I am back from the conference -- it was awesome. Best conference ever! I feel very inspired and have lots of ideas for new projects, so it was a very productive trip ( Read more... )

You know those misogynist cliches in fic that make you grind your teeth? Like characters thinking to themselves that they're "acting like fourteen year old girls." Or seemingly believing that only men have anal sex. Or that it's a terrible, horrible trial to temporarily have a vagina in a genderfuck story ( Read more... )

Let me tell you something about comments ( Read more... )

I actually felt actively good today! It's so long since that happened, I don't quite know what to do with myself. If I eat or drink something I might jinx it, which makes me feel rather Alice-in-Wonderland-ish, except more emo ( Read more... )

I just finished reading and enjoying a long, plotty fanfiction novel yesterday. I've been reading it for a long time, in between all my meetings and so on. It had become a friend, as long stories of that nature do ( Read more... )

I bit the bullet and went food shopping today, as there was nothing left to eat in the house. While I was down the street I had the crazy notion that I might like to read a book. So I went into the mainstream bookshop and looked at stuff ( Read more... )

I was sitting in town waiting for the bus today, and found myself noticing the different shoes the women were wearing. I rarely notice shoes, but I found this fascinating -- not only because of the variety, but because of the effect they had on me. (ETA: I should have said that the part of town I was in was the office hub of the city, so I'm ( Read more... )

Swancon is over for another year, and what a fantastic Swancon it was. I promised people I'd put up links to things that were mentioned in the various panels I was on, which you'll find behind the cut, along with some thoughts on other papers and panels I attended.

( Swancon 2008 )

Okay, I've clearly been in SGA fandom too long, because I'm starting to have weird crossover ideas.

See, first I saw this picture of Jon... awwww, his goofy scrunched up face! (The UNIT comic is by sleepy-sheep683, in case you were wondering.)

And then I had a sudden flashback, so went and re-perused sheafrotherdon's post with many many pictures of John Sheppard's goofy face ( Read more... )