It felt more important to write another post (writing practice!) than to answer comments, but xoxoxoxo to you all for comments on the last post. People are still around ( Read more... )

My recent coming out of fic hibernation made me remember that I had never actually gotten around to posting my fic to A03. I know, I know, I'm only about four or five years late to this party. :) But in case anyone is interested, here be fic. Somewhat curated, so you won't find every snippet ever, or a lot of pellucid: the early years. But most of ( Read more... )

So it's still a few days before freedom and my triumphant return to fandom, but I saw this over at zinke's, and it looked like fun, and, well, I thought it would help get me in the mood for said triumphant return. Plus, it's the beginning of the month, and that seemed like a good occasion to start something like this. (I would apologize for the ensuing ( Read more... )

After spending an unpleasant Christmas and Boxing Day with some sort of stomach bug of doom, I managed to recover, go to Philadelphia for a lovely but exhausting couple of days, and return home last night unhindered by any of the air travel horrors that have assailed so many people in recent days. Not the best holiday break in the world, but not ( Read more... )

Via chaila43, pinkraygun.com's list of Top 100 Fiction Femmes of Genre Film and Television, 2008 Edition. Very awesome list!!! Most of my favorite fictional gals make an appearance, and I particularly commend the blurbs for Aeryn Sun (#58--not sure I'd agree with that ranking...) and Zoe Washburne (#16 ( Read more... )

Perhaps you've seen this around, but I highly recommend this article about tv_elf and the friendships we make in fandom. The shows, the characters, the fannish stuff is all fun and important, but this whole thing is really about the people and the communities. We laugh and cry and squee and love each other, and that's pretty damned great ( Read more... )

Yesterday I participated in a discussion about what this whole fanfic thing is all about, anyway. Yesterday and today I participated in two different discussions about female characters. I propose that there are some similar principles underlying both sets of discussions.

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I woke up laughing from a dream last night. In this dream, I was at a carnival with chaila43 (no idea how I knew it was she, since I have no visual referent for her, but such things are unnecessary in dreams--the connection soon becomes obvious, at least if you've been reading our BSG exchanges of late), and we were playing these carnival games that looked ( Read more... )

This has been making the rounds, and it's fantastic: Your Friends Are Not Watching the Same Show You Are (And That's Okay)So what shows do I watch ( Read more... )

So yesterday, in two different conversations ( this one with daybreak777, vagueish spoilers for the extended Adama/Roslin scene from "Unfinished Business", and this one with dm_lunsford about Daniel/Janet) I found myself pondering what exactly it is we mean when we talk about "shipping" characters. So I thought I'd open it up for general discussion because I'm curious ( Read more... )