Comments on: howl 2006 http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2006/08/22/howl-2006/ News, features and essays about Birmingham and Alabama Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:19:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Sarah http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2006/08/22/howl-2006/#comment-4396 Sarah Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:23:56 +0000 http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2006/08/22/howl-2006/#comment-4396 That's a great haiku! I love it. That’s a great haiku! I love it.

]]> By: Wade http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2006/08/22/howl-2006/#comment-4395 Wade Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:28:42 +0000 http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2006/08/22/howl-2006/#comment-4395 I secretly love fanfic, and like any other writing, there's good and bad. I also love to tweak geeks, because I'm a geek at heart. And it made for one of my fave haikus. Now if I could come up with a clever fanfic haiku ... <em>Oh Spock, Kirk declared, I grok you with all my heart. Live long and do me.</em> I secretly love fanfic, and like any other writing, there’s good and bad. I also love to tweak geeks, because I’m a geek at heart.

And it made for one of my fave haikus. Now if I could come up with a clever fanfic haiku …

Oh Spock, Kirk declared,
I grok you with all my heart.
Live long and do me.

]]> By: Sarah http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2006/08/22/howl-2006/#comment-4392 Sarah Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:57:13 +0000 http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2006/08/22/howl-2006/#comment-4392 No. I was trying to start a conversation, becuase I'm interested in what you have to say. No. I was trying to start a conversation, becuase I’m interested in what you have to say.

]]> By: Wade http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2006/08/22/howl-2006/#comment-4384 Wade Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:43:25 +0000 http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2006/08/22/howl-2006/#comment-4384 Um, 17 syllables about fanfic isn't really worth getting too worked up about, is it? Um, 17 syllables about fanfic isn’t really worth getting too worked up about, is it?

]]> By: Sarah http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2006/08/22/howl-2006/#comment-4377 Sarah Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:21:10 +0000 http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2006/08/22/howl-2006/#comment-4377 I don't know where to feel chastised and ashamed or defiantly proud. Is this, like its namesake, a lament? If so, I'd like to know against what. Against the idea that writing fanfic is a waste of talent? Or that the stories ficcers produce are inaccessible? That lives are not improved and encouraged by fanfic? That it's at best a morally and legally dubious enterprise likely to lead to poor social hygiene? If you've just come across some bad stories, though, let me know what verse (and/or ship) you want to read and I'll get you some recs. Either way, I'd like to hear more of your opinion. I don’t know where to feel chastised and ashamed or defiantly proud.

Is this, like its namesake, a lament? If so, I’d like to know against what. Against the idea that writing fanfic is a waste of talent? Or that the stories ficcers produce are inaccessible? That lives are not improved and encouraged by fanfic? That it’s at best a morally and legally dubious enterprise likely to lead to poor social hygiene?

If you’ve just come across some bad stories, though, let me know what verse (and/or ship) you want to read and I’ll get you some recs.

Either way, I’d like to hear more of your opinion.

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