Perhaps I should stop reading the links that come down via metafandom

...I imagine that for every ­second-­language writer there is a moment of choice, and then, after that, probably many additional moments of ­choosing.This article, of course, is not to discount the value of bilingual writers. There's nothing condescending about the remarks about how they' ( Read more... )

I was tagged by glitterburn (cause I wanted to) to elaborate on the following:

Gundam WingIn the end of the 1970s, NASA scientists came up with a design of space colonies that could be located at the Lagrange points of the Earth-Moon system. The colonization program (that was presented before Congress btw) was meant to solve energy crisis on Earth, and they ( Read more... )

A fact is not the truth until you love it. I don't remember how exactly this phrase got stuck in my head, but it pops up to the surface, every time FFR goes into virgin smut frenzy ( Read more... )

Doctor Who Christmas Special?

Two things that I find particularly fascinating:
( but spoilery )

I like today.

"I wrote a pile of crap!"
"Me too!"
"Congratulations!"

Indeed.

Quite unrelated. I thought that Seimei's message on my userpic seemed to be a bit too subtle. Of course, some people look at it and assume I'm about to bite their heads off, but not everyone. I hope that Ouyang Feng will rectify that misunderstanding.

Every time I see a Twilight rant at FFR, I feel a strange urge to write Ms. Rice a nice and sincere thank-you letter.

For NO fandom.

It's not that I'm planing to write anything about vampires any time soon, but I just can't walk by a serious professional tool set, antique or not.


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I wonder if using fanficrants for personal soul searching was a good idea or bad. In any case it was convoluted.

Chances are, if you're doing NaNoWriMo, you're NOT writing now.

1) If you don't do it now, you probably never will. Novel writing is mostly a "one day" event. As in "One day, I'd like to write a novel." Here's the truth: 99% of us, if left to our own devices, would never make the time to write a novel. It's just so far outside our normal lives ( Read more... )

I knew it was going to be rich. It was hard to miss the mind breaking beginning of the Transformative works and cultures movement earlier this year, so I naturally clicked to see the contents of their brand new magazine that they released a few days back. I must say that the title of the first article in that volume exceeded my wildest expectations ( Read more... )