So I actually stumbled onto this blog post through a parenting blog I read regularly (Raising My Boychick, in case you're interested), and I found it really inspiring, as a vidder. I thought the writers and vidders (and other artists!) on my list might enjoy it as well. Some personal highlights (replace 'writing' with 'vidding' and you'll see ( Read more... )

AHH and I saw Inception last weekend and loved it. I'm actually feeling pretty fannish about it, specifically ( spoilers - including a very spoilery question )

As the site itself says, this is the best visual form of birth control I've seen: Shit My Kids RuinedION: I have 40 seconds of my CV vid done and I hate basically every second of it. This is not a good sign. My goal is just to finish it, even if it's utter crap, and then tear it apart later if I have the time. Otherwise, I may just submit utter ( Read more... )

1. Via settiai, a post about why Tennessee needs help and how you can help them. The flooding sounds pretty epically bad over there.

2. Just another reason to love Kathleen Edwards: her blog. (I need to do my Kathleen Edwards pimping post STILL. *makes note ( Read more... )

I'm stopping in to say that I'm about to drop off the face of the online planet for the next 10-12 days or so, so to people I owe emails (especially joandarck and
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- The power of writing, the thing that attracts me to it most strongly, is when the writer manages to capture in words exactly the way I'm feeling and I know that I am not alone. I'm having this sensation, over and over, while reading The Song Is You, and it fills me up with warmth and happiness every time I read a sentence or a paragraph and I ( Read more... )

Oh Modern Family. You never fail to make me laugh.

YOU GUYS. Are you feeling down? Stop what you are doing and go read this post/watch this video about a 16-year old boy who knits blankets for babies. This is why I love humanity ( Read more... )

A vid rec! Soldier On by secretlytodream (SPN) - Sam and Dean and death and life.

Very cool gender-flipped casting post, also for Supernatural ( Read more... )

I have been lousy - LOUSY - at birthdays lately, but I absolutely could not let today pass without wishing all the best to danceswithwords! DWW, I hope you get a chance to breathe a bit today, enjoy some time with your puppy, and have a delicious meal. :)

While I'm here, a smorgasboard of random thoughts and links I've been collecting for awhile.

Via brynnmck, a ( Read more... )

1. The Greatest Movie Ever is coming out in April. Jeffrey Dean Morgan + Idris Elba + Zoe Saldana + buddy!cop-ish/con artist/bad ass special forces/humor = I AM PRETTY SURE WE ARE ALL LIVING IN A DREAM WORLD.

2. President Obama pwns us all. 66 minutes of refreshing candor and facts.

3. First Treme promo is out. ALSO coming in April. By May I ( Read more... )