ysabetwordsmith wrote an awesome poem from the point of view of a shapeshifter that I just had to share!

ysabetwordsmith started a fascinating poem some time back about two alien species in a form of symbiosis inspired by a similar symbiosis of two similar Earth organisms. It's a long poem, but definitely worth the read, and has been funded in bits and pieces for weeks. The poem is now fully funded, so you can read it here. The background of the poem is here.

haikujaguar has a nifty new community called freestuffday where you can go to announce any instance of giving free stuff (icons, writing, artwork) to either 1. Whoever drops by the post on your LJ that particular day. or 2. Whoever gives you a prompt. Read this page for more details.

So, bart_calendar is pretty awesome. But he won the entire universe AFAIC (as far as I'm concerned), with this post. A highlight:

So, California doesn't like the gays ( Read more... )

Today I've decided to pimp a community that is not mine, though I am one of the few to regularly post there. It is happy_news, a community dedicated to good news, kind of like the Good News Network. I highly recommend it, it's great to read about positive things once in a while. And I hope y'all will join and post so I'm not the one of the only ones posting ( Read more... )

LJ "pimp a friend" = ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith is a professional pagan writer with at least one published book on magic, who also writes science fiction and fantasy. Especially awesome are her poems. Most people's poetry I can't read, either because it isn't engaging enough to get past my short attention span, or because they suck. But ysabetwordsmith's poetry blows my freaking mind. ( Read more... )