Comments for Rising up from the Ashes

Comment on Q&A with Hamen Cheese by Phoenix

Phoenix — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:03:00 +0000

Hamen is a talented writer. It was fun to interview him. I hope he can one day tell someone in his everyday life about his writing.

Comment on Q&A with Hamen Cheese by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:48:00 +0000

LOL. Hamen says he likes to do light and playful but he can also write a thoughtful tearjerker just as well. I like getting to know people a bit more through these interviews, though I wasn’t commenting before (I’m lazy, yes, it’s true). Great stuff!

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Q&A with Hamen Cheese – Rising up from the Ashes — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:10:14 +0000

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Q&A with Quonus10 – Rising up from the Ashes — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:17:56 +0000

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Q&A with Nephylim – Part 1 – Rising up from the Ashes — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:30:35 +0000

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Q&A with DragonFire – Rising up from the Ashes — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:46:27 +0000

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Comment on Canadian HIV vaccine ready for human tests by Rilbur

Rilbur — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:37:31 +0000

There’s such a thing as an HIV vaccine?! Wow!

That said, I’d hate to be the one to test it only to find out it doesn’t work!

Comment on Obama’s an ass by Phoenix

Phoenix — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:31:07 +0000

And we all thought Obama would change the world, right?

Comment on Prop 8 Follow Up by Phoenix

Phoenix — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:21:45 +0000

I can see the legal differences between Canada and the US. Here we use the living tree doctrine, so a decision about taking away rights would be easier, and I imagine prop 8 wouldn’t be upheld here. But in the US, they think everything is set in stone.

Comment on Proposition 8 by Phoenix

Phoenix — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:07:12 +0000

It’s a pity that it passed by such a small amount. That could easily be a fluke, like in a poll. A larger number should be required, one that would easily account for “flukes”, and show the true will of the voters.

Comment on the Value of Gay Money by Rising up from the Ashes

Rising up from the Ashes — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:32:49 +0000

Proposition 8…

Now, I’m not much of an activist, so I’ll ignore the obvious horror of homophobia. I’ll even ignore the legal contradiction that 18,000 people have been placed in, being engaged in legally recognized and valid homosexual marriage in …

Comment on Klingon summer school by Rilbur

Rilbur — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:10:36 +0000

Please, oh please, tell me that was a joke…

Comment on Surprise revelations and the believable plot by Rilbur

Rilbur — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:32:35 +0000

Hrm… Great writing points!

Comment on the protagonist in gay writing by Phoenix

Phoenix — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:21:40 +0000

Rilbur: If the protagonist is straight, that can be okay. In the story I used as an example, apparently a brother is gay. The problem is, the author hasn’t revealed that in the story. So it just seems like it is another straight tale.

Comment on the protagonist in gay writing by Rilbur

Rilbur — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:25:15 +0000

While I understand much of what you’re talking about, there is another aspect: it doesn’t have to be the protagonist whose gay. For example, a story where the protagonist is completely straight (well, I’m actually debating that point), but homophobic, and is ‘redeemed’ to realizing he’s been completely wrong? What about a story that’s about the (straight) protagonist’s refusal to set aside his friend just because he’s gay?

Are those ‘less’ simply because the ‘main character’ and view point doesn’t happen to be gay? After all, there are plenty of ‘gay situations’ (for lack of better phrasing) involved in both of those: the ‘homophobe’ facing down the fact that his new foster brother’s parents were better parents than his own… despite being gay, the question of how to say \sorry, not interested\ when you find out your best friend wants more than you do, how do you stand up for what’s *right* when all the others around you simply follow their prejudice…

Turn about is fair play, and seeing some of those scenes from the ‘other’ side seems like it should be of interest even to someone who prefers a ‘gay’ protagonist.

Yes, the sites in question should focus on ‘gay’ stories, but at the same time… simply involving a *single* gay character is going to make a lot of ‘normal’ places impossible, leaving people who want to do a story that isn’t gay-focused in a conundrum. If I want to follow up on my Guardian series, I’m stuck with places like Nifty / Castle Roland because the Guardian story itself is so heavily ‘gay’, even if my sequel / follow up / expansion isn’t. Is it fair to *me* to insist I can’t do that story there, when finding another place to publish would be, at best, difficult?