I got a very fun Sam/Dean sex pollen story from ephemeralk, Botany of Desire, for

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( long review )

Sadly, my productive work semester is leaving zero time for making fannish things, but I can at least share some love:

OTW comments on the legal framework for remix.  If you don’t tear up at a couple of the personal fandom stories, you’re a stronger person than I am.

Also, it turns out that the rules for Amazon’s Kindle Worlds really are quite ( Read more... )

Two US agencies are holding hearings on copyright reform; enough powerful people (ok, companies) think that copyright law needs changing that this might actually happen.  Don't let it happen without fannish voices: the OTW is soliciting stories of how creating transformative works has helped people in day-to-day life, whether that's through ( Read more... )

What Flourish Klink says about Amazon’s new fan fiction monetization project is all worth taking seriously, especially the parts about incremental change and bringing in people who weren’t traditionally “fan fiction writers.” I think that’s actually the riskiest part (and I don’t think she argues otherwise); the internet grew to its present point ( Read more... )

Now just to get enough writing done.

Links: Marco Rubio says the age of the earth is “one of the great mysteries.” No. No, it’s not!

Men’s emotions as the standard for rationality.

Hilarious! For certain values of hilarious, anyway. How to make pseudoephedrine from meth.  The factchecking comments at BoingBoing also warm my heart (what’s the ( Read more... )

Infocide in open content communities: Includes flouncing, but puts it in a larger context.

Bankruptcy court overlooks predatory lending, discharges student loans based on debtor’s autism instead. It’s important to remember that the strategies that benefit an individual client in court can be harmful overall (and maybe even to the client in some ways ( Read more... )

Eureka: ( Spoilers are still in the Matrix )

Quote of the day: Colson Whitehead: “Greyhounds are raised in deplorable puppy mills and drugged up for the racetrack, I think I read somewhere, and Peter Pan used to enter kids' bedrooms and entice them, so perhaps there is a core aspect to the bus industry that defies rebranding.”

Rec: A Curious Carriage of Crystal and Cold: essentially original ( Read more... )

Dispatches from the other side of the “war on Christmas”: today, my four-year-old daughter and I pass a barber shop, all decked out with Santa etc. She asks, “Mommy, are Jewish people allowed to go in that store?” I reassure her that we are. It takes a little while.

Barney Frank still has it:
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt ( Read more... )