This year, I decided to do a recs list of what I found to be the most enjoyable fics I read in 2007. I'd like to call it a best of the best list, but I'll be honest and say hey-I'm not totally impartial and objective. If your taste is the opposite of mine, well, flee now! Plus my fic exposure is pretty limited to what comes across the flist, what ( Read more... )

So, um, how much of a dork does it make me that, upon uploading the final chapter to the longest fic I've ever written and clicking the status over to "complete," I feel a little like bawling?

( Avatar, Ursa/Ozai 'Beyond Duty', SPOILERS for season 3 )

( Prompt: 'Real Love' )

( Cut for eyes )

Dear contest fic,

Please stop sucking.

Love,
Your mom

OOPS. I have no idea if anyone cares about these anyway, but just in case, here's the Links to Fic What Jai Has Been Posting at the Fic Journal, June-July edition:

Blood Roses "It's her first day as a full-fledged shinigami, and Momo is as nervous as she has ever been." June entry for bleach_flashfic. Aizen +(/) Hinamori. The progression of a relationship that ( Read more... )

When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

( Baaah )

Someday I'll learn to art of making weekend update posts not halfway through the week. It was a fun weekend--I got to hang out and have dinner/unnecessary but yummy ice cream with lovediamond on Friday. Much Bleach chatter ensued. On Saturday morning, I drove down to join irenak for an afternoon at Wizard World Philadelphia. It was pretty fun--not really much panel ( Read more... )

Thank you all for the kind words about my grandma--I talked to my parents last night and she's doing okay for the moment. She can't talk, but she seems to understand them, and she can move enough that at one point she took off her blood pressure cuff. Heh. I think she must not be crazy about the hospital, because Dad mentioned he was getting The ( Read more... )