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Look! A header! And all it cost was twenty minutes on photoshop, 5 minutes figuring out the customisation thingy, thanks to a handy-dandy tutorial, and $25US. Yeah, that's right, I finally bit the bullet and bought a paid account. Figured the amount of time I spend on here, I probably should - and besides, I wanted more icon space. And a cool header (go check it out!)

During my morning's perusal of lj and other internet-type places, I found this link. It's an audio interview praising fanficion, but using the dubious example of Lori Jareo to do it.

To Blur Plagiarism's Lines, Look to 'Star Wars'

All Things Considered, April 27, 2006 ·

This week, there are two stories of novels that draw too heavily on the work of other writers. Novelist and book critic Lev Grossman says that Kaavya Viswanathan deserves all the criticism she is getting.

But, Grossman says, Lori Jareo (who wrote an unauthorized Star Wars book) is one of the unsung heroes of the wired, post-modern cultural universe: a fan-fic, or fan fiction, writer.

Lev Grossman is a staff writer for Time magazine. His latest novel is Codex

Ok, I'm glad they like fanfic, it's nice to get some positive press for a change, but you think you could not praise the person who broke just about every unwritten fanfic rule there is? I thought it was an interesting article, mostly because they are praising fanfic writers for their dedication, and I get the feeling that they are just using the Jareo thing as an excuse to talk about fanfic, but still...

Remember a day or so ago, when I was saying I had all this stuff to watch? It just got worse. I went round to

cloverfizz's place yesterday, and came back with the full series of Full Metal Alchemist. So far, I've only seen the first 9 episodes, but it's so cute, even with the random anime style things. I really like the way they actually have Ed reacting to events - not overly emo or anything, but, you know, the first time someone tries to kill him, he holds it together while it's going on, and then bursts into tears when it's over. And the fact that at some points you look at it and go, yeah, a 11/12/15 year-old would so do that. As

cloverfizz pointed out, burning your house so you can't go home is such 12 year old logic. On the other hand, before I handed 'incredible cosmic powers' over to that kid, I'd send him to some anger management classes or something :) And Al is cute - just want to give him a hug, but he may be a bit too spiky for that.

On the other hand, anyone else find the theme song totally random? I've gotten used to it, but the first time, it was just... huh?

So yeah, if I've completely dropped out of sight in RL, it's only because I'm buried in a pile of DVDs. Feel free to come and join me, anytime :)

On other news,

bob_ette just walked out of her bedroom, looking like a cockatoo. Seriously, any rooster would be proud of that comb :P