You know, I haven't read Doonesbury since I switched to reading the news on the internet. :( Technology gives and technology takes away. I know you can look it up online, and I really must fix this, as it used to be one of my pole stars. (Can you have multiple pole stars? Is that the definition of being civilized?)
Re: Warnings. Yeah, the more I think about it the more some sort of indicator, whatever you may call it, seems like a no-brainer. In any RL discourse, there's generally some sort of signal that a particular book, or photo, or whatever is going to wander into extreme territory. I recoil a little bit from the general notion that public conversational spaces should be policed to be "safe," or of a general entitlement to be free from offense or upset (which was essentially William F. Buckley's case against the '60s!) But at the level of basic courtesy, well, of course.
If you don't know Demon's Lexicon, you are in for a treat: It's the first published novel by Sarah Rees Brennan, aka Maya aka Mistful aka (now) sarahtales once upon a time from the H/D fandom. ("Underwater Light," and many other marvellous fics, all taken down now, alas.) It is very, very good and since it's gotten some great pre-publication buzz it will hopefully be a rousing success -- it's been out a couple of weeks now in the U.S. and UK. Young Adult supernatural suspense/adventure, with demons. 8X Go seek, find, and buy, by all means!
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Date: 2009-06-29 12:19 am (UTC)Re: Warnings. Yeah, the more I think about it the more some sort of indicator, whatever you may call it, seems like a no-brainer. In any RL discourse, there's generally some sort of signal that a particular book, or photo, or whatever is going to wander into extreme territory. I recoil a little bit from the general notion that public conversational spaces should be policed to be "safe," or of a general entitlement to be free from offense or upset (which was essentially William F. Buckley's case against the '60s!) But at the level of basic courtesy, well, of course.
If you don't know Demon's Lexicon, you are in for a treat: It's the first published novel by Sarah Rees Brennan, aka Maya aka Mistful aka (now)