Threw my head back and vomited

[Therin of Andor]

That's not surprising, since that "oo-ee" sound is similar to a friendly/nonconfrontational sound that cats make.

As kids, we realised one day that almost every animal we'd ever owned had an "eeee" sound on the end: Bonnie, Brownie, Joey, Beauty, Whitey, Jamie, Minty, Billy, Meggsie, Bluey, be they dogs, guinea pigs, various birds and even mice.

Several of my current animals had come ready-named. My cockatiel readily answered to Chooky, because the shop that raised him had called him Chook for several months - and he was saying it himself in a matter of days - and my dog answers to Jack (three of his brothers are also called Jack) because he's a Jack Russell terrier and had spent four weeks smiling at me (and other passersby) from the pet shop window.

You know how they always say you throw up? You don't do that...if anything, you throw OUT!

My Dad took my two younger brothers "outside fishing", ie, through the headlands of the harbour and into open ocean. Lost of prospective fishermen were throwing up unmercifully and the skipper said to my father, "Your boys have weak stomachs."

"I dunno about that," said Dad. "They're throwing it further than anyone else."

 

[Paris]

Of course, the throwing-the-head-back-and-laughing thing is something Brian Thompson did several times when he played Klag in "A Matter of Honor," and the times he does that is a call-back to his rather unique laugh in that episode. Sorry it made BenSisko throw up.

Also sorry that BenSisko feels the need to slag my work, but whatever.

Don't worry about the trolls, dude. Some, if not all, of us love your stuff and hope you come back to the treklit verse one day

 

[Ben Sisko]

Please don't call me a troll just because I dont show devotion for writers just because they post here.

 

[Christopher]

^Devotion to writers has nothing to do with any of this. If you tried to put down any ordinary poster by cherrypicking out-of-context phrases they used repeatedly in their posts, I doubt that other posters would react any more positively to that.

 

[Greg Cox]

To be fair, just criticizing a writer's prose should not be considered trolling.

But, please, don't count the number of times I use the verb "betrayed."

 

[Christopher]

I shudder to think how many times I've written "He/she/[character name] sighed."

 

[Greg Cox]

I shudder to think how many times I've written "He/she/[character name] sighed."

For what it's worth, I finished Forgotten History on the plane the other day and all that sighing didn't leap out at me!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Please don't call me a troll just because I dont show devotion for writers just because they post here.

That's not why they called your behaviour "trolling".

 

[chrinFinity]

The Harry Potter series is a lot funnier if you replace all occurences of the word "wand" with "wang."

I have never read the books or seen the movies. But I've seen a lot of photos, and never once was I aware that Hermione is really a guy.

Just because she has a wang doesn't make her a guy. I know lots of women who know how to handle their wangs.

 

[JarodRussell]

I see no big difference between changing an ebook to your own liking and doing stuff like "How It Should Have Ended" for films. Even though HISHE is clearly distinguishable from the actual film because it's in animated cartoon form, it's still a fan's own version of the film. And sometimes people who liked a film see HISHE and go "Oh, golly gee, I never thought of that... that part of the film actually sucks now." and you could argue that it diminishes the impact of the original work.

But that's the beauty about the digital age. Everyone can do things easier now, people can be more creative now. You wouldn't rewrite a hard copy of a novel *. But in ebook form, it's easy to do, so you do it if you like to.


*edit. I actually did that when I was young. If there were parts in a novel I didn't like, I rewrote them, and put the pages inside the book. Because I could, and because I enjoyed it. Sue me, I guess.

 

[CNash]

I'm fine with people making changes to suit their own preferences if it's only them who will be reading it - I've done so myself for some fanfiction to correct rampant spelling and grammar issues in an otherwise decent story - but I wouldn't want them sharing their edited version around. For one thing, they shouldn't be doing that anyway if it's a paid-for novel, and for another, the author probably won't appreciate their "efforts" at all...