"And now that they've been pushed into the ocean, Godzilla and MechaGodzilla will perform a synchronized swimming act!"

Middle Son was suitably amused/perplexed.

(This is Godzilla. This, in spite of appearances, is MechaGodzilla. Middle Son takes after me in renaming his toys after characters in his fandoms.)

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This is just to say that Sir Nigel Anstruthers is one of the most vile characters I've ever encountered in fiction. I like a lot of parts of The Shuttle, but if I want a comfortable read, I'll pull up T. Tembarom instead. Sir Nigel is up there with Tien Vorsoisson in the "if your real-life partner starts treating you like this, run now" lessonbook ( Read more... )

It's great fun, when reading an organization's bylaws, to try and figure out what circumstance caused the organization to formalize a particular policy.

Crossposted from http://castiron.dreamwidth.org/53905.html; comment where you like.

I tried my hand at the 2048 game generator: 2048 Genealogy. Sadly, you can't do line breaks on the text version, so I had to abbreviate N-times-great-grandparent as Nxggp; maybe one day I'll be bored enough to make images for a non-abbreviated version.

It's no Doctor Who 2048 or Academic Publication 2048, let alone Cumberbatch vs. Otters 2048, but ( Read more... )

Via tweedisgood and smallhobbit: Pick a question, and I'll answer in the comments ( Read more... )

Dear subconscious:

I do not know where you came up with the dream that Stephen Fry was hosting a quiz show about bestselling books of the early 20th century, but I would like this to be real.

love,
Castiron

Crossposted from http://castiron.dreamwidth.org/52908.html; comment where you like.

One of the best Emma adaptations I've ever read: #knemma

Norse mythology (with cameos from elsewhere) with interesting gender stuff and a great narrator voice: Parade's Beginning, Middle, and End

I'm sure I'll have more, but I liked these enough to boost signal right away.

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Whee! Someone wrote me Pushcart War fic! It's a nice look at General Anna's earlier life, and it should make sense even to people who haven't read the book.

Crossposted from http://castiron.dreamwidth.org/52397.html; comment where you like.

Yuletide fic is done. There's some parts of it I think I could've done better, but it's a decent story, and I hope the recipient will like it ( Read more... )

1. Last Friday, the 29th of November, was the 20th anniversary of the initial posting of Stephen Ratliff's ST:TNG fanfic "Enterprized", the first in his long series about Marrissa Amber Flores Picard. Spelling and grammar errors, a proper Mary Sue of a main character (forget these modern heroines labeled "Mary Sue" solely because they're unusually ( Read more... )