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[rm]

Patty's favorite movie blog is raising money for the American Cancer Society and she'd like you to participate.

Due to scheduling complexities that began with the cruise and have lasted for six months, Patty and I are having Christmas 2009 today.

The second part of the comic GDL wrote for Torchwood Magazine is out and making the rounds. It's called "Shrouded" and is ridiculously interesting on more than few levels: including fan-creator dialogue, meta commentary, the death stuff I'm doing (I'll be talking about it in my presentation at Dragon*Con on mourning responses to illustrated narratives), what is canon in a narrative universe where infinite AU's are cannon, etc.

As a comic itself, I don't care that much, but I fully admit to not really having the receptor sites for this sort of thing. As dialogue though, it's AMAZING. I'm very curious to see how it's going to be received. I suspect messily. Anyway, props to all involved.

News-sweep later; swamped now.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

The funeral scene is brief and sort of completely not relevant to the rest of the WTFery of the thing. And what's going on makes sense, it's just... why is this going on, and both from Watsonian and Dolyist perspectives it's sorta of "woah, WHAT?"

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. It was like three panels but I'm incredibly intolerant of grief – especially exploiting romantic grief as catharsis/a Disney ride entertainment. I've lived, and am living, too much of it and it's not romantic and it's not cathartic. I've gotten old enough to realize I don't have to tolerate it and tragedies are not intrinsically better work than victories. (/rant)

I'm sure I'll read it whenever a scan of the entire thing is out – I'm always curious when people are like .. this story doesn't make sense, to see if I can figure it out. I'm just fussy, still. It takes me a long time to get over negative emotions like grief and emotional pain and suffering.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

i just read the whole thing yesterday and... the story itself was a bit too rushed, i think, like it needed more parts in the middle to fully explore everything in there, but the funeral and the "grief" parts are not very central to it... well, not really - i think you should give it a read

there are scans on torch_wood