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Last-Minute Longfic Recs
Some people on Twitter have been asking for recs to longfic that they can download before potentially losing Internet connection to the hurricane. And I am so not on top of that, but here is a miscellaneous collection of stories I've bookmarked that are long, good, and available for download into ebook formats.
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Looper
In an effort to actually write posts in a timely fashion, rather than thinking about what I might write while I am not falling asleep and then never actually writing it which is pretty well useless for everyone...
Non-spoiler: loved it, as expected.
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Fic: The Life of the X-People
I had been looking for this for years, thought it had been lost on a hard drive that died. But finally found a copy in some old school work that's been in a box at my parents' house for decades. I present:
the girl's account of...
The Life of the X-People
Authors: Krytella and her best friend Anna, age 9(?)
Fandom: X-Men: The Animated Series
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Inception recs for people who aren't in the fandom (yet?)
Compiled this entire thing on my phone so sorry for any typos.
Canon-verse stories:
Amazing Grace by airgiodslv ( Read more... ) -
Do you have a DreamWidth account?
I'm trying to reduce duplication, so I've removed some people I'm following on DreamWidth from my LJ reading list. If you don't crosspost (it's easy from DW!) and notice I never comment any more that may explain it. Also if you have an account and we don't subscribe to each other feel free to add me. I check DW slightly more often. -
Procrastination mambo
I've read a lot of articles about dealing with procrastination and none of them have been very helpful. I also read Getting Things Done a few years ago, which my coworkers raved about but I didn't find helpful at the time. I've also sampled productivity blogs, but they usually seem to make it worse. The mindset that one has to be as useful and ( Read more... ) -
Silly "real life" question: am I doing laundry wrong?
Like most people, I learned to wash my clothes from my parents. My mom separates colors militantly (light, dark, bright, red), washes all her clothes in cold water, and hangs almost all her clothes to dry ( Read more... ) -
Was same-sex marriage supported by the early Christian church?
Prof. John Boswell, the late Chairman of Yale University's history department, discovered that in addition to heterosexual marriage ceremonies in ancient Christian church liturgical documents, there were also ceremonies called the "Office of Same-Sex Union" (10th and 11th century), and the "Order for Uniting Two Men" (11th and 12th century).
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Do I just suck at life?
People ask me all the time: "I haven't seen you in a while. What have you been up to ( Read more... )
