I've been meaning to do this meme for some time (nicked from
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My computer ought to be here tomorrow afternoon! Oh dear, I'm beginning to get giddy. (Beginning? All right, I'm beginning to get excessively giddy. There is definitely literal, physical flailing going on.) I am daydreaming about it entirely too much -- when I am trying to sleep, I usually run over bits of stories in my head, and the same scenes ( Read more... )

It's storming outside; I can hear the thunder rolling over the rooftops and the air even inside the boundaries of the house smells like rain--that funny heat-and-cool scent thunderstorms carry with them. I love summer thunderstorms, even when they knock the electricity out (that's sort of lovely, anyway, because we drag the candles out of their ( Read more... )

I ordered a great mess of things from Amazon on Thursday, because I have Christmas money (still!) knocking about and I am typically very lazy about spending until I suddenly go and blow it all out on something. I spent a bit for earrings after Christmas, and some on Heidi's birthday present, and a cameo bracelet, and the rest has been sitting ( Read more... )

Well, drat. I think I have realised why I am at such a standstill with my writing these days: I am writing nothing but ruddy fragments and it is on the very verge of driving me mad. My fanfiction, with the exception of The Wise and the Lovely (which took me an absurd six months to complete), consists mainly of weird vignettey bits in which people ( Read more... )

Item I: lady_moriel linked me to this, and it is Awesome. Seriously ( Read more... )

So (and I shall pretend devoutly that this is solely out of mere curiosity and not any personal gain), let's talk about superheroes. What do you like about the superhero genre (in films, graphic novels, fiction, and whatever other forms it may take)? What do you dislike? What have you always wanted to see in a work of superhero fiction?

Discuss.

AAAGGH,
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EDIT: Ohmygoodness, it is Harry's birthday today and I completely forgot. Happy birthday Harry! Here, have some shiny chrome-plated capslock! *pats* ...Um. Yeah. Harry doesn't like being patted. *ducks*

So, right now, I am uploading my
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