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Roads had some snowy spots this morning, but the sky was clear and sunny, and everyone in the area was gifted with an enormous sundog. (There are some pictures from Madison here -- http://blogs.1055triplem.com/kdunn/2009/12/10/sundog-over-madison/ -- but my version was prettier, being out in snow-covered pastures and Winchester roads. My version is also, alas, undocumented.) I got home a little while ago and heated up my blizzard special, the tamale casserole. This I can eat without undue effects, but I can't drink coffee without dire consequences. Cruel but true. I don't know how the tamale casserole got to be my blizzard stand-by. I think I first had it when I did a week at a "dudette ranch" in Kansas -- Prairie Women Adventures and Retreat, I think it was called? I was there in April, though, and it was in the 80s and 90s, so that's not where the association comes from. But I found a recipe for it and got a craving to make it right before a big blizzard hit NYC years ago, and since then have considered it crucial to enjoyment of any gigantic snowstorm. I looked at a couple of recipes and threw together my own variation, and it turned out quite nicely. (Browned ground beef, chili seasoning packet, can of fire roasted tomatoes, maybe a pound of frozen corn, chopped chiles and a small can of chopped black olives -- which was more a coarse olive paste than anything else. Mixed cornbread mix with a cup of cheddar, put that all over the top, then baked for 40 minutes at 350 degrees. Sprinkled on another few handfuls of shredded cheddar and gave it 5 more minutes. It is the yum. Most people would want to put onions and or garlic in it, but I didn't have it in the house and onions often give me mega heartburn, so I didn't miss it. It was quite spicy. Oh, there was cumin, too.) Huge pan, so I'm set for a while. Great food for temps below zero. Now, if only the mega hiccups would go away....
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Thank you to everyone who's responded to my last post. I'll try to do personal replies when I'm feeling less fragile, but please know I'm touched by so many people offering their take on the situation. Y'all rock. Frankly, I'm still miserable about the whole thing, and don't know yet how I'm going to be able to stay in a couple of my fandoms in the same way I was -- so much of my involvement and experience relied on the person who deleted me (the original person, that is -- a few others have also deleted me since), and they're so central that I suspect a lot of my other fannish relationships will be harder because of the disconnect. On a pettier note, as I've expressed in the past, I find it hard to read stories by a writer if I know the writer dislikes me. And I really liked this author's writing. I hate that those memories are tarnished now. Mope. ANYWAY. Like the subject line says, I'VE GOT MY HAPPY FACE ON TODAY, LES!! And if you don't know where that's from then I am sorry about your life. Here is a picture of some boys in hats, because I love hats.  (Puck and Kurt: Post-Crisis Jason and Pre-Crisis Jason, y/y?) There's a bunch of new stuff at the store. Gonna play around and make a bunch more on the weekend, I think. Despite everything, making jewelry still makes me happy. Tags: i make things
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I made a post, but took it down, because it wasn't quite what I wanted to say. What I wanted to say is more like this: A long time ago, like in the 1960s, a woman turned on her TV and saw a good-looking rake and a stern looking man with pointy ears and thought, "Spock and Kirk are totally fucking. I should write about it." And thusly fandom was born. Ever since that first day, fandom has been about one objective: writing the story of A and B. It doesn't matter whether A and B are a boy and a boy or a girl and a girl or a boy and a girl. The fact of the matter is that fandom is about telling that one story, we're all just going about it in different ways. And because we're trying to do achieve the same thing in different ways, what sets us apart is execution. An author's style has always been and always will be about their execution. Whether you're writing Supernatural, SGA, Smallville or bandom, it's all the same idea. We're all seeing the same thing, we're just trying to get there in different ways, but sooner or later, we're going to overlap. There are too many of us not to. People are going to try to execute things in the same manner. This is not stealing. This is called writing. And we're all doing it unless we're creating art or lurking or sticking raisins up our nose. Just because I write a story about Dick and Jane fucking and you write a story about Dick and Jane fucking doesn't mean I'm copying you or you're copying me, what it means is that we're trying to achieve the same result. You, me and everyone else. You can't copyright an idea. You can't own the story. It belongs to all of us (or it belongs to none of us). That's what fandom is about, and if you don't realize that then you're not paying attention. And if you don't like my execution, you can leave any time. I won't miss you. Current Mood:  pensive
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