The news is that I have rejoined the staff of sv_ledger. I felt like I should be doing SOMETHING to contribute to fandom somehow, since I haven't been posting fic, and plus I missed working with the other editors, who are all aces. So I'm on-duty for that right now and getting back into the link-gathering swing of things ( Read more... )

A Smallville mini-meta that I don't think I've ever actually posted.

Caveat: This is as always based only on my observations of the first three seasons because after that IDEC.

Luthors And CarsLex loves driving fast in his fancy foreign sports cars ( Read more... )

These are various things I've been thinking of because of the "is slash appropriating the gay male experience?" debates, although some are more tangential than others. And obviously I haven't read every post and comment made on the issue(s ( Read more... )

Pairing characters versus exploring canonical subtextBoth are good! I tend to have a harder time pairing characters from the same thing when I write unless I do believe that at least one of them wants it to happen. So I guess generally I go for subtext. But occasionally there are times when I just think the characters would be so good together that ( Read more... )

Okay, so I have this list in my head of the times when I typically hate men-in-general ( Read more... )

This post is partially in honor of halfamoon and 14valentines and such stuff ( Read more... )

Washington DC has legally recognized same-sex domestic partnerships since 1992 ( Read more... )

I went to nominate fandoms for Yuletide (I think I will actually participate this year!) and someone had surprisingly already nominated one of the things I wanted that I wasn't expecting to see there already. And not only had someone nominated the book series, they'd added the two side characters from one specific novel that I wanted! Wow ( Read more... )

No, I'm not just talking about stories where characters are evil, I'm talking about stories that take your original ideas and fuck them over seven ways from Sunday ( Read more... )

This past weekend, cos and I were talking about kinds of fiction, and then the idea of belief and gods subsisting on belief, so that they have to do/be whatever people think they do/are, and if their worshippers stop believing in them they shrivel up and die (or have to sneak off and survive in a fragment of belief somewhere). We were trying to think ( Read more... )