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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.
erm.
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.
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.
erm.
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 that was the whole point of that response to
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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