I want to say something deep here, but I'm not really feeling up to it right now. But I spent last night on the trainride home from a late meeting reading Carolyn Heilbrun's Writing A Woman's Life, which I haven't read since I was an undergraduate. In particular, I read the sixth chapter, in which she speaks about her own experience as Amanda ( Read more... )

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Imagine that a person were about to post a story in an ongoing universe. The story's title itself is spoilery for the end of the previous story, which many people have not yet finished. There will be future stories in this universe.

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1. Dear Sweet Jesus, why did I not remember to put this song on the MoF mixtape?

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Fencing off my little piece of heaven
Polishing up my AK-47

The worst part is, it was actually a part of my thought process for writing. True story: in the original head!draft of MoF, ( spoilers through, err, chapter 8ish )

( I wrote a trashy sci-fi novel. With Foucault, and feminism. )

A while back, I mentioned something about how I often read fic working similar scenarios or conceptual territory to things I'm working on--to see how other people are handling it, to see what other interpretations are out there, to see what I don't want to do. Someone, I forget who, said they'd be interested in seeing what I was reading as I'm ( Read more... )

Where do Mulder and Scully live in IWTB ( Read more... )

Amal: Come over here.  I need you to help me add up basketball scores.
Leigh: *points to the Lakers/Magic game on our TV* It's [whatever the score was].
Amal: No, I need to add up scores from this website.  It's for porn, with basketball.
Leigh: Why is there porn with basketball?  It's like pizza with cream cheese.

I visited my father-in-law a while back. He loves--absolutely loves--British murder mysteries on TV. They were, in fact, all we watched the entire time we were visiting him, because he as about eleventy billion episodes downloaded and burned on DVD. We were about to watch Sherlock Holmes, and were discussing different importations of Holmes into ( Read more... )

( Warning: Dirty Words For Ladybits Beneath Cut. Enter at own discretion. )

I have a new default icon.  Which is pretty ugly, but that's about where my making-pretty-Arabic-typing skills are.  If I had some energy and a nice set of markers, I'd try for a handdrawn version.  Maybe soon.  Yes, it's my name.  Both versions.  (If you haven't heard this spiel before, ask and I'll tell.)

I'm excited at the prospect of ( Read more... )