the label 'gen', though, makes me wonder if the whole idea of developing romantic relationships from nothing to something make a story 'het' or 'gen.' Now, as a writer, it may be easier to write 'established relationship' stories, as opposed to making the characters flump around with their feelings before declaring themselves. Or vice versa. That may start another poll.
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Date: 2012-05-01 10:10 pm (UTC)So, a post-ROTJ fic about rebuilding the Republic and the Order is gen, even if Leia kisses Han on her way out the door. But the fic I read where Leia is brought up on Tatooine with Luke is hetfic, because the focus was on how it affects her relationship with Han. If it'd looked at the story generally and focused on, say, the changes in Luke and Leia's relationship with each other, Obi-Wan, Han, and Vader, it'd have been gen. Pairings or no pairings.
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Date: 2012-05-02 04:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 05:21 pm (UTC)(It's a bit lulzy, because I just had a conversation about gen vs slash a few days ago, and there I was the hardliner 'no, that's not gen.' Brain whiplash!)
Thank you for commenting.
Date: 2012-05-02 05:28 am (UTC)I am tilting towards the last ticky now even more.
Re: Thank you for commenting.
Date: 2012-05-02 04:52 pm (UTC)Re: Thank you for commenting.
Date: 2012-05-02 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-05 02:45 am (UTC)I'm old-fashioned. I prefer print. I only read stuff online like fic that I can't get elsewhere. I miss print 'zines.
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Date: 2012-05-05 06:09 pm (UTC)Fic is addicting and I am a happy addict. The kindle arrived this morning!! I need to go to school to use it now.
'Zines were so long ago, like another lifetime. I am a little regretful that I didn't save the drawerful that I had and what a hoot it is to visit agentswithstyleDOTcom and see them there again. Did you know 'Karen Miller' was a fanzine contributor? Now it's a guess that's the same Miller who wrote Star Wars: Clone Wars books, but it's not a huge big surprise if they are one and the same.
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Date: 2012-05-09 06:04 am (UTC)no subject
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