I was thinking about fanfic today and how I'd gotten this really great comment on one of my fics. And how I haven't written in over a year and have had no desire to, in fact, don't READ fanfic at all, ever, any more ( Read more... )

This article in the Wash Post made me think of you guys. Yes, it's about paying for a service to text you as a fake boyfriend or girlfriend and I find that not as weird as I should... BUT it is much like our online communities, where we develop friendships with people we don't know and come to rely on them... (read through to THAT part, I'm not ( Read more... )

1 - Who's watching SHIELD? So the new guy who was Xena's partner before she was killed (Hunter)... SHOT May and Skye, but then they weren't shot? Then the next episode they're all like "we don't like you, you shot us." But if they'd been shot wouldn't they'd be dead? Or at least, recovering from bullet wounds? Did he have a tranq gun that I missed ( Read more... )

...apropos of nothing ( Read more... )

I know... late to the techie party. Shut up. I have an iPhone 4S. Please comment with your indispensable, can't live without, must-have apps to help a newbie out.

Thanks. I've got LJ already, btw!

Hello friends! Cat request tonight. I need a temporary or permanent foster (as long as you can or want to) for PEACHES.


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Sometimes I get lost in the intarwebs... it happens, yes even to the best of us. But I am WAY TIRED of everything being a subjective diatribe on anything and everything and so on and so forth ad nauseum.

But wait, you say, alizarin_nyc aren't you now doing the very thing you say you hate ( Read more... )

I'm going to go off on my sleep issues in a minute. First, my friend who is a reporter for the WSJ (Personal Journal) wrote me with this request:

I'm working on a story about sleep and relationships. I'm looking to talk to couples who are negotiating sleep issues (ie. morning person married to a night person, snoring, cover stealing, covers vs. no ( Read more... )

Quick ask the F-list post. A close friend of mine wrote me with the following need:

I have a favor.. I need some input. I have a student who was wait listed for admission for the fall at Barnard. So we are now applying late to some other city based schools and close by. My student wants to go into writing and editing; so I thought you would be a ( Read more... )

One great way to pass some quality downtime is to read sheffiesharpe's Lestrade/Mycroft fic, "At Least There's The Football", which is 178,992 words of lovely character development and romance that brings the heat as well as the domestic warm fuzzies. I generally eschew any fic that has a whiff of fluff and/or kids in it, but this was written so ( Read more... )