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It's been too long.
Well, I sure disappeared. I haven't been feeling fandom for a good long while, but I miss you, LJ, and I miss journalling. Tumblr has not been good for my attention span, and I've been really wanting to get back to writing longer pieces.
And on that note, I'm having a sexual identity crisis.
( Really, though, this is a post about sex and sexual identity, and also porn. TW for internalized homophobia and biphobia within. ) -
Ira Glass on Creativity
"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is ( Read more... ) -
*snicker*
It’s the end of an era. The entertainment which has stretched across books, movies, and countless marketing tie-ins, which has captivated children and adults for well over a decade and which has, for better or worse, managed to become the defining myth for an entire generation, is winding to its close. I speak, of course, of the Hermione Granger ( Read more... ) -
Book Rec: Fall on Your Knees
Written for, and cross-posted with, lgbtq-recs.
Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie Macdonald, makes no bones about being a gothic tale about a doomed family. The first line of the book is “They’re all dead now.”
But this is far from an unrelentingly bleak novel. It's full of black humor, humanity, and hope as it tells the story of four daughters in a lonely, ( Read more... ) -
Psst... LJ...
I am cheating on you with tumblr. And I ain't even sorry. -
Community Rec
sharp_teeth, "A Multifandom Horror Comment Meme for Writers and Artists."
Prompting is open for the next five days or so. Right now the fandom breakdown is running about fifty-fifty Supernatural/every other fandom, but there's still lots of staggeringly brilliant prompts in a lot of different fandoms. I'm sorely tempted by one Black Swan prompt in ( Read more... ) -
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Ugh. I sometimes wonder why I never started writing before last year and then I get into a funky shame spiral of overplanning and overreaching and overrediting like the one I'm in now and then I remember ( Read more... ) -
Doctor... who?
I've started watching Doctor Who because all my knitting buddies watch it while knitting, and I like to run with the pack.
So far, I like it. More than I expected to.
I am weirdly allergic to sci-fi. The cold and metallic and militaristic aesthetics always, always puts me off, no matter how good the stories or characters are. I think Doctor Who ( Read more... )