[tell me what you'd like to see me post about in December!]


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Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hi! Thanks for writing for me. I am lannamichaels basically everywhere, including AO3. I hang out in the Yuletide IRC chat and the Discord server as Lanna.

( Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Nirvana In Fire, The President's Daughter, The Westing Game )

Thing the first: I am unaware of how well-known this is, but I found it yesterday while trying to track down an ebook from any library I could -- I now, naturally, have finished reading that book and now have a tab open with a book that is probably on the shelf less than a yard away from me right now -- but you can borrow scanned-in-copies-of- ( Read more... )

The thing about writing a transformative work of something is that you get a look into how it was constructed and the different ways it works, and you see it differently. Sometimes this is good and leaves you with a renewed appreciation for the original, and sometimes you're writing a Fight Club pastiche and you realize just how much repetition is ( Read more... )

I was so so so sure I'd started a How I Use Scrivener post, but I'm fucked if I can find it. However, I know I've promised this to folks in the past and I've done various off-the-cuff attempts in comment sections.

So! How I Use Scrivener, an excellent writing program that changed the way I write fic. ( Scrivener feelings )

Anyone want anything? Drabble/meta/rant/opinions/panicking at places other than discos?

This entry was originally posted at https://lannamichaels.dreamwidth.org/1138202.html.

This is not directed at any person or event, because it's something I've seen come up in various places and various reasons for longer than these things usually last for and I am deeply confused about it.

So, JK Rowling said something transphobic. I do not know what it is. I only know about it because people have mentioned it in other places. I have ( Read more... )

So I've spent the last week ruminating on how and why I hated the ending of Hamilton, how Who Lives... would be more to my liking if it was less laudatory, and I came around to thinking about the ending of 1776.

1776 can be summed up as "During the American revolutionary war, the obnoxious and disliked John Adams attempts to get the Continental ( Read more... )

2011 version; 2012 version; 2013 version; 2014 version; 2015 version; 2016 version; 2017 version; 2018 version; 2019 version

So I actually did this a couple weeks ago and the results were so boring and repetitive from previous years that it was too meh for me to get up much enthusiasm and bother to post it.

But AO3 is now bringing back guest ( Read more... )