Thank you so much 7veilsphaedra or the lovely card and the ornament! It's as treasured as it was unexpected. It even made it to the Christmas tree because we are a lazy bunch and we only take it down when it starts losing the leaves. So thanks a lot ( Read more... )

Thank you for the v-gifts

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Thanks to all of you dear friends who left kind words about the kitten. Had a couple of bad days and dealt with them the fangirl way by looting Tumblr, watching heartbreaking kdrama (The Equator Man because Lee Jun Hyuk, ok) and consuming copious amounts of sweet stuff. Time to go back to lurking the job portals and dealing with RL in general ( Read more... )

Back home from the visit, thanks all for the good wishes. I purposefully didn't take the comp with me, then I remembered what a bunch the extended family is, hopelessly provincial, incredibly presumptuous and unapologetically boisterous about it. Ack ( Read more... )

Icy said the fic should be done in 3,000 words.

I said 6,000 and we are lucky.

Right now it's 10,000 and we are not done yet.

Fucking Norse gods.

This entry was originally posted at http://sphinxofthenile.dreamwidth.org/137510.html.

This year I am, once again, involved in teaching a course at uni. Except, this time I am actually assigned to it. Meaning I am now officially holding a seminar on academic writing. It is actually scary seeing my name under the course listing. But it's also kind of OMGWTFYEY. I am as of yet undecided.

First class is in nine hours. Maybe I should go ( Read more... )

Just because I should be working on my thesis, but I've just been reminded of this and it amuses me so.

So, once upon a time, when we started writing this badass tapeworm fic (not the Atsushi/Issay one, another), we had this magnificient idea that our main character hooked up with a guy in college and got into BDSM that way. It was a really good ( Read more... )

Originally posted by rachelmanija at Say Yes to Gay YA
Sherwood Smith and I have a post up at Genreville, about how an agent offered to represent a YA novel we'd written on the condition that we make a gay character straight or remove him from the book.

I have copied the post here for the benefit of people who'd like to discuss it here. However, please note ( Read more... )

Radnóti Miklós
SEVENTH ECLOGUE

Do you see, it's nearing night and the barbed wire-hemmed wild oak
fence, the barracks, hovering, are soaked up by the evening.
The slow gaze releases the confines of our imprisonment
and just the mind, just the mind is conscious of the tautness of the wires.
Do you see, dear; here, even imagination can only be ( Read more... )

I have an exam tomorrow. Property Rights, which, trust me, is not exactly a piece of cake.

Except, _ice_lady_ made me watch Fast Five. (I blame amcw177  for that one, YES I DO. And Han. Definitely Han.) So, logically, there must be a reasonable explanation as to why there is suddenly 2000 words of a Dominic/Han fic on my computer. Right?

RIGHT?

And would someone like ( Read more... )