Survived another week of supervisordom at work. Went okay. I think I can handle it, so far at least ( Read more... )

( Season premiere spoilers, yeesssssss. )

Don't Do Them.

( All the rest is commentary. )

I've been submerged in more big bang fiction -- this time the superb Nosce te ipsum by rei_c -- and although I've done poorly at commenting so far (time, not lack of intent), ever since this year's bb stories starting appearing I keep thinking about something ( Read more... )

A friend of mine got hurt yesterday by someone's post over in fandom secrets. We aren't close-close friends, but we ARE friends, and I'm pretty saddened by what happened ( Read more... )

I haven't had time to devour all of the big bang stories posted so far (although I adored lemmealone's, and belyste's is the warmest, fuzziest EVER, highly recommend both). But I keep seeing notes about a great mpreg that's been posted. Haven't read yet, BUT ( Read more... )

( If the subject didn't say it clearly enough -- spoilers within. Along with some meta-ish rambling. )

Been a lot of discussion hereabouts lately, and I'm glad to see it. We don't all agree, but then who ever thought we would? It's been fascinating and enlightening, all of it ( Read more... )

I went over to TwoP in search of spoilers -- so much for my resolve against 'em, just chucked it all -- but wound up spending even more time reading back entries on the fanfic discussion area ( Read more... )

E. E. Knight and the list of 20 writing blunders (link via Boing Boing).

Pretty basic stuff, really, but always good to refresh one's thinking. Heh -- he doesn't like "almost" either. He calls it a "weasel word." But it's all about positives, not negatives -- don't focus on what almost-but-didn't happen, focus on what did. I agree.Some of his ( Read more... )