I don't even like biology that much. But I do appreciate my teacher, Blonde Mad Scientist, if only because of stories like the one she related to us today:

Apparently, she was attending a Biotechnological Industry Organization conference, or whatever the word is, in San Francisco; she had arrived late to the surrounding city and found it clogged up ( Read more... )

( I'm very bad at disguising my nonfiction as fiction. Nevertheless! )

For you to fully appreciate the glory of my pre-Valentine's Day Valentine's Day, you have to understand the backstory first.

In my youth, callow mad scientist that I was, I married a cyborg by the name of Prince Iris, (filialpiety is her screen name, if you are curious) whose ivory mask was beauteous indeed and whose amethyst eyes were scintillating, but whose ( Read more... )

Picture it, if you will. Two pale pink scoops, almost white, because this is not a place for the defilement known as artificial coloring, splotched with red where half-frozen fruit is lodged, and drizzled over with a viscous liquid, dark brown, almost black, hot and yet congealing into smooth, pooled shapes and curving lines where a single droplet ( Read more... )

I listen to people talk if I don't know them(*). But today, for some reason, all the conversations were cheerful. Even the one about Virginia Woolf's sex life.

I have been a good obsessive fangirl and updated, hahaha. *is proud of self*

*What, you don't expect me to pay attention to my friends, do you?

Also: drabble.

Title: The True And Uncontestable ( Read more... )

Title: Physically Implausible Duress
Prompt: hailstones
Words: 100
Points: the Watch

"Damn helmet's as useful as a chocolate hammer," Vimes muttered, rubbing a sore spot on his skull where a hailstone had bounced.

"Somewhat less useful, sir. You could eat the hammer."

"Carrot!"

"Sorry."

"The armorer is already after me for that stain. Says it shouldn't ( Read more... )

Lemon meringue, to be specific. My father and I baked one, crust and all. It was great fun, although I fail at meringue-making, trufax.

I AM SORRY ABOUT CONTINUOUS LACK OF UPDATE, incidentally. So sorry I am all, like, flustered and capitalized. But you see, my laptop, it died. It died so, so hard. It now makes terrifying ticking noises when I try ( Read more... )

( Shellfish hurr hurr hurr )

Happy random holiday. I felt like writing this.

=PART ONE=

( Vetinari is PWN'd (only half in jest) )

haha I updated! Whee! Wheeeeee!

etc.

No but writing plotty chapters is always fun. Even though that chapter wasn't even as plotty as I would have liked. Holy shit am I excited about continuing the build-up of the cliffhangers haha. EXPLOSIONS. I LOVE WRITING THEM. so much anticipation for writing this next one aaaah.

Okay, I'm a little calmer now. But ( Read more... )