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Reading Fanfiction, Part 2
Finding a decent Naruto fanfic is surprisingly difficult. Oddly, it's not because the quality of the writing is lower than in other fandoms (relatively speaking), but because of some very basic problems with the Naruto setting...
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Reading Fanfiction
Having recently discovered the... greatly varied bounty that is fanfiction.net, I've spent quite a bit of time reading up on some series. I started with Dragonball Z, inspired by Mythic Descent and associated stories by Dragoness Eclectic, then hopped into a couple of DBZ/Naruto and DBZ/Harry Potter (and one surprisingly interesting DBZ/HP/Naruto ( Read more... ) -
NaNoWriMo Cometh
November is National Novel Writing Month, and I am once again planning to participate. After last year's rather short-lived attempt, however, I'm going to do a little more prep work to give myself a helping hand, as it were ( Read more... ) -
Navel Contemplation: MMORPGs
(I am in a strangely elated mood, likely spawned by a marked lack of sleep - the root cause of which is TV Tropes, that corrupter of souls and harvester of free-time. This mood is marked by gratuitous use of highfalutin words and phrases and a significant spike in my personal evaluation of my own mastery of "humor ( Read more... ) -
Today's Lesson in Why Context Is Awesome
"There are tons of exciting things you can do that don't involve dedicating your life to satisfying the desires of pre-pubescent boys."
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Blood Bowl!
So yeah, this game is utterly awesome ( Read more... ) -
Games, games, and more games
It's only been about two months since my last entry, so I fear I'm going to be accused of post-whoring, but sometimes you just have to take these things in stride.
Obligatory Stuff That Matters Update: Not much has changed on the real life front. Still employed, still like my job, still like the people I work with.
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Some things are just too good to pass up
I about died laughing when this article came up in my RSS feeds.
"Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain"
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/27/1459241&from=rss
That's right folks, you heard it here first.
/comfort Jush