This is one of the best fic memes that I've seen. I love most of these questions.

My fic1: What inspired you to write the fic this way ( Read more... )

Last night, in search of stuff that was 'like' (for a given value of 'like') Yuri!!! on Ice, I stayed up late reading through Check Please from the beginning.

Rather than explain it in depth, I'll just link to this (spoilery) primer: The Queer Hockey Bros Webcomic You Should Be ReadingI enjoyed it and found it a pleasant way to spend a couple of ( Read more... )

A common complaint, I know, but I really feel like any one of these avocations could take up most of my free time. I can probably manage to do one and a half of them well, simultaneously ( Read more... )

In 2015 I posted 42k of fic and my stats look like this (after two years, mind you):

• Kudos: 107
• Comment Threads: 61
• Bookmarks: 3
• Hits: 1825

So far this year I've posed 42k of fic, and my stats look like this:

• Kudos: 2429
• Comment Threads: 284
• Bookmarks: 664
• Hits: 20874

This has been your daily reminder that life isn't fair!

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Prompted by discussion with
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the Master and Margarita (3893 words) by Naraht
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lilia Baranovskaya/Yakov Feltsman
Characters: Yakov Feltsman, Lilia Baranovskaya
Additional Tags: 1980s, Soviet Union, Moscow, Cold War, Jewish Characters, Antisemitism, First Meeting ( Read more... )

The pound-to-krona exchange rate is absolutely ruinous at the moment. I may have obsessively visited Iceland during the roughly five years when it was actually financially possible for me to do so.

This has not stopped me buying Icelandic books, as I have to read something (logical fallacy ahoy), but I've decided not to go for that Dracula ( Read more... )

This is the most bizarre story. You can't make these things up.

Via a Metafilter post, the tale of a Dracula scholar who discovered an early Icelandic translation that seems to be far more of a collaboration between Stoker and the translator than anything else. At first I wondered whether the post itself was fiction, but it clearly isn't ( Read more... )

I've received the most hilarious fanfic as a gift from
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So this is... I don't know whether 'crack' is quite the right description or not. (I mean, it's based on the philosophy of a real Russian figure skating coach.) But I certainly had way too much fun writing it!

not even with your hand (3055 words) by Naraht
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
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