Pleasingly and admittedly slightly surprisingly, I actually do know where I'm going with my remix fic. Huh! And I have a bit of a lull in academic work right now while I wait for data from a couple of people, so the odds are in its favour in the brain-space hunger games. Goodness ( Read more... )

Val came home the other day with Tuula Karjalainen's new Tove Jansson biography, which is out in Swedish now. (If you haven't realised yet, you soon will: I'm a Tove Jansson nerd.) I haven't actually had time to read much of it yet, but I certainly have looked at the pictures! Unlike Boel Westin's Tove Jansson biography it's in colour, and there's ( Read more... )

I seem to have passed 1000 kudos on AO3 in the night, as well. Huh! & I'm somewhere around 200 bookmarks and 100 comment threads. I've already forgotten what I was going to say about this, but it's a thing that apparently is ( Read more... )

The WIP has now been the same length for several weeks. I think I'm engaged in a staring match with a word document. This is my life, these are my choices ( Read more... )

1. New Sailor Moon anime inches slowly closer towards looking like a real thing, now with official art. I see! Looks a lot like the manga. Wonder what the actual animation will look like.

2. The cat is moulting. Please let me shave him. I hoovered the sofa yesterday and today it's covered in tufts of hair again.

Nazis tried to murder people who were part of a feminist demonstration in southern Sweden this week and it was reported in the national news as "a fight between extremists." Amazing. Our current political climate and the state of Swedish media summed up in one big pile of shit.

Ego boosts:

being recced (once in the post and once in the comments, both times for rather neglected fics ( Read more... )

700 words written today, which makes my current project 2000 words long. It's the low-brain project, so I would suggest that those waiting for a masterpiece may be waiting a long time - I'm basically writing cliché comfort-fic for my own entertainment. (Harry comes back to Hogwarts to teach, Snape lurks around in dark corners being annoyed by the ( Read more... )

I was meant to sleep an hour and a half ago but spent the time complaining about prescriptive approaches to writing fiction. Again. (It's the scheduled quarterly outburst. Completely inevitable, apparently.) Tomorrow morning I'm going to hate everything and it's going to be all my own fault.

Goodnight!

I don't have any time to talk about this properly, but things that I react to in the current round of "JKR says things in public ( Read more... )