After a bunch of serious speeches - okay, and Imogen's improv but inspired speech on Homer Simpson - I came lucky last with my speech that pretty much went "gay gay lol @ media studies gay gay gay DORY! gay". I'm pretty damn proud of having spoken to half the school hall for five minutes where almost every third word or something was "gay" or " ( Read more... )

If I'd researched my Marjorie Nicholls speech even half as much as I've researched my fanfiction background, I'd have finished the thing by now.

Look, it's a survey! Go help out slasheuse!Sophie with her magazine articles and who knows, you may be quoted in a feminist magazine on the other side of the world.

Also: Why have I been looking up random Japanese stuff on Wikipedia so much lately? I swear I've researched my Digimon fanfiction more thoroughly than any schoolwork. Geeze. I'm just surprised ( Read more... )

So I realized today that Marjorie Nicholls is September 3rd and I should therefore really start my speech. I think I'll do Ellen DeGeneres. Although I had this brilliant idea to do Lady Olave Baden-Powell and recite the Promise as the intro? But I didn't know where to go after that, whereas Ellen has made numerous contributions to society, and ( Read more... )

What this Digimon Tamers fanfiction writing has made me realize is that while I'm brilliant at dialogue (and modest too), I completely lose the plot. Hell, I have no plot ( Read more... )