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I have a YA author friend named Tash and she asked me to write a guest blog for her about how great fanfiction is at encouraging writers...

So, you can check it out here: Fanfiction As Encouragement for Novice WritersAlso, if you like young adult sci-fi about cool people with psychic superpowers, you should really check out Tash's books. There's a ( Read more... )

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So, the other day, when pressed for time to write my ficlet. I came up with this quick idea that involved evil garden gnomes.

Apparently, myself and the marketing team over at IKEA have similar minds, because I stumbled upon this ad on tumblr today that is pretty much exactly what I was picturing (as far as the gnomes go anyway.)

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Crazy! (and ( Read more... )

I've gotten the entire demented'verse up at AO3 now! YAY! WAIT!!! I FORGOT THE TRIFECTA'VERSE! Arrrg...I'll do it tomorrowit  nevermind, I just got it over with...also, now I'm REALLY hungry...but...

You can check out my vast collection of work.

I combined my Teddy-Nate stories into one chaptered fic within the series, because they sort of stand on ( Read more... )

You can now also find me on Archive of Our Own @ hells_half_acre. Same username! Woo!

Did you know that when I first debated joining LJ and actively participating in the Supernatural fandom, I decided that I would ONLY join if I could get the username hells_half_acre? If it had been taken, all this may never have happened.*

I've uploaded only my ( Read more... )

Joey Comeau just tweeted this link, and I thought it was so good that I needed to share it.

How To Be A Fan of Problematic Things (small spoilers for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and Game of Thrones.)

It's very simple and brilliantly written out.

I don't 100% agree with their "secondly" point, because I think it depends on who you are talking to...I ( Read more... )

It's time for another post about everyone's favourite can of worms...Misogyny.

As you all know, I LOVED 7x08. But, there was that one little aspect (of perhaps many) that threw some people off ...mainly, the fact that Sam was "roofied" and tied to a bed. I thought it was a great send up of the film Misery, and since Becky didn't actually do ( Read more... )

So, still a little depressed tonight, so I thought I would post some fun stuff.

Firstly, there's this video from Funny or Die:


I've been a fan of Ryan Gosling since Breaker High (yes, I watched Breaker High, I am not ashamed)...so, yeah...I love this.

Secondly, I got BOOKS IN THE MAIL! Along with Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated and Uncensored ( Read more... )