- Who has seen The Hunger Games?

- Who will talk about it with me. because kdjg;lkjfdglkjf oh my god so good.

- Other things: March Madness, I watched a Sounders game last night (unclear why - it was kind of charmingly terrible), I have a paper to write and no ideas, I have fic to write and no ideas, I have no ideas.

- I miss being a productive, ( Read more... )

I hope you guys have wonderful, happy 2012s, very sincerely. I am so lucky to have such a great, funny, supportive group of secret online friends, you guys don't even know, and I hope the new year brings us all some great football and more astounding homoeroticism. as well as of course vast personal, professional and scholastic successes. but those ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Author,

first of all, I am so excited to read whatever you write for me! I really cannot wait and I know you will do a fabulous job. In order to make your life hopefully a little easier, here's a bit more detail about my requests, as well as info about what I love in fic and the stuff that I'd prefer you avoid.

first off, I cannot ( Read more... )

I mentioned to acchikocchi a while ago that I was going to write a post about how I write DV and DS. this is kind of that post? or just me blathering on.

( characterization, DV/DS and so on )

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I was reading metafandom, when I came across this:

A lot of the meta about RPF talks about how you need the ability to compartmentalise - to separate the 'characters' you read or write about in fanfic, the public personas, from the real people who are out there living real lives...there has been some discussion about this compartmentalising thing, and how ( Read more... )

First of all, a huge thank you to Eatsscissors, for writing me Sunny Days aka exactly what I wanted.

For Yuletide, I wrote April Snow. The fandom was Persuasion.

Writing this story was an incredibly fun challenge. First of all, I put it off to the last second because of finals. Then, I reread the last few chapters of Persuasion and realized that 1 ( Read more... )

Happy 2010 to everyone! May it exceed your expectations.

Winter rain in California may be the most wonderful thing in the world. Tomorrow I'm going to the beach; the day after, to the city. Family, friends, food and puzzles and books and board games and movies - I am just so cozily home right now. (I still need to start reading Yuletide fic. I can't believe myself, last year, I was all over it. Tomorrow ( Read more... )

Yuletide stories just went live - I received an amazing gift, Sunny Days. The fandom is Remember the Titans. If you read it (which you should, it's wonderful! and doesn't require any more knowledge of the movie than the wiki summary) please leave feedback for the author, who was kind enough to write me such a great story.

Merry Christmas to all of