I have been banging my head against my keyboard about this for the past week, until I realized that people here may know ( Read more... )

I have recently been extremely annoyed by the pervasive narrative of sex and sexuality in USian mainstream culture, particularly as represented by romance novels. Lest people think I am bashing romance novels, I suspect much of this narrative is in a lot of USian mainstream culture, particularly mainstream porn; I focus on romances since that's ( Read more... )

So. I have had pet rats for the past 7 years, and although I love them to pieces, I think their short lifespans (2-3 years) are really wearing on me emotionally. (Poor Ed-rat. I think he is getting lonely too... he is getting kind of neurotic when I play with him ( Read more... )

I have pretty bad insomnia at times, often because I feel like my brain wants to keep going. I used to try listening to music, especially musicals or ballads, as the narrative thread keeps my brain occupied, but lately I have discovered the joy of audiobooks ( Read more... )

ETA: Is anyone planning on going to Potlatch and/or Fogcon next March ( Read more... )

OMG people! I have my plot brain back! Not only that, but I am suddenly feeling the urge to read really dense SF with lots of worldbuilding and aliens. This is extremely strange, given my three-year-or-so romance novel spree and my general tendency toward the fantasy side of sf/f ( Read more... )

And once more, I drop off the face of DW/LJ. I haven't even been reading, so if anything's happened in the past week or so, I have completely missed it ( Read more... )

So! I watched a Takarazuka show and found it very captivating despite not knowing what the story was and not really knowing what was going on! I would like to get DVDs so I can watch more, but they are incredibly expensive ($100~ per ( Read more... )

So I am renting an iPhone in Korea and have been using a combination of Calibre and Stanza to manage the ebooks I have and to share them between devices. Is there any way to read library books with Adobe DRM on the iPhone? Usually I have to open them in Adobe Digital Editions on my laptop, which isn't too conducive to reading on the subway. I am ( Read more... )

1. The new code push for DW is awesome! Especially the expandable cut tag, omg. On another note, I currently xpost to LJ with comments on LJ closed. If that's the case, would people find a link on my DW entry going to the xposted LJ entry useful or not?
2. I am going to Korea soon! Rec me things to do ( Read more... )