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Offerings from a reader
When I revere the hard work a human being is capable of, the quiet courage of unfailing duty, when my tiredness, my hunger, back pain and acid reflux make me all the prouder of all the asses I totally kicked today, when I’m absolutely certain that age doesn’t take away from life but enriches it, deepens it and makes it more vivid, I’m reading your ( Read more... ) -
Honestly.
If: after 3 weeks of yoga, one decides one must practice standing on one leg to improve balance and put an end to one's crashing *out* of natarajasana, or dancer's pose and *into* the mat with a sweaty reverberating thud ( Read more... ) -
Poll/meme/joy-fest ideas
1. dS "reunion". Do you remember your first impression/interaction with the fine people of this fandom? I do! First person I talked to was china_shop. It was the rimming challenge for ds_recsredux, and I had just come from a moderately unkinky fandom where one of my stories went down like a lead balloon. That's my first memory of the due south ( Read more... ) -
4AM Gradschool gripe
Dear schools: If you post a date, I will meet it. If you don't, I'm going to go at my (and my referees') speed. These spring-loaded deadlines are giving me ulcers. I'm sure you are staffed with well-meaning and patient admissions officers. They'd get less stressed out if you post, on your multi-functional and Daedelus-coded websites, the date when ( Read more... ) -
We are just. Too. Damn. Pretty.
I've been trying to hack my photobucket account for *days*. No dice yet.
I started playing around with some new caps to get back into practice for a few commissioned icons. Behold, the return of moon_brain the graphicist!
But first, my thingmas present from piig
( I can't take my eyes off Vecchio's butt ) -
Guess my new fandom:
It blows things up ( Read more... ) -
Top moments in fandom
Though I've been in one fandom or another since I was 11, I didn't have a community till I got into Due South in 2005. To have one, now, finally, at all, is pretty damn awesome.
1 The Promised and the Delivered. R/R and F/K/V may have started with three fictional cops written by other people over a decade ago, but these pairings were built by ( Read more... ) -
From the Gmail Files
For amusement, excerpts from the correspondence of moon_brain, piig, and rattyfleef
( That just ended in tinkly clattery hell )