What the hell has happened to original publishing? I know I kind of gave up on it after that time I went into one bookshop and asked for something without misogyny and they couldn't sell me anything, and then the second bookshop sold me a story about a serial killer whose victims were mommy stand-ins, and another story about a vampire who lusted ( Read more... )

Work has been really busy for about the last seven weeks, to the point that I haven't really had much mental energy for thinking about my own creative work, either non-fannish or fannish ( Read more... )

How awesome is Sherlock Holmes?

I went with grouchiegrrl and chewiesbro the other day, after some crazy capers in which we managed to fail to see the movie quite spectacularly.

Before I review it, I would just like to say: OMG, those trailers were terrible. The only one that looked even vaguely interesting was the Leonardo di Caprio jobby (the title of which made me ( Read more... )

One of the conversations I had in response to yesterday's post made me want to take a snapshot of my current bookmark and tag statistics on rec_room.

Total Bookmarks: 2596
Total Tags: 1538

First Bookmark: 06 JUL 07
Snapshot Taken: 09 May 09

The Top Ten Tags
fiction 2220
stargate:atlantis 1476
pg-131322
mckay/sheppard1200
not:recced1112
nc- ( Read more... )

Why do people write Australia so so badly in fiction? It's not just the little details that you'd expect people to get wrong, like the way people speak, it's these big, whopping things like what the towns are like and how long it takes to get places, and oh god, that there's no fucking water and what that actually meansYou know what it makes me ( Read more... )

A Personal Schema for Meta, or Why You Say Po-tay-toe, and Sometimes I Hear Po-tah-to

an essay by cupidsbowI had no idea until today that I had a personal schema for meta, let alone that it's quite sophisticated and complex ( Read more... )

I just finished reading and enjoying a long, plotty fanfiction novel yesterday. I've been reading it for a long time, in between all my meetings and so on. It had become a friend, as long stories of that nature do ( Read more... )

I've just been talking to cloudlessclimes about Lotrips stories we loved back in the day, and it reminded me of a topic I wanted to discuss with you all: fannish touchstone stories ( Read more... )

Only 61/100. That's pretty lame for someone who makes a living at being well-read.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well, let's see ( Read more... )

Sorry for the delay in posting this -- darn that RL work getting in the way of my fannish pursuits. Anyway, if you have info to add, or a link to a con report, please leave it in comments. That way this post will become a handy masterlist.

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