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Some of you may be aware of Axanar, a crowdfunded Star Trek fan film (or rather, a series of fan films - more information is on Wikipedia). The first I heard about it was in an article about the lawsuit Paramount and CBS filed against its creators, claiming violation of copyright on the Klingon Language: 'Star Trek' Lawsuit: The Debate Over ( Read more... )

On Wednesday afternoon B and I flew to Tucson, to the extremely fancy Ventana Canyon Resort, where he has been spending the past two days in work meetings and I had been planning to do a combination of remote working, relaxing by the pool, and running in the the warm January sunshine. Best laid plans and all that: I've actually been doing a ( Read more... )

As I said a few posts ago, I've been posting my old Harry Potter stories to the AO3, and despite doing my best to put proper dates on them, they're still getting hit by (one assumes) current fans eager for new stories. It's amazingly gratifying! I'm getting hits and bunches of kudos and even a few comments. Alas, so far all the comments have ( Read more... )

First, I want to requote this lovely bit by Michael Chabon from an essay in Maps and Legends that
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I keep thinking of things I want to write about, but it always seems like so much effort to actually compose a post. I'm not sure why. Instead I just endlessly refresh the various websites I read, and I do laundry, and bake goodies, and brush the kitty, and sometimes get a little work done ( Read more... )

Because I saw a magazine article headline in the grocery store today that made me wonder if I always had it wrong. ETA: Haha, you all agree with me! This is wrong.

View poll: hey jude, I saw you nude

Crossposted, but the poll's on DW only. Those of you on LJ can use openID to answer this if you like. Or just comment.

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An LJ post locked to your friendslist is commonly referred to as being 'flocked.' Is a DW post locked to your circle 'clocked ( Read more... )

As some of you know, I listen to audiofic and audiobooks while running, and now that I am back home and ramping up my running again I thought I would download some more listening material. I was browsing through the list of latest additions to the audiobook library, and I found this: Fanon, by Wideman, John Edgar. And the first thing I thought ( Read more... )

I was reacquainting myself with my computer and found an unfamiliar-looking directory. "Ho, what's this?" I said to myself, and looked at it, and oh, it was the various bits and pieces I had put together for my ds_northernnews artwork entry last year ( Unexpected Hazards of Global Warming, dS, Fraser and RayK gen) which I had somehow neglected to put on my ( Read more... )