The twentieth anniversary of me finding online fanfiction passed recently; I know this because I remember very clearly going to my mother's home in Pennsylvania for Christmas and being upset that I wouldn't have any internet there and couldn't continue devouring the Mulder/Krycek Romantics Association site's fics ( Read more... )

I'm recovering pretty well from Thursday's surgery, though I'm still having some moments of discomfort. The scars will be fairly well camouflaged once they heal. Though Friday I had swelled up so much that I went up nearly a cup size. I sleep on my side, so when I woke up Friday morning they'd swelled sideways. It was an interesting look ( Read more... )

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ride_4ever asked me to comment on any aspect or aspects of my due South Borderlands - One for Sorrow series, like technical things about writing it or the feels I got from it while writing it or what originally sparked the idea. (Readers, it's not too late to give me questions about anything--interesting, boring - I don't judge, impertinent, or unusual ( Read more... )

While wandering around on Fanlore, I saw that two live chat interviews I did while I was writing X-Files fic are still available online and referenced there, one for new XF authors in 1998 and one for humor writers in 2000. When asked what we, as writers, wanted to see more of, we all said we weren't getting much feedback on our fic. Plus ça change ( Read more... )

"David Duchovny Has a Favorite X-Files Slashfic"

Some fun links from dr_zook:

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Pass your cursor over the parts of this one to animate it. Make sure to press the buttons and pass your cursor over the second group of donuts that show up when you press the left-hand button too. http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/ ( Read more... )

A Year of Fic-ish First Lines ( Read more... )

Monster of the Week - The Complete Cartoon X-Files

The strip is currently in season one.

I recently borrowed on CD some '90s' albums I never had and others I only had on, yes, cassette. I had Tool's Undertow on cassette and never bought Ænima because for a few years I could hear Tool every time I turned K-ROCK on. (These days Undertow and Ænima come across as very Sanzo to me, but back then Ænima was an unavoidable musical background ( Read more... )