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2015 Fic Year in Review
Well, after a long stretch of years not writing fic at all (and only four or five stories written in total between 2003 and 2007 or so before that), 2015 is the year I started writing again, enough to actually consider myself a writer this time.
I posted 22 stories to AO3 this year, but two of them were written back in that 2003-2007 stretch, and ( Read more... ) -
sermon - grace
This winter has been - well, it’s been winter, right? Bitterly cold, with plenty of inconvenient snow and treacherous ice underfoot. There have been plenty of days when I didn’t want to leave the house. Let’s be honest, there have been days when I actually didn’t leave the house, and I mostly didn’t regret that choice, because my house is warm and ( Read more... ) -
irony: tumblr has failed me and sent me back to lj
OK, so because my internet connection is fubared, I can't reblog or post on tumblr right now, which is sad because:
1) I lose the connection to the conversation that is the WHOLE POINT of this post, ugh;
2) I lose the immediately of the conversation that is the whole thing of tumblr.
but i am driven to communicate this, so still i try.
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spoiled by AO3
. . . I am kind of amazed that in just a few years, the major multiple fandom archive Archive of Our Own has become so ubiquitous that when I run across fanfiction hosted only elsewhere I am 1) cranky because if I want to bookmark it, I have to do so on my browser (so tedious!) (and I am aware that I can bookmark non-AO3 fic on the AO3, but it's a ( Read more... ) -
poem - practice
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Amsterdam/Prague trip report, part 3
I am now back safe in Chicago -- I had a great trip, but it is definitely good to be back in my own city and my own home.
My last trip report took me through Sunday evening in Prague, just before dinner.( Read more... ) -
Amsterdam trip report, part 1
This report is only part 1, because I am still in Amsterdam! We leave tomorrow for a weekend in Prague, though, so part 2 will really be the Prague trip report instead.
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So, you may have noticed that LJ is significantly broken, which is leading people to escape to Dreamwidth. Many Dreamwidth users are facilitating this escape via invite code, so I figure I will join them . . . With my one lovely invite code ( Read more... ) -
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I woke up this morning, and saw, on the outside ledge of my bedroom windowsill, my shampoo and conditioner. Someone, sometime between my shower yesterday morning and when I woke up this morning opened my bathroom window from the outside, took my stuff, and put it on my bedroom windowsill ( Read more... )