I has a Dreamwidth.The funny thing is that I've long been contemplating making an official post over there about how that journal's a read-only sort of thing, but now I might actually start crossposting. Not that I post a whole lot over here these days anyway, but well, LJ isn't exactly encouraging me to reverse that trend right now ( Read more... )

Hi Eljays ( Read more... )

First of all, thanks so much for writing for me, and given that three out of the four fandoms I requested this year are teeny-tiny, I'm thrilled that someone else might be interested in them, too! I always try to give my Yuleauthors (Yulethors?) a lot of options because I know the matching process isn't always exact. That being said, if the prompts ( Read more... )

So there's a Hunger Games trailer now.

I'm not going to embed it because I think everyone who cares (and a lot of people who don't) has seen the thing, but I have thoughts on it! Some of these thoughts I've already sorta-expounded-upon on Twitter and in various comment threads, but I might as well gather them here.

Overall, I like it a lot, and I ( Read more... )

Guess who just hit level 23?

Yep.

I have a lot of Birthday Thoughts this year, which I may expound upon later, but for right now, I think I want to say that I'm in a much better place than I was last year around this time, and I'm pretty happy with the way my life's been going, setbacks aside.

Maybe this adult thing isn't so bad after all.

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So tomorrow is my birthday!

:D!

I can't remember if I've ever done this before, but I know other people have, and I'm kind of in the mood, so hey. This year, I will be offering ten birthday drabbles on a mostly-first-come-first-serve basis, and I am really restricting myself to drabbles here.

It's pretty simple. Leave a character or pairing and ( Read more... )

It's official ( Read more... )

Hi guys!

...it's been ages since I've posted!

I've been sucked into tumblr lately, because it's a lot lower-commitment fannishly (and I'm not terribly fannishly engaged with anything right now) and because I have been seduced by the pretty pictures, though certain things about it the social justice culture, for one make me go rargh ( Read more... )

Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media ( Read more... )

The promised essay for womenlovefest. Some of this is taken from comments I made at Mark Reads; a lot of it is new. HUGE GIANT SPOILERS for Mockingjay, so be warned.

Katniss Everdeen, and Character Strength from Unexpected Sources
by PuelKatniss Everdeen is not the easiest character to like. She's distrustful, judgmental, and prickly; she reacts to kindness ( Read more... )