I know I've been absent and mostly silent for... hell, I don't even know for sure how long. I think the last thing I posted here might have been about how I was ready to continue a WIP ( Read more... )

At last, the truth can be told! The master list of stories and the authors who birthed wrote them has been released on sga_genficathon, and we are now free to announce them ( Read more... )

Today marks the final day of scheduled stories to be posted to the sga_genficathon, a ficathon specially designed to showcase the wide variety of gen fic in the SGA fandom. Run by friendshipper, this three-week event has produced sixty new stories in seven different defined genres ( Read more... )

I woke up early this morning, for some reason. This did not make me happy. Waking up before the alarm goes off always seems like a profound injustice, as though I've been cheated of something I can never get back.But anyway, I had over half an hour before I needed to be up, so I curled up and tried to doze back off. My dog Norman complicated ( Read more... )

Free to resume working on my Tin Man WIP, anyway. I'm not actually cost-free, or free to all comers or whatever.

Psst. Hey blackletter... you ready to start receiving new chapters?

Let's see... what was that story about again? (Kidding.)

SGA peeps, please help. In season four, is John a full colonel, or is he still a lieutenant colonel? I can't remember if he got another promotion in a previous season.

Also, if anyone has any mind-caulk around, send me some. Gotta stop these leaks somehow.

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to volunteer for the local campaign for Barack Obama. We can discuss why later, if anyone wants, but right now, just stating the fact. So Bladekid and I went downtown to the recently opened local campaign headquarters, where they were really just trying to get organized, and put my name on a list to volunteer. ( Read more... )

It's late and I'm tired and scattered, so this is not the time for me to try to tell a coherent story. However, some interesting things have happened to me in the last couple of days, so - remind me to post about it tomorrow, okay?

Teaser: I had an unexpected fannish experience this week.

... for one night. Last week, Bladekid came home from school and announced that he had a permission slip for me to sign. It was for him to participate in a drawing to be one of three kids in his health class to bring home one of those electronic babies that cry every couple of hours or so and have to be rocked for some random amount of time to ( Read more... )

I spent the weekend helping my mother cook for the Easter Sunday dinner to which she'd invited Strong Silent Guy's (her boyfriend's) family ( Read more... )