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stoatie - no, tta magazine and its editor, andy, are pretty sound. he was one of the first people i came out to. it really bothered me when someone tried to drag him into it, basically hoping he'd take the piss out of me and cholister. but i saw the email he sent the moderator and let's just say he thinks i have slightly more than zero talent. i'm a proper writer! phew!
as for the board, well i found out later that i (and, it goes without saying, you lot) had seriously pissed off a very well known british sf writer. and he thinks i got a bunch of people together to steamroller slash and flaunt our horrible sexual deviancies in the face of the worthy. he is called us 'rival forces', which sound rather majestic doesn't it? seriously - i just wondered what the tta types thought of slash. there was no agenda other than to start a discussion. i asked the question in a really low key, 'chatty' fashion - i deliberately wrote in a different style to the way i try to express myself on barbelith. i think this showed when some of you lot arrived - the level of the debate whooomped upwards. very interesting!
i'm wondering how i would have reacted to the 'big name' author had i know it was him. hopefully the same way. i haven't read any of his books, but he sounded interesting in an interview i read (in tta i think). think i still want to read one of his novels, but it's certainly healthy to remember that a good writer is not necessarily a good person. and vice versa. i find the bloke pompous and more than a little uncomfortable with queers. but that doesn't mean he can't write. the only thing that does bother me, though, is that i haven't exactly made new friends in the sf community. it was made clear a while ago that i should shut up about being queer. this is not going to do my 'career' any favours, but fuck it. i'd rather be honest.
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