Flist, flist on the internets...

[splash_the_cat]

Since I have apparently forgotten how to write, I have been catwaxing by reorganizing my various delicious links, and am now looking to fill in some holes in my internet pack-rat collection for possibly nefarious purposes

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[aurora_novarum]

Someone pointed me to this series of articles by "Merlin Missy":

Mary Sue, Who Are You?

And

The Original Mary Sue Litmus Test

(at the bottom of the latter...er, above the comments...is a link to other fanfic meta essays by this person).

[splash_the_cat]

Thanks, Aurora!

[mrv3000]

Catwaxing? What??

[splash_the_cat]

You know I drop that kind of stuff just to make you all confused, right?

Catwaxing: the art of procrastination, doing a useless pr other trivial task to avoid other work. Often used by writers. An alternate is cat vacuuming.

[mrv3000]

I'd never heard that before! I am totally using that now. :D

[ultranos_fic]

For some reason, I saw "catwaxing" and thought "yak-shaving", which is a similar, yet entirely different phenomenon.

Yes, I am quite certain that previous sentence makes perfect sense.

[blue_meridian]

Now, see, there should be a technical term for 'internet pack-rat'.