I don't know if I've framed it in these terms before, but one of the plots I am super in favor of are crossovers between dark serious fandoms and light happy bouncy fandoms, where rather than the light happy bouncy fandom characters being torn apart by wild beasts or otherwise being absorbed into the grimdarkness aura the grimdark characters ( Read more... )

Ugh, shark week. ( (My favorite euphemism!) )

Something I noticed today: recently, reading about young men laughing and talking and making plans makes me feel kind of nostalgic and sad, but reading about young women (or young women and young men) doing the same thing makes me feel confidant and cheerful.

This may be an aftereffect from re-reading Timely Errors,wherein a bunch of nice young ( Read more... )

I am in no way an expert on Shakespeare. I have watched perhaps five of his plays, and read another one or two. I have read an excellent book on them (which, sadly, I cannot at present recall the title of). But here is my opinion, which I for some reason feel the need to share.

I don't think they deserve all the acclaim they have been given.

Not ( Read more... )

You don't have to write about white people.

You don't have to write about Christian* people.

You don't have to write about rich people.

You don't have to write about straight people.

You don't have to write about young people.

You don't have to write about pretty people.

You don't have to write about cisgender people.

You don't have to write about just ( Read more... )