Dear Avengers Fanfic Writers:

It is well known that I can't stand comprehend Loki fans. I have, grudgingly, come to accept the viewpoint that Marvel Universe Loki is not the Loki of Norse legend. Fine, whatever. But there are times, like now, when you have to picture me with gritted teeth and steam coming out my ears from sheer incoherent .... ( Read more... )

(...cranky arachnid is having a spammy day. Deal with it ( Read more... )

Dear Sherlock Fanfic Writers,

Okay, this is really for ALL writers, but as I'm currently obsessed with mostly reading Sherlock fic these days, Immagonna take it out on you ( Read more... )

It seems to be one of those days when I'm posting a lot. Deal.

Anyway, I've been rereading Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, which is one of my two faves of his books (the other being Still Life with Woodpecker). I have a love/hate relationship with Robbins. His imagination and use of language are fuckin' amazing, and so are lots of his ideas ( Read more... )

The third round of voting for the Torchwood Writer In A Drawer Fic Competition Round 4 is open for business!

GET THEE HENCE AND VOTE, DAMMIT!

First, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.

Next, read EIGHTEEN FABULOUS STORIES written anonymously by most talented writers in TW/DW fandom. HOW WILL YOU EVER CHOOSE? BUT CHOOSE YOU MUST!

Finally, VOTE! ( Read more... )

It's too hot to write. WIAD will have to wait.

It's too hot to do anything except lie naked under a fan, drink lots of water and try to keep the cats offa me. UGH FURRY BODIES UGH. I do pity the cats, though, poor furry things.

On the other hand, I CAN HAZ MEDZ! I'd go YAY but it's too fuckin' hot.

yay

ugh

HEY YOU! YEAH, YOU!

The second round of voting for the Torchwood Writer In A Drawer Fic Competition Round 4 is open for business!

Voting is easy:

1) READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.

2) READ MANY GREAT STORIES. Twenty-one stories of no more than 300 words, each written anonymously by one of the most talented writers in TW/DW fandom. HOW WILL ( Read more... )

HEY YOU!  YEAH, YOU!

The first round of voting for the Torchwood Writer In A Drawer Fic Competition Round 4 is open for business!

Voting is easy:

1) READ THE FUCKING INSTRUCTIONS
2) READ MANY GREAT STORIES.  Don't fret; the stories in this round are way short -- there's a 200 word limit!
3) VOTE!  Votes are due at 3:00 CDT, Sunday June 13.
4) Profit!

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I just signed up for Round 4 of Writer In A Drawer. WTF WAS I THINKING? OMG I'MAGONNADIE! *runs and flails*

Yanked from a whole buncha people:

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose ( Read more... )