While I was browsing my friends of friends list, I came across p_zeitgeist's post, On romance, fanfic as genre, and the OTP paradigm meme.

So on one level, again, perhaps it's not that surprising that three dissimilar writers might all do the OTP-paradigm meme, and all come up with answers that reject the tropes of the genre romance (and of the True Love ( Read more... )

I'm procrastinating, and feeling sociable--a combo that's conducive to posting memes, and commenting like crazy. Also, this post is taking forever to write. It probably doesn't help that I get distracted by following links, and you know, occasionally doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I'll probably finish this post right before I go to bed ( Read more... )

You know how, when you try to do several things at once, sometimes you end up accomplishing nothing? Well that's what happened today. Stuff piles up! And then it piles up even more when I try to divide my attention, and now my brain doesn't want to do any heavy lifting.

So I bring you fannish observations that don't add up to much.

( Afterthoughts of the YnM DVD commentary. )

I have comments I need to reply to, but whenever I look them over, I even doubt my ability to muster up a specious reply. Then again, you could argue that all my replies are specious ( Read more... )

I confess; I'm a huge procrastinator, and lousy at time management. I should be the last person to enter a ficathon, but I did anyway, and ended up begging for an extension. What I discovered was that having fic deadlines does let me produce fic, even though I get left with the feeling that I should be rewriting it. Only, there's no time to rewrite ( Read more... )