See, I can still do it...

Thanks to the kind person who nominated Mystical Recharge at the Willowy Goodness Awards site!


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 Snagged from elisi  and ladypeyton :

Go look at your blog. Find the last Fandom-related thing you posted. The characters in that post are now your team-mates in the Zombie Apocalypse. How fucked are you?

My team-mates in the zombie apocalypse are... Buffy, Xander, Giles, Anya, Willow and Tara. I think I'm pretty safe, all things considered. :)

Although it's ( Read more... )

Stolen from ceciliaj  - 25 questions about my views on erotic fanfic. The meme includes 8 questions on vocabulary, so how could I resist?

( You are about to view content that may be unsuitable for people who've led a sheltered life. Or are children. )

Since Emmie is awfully persuasive:

1.) Go to my fic lists and pick out a line or two from one of my stories. (Must be a full line, please -- no sentence fragments or speech tags or other such nonsense.)  Fic List 2006-08  Fic List 2009 -10

2.) I will respond with which story of mine I think it's from.

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There's a thread on this over on the RPGnet forum, and I thought it would be fun to give it a go here.

Describe your country's history - not as it really was, but as the average person in your country remembers it. What are the major events that everybody knows about? What's taught in schools? What do your politicians and media talk about when they ( Read more... )

There's a song I remember from long ago which contains lyrics that I always found really evocative:

Their lives ran in circles so small,
They thought they'd seen it all;
And they couldn't make a place for
A girl who'd seen the ocean.

('Memories of East Texas' by Michelle Shocked)

The reason it stuck in my mind was, well, I couldn't really conceive ( Read more... )

I've seen this meme going around before, and I've always wondered how to judge which is the "closest book to me". There's a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf just behind my left shoulder, and the book closest to my hip isn't the same as the one closest to my shoulder... and if I reach out my hand, it's yet another book that's the closest.

And if they're ( Read more... )

This site might be of interest to anyone who's either British or has British ancestry. It can tell you how many other people share your surname - and more interestingly, whereabouts in the country they come from. The site also has data from both 1998 and 1881, so you can see how the distribution has changed over the intervening century.

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As long-term readers will know, I hardly ever memes, especially ones about myself rather than about my work. But I'm also trying desperately not to look at anything 8.34-related, and menomegirl  called me out specifically to do this one, so what the hell...

( If it's 'three things' why does the first question ask for six things? )

I saw this on metafandom, and thought it might be an interesting way to distract myself while trying to avoid all the people talking about an issue of the comic I haven't read yet. :-)

The question being asked was "Does your heroine wear a skirt? Does she perform femininity?" Now, I think we all know what Buffy's attitude to such things is:

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