Throwing a question out there to the room: What do you think are some of the qualities that results in some piece of media, any piece of media, picking up a let's say small to medium-sized fandom? (Not necessarily juggernaut-sized, which I think is The Claw as much as anything.)

I'm asking partly just because I haven't been talking on here much ( Read more... )

You know those kids' folded paper puzzles that display different pictures or words depending on how you refold them, like the one on the Community opening credits?

1 - What do you call those?

2 - If you don't mind answering, what country/approximate region of that country do you live in? (You can be as specific or vague as you like - I just think ( Read more... )

Orion has been trying to get me to watch The Expanse for years. YES I KNOW IT'S GOOD. I do want to watch it! However, apparently season 4 is coming out in a few days and since there's no time for me to marathon the rest of the show beforehand (plus, I'm not really up for something large and heavy right now anyway), he's switched to trying to get me ( Read more... )

I have the sort of completely bonkers writing question that is incredibly hard to google for: would cell towers in 2001 or 2002 work with a modern smartphone? Assuming you went back in time to 2002. Which is what has happened to this character in the thing I'm writing. That is, would your modern smartphone have bars and be able to place calls, or ( Read more... )

I need music recs! (It's for a vid ( Read more... )

I don't know how to keep my Kindle tidy. HALP. How do other people do this ( Read more... )

Do any of you guys have any experience working or volunteering at a pet rescue place? (Specifically, a cat rescue.) The book I'm currently writing has a main character who works at a place like that, and I have some questions about what the daily routine would be like and that kind of thing - with the caveat that it's a tropey romance novel so ( Read more... )

What does "soft" mean, in the slangy sense that it's used on Tumblr? Sometimes capitalized, sometimes not. I've picked up a sense that it's used to indicate the opposite of edgy, basically, with a sort of vaguely fetishy connotation? a little like "sweet" in Lolita subculture? but ... idk, so tell me, internets.

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Could someone who uses the Tumblr mobile client please go to http://suncutter.tumblr.com on your phone or other mobile device, and tell me if you see a link to the first page of the comic at the top of the page, and if it actually works ( Read more... )

Hey, reader-type people, I have a question for you! In thinking about how to promote my books, I've been thinking about where I actually get book information from: personal blogs, author's twitter, ads, Amazon recommendations, "just saw the book on a shelf", etc. Last night I sat down and made an actual list for all the recent books I've read, but ( Read more... )