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Things I have enjoyed while away - Part 1: Imperial Radch Series
I remain fannishly homeless, but one of the brief stops along the way during my absence from blogging was Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch series (consisting of three novels: Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy). It was an actual stop, because look here, I wrote fic for it in 2016! Just one little thing which is rough around the edges ( Read more... ) -
the prodigal blogger returns...?
On a whim today I went on Dreamwidth and looked at my profile page and saw that it was 6 years out of date. Six years? Has it really been that long since I blogged regularly? No, not quite, I was pretty active until 2013, but it sure feels that long ( Read more... ) -
Yuletide reveal
Hello 2015! Happy New Year to everyone :) New Year's Eve in the US is /weird/ - no fireworks! No people on the street! No noisy banging and drunken yelling all day long! I went to a pub with some friends and they had free party hats and a screening of the ball dropping on Times Square and people sang Auld Lang Syne, so that was nice, but still it ( Read more... ) -
Remember me? Can't blame you if you don't...
Happy holidays, flist! I've been gone for forever, and I'm sad that I don't really have a proper online presence in fandom anymore, but that's how it is. In fannish terms I'm homeless and unemployed, and since I'm fairly bad at making new fannish friends unless it's through writing and commenting, I don't see that changing anytime soon ( Read more... ) -
Has it really been three months?
I haven't posted anything since March! And I haven't really participated in fandom, either. I've read a bit of fic here and there: quite a lot of Blake's 7, but it didn't result in me wanting to write any, also everything good there is for certain pairings in Discworld/Pratchett fandom (namely: City Watch, and some Witches... and I would have ( Read more... ) -
London
I just (well, yesterday evening) came back from a 5 day trip to London. It was extremely spontaneous - I found out Tuesday that I was flying there on Sunday. Our English Department offers a theatre trip to London every spring, organized by my boss/thesis supervisor. This year the date was a bit unfortunate, in the middle of spring break, so he didn ( Read more... ) -
Books!
I'm gonna talk about books in this post, that is, books I've read in 2014 so far. Most of them are Children's Fiction because I'm doing my PhD on CF. I'm still about anxious about that, because on the one hand I'm enjoying the reading a lot, but on the other hand it's one of those genres that have been quite popular, especially among female lit ( Read more... ) -
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I'm trying to upload more of my fics to AO3 and the most annoying thing is trying to find all the stuff I wrote on kink and anon memes because I NEVER bookmarked any of it, and I only remember a few things and sometimes I come across something and think: Did I write this? I think I did, no one ever de-anoned, it feels terribly familiar, it's got a ( Read more... ) -
Dec Talking Meme - Villains
The last of these posts is for xparrot, who wants me to talk about villains and why I like them ( Read more... ) -
Dec Talking Meme Dec 27 - Artificial Intelligence
blindmapmaker asked: Robots/AI or any more or less mechanical/digital life-form. Is SF better off with using them a lot or better without them? (The Culture vs. Vorkosigan for example).I love this question ( Read more... )