Last night I finished and posted the Damaged People installments Tranquility Base, Where The Frown On My Face and Copernius, thereby closing out the first arc of Damaged People. I'm not sure how long exactly that arc took me to write (I think I started it in mid-to-late 2007?) or how much writing is represented by it (I believe it's up above 100k ( Read more... )

Title: W is for Wait What
Author: magistrate
Rating: T.
Genre: Echidnafic. (By which I mean, crack written with a serious tone.)
Beta: Fig Newton.
Continuity: What do you get if you cross an elephant with a rhino? S10. Post-200, sometime in in the undefined chronology of Memento Mori.
Prerequisities: 200. 1969. A Hundred Days. Fragile ( Read more... )

Excerpted from Fast Company's January 20, 2012 article The Return of LiveJournal:

However, longtime LiveJournal users are upset by the changes. LiveJournal recently unveiled a complete redesign that overhauled the service's comments system, emphasized social networking, and set the stage for the upcoming communities blitz. Reaction from longtime ( Read more... )

One of these days I'll stop being frustrated with Damaged People, but it sure isn't today!

( Grousing about sexual politics, implication, and the like; no concrete spoilers but makes more sense if you've read through Lights Move/Chains/The World As/What Possesses )

...meanwhile, my brain is giving me someone named Tether, an aromantic, touch-hungry, skin-averse, heterophysical, sex-repulsed asexual who undergoes violence-hunger cycles in accordance with lunar cycles, peaking at the new moon. She gets paired with some guy called Knife, who as far as I can tell is a fairly vanilla heterosexual guy somewhere on ( Read more... )

I'd like to get better at my strange pseudo-divination. (I don't really do Tarot, I do a completely homegrown... thing... using an art deck, and so long as I'm reading for myself, I tend to get a decent signal-to-noise ratio with high strength and okay clarity. I'd like to get to high clarity as well.)

So I'm offering free one-card draws, for as ( Read more... )

Those of you who watch my journal have probably noticed that I never do recs, usually because I'm too damn lazy, but I have to share this fic with everyone ever because it makes me that damn happy: A Strange and Abundant Love: BBC Sherlock, 20k words and unfinished (I believe?) at the time of this posting, a lovely, deep, intimate gen three-way ( Read more... )

Title: A Long Drawn-Out Breath and an Impossible Sky
Author: magistrate
Rating: T
Genre: ...slipstream. :|
Beta: 1 cuil: if you asked me for a beta and I gave you a raccoon.
Continuity: Nothing blatantly canon-defying, so far as I can tell. Some point in canon when they have naqahdah reactors. And Daniel.
Summary: I DON'T KNOW
Disclaimer: I am ( Read more... )

Title: Many Have Said
Author: magistrate
Rating: T.
Genre: Character study/vignettes.
Beta: Hiding his face. Actually, none.
Continuity: Canon-compliant, pre-series from the movie through to Children of the Gods.
Summary: Impassivity is a learned disposition.
Disclaimer: There's no conspiracy; SG-1 really does belong to MGM. The opinions ( Read more... )

I had this post roughly sketched out in the back of my head, but then my week got all crazy, my basement flooded, and I got sidetracked by writing about space elevators and hydroponic roses, so here's the distilled essence of the Post That Never Was:

Anna Hazare is awesome. You should all take a look at "Escaping Poverty: The Ralegan Siddhi case, ( Read more... )