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Fic: Property Rights
Author: ridesandruns
Title: Property Rights
For: Glastea
Disclaimer: All standard disclaimers apply. Don’t own ’em, am making no money off ’em and I don’t acknowledge X3.
Rating: T for profanity, snarking
Summary: Scott and Logan are arguing. Jean’s not getting involved.
The request: Scott and his motorbike, dry humor, and Scott getting the best of ( Read more... ) -
The serious business of being funny
Lately I’ve been splitting my non-work writing life among three projects: a couple of fanfic stories, which I’m stuck on; helping a friend write a what’s supposed to be a funny speech for his job; and helping another friend get a monthly humor column off the ground. It’s made me think a lot about humor writing and some of its inherent difficulties ( Read more... ) -
The weekend in review
* Finished my ficathon story and sent it off to be beta'd, giving me a couple of weeks to do fixes and have panic attacks, fearing that the person who requested the story will loathe it ( Read more... ) -
Ah, feedback
Got e-mail from someone who finds my portrayal of Darwin the Beagle unrealistic.
Poor little e-doggy -- I guess he's a Hairy Stu. -
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Dear Fellow Public Transit Riders ( Read more... ) -
Celebrating Darwin Day
So Monday, Feb. 12, is Charles Darwin's birthday, and in honor of that all kinds of brainy people are having talks and seminar and whatnot about evolution. I urge you all to admire your opposable thumbs and congratulate your ancestors on crawling out of the primordial ooze, though I do think our losing our prehensile tails was a mistake. (Really, ( Read more... ) -
Logan, vegetarians, etc.
I'm thinking that sooner or later I'm gonna have to do a story in which Logan confronts vegetarians and goes apeshit. ("Just what the *&^% is the matter with you people? You know how I know we're supposed to eat animals? Because they're made of *&^%ing meat.") I'll consider it therapy. And revenge against a vegan who recently gave me shit for ( Read more... ) -
New fic: Life Lessons
Life Lessons
Rating: T for profanity
Characters: Scott, Jean, Warren, Darwin the Beagle
Summary: Scott’s having a crisis of confidence.
All standard disclaimers apply. Don’t own them, am making no money off ’em, and I refuse to acknowledge X3. All hail Rachel_Martin64, who betas my stuff into shape.
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Silly cats, fic
You know those springy door-stopper things that attach to the wall? My two elderly kitties have discovered that if you swipe one with your paw, it makes a very satisfying "booooinnng!" sound that is cause for leaping back and racing around wildly . . . then doing it all over again ( Read more... ) -
Connected
So the computer crap is all installed, and the blue haze in my study caused by extreme profanity on my part is starting to clear. I must say it's nice to have a spiffy new machine, and that it's all wireless and speedy. It's been a revelation to learn that the godawful retching noise my old machine was wont to make was not, in fact, an editorial ( Read more... )