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[the_rck]

I think I'm giving myself an amnesty on the question of pursuing DW and LJ meta relating to Age of Ultron. I'm simply overwhelmed by the volume of posts (and that's just on my reading lists and links from my reading lists). I've written up nineteen links for AoU so far this week. Most of them are to blogs and similar sites, so I probably ought to get a few more LJ and/or DW posts. I'm just finding myself totally unmotivated.

That's partly because I'm burned out on AoU and partly because LJ and DW posts are a PITA because we always ask permission before linking. That means I have to write up the potential link, stick the write up in a Google doc just for things we don't yet have permission to post, ask for permission and then track the mod in box to see if we get permission. If we do get permission, I cut and paste the link text to the main document. If we don't hear anything, it sits for two weeks, waiting, before we delete the link. If we get a definite no, we delete the link immediately, of course. Most people who want to say no just don't ever answer us. At least, I assume that's why they don't answer.

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[ken-3k.livejournal.com]

Metacoverage: you can always go back to the Hugo Awards / Sad Rabid Puppies trainwreck!!! :-) I really need to tear myself away from that.

A digression re: Ultron, and pop entertainment movies & TV in general. I was looking at a recent cover of "Entertainment Weekly," which still comes to our house even though the publishers keep ripping out the remaining worthwhile features. I was struck by the vintage of all the stuff mentioned on the cover:

Avengers/Ultron -- the property dates back to 1960s comic books
New Star Wars -- property dates back to 1977
Mad Max remake -- property dates back to 1979

Could we have some new creations in our popular entertainment, please?

[the_rck]

I haven't been stumbling on nearly so much new stuff about the Hugos this last week. I haven't been looking, of course, but I feel like some of the furor has died down. I've seen a few references to things the Sad Puppies have been saying, but I haven't cared enough to follow up on that.

I agree. It would really be nice to see some new popular entertainment.

[ken-3k.livejournal.com]

For coverage of Puppygate, you could just point your readers to the daily summaries at http://file770.com. Mike Glyer has been commended by arguers on both sides for being even-handed.

The daily File 770 articles generally have "puppy" references in the titles:
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Puppies"
"The Paw of Oberon"
"A Fistful of Puppies"
"Where No Puppy Has Gone Before"
"So Long and Thanks for All the Puppies"