-
An open letter to professional writers who are uncomfortable with fanfic
I get it. I do. And this comes from someone who writes, reads, and adores fic. I know that pinch in the pit of your stomach when you come across something happening about your story that you did not mean to happen and the impulse to jump in with the sad face of ultimate woe/horror to yell STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU ( Read more... ) -
Iron Man AU fic: Concession
Title: Concession
Characters: Christine Everhart (who interviews almost everyone else)
Word Count: aprox. 28,000
Rating: PG-13 (language, implied violence)
Spoilers: goes AU after the first movie; no spoilers, assuming you've seen that one
Author's Notes: If you didn't already know, Stan Lee created Tony Stark while thinking of Howard Hughes: "an ( Read more... ) -
Fic rec: Almost No One Makes It Out (Iron Man AU) by atrata
Almost No One Makes It Out by atrata.
I cannot rec this enough. Admittedly, I'm biased; I've been waiting for two years for this to be done so I could tell everyone to read it, so now I'm saying READ IT, OH MY GOD.
atrata has made an AU where Tony Stark is born without that silver spoon in his mouth, given him the same brain, the same attitude, and then put ( Read more... ) -
What Happens In Vegas... (Part 4)
Title: What happens in Vegas... (Part 4)
Characters: Tony Stark, Pepper Potts
Word Count: aprox. 4500
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: none, assuming you've seen the movie
Author's Notes: Part 4 of the Accidental Vegas Wedding Crackfic that was supposed to be a round-robin, but after I did two parts in a row (a long, long time ago in, uh... 2008?), the ( Read more... ) -
Your Guide To Fandom Ships and New Characters That Interfere With Them
Some times, when one main character and another main character keep looking at each other intensely, and get scared for each other's safety, and each finds the other's company and opinions more valuable than anyone else's, and both main characters are pretty hot and they have chemistry like WHOA, a ship is born. And shippers board this ship and ( Read more... ) -
Feminists can multi-task.
The idea that feminism should be kept under glass, broken only in case of a "real" and "serious" emergency, is predicated on the erroneous assumption that "the little things" happen in a void, as do, presumably, the "real" and "serious" things, when, in reality, they are interwoven strands of the same rope. And as soon as one begins to judge the ( Read more... ) -
Star Trek XI fic: Holo Projection
Title: Holo Projection
Characters: Uhura, Gaila
Word Count: 1100
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: none, assuming you've seen the movie
Author's Notes: Improv!fic, where the rules are as follows: someone gives the author five elements to base a story on, and two hours to write it. Elements are listed at the end of the story. This hasn't been beta'd, in the ( Read more... ) -
No, that doesn't mean you win, it just means you're a dick
H/T to cofax7: publius of Obsidian Wings has been outed. To which I can only say: Jesus Christ, people, what is wrong with you.
The summary of the argument for outing bloggers seems to be this: the argument is incomplete without knowing who is making the argument. Over and over again, people indicate that they have a right to know, because otherwise, ( Read more... ) -
I think I'm PARANOID
Okay, listening to Shirley Manson, plus watching a show that's hitting all my XF-y dark paranoid sensibilities, plus the fact that there are huge black SUVs loitering in front of The House That Shall Not Be Named across the street (complete with guys in sunglasses and black suits) and the fact that my husband kind of accidentally stole one of their ( Read more... ) -
Dear comic book companies: here is a clue, no charge
For various reasons, I've been off the internet most of the week; the major reason may well have been because last weekend was consumed entire by the round-robin fail of PETER DAVID VS. SCANS_DAILY, which was great fun to read until I started venturing off my normal sites for monitoring such wankery and found things that made my blood pressure ( Read more... )