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Apr. 27th, 2014 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWe went to the library as soon as Scott's session with the second graders ended. Scott dropped me and Cordelia off at the library then went for bubble tea. Cordelia and I took care of checking out my holds relatively rapidly. Then Cordelia checked to see if there was a copy of The House of Hades on the shelf. She owns the book but has loaned it to a friend and now wants to reread it.
I got a couple of books on making rubber band jewelry with one of those peg looms (Cordelia has a Rainbow loom. There are several other kinds). One of the books proved to have nothing that Cordelia hadn't seen before, so we returned it. The other book has a lot of stuff that's new to her, but some of it calls for having multiple looms hooked together. Rainbow looms aren't set up to do that (and they're $18 each), so I don't think she'll be able to try those items.
Last night, for the first time ever, Cordelia said she might be interested in fanfic. She asked if there were stories based on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and Heroes of Olympus series. I told her there were. She then seemed to think about it and said that she doesn't want to look at fic until after The Blood of Olympus comes out in October. I wonder if she'll still be interested then. I mean, she really loves those books, the Heroes of Olympus more than the Percy Jackson stuff. I could see her turning to fic because she doesn't want the series to be over.
The other day, I talked with another mother about fanfic. She had asked what I write, and I told her in very general terms. Mostly, people aren't particularly interested beyond wanting a brief explanation of what fanfic is. This mother, however, thought her daughter (who is nine or ten) might be interested in Doctor Who fanfic. I warned her about the likelihood of encountering explicit and/or violent material. She seemed to feel that sexually explicit material was simply one of the risks of the internet, something that could be worked around. I sent her an e-mail with three links (AO3, fanfiction.net and A Teaspoon and an Open Mind) to places where she could find Doctor Who fic. I warned her that a lot of fic is simply bad and mentioned the existence of slash. At the ratings I suggested, she's unlikely to run into anything more than a kiss and a fade to black. (If that. Do people still rate higher for same sex kissing than for opposite sex kissing? They used to when I first started reading fic about fifteen years ago.)
I fiddled around with my iPod for the first time in months last night. It needed charging, and the software needed updating. Unfortunately, every time I plug it in to my laptop to charge, it loses my place in the book I'm working on. That seems to me to be a major software problem. Cordelia's been urging me to start walking on the treadmill again so that I can make some progress in my current book. She's appalled that I've only just started The Son of Neptune (book two of the Heroes of Olympus. Book five comes out in October) and haven't made any progress on it in months. She doesn't see how someone could bear to simply stop in the middle like that.
I got a couple of books on making rubber band jewelry with one of those peg looms (Cordelia has a Rainbow loom. There are several other kinds). One of the books proved to have nothing that Cordelia hadn't seen before, so we returned it. The other book has a lot of stuff that's new to her, but some of it calls for having multiple looms hooked together. Rainbow looms aren't set up to do that (and they're $18 each), so I don't think she'll be able to try those items.
Last night, for the first time ever, Cordelia said she might be interested in fanfic. She asked if there were stories based on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and Heroes of Olympus series. I told her there were. She then seemed to think about it and said that she doesn't want to look at fic until after The Blood of Olympus comes out in October. I wonder if she'll still be interested then. I mean, she really loves those books, the Heroes of Olympus more than the Percy Jackson stuff. I could see her turning to fic because she doesn't want the series to be over.
The other day, I talked with another mother about fanfic. She had asked what I write, and I told her in very general terms. Mostly, people aren't particularly interested beyond wanting a brief explanation of what fanfic is. This mother, however, thought her daughter (who is nine or ten) might be interested in Doctor Who fanfic. I warned her about the likelihood of encountering explicit and/or violent material. She seemed to feel that sexually explicit material was simply one of the risks of the internet, something that could be worked around. I sent her an e-mail with three links (AO3, fanfiction.net and A Teaspoon and an Open Mind) to places where she could find Doctor Who fic. I warned her that a lot of fic is simply bad and mentioned the existence of slash. At the ratings I suggested, she's unlikely to run into anything more than a kiss and a fade to black. (If that. Do people still rate higher for same sex kissing than for opposite sex kissing? They used to when I first started reading fic about fifteen years ago.)
I fiddled around with my iPod for the first time in months last night. It needed charging, and the software needed updating. Unfortunately, every time I plug it in to my laptop to charge, it loses my place in the book I'm working on. That seems to me to be a major software problem. Cordelia's been urging me to start walking on the treadmill again so that I can make some progress in my current book. She's appalled that I've only just started The Son of Neptune (book two of the Heroes of Olympus. Book five comes out in October) and haven't made any progress on it in months. She doesn't see how someone could bear to simply stop in the middle like that.
