Dear Fanficwriters of the Universe Internet:

You will keep writing fanfic even if we don't comment. Long observation has, if not proven this, at least strongly indicated that FANFIC WRITERS ARE LIKE SKELETONS, OR RON JEREMY: THEY JUST KEEP COMING. Moreover, some of you will probably stop writing even if we do comment profusely (pot, kettle, ( Read more... )

So, a long time ago, peripheralsight asked me for Ino/Shikamaru cuteness. And after watching Naruuto #71 and thinking, hey, there's not enough Shikamaru in this, I remembered her request. "I should write some PORN!", I thought.

But alas, I'd been reading too much Warren Ellis. So, this sucks.

( House Rules, Naruto, G, Ino/Shikamaru. )

Dear Fandom-as-large,

Regardless of my agreement or disagreement with your moral and political opinions, please please understand that the Declaration of Independence is not a legal document, never was a legal document, and never will be a legal document. It's certainly not law, and not even the direct basis for United States law. An ( Read more... )

From the NYTimes: COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING IS FANDOM!!!!!

Basically, the Amazon Canada site fucked up and revealed the real names of a bunch of anonymous reviewers, and a bunch of authors were found to have reviewed their own works.

An excerpt: But even with reviewer privacy restored, many people say Amazon's pages have turned into what one writer ( Read more... )

I LIVE! ... kinda.

You know, it's really kind of stupid to critique/feedback people when you have fundamentally different notions of what a series is trying to do and who the characters are. It's not necessarily stupid to read fic where you know you don't agree with the author's personal sense of characterization, because they can be enjoyable ( Read more... )

Addendum to the preceding post:

In #3, I'm basically talking about people who refer to themselves as writers/authors outside the context of fandom, or other such body of like-minded individuals. The point is basically 'don't lose perspective when you aren't still making a living at it', like all those waiters in Los Angeles: yeah, we know that you ( Read more... )

So, I read this, and blinked. I know Dex of old, you see; hell, I used to be Dex of old, kinda, but that's a long story, and -- well, let's just say that I was an annoying comics fanboy when I was sixteen and leave it at that. Yes, a fanboy. Fangirl/fanboy really have nothing to do with gender, do they ( Read more... )

A note on the preceding entry (which is still open, yo): I am late. i am sorry. I will get to it. Really.

Licking the blood off the wounds of a sick person? Not the best form disease prevention measures. Which is to say, I'm still hacking up green stuff deep from the pits of my lungs.

I am the Queen of Oversharing.

Merry Christmas, y'all.

I'm alive. No, really. And I'll get into fandom again, soon... anyone want to beta a whole huge backlog of half-finished stuff I have, and tell me what's worth finishing?

Anyway, okay, Happy Ecumenical Snowflake Day, here's the deal: you give me a pairing or character or situation or idea or whatever, preferably from books/anime/manga/comics/TV/ ( Read more... )

I just mentioned this over in liuxia, but a lot less people read that than read this, so: I have lots of spare webspace to spare on the account that Arithmancy uses, so if any of you would like to get with the hosting love, drop me an email and I'll hook you up. (Well, maybe. But worth a shot, no? There's a certain knife on geocities I'm looking at ( Read more... )