FRTDNEATJ I've been thinking about why I bounce so hard off so much present-tense fiction. You have probably noticed this about me if you've been reading my reviews, so I thought it might be interesting (at least to me :-) to ramble about it a little.

( Navel-gazing )

I sort of blew off the last few days of the Fandom Appreciation Challenge, but I wanted to get in on today's bonus challenge, which is to rec two challenges or communities. There is also a bonus from a few days ago which is essentially the same thing, so I'm going to give you three.

1: Remix Madness. Because you can do it RIGHT NOW! It's like ( Read more... )

After looking at the tests of various people who have tried the 'crossposting comments to Facebook and Twitter' thing, I am not particularly fussed about LJ's decision to implement this.

1) If someone posts their comment here on elsewhere, so what? It doesn't connect me (
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The other night we saw Troy, which was not nearly as bad as somehow I had expected it to be. I mean, it would have been nice if they'd selected a standard accent to use, so that Odysseus hadn't sounded like he was from Sheffield. :-) And some of the dialogue was kinda stoopid. But I didn't get bored for the nearly 3 hour running time, and there ( Read more... )

You know how it is. You have nothing to say for a couple of days, or a week, and suddenly: you have too many things to say, and you are probably not going to remember them all. And by you, I of course mean me ( Read more... )

...or, further unpopular fannish opinions. :-) This is on my mind because of a recent email exchange on the subject with raveninthewind, and since I had to put my thoughts together for that discussion, I figured I might as well post them ( Read more... )

So, it boggles me, a little, that the single most common thing you all said about me in that "compliments" thingy that nos4a2no9 had going a few days back was something having to do with me being opinionated, because, dude. I am so opinionated! But is this a good thing? I dunno! I know I have alienated people (in fandom and in real life) because I am so ( Read more... )

So, time for the first of my Unpopular Fannish Opinions. I thought I'd start with one of the least controversial, one I've mentioned before. (Plus, appropriate, since I'm working feverishly on my ds_team_angst story! Which may or may not have an unhappy ending.) Some ground rules, though, for this and subsequent UFO posts:

1. By "unpopular" I do not mean " ( Read more... )