So, there is this woman sitting at my desk, fidgeting in my chair, babbling incessantly. No way, I can concentrate when she's around, barely manage to read much less update LJ. The she-monster jumps and skids from subject to subject faster than a drop of water on a hotplate and can't keep her f*cking fingers off the phone where she giggles insanely ( Read more... )

Gacked from Drcoulter:

Heh! Reminds me of the conversation "A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend" amyzoncom started a while back.

It's 4 am. Woke up from the weirdest dream - my lungs whistling and rattling like a piece of machinery that should have been put out of business around the turn of the century. No, not this one, the one before that ( Read more... )

Neurotic Poets - Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
This site offers biographies, selected poems, and pictures of Poe, Wilde, Thomas, Shelley, Rossetti, Plath, Dickinson, and Byron.
Mission statement: “These pages present stories about and works by several widely admired poets who courted emotional disaster throughout their lives. ( Read more... )

A while back, friends asked me to recommend some good fanfic stories to them. I ended up with four pages of recs and an additional 9 pages of commentary, detailing why I chose these particular writers and stories. Then, I deleted the entire commentary because I felt, the commentary would manipulate their perception. Now, the list looks so...random ( Read more... )

This was sparked off by amyzoncom's encouraging thoughts titled A vague disclaimer is nobody's friendHere we go ( Read more... )

OK, it’s been my personal I-hate-myself-week. I officially announce the end of pity-ditty-week: tomorrow at midnight - still have some rest-anger to whine about. So, why am I so low? Have three almost finished essays here, and I’m tempted to tear them to shreds. Well, not literally because I do like my hard disks healthily spinning away. Result ( Read more... )

Adding to “fanfic vs. original fic”- discussion here spawned by Amyzoncom's thought-provoking post on the matter... come to think of it, actually I’m adding to Eliade’s brilliant comment or maybe I’m just merrily rambling away. Why do I post it here and not there? Because this is long and because I’m an idiot when it comes to using that pathetic little edit box ( Read more... )

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( I am no Penelope... )