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		<title>Comment on Death as a Tool in Genre Storytelling by JD DeMotte</title>
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		<dc:creator>JD DeMotte</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, I&#039;m current and yes, I was thinking along the same lines, as Changes and Ghost Stories were pretty monumental as far as the world that Harry Dresden lives in, but manages to do so in ways that keep the death toll fairly tiny.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m current and yes, I was thinking along the same lines, as Changes and Ghost Stories were pretty monumental as far as the world that Harry Dresden lives in, but manages to do so in ways that keep the death toll fairly tiny.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Death as a Tool in Genre Storytelling by Megan Christopher</title>
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		<dc:creator>Megan Christopher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love the Dresden Files, and one of the things I really enjoy is that there are always consequences for Harry&#039;s decisions, and they play themselves out over a long period, but everybody has to *live* with them. Are you current? Because I think it says a lot about the series that while the situation in Ghost Story is horrible, the strength and interest comes from watching the characters adjust to it, rather than just wondering who&#039;s going to bite the bullet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the Dresden Files, and one of the things I really enjoy is that there are always consequences for Harry&#8217;s decisions, and they play themselves out over a long period, but everybody has to *live* with them. Are you current? Because I think it says a lot about the series that while the situation in Ghost Story is horrible, the strength and interest comes from watching the characters adjust to it, rather than just wondering who&#8217;s going to bite the bullet.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Death as a Tool in Genre Storytelling by JD DeMotte</title>
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		<dc:creator>JD DeMotte</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of my current favorite book series is the Dresden Files. One thing I like about it is that while things don&#039;t always go well for Harry Dresden, death is not too common for the supporting cast. If it does happen, it&#039;s rare and usually a Big Damn Hero moment. It means something when it happens. Bad things happen, good people get hurt or relationships get strained, but death is a very final thing (even in a series about a private eye wizard) and as such it tends to be rationed out with great care. 

I absolutely adore Joss, but he does have a tendancy to put the &quot;Plot immunity? What plot immunity?!&quot; card a bit too often sometimes. They usually all work really well within the context of the story being told, but it&#039;s become such a thing that it colors his work. I&#039;ve heard lots of comments about &quot;taking bets&quot; as to who will die in The Avengers. Now I suspect the answer is no one, or at least no one of consequence, because Joss doesn&#039;t own those characters and Marvel wants franchises. But I think it says a lot about how overdone the trope is, even outside Joss, that we&#039;ve grown so cynical towards the idea of death in storytelling.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of my current favorite book series is the Dresden Files. One thing I like about it is that while things don&#8217;t always go well for Harry Dresden, death is not too common for the supporting cast. If it does happen, it&#8217;s rare and usually a Big Damn Hero moment. It means something when it happens. Bad things happen, good people get hurt or relationships get strained, but death is a very final thing (even in a series about a private eye wizard) and as such it tends to be rationed out with great care. </p>
<p>I absolutely adore Joss, but he does have a tendancy to put the &#8220;Plot immunity? What plot immunity?!&#8221; card a bit too often sometimes. They usually all work really well within the context of the story being told, but it&#8217;s become such a thing that it colors his work. I&#8217;ve heard lots of comments about &#8220;taking bets&#8221; as to who will die in The Avengers. Now I suspect the answer is no one, or at least no one of consequence, because Joss doesn&#8217;t own those characters and Marvel wants franchises. But I think it says a lot about how overdone the trope is, even outside Joss, that we&#8217;ve grown so cynical towards the idea of death in storytelling.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Death as a Tool in Genre Storytelling by Diana</title>
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		<dc:creator>Diana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, angst and tragedy can be so overrated ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, angst and tragedy can be so overrated ;-)</p>
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		<title>Comment on One Way to Do It by Hugh of MYOT</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hugh of MYOT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey you&#039;re absolutely right about the imbalance of writer submissions to artist submissions on MYOT. I&#039;ve been trying to figure out A) a way to filter them that doesn&#039;t discourage participation but keeps out the ones folks obviously didn&#039;t think through or that aren&#039;t that compelling or original; and B) something that would encourage more artist participation.  If you have any ideas I&#039;d love to hear them.

Also good luck on your project! Can&#039;t wait to see what happens.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey you&#8217;re absolutely right about the imbalance of writer submissions to artist submissions on MYOT. I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out A) a way to filter them that doesn&#8217;t discourage participation but keeps out the ones folks obviously didn&#8217;t think through or that aren&#8217;t that compelling or original; and B) something that would encourage more artist participation.  If you have any ideas I&#8217;d love to hear them.</p>
<p>Also good luck on your project! Can&#8217;t wait to see what happens.</p>
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		<title>Comment on One Way to Do It by JD DeMotte</title>
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		<dc:creator>JD DeMotte</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great article and solid advice and observations. If you haven&#039;t, you might want to check out the &quot;Making Comics&quot; podcast from iFanboy. http://ifanboy.com/podcasts/audio/specialedition/ Where they take a look at the ins and outs of writing, finding artists, working with editors, having a net presense etc etc in order to produce a comic. Some of it seems kind of obvious, but there&#039;s some good ideas and advice in there.

And I think it&#039;s very admirable for you to try to find a fully female creative team. While I think there are more women out there making comics than ever before, but it&#039;s still very much a sausage fest for the most part. There needs to be more diversity in creators in general, if nothing else to help attract a broader readership that aren&#039;t white adult males.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article and solid advice and observations. If you haven&#8217;t, you might want to check out the &#8220;Making Comics&#8221; podcast from iFanboy. <a href="http://ifanboy.com/podcasts/audio/specialedition/" rel="nofollow" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/ifanboy.com/podcasts/audio/specialedition/?referer=');">http://ifanboy.com/podcasts/audio/specialedition/</a> Where they take a look at the ins and outs of writing, finding artists, working with editors, having a net presense etc etc in order to produce a comic. Some of it seems kind of obvious, but there&#8217;s some good ideas and advice in there.</p>
<p>And I think it&#8217;s very admirable for you to try to find a fully female creative team. While I think there are more women out there making comics than ever before, but it&#8217;s still very much a sausage fest for the most part. There needs to be more diversity in creators in general, if nothing else to help attract a broader readership that aren&#8217;t white adult males.</p>
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		<title>Comment on To Tweet or Not to Tweet by Rem Anon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rem Anon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You could always write those step-by-step posts and then not post them until later. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You could always write those step-by-step posts and then not post them until later. :)</p>
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		<title>Comment on To Tweet or Not to Tweet by Diana</title>
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		<dc:creator>Diana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ohhhh, cruel :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ohhhh, cruel :-)</p>
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		<title>Comment on Asexuality on House: You&#8217;re Doing it Wrong by Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve known that i was asexual since i was 13 years of age, had an early sexual debute and before i was 11 i had tried both girls and boys (no abuse whatsoever).  With that said I&#039;ve never felt sexual attraction to a body or to a person since i was a child  (how strange that might sound, neither do i have any strange sexual attractions). I can sexually get myself aroused by basically putting myself in another persons emotional situation, using empathy to trigger my own body - even so i never feel drawn to sex by my mind. 

As i watched the episode of House i did aswell get disappointed by the obvious route it took, in the earlier seasons maybe this would have made for an excellent point of a couple of episodes between House and Wilson (the empath and the nihilist).

So what has House given me by putting out a physical fault disclaimer on people whom are asexual?
I now want to get myself checked, not because i think i have a tumor, but because i know itll eat on my unconcious mind enough if i dont. And as im not proclaimed asexual, my family no doubt believes me to be slow of mind or homosexual (as i look good), that once i announce it i want to be 100% sure that i got no physical condition effecting my mind. So that is what house has given me, the urge and the unnecessary cost to get a MRI.

A last note: I do not like the categorisation people tend to make in context to asexuality with &quot;-romantic&quot;, fine that you might be drawn to the mind of someone, but it is likely to be enough of a struggle to get the general person to aknowledge that there is a top category (sexual and asexual) before people start propagating the subcatgories of the new field as equally imporant (missunderstand me right, you need the first to get the second - with subcategories that can be hard to seperate clearly a from normal  low sexual drive you basically ask for people to missinterpret your situation).
Im not sorry for pushing this propaganda in here, but if you want it gone feel free to ad it out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve known that i was asexual since i was 13 years of age, had an early sexual debute and before i was 11 i had tried both girls and boys (no abuse whatsoever).  With that said I&#8217;ve never felt sexual attraction to a body or to a person since i was a child  (how strange that might sound, neither do i have any strange sexual attractions). I can sexually get myself aroused by basically putting myself in another persons emotional situation, using empathy to trigger my own body &#8211; even so i never feel drawn to sex by my mind. </p>
<p>As i watched the episode of House i did aswell get disappointed by the obvious route it took, in the earlier seasons maybe this would have made for an excellent point of a couple of episodes between House and Wilson (the empath and the nihilist).</p>
<p>So what has House given me by putting out a physical fault disclaimer on people whom are asexual?<br />
I now want to get myself checked, not because i think i have a tumor, but because i know itll eat on my unconcious mind enough if i dont. And as im not proclaimed asexual, my family no doubt believes me to be slow of mind or homosexual (as i look good), that once i announce it i want to be 100% sure that i got no physical condition effecting my mind. So that is what house has given me, the urge and the unnecessary cost to get a MRI.</p>
<p>A last note: I do not like the categorisation people tend to make in context to asexuality with &#8220;-romantic&#8221;, fine that you might be drawn to the mind of someone, but it is likely to be enough of a struggle to get the general person to aknowledge that there is a top category (sexual and asexual) before people start propagating the subcatgories of the new field as equally imporant (missunderstand me right, you need the first to get the second &#8211; with subcategories that can be hard to seperate clearly a from normal  low sexual drive you basically ask for people to missinterpret your situation).<br />
Im not sorry for pushing this propaganda in here, but if you want it gone feel free to ad it out.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Asexuality on House: You&#8217;re Doing it Wrong by My Initial Reaction to tonight&#8217;s (er.. last night&#8217;s) episode of #House &#8230; #spoilers &#124; The Asexual Sexologist</title>
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		<dc:creator>My Initial Reaction to tonight&#8217;s (er.. last night&#8217;s) episode of #House &#8230; #spoilers &#124; The Asexual Sexologist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Megan Christopher of HollywoodJane&#8217;s post &#8220;Asexuality on House: You&#8217;re Doing It Wrong&#8220; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Megan Christopher of HollywoodJane&#8217;s post &#8220;Asexuality on House: You&#8217;re Doing It Wrong&#8220; [...]</p>
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