Internet: makes you less creativeApparently people who "optimise their ability to multi-task online" are going to be unable to concentrate on anything, ever! People who spend lots of time online lose their ability for introspection! Being online discourages you to think deeply. People who spend lots of time online will lose their creativity and ( Read more... )

Meta-rec of the week: franticsga shows the idiots what for. And in the comments, I discuss Barthes, Formalism, and Freudian literary criticism with other fabulous dorks.

Highlights of the comments, aka Things I Said That I Want To Remember:

paradox_dragon: I really don't like the way some fans use the "they're obviously straight, what we do here is mere ( Read more... )

So, I'm really enjoying the wonderful world of Sulu/Chekov. It's... interesting to see what various authors are doing with the age thing in a slash context.

The genfic world is getting really into Chekov's youth, how that affects his place among the crew, and how he feels about it all. It's there in How To Avoid Kicking Puppies; Only the Good Die ( Read more... )

( here be spoilarz )

So my decision to write a Spock/Uhura drabble-turned-into-fic in order to avoid writing an essay on my SRS Gender Thoughts About Star Trek FAILED MISERABLY (the avoiding the essay part, not the fic), and I just left a thousand words or so in the comment field discussing the fact that Spock's Vulcan characterisation means he can function as an ( Read more... )

So I need cheering up, and I shall do this by contemplating the magnificence of my own LJ. Courtesy of miss_morland.

1. First fic
Fierce and Awful Grace, one-sided Polly/Jadis. Actually, the untitled Gospel of Nichodemus fic predates it, but a) it also predates this LJ and b) it's only JUST barely fanfic.

2. Last fic
But a patch'd fool: bare: a pop opera fic ( Read more... )

(warning: written piecemeal over a week. May not make complete sense.)

So, let me tell you about the best AU in the fandom. And then let me explain why it's not the one you think it is.

( In which I fangirl Franticsaga, and have mixed feelings about Rageprufrock )

kayloulee sent me the link to this, and it's worth a read. demotu explains Two Reasons Why The Harry Potter Series Changed My Life. The first is a direct result of the books themselves: she credits HP with kick-starting her adult imagination, which eventually led to her picking up a pen and writing herself. The second is that HP brought her to fandom, and she ( Read more... )

So, subsequent to reading Marie Stopes- who had some sensible ideas about the usefulness of contraception, and some TERRIBLE ideas about what ones to use (vinegar. nuff said)- I decided to go hunting and see what sort of traditional abortifacents might have some chance of working. K suggested Pennyroyal Tea, so that's where I started. Results of ( Read more... )

Look at the Narnia books, where the women are the scariest villains. The White Witch seduces Edmund with sweets and uh, if you are more pure-minded than me and did not read that as coded sexy times, there's the Witch of The Silver Chair, who is pretty and flirtatious and pretends to be silly, and who has probably not been playing checkers ( Read more... )