How are your bingos coming, friend? I have two squares done with one more to go to get my bingo, so things are cruising right along. And we’ve had two community members complete their AU bingo already, which is awesome!

Today I want to talk about our favorite and least favorite AUs to read and/or write.

Here are my top three faves:

High School/ ( Read more... )

In all the posts I’ve done on this comm in the last seven years, I’ve never offered any actual advice for writing an Alternate Universe fic. How could I have been so remiss ( Read more... )

Our current theme here on the AU comm is People with Disabilities. This is a theme that has resonated with me almost as long as I can remember, because I’ve always been interested in how people with disabilities make their way through a world that is rarely set up to accommodate them.

One of my favorite books when I was a kid was Follow My Leader ( Read more... )

As we finish up our first month in the Espionage AU, it’s time to talk recs and our fave spies past and present.

I…haven’t really written a spy fic. At best, I have two that are spy adjacent. They are:

Spy Games (Marvel Cinematic Universe, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers): This is just a bit of role-playing between two goofy boys in love.

Five Days in ( Read more... )

The body swap isn’t new. Movies especially have been playing around with this idea for a very long time. Am I the only one who immediately thinks of Jodi Foster and Barbara Harris from the original Freaky Friday?

Big, starring Tom Hanks, was one of my favorites. Until I rewatched it a couple of years ago. Josh Baskin, tired of being a kid, makes a ( Read more... )

Since we’re talking about holiday mythologies this month, I wanted to share one of my family Christmas mythologies ( Read more... )

When we talk about holiday mythology, my favorite hands down is Santa Claus. I was only three or four when I learned the “truth” thanks to an overheard conversation about one of the presents he’d brought me that year, but somehow that just made me want to believe even more ( Read more... )

Robots usually fall into one of two camps - friend and enemy. Think Autobots and Decepticons from the Transformers universe. Robots are supposed to help us. We create them to work faster, better. To assist us. Where would we be without computers? Smartphones ( Read more... )

I just finished up a mini quarantine at my house while my son and I waited for his COVID test results (he missed a day of school because of a bad headache, so he had to go and get tested). And somehow it turned into a vampire viewing session. Here’s what I watched:

Blood Ties: There are a couple of vampy series with this title. I watched the 2007 ( Read more... )

This month’s musical challenge is an excellent time to talk about all the musical media I like to consume. Because there’s a lot of it. Gameshows, contests, movies…it’s all over the place.

Some of my favorite reality shows right now are Songland (song writers bring a song to a singer/band and compete to come up with a final version that gets ( Read more... )