I want to talk about a mid-'90s sci-fi TV show called "Space: Above and Beyond." A few people on the internet seem to think it was amazing. I watched a couple of episodes, and I might just be spoiled by recent sci-fi shows, but I thought it was awful. The writing was terrible, the acting was horrific, the storylines were cliche, and the characters ( Read more... )

List ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.

Mind Fuck by Manna Francis (available for free online hereThis is my favorite book, and has been since I discovered it in my mid-teens. It's a murder mystery set in a futuristic dystopia; it ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of good relationship-development fics in which the characters are not hiding romantic feelings? I don't particularly care if this is because they don't have them (where the relationship development is nonromantic) or if they're up-front about them--I just want to read honest, open relationships where they don't feel like they need ( Read more... )

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Eight months ago, I had an idea for a Tazer/Kaner fic wherein Tazer is possessively monogamous and Kaner is poly, and they try to have a relationship anyway. I thought about writing it, and then I realized I did not want to write it, I wanted
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So first Z was bored at work, and tweeting about how bored she was, and I was like, "you should twitfic at me about Tazer the bored office drone and Kaner the mailboy!" Because Z is hilariously easy to manipulate into twitficcing/chatficcing/notficcing basically anything I request (see: the tag I use for DW entries involving her), and I thought it ( Read more... )

So. This fic. It's called "love is a contact sport" and I would like to talk to you about my tumultuous long-term relationship with it ( Read more... )

This post is for S, whose username I won't mention without permission because I'm not sure how fandom-associated it is. S is a Red Wings fan and enjoys watching hockey, and is also involved in non-RPF fandoms, but the expression on her face when I mentioned reading and writing hockey fic indicated that she hadn't really considered the idea of ( Read more... )

A month and a bit ago,
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This challenge turned out a LOT of awesome fanworks! This list is just my absolute zomg favorites, but if you have the time you should go check out the rest at bandomreversebb, because there are a bunch more great fics, art pieces, and mixes. I've only listened to about half of the mixes (just the ones that stood out to me as having a clear theme/interesting ( Read more... )