From dictionary_wotd:

longueur: a tedious passage in a work of literature or performance art.

It turns out that there is an actual word for those parts of Dickens's novels I generally skip on re-read.

(How many chapters are there about Silas Wegg in Our Mutual Friend? TOO MANY)

This is largely for my own use - just wanted to get some thinky-thoughts down somewhere - but on the basis that others might find it interesting I thought I'd share.

( On the characters of Inception, particularly Arthur, Ariadne, and Eames )

Dear FanFiction.net writers ( Read more... )

I don't care how interesting your premise is, how much I like your title, or how on-point your characterisation is; if you describe a character's eyes as "orbs", I am frakking done. Out of there. Closing the tab, not looking back.

Ugh. Orbs.

Some very kind individual nominated my VM fic Excerpts from Logan's feelings journal for the Pirate Pride Awards and it WON the best Comedy category.


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The latest and last issue of The Neptune Navigator Online is up.

It features, a review of The Graduate, a discussion about Communism (with Python references!) and a poem about Supernatural amongst other things.

It is the last, because the gang is off to college and they can't be doing a high school blog anymore. Keep watching neptune_online though, as we aren ( Read more... )

So it seems I can only write VM fanfic after midnight ;-) I just wrote something and OMG! I like it!

I'll post it tomorrow later today because I'm not so good with the punctuation at 2:30 in the morning.