1. True story: the other night I barbecued some chicken and had a few beers and then suddenly I was all hey let's remember how to integrate by parts, FOR THE LOLS. And then I dug out my first-year calculus textbook and got down to bsns.

I am so street, y'all, Toronto better watch the fuck out.

2. Re: that Doctor Who casting rumour which has been ( Read more... )

HEY LET'S START A MEME OKAY

Behind the cut are three Wordle images created from stories I'm currently working on (for assorted values of "working on", natch). One is Hornblower, one Atlantis and one SG-1. Here's how this is going to roll:1. Pick one (or more) and take a guess at what might be going on. (Or just make something up.) Write at least a ( Read more... )

Blah blah Hemingway. Give me a character from any fandom I know and I'll write a six word story.

1. Decimated means "10% destroyed", not "obliterated". It's right there in the first two syllables, people, figure it the $%^# out already.¹
2. "Phase" is what Geordi does to the injector coils when they don't work right. "Fazed" is what J.Shep is when a space princess wants to get it on. Yes, it really is spelled that way.
3. It's called the subjunctive, ( Read more... )

Questions on writing, via babel: ( meme-o-tron )

The intersection of Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Ian McEwan and the Second World War was already something likely to completely break my brain, so it's probably a good thing nobody told me they were making this film, but then I saw the pictures, and I just, yeah. I lasted right up until the one where he's in UNIFORM and sfjdiodgjiofdg. (Also, I' ( Read more... )

Reason #2412434554 why I live in the Best Country On Earth: People from another country can post on Craigslist and perfect strangers with accordions will come out on a rainy day to help them get married. [via sonatine, who I think counts as an honourary citizen by now]

So I lied about having fic for Sunday, but thanks to the fine folks at rough_magic the one story I ( Read more... )

Wouldn't it be great if one could just friend a single tag on someone's journal? Like, say I'm interested in a given person's periodic Battlestar Galactica ramblings/fic but don't really care about their twenty Supernatural posts a day (not talking about anyone here, this is a completely hypothetical situation); provided they tagged the respective ( Read more... )

yes, yes, YES. I have seen this in practically every fandom I've ever read in, which is, y'know, a lot. It particularly irks me in Pirates, where it tends to take the form of "...and then Norrington realized he had never really loved Elizabeth, because he was totally gay for [Jack/Gillette/Will/Davy Jones]", which, guys, no. Setting aside the fact ( Read more... )

This post has some interesting interview material with Ron Moore re: Galactica season 4, edited to be spoiler-free - it's from a while back but I hadn't seen it before. I'm excited for new episodes this fall instead of having to wait until January. I'm especially excited for Ensign Ro (Also, I read a post in the same journal mentioning how much ( Read more... )