This is it, folks. LiveJournal is a footnote in history, once a lively home of fanwork, thoughtful discussion, and character assassination, now a forgotten relic running on an old Pentium somewhere in the basement of GRU Headquarters in Moscow. It's unlikely I'll post here again. But I haven't stopped doing stuff, so I'll leave this at the top of ( Read more... )

I guess this is the bi-yearly or whatever thing where I tap the microphone to see if any humans out there still read Livejournal or if it's finally tipped over from 98% to 100% Russian porn spammers. (You larf, but this "new post editor" has its date in Russian for some reason.)

If I posted some stuff I've been writing, would anyone out there read ( Read more... )

Inspired to finally write this down by a terrible Steve Perry book I wish I hadn't paid $7.95 for:

The more your main characters "smile," "grin," or "chuckle," the worse your book is. Double penalties apply to every "crooked grin" and quadruple penalties apply to every "shit-eating grin."
I haven't quite figured out why it works yet, but trust me ( Read more... )

And never let the skeptics say I don't deliver... this one single specific time. Here's that bit of Afterlife Blues fanfiction I wrote a year or so back. I should note that on the rare occasions I write any fiction at all, it's always formatted like a script for a comic, because I like to pretend to myself that I'll draw something again before I ( Read more... )

So just to get it out of the way: nope, no news on Afterlife Blues or anything like that. I wish I had something for you, but I don't.

However, I could share with you a bit of fanfiction I wrote for it a while back, if anyone is interested? Or indeed, still on LiveJournal at all this late in the day ( Read more... )

Thanks for the recommendations! I'm always looking for new authors and books to try. Sadly most of what I've been reading myself lately is junk from the bottom of the Kindle Unlimited slushpile -- look, I enjoy it, but I'm not gonna claim it has a lot of literary value -- but there are two things of better quality I can recommend:

• After seeing a ( Read more... )

It really, really is. I glanced back at the place -- it was like rubbernecking at a car accident, I couldn't not do it -- and my God, I can really see how viscerally horrible Twitter is now that I'm out of there, what it does to people. I feel like I just barely dodged losing a hand in a piece of industrial machinery. I'm damn near literally ( Read more... )

I've finally realized that Twitter was designed by a cabal of sinister alien superintelligences trying to come up with the best possible way to generate hatred and mistrust, ultimately leading to global thermonuclear war so they can move in afterwards and steal all our Hello Kitty merchandise without a fight. Absurd, you say? Just look at the facts ( Read more... )

Wow, that one previous post got more responses than I think my Tumblr has gotten the entire time it's existed. :P That's my one complaint about Tumblr: it would be so much nicer if it had a more functional comment system attached, or indeed any kind of system at all. That reblog stuff just ain't cutting it ( Read more... )

I'm just curious if there's still anyone reading this LJ, or if Livejournal's audience has completely dwindled to its eternal core of slash fiction reviewers, Russian political activists, skeevy soft-core pornographers, and Avatar: The Last Airbender fans who are still angry about the movie. Speak up, don't be shy!