I must share with you all this sign in the Matakohe Top 10 Holiday Park (a sort of campground, I guess). Capitalization and grammar verbatim. I don't think it could be worse if it tried.

Please Clean the Benchs and stove's after use
So every one Enjoy's our Facility's

My editorial heart, it despaireth.

...or, further unpopular fannish opinions. :-) This is on my mind because of a recent email exchange on the subject with raveninthewind, and since I had to put my thoughts together for that discussion, I figured I might as well post them ( Read more... )

The smug look on my face is because I uploaded my Yuletide story. \o/ Number 361, bay-bee! Now it's time to look a little more closely at the pinch hit list...

I can has holiday cards from my friends! Thank you ignazwisdom, meri_oddities, millefiori, dementordelta, sageness, buzzylittleb, nos4a2no9, tofty, and accioslash, and if I left anyone out it might just be because Kitty ran away with your card and hid it somewhere. I feel ( Read more... )

Since band fandom is portmanteau'ed bandom, we ought to call that fandom I share with so many of you Canadom. What'dya think?

Poll befuddled and bemused
No dictionaries or reference works allowed. I want to know what you think off the top of your fuzzy little heads.

( ETA: why I am asking - please answer the poll before clicking! )

I was browsing through the dictionary the other night (oh, shut up. I find it interesting, and if you find me interesting, you probably like reading the dictionary, too) and I came across this gem ( Read more... )

Every once in a while people post about what makes them read a story (or hit the backbutton), and often their "ick" factors are things that have me (and I imagine, most people) nodding their heads in agreement: crying men, spelling errors, epithets a la "the blonde Slytherin," author's notes along the lines of, "written at 3 am in 15 min & didn't ( Read more... )

I imagine all the SGA fans on my flist have already seen 30toseoul's fascinating post on being gay in the (modern American) military. One thing that stood out for me:
Yesterday I posted about how, despite my four years of pretty damn gay military service, it still took me two weeks of reading SGA fanfiction to notice that the occasional side mention of ' ( Read more... )

Today is our Democratic party's county assembly, which is the equivalent of the state and national conventions but on a local level. We will officially nominate and vote on candidates for the primary and vote on resolutions that were raised in the caucuses last month to get passed on to the state level. I thought you all would be amused by ( Read more... )

Two more of my HP stories are being translated into other languages, which I always think is cool.

Belladonna (vapochka) has just posted her Russian translation of The Morning After (Snape/Black, NC17) to the Russian-language community orden_feniksa.

And Lala (lala_kamiturugi)has posted the first part of her Japanese translation of Salvation (Snape/Draco, NC17). I'm really ( Read more... )