It's funny - lately (for the past few months, ackshully) I've been gobbling up Merlin fic like guilt-free junk food, and mightily enjoying the "download as epub" feature on the AO3* (not to mention the "order search results by wordcount" one). And, well, I've kind of read all the long stories on the AO3, now. So what now? I guess - sigh - I resort ( Read more... )

Introducing the Fanfiction Header BuilderThe Fanfiction Header Builder is a tool made to help you create nicely-formatted headers for your stories with ease ( Read more... )

Honestly? I can't muster myself to be offended by your experience of winchesterconThose women's "ghost stories" quite probably have more readers than attended your show last night. Words crafted by those women have moved their thousands and thousands of readers to joy, love, grief, arousal, and helpless hilarity. Not to mention intellectual stimulation. And ( Read more... )

( newspaper article from The West Australian, 27th Oct 2006 )

Firstly, disclaimer: this is not a mocking or wank-emulating post. Let me say from the outset (if you're not already familiar with my LJ) that when I say 'I love this stuff', I'm not being sarcastic - I really do love the out-there shit that fandom does. I absolutely adore it. I can't express how much glee and joy it gives me, unless that ( Read more... )

ANYONE ON MY FLIST INVOLVED IN ANY FANDOM WHATSOEVER PLIS READ INSTEAD OF SCROLLING

So here's a thought: a fandom wikipedia. Multifandom, a one-stop-shop for terminology, pairing names, significant communities and events, anything you wanted, really. Because you would be the editors/creators. I'm enthused by this idea, and am willing to purchase a ( Read more... )

I was thinking earlier about my odd relationship with the Supernatural fandom - I'm totally into it, I love the picspams, the fics, the speculation, the meta, the fanonisation... but on a grass-roots level, I'm not part of the dialogue. I don't seem to have any SPN fans on my flist. Well, I mean, I do - but they're friends I already know. I have ( Read more... )