I haven't posted here in years, but I thought I'd throw out an update and a Witcher II fic. So, I got married over Christmas, which was awesome. ... And I wrote something! I haven't written fic since 2008, I think. If anyone want to beta this thing, drop a comment. I might post it over on Archive of Our Own.

Title: Succubus
Author: shadow_shimmer ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Susan Bordo's The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private and I'm trying to process. (I'm re-reading her Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body now.)

( ramblings about the male body, the female gaze, male sexuality in the media, myths about the nature of women's sexual choices, size DOES matter, visual appeal in fandom, and spoilers for Eastern Promises. )

I’ve seen those year in review memes, but holy shit, mine would just be a lot of whining. So, I figured a ficcish year in review would be less traumatic for everyone.

( the story’s in the ground )

Here's my reasoning: I'm sick--like hacking up a lung sick--and I'm tired, and the Nuggets? They're just playing the Knicks, right? I can stay at home and sleep, no problem. They can make it through a game without me.

Only, really? They can't. Because at the end of the fourth quarter, Melo, in the process of defending his shiny new BF JR, got ( Read more... )

Never underestimate the power of a woman in a strappy plethar thing.

( Unexpected ramblings about SG-1. Spoilers for Avalon. )

Now see, that header isn't as random as it COULD be.

( Twisted by the darkside, I am (Spoilers for LOST and ROTS) )

( 5 Questions from Vita )

It's blizzarding out.

Stephen King, Storm of the Century style. I mean this is the kind of howling in the eaves wind that gives you nightmares.

Really.

I can only hope that it keeps it up through tomorrow night and I get a last minute reprieve from lecturing on medieval cathedrals and giving midterm re-takes.

( People are strange when you're a stranger, or ghosts from academia past )

Have you all ever read any of the Icelandic Sagas? I didn't think you had. ;) It's okay, it's just that I was re-reading some of them since links to the online versions were right there next to the links to "The Song of Roland" and various versions of the morte d'ArthurAnyway, they're all rings and swords and wizards and wolves and valkyries too, ( Read more... )

Ah, I was kidding about Taos ( Read more... )