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L&M: Writers and Genders and Quizzes, Oh My!
sclerotic_rings on Why You Should Give Up, Quit Pretending Your Writing Matters, And Make Me The Extra-Foam Latte I Paid For An Hour Ago, a rant inspired by 101 Reasons to Stop Writing,
Here's the 102d reason: You have to spend a fortune on self-promotion, and even then you can get shafted. The Romantic Times (the major book review organ for romance writers) holds an annual gala where authors pay to participate as members of the Court. (Think Prom Queen, not small-claims. At least, that's supposed to be the focus.) They're guaranteed a review of one book for the steep entry fee. Laura Baumbach, a prominent writer of male/male romances, double-checked with them that her kind of romance would be OK. They took her money and refused her the review.
Yes, the Romantic Times doesn't review stories about men like Ennis and Jack, RT doesn't want their kind at an event for real men like the Faery Ball. Click the link and look for the Lavender Fairy!
Thanks to erastes for the information.oursin points out another great moment of gender awareness:
Headbanging: Can this man really be hearing what he's saying about the phallicity of 'male logic'? Reade notes that Still instinctively knows how to make an emotional connection with an audience. "Melly brings an amazing childlike clarity and profundity to everything she does. She works entirely by instinct. I don't think she's got a bone of male logic in her body.
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| Big Five Word Test Results |
| Extroversion (32%) moderately low which suggests you are reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive. Accommodation (58%) moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly kind natured, trusting, and helpful at the expense of your own individual development (martyr complex). Orderliness (35%) moderately low which suggests you are, at times, overly flexible, random, improvised, and fun seeking at the expense of structure, reliability, work ethic, and long term accomplishment. Emotional Stability (52%) medium which suggests you are moderately relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic. Inquisitiveness (75%) high which suggests you are very intellectual, curious, imaginative but possibly not very practical. |
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| The Oracle 33% Extroversion, 66% Intuition, 27% Emotiveness, 61% Perceptiveness |
| Heuristic, detached, and analytical to a fault, you are most like The Oracle. You are able to tackle any subject with a fine toothed comb, and you possess an ability to pinpoint nuances and shades of meaning that other people do not have and cannot understand. Accomplishment and realization of ideas are, for you, secondary to the rigorous exploration of ideas and questions -- you are, first and foremost, a theorist. You hate authority, convention, tradition, and under no circumstances do you accept a leadership role (although, you will gladly advise leadership when they're going astray, whether they want you to or not). Abstraction and generalities are your interests, details and particulars are usually inconsequential and uninteresting. You excel at language, mathematics and philosophy. You are typically easy-going and non-confrontational until someone violates one of the very few principles that you deem sacred, at which point you can fly into a rage. Although you possess a much greater understanding of process and systems than the people around you, you are always conscious of the possibility that you've missed something or made a mistake. You don't tend to become attached to particular theories, and will immediately discard mistaken notions once they're revealed to be incorrect (but you don't tolerate iconoclasts who try to discredit validated theories through the use of fallacies and bad data). Despite being outwardly humble, you probably think of yourself as being smarter than most other people. That's because you are. In fact, in your dealings with people your understanding of their motives is so expansive that you know what they're going to say before they say it, and in world affairs, you usually know what is going to take place before it actually does. This ability would make you unbeatable in debates if only you were a little less pensive about your own conclusions, and a little more outgoing. Famous people like you: Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John McWhorter, Ramanujan, Marie Curie, Kurt Godel Stay clear of: Apollo, Icarus, Hermes, Aphrodite Seek out: Atlas, Prometheus, Daedalus |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Greek Mythology Personality Test written by Aleph_Nine on OkCupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
| Controlled Zombie You scored 17 Violence, 20 Holiness, 27 Reasonableness, and 37 Focus! |
| You are the most goal oriented of the zombie survivalists: you believe that all things have a source. And if you can find it: you can get rid of it. The problem with being this kind is... well, if there is no source. Because odds are good that you simply look for the center of all the zombies. And zombie central is NOT a good place to be if you can't stop it. |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The What Zombies Would You Survive Test written by goodorevil1 on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
