It seems strange that two of the posts on my front page would be about deaths, but that's how the world works: Diana Wynne Jones, 76, fuck fuck fuck. I loved her books when I was a kid and when I decided to become a YA author she was the first ideal in my mind. Hell, I'm not a kid these days and I still love her books, even if I only read The ( Read more... )

Yuletide revelations are up! And thus, I reveal that my story this year was Must Be Something In The Air, from Diana Wynne Jones' Derkholm series (is it really a series if there are only two books? I would be down with her writing more, anyway), a bit of Claudia/Blade post-Year of the Griffin. Actually, it wasn't a fandom I'd signed up to write, ( Read more... )

Did you know it's a bad idea to sneeze while you're drinking tea? I do! And so does the floor. On the other side of the room. I got skills.

Stolen from everybody:( The Year In Fandom meme )

Much sorrow, but it looks like I won't be able to send out holiday cards after all--writing the thing I can't talk about is filling up my writin' brain, and drawing presents for the rest of my family is filling up my drawin' brain. D: If there is one thing I am learning this break it is that continued productivity in one thing makes it difficult to ( Read more... )

So, things! I have been hella productive thus far although not with the holiday cards; I'm viddin', I'm writin' stuff I will jinx if I talk about, I'm drawin', and man, does it feel good. My Yuletide assignment is very doable, and actually something I have been thinking about a lot lately, although not talking about, so you will get no clues there ( Read more... )

Things I have been doing:

1) Not sacrificing 15 hours a week to picking things up, moving them around, and putting them back down again (an activity totally relevant to my major, am I right guys, and happily my professor agrees with me)
2) Dorking out about random things (second season of Arakawa Under The Bridge! my secret favorite Kuroshitsuji ( Read more... )

Man, it is weird to be waking up at 8 AM and feeling totally okay with this. I suspect that it is due to getting Natural Light flowing gradually through the window as the sun rises--back in the dorm, the window was perpetually shuttered, so the only thing that woke me up at a reasonable hour was the alarm clock, which. Is not the most natural way ( Read more... )