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I know if I say "guys please leave Amazon reviews/Lulu rankings" you will assume I mean everyone else but you, that no one will want to read your review, that nothing you do would help, and therefore it isn't worth you wasting your time - that is provably not true. The more reviews/upratings things have - especially on the Kindle store - the more ( Read more... )

Title: amare et sapere vix deo conceditur
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Pairing/Characters: Mycroft/original character, mostly Gen though.
Warnings: Repeatedly depressing.
Disclaimer: BBC/ACD property. Research amounts to Wikipedia.
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Twice a day, every day, McAffee fucks up my computer for upward of twenty minutes so that it can install updates, usually while I'm in the middle of trying to write. My trial run expires on the 29th. Can anyone suggest anti-virus software that isn't a gluttonous CPU-hogging process-hijacking whorefest nearly as bad as the viruses it prevents? I am ( Read more... )

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Why has it taken me this long to write so little fuck you internet. (I have been distracted, variously: by the need to buy a crapload of jewellery equipment even though with the current rate of sale [none] I have no excuse at all for throwing money after it; by the need to yap like an excited dog about Granada Holmes; by contributing some fairly ( Read more... )

Oh apparently I am feeling whiny and verbose today so here's another thing ( Read more... )

unsurprising the way i feel about the business of storytelling is the way i feel about humanity; it is necessary to accept what appear at first to be opposing viewpoints and to hold them in your head simultaneously. one is that we are very important to ourselves, that what we do matters, and that we must learn to treat our actions and above all our ( Read more... )

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Bethan's made a post for squealing about Dr Who
Why people with Aspergers seem so awkward around others this is pretty good, actually, and covers a couple of major areas. I will say that I don't have the problem with facial recognition that a lot of ASD people have, but the stuff about the adrenaline rush making you witty is ... very true. The ( Read more... )

Which has been, for quite a long time, "Slightly Embellished In The Process Of Adaptation: This Is All True Except For The Parts That Aren't". If ever anyone is foolhardy/weird enough to write a thing about me as a sort of book, a biography thing, that's what I'd want it called, too.

Here is something I underlined in The Raw Shark Texts by Steven ( Read more... )

From about 4pm to, er, 2.15am, I seem to have been mostly writing. I have a lot of class work to do, but I have apparently prioritised writing the last installment of the whole Nails & Rope, Oxygen, and Burial thing, Washing the Wound, which is fabulous and everything and it feels REALLY NICE to be writing like I'm sodding possessed again but jfc ( Read more... )