It may come as no surprise to long-time readers of this journal that I have a nagging, driving compulsion to try to dissect, figure out, isolate, and then articulate why I like what I like. I don't know why I can't just like it and sit back and rest, but I can't. I can't even write to an author and say, oh, I love your stories, without a ( Read more... )

I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted. I'm never prolific, but I've rarely gone this long without posting since I started on  LJ ... and it feels like longer, because it's been such a busy few weeks.  The reason, I think, is a combination of extensive travel over the past few weeks (Escapade, which I haven't written about but maybe ( Read more... )

Or, (More) Extensive Self-Examination Can Be Fun! *g*

Some things that make me really love a slash story - or not - with emphasis on B/D--Part III

1. ( Too much smut is never enough .... )

So last week I posted Part I of my ... er ... lengthy tract discussion of Why I Love What I Love in Slash, and I promised more!  Well, far be it from me to renege on a promise, and besides, I'm happy for any excuse to talk about slash, and Pros, and stories, and to analyze Why I Feel What I Feel ( Read more... )

There's this "how to tell a story I wrote" meme going around, and since I don't write stories I figured I'd modify it to suit me:  how to tell a story I'll love ( Read more... )

There have been a plethora of really interesting posts recently on various issues relating to a greater or lesser extent to "realism" in fanfic - an issue that I've touched on in my own posts many times, including very recently. I have a crazy desire to make a post that does nothing more than quote my favorite parts, with occasional insertions of ( Read more... )

I am in the Land of Pros - London, of course.  I've been offline for the past few days, because I was in Milton Keynes at Nattercon - a NBP (nothin' but Pros *g*) weekend, and it was beyond wonderful (more about the con next post, but right now I'm fighting post-con blues and want to write about something else).  I've been here since Thursday ( Read more... )

So another Connexions - possibly the last - has come and gone. I must admit to having a very soft spot in my heart for Connexions, since it was my very first con (only two years ago - how hard is that to believe??? These days I can barely even remember what my life was like P.S. (Pre Slash)...) So in some ways it feels kind of fitting that I'm ( Read more... )

A number of people responded to my previous post about rec sites created by people who aren't familiar with the show whose fanfic they're recommending. I started to respond to the comments, but each time I got myself tied in knots, and I began to realize that my thinking about this issue is very muddled and tied inextricably with some of my ( Read more... )

So I was away last week, at the beach in NC - no, wait, actually it was the week before last, but when I started drafting this post it was "last week" *g*. Ah, well, better late than never, or at least I hope so ( Read more... )