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formative years
My sympathies to everyone who is mourning iamsab. We weren't close, but we went to the same college a few years apart. And once, over a decade ago, she wrote me some advice about my education, 800 words (I just checked) which basically amounted to: SEIZE LIFE! Celebrate geekdom and nerdiness, love learning and words and creativity, and appreciate people ( Read more... ) -
In search of female characters who don't get dickmatized
So you know that moment at the end of Season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Buffy does that thing to Angel ( Read more... ) -
2012 TV meme
This year I watched A LOT of TV, haha. I would have liked to comment a lot more on them while watching, but c'est la vie.
Which TV shows did you start watching in 2012?Arrow -- not by choice; I think it's a steaming pile of shit but my husband watches it ( Read more... ) -
A Song of Ice and Fire, Books 4-5
Thanks to about 24 hours of travel time, door to door, I have finally finished the effing series!
(And what do I do? I immediately turn to a 380K-word fanfic WIP, The North Remembers by Silverblood, because dammit, I neeeeed to know what happens next. Even if it's only what someone else wants to happen ( Read more... ) -
Yuletide yay!
Hello Yuletide author! First, THANK YOU!!! This is only my second Yuletide. I'm mostly just excited to be getting a story in one of my requested fandoms so really, that's half the thing done. :) I hope the writing process is fun and makes you happy as well!
In case you're curious, my letter from last year's Yuletide is here -- it's largely ( Read more... ) -
TV catch-up
It's fall TV season time!
In my version of The Good Wife's S4 premiere, in which lawyers know their rights and the characters act like themselves instead of like idiots because the idiot plot requires them to be idiots, ( spoilers through 4x01 ) -
Breaking Bad 5x08 - Gliding Over All
I watched the finale as soon as we got home from Dragon*Con and I'm still thinking about it, as well as the season* overall ( Read more... ) -
A Song of Ice and Fire, Books 1-3, plus 4-ish
PSA:
XF fans who are also Marvel Avengers fans: a certain person's evil twin *cough* has posted a story! It's Thor's perspective, which from what I can tell is not so common, and because it's this author, it's also told with an uncommonly odd/spooky/lovely voice: By any outward touch (AO3 link). Read and encourage her to keep writing ( Read more... )
