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Aug. 14th, 2003 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaylarudbekIt is hot here. I got three more rejection letters today. So not quite as many thank-you notes to write.
Frustrated self-punishing mood after that, which I am still getting myself out of...
I have checked out from the library and in my hot greedy little hands: Spider Robinson's Callahan's Con, Steven Brust's Lord of Castle Black, and Alice Borchardt's The Raven Warrior. Still waiting for Terry Goodkind's Naked Empire. And the library hasn't ordered the newest Bujold, Paladin of Souls, yet. Sigh. Callahan's Con has both the typical Callahan's in it, and a more serious note as well. I have started the Brust, but have not finished it yet.
I have challenged![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
acadine to write me a HP/Dragaera crossover drabble. I should probably write one of my own, but cannot decide exactly how to do it. Vlad Taltos as the Defense professor at Hogwarts would be seriously interesting, or Snape meeting Sethra Lavode...Then I can post it up at FA and ff.net and introduce more people to Dragaera, which would be a Good Thing. Other fun crossovers could be HP/Gramarye, or HP/Merovence...
Stuck on where exactly to go next with Vector's Challenge. I know where I need to go, but I need to check what the signposts (a.k.a. the Sunday readings) were/would be. This is so that Snape can quote them on Dec. 24th...hopefully the Prodigal Son would be one of them, but I am not overly optimistic on that point.
Edited to add: I need to go emailcorporatevandal and explain to him how this LJ thing works. He has not posted anything yet...
Frustrated self-punishing mood after that, which I am still getting myself out of...
I have checked out from the library and in my hot greedy little hands: Spider Robinson's Callahan's Con, Steven Brust's Lord of Castle Black, and Alice Borchardt's The Raven Warrior. Still waiting for Terry Goodkind's Naked Empire. And the library hasn't ordered the newest Bujold, Paladin of Souls, yet. Sigh. Callahan's Con has both the typical Callahan's in it, and a more serious note as well. I have started the Brust, but have not finished it yet.
I have challenged
acadine to write me a HP/Dragaera crossover drabble. I should probably write one of my own, but cannot decide exactly how to do it. Vlad Taltos as the Defense professor at Hogwarts would be seriously interesting, or Snape meeting Sethra Lavode...Then I can post it up at FA and ff.net and introduce more people to Dragaera, which would be a Good Thing. Other fun crossovers could be HP/Gramarye, or HP/Merovence... Stuck on where exactly to go next with Vector's Challenge. I know where I need to go, but I need to check what the signposts (a.k.a. the Sunday readings) were/would be. This is so that Snape can quote them on Dec. 24th...hopefully the Prodigal Son would be one of them, but I am not overly optimistic on that point.
Edited to add: I need to go email
corporatevandal and explain to him how this LJ thing works. He has not posted anything yet...
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Date: 2003-08-14 05:11 pm (UTC)READ LORD OF CASTLE BLACK. OMG. IT SHOULD BE CALLED "MORROLAN: EXTREMELY BISEXUAL".
/fangirl
Ahem. Your drabble is up, m'dear.
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Date: 2003-08-14 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-15 03:07 pm (UTC)Magnus the Defense teacher would be pretty cool, actually, although I haven't read those books in a while . . . got mostly turned off of Stasheff when he repeated word-for-word, with name substitutions, the Grendel summoning in two of the Wizard in Rhyme books, which just highlighted how formulaic that series was.
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Date: 2003-08-15 03:21 pm (UTC)Oh, I agree Stasheff needs a new editor for Wizard in Rhyme series. The premise is good, but he has continuity errors, etc. He's writing them for the rent money, sigh. Although the series I want him to work on more is Company of Stars. It's obvious that Charlie Barman = Professor Charles T. Publican (of Escape Velocity), but I want to know how Charlie and the rest of the company of actors escapes the LORDS party...
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Date: 2003-08-14 05:12 pm (UTC)I'm not familiar with Dragaera. The Gramarye or Merovence suggestions, on the other hand, made me perk up in a very bemused fashion... Hm, how about Derkholm? ;)
Trying to cross over HP/Young Wizards, on the other hand, is probably asking for trouble. Or at least rampant vocabulary confusion between the two varieties of wizard. Then again, that could be funny....
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Date: 2003-08-14 06:23 pm (UTC)HP/Gramarye would probably work rather well, as both universes seem to treat magic as an innate thing, without calling on good or evil powers. HP/Merovence would be a little more problematic, but I think it could still work. HP/Young Wizards could be really funny, I agree...Hmm, for Gramarye, Magnus D'Armand as the next Defense teacher, brought back to 1990s Earth by Doc MacAran's time machine...
Hush, bunnies, hush. I have job-hunting to do, so you will all have to go sit in your Prop Box. Please behave yourselves while you are there...
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Date: 2003-08-14 06:57 pm (UTC)*giggles!* Hey, he might even last more than a year -- well, okay, so he'd probably go to do something else afterward. ;)
Let's see... I think where the systems of magic are particularly incompatible (inborn power vs. area of study vs. good, evil, and/or neutral/ambiguous/trickster/whatever powers bestowing it vs. various combinations of the above) the trick is probably to count it as, well, completely different but coexisting things. *g*
Actually, for Young Wizards, Kit has a line -- either in The Wizard's Dilemma or in the excerpts for the upcoming book -- about how magic is when you do things and stuff happens that doesn't make sense and without a price, and wizardry is the exact opposite, even though the kids have mixed the terms occasionally before -- that'd probably be sort of applicable.
Now that'd be an interesting question. In an HP/YW crossover, would there be any overlap?
And my mind has been trying to connect Young Wizards and Madeleine L'Engle's stuff for weeks now. Rereading bits of L'Engle doesn't help! Proginoskes and the Ecthroi.... Mindsets would be reasonably compatible, I think; there are some mechanical issues though.
Um, anyway.
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Date: 2003-08-14 07:02 pm (UTC)Bunnies, what did I tell you? Go. Back. To. Your. Box. Now. Please.
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Date: 2003-08-14 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-08-14 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-14 06:32 pm (UTC)However, I really think that I don't have the temperament to be at a big law firm. I'm an analytical problem-solver, and I really should be a back-room boffin. I think my favorite law job would be as a professor, then a tie between corporate counsel, government, or small IP firm. I want to be the patent attorney who disappears into the back room and who is never heard from again...Sigh. Off to the job hunt once again...
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Date: 2003-08-14 06:49 pm (UTC)Corporate counsel is my ideal job. Alas, they don't look at you until you have minimum 5 years experience, so I'm trying to get a law firm position for a couple years at least. Not going so well.
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Date: 2003-08-14 07:24 pm (UTC)I think that law professor would be my ideal job myself. Wear flat shoes and business casual, terrorize the first-years in civil procedure, come up with a new and better way to teach than the Socratic method, etc. But in order to do that, I'd have to get a judical clerkship after law school, and then apply...
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Date: 2003-08-14 07:56 pm (UTC)