Thank you to everybody who nominated our stories.

A Symbol of Ownership by rotpunkt  and helena_s_renn 
Battle of eyes by rotpunkt  and helena_s_renn

Thank you to everybody who votes for them in advance, too!

I apologise I have not been on LJ for a longer time - I have massive private problems. Wish me luck! 

Message to citizens of Germany:
I have recently been doing interviews in an effort to promote the new Vicente Amorim movie "Good", a movie our film-making team is proud of, and in which I am proud play a German. It has come to my attention that, when I spoke about realising I had certain prejudices about Germans and their spoken language as I was ( Read more... )

govi20 's thought-provoking drabble Safeword AND the very interesting, very different interpretations of this drabble have been published in Mein heimliches Auge. You can find more information in govi20 's LJ here.

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In a report from the 'Tribute to Viggo Mortensen' event in Rome I read that Viggo chose two of the examples of his works by himself - the two LoTR scenes. I was happy to notice he had chosen the very best scene of the whole trilogy (in my eyes): the Death Scene of Boromir.
But more than that. Viggo talked about how supporting Sean was, how well he ( Read more... )

This morning I felt in the mood to recall my slash reading history - which authors I read at which stage and what an effect the stories had on me.  I wrote it down like it came to my mind - will not have it beta-ed, since it's just a personal entry - and now I think I like to post it, even though I'm not quite ready with it (but need a break). So, ( Read more... )

Title: More Surprises
Author:
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Hee - had breakfast with 'The Sacramento Bee' on my table and on the second page there was an article mentioning Viggo :). I don't have a scanner here, but there's a similar article in the net ( Read more... )

I'm in Sacramento - I'm going to canoe down a river in canyon land with my sister in law and her husband ( Read more... )

My publishing philosophy part 1

My publishing philosophy part 2



My publishing philosophy part 3

My publishing philosophy part 4
 
Another argument against publishing original slash emphasises the importance of intertextuality. For a number of slash fans intertextuality is a basic requirement. They like their slash stories and characters embedded within ( Read more... )