I am reading a discussion about how Steve and Bucky in Avengers (or Marvel? I am shaky on the differences, I am not into comics) would not be into pop psychology and would not find going to a psychologist/therapist natural and helpful, and thinking "Oh yes ( Read more... )

The fact that I am not sure how I feel about RPS haven't much stopped me in reading it - and, apparently, it doesn't stop me from inventing/plotting it. The writing/showing to people stage is, however, more complicated...

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“The online theft of American intellectual property is no different than the theft of products from a store" - Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX ( Read more... )

More and more I start noticing that in online 'ideological' conflicts (probably not just the online ones, but these are more convenient for observation) the 'good' side sooner or later starts behaving just like the 'bad' side. You know, something like 'group A has weird ideas and bashes anyone who disagrees with them; we don't approve and we will ( Read more... )

And now they are thinking of a Federal-level law for this stupidity of ours. And I'm not even surprised, but I keep being surprised by homophobia on the fandom level (from an anon meme type thingy: "I am annoyed at people rallying against this law. Come on, people, do you really think that propaganda of homosexuality is normal ( Read more... )

This... this is like that old "I'd listen to So-and-so read a phone book": Sir Ian McKellen reads an instruction on how to change a flat tyre. In a good old shakespearean-monologue style. Hilarious.

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In other news: funny how I haven't grown out of fannishness - if anything, I am more fannish in a silly and totally undignified style than I was ten ( Read more... )

Once, I wrote a fanfic. (okay, I wrote lots of fanfics, but there's just one I'm thinking about right now).

And several months afterwards a nice and friendly fan in the middle of a discussion mentioned it to me as 'that angsty deathfic of yours'. Which made me pause, ponder and clarify that yes, she was talking about that fic ( Read more... )

I still have no brain. Probably PMS plus a kind of meltdown from ten days of intensive communication. It was good, and it was with friends, but I am an introvert after all. I am tired ( Read more... )

Somehow it's quite difficult for me to beta Russian fics. At least, I think the language is the reason. I have to constantly fight myself and not intrude too much. I mean, what exactly is the level for the beta reader to work on? To correct mistakes and typos, sure. To check factual and logical mistakes, sure. But after that? When I have problems ( Read more... )

... but the discussion about lying at themostepotente's journal puzzles me. And especially this.