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[icarus]

Am completely turned on.

Wilderness Guru is, too.

We have guests.

Damn.

We did manage a few snuggles in the other room.

All right, so he had my pants to my knees.

Damn.

*pant, pant*

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I hesitate to make that call, because you're the writer.

It's a good, original idea. You don't want to throw it away on a PWP. As a reader I really wanted to follow the thread of why he does this to himself... I can see him doing this, but why? I think Remus' instincts are dead on, that there's something complicated and strange happening, and I think it would take time, more time than is shown in the story, to draw that out.

Your starting place is right. Remus is the sort to go from intellectual curiosity to attraction -- but we need that ramp up. The readers need to be drawn in with him. You need to step away from the end of your story that you want, and get into their heads. And let them change the story if they like.

Icarus

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

That has actually made what I ahve to do clearer - I can end with the PWP, start with what I have, and gearit up in the center.... maybe with a long piece of backstory...

And then if it sucks, I can re-write it..

I LOVE YOU *dribbles*

*hugs*

*dances*

*scares you*

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

you want to read this...



(same thing that is on my LJ)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I believe them. They have the right tone, but do not attempt to explain technically just how this is done. I do not think the process would be that far over the heads of most computer-literate people.

There are a lot of conspiracy theorists in the world....

Icarus

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

Problem is - it is this easy to do... extremely easy. Code is so ridiculously long...

And they apparently have demonstrated it over the last few days in NYC...

To the senetors...

Some links:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00081.htm

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64668,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_8

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64668,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_8

Possibly biased - but still - ín the position of a voter I'd take an absentee vote if possible - electronic machines can be fucked if some lunatic comes too close with a magnet... no paper trail scares the shit out of me :)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

But the Diebold tabulation affects all votes, absentee included.

Icarus

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

hardcopy voting is the only way. my opinion.

paper votes + electronic tabulation... and then a recount if problems occur. Plus random statistical samlping of aforesaid paper votes.. now THAT would make sense.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I think this is a hoax.

Most people with a genuine case go out of their way to explain exactly what is wrong and how the wrong-doing works. This comes from a motive of wanting to prevent similar issues from occurring. If anything, they tend to overkill on the facts, at worst making the issue difficult to understand.

Conspiracy theorists evade facts and focus on the guilty parties and the ways they use to "cover it up." This comes from a motive of being against certain people, such as the Republican party or certain corporations.

Sometimes the conspiracy theorists are right. But you can't trust their judgement, because they've made up their mind before they hear all the facts. Also, they are so determined to be right, they are selective about what they believe, twists the facts, and consistently take things out of context.

This website focuses on the efforts made to "cover up" problems with the tabulation systems, rather than the facts. So I don't trust their judgement.

Icarus

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

PPS - I'm threadfollowing here if you want to see the discussion:

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1103985