I've been a vegetarian for about 20 years - not a vegan, because god knows I would sell my soul for cheese and usually have at least 3 or 4 kinds in the fridge at any one time, and then let's not get into the horrorshow that is non-dairy ice cream - but any time I tell someone they always seem to ask the same question. What do you eatWell, for ( Read more... )

Well, this whole 750 words thing still really seems to be working - as I write this, I'm on a 33-day roll and have written just over 35,000 words during that period, pretty much all of which is UNCLE movie fanfic ( Read more... )

As regular readers of these posts will know, all my clever plans to teach this academic year and also start a part-time PGCE got given a major kicking by our lovely Tory government's inability to manage joined-up thinking. Sure, we're going to be taking more refugees (as we should, no argument from me) and in the meanwhile people need to learn ( Read more... )

I might as well inflict links for what's been produced so far on you all, in case anyone is interested:

Togetherness and The Truth About Love are parts 1 and 2 respectively in a series, in which Napoleon would very much like to get his partners into bed but realises that Illya is the first obstacle he needs to overcome.

Then there's also Larger ( Read more... )

A lot has changed since I got into fandom, back in the late 1990's. That was also when I first got online and it was dial-up, which seems like another world completely - I regularly ended up paying extra at the end of the month because I'd exceeded my allotted time online.

At one point we were downloading episodes of SG-1 in what everyone ( Read more... )

So, in the past couple of years, I've become a fan of cycling. This is mostly the fault of some people on my flist (they know who they are) and at least it's not ice hockey and the resultant RPF that seems to generate, so that's a small comfort ( Read more... )

Yep, looking back I see that I have posted one of these each year about August-September, so let's make it three in a row!

1. Tripping Over You - Milo and Liam, navigating the waters of a first relationship (m/m).

2. Supercakes - Kat Leyh is now getting more of a break in mainstream comics as an artist for Lumberjanes and things like that but ( Read more... )

It's pretty horrifying to look back and think I started posting fanfic in 1999 (very shortly after joining fandom back in the days of mailing lists) and it's now 2015. Initially, it was all very much fuelled by reading fic and thinking 'pfft, I could do better than that', not realising a) what getting started on that road would be like, and b) that ( Read more... )

After the metaphorical smack-in-the-face that was last week, I figure I deserved a break and on Monday I seem to have got a small one at least... I got a text from the agency who organised the time I worked in the university library (and I didn't think I was still on their books, as it was more than 18 months ago) asking for someone to do admin ( Read more... )

This week in particular, our lovely Prime Minister has been banging on about the importance of integration and British values and all that stuff ( Read more... )