Remember that Wall Street Journal article about YA fiction? The one that made most of us see red and want to punch things? jimhines has something to say about genre bashing dumbassery.

Still talking about the upcoming DC reboot, Gail Simone has done an interview related to Barbara Gordon, Batgirl, and OracleSpeaking of which, there's finally been some ( Read more... )

Just a quick reminder that bidding closes on helpthesouth in a couple of days. Believe me when I say that huge portions of the South are still desperately in need of help right now, what with the flooding that's now hitting them on top of the storms that prompted the creation of this auction in the first place.

My thread is here, where I'm offering up a fic ( Read more... )

One of my friends, musesinspire, asked me to spread the word about another community/fandom auction that's out there. Not many people have heard about it, so I agreed to help get the word out - especially since it's very personal for her.

stop_sids was set up to help raise awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) as well as help raise money for research ( Read more... )

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Prompt claiming is open over at queer_fest. See this post for more details.

In other news, I'm sure most of you have heard that AO3 has subscriptions now (which, you know, is awesome). If you want to subscribe to me, I'm at
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I'm sure a few of you remember whoniverse1000. It's a community I set up a couple of years ago, as an attempt to get people to write 1000 different pairings featuring characters from Doctor Who and its related spin-offs. It got up to around 240 stories before, well, the year of specials happened and everyone's attention seemed to drift toward other things ( Read more... )

Just some random links. Some new, some old, and one that's personal. So write crack!tastic Whoniverse pairings and post them to whoniverse1000, people!


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Oh, lgbtfest. There are so many awesome prompts.

How can I choose just one?

So, yes, about my complete freak-out last night? I think that I just needed a few shifts off work in a row.

I'm feeling much better today, other than the occasional paranoid twinge from time to time. (But what if everyone at work secretly hates me? ... yes, yes, I know that it's crazy.) I probably slept for close to twelve hours straight(ish - it ( Read more... )