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Friend Cull
This is just a heads up that sometime over the weekend I'll be doing a cull. I'm not using LJ for fandom these days, and so I'm going to unfollow the majority of the fandom/fic journals. I'm one of those people who bookmarks journals as well as friending them, so this is not me cutting you out of my life forever! It's just that all of the posts ( Read more... ) -
Meme for writers.
I put this up on tumblr a few days ago, and someone asked for it to be posted over here, too. Now with a handy-dandy cut'n'paste box! (Let me know if I've ballsed up the formatting.)
1. Do you keep track of hits/subscriptions/bookmarks on your fics?
2. Is there a particular kind of comment you hate getting? (Concrit, short comments, detailed ( Read more... ) -
Fic commentary meme
Pick any passage of 500 words or fewer from any piece of fanfic I’ve ever written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it, what’s going on in the characters' heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in ( Read more... ) -
Non-spoilery review of Batman 3 (aka, The Dark Knight Rises)
I am going to preface this by saying that I am not a fan of the Nolan Batmans, and yet I have spent NINE HOURS watching all three this evening. I don't actively hate them, and I actually really like and respect the way a lot of comic arcs have been folded into the films. My biggest problem with the trilogy is best seen in the last twenty minutes of ( Read more... ) -
Non-spoilery review of The Amazing Spider-Man
It's good! I honestly wasn't sold on Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker before I saw the film, but he does a really great job of playing Peter as this awkward, adorable kid who is full of all of this mixed-up energy. Emma Stone does a really great job as Gwen Stacy, and my one quibble there is that Gwen didn't have a bigger, active role in the movie. ( Read more... ) -
Snow White and the Huntsman - not at all spoilery
This movie was a LOT better than I was expecting. Admittedly, I was not expecting much, but this is a film that has layers, and a lot of attention to detail, and is quite meaty when you start picking it apart. I do have a bunch of problems with it, but that's more to do with what the movie isn't opposed to what it is ( Read more... ) -
All Hell Breaks Loose 3
Wow. My first topic-specific convention. Before the con, I was disappointed that it was only a one day affair. In retrospect, a weekend con may have killed me. There were some great moments and some shitty moments, though I'm going to do my best to focus on the good here. A lot of the things that I didn't like had to do with small-sih quibbles with ( Read more... ) -
Check your priviledge, movie reviwers
This actually happened ages ago, but I was reminded the other day that it still makes me cranky. This is not any kind of insightful, intellectual, or particularly coherent post. It's written mainly because I can't make my frustration fit 140 characters and just tweet it ( Read more... ) -
Three arguments (about fanfic) that I'm sick of seeing
I was reading a blog last night written and maintained by Lee Goldberg (I initially didn't know who he is, but in reading I discovered that I've seen a lot of the shows he's worked on and heard of two of his novels before). I was cruising the fanfiction tag of his blog (spoiler: he's not a fan of it). While there were certainly posts that I agreed ( Read more... )
