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You've got to be carefully taught... Dr. Who edition.
I have long been very much a Whovian. Partly it's the complexities of time travel. Partly it's "I'm clever" winning over "I'm ruthless" or "I'm strong" or "I have a big gun". Partly it's tone and partly it's values and partly it's random, ephemeral squee. But the thing that sometimes bothers me, if I think about it, is how often an entire species ( Read more... ) -
Response to lj prompt
The question, of course is who my fashion icon.
Molly Ivins pretty much summed up my take on fashion nigh perfectly.
She talked about learning how "everyone has a fasion statement" and that hers is "woman who wears clothes so that she is not naked".
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The librarian, the witch and the decimal classification system.
I was shelving a book on witchcraft yestereday. (Yes we all shelve, haven't had shelvers in quite some time--budget dontcha know.) And it just struck me how ridiculous, and a bit disturbing, it was that it was in the 133's and not the 200's. I mentioned it to a co-worker who was not remotely sympathetic to why this might be a problem. (And even ( Read more... ) -
Posting to my own journal because livejournal won't let me post it to the thread.
In response to the relatively straightforward "make something bad".
#1
Title: The Ballad of Sir Oswulf the Valorous
Fandoms: Fantastic Four; Dracula; Interview with the Vampire; Betsy Queen of the Damned; Twilight
Rating: PG to be safe?
Summary: I’m bad. I’m bad. You know it.
( At last, Doom's day of vengeance had come. ) -
Babbling about Bechdel.
The point is not to pass. The point is to make you think. And I'm thinking ( Read more... ) -
Dungeons and Polyhedrons
Title: Dungeons and Polyhedrons
Fandom: The Big Bang Theory
Words: 1328
Rating: PG, in case I'm forgetting anything.
Summary: Seriously, have the characters played D&D and I'm just forgetting the episode? Seems like quite the oversight.
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Haley, Resplendent
Title: Haley, Resplendent
Fandom: Order of the Stick
Words: 2185
Rating: PG
Summary: It's valentine's day. Haley and Elan have a romantic evening planned. Other people have plans of their own.
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Soul Food for Thought
Written as part of the fandomverse big bang challenge. Spent enough time trying to get livejournal cuts to work properly, finally got tired of pulling my hair and just decided to submit this in three separate posts.
Title: Soul Food for Thought
Fandom: Twilight (Hey! Stop wincing!)
Words: 2530
Rating: PG
Summary: Edward is worried about Bella's soul. The rest of ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Pants on Fire?
If we're even going to go down the road of trying to determine which lies "count" and which do not...
I think that the intention has a lot more to do with whether it "counts" than does than with whether it is a lie of omisssion or commission. -
I need to write again.
I used to write more when I was part of one of those contest-communities, but my old one seems to have gone defunct. Should join a new contest community.