Title: Vellum
Author: Hal Duncan
Genre: Fantasy by way of extremely experimental.
Rating: 5/5

Summary a la back of book: It's 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours [not true, btw - the Book is a major plot ( Read more... )

On talk shows tonight (yes, I watch talk shows. It's cathartic!): Nellie McKay and Dax Shepard. Any other Stargate: Atlantis fans contemplating an existential crisis?

So apparently it's been a month since I wrote on my lj. Um. Oops ( Read more... )

So I watched The Guardian the other day and, um, wow. Is it just me or is there some serious subtext going on there ( Read more... )

Things that are making me happy right now ( Read more... )

So explain this too me: my dear and loving sister felt the need to wake me up at the ASS CRACK TO DAWN TODAY (9 am) because black friday ooooh shiny. So she packed me off into the car (with coffee and my blanket, with raises her from near-monster status to possibly human with very cruel streak). So we went to Walmart (exciting, I know) and yet. DID ( Read more... )

“Colonel?”

There was a pause during which everyone stared at Colonel Young’s prone body with varying degrees of worry - then suddenly he blinked and sat up, holding his head and looking around.

“Oh. My. God,” he said. There was another silence from the crew, this one decidedly unsettled.

“Um. I’m guessing this isn’t Colonel Telford,” Eli ( Read more... )

I decided today to pretend to do the "journal" part of livejournal-ing, mostly because I'm in denial about college applications which I'm supposed to be doing, but also in part because I have a new laptop and this is happiness-inducing ( Read more... )

Chapter: 7/?
Pairing: Peter/Edmund
Story Summary: Takes place after LWW and during Prince Caspian. Edmund tries to recapture his relationship with Peter, who refuses to acknowledge what they had as Kings. After all, how can he admit to loving someone who is a man, and his brother, and a child in a place where every one of those is seen as wrong? THEY ( Read more... )

Pairing: Merlin/Arthur, but then you knew that
Rating: PG-16ish? For abstract and seriously non-graphic descriptions of sex?
A/N: I really don't know what to say, except maybe I am so sorry. This started out as a sort of writing experiment and ended a kind of mindfuck. At least it's short, right?

First, a glass. High, cool, invisible with water. In ( Read more... )