It's funny how I think about Pros all the time, but so seldom post about it! It occurred to me I could actually write some of those thoughts down. *g*

I read a story recently that I cannot get out of my head - it's haunting me, in the way that stories sometimes do. But it's so unexpected in this case because it isn't a slash story. To put that ( Read more... )

Oh wow, it's been forever since I posted. I don't even know where to start. Cats? Horses? Pros? I shouldn't let myself get so out of touch...

Well, maybe I'll limit this to Pros. And I'll make a list - that'll help! I love lists! :-)

1) Nattercon! I went to Nattercon...I love going to Nattercon, for many reasons. And finally, after three ( Read more... )

So today I'd thought I'd offer a tribute to writers who make me work for my supper - writers who make me think. I'm a re-reader, and assuming I like the basic story - meaning, in fanfic, that it's a good slash love story - I appreciate stories and writing that don't offer everything up on first reading, that continue to give me more, to yield more ( Read more... )

A non-slasher friend once asked me why I liked slash - with the two guys together, she said, there's no room for me in the picture; wouldn't I rather imagine one of them with me ( Read more... )

I resolved after my New Year's post to try to post more this year, reach out a bit, even just with trivialities. I have failed miserably so far, but maybe it is not too late to start...

The problem, though, is that, to use aerye's always-excellent words, it is so very, very easy to get out of practice with fandom, or more specifically, with ( Read more... )

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... )

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... )

You know how just about every big fandom seems to have a secret santa LJ community these days, a la Yuletide? Well, as further proof that Pros is still Big too *g*, this year there was santa_pros, which was set up by queenbamfie. I saw all the announcements about it, but I must admit I didn't pay much attention. Didn't seem like a huge deal to me at the time. But ( Read more... )

I've just posted a story to the Circuit Archive called Werewolves of London, by Rimy.  It's been up on the Hatstand archive for a few weeks now; I read it the day it was posted and fell totally in love with it, and I kept meaning to write about it, but with one thing and another I hadn't done it.  Then yesterday someone began a discussion of it ( Read more... )

Good Things:

1) Broken Cover, a newly-Archived - and lovely - Pros story by my most beloved Angelfish Archivist, whose writing I would love even if I didn't adore her personally, which I do. ( More ... )