I wish that today had a few more hours in it.

Under the cut, links to original fic, funny vids, Sherlock-related stuff and a promptathon... ( Read more... )

My paid account is running out soon, and inevitably lj has revisited the issues that lead to Strikethrough ’07 and produced a clarification that seems to leave some grey areas. I say seems, because my computer is slo-o-o-w today, so I haven't finished reading a selection of the comments, let alone getting to the ensuing posts. At this precise ( Read more... )

Some were found via the flist (sometimes from months ago) and others from your more standard surfing. First of all, if you're not on metablog here's a request for people to take a survey on attitudes towards ownership of fanfiction.

( Other links cover nostalgia for British kids' TV, original fiction, lists of weird and wonderful words, an encouragement to write, a rant about Disney's marketing of its princesses, a dissection of anti-fanfic arguments and an interview with the POTC writers )

Links to things I found interesting on my f-list or from surfing. Starts off heavy on the Austen, is followed by real miscellany, going on to multifandom collections of fic to beeyootiful picspams.

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Because I'm a geek, I tend to look up words that I don't understand, or maybe the geeky part is in collecting those words and putting them in a list. Anyway, here are some words (and their meanings) used in fandom that sent me scuttling do the dictionary over the past 12 months - some are fandom specific, some to do with literature and linguistics ( Read more... )

This time last year, I posted a list of links that I thought might help newbies to lj and fandom (some of which had helped me). I intended to post another similar list this year, but some time last autumn I lost the posts I'd been collecting and dropped that project. What I have been doing over the past whenever, initially for myself, is collecting ( Read more... )