Thank you to all who sent birthday wishes. That was very nice. It was a really putrid day, as my birthdays so often are. I mean, starting the day with a fraud alert on your credit card, so very much not fun. Happy Birthday to you from Chase Account Holder Card Services. Fortunately, I had already ordered my peanut butter pretzels and coffee from ( Read more... )

It looks like utter crack, so blame snacky and animus_wyrmis, pick a trope from this list (or really, any trope -- I noticed sex pollen isn't here and all those tropes involving evil overlords) and provide a fandom or a pairing (canon or OC is OK) and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write ( Read more... )

The title of my autobiography and first chapter would be:

Damning With Faint Praise
      Chapter 1, "Why there is always a but"

Screwtape in Suburbia:  Confessions of an instigator
      Chapter 1, "At the promptings of Jesus Christ, I can no longer consume your cookies liberally sprinkled with sugar"

Both are very relevant to my state of mind at the ( Read more... )