Okay, first things first. For those of you who weren't online late last night, I posted the fifth part of my seven part Kingsley/Snape series: In From the Cold (Part V: The Moments You Share - an interlude). The previous sections are all linked below the headers ( Read more... )

It's interesting to see the ways author-response-to-feedback cultures differ amongst the various Secret Santa fic/art communities. yuletide has, as part of its FAQ, a very strong suggestion that authors not respond to comments until their names are revealed (which makes perfect sense, since they'd be responding to comments by email, which would sort of ( Read more... )

I'm home sick today, and thinking about fic challenges (which, now that I think about it, is probably what made me sick ( Read more... )

Over the past few days in the LJ-verse, there seem to have been a higher-than-average number of fraught discussions on a variety of subjects. The topics have ranged from disputes over the worth of an individual story to the morality of a particular genre of fanfic to debates over completely non-fannish political issues, and somewhere in each of ( Read more... )

We‛ve all seen it happen: almost every time somebody rants about bad spelling or bad grammar in fic, the rant itself is littered with misplaced modifiers, subject/verb errors, and enough spelling mistakes typos to sink the Titanic, twice over. Sometimes people are inclined to excuse these posts because it‛s clear that the poster was a bit . . . ( Read more... )

The other day, I was reading a new chapter from a pairing-specific WIP (which pairing it was is irrelevant, since I could be talking about any ship-centric story in HP - or any fandom, for that matter), and I found myself doing the fanfic equivalent of checking the clock to see if it was time to go home. Now understand, I'm not talking about a ( Read more... )

I'm in the midst of spring break and have no papers to grade, so of course I'm thinking about...school. Well. Hogwarts, at any rate ( Read more... )

While I was watching the penultimate episode of Farscape tonight, I saw an ad for Riverworld (a made-for-SciFi movie which features, among others, the late Kevin Smith).

Once upon a time, the Philip Jose Farmer series which serves as the basis for this movie was one of my favorites. I only read up through The Magic Labyrinth (the fourth novel, ( Read more... )

You know what I'm talking about: they're the movies and t.v. shows that you love in isolation. No one's ever heard of them. No one you know, anyway ( Read more... )

So this morning, I sent a quickie LoC to ukcalico and julad for their HP story "Lustre". It's a lovely story (go on...read it), but that's not the point of this entry ( Read more... )