Comments on LJ events you're already bored with

[resonant]

1. Love memes (like the one going on at queenofthorns right now) are much easier these days now that LJ introduced its little thumbtack icon! You can track the entire discussion (to see if anyone you know comments asking for love), or you can track your anonymous comment (so you can see if the person replies to it). It's very cool.

2. Some of the discussion on helenish's Take Clothes Off As Directed seems to be implying that it's a brand-new (and unfair) thing to comment on/criticize a piece of literature by writing another piece of literature in response to it.

But this sort of conversation between two literary works is at least as old as when Christopher Marlowe wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ("Come live with me and be my love/And we will all the pleasures prove") and Sir Walter Raleigh replied with The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd ("If all the world and love were young/And truth on every shepherd's tongue ...").

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[amireal.livejournal.com]

1. I had that very thought! Because before replying to the anon comment seemed almost an unsure thing, now I'm still waffling between replying and doing a mass thank you, because surely other people have figured out the whole tracking an anon comment thing?


2. Hmm. I think we're backing into a lot of the "It's okay out there but that was one of our own." Which to me, I never really bought into the whole thing.

From where I've stood, there is a perceived level of emotion that is BAD coming from the author. That is, she meant to hurt/maim/eviscerate. And while that may or may not be the case, I sort of wonder if everyone really thinks the world of literature is fully of fuzzy bunnies and puppies.

I'm fairly sure this perceptionis tied up in how she presented some things versus other, etc. But I won't get into that here.

But it does feel like a revisit of the permissions argument once more, just from a different angle.