I'm editing right now (NO REALLY. I'M EDITING. RIGHT NOW.) and engaged for tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday, but I can see an uninterrupted stretch of time on Sunday, and meanwhile I've been adding up the time I've had on my hands this summer and thinking about how little I have to show for it, and starting to feel restless and dissatisfied. Once ( Read more... )

Deadline for the next run of fan_extension courses is August 27th. I'm already overscheduled next semester T_T so I thought I'd teach one. Right now I'm looking at two that could be okay.

The Evolution of FanonThis would open with a short definition of "fanon" and a call for students to introduce themselves with the most bizarre, anti-canonical fanon they ( Read more... )

Thinking about it, there is someone on my flist I am 80% sure is evil. I mean, not EVIL. Questionable. Prone to drama. Lies occasionally. Possibly someone I shouldn't be sharing personal information with**. But very entertaining.

**though I think it's harmless. I don't say anything damaging and none of it is a secret, so who cares?

Poll Ev0l E-friends ( Read more... )

Splitting this off from the previous post, because it was getting long. Apologies to anyone who'd already filled out the poll.

( tl;dr )

I had no idea Lawrence Yep was such an unsung hero. Poll!

Poll Familiarity Test

1. Updated the gmail accounts with Vampire Knight chapters 10-18.

2. Let's talk about yaoi manga.

( Mainichi Seiten )

Out of curiosity, which one of these would you rather see:

( one )

( pros and cons )

team7 and I were talking about the revival of fanthology as a themed recs comm. The way it would work is: there is a new theme every two weeks, which is announced two weeks in advance. During that time, group members post fanfiction reccomendations that somehow fit the theme. All fandoms welcome ( Read more... )

Where are you?

Poll LJ Cluster Poll

Homework = death.

Some links, for reference and to prevent future spam:
• Gmail tools and pluggins
• Permetaform's slash theory essay

People talking about their writing:
pinkpuruu here
b_hallward here and here

Have you ever had one of those all-nighters where you think, this is so STUPID, it's only three hours of work so why am I spending all night on it? Yeah. On the plus side I did manage to finish two books during my "break" from lab-report writing. (On the minus side, they weren't very good books. ;_; C.J. Cherryh, I'm realizing, can be almost ( Read more... )