I give up. I don't think crossposting is worth it any more, especially with LJ's shenanigans. (Details here and here -- suffice to say, I don't approve of this nonsense.)

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In somewhat more productive sounding news, I have decided to go back to sewing things by hand. So. Have some hexagons. Lots and lots of hexagons.


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Hello! I, ah, haven't been here much, have I ( Read more... )

Gong xi fa cai! (I am late, as usual ( Read more... )

It's a bit jarring when you're reading a very well written fic and find yourself stumbling across typos involving homophones. "Taught" instead of "taut" certainly made me blink, but I can brush off things like that, especially when the writing is good and the writer is not consistently misspelling the word -- you just miss some of those, sometimes ( Read more... )

I'm watching season 1 of Numb3rs and enjoying it very much. It's a show I've been watching on and off throughout the six seasons; I like it, but I could never manage to consistently catch it on TV. I know it airs (aired?) on Tuesdays here, but I'm horrible at tracking days and dates -- I always end up remembering much, much later (say, at almost ( Read more... )

It hasn't been a very good weekend ( Read more... )

Wow. I wrote one (1) piece of fanfic the entire year. I didn't think of this earlier, but with all the 2009 recap posts I've been seeing, I began wondering what did I do the whole of last year, fanworks-related, and . . . there you go.

It's this one: On the Precipiece of the World; Final Fantasy X, about 6,400 words. And it was for Final Fantasy ( Read more... )

Ten Yuletide recs, with tl;dr fangirly useful canon information for each because you need to read these books:

( recs for The Dalemark Quartet (Diana Wynne Jones), The Gentleman Bastard Sequence (Scott Lynch), The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood), I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith), Malay literature, Matilda (Roald Dahl), To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis), Sunshine (2007 movie) )

I bet no one is really interested in a list of books I read this year. So, instead, we'll have a post with pictures and toppling towers of books.


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