hanging out with the dream king.
Oct 26th, 2008 by Weasel
The Open Rights Group event last night was fantastic. Neil Gaiman is a very effective and persuasive speaker who makes a very good case. He talked for awhile on Piracy Vs Obscurity and which was the greater danger to writers, the future of publishing, the oppertunities available to new authors via the internet and print to order publishing and the improvements in sales he'd seen after making material available for free online. He then took questions from a varied audience of techies, geeks and counterculturites who created quite a comprehensive discussion - I could see someone transcribing everything from where we were sitting and will endeavour to link to anything posted online so you can all have a read.
He also had some rather amusing positive comments to make on fanfiction and interpretation of original works; including some very amusing ones on slashfiction. His ultimate statement on the topic being 'there is no wrong way to come to something you enjoy' which puts him firmly outside the Robin Hobb camp.
This evening has been quieter, we settled in to watch a cute little movie about a queer volleyball team in Thailand called The Iron Ladies. It was all kinds of silly and left us with smiles on our faces - which is all I ask on an evening like this.
Lovefilm has been sending us some pretty decent queer movies recently - we'd started to despair of finding anything we liked until the cutest lesbian romance flick ever dropped through the door - Saving Face was good enough that I'm actually looking to go out and find myself a copy, which isn't something I do very often. I rather like it when we get to have some nice sappy rom coms which aren't teenage coming out movies, where we get a happy ending and nobody dies horribly kthx. Hopefully they'll keep sending us more :).