I've always thought that Kylara, particularly as she was written in DF, was really interesting and had a lot of potential ( Read more... )

( A long list of tropes and etc that I'm drawn to in stories )

Writing a novel is like being in a relationship: First you find an idea with which you have sparks, and right away you’re infatuated and eager to starting developing it. And you start writing and it’s just so exciting and you adore it and things go almost effortlessly smoothly. But after a while the new relationship energy is spent and the ( Read more... )

Getting excited about Yuletide inspired me to reread Dragonflight, which prompted me to ramble about why I love Dragonflight.

( Cut for to save flist, as apparently I have a lot to say. )

I'm really not a slash fan, never have been. My opinion on it is firmly Your Kink Is Not My Kink But Your Kink Is Okay - not, I hasten to say, that I think slash is a kink (I'm so not stepping onto that minefield), just in the sense that people have varying tastes. I love het. And I actually kind of like femmeslash, it's just m/m that doesn't do it ( Read more... )

In other words, a lot of unrelated things all crammed into one giant post, because hey, it's Christmas break and now I'm cramming in all the stuff I haven't gotten around to when school was in session and therefore monopolizing my time while slowly sucking out my soul ( Read more... )

Ah, done with homework again. I think the semester may actually be getting to winding down. It doesn't look like there's much left on the schedule in those classes where the teachers are nice enough to actually give us schedules, so expect they're going to be nicer in order that they can catch up on grading. Whatever the case, I am very much ( Read more... )