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To anyone still reading, if you're interested, I have two items on offer in the current round of Marvel Trumps Hate auctions. You can bid on beta duties or a fic from me for charity. Check out the item pages for more details on my offers; go here for more details about the auction in general. Happy bidding!

Fandom! I seek thoughts from your collective wisdom. Allow me to lay out the points for you. Then, I entreat you, discuss. Well aware that the world is far more diverse than my Friends list is, I am leaving this entry public rather than F-locked in the hope of inviting deeper discussion. I am trusting friends and others alike to be evolved, ( Read more... )

I Want My Nerd HQ 2014

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If you've received an e-mail from my aim.com/aol.com account within the last day or so, please ignore it. I've reset the password and changed other account information now, but there were SPAM messages going out from the account. Sorry!

I got to meet celli the weekend before last! It was a brief but very welcome interlude; I spent the rest of the weekend losing my conference virginity at LeakyCon. The con was definitely exhausting but generally awesome -- particularly the LeakyConLit panels featuring authors like Holly Black, the very well-attended and thought-provoking discussion on ( Read more... )

Although we've had onscreen farewells to actress Kathryn Joosten's beloved long-running characters on The West Wing and Desperate Housewives -- plus her great Scrubs character --, she is still gone too soon.

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The good-ish: my brother-in-law is pretty confident that he can retrieve/save the data from my laptop. I'll probably need to spend my tax refund on a new device, but it's probably about time for that anyway ( Read more... )

Today's "Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade" e-newsletter had this gif with the link to request a galley of Chris Colfer's upcoming The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell.


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I made it through round one of klainemadness by default; round two voting is open now, if you're interested. ( This entry indicates which bracket was mine for round two.)