So, yes. I've survived the last three weeks of insanity and am about to get on a plane to go home so that I can pack to get on another plane to go to Europe.

I have a lot to do before we can get out the door tomorrow, but so far so good. I'm feeling pretty good about my lists and my plans. Plus, emluv posted her wonderful story -- A Wing and a ( Read more... )

Almost a year ago, I wrote my first story in the STXI fandom, The Things You See and The Way You See Them. This story is a sort-of bookend to that story. It is a "stupid writing experiment" and a character study of Jim Kirk as a leader. It has been incubating for almost six months and it would never have gotten done without the help and ( Read more... )

The final chapter -- But We'll Ignore the Last Exit (it was light-years ago) -- of the We Live in Detail series by black-eyedgirl was posted at AO3 today. It's absolutely lovely and complicated and unexpected, as the entire series has been.

In fact, the series -- which starts with Taking the Slower Path (we'll get there in the end) and then continues in We' ( Read more... )

So I haven't posted a list in a while. This one is pretty random.

1. For folks who are interested in Lady Gaga (J!), or journalism, or whatever: The Atlantic's argument on how she is "simultaneously embodying and eviscerating Pop" (their capitalization). I love The Atlantic.

2. For folks (N!) looking for recs: And The Band Keeps Playing On, a ( Read more... )

I can't recommend Observations highly enough.

anon-j-anon *completed* her epic story today, and it is an extraordinary achievement, so far above and beyond the average fanwork that the term "fanfic" doesn't really apply anymore. It exists on a plane entirely its own.

It is stunning.

Please read it.

But be prepared to spend several days (or weeks) ( Read more... )

As always, this involves lists.

1. The unexpected fun in blood pacts. And the lovely fic they result in. Here's a rec for this fine morning: garryowen's Immutable Things. It is intensely beautiful and pushes the boundaries of what I thought was possible with second-person narration. Please read it.

2. My WIPs. I successfully got How To Write ( Read more... )

I am still avoiding work, alarmingly successfully.

Instead of finishing the materials I promised to my boss (bad), I read the latest chapter of leupagus's epic story Only Good for Legends (good, v.v. good). Note that the link goes to the first chapter. The story is a wip, complete up to 4/5 chapters, with an interlude and a backstory in between ( Read more... )

Yesterday we were talking about Amy Bloom, and then I read Slate's review. I thought you'd be interested.

We also talked about where_no_woman's drabblefests, and then there was a new one posted today. Prompts, on demand!

We also talked about good fanfic recs, and how I could not recommend what anon_j_anon just posted -- Two Summers. Be prepared, though. It's ( Read more... )

Okay, so everyone has probably read this already, but I hadn't. I couldn't sleep, and was thinking about work and writing and avoiding both, so I followed a couple of links on my flist, and ended up here.

Graduate Vulcan for Fun and Profit is brilliant -- a less common take on Jim's back-story, with a beautifully handled original character and an ( Read more... )

If I have one deep, desperate wish for STXII, it's for some of the TOS character backstory, especially Tarsus, to be canon and somehow important in the movie. There have been several stories posted recently that have really brought this longing of mine home to me.

One of those stories is what I'm recc'ing today.

If you've read mijan's ( Read more... )