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Diana Wynne Jones died. She was a brilliant writer, and although I, sadly, never got to chance to meet her, I know a fair few people in the children's literature who are friends with her, and who are feeling this loss deeply.
I've written a bit about what Diana Wynne Jones means to me over at my original fiction blog: random, diana wynne jones, ripOMG, a post about STUFF
- I have a new Wordpress blog for talking about my original fiction: The Ramblings of Lesley Hastings. I'm still playing around with it (and there'll be a new header in about two weeks) but it's up and running and shiny! You can find the RSS feed for it here, or simply go to l_hastings_feed (for LJ) or
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MOAR STUFF
- First of all, a very big HUGE thank you to fera_festiva for the wonderful Christmas present she sent me -- the DVD of Century Falls, which is a REALLY EARLY (ie, 1993) RTD kids' show that I've been wanting to watch for ages. In spite of all my Issues regarding RTD, I still love his work, and I can't wait until I have an afternoon to sit down and watch it ( Read more... )
And I'm off! (Almost)
I'm about to shower and go to bed -- and I'll be getting up at 5am tomorrow to go to the airport, so I probably won't have another chance to post before we're off to New Zealand. Both misanthropy_inc and I are worried that tonight, rather than last night, it's going to feel like Chirstmas Eve -- that feeling of anticipation that means you can't sleep, even ( Read more... )MOAR STUFF
- Those of you who follow me on Twitter, or who follow my original fiction journal (
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MOAR STUFF
- I'm not doing NaNo this year (not that I ever have done it). Instead, I am Finishing My Thesis. As in, seriously. By the end of November, I want a thesis that is ready to send to my proofreader. And... I actually think this is achievable. Wow.
- I'm feeling particularly ready to take on the horrors and stresses of thesis-finishing at the ( Read more... )
OMG, YOU GUYS!!!
Go check out pocky_slash's Not My Fandom fest, a comment ficathon, where you write fic for fandoms that you know BARELY ANYTHING ABOUT, except what you've absorbed from your flist or possibly from that one episode you watched that one time when you were drunk.
I have written THREE fics:
Supernatural: MANTEARS (Sam/Dean, Dean/Castiel, NC-17)
Inception: I ( Read more... )Sitting "On The Gay Side": Ruminations on Identity
I wasn't going to post this publicly. It was going to be flocked and filtered. It contains information that could probably identify me if my family or close friends stumbled upon it. But I've seen many braver posts than this posted publicly recently, so I'm just putting it out there. I also have to acknowledge that I centre myself in this post ( Read more... )SHOEZ (with bonus crappy cameraphone pictures!)
Now, I am not someone who normally buys a lot of shoes. Generally, I keep four pairs: My hiking shoes, my Doc Martens, my sandals, and my dress shoes (which I hardly ever wear). My last pair of Docs, however, have been reaching the end of their lifespan for a while now, and my sandals too were not looking at all healthy ( Read more... )These words: I do not think they mean what I think they mean
A couple of funny signs that misanthropy_inc and I encountered while shopping recently. I would blame fandom for the way that I read them, but the truth is I would have willfully misinterpreted them before I ever read a fic.
( innocent underwear sale, or rent boys? )