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Yesterday on Twitter I mentioned La Mancha. Pretty much everyone except
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(Re: title. I know, I'm so clever, right? *cough*) Stuff has been happening. Mostly I've been hanging out. So. Bullet points. - Ordering my train tickets via cellphone (barcode to be scanned on the screen) felt ridiculously futuristic and hightech. ( Cut for some images and a poll. )

I've dragged it out as long as I could upon request, but here we are!

No Mouth But Some Serpent's - Book Two Discussion Post

Rules are the same as before:

• BEWARE OF SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS
• don't post any spoilers beyond the second book
• be polite

Prior discussions:
Saving Connor

You can currently read the books at FF.net or ask me for the PDFs, the author' ( Read more... )

Also known as: the fast-forward button is my friend! So is having learnt speed reading! Books I'm reading (extracurricular only): ( Them books. )

Now, I'm going to hand you my biggest weakness and let you run with it:

If you link me to a good high school or college AU in your fandom of choice, any fandom, I can almost guarantee you that I'll be knee-deep in that fandom within a week.

They're my favourite type of AU, although I'm generally a huge fan of AUs. Comes with being a speculative ( Read more... )

The Awesome, the Awesome, and the Fucking Awful:

1) Book giveaway!

I'm giving away a brandnew copy of Julie Kagawa's The Iron King. To enter, go over to the giveaway entry over at my (our!) new comm,
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I just woke up from a dream (shut up, I was up till 6 am), and it was glorious, so I need to write it down for posterity.

It was an NCIS/Harry Potter crossover in which, instead of Gibbs, Lucius Malfoy led the team. There was sneering and whacking with canes (hurr hurr hurr .... sorry) and delicious sexual tension between him and DiNozzo. He was a ( Read more... )

Seeing someone call someone else or a group of people a "special snowflake" makes me sad and a little angry.
To me, it implies an attitude of condescension towards - and a dismissal of - that person and their ideas/problems/issues/opinions/experiences; and that doesn't sit right with me.

I see it used pretty much everywhere:

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