I stayed up all night reading the latest Anita Blake. The reviews on Amazon had prepared me for it to be incredibly awful, but, for what the series has become, it was actually pretty decent. I mean, a lot (a lot) of it was emotional processing, but…that's what those books are like. If you don't enjoy people talking to each other about their ( Read more... )

10 minute cutdown of the Google Wave demo.

Calling it 'what e-mail would be like if it were invented today' just does not capture the sexy. And, oh my god, so sexy.

Thanks anatsuno for prompting me to take a second look at it. The The google blog post didn't hit my good spots, but it's not actually a bad write up.

This entry was originally ( Read more... )

( two recs )

Human Relations by hula_kula: Spock/Uhura, where the ( spoiler )

femslash09 has started polling to decide which fandoms to feature.

In additional voting news, We Invented the Remix Redux (redux, because it came after popslash remix, so few of you remember that!) is voting on some rules changes: qualifying stories and RPF fandoms. They're also looking for people to tell them that other people do, in fact, have the ( Read more... )

Baby-stepping away from racism: A guide for white people

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Not Your Granddad's Magical Negro

Also, The Seventh People of Color in Sci Fi Carnival

megillahfic Purim ficathon. Is it an exchange? Is it prompt-based? Are we doing prompts/requests on Jewish themes or Jewish characters? Help the organizers decide!

choc_fic For this round, posting is in February. Prompts are still available.

halfamoon Celebrate female characters from 2/1/08 - 2/14/08. (femslash08 will not be until this summer)

ninebillion Is an exchange and prompts. Questions ( Read more... )

So, you guys know about We Invented the Remix Redux, the gigantic multi-fandom Fictional Person Remix challenge that musesfool has been running several years?

Well, victoria is tired of being made miserable while she runs it, and is looking for some help.
1. a sign-up form that dumps all the info into a database (and also allows for searching by author etc ( Read more... )

liviapenn thought it up, and fanofall made it.

fic_pinch_hit is a community for challenge maintainers post requesting people to pinchhit for their challenges.

The proto-template for putting up a request is:

fandom:
name of challenge:
minimum story length:
story due date:
other details:

x-posted-to: witchqueen, modsrus, _challenged_