Mirror Hunt has updated:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/198740/chapters/21564644

Of course, in classic David Weber fashion it's people sitting around talking and not advancing the plot that much. It sort of comes with the territory...

http://offbeatchina.com/slash-fiction-falls-victim-to-chinas-latest-crackdown-on-online-porn

Three projects I want to catch up on:

1) My fic for zortified. Currently stalled due to my difficulty writing an Ivan characterization that'd meet the request, but there's no excuse for this going on this long.

2) Rock opera translation project. It might be a good idea at this stage to polish up and release the parts I'm pretty happy with rather ( Read more... )

Had to reconstruct this from memory this year... nearly the season.

Ingredients: 
Pie crust (optional)
Filling:
Enough strawberries and rhubarb to fill your pie shell, cut into reasonable sized chunks. Thawed frozen strawberries are fine. Rhubarb should probably be fresh. I tend not to worry about exact volumes or proportions of one to the other.
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Eugene Medvedev dropped some video of Vorcon 2006 (in Russia) onto Youtube a day or two back. Particularly, of a thirty-minute performance done during the LARP that year. I have to say the production values of the performance are not incredibly high, and nobody has quite memorized their lines, but it's still very interesting.  It has subtitles (in ( Read more... )

Well, according to Putin...

You know, I am pretty cynical about politics. But there are reasons the Russians I know far outclass me ;)

Here's the most extraordinary political ad I've ever seen in any language (w/translation). Seriously, take a look.

I know people over there now. Here's to hoping it all turns out well. 

Dresden Files/Good Omens

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I'm running the Winterfair Open Exchange again on bujold_fic

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 Man, children's television isn't what it used to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G4dHRN2Dug

transcript