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I came across Beta dependency? by icarusancalion the other day, and I found it really interesting. I liked how the roles of beta and cheerleader seemed to have merged in eir experience, and the idea of having someone there to bounce ideas off of from the beginning is interesting ( Read more... )

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Until some time tomorrow, djinni is hosting a free icon day. Anyone can comment and request some color icon art of anything non-fandom that they want. If you tip you can get a second one. It's pretty awesome, and djinni is super talented. A lot of people are using this as an opportunity to get character art, though I'm asking to get myself turned into a pirate ( Read more... )

So I re-watched Star Trek XI about an hour ago, for the billionth time, and I was struck by how I still get teared up and squeal-y at all of the appropriate places. I mean, usually my reactions to a film dull with repeated re-watchings, but this one keeps them all fresh. Which is awesome.

Also, I got The Children of Kings in from the library last ( Read more... )

You guys remember when I asked after recs for fics or fests about awesome characters with disabilities? Well, that's exactly what Festibility is about! This is so awesome I'm not cut tagging it.


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So I just got done watching two hours of kickass female detectives. This is kind of like those "fuck you, she's awesome" posts, except for the fact that I can't imagine anyone trying to deny these women's awesomenss (then again, I think Ginny and Cho are kickass, and nobody ever seems to agree with me). Oh well, here I go:

So first up was The ( Read more... )

My first rec is for the Female Character Love Friending Meme (find on : LJ / DW). Share the love for it, guys. The more people the better.

Now for my HP fandom ramblings. Ever since I started getting reports of DH filming ending, I started getting these sinking feelings in my stomach. ( I don't ever want the HP love to end. )

Ableist Word Profile: CrazyI’ve called out several people for using ‘crazy.*’ Unfortunately, it’s a word I hear all of the time. People on my various blog rolls/flists/circles, MLs at NaNo, family, court officers, etc have all used it, and have gotten a tongue lashing from me whenever I was able ( Read more... )

9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.

You know, this is another hard one to answer. Ideas for characters pop up out of everything and nothing at the same time. There's no real surefire method for it that I use, or anything like that. So instead of answering this, I'm going to switch over to Neil Gaiman ( Read more... )