So I know that userscripts.org is down, but that doesn't mean a script I've already downloaded and implemented should stop working does it? And yet I can no longer save filters on AO3. That line is gone from the list of inputs on the right when I am in a tag. And using the "Search within results" field doesn't work with either the filter_ids number ( Read more... )

Community: Documentary Filmmaking Redux

Without specific spoilers, let me just say that while Community certainly has its issues and I understand why people might stop watching it, if you enjoy meta in your fiction, if you enjoy stories about how stories get made and told, coated in layers of tasty pop culture references, then this episode is what ( Read more... )

They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing-these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many ( Read more... )

Whenever he told the story, Rat had a tendency to stop now and then, interrupting the flow, inserting little bits of clarification or bits of analysis or personal opinion. It was a bad habit, Mitchell Sanders said, because all that matters is the raw material, the stuff itself, and you can't clutter it up with your own half-baked commentary. That ( Read more... )