I plead sleep debt, your honor. (I can't stay up to watch the Daily Show or the Colbert Report anymore! *sob*)

worldserpent posted about the many many many faults of Katekyou Hitman Reborn!, and why she was entertained by it anyway. A few weeks ago lacewood made a similar, but much less forgiving post, but then went on to BECOME A FAN ANYWAY WTF. This is seriously ( Read more... )

I hope everyone had a very happy retail holiday!

Christmas post @ the RL journal.

The books I got this year were:

Death of a Writer by Michael Collins. Does Collins realize that it is possible to introduce a new character or piece of scenery, etc, without immediately launching into that thing's entire history?
The Egyptologist by Arthur ( Read more... )

1. Some recs to fanthology for last month's theme Trained Killer here. I SERIOUSLY MEANT TO DO THIS THIRTY DAYS AGO.

2. Also on the I Meant To front, finally got around to updating the wordpress with posts from September and October. (These are just repeats of stuff already posted here, don't bother.)

3. New journal layout! It's only a standard ( Read more... )

Nobuta wo Produce 01: ( Read more... )

Thought I'd work at getting my fic journal up to date (for once) and I remembered these. Letters, written last January, for svz_insanity on her birthday. (Stacey, you don't mind, do you ( Read more... )

aishuu and ninjatrauma are running recology, a sort of crash course in Methods of Reccing. I haven't joined because uhhhh I dunno. Long recs bore me, I'd much rather see a one-sentence summary and skim the story myself. But hypocritically, I wish more people had joined, because the comments in the introduction post are full of great rec websites. In particular,

This ( Read more... )

Surely someone, somewhere has already written about Sai and Amidimaru's dorky friendship? If not, this should be rectified. Immediately. If you are reading this, you have my permission to do so. Think of it as the Steal-OK of fanfic ideas.

Linkblogging!

1. New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie
2. Grand Line Vine: The One Piece Fandom ( Read more... )

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(Going on forty hours of no sleep! ...I really have to stop doing this, it's so unproductive.)

Today's lecture was on how war changes language, for an example of this we watched the final episode of the cult British comedy television series Blackadder. ( spoilers I guess )

from harukami:

Rec-Go-Round: Rec me one story you've written that you're proud of, any genre, here on my LJ.

Then go forth and ask the same in yours.

All comers welcome! Even completely unknown persons!

(Speaking of recs, worldserpent talks about what works and what doesn't, and wants to know what are some good liscensed anime series to rent, netflix-style?)