What. Why? It's March. There was next to no snow all Winter and now I've got hailstones the size of golf balls hitting my window. It's a literal BLIZZARD out there, I can't see anything but white swirls every way I look. Did we get all of Russia's weather dumped on our heads ( Read more... )

When you realise your entire premise for the next three chapters is based on a 4-season climate instead of the 2-season climate of canon.

Major edits and note shuffling ahoy. Yay.

Avatar world, why your equator climate screwing with my Britishness?


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As usual, mostly crossovers. I'll be adding more to this as I dig and suggestions for this list, old lists and any category you'd like to see in the future are welcome.

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So, I've been collecting books on trees, herbs, nature survival/cooking and the like for a few years now. It's fascinating how many angles you can approach even just the British plant lore from. Some of these books have purely religious or historical outlooks, others concentrate on modern survival, nature and community preservation and the like. I ( Read more... )

I love crossovers. There is a limit however. Two and a half is my limit. Two interacting fandoms with some elements of a third. That's all I think you can handle in any given story, either writing or reading.

It's hard enough melding two verses into a fusion or having one cast meet another, why do people insist on throwing every character from every ( Read more... )

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I read self-insert/OFC/OMC fiction. Here's why:

1) They can bring a new perspective to an existing universe. Yes, this is usually a white, heterosexual, middle class perspective but I don't think this is always a bad thing (some deviation on this would be nice though), provided the canon characters don't start adopting everything the OC does/says/ ( Read more... )

I am so behind on my dissertation, it's not even funny but instead of working on that like I should be (lalala, not listening~) I've been procrastinating by reading shojou and yuri manga.

WHY ARE THERE NO GOOD HEROINES!?! IF I HAVE TO READ ONE MORE COMIC WHERE THE FEMALE PROTAGONIST GETS MOLESTED BY A NEAR STRANGER FOR BEING 'TOO CUTE' I WILL JUST ( Read more... )

Yeah, I have no excuse and any court in the land would convict me of being hypocritical liek whoa but when you start daydreaming about what the next update might be like, imagine horrifying, sticky ends for the writers (who are dead, in comas, or abducted by aliens, obviously) then you know you've got it bad for a fic.

I won't mention all the fics I ( Read more... )

Why can't I find any Narnia/Captain America crossovers out there? I mean, okay, they're set in different countries even if at the EXACT SAME time (WWII for LtWatW, subsequent books also during or not long after) however, Steve did spend a lot of time in Europe and Movie!verse Susan did go to America so interaction between the characters (never mind ( Read more... )