I was randomly reading an article about the worst bad movies ever made, and learned about the existence of a movie from 2008 called "Delgo." I had never heard of it, which was part of its problem. It was made by an independent studio without a lot of money for promotion, but the reviews seem to agree that lack of good story/characters was the ( Read more... )

I updated my no-frills menu of Warcraft fanfics today with some Arthas/Jaina ficlets.

I already posted one of these three drabbles to my LJ (the silly one about the dead squirrel), but I've never shared the other two. They were all written before Christie Golden's fantastic Arthas: Rise of the Lich King novel, so they don't quite mesh with it, ( Read more... )

Here's a silly little thing I found jotted down on a piece of scratch paper when I was straightening up my computer desk.

The first half will only mean something if you're familiar with both WoW and my original "Heritage in the Stars" universe, which means...a grand total of two people might understand what the heck I'm talking about. ;)

( If HitS characters played WoW... )

From the very addictive TVtropes.org, which analyzes cliches and recurring themes in all media (not just TV), we have this page about fantasy/sci-fi beasts of burden.
Evolution being what it is, alien worlds (or Earth time periods far removed from the present day) are bound to have different forms of animal life than our world. The people there, ( Read more... )

I finally got to see Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith! *loud fangirl squee*

( Cut for spoilers )

1. Very interesting post about Snape, Lily, James, and other HP stuff. It's partly based on one of those "OMG, this random person posting on the Internet is actually JKR!!!" frenzies, but regardless of the source the points raised are interesting.

2. Mom and I rented The Princess Diaries 1 & 2 and watched them both this evening. We'd seen #1 ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to fit this incident into the novel somewhere, and while browsing through a section for fun this afternoon I found a spot where it works perfectly.

( In which young Twitchy has another reason to dislike Vazali )

This is terrifying. A LJ user apparently made some sort of entry saying negative things about the president in what was meant to be a goofy, fun matter, and got a RL visit from the Secret Service. Scary as hell. Shades of 1984Now, I haven't read the original entry that got her in trouble. It may have crossed a line. I don't know ( Read more... )

This post that was linked to via daily_snitch got me thinking about how damaging the distracting influences of the internet and fandoms are on writers of original fiction. It's nothing I didn't know before, but it was well articulated ( Read more... )

Nothing like Mad Lib-type dealies to give me a much-needed laugh.

( Drabble One, in which Bronzar bemoans his hypoallergenic uvula )