I had my first real life meet-up! Seriously, in the 12 years since I started (and later, sadly, left) the active HP fanfic world, until today I had never met any of you in real life. And today I got a triple dose! By an astonishing coincidence, my family vacation path took me to a road stop where we met up with Bambu, Dickie and Elise Wanderer. ( Read more... )

... I still have my moments of irreverent snark. These days they are often political. Here's one I recently posted on Facebook (with minor alterations for format):

This bill, requiring a 24 hour waiting period and a note from your partner detailing your sexual inadequacies in order to get Viagra, should not pass in its current form; it is simply ( Read more... )

Just popping in to say hi and let you all know I'm still alive and kicking. Well, not so much with the kicking, that takes too much energy, but definitely still alive ( Read more... )

Back when I was still active in fandom, there were problems emerging at various archives and it occurred to me that it might be worthwhile to have my stories available somewhere that didn't depend on those archives. So I made a place.

All my finished Potterverse stories can be found at my Story Arc Hive comm. You do not need to be a member of ( Read more... )

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Title: Protection and Tutelage
Fandom: Austen - P&P
Pairings: Darcy/Lizzy (natch), Bingley/Jane (pretty standard), others
Category: Romance, social commentary (hey, this is Austen, it has to be social commentary)
Disclaimer: I don't own P&P, but since it's out of copyright, no one cares anyway
Rating: PG-13 (for occasional language)
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When I started posting my P&P fic, I figured any of my LJ flist who wanted to read it could go to the archives where I'm posting.  Since then, I've quit the main archive I was using and discovered that another doesn't cope well with guest readers.  So I've rethought that approach and decided to post it here as well as there. Posts will come pretty ( Read more... )

What I want to know is ...

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We'll be doing our small-town First Night's kid-friendly offerings (a magician, a short play, some crafts, and drumming) and street food (pizza slices and about 8 versions of hot chocolate - at least that's all anyone's advertised so far - mmmm, nutritious!) and head home by 9:00 when the small people get cranky.  If we ( Read more... )

Wishing all of you joy of the Chriskwanzukkah season.

And for your viewing pleaure, the male dancers of Radio City Music Hall put together a spoof of the Rockettes annual 12 Days of Christmas routine and performed it for the Rockettes:

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The video comes with this disclaimer: Those appearing in this video are not necessarily of the gay persuasion ( Read more... )