There's still something I utterly don't get about slash in LoM fandom - and it's not the sex, although that still doesn't do anything for me. But I 'get' why the sex might be interesting for people.

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It just occurred to me that I've never focused on relationships as much, in any of my fandoms, as in Life on Mars. Even though most of my fic here still isn't properly shippy as such, Sam's relationships are an important element in nearly all of my stories, published and in progress. In earlier fandoms, I focused much more on "solo angst" and solo ( Read more... )

Title: The MAD Doctrine
Author: Hmpf MacSlow
Rating: General audiences or teen and up
Word Count: ca. 6,500 words
Notes: Stellar beta, as usual, by the very awesome
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I just noticed: I had Sam pick up the guitar in my (99% finished, arrgh!) current LoM work in progress, a year or so ago ( Read more... )

I notice (again) how, when I grow interested in a real person instead of a fictional character, I never, in my mind, switch to being on first-name terms with them. Lurking on Radiohead fansites for the past few days, I've seen people referring to "Thom" and "Jonny" and so on, all the time, and... I dunno. It just sounds so wrong to me. Thom Yorke ( Read more... )

(Edited.) This is a more precise version of the question previously posted here:

http://community.livejournal.com/lom_workshop/26523.html

ETA: If you know a bit about 80s and 90s music, please check out my question. I could really use some help.

Still just under 5,300, because of course I had to go and cut a lot today before I went and added something new ( Read more... )

God, how I hate it to be so frelling inspired, with absolutely no time to write. (Three job applications, minimum, are due this week, the first of them tomorrow ( Read more... )

Today I noticed I didn't have enough bread or anything for breakfast, really, so I decided to go to the fairly affordable café around the corner and have breakfast there. (I usually don't do this, obviously, as it still costs more than my entire daily food budget, but sometimes I break my own rules. I'll just have to live especially cheaply for the ( Read more... )

Because I just discovered these again on my webspace:

The very gorgeous John Simm emoting most beautifully all over the place.

(ETA: No particular connection between the titles of those files/links and the images, btw. I just randomly assigned all the words of the sentence one image each; so 'beautifully' is *not* the most beautiful, etc.)