this year the end of the year fic roundup does not warrant its own post

[pellucid]

Grades signed, sealed, and delivered!!! *collapses* I may have to reevaluate the wisdom of making my major essay/assignment thingie due right at the end of term. Pros: relatively few late papers trickling in, and there's also a bit of the whole "pulling off the band-aid" effect (if one can pull off a bandaid for two weeks straight). Cons: I HAVE

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[gabolange]

I work and climb with a girl who is 22. She is sweet, smart, and fun to be around. She also has no memory of life before home computers or the Internet, and it just astounds me how quickly technology has evolved. It makes me feel old, which is very, very odd.

It also appears that the Leverage fic in my head is actually an Eliot character study?????? Yeah, I have no idea, except, well, I totally went to high school with Eliot.

This actually merits six question marks? ;) Because I am so not surprised . . . but I am hoping you'll write it, because I really, really want to read it!

(Also, if you're ever tempted to write Eliot Spencer and Cam Mitchell, I don't know, sitting around and arguing about pie and guns and their grandmothers or something, I'll be the first in line. I have no idea where that came from. I'll be over here . . . !)

[pellucid]

Yes, I think it only takes about a 5-year gap for internet experiences to differ vastly. Because you make me feel a little old, internet-wise, and then this friend of yours is older than most of my students by 1-3 years or so, and yeah

[gabolange]

I think I'd be slightly terrified of having them because how in the world do you raise children in this environment, when there are computers in day cares and such craziness???

This is something I think about. Because I found Minotaur's Sex Tips for Slash Writers when I was twelve, back before parents knew to be educated about that kind of thing, and I presume that I'd be a more attentive monitor of any hypothetical children than my parents were of me, but . . . with technology changing as quickly as it does, how on earth do you keep up if you're over fourteen?

And I got introduced to Harry Potter because my aunt was reading the first two or three books aloud to my younger cousins, who are currently between 18 and 20 . . . precisely the age of your students. It's very strange.

Though admittedly, he is sort of my type. :)Well, yes. And that, more than anything else, is why I'm not surprised about this development. But he's also been the character you've thought most about in terms of backstory and thinking about where he comes

[pellucid]

It's hard for me to pinpoint a time before I knew about computers, because my dad was a relatively early adopter and had one in his office by the mid-80s or so. But it was still at the office (and it was a treat to get to go over and play this pac-man-like game, all in green text on a black screen, which was pretty much the only thing aside from word processing that that machine would do), and I was probably in 8th or 9th grade before we had one at home

[clueless_02]

Congrats on being finished with grading. I only had a brief experience with grading this semester when I was a TS for a Political Science professor and that brief experience was enough for me!

"The Group of Beloved Female Characters Who Got Screwed in the End" was just a fantastic read and would be pretty hilarious if it wasn't so true. Sadly, while I was reading the fic, I realized that my last fandom obsession hit every one of the "Your beloved female character is totally being screwed over" points and the damn show was centered around two women with men playing only a small role in the show so I'm not really sure how they got so far off track.

Anyways,(And possibly the year I finally let chaila43 and beccatoria teach me how to vid???)

I really recommend learning how to vid because it is a totally frustrating process but well worth it when you see your final vid.