There's a lovely December Talking Meme going around, and I was feeling bad because between holidays and travel and my students' theses being due it was just impossible. And then some kind soul started thinking outside the box and said "Why not just do it in January?" and I thought SURE WHY NOT ( Read more... )

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Written for month_of_meta!

We live in a time where it seems that more and more, "canon" creative works have a lot of the same derivative/transformative roots that "fannish" works do. Whether it's Elizabeth Bennett fighting the undead in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a modern gender-bent take on Holmes and Watson in Elementary, or a riff on fairy tales in ( Read more... )

--Rec time! Fake Empires by Sam_Storyteller is a gorgeous S/B story with heaping helpings of identity porn and a very fun take on both Clark and Bruce!

--Since hearing that Paul Cornell would be off Stormwatch soon and Peter Milligan would be on it, I've been quite worried about the fate of Apollo and Midnighter. They were just getting their ( Read more... )

1.  dcu_memes is having a Friending Meme!  Head on over to find other people who share your interests and make some new friends!

2.  trobadora is looking for people who are interested in a Meta-Month of March!  If you like writing meta, which trobadora defines in comments as more or less "essays, analysis, criticism and discussion of fannish things (that is, fandom itself and ( Read more... )

One more quick update and then I promise I'll get back to writing fic!  Though actually I've gotten about half of my double-drabbles done, and still have eight (eight!) stories from the World's Finest birthday party that I want to post.  I've decided I'll start going back and forth between them, alternating between an S/B story and a non-S/B story ( Read more... )

Since a lot of my flist are casual comics fans or not comics fans at all, I thought I'd better do a quick rundown of the big DC comics news that's out there and what it might mean for our favorite heroes.  It seems in September DC is going to "reboot" the universe--they don't seem to be moving backwards in time much, most characters are similar in ( Read more... )

So, I run a comm called superhero_muses, which is an informal place for people who write/draw superhero fanworks to hang out and talk about canon and the joys and perils of writing mutants, aliens, and obsessive millionaires with a justice fetish. I'm soliciting discussion-starting mini-essays right now on just about any topic and thought I'd mention it here in ( Read more... )

I feel like some meta discussion, so let's play a bit ( Read more... )

First off, whee, I'm Ursula LeGuin! I don't think I could ask for a happier result (and they even mention my favorite book of hers, Always Coming Home, specifically!)

Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?...
( You are High-Brow, Peaceful, Traditional and Cynical! )