Okay, time for a Pass-Along Fic Thing! Why? 'Cos I just went through my WIPs and found something I'd titled "The Gallardo Scheme". Intrigued, I clicked on it, and found the paragraph below, which as far as I can tell has nothing to do with Gallardos at all. I really can't remember where I was going with this, but I think it has the potential to be ( Read more... )

"James is like some casual, gentleman tinkerer yoking a homemade antigravity drive to the derailleurs of his bicycle because he is tired of being late to church every Sunday."

Michael Chabon on M.R. James, in the book Maps & Legends: Reading and Writing along the Borderlands.I'm not the only one who thinks that sentence could be about James May, ( Read more... )

Wrote this in a comment to a post over at fanficrants, figured I might as well share it here, too.

Random Guy No One's Ever Heard Of*: I AM THE STIG!
General Public: Wut? Never heard of him.
Fandom, et al: We know, now be quiet!
The Alien Thing That IS The Stig: Bitch, STFU!
Random Guy No One's Ever Heard Of: LOOK, I WROTE A BOOK ABOUT ME BEING THE STIG!
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Stigs Anonymous on the Book of Faces.

Go join.

"Tell me, Jeremy; when you tested the Koenigsegg CCX a few years back, did you at any point feel it just wasn't mad enough?"
"Honestly?"
"Yes."
"No. Not at all."
"Well, apparently Koenigsegg themselves thought so, which is why they've made a sequel. And they've named it AgeraI want. A lot. And if they pitch it against the Danish Zenvo ST1... *makes ( Read more... )

One week of being confused at university level down, and so far, so good. I've relised I kinda like the feeling of vague, nigh constant befuddlement - It means I'm Doing Stuff without knowing exactly what I'm doing, which means I'm doing something new ( Read more... )

( Big photos ho! And there be text too, w00t! )

Today I've eaten nothing but Pringles, a piece of chocolate, and half a pizza, accompanied by cola. There's more cola, snacks, and chocolate in the kitchen. Nom ( Read more... )

What is it about November that makes me want to write a lot...?

Lately I've barged right into the fandom of Top Gear, and ye gods, the amount of fantastic cracky porny angsty fluffy fics is simply astounding! :D I found this massive list of crack!fic that'll have me reading 'til Christmas, and that's just the crack. The amount of fabulous porn ( Read more... )