There are no coincidences, only jerks who choose the worst possible moment to show up on your doorstep with a box of chocolates ( Read more... )

a year ago today we lost philia_fan. As Emerald said better than I ever could have,
"I still hear your voice when I read your words.
I miss your words. They were always wise."

so today, in honor of her words, I thought I would link y'all to where you can still buy her excellent little novel--all the proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders--and then share ( Read more... )

I finished another fic! This one is a Mass Effect fic.

Title: The Stars Apart
Author: Jade Sabre
Summary: Nobody mentioned how a tired lonely drifting hero would feel, watching him be effortlessly good in the midst of a galaxy of hurt and harm. A consideration of the love driving Shepard across the three games.
Author’s Note: This is…my ( Read more... )

[NOTES generally come from researching The Unfinished Tales, as Dad went “oh, hey, I got this copy for you” and so I read it.]

Some background:

I first heard The Hobbit through the uterine wall--my dad read the book to my mother's stomach and my mom, young and pregnant and newly married, "thought it was cute." He read it to me again when I was ( Read more... )

holiday love meme 2012
my thread here

idiosyncreant basically tagged me in a meme, so I will take the plunge ( Read more... )

less do dis ting

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y'all, we held the line.

( so I'm being nicer than Beth and cutting this BUT REALLY COME ONE LET'S PARTY )

I love this song so much. Like, so so much. The album version is good, but there's something about this one (MANDOLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN) that just won't. go. away.

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it's like a song from my younger days that's still speaking to me? It's not as true for me as it is for my friend Ariel (who needs your prayers--stepfamilies are a difficult animal ( Read more... )

hey y'all ( Read more... )

I READ SAVING FRANCESCA.

Also the Demon's Lexicon series and Team Human (which was surprisingly emotional at the climax and had some interesting characterization bits amid an otherwise shallow-but-entertaining read) and The Last Unicorn (which was beautiful and which I need to read in one sitting). I had to return all the others but I'll ( Read more... )