… was this written before polyamory was invented? the characters seem otherwise very liberal in their sexuality, but…

it has that same embarrassment-humor-about-watching-people-do-a-jigsaw-puzzle-blindfolded feeling that a lot of pop media romances give me because obviously the way to create dramatic tension is to have a character attracted to ( Read more... )

is there a word for taking joy in one's own misery ( Read more... )

... they say invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration (and twoeleven's lj has been illustrating this nicely lately).

but, eh, not just invention but any act of creation of something that wasn't in the world before: leaving out the 99% perspiration part, which surely is a lot of work: how... active does that 1%, the initiation of the act, feel to ( Read more... )