Right, so. It's this one, and tomorrow's, and then a crapload of notes and ephemera and even!more!bookmarks distributed among several wrap-up and where-to-next posts, all coming to you on January 1st, if I don't have a hangover. It doesn't look like I will, because I'm surrounded on all sides by non-drinkers and drinking by myself always seems sad ( Read more... )

Among some of the oldest bookmarks in my Pinboard account (imported from Delicious, a batch which itself began with a starter set from an old browser bookmarks folder) is a batch of J2 fic that I've known and loved and was never really sure what to do with - to rec, to keep, to just make public, to re-read... it wasn't until this year that I ( Read more... )

I must say, if you ever have the opportunity to see Matthew Bourne's re-staging (2011) of his Swan Lake in 3D, whether you love or hate 3D, go and try it. He's done a masterful job of translating the work to the medium, and in a theater at least, it works beautifully. Even without 3D, I suspect it's a beautiful piece of work, and it does exist out ( Read more... )

You knew I was going to reach this one at some point, right? I mean, we did the hooker!fic J2 AU last weekend, and I've been saying how it's hookers or rock bands, so I couldn't just let this opportunity pass. So let me just say it now, so there's no confusion where I stand on the matter: the below is to rock band AU's as "Do I Seem Bulletproof To ( Read more... )

I don't know, you guys. I had kind of a bizarre day. I got a bit of bad news about an old friend, and it knocked me off-kilter, and I really, really didn't want to be reccing anything tonight. But sometimes it happens like that. And the point is to do it even when it happens like that. And I always, ever since she said it to me, recall that oschun says " ( Read more... )

Did I mention my house guests left? Yesterday evening. I've managed to put the house back the way it belongs, and changed the channels on all the televisions away from news stations again, and tossed out all the newspapers, and moved the tour guides and maps and receipts and bits of the detritus of Other People's Vacation to appropriate ( Read more... )

To be honest with you, this is one of my favorite authors anywhere, in any incarnation, in fandom or out. I came across one of her stories in my bookmarks last night and thought, as I usually do, that I ought to rec it. And then I set it aside because, well, it's hard. She's... I set her apart from other authors. She has a style all her own, and ( Read more... )

My apologies for the delay here. I fell asleep reading last night :) Reading the same thing I've been reading for the past four days, the same thing I've been meaning to rec for the past three (except I can't, because I haven't finished reading, see?). It's fantastic but I'm still only halfway through because, OMFG, this has turned out to be the ( Read more... )

So. I'm still alive (yay!) having survived a host of unmentionable medical molestations on my person (not that bad, really) one of which resulted in a temporary state I shan't bother you with, other than to say: hot flashes and palpitations during a heat wave? Not fun. Not fun on any average day either, I wager, but yeah. Never get them. Mostly ( Read more... )

A shorter story and a shorter rec this evening. Apologies for straying from the pattern but needs must; I didn't want to skip again. This certainly feels like a much longer, bigger story, however. I wish it were. I wish it were epic, as a matter of fact, and though I know what it does to writers to say that, I also want to say: it isn't that it's ( Read more... )