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Wow, I haven't updated in quite a long time. Nothing exceptional has happened, but I have been disenchanted with the internet lately. I've been spending my time reading or knitting instead of surfing the 'net. I get more of a sense of accomplishment by reading novels than I do hanging out on multiple message board and saying the same things over and over again.
I think most of you know that I run a website about a series of novels by Laurell K. Hamilton. Due to my lack of interest in the internet, I've been thinking about handing off the website to someone who wants to devote more time to cultivating the site. I feel bad for everyone who visits the site daily because I'm so bad about updating the news and things of that sort. I'll go over a week without doing a damn thing to the site. With the message board and all the other gadgets attached to the site, it requires more of my time than just the fiction archive that updates itself when authors upload stories. Beyond that, I've been falling out of love with the series for the last two years or so. It makes it difficult for me to get up the energy to update or add anything at all to the site. I haven't made a decision on whether I should hand it off to someone else or not. I'm still very much on the fence about it all. If anyone involved with the site would like to voice their opinion, please feel free. I'd love to hear feedback from any of you who have an opinion. You're welcome to be frank and open about what you think. Whatever you say isn't going to hurt my feelings since I'm already feeling somewhat removed from the situation already.
Other than that, I'm quite well. Christmas was... well, Christmas. I've never enjoyed family gatherings all that much. Especially when they involve Jason's family. They're all psychic vampires. You know, the White Court in the Dresden Files without the supernatural sexiness. They all create mondo-drama and drink wine like fish. Christmas Eve was, in my opinion, an unmitigated disaster, partially because I was saddled with the task of collecting Jason's grandparents for the party. By the time we had been in party-mode for four hours, I felt like my brain was leaking out my ears. Jason and I weathered the storm on the sofa with the three dogs. Dogs know. They go to the sane people. Not the drunk crazies telling stories about the casino, again. I ate chocolate-covered pretzels because there was nothing else to eat. They had tamales and posole. For those not in the know, tamales are filled with beef. Posole has pigs' feet in it. Yeah. Eww. Jason and I finally got home a little after eleven o'clock. I promptly feel asleep in the floor within fifteen minutes of closing the door. I woke up at one o'clock and went to bed. I'd rather not repeat that evening.
The highlight of Christmas was Jason's grandmother giving Markel (Jason's 6-month-old niece) a stuffed bear that plays "Dreidel, Dreidel." It came complete with with a stuff dreidel with Hebrew lettering. She thought it was a Christmas bear. Jason, being the agitator he is, announced that "Jews killed Jesus" with a smirk on his face. Jason's grandmother made a grab for the bear to throw it away. Good Catholics don't buy Hanukkah bears, apparently. After a bit of debate, Jason talked them into keeping the damn bear. It was cute anyway.
I'm almost finished with the Harry Dresden novels. They definitely have gotten better with each novel. The amount of Harry/Karrin love I have is monumental. Why can't I found fanfic with those two? I feel obligated to write something.
I think most of you know that I run a website about a series of novels by Laurell K. Hamilton. Due to my lack of interest in the internet, I've been thinking about handing off the website to someone who wants to devote more time to cultivating the site. I feel bad for everyone who visits the site daily because I'm so bad about updating the news and things of that sort. I'll go over a week without doing a damn thing to the site. With the message board and all the other gadgets attached to the site, it requires more of my time than just the fiction archive that updates itself when authors upload stories. Beyond that, I've been falling out of love with the series for the last two years or so. It makes it difficult for me to get up the energy to update or add anything at all to the site. I haven't made a decision on whether I should hand it off to someone else or not. I'm still very much on the fence about it all. If anyone involved with the site would like to voice their opinion, please feel free. I'd love to hear feedback from any of you who have an opinion. You're welcome to be frank and open about what you think. Whatever you say isn't going to hurt my feelings since I'm already feeling somewhat removed from the situation already.
Other than that, I'm quite well. Christmas was... well, Christmas. I've never enjoyed family gatherings all that much. Especially when they involve Jason's family. They're all psychic vampires. You know, the White Court in the Dresden Files without the supernatural sexiness. They all create mondo-drama and drink wine like fish. Christmas Eve was, in my opinion, an unmitigated disaster, partially because I was saddled with the task of collecting Jason's grandparents for the party. By the time we had been in party-mode for four hours, I felt like my brain was leaking out my ears. Jason and I weathered the storm on the sofa with the three dogs. Dogs know. They go to the sane people. Not the drunk crazies telling stories about the casino, again. I ate chocolate-covered pretzels because there was nothing else to eat. They had tamales and posole. For those not in the know, tamales are filled with beef. Posole has pigs' feet in it. Yeah. Eww. Jason and I finally got home a little after eleven o'clock. I promptly feel asleep in the floor within fifteen minutes of closing the door. I woke up at one o'clock and went to bed. I'd rather not repeat that evening.
The highlight of Christmas was Jason's grandmother giving Markel (Jason's 6-month-old niece) a stuffed bear that plays "Dreidel, Dreidel." It came complete with with a stuff dreidel with Hebrew lettering. She thought it was a Christmas bear. Jason, being the agitator he is, announced that "Jews killed Jesus" with a smirk on his face. Jason's grandmother made a grab for the bear to throw it away. Good Catholics don't buy Hanukkah bears, apparently. After a bit of debate, Jason talked them into keeping the damn bear. It was cute anyway.
I'm almost finished with the Harry Dresden novels. They definitely have gotten better with each novel. The amount of Harry/Karrin love I have is monumental. Why can't I found fanfic with those two? I feel obligated to write something.
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I'd say keep it, but give one of the trusty daily posters and addicts modpower /admin power to do things when you are not in a mood, it is still your project, and it is hard to let it fall, but sharing the workload is a good plan
Yeah I know you say you aren't that interested and all anymore, but still the page is kind of your baby and it might be an idea to just share the load instead of giving it away ...
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I love Harry/Karrin. I have a thing for 'ships that involve two people that are close friends, but have never had a romantic relationship. Hello, Mulder/Scully pre-baby, pre-weirdness of the 8th/9th seasons. I like Susan as a character, and I like the heat between her and Harry, but it doesn't give me the warm fuzzies like Harry/Karrin does.
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But I'd personally hate to see, if nothing else, SDS fade away. There is some talented fiction out there - yours included - that is the light in the dark harbor of us poor disenchanted souls. And in this way the archive(s) are invaluable. As ladymina said, you could hand some duties off to someone regular on the archive that you trust and step in when need be.
If you're looking to cut some strings on the other hand, the forum... well, as much as I love chatting with my fellow mods, I don't use it for much else. Besides I can always catch you on here or Susies forum. Sometimes I also think - with the exception of Susies Drabbles, which I'd miss - that the forums breed toublemakers and that tends to bleed over to the PDS archive.
Anyway, I guess thats my two cents. I might possibly be done reading any future LKH books, but I don't think I am done with ABVH fanfic, reading or writing it, (Edward needs a life somewhere!) and SDS was and still is a good place to have around.
You always have my support whatever you decide!
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Updating the site and working on it has become a chore for me. I don't enjoy doing it. It's like a second job that I like to ignore. If I'm not having fun doing it, then why do it, right? So, I think I'll probably take the advice that most people are giving me and invite a few people to take over as admins.
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As for PDS...I know how you feel, when it comes to being disenchanted with Anita. I pretty much stopped hanging around the PDS board. I'll hover round the fiction archive, and poke around there, but that's about it. I spend most of my time around the lashouts community and vent my anger and disappointment about the series. It really has become a travesty. Danse Macabre was the final straw for me. I didn't actually read it, but I took it from the lashouts comm that it was...pretty bad.
But I digress. I know that PDS was your baby, and you put a lot of work into it, and you do a damn good job running the website. I'm with Mina in that maybe you could split the workload rather than simply handing it off.
The way I see it, PDS is one of the last strongholds for the AB fandom, and fanfiction is the only thing I'll read at this point, since I've given up on the books. Her fans have pretty much been dropping like flies left and right, and the fandom has been slowly shrinking. It's a little sad...but consindering the way the series has gone, it's hardly a surprise.
On a different note, I picked up the first of the Harry Dresden series. I plan to read it soon. :) See ya!
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Anyway, I hope you enjoy the Dresden books! I :heart: Harry. He's an awesome character. I know you'll love him. The sad thing is there's a serious lack of Dresden Files fanfic out there. I've been looking, but I haven't found much at all.
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I'm also reading Chalaine Harris and Kim Harrison. :D Ever heard of her? She writes the Rachel Morgan series. It's very Anita Blake-esque. I'm also reading the first Lillith Saintcrow novel. :p What can I say? I'm on an urban fantasy kick. I'm also going to look up Patricia Briggs and Kelley Armstrong sometime soon.
Oh, and also, I picked up the new Neil Gaiman short story anthology, Fragile Things.*bounces* So much for the Gaiman love.
I'm getting rambly. Sorry. Anyways, if I may make a suggestion, perhaps you could make a fanfic archive for the Dresden series if you find someone to take over PDS? Jim Butcher is slowly growing in popularity, and maybe people will start writing fanfic about him. :) Anyhow, it's just a thought.
*pauses* I remember reading in the lashouts comm that Jim Butcher used to hang around the LKH forums and right around the time NIC came out he complained about the direction the books were going, so someone told him to write his own novels, and so he did.
Ya ever hear that story? I think that Jim is going to get the last laugh. They do say success is the best revenge.
I haven't completely let go of AB:VH...I still need to do some venting and ranting. I'll let it go eventually...but in the meantime, I do enjoy hanging around the lashouts community and snarking about the crazy lady and her craptastic books. Laughter does heal, after all. It's amazing she's still getting published.
Oh, well...I've babbled enough. See you around! :D
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PDS gave me the opportunity to write fanfiction so it's a special place for me. I'd hate to see it disappear but I know it's a lot of work for you. Maybe someone will step up to help you. Possibly just having the archives and not the forum...though I loved the forum and made lots of great friends there.
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Glad you are well :-) Hope you are having good holidays!
I agree with you about PDS. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that if I didn't want to do something - then why do it? If you aren't having fun any more then there really is no point.
I think the idea of roping in some help is a good one. It means you can hand it over and kick back and relax knowing that it is taken care of. You would be freed up to do whatever it is you want to.
Maybe the way to go is that overall, you would still have a level of control and wouldn't hand it over completely? I think you mentioned that you wouldn't want to hand it over to someone for it to just disappear in a year or so. By being a "silent partner" you could leave all the work to someone else, but still ultimately have a say in what happens to PDS.
PDS (IMHO) has become so much bigger than just fanfic. PDS was my introduction to the world of fanfic to start with, but also an introduction to some very dear people I honestly call friends. You have built a whole world for people who loved the series, still love the series and will continue to read the series.
It would be a shame for that to vanish, and since you agree with that then I think the option you're looking at is a good one!
Whatever you decide, good luck.....and thanks for all your hard work on PDS thus far. I would personally be happy to help you out with anything that would help keep PDS running, whilst also making sure that you get what you want out of it all :-)
~ Lisa
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