So, since Ao3 won a Hugo Award, can I say I won a Hugo Award?  After all, I'm a member and contributor.

It would look good on a resume.  ;-)

It's March, yet winter is clinging on!  We had three snows the end of last week into Sunday, and temperatures now are in the deep freeze.  I?  Am thrilled.  :-)  I woke up Sunday and looked out my window.  It was snowing, the tree outside my window was lined with white, and a whole flock of robin red-breasts were bedecking its branches.  It looked ( Read more... )

Irony is opening AO3 and seeing two new fics posted for your favorite pairing - One really long and by one of your favorite authors! - only to see they're both death fics and it's your favorite character who dies...

::puts AO3 in the freezer and backs away slowly::

It's hot, it's very hot, and I'm cranky, very cranky, Trump is still president, ( Read more... )

Here's a thing, y'know, an FYI for any authors who might be interested:  If you're going to attach a Note, a warning, if you will, to a chapter in your fic that it contains BDSM, it might be better to attach that Note to the beginning of the chapter, rather than the end.

Please, and thank you.

So, I'm reading along in a fic, and come across a particular phrasing that is blatantly racist.  You know, everything's fine and normal fic-ishness, the author drops this little racist bombshell, then moves on like there wasn't just an explosion in the reader's face, and I'm like "Wha- Huh ( Read more... )

Do you ever want to toss a fanfic you just read across the room, metaphorically, because it leaves a sour taste in your mouth and, quite frankly, makes you feel a little sick in your stomach?  Yeah, just did that.  You might ask, Why didn't you just stop reading, then, if it was upsetting you that much?  Well, that's a good question.  In my defense ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or is it not just a "minor tweak" to turn a male canon character into a female for your fic?  'Cause me?  I think that's major.  And, more than a "tweak."

So, I've been burying my head in the sand hibernating the last several days and staying away from my normal haunts on the web.  Since the 20th to be more precise.  ::ahem::  And I've been binge reading fanfic the whole time, something I haven't done, literally, in years.  I've read very little fanfic at all the last several years, truth to tell, ( Read more... )

Is "Rickyl" not the most ridiculous mash-up of two characters' names to denote a relationship ever?  I challenge you to show me one more ridiculous!

So I checked my bank account online to make sure my automatic deposit from my second job came through, as you do.  Imagine my surprise when it was much, much larger than expected.  By about $600!  ( Read more... )

Would you believe there was snow in Pennsylvania this past weekend?  There was!  Measurable inches of the goodly white stuff!  Only... just not here, where I live, in Pennsylvania.  Alas.  At least, we have had markedly cooler temps this week, here, where I live, in Pennsylvania.  It's felt like Fall these past several days, and I've loved it.  It' ( Read more... )