Never have I been so glad to see the door hit the ass-end of January on the way out.

Here, have some hilarity to celebrate. An excerpt, from the retelling of the Aeneid"think of the Aeneid ( Read more... )

Linkdrop the first: to prove that you can make fanfic off of anything (and really f&#!ing amazing fanfic, too), I give you Goodnight Room, based on the ubiquitous children's bedtime story Goodnight Moon.

Linkdrop the second-fifth: Tor Books' Twelve Doctors of Christmas is currently underway, one essay for each incarnation of the Doctor written by ( Read more... )

This article is focused on building online communities, but I think everything he says applies just as much to real-world communities as well - for everyone and anyone involved in community leadership.

10 Tricks for building a successful community from scratch

Any Jane Austen fans out there must go read AustenBook - if the characters of Pride and Prejudice had had Facebooks (thanks to ms_katonic)

My friend worldmegan is doing something really awesome, and you might be able to help.

New Turn of Phrase! [behavior]ing like a werewolf: in such a manner as to make you think "Is there a full moon today?" That said, everyone is ( Read more... )

Crossposting this from LivingArtist because it is so amazingly awesome and important:

Hard Times Require Imagination: Why society needs artists more than ever by Don Fels.

Some highlights from The Living Artist (aka livingartist) over the last week or so:

What is this painting about? ("Is that a VAGINA?")
Art as Process
I Can't Draw!
Making a Living vs. Selling OutWe avoided Shopping Hell this weekend by escaping to Canada (specifically Vancouver), where we narrowly avoided insane drivers, cursed out our very confused GPS, got ( Read more... )

The Living Artist, a blog where I talk about art and the experience of being an artist.

RSS feed is here. LJ-only people can add it to their friends list as livingartist - thanks, takwish!

Anyway, I'm going to attempt to be posting there every weekday (far more often than I've posted here of late!). Up so far are an introduction and a response to "Where do you get ( Read more... )

My inner lesbian is swooning.

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From rimrunner:

If fantasy novels were subject to truth in advertising laws

I would add to the list:
Laurell K. Hamilton's Sex, Blood, and More Sex. With Vampires!
A. Attanasio's Turgid Retelling of Obscure Mythology
Mercedes Lackey's Good Triumphs Because We Have Pretty White Horses
Jacqueline Carey's Pervs and Politics
Anne Rice's Angsty Vampire is ( Read more... )