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I don't have to be anywhere for wedding things tonight, so it seemed like a good time for an end of the year meme borrowed from kassrachel. Not counting this year' yuletide and fandom-stocking, here are the things I made and posted this year! Well, some of the things at the beginning are technically from 2011 but didn't get put up till after the New Year.

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Or, Meta I Wrote When I Should Have Been Programming.

Thanks to pocketmouse, sarah531, dqbunny, and everyone else whose thoughts helped inspire this.

So, this is what I was thinking about in computer science today:

( Spoilers through 7.01 )

Historically speaking, I’ve not been much for writing meta, but I am a recovering English major and writing mathematical proofs is really not the same as writing literary analysis.  So.  Here I am.
( spoilers for )

A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys
Painted rings and giant's rings make way for other toys.
One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.
--Puff the Magic Dragon

( The Doctor and other imaginary friends )

Oh, what a long and spoiler-filled month it has been!  And what a wonderful finale was waiting at the end of it.  It made me cry, and the whole evening after I had this little ball of emotion sitting in my chest.  But a happy ending!  When I heard the rumors that Rory was coming back, I couldn’t imagine it would be in as lovely a way as this.

( Happy endings don't come easily anymore. )