Mon, Mar. 23rd, 2009, 09:08 pm
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greenconverses: She speaks (again)!
Tue, Mar. 24th, 2009 03:53 am (UTC)
persona
Actually, I can believe it. Sadly.
Tue, Mar. 24th, 2009 05:10 am (UTC)
keri
PM: What does your name signify -- how did you choose it?
AG003: Obviously, I adore angst greatly. I had made the name long before I'd ever planned to write or post anything at all, and I certainly never expected to be noticed by anyone other than the authors I loyally reviewed. Otherwise, I might have chosen something a little more modest than "Goddess". I get a lot of crap for the name, because it makes me look painfully arrogant and conceited. Really though, at the time I'd created it, it was more related to my ability to seek out good angst fics. I'd considered myself to be a sort of connoisseur of the genre, and "Goddess" doesn't look arrogant when only four people know you exist. Instead, it just looks a little pathetic, which I was okay with. The 003 is something I add to all of my monikers. Three is my lucky number. [bolding mine]
No, honey, the name doesn't make you look conceited - it makes you look like a thirteen year old emo-goth wannabe. I mean, honestly.
This reminds me that I should look up the other suethor and see what she's up to with her self-published
Tue, Mar. 24th, 2009 08:10 am (UTC)
mariem_1
Segolily's post is here.
Tue, Mar. 24th, 2009 01:33 pm (UTC)
reeve
Is she for real?!
All I can say is, it's a good thing cats have nine lives ;)
Oh, she's a cat. Okay, um, I guess that explains it, though I think your average cat would have more sense than here.
Tue, Mar. 24th, 2009 02:12 pm (UTC)
reeve: Whoops, typo!
Wed, Mar. 25th, 2009 07:31 pm (UTC)
evilsqueakers
My cats would like to have a word with her. They would like me to say she's not Michelle Pfieffer, so she's like all the other puny humans.
Wed, Mar. 25th, 2009 07:17 am (UTC)
keri
I hope she gives in and provides the entire thing for free as an ebook, if her goal is just to be published. I figure that's the best form of self-publishing if your story is fanfic with the serial numbers filed off.
Tue, Mar. 24th, 2009 10:57 pm (UTC)
vzg
AG003: I was really just bored, and pestered with the premise that kept playing in my mind.
...What? You did what with the premise?
Then he involved into TroubledPastward constant annoyance and detachment, [...]
I honestly have no idea what she's saying here, so SQUIDWARD.
They were curious to see what was so 'forbidden' that merited the chapters' removal. Maybe some were worried about their own stories and wanted to make a fair comparison of what could and has been pulled, or maybe they just wanted to see the 'evil insani-smut' that had become so nefarious.
Okay, now she just sounds like Chancery Stone.
And I've had at least four messages sent from reformed haters who now admit to actually enjoying the concept of the story, [...]
"Reformed haters" makes me giggle.
Ew, please don't blame Waitress for your fic. D:
Thu, Mar. 26th, 2009 10:56 am (UTC)
disdainful_soul
It's sort of Twifandom's way of writing different attitudes/personalities/variants of Edward. Where others might go angty!Edward, they'd go Angstward. Such variations include Sexward, Darkward, Rageward...
How the heck do I know this stuff? DX
Wed, Mar. 25th, 2009 07:45 am (UTC)
miss_padfoot
AG003: My disappointment in BD is like a friggin... 20k word dissection for me, so I'll attempt to keep my criticism pointed to this: Lack of sacrifice. It was such a large and pivotal theme that Bella being changed involved this epic sacrifice from her.In other words: the biggest problem with Breaking Dawn was that Bella didn't do a good enough job at cutting all of the non-sparkly distractions out of her life for the sake of being with Edward.
It was meant to show her devotion to her choice. She had to give up children, any relationship with her family, her friends and Jacob, and it was all meant to be a sacrifice for eternity with Edward. Instead, she got the whole package which made the central theme surrounding the issue obsolete, and I just didn't agree with it.
Wow.
Thu, Mar. 26th, 2009 03:49 am (UTC)
(Anonymous)
Actually, this is a common complaint with fans of the series because Bella got everything she wanted in the end, even though there was all this build up to her giving up a lot. It felt cheap, I suppose. A lot of J/B fans preferred J/B in part b/c it meant she didn't have to give up any of those things. /srs bzns
20k word dissection
Um...does she mean dissertation? Unless she's going to cut up the 20k words?
20k word dissection
Um...does she mean dissertation? Unless she's going to cut up the 20k words?
Thu, Mar. 26th, 2009 01:39 pm (UTC)
miss_padfoot
I guess it is a good reason to prefer J/B though! Romantic bliss without scary cultish overtones FTW.
Fri, Mar. 27th, 2009 05:23 am (UTC)
feenix
You say that as if that's humanly possible.
I'm half-joking, by the way. It would be anti-feminist, but in a different way, I think - I don't know whether the situation itself would be anti-feminist, though. The problem is, SMeyer would have had to write it as This Is Not An Entirely Good Thing - and we all know her problems with that.
(I think that's generally the problem the books have suffered from. It's not that the situations in themselves are entirely un-okay to write about, it's just that they're all presented as Good Things, and probably one of the things I liked most about Midnight Sun was that Edward acknowledges that at least some of what he was doing were not Good Things.)