I really need to stop impulse buying books. I still haven't read all of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, and I have Voodoo in Haiti standing in my bookshelf right now, but I still felt the need to buy The Hunger Games trilogy RIGHT AWAY. Look, the trailer for the movie was fucking awesome, okay, and I really want to read the books before I go ( Read more... )

Last night was the third straight day of writing for me -- I'm doing gywo again, for some ungodly reason; blame Steph, I usually do -- and as usual, it was utter drivel, because I've gotten used to the thought of writing just for the sake of writing, not for the sake of writing anything good (as witnessed by this introduction sentence right here, ( Read more... )

I haven't written anything on LJ on this new MCR hoopla yet, mostly because I've been capslocking all over twitter and spamming the shit out of tumblr -- I'm phantomwise, by the way -- with pictures of my favorite band, but I'm still so excited I could just dance. Into an early grave, most likely, because I'd give my unfit ass a heartattack dancing ( Read more... )

So I just read an entry cleolinda just posted. She is, if you're unaware, kind of a multifandom profile -- she posts linkspams on all sorts of media related topics, writes reviews and parodies on movies, and has written the single best recaps of the Twilight books I have ever read. But, back to this entry, allow me to quote back at you.

forget whether I ( Read more... )

So I was talking to Steph about sex and how completely focused the entire fucking world is on it and romantic relationships. So of course, as it always does, it got me thinking.

( Cut for discussions of societal expectations of sex and asexuality (AKA kind of cranky TMI hour with Linn). )

So, I'm catching up with a lot of sci fi fandom meta that's been blowing all around the house the last month in the wake of RaceFail and the pissiness between the old school book fans and the media fans. I don't really have a lot to add to that discussion, except for two things:

( Thinky thoughts. A little about pseudonymity, but mostly about race and underrepresentation of various minorities in sci-fi. And didn't I sound fantastically pretentious saying that, just now? )

I've been reading fanfiction for about three and a half years now, and as you can tell, I'm ridiculously in love with it all. I love the way fanficcers write, I love it in all the way it's different from profic and I love it in all the ways it's similar too. I love fandom, and I love the characters, and I love everything that I have learned these ( Read more... )

Did you know that Panic gsf generally isn't written from Brendon's point of view?

( Some thoughts on Panic gsf and -- somewhat surprisingly -- h/c. )

Have you guys noticed that there are certain things that you do and don't do when writing porn? And I don't mean badfic stuff, just that there is a certain way of going through the motions.

As for example. Two dudes are having sex, one of them -- we'll call him Joe -- slides down and sucks the other one -- Jack -- off. One of two things will then ( Read more... )

Character psychology is strangely cathartic, I must admit. Aly and I got into quite the discussion about the characterization of Brendon Urie, and what vibes we get off of the dude (if by "discussion" you mean "agreed with each other on almost everything", and I do).

( And I think I might love him for it. )