Everyone must watch the Martian immediately ( Read more... )

In a new post, list ten fic that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” works, or even all the same pairing or fandom, just the fics that have touched you or that stuck with you somehow.It's pretty interesting how the fics that have stayed with me are indicative ( Read more... )

This trailer for The Little Prince movie made me cry, because The Little Prince was just so important to my life, and the trailer made me remember the sentiment of reading the bits of the story that were quoted in the trailer.

At the risk of bringing too much RL in, I would like to say that this is the best tribute I've read all week: AN ANKH-MORPORKIAN TRIBUTE.

Although the idea of Pterry and the person who inspired the tribute meeting in the afterlife is kind of terrifying. Terrifyingly possible, but also terrifying.

Due to some RL happenings, I was looking for a good place to write my thoughts. I found myself thinking that there was no good place, then had to stop and go, "waaaaaaaaaait a minute". How can that be possible when I have a DW, an LJ, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter ( Read more... )

I have a very curious habit when it comes to books, because I almost only ever borrow them from libraries. I guess I developed that habit because I had the fortune of having access to many good libraries 1 in my time 2, and my reading habits outstripped my spending ability 3When I turned 16 I was in a good library located near the lecture theatre my ( Read more... )

I had Grand Plans! of making a 1 January post, but then I was too busy watching the countdowns. And then I had Grand Plans!! of finishing the novel before I went for my holiday, but I forgot that 15 days is not a lot of time, and then my brain kicked a fuss and only wanted to write 350 words a day...

So I tricked my brain a little by writing in ( Read more... )

F-list! I need your opinions on something ( Read more... )

Again stealing things from other people's memes, I found a topic from this post about fannish growing up where the poster is asked to write about how life and age and experiences has changed his/her taste in fannish stuff ( Read more... )

Finding the crush on the trains intolerable, I've started taking the bus to work. It's a very different experience because the bus is more open, and the route is straight down an expressway rather than stopping multiple times along a train track ( Read more... )