and now, some recs and the reveal:

to hell with anything unrefined was my primary yuletide story, for nyssa23. it is vers libre poetry in the style of don marquis' archy & mehitabel. i put mehitabel amongst the suffragettes and brought in a couple of prohibitionists. i illustrated it! (did you know that the new york times online archives go back to ( Read more... )

merry christmas, for them what celebrates it!

and merry yuletide, for them what celebrates that -- and that would be me, right now! me! i have TWO stories, TWO!

look, firekeeper and blind seer making me go AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW:

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Fandom: Jane Lindskold - Firekeeper series
Written for: cmshaw in the Yuletide 2007 Challenge
By: sithwitch13and lois making ( Read more... )

1. hradzka is passing the virtual fannish hat to collect donations for thete1's and buggery's moving expenses. that's a good enough cause for me, but as a bonus, david hines, petronelle, and marcelo are offering to write for people who donate. also, brown_betty can pass along money via paypal (hradzka's "hat" is via amazon, which doesn't take paypal ( Read more... )

linkety:

• this planet karen webcomic link is for darthfox and all of the other pedants on my flist. so, um, all of my flist, then.
• these liliane bi-dyke webcomic links (helpful, turning the tables 1, and turning the tables 2) are for lightgetsin and all of the other dog walkers on my flist. (these are the ones about the unsolicited dog advice!)

speaking of otw, which i ( Read more... )

hey, folks, i'm trying to brainstorm the fandom list for the first round of con_txt content polling -- what are the new fandoms in the last two years? (not new to you, but brand new, like heroes or bandom?)

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on a side note, but a very happy one: today's xkcd is made of win. ( transcripted )

so, here's a question that executrix raised in the comments on my last post -- how often in the course of a slash story does a character realize that he or she is bisexual?

off the top of my head, the only one i can think of is resonant8's teeth of the hydra -- i mean, there's always jacquez's un-american, but i'm specifically looking for stories where the character comes ( Read more... )

there was definitely a silver lining to the recent stagegay kerfuffle (why do we call it a kerfuffle these days? didn't it used to be a flamewar? what happened to flamewars?), and that was: i discovered that there had been a documentary made of the dyke punk band tribe 8! i had not heard of such a movie before ( Read more... )

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the fun, let me show you it.

(hint: it's not at work. although i do like my work, i'd like to be doing it a little less often, especially at night, than i have been.)

some links!

hradzka has posted a mind-bogglingly awesome section from a book on memes. written in 1841. yeah, for the win.

ego-likeness is putting out a set of four eps over the next year, ( Read more... )

i got a spam comment on one of my entries that's almost two years old -- one has to wonder how they choose these things -- and in the process of opening it to delete the spam, i noticed that old entry was a rec of this fullmetal alchemist fanart.

mmmm. teeth. that definitely improved my afternoon.

ETA: well, and FUCK YOU VERY MUCH, livejournal ( Read more... )