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Ramblings from the desk of the Script Doctor. RSS for this section. March 8, 2016. Is it worth the outrage? 8211; part three. A couple of years ago I set myself a personal goal to Reduce the Outrage. I modified it and combined it with another last year, and carried it over again this year. I’ve been sick off-and-on. The whole reason I set those goals about reducing outrage is because unproductive outrage is toxic and self-destruction and does no good to anyone. You will know them by their actions. One si...

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Dark Prophecies and Evil Half-brothers – more of why I love sf/f | Font Folly

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Ramblings from the desk of the Script Doctor. August 6, 2015. Dark Prophecies and Evil Half-brothers – more of why I love sf/f. A scan of my own copy of The Wicked Day, by Mary Stewart, purchased back in 1983. (Click to embiggen). Is all about viewpoints. Several important plot points turn on the fact that one or more characters is operating on incomplete or completely mistaken understanding. And the theme is about perspectives…. Each of the books in this series included a section in the back where Stewa...

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Aging Enchanters and Sinister Plots – more of why I love sf/f | Font Folly

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Ramblings from the desk of the Script Doctor. July 30, 2015. Aging Enchanters and Sinister Plots – more of why I love sf/f. I couldn’t find a nice large image of the same cover art as my copy on line, so spent a while trying to scan the gold paperback. The best image I got was this one, even though you can see my hands and iPhone reflected in the cover. (Click to embiggen). Before I get into that, I want to remind you that voting for the Hugo Awards ends. Was published in 1970, it made references to futu...

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Dreaming of better tales | Font Folly

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Ramblings from the desk of the Script Doctor. July 28, 2015. Dreaming of better tales. The Hugo trophies handed out at the 21st World Science Fiction Convention, also known as Discon I, held in Washington, D.C., 1963. First, another reminder that voting for the Hugo Awards ends on Friday. If you are a Sasquan (WorldCon 2015) member and haven’t completed your ballot online, do it now before the servers get bogged down with the rush. The ballot is here. And I have to quote my favorite bit:. The worst thing...

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Finland! Finland! Finland! | Font Folly

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Ramblings from the desk of the Script Doctor. July 27, 2015. The Hugo trophy handed out at the 15th World Science Fiction Convention held in London, England in September of 1957. In his novel,. That’s because, while unifying social justice advocates is like herding cats because they are each outraged in their own way, haters are easy to predict because they are only happy when the people they hate are unhappy. The pre-supporting membership will automatically become a supporting membership for whichever o...

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Invisible no more: rooting out exclusion as a storyteller | Font Folly

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Ramblings from the desk of the Script Doctor. August 5, 2015. Invisible no more: rooting out exclusion as a storyteller. Yesterday I wrote about queer invisibility in movies, television, books. Which can make the whole thing seem overwhelming. My first reaction was denial…. I don’t know if I was aware of the Bechdel Test. It was a few years later, I think after writing a blog post about the Bechdel Test, that I went through a bunch of my stories to see how they did. And I was very embarrassed at how ...

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Invisible? Refusing to see what’s already there… | Font Folly

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Ramblings from the desk of the Script Doctor. August 4, 2015. Refusing to see what’s already there…. I was having a discussion about a movie with some friends on line, and two of us were commenting upon the possible romantic relationships between some of the characters. Because one of the pairs under consideration were two male characters who had not explicitly been portrayed as non-heterosexual, another friend in the conversation commented that he never understood why people do that. If you’re str...

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Ramblings from the desk of the Script Doctor. RSS for this section. August 23, 2016. Characters (and stories) are more than the sum of their parts. I was reading this blog post: Constantine or when the imitators eclipse the original. Once I noticed the phenomenon, I started seeing it everywhere. A story that had first introduced a particular concept or literary technique is hailed as a classic or breakthrough, but a decade of more later when hundreds of stories, movies, television episodes, et al hav...

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Ramblings from the desk of the Script Doctor. RSS for this section. August 24, 2016. Trying to break some verbal habits. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. I don’t remember when I first heard duuuuuude! As a word intended to communicate anything from, Hello, friend! To Don’t panic to I can’t believe you just said/did that! What were you thinking? To mean, You can’t be serious! But it’s not… Read More…. August 8, 2016. Nostalgic Regret and Convenient Amnesia. Most p...

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Getting to know y/o/u/ me | Font Folly

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Ramblings from the desk of the Script Doctor. August 8, 2015. Getting to know y/o/u/ me. I haven’t done a questionnaire or similar post in a while…. Where are you from? The US. Narrowing it down further: ten elementary schools, four states. My father worked in the petroleum industry, so while I was born in northwest Colorado, and we returned to that same small town by the time I entered middle school, we lived in a bunch of small towns in Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah…. Favorite band / musician:.