I exist on tumblr. This is... well, surprising, for me, and probably a learning experience. Forgive me if I fuck something up; I'm a novice :).

(kilawater, if you fall off the couch giggling when you read this, I will have the last laugh. :P)

For future reference, and because this won't be the last time, I'm sure (and maybe this one will still get a tail), I'm also over at DreamWidth under the same name. I don't post there (yet), but I will be able to follow you if you do. I'm looking into importing, at the moment. And on twitter. In future, when this happens, we can talk to each other ( Read more... )

A long time ago, when I was much newer to this fandom and LiveJournal was something I'd never even heard of, I read a fic that portrayed Ianto as a cancer survivor. The author stated in their notes that they were working from personal experience, although, once I read the fic, it was painfully obvious this note was unnecessary. The story explained ( Read more... )

blue_fjords, I blame you.

Okay, open discussion for anyone who feels like wandering in. I'm working, by request, on a meta on how to write emotional or difficult subject matter.

For the writers among you: how do you deal with emotional subject matter in your stories? Do you think about how to construct the fic, do you think specifically about how the ( Read more... )

A while back I hosted a small discussion on rating systems. I asked what everyone would prefer, and the discussion that followed surprised me. People have strong feelings about this. I promised then to write a more detailed thinky post about it, so here goes nothing.

( click because I'm wordy )

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