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i am fond of finding discussions on lj through my site referalls. here's an interesting one about the zine (including my response).

sometimes i kinda wish my peer circle was more diverse so i could get all these diverse opinions on things. but then i guess the people i disagree with wouldn't really be in my peer circle.

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there was an electrical fire in the house this morning, in the roof, that turned out to be in the heating duct. so we have no heating now, until monday when someone can come and look at it.  I'M COLD.

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But if you're going to put it forth as a record of sorts of what Lotrips was/is, and what makes it good, then I'll have to respectfully disagree that that's what you're producing. ... call a spade a spade. It's not a Lotrips representational document, it's a compilation of your favorite authors and your friends.

but that was the whole point of that response to azure819's post. it's *not* a record of what Lotrips (with a capital L) 'was/is'. it's a subjective collection that *does* reflect my taste, of course, but my taste wasn't the sole measure of what i included. and why the hell would i want to produce a volume for people of things i like when i could just start a goddamn recs page? because i'd been around this (rather huge) corner of fandom long enough to know that my tastes were shared with a whole bunch of people, and hey, i really like the idea of a zine, wouldn't it be cool if i could make one? like i said in that comment, i chose to invite those acclaimed authors, not just 'my favourite authors and friends'. a bunch of the authors who i invited and who are contributing i normally wouldn't even read, who i don't even know personally, but i know they are acclaimed and celebrated and often recced in fandom at the time i started putting it together.

the concept of putting together a 'Lotrips representational document' is utterly mind-boggling. i'm not pretending that there aren't areas of fandom that i've never even heard of, and i'm definitely not suggesting that my taste in fic is exactly the same as everyone else's - or worse, that mine's the only 'good' taste, and anyone else who likes anything else has no taste. nonetheless, i knew the audience i was aiming for with the zine, and i felt i knew their tastes. that was another reason i didn't open the submissions up to the general public - i knew then that there were people i would have to turn down, and i hated the idea of doing that, because i know that the people submitting would be submitting because they thought their stories were 'zine-worthy' (and i'm aware that sounds pretentious, but let me continue), and there would be a bunch of people who thought those authors were also 'zine-worthy', but they just wouldn't be the kind of authors or stories i was looking for, and they wouldn't appeal to the audience i am trying to appeal to. to create a 'Lotrips representational document' about which no one would complain that the editor was being pretentious would mean publishing every single lotrips story ever posted anywhere. and that in itself would be incredibly problematic.

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