So, I'm just finishing 3.10 of Deadwood and I have to ask:

( No, really--I mean: what the hell? )

As I often do when I'm totally unhappy with everything I write (and given that I've written more than forty pages of fic and thesis in that time, that's a whole lot of work to disown), I have turned to Hunter Thompson for inspiration.  I should know better than to do this, but he's the writer with whom I most personally identify. The well-worn free ( Read more... )

I've been in a rather nasty mood all week. Can't exactly say why, there's a number of factors that contributed and frankly, I've already dedicated enough words and thoughts to most of them. So today I decided to take a break. Sit back. Watch a movie.

On a whim, I picked Howl. Possibly because I never mind spending an hour or so staring at ( Read more... )

Arthur.  Lovely, honorable name of ambiguous ethnic and etymological origins, although it does seem to muck about with bears an awful lot.  There are worse ways to be named for a bear.  "Ursula" for one has always reminded me of the sound I make when I vomit for a particularly long period.  And "Beowulf" is fine but it makes people think that any ( Read more... )

Dear self:

After finally managing to watch the Vietnam portion (rather than just the Paris Island scenes) of Full Metal Jacket, your main urge after watching it should not be to write John Winchester/Animal Mother slash, no matter how good looking Adam Baldwin was when he was that young.


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Okay, so I normally don't do this because lots of other folks and comms on my f-list have established and wonderful threads in which to do it - and I'm there too, still, and still a little keysmash-y, even the morning after.  I'll discuss this premier with ANYONE right now because it was so deliriously good and promising and ballsy and yes, once ( Read more... )