That moment when you're writing a new super fast one-shot and you realize your fics are where happiness goes to die. George RR Martin, teach me your ways.

I'll just work on getting this update out for the multichapter then.

Le me going to movie. Promotional sequences initiate.

See a movie by the guy who directed Transformers (immediately lose some respect for it, although curious).

See images of a sunken city rising from the depths, talking about the sea as the perfect place to hide. I immediately think of Cthulu.

Me: *gasp* "Could it be...a feature film based on ( Read more... )

That moment when you decide to write a series of drabbles mixing the DC Universe with Lovecraftian mythos, knowing ahead of time that both require ridiculous amounts of research.

Whoops.

These next couple posts have kind of been a long-time coming. The one after this is more serious, so I'll start with the one that's kind of light in comparison ( Read more... )

One of these days, THINGS will be as easy as they should be on paper. Or as easy as the internet tells me they'll be.

Say there's a problem with the car. A mechanic sees a mechanical problem, an electrician sees an electrical problem, and the regular person says it's out of gas. All of these things could be the case, but the mechanic and the electrician could spend hours sifting through a complex piece of machinery looking for the problem within their area of ( Read more... )

Movie reviewers really should keep their commentary to the objective. I've never seen one that didn't come across to me as incredibly arrogant and condescending by treating their opinions as fact. I've seen too many bad reviews given to descent movies and good reviews given to clinically confused art films which only have the benefit of being ( Read more... )

The one where the hero leaves their country for a while, and upon their return they find that everything has gone to hell and the villain is now king/queen?

This is my relationship with ff.net right now.

I'm not sure how many of you have heard of this group called the Literate Union, but here are some links. One of them is an admittedly biased ( Read more... )

I just found out the girl_gamers  community is no more. Granted, I haven't hung around there for a while...but it was such a mutherfucking awesome place. It will be missed.

And apparently it shut down because of some really stupid wank. Like, unbelievably so.

Jesus, the things people will say on the internet. It's like the perfect forum for pathological liars ( Read more... )

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38766014/ns/politics-white_house

I don't know what's worse; the fact that they're denying reality, or the fact that they make 'Muslim' a type of political insult, therefore reinforcing the idea that it is a bad thing. Also, the fact that he defends religious freedom reinforces the idea? WTF, country? W.T.F?

When did our children ( Read more... )