Story research has me combing through Medieval tax records (think 1300s) to find actual names from time period. One thing I have discovered is that about 50% of the men from that time were named John. I am not even joking about that. It's kind of sadly ridiculous ( Read more... )

Note to self: Next time you are writing in the STFU universe and El makes an appearance have him wearing the following T-shirt: features a bunk bed on it and reads "Top or Bottom? Your call."

Because really, that is just too perfect not to include.

I have been working on the Desert Bride story all afternoon. I finally managed to finish the first part and now only have two more parts to go before where I started writing this thing connects with the actual beginning of the story. This is why I try to start at the beginning. So I don't have to go back and write things out of order. Less ( Read more... )

Dear Ancient Egypt,

Please do not give me ideas for mpreg. Norse mythology already has that covered.

Hugs and kisses,
Tsaiko

PS - Especially do not give me ideas for mpreg involving Set. He is my second favorite Egyptian god. If I find a story of Anubis getting knocked up, it will be all over and I will be forced to write.

Stories like this one are how I like to learn about different cultures when I'm including bits and pieces of them in my stories. It's musing and interesting and informative. Also, I now know what the lesbian equivalent on seme/uke is. XD

A good day is one where I get to flex my geology muscles and help someone figure out how to make the evil bad guy from their NaNoWriMo novel get a volcano to erupt and try to take out the world.

It's very hard to type when you're eyes are watering. Why are my eyes watering? Because I just cut up an entire onion to go in the dehydrator. Ugh. My eyes are swollen feeling. I can tell. It's awful.

Last night I decided to take some time off of writing, specifically the snail_mail_porn story. Only I somehow managed to do about three hours worth of research for ( Read more... )

Dear self ( Read more... )