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Stephen Brust, he of the Taltos novels, the biblical fantasy To Reign In Hell and basically one of the few people who I feel comfortable reading fantasy from, has posted a novel-length unauthorised Firefly fanfiction.
Cory Doctorow is of course all over the shit with broad strokes about what fandom means to people, but I'm going to ( Read more... ) -
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SANTA BROUGHT ME HARDDRIVE FAILURE FOR CHRISTMAS
But my girlfriend got me a Xbox360, so I may not be seen for a while.
(Yeah, yeah 500 words. I'm stopping counting at 16000 words behind, and hopefully finishing off King of Sleep and a whack of Radio Nowhere should fill that out. Blargh) -
November 18th (9 days behind jesus christ), Radio Nowhere prologue
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November 17th, Working title "My pseudonym and I have reached irreconcilable differences."
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16th November, Radio Nowhere Chapter 3 opening (TOTALLY NOT BACKDATED)
Clive woke up to find that his skull had shrunk in the night, choking his brain. This had to be a prank, he thought, once thinking became possible. Warren had snuck in after he fell asleep and, for a laugh, set about his head with a claw hammer. This had to be the only explanation for the burning pain that was draped over him like a pink quilted ( Read more... ) -
I figured I should use this thing for something. (FUTUREPOST)
- Rule the First: There will be 500 words of fiction or creative non-fiction posted in this journal daily. This procedure shall henceforth be referred to as a "fucking dumb idea."
- Rule the Second: There will be some kind of f-list filter bollocks set up eventually so that it does not drown out the Optimus Prime slash fiction your friends view is ( Read more... )
- Rule the First: There will be 500 words of fiction or creative non-fiction posted in this journal daily. This procedure shall henceforth be referred to as a "fucking dumb idea."
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Yeah so apparently my dad eloped.
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I am convinced I have been gifted with strange and terrible powers
EXHIBIT A: Some rusted synapse in the depths of my skull has snapped under constant abuse and I can no longer sleep like a normal person. The last two nights I've come home from a night out, crawled to bed around two or so, and come launching out of bed wide awake twenty minutes later. I've racked up about six hours worth of afternoon kip in the ( Read more... ) -
Okay, so I'm pretty predictable about this by now but NEW MGS4 TRAILER ZOMG
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/14845
For those of us not moonspeak-capable, there's an English script here - http://www.metalgearsolid.org/show_news.php?id=1348
Spoilertastic summary in the cut.
Edit: Now it's up on the official site in English: http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/mgs4/en/
NAOMI FANSERVICE
SOME KIND OF ARMS DEALER GUY WITH A MONKEY
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TRAPPED IN LINUX AGAIN; SEND HELP
Clearly the 'ignore it and it will go away' school of computer repair will only get me so far - my possibly failing harddrive started working perfectly for the last month, and now I'm getting random freezes again, sending me scurrying back to my Ubuntu partition on my second drive, like some neckbeard's Fortress of ( Read more... )