Snow again...

[fajrdrako]

After a mild, rainy week, we woke up this morning to freezing rain. In the time it took me to come to work, it went from freezing rain to hail to rather nice fluffy snow.

Not, you understand, that we need any more snow.

We've got it anyway.

Winter in Ottawa is an ongoing adventure.

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I like Google documents and I use it all the time - mostly because I can access it from work, home, and other people's computers. But it also makes me uneasy because it's someone else's turf, and they say somewhere that Google claims rights to all the material there. Now, this is a moot point, since I'm not using my own characters anyway, but it makes me uneasy on principle.

I'm delighted to hear you say you hated her in the episodes, because I heard a lot of fans saying how much they loved her, and I didn't like her at all. I thought I was the only one. I did like her relationship with the Doctor, though. (With the Doctor, at the end. Not with John Smith.)

The thing is, Joan was so conventional, so lacking in all the things I love in Martha or Rose - including a sense of adventure - that I found her hard to sympathise with. She was so happy with a mundane life she didn't see other possibilities. And she was so... she loved John Smith, but I thought she patronized him, and she didn't want to see the larger personality that was the Doctor, because in getting to know him, she would have to change and grow, and she didn't want to do that.

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

I think that if I was planning or aspiring to publish any of my work, that would make me very uneasy too. But even the poetry, it's just for my own need that I write.
I think any, any electronic carrier is potentially vulnerable that way. Including e-mails... and, of course, LiveJournal. Even private entries. *shrugs* I've got to trust people someway, I guess?

Heh, yes, I didn't much like Joan at all. And, even though I hated how she purposefully hurt the Doctor, and she knew she was going to, that actually was also made of win, because not all humans can fall before his... overwhelming personality.
But seriously, if there is one character about which I get your point of 'not liking a character because I see too much of me in them, the wrong things'? It's Joan. I absolutely cannot put my finger on why I feel that way either...

But you also have a point, she's taking a passively dominating position with John Smith, and it's... unfair. (On the other hand, he's 3 months old. He's practically a child. ... from her PoV, that makes sense. Alas.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

But even the poetry, it's just for my own need that I write.

Yes. And truly, I don't believe Google would steal my creative work, or if they did (assuming I was the next J.K. Rowling) international copyright law is on my side. So why does it bother me? Dunno.

any electronic carrier is potentially vulnerable that way. Including e-mails

So true! Yes, better just to trust. And I do. And no problems so far. But we do see odd plagiarism crop up in LJ... I can't think why people would do that.

though I hated how she purposefully hurt the Doctor, and she knew she was going to, that actually was also made of win, because not all humans can fall before his... overwhelming personality.

Yes. And she had reason to resent the Doctor for taking "John Smith" away from her, even though he had every right to do so. I liked her role in the story - just not her personality, as a person. I heard a lot of fans say she was a woman of her time, but I think that's to imply that women of her time were not as clever or adaptable or whatever as we are now - that they were narrow-minded and limited - and that's condescending. As well as not being true.

But that was a great two-part story!

she's taking a passively dominating position with John Smith, and it's... unfair.

I think so. I really didn't like the way he treated her, and the way he acted with her. I didn't think she was good for him, but she was kind to him, so that's something.