Happy birthday, lilithlotr...

To lilithlotr:





Wishing you a wonderful year - with your camera always ready, and your enthusiasm always strong!

Happy birthday, chatona...

To chatona:





Have a great birthday and a terrific year.

Characters I would not want to be...

From fannish5: Name 5 characters you would not want to trade lives with.

Generally speaking, I'm more into fantasizing about what characters I would like to be, but here are ones I wouldn't trade lives with:

1. John Constantine. All the demons on earth and in hell have it in for him.
   
2. Captain John Hart, because he loved and lost Captain Jack Harkness.
   
3. Songlian Lau, because she loved and lost Captain Cairo Azarcon.
   
4. Ges Vorrutyer, because he loved and lost Aral Vorkosigan.
   
5. Khiaya Khatun, because she loved and lost Francis Crawford of Lymond.

Oh my word...

This struck me as delightfully funny.

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Lives and Works...

From February 5, 2009: Have you ever been put off an author’s books after reading a biography of them? Or the reverse - a biography has made you love an author more?

A good biography gives me exactly the impression I had of an author in the first place. It fills in background, it illuminates the person's setting, but it doesn't change my impression of them.

Only twice has knowledge of an author's life put me off that author's work, and it wasn't anything biographical that did it, it was reading essays by the author that put me off. The first such case is the homophobia of Orson Scott Card, whose story "The Princess and the Bear" I had liked. The other case is the anti-feminism of Dave Sim, author-artist-creator of Cerebus the Aardvark.