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... )

Funny how the longer you go without posting, the harder it is to start up again ... so I'm throwing this up just to get myself back in the groove ( 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... )

First - can I just say, this 10-influential-books meme that's going around - I find it thoroughly intimidating. I mean, my 10-most-influential list, were I to dare even to try to comprise one, much less to list it here, for public consumption, would be comprised primarily of fantasy, books that aren't even on the same intellectual radar screen as ( Read more... )

Okay, I have to write about girliness, girliness and slash and fandom. The incentive for this is a comment cesperanza made in chat after reading my last post, the one about obsession and pairings (and my obsession with certain pairings). In that post I talked a bit about how I'm kind of embarrassed about, ashamed to reveal, the depth of my obsession. I ( Read more... )

As my obsession with Bodie and Doyle continues to escalate, I find myself comparing and contrasting that pairing with my primary obsession Fraser/RayK, and with various other pairings to which I'm especially drawn (Snape/Sirius, for example). I've begun musing a bit about why I love the pairings I love, what causes me to become obsessed with - ( Read more... )

Is it too late for me to write an Escapade report? I needed to recover from the trip home and let it all settle a bit before I posted. Not to mention time - since I seem incapable of ever writing a short LJ post ( Read more... )