I've been seeing bits and bobs floating past on Twitter over the last few days about a wankery situation happening on Tumblr around AO3 (and the existence of "olds" in fandom, heh). It's...a little rage inducing.

If you want to get some good discussion and a bit of background, this post by
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I've been playing around this morning with a new service that seems to be pitching itself as the new place for communities, particularly fandom ones: ImzyIt doesn't seem to be particularly friendly for personal blogs like this--they're doable but awkward--but there are already a ton of communities there and I'm guessing they'll get more active as ( Read more... )

*blows dust off the furniture ( Read more... )

After today, I am going to be off work for six entire, whole days. It will be glorious. I need the break so much, just to catch up on sleep ( Read more... )

A topic prompt from
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As anyone following me on Twitter or Tumblr would have noticed, last month I went to England for my first Worldcon: Loncon3. And then I failed to write about it UNTIL NOW ( Read more... )

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All the US shows are premiering this week, which is yay-ful. There is also Merlin currently running and Spooks started this week ( Read more... )

So, today has started off kind of sucky and I'm hoping that this is a sign that things will get better rather than an early predictor for the rest of the week ( Read more... )

Last night I finally got to go to knit night, after missing two weeks in a row for various reason. I'd missed my knitters. We were discussing Sock Summit and some of the insanity (not all connected to SS09, although some definitely was) that has been going around Ravelry lately. In fact, it's been so bad at times that I made the remark that "They' ( Read more... )