Because I am still working through some of my Family Business thoughts. I've already had to change my concept around for the reconciliation sex and it's discombobulated me so I'm writing MR instead - which is also discombobulating me.

This is all rather spoilery for MR, obviously.
( I did say the thoughts were unformed )

Sorry to be doing this ahead of answering comments, but seize the hour, especially when your ISP is suffering regular fade outs because some scumbag is using them to launch a DDOS.

The subject of Blair Sandburg's dad is a vexed one, and I'm only going to muddy the waters by adding a new candidate, under the cut.

( I think it's an option. Don't you? )

I also include some brief rambly thoughts as to the age-old conundrum of Jim's age. Comments are welcome here if anyone has any thoughts after the geologic fannish ages that most of us have been around....

http://scarletmanuka.tumblr.com/post/79330951753

This entry ( Read more... )

Get/Together is a little NZ slash con, and I had a lovely time. Many thanks to the organisers. I told them that I'd do a slide show on the development of the Sentinel and Guide fanon, and I present a rather text heavy version of it here ( Read more... )

And I hear you saying, "Mab, why don't you address those to the OTW people?" And I'd agree, and I already have, but these are an entirely different set of thoughts.

Cut for confusion, naked neediness and one or two genuine thoughts and questions on fannish history and protocol. If you don't want to read those things, you know what not to do.

( Thoughts )

So I was interested especially by the way that Jane Davitt compared hits to kudos and comments, and I was also interested to compare to my ASR3 hits, because I have a firm but unproveable theory that, while there are people who read at both places, there actually two quite different audiences in each archive ( Read more... )

Seriously. Very ranty rant under the cut

( Mab is pissed off by certain television assumptions )

More precisely I've collected some links and quotes about consent and privacy in anthropological studies, for anyone who wants to think about this sort of stuff, and I've posted it in TS Talk. I even have hope that I might have a story for ts_ficathons, for a wonder. It's amazing how you get side-tracked when all you want to do is just check something out, ( Read more... )

I've recently seen links to zine distributors and writers who are selling downloads of stories, whether their own or other writers, sometimes alongside paper zines and sometimes instead of them. That set me to thinking about that old, old conflict, the making of money out of fannish endeavour. Those who've heard it all before, feel free to scroll ( Read more... )

I have meta-d. Herein are spoilers for a whole heap of things, including Star Trek: Nemesis, Serenity, Dr Who, Stargate:Atlantis and two of my own stories, 'Living in the Gap' and 'Sideline'. I don't see this as the last word on the ideas I'm struggling to express here. Any other thoughts are appreciated, although since I tend to dwell under the ( Read more... )