So it's been about two and a half months since I updated. I think that might be the longest I've gone without updating. There's been a lot happening.
The most significant of which is, I'm in Africa. I've been living in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, for the past month and a half, working at a human rights organization. I do like Kampala ( Read more... )

Okay, so I have lots of news, and have actually had lots of news for a while, but never really felt like taking the time to update. So...here we go, in no particular order ( Read more... )

Two more days until I post my Big Bang. Of course, my feelings at this point are, "It SUUUUUCKS. NO ONE IS EVER GOING TO WANT TO READ THIS THING EVER. I'M WAY TOO WORDY AND MY PROSE IS SO PURPLE IT'S BARNEY AND I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO SHOW INSTEAD OF TELL ( Read more... )

My lecture on Fan Fiction and Feminism today was awesome (though more about fanart and fanvidding than fic). The professor who gave the lecture said she's a member of OTW, so I just looked her up there and she's even a former board member and involved with several committees ( Read more... )

Yeah, I suck at updating ( Read more... )

I'm tired, and I have to be up early tomorrow, but I don't really want to go to bed. Tomorrow I go to DC ( Read more... )

Last night I finished that third fic -- 22,400 words. It actually feels very bare, though -- not a skeleton, but certainly a very gaunt body. I think there might be more to this story, but I also think I need either some distance, some help, or both, to bring it out ( Read more... )

Star Trek is kind of screwing with my usual fandom MO ( Read more... )

Oh my God, Star Trek is doing what even Harry Potter fandom never managed: I am plotting crazy supernatural AU and also reading mpreg ( Read more... )

Oh my god, you guys. I must miss academia, because so far in my meta about the Star Trek movies, I have: 1, referenced Aristotle (the Poetics), and 2, quoted Joseph Campbell (The Hero with a Thousand Faces). It's also over 10,000 words and I'm not yet done with The Search for Spock ( Read more... )