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So I've been working on revisions for the "first" story in the Life in Freefall saga lately. (Which y'all know already, because I post about it, like, all the time.) It's coming along, and I've received a lot of encouragement from my LJ f-list (thanks, guys!) and some kudos on AO3 (that's nice of you, anonymous friendly people!). It's not ( Read more... )

Yeah. That's how I feel about this paper. What the hell?

But on the up-side, I have almost six pages of a 8-10 page paper done, so, one way or another the end is in sight. I still have to find a way to talk about at least two more books (seriously? who gives a number-of-books assignment in grad school?) and then conclude with something ( Read more... )

You guys:

Partly in protest of SOPA, and partly because I so obviously need something else to distract me from my coursework, I was wondering … would there be any interest in a new fan 'zine?

I've only just started trying to hash this out in my head, but what I'm thinking is that maybe "we" could create a layout of fics/other cool stuff which ( Read more... )

Which is a thing one of my profs at UO liked to say, and he was probably right. (Or: write?)

Apropos of this, I am thinking of revising Freefall once again, notably because I think that it is one of the weakest stories in my body of work and that this is particularly unfortunate as it serves as the introductory piece to the eponymous story cycle ( Read more... )

This is just so far from any way I have ever thought about any characters, ever, that I have to do it. None of these questions, or their answers, would ever have occurred to me on my own - not for any character! So that means, of course, that I have to challenge myself to try and answer them. Go on, give me some names! You know you want to.

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So thanks to my Real Life, I've been spending an insane amount of time lately thinking about what constitutes fan culture and what that means, and how those meanings are different for insiders vs. outsiders to the culture ( Read more... )

So I am currently watching Episode 2 of Outsourced on hulu.com. The show hasn't been with us very long, but so far I like it. Fishes out of water always have comedic potential, and the characters are exaggerated and yet human enough to be enjoyable. Apparently some people were concerned that it would be offensive - to Indians or to people whose ( Read more... )

So continuing from the last post:

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