1. Cruel to be kind. At some point in the story, someone is going to do something that seems appalling, inexcusable, even unforgivable. They may well be hated for it. And then, somewhere down the line, you're going to find out something about that character that turns the whole thing around and makes everybody feel like crap for misjudging them. (I ( Read more... )

Needing something to cheer me up after the horrible train wreck of FBOFW these last few days (Lynn Johnson, you have two days to pull this storyline out of the toilet. I am not optimistic), I turned to my f-list. And superversive, bless him, came through:

I had already read (or watched) all the really seminal English-language fantasy works of [1977], except ( Read more... )

Gacked from lizbee by way of everybody else:

Go here and look through random quotes until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe. Repost in your journal.1. The unexamined life is not worth living ( Read more... )

( Which Biblical Villain Are You? )

Gacked from yahtzee63:

How many times has someone on your friends list posted about something and you were really confused, but you didn't want to ask because you knew you SHOULD know? How many times have you felt guilty asking a close LJ friend a question that should be obvious ( Read more... )

This is a mega-cool idea for a meme, although like yahtzee63 (from whom I gacked it just now) I think I'm going to have a hard time answering it for anybody else. Still:

Pretend for a minute that the only contact you have ever had with me is through my fic. We've never exchanged LJ comments or emails, never hung out in chat or on IM, never talked on the ( Read more... )

It's everywhere by now, but I gacked this particular version from npkedit:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and two deaths in your journal, including the year.

March 23

Neat Facts:1801 - Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his ( Read more... )

Gacked from infiniteviking:

Step 1: Put iTunes/your music program of choice on random ( Read more... )

Or... not so much. But anyway:

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Since the baby has been insanely unreasonable (for him, anyway) over the past few days, and I end up having to carry him around 3/4ths of the day and frantically rush about trying to do household stuff in the few precious moments that he's happy/sleeping, it's been pretty hard to get anything creative done lately. Also, I'm still racking my brains ( Read more... )