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Notes, corrections, icons and questions:
>> Dr. Delia Diana Santos Stanton-Surridge's name has been corrected. I couldn't remember her real name at all, so I was going by themoviespoiler.com, which I always use to keep myself straight on what happened when (you may remember an open reference to the site in the Day After Tomorrow parody. That's always been my modus operandi for the online parodies: one viewing, The Movie Spoiler, and lots and lots of pictures). But edda saw the movie again and reported back on the correct name, whee!
>> If you highlight a few paragraphs of text, you will see a hidden message, which is: © 2006 Cleolinda Jones. All rights reserved, do not repost. cleolinda.livejournal.com.
"Do not repost" means "the whole parody, in its entirety." Smallish sections you quote in your journal are fine, and are in fact much appreciated (and thank you so much to everyone who linked to this). If you quote a few lines and the antitheft line is in there, you can take that out. I'm just trying to remind people to leave the thing as a whole on this journal, where my name and contact information are present, rather than loose it into the wild to be reposted anonymously on blogs and message boards, as has happened in the past. I mean, yeah, that's the nature of the internet, sure. But you still can't blame me for trying.
>> Just because I like to discuss the writing process: I have found a few comments where people complained that V/15M wasn't as good as the others because of the lack of detail or the skipped scenes. And I feel bad about that because I made a decision to try and get through this one as quickly as possible--lengthwise, I mean, not in terms of the time it took to write it--because "she goes on too long" is the most frequent criticism I get. And now I'm wondering if maybe that's just the nature of beast--maybe that's just the way I write, and I should just embrace it, because the people who don't like my work probably wouldn't like it either way, and the people who do like my work then get pissed off when I try to back away from longer pieces. Except for the fact that Van Helsing is one of my best, and it's exactly half as long as all the others, so... I don't know what to do. I just want you to know, I guess, that it's not because I wasn't paying attention or I didn't care. It was a conscious effort to address a certain line of criticism that may or may not have succeeded. It's probably the biggest issue I struggle with every time I write one of these now. Maybe I'll go back and touch it up a bit, who knows.
Things people asked about over the last couple of entries:
>> The history and meaning of "zomg."
>> Because a lot of people apparently didn't realize it was him the whole time: Arwen's daddy.
>> More on Fawkes the phoenix.
Any other questions you got, short of "When will the book come out in the U.S. and/or Canada?" (answer: I wish I knew, but it's still in discussions), hit me in the comments.
>> V for Vendetta Heroine Addict icons. About twenty icons, with alternate colors/compositions. (And because people crack me up asking this: yes, it is a play on words, as in "heroines we are addicted to," not "drug addict." People misunderstand and leave very angry comments about this, for some reason.)
