So excited!  A fun way to spend NY day evening.

I think this may be the first time I am current in a fandom -- watching the canon material at the same time as everyone else.  I came to STIX late, as well as White Collar, X-Men FC, Inception, and Sherlock S1.   Looking forward to being able to read all the response posts and the rush of new stories

I read a rough translation of part of the following in English   --  now my partner and I are working through the whole thing (he's translating what he can for me). Great take-downs.

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,800494,00.html
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/11/hbc-90008328

Yet again, I can't believe the farce going on in my ( Read more... )

http://freethoughtblogs.com/wwjtd/2011/11/17/adventures-in-polyamory/

My favorite lines:
"love is not like a bathtub; somebody doesn’t need to get out to make room for someone else."
I thought I had heard all the poly similes -- but this one is new to me!

"Sex is a magical topic.  It’s so interesting that with the proper approach its introduction can ( Read more... )

(spoilers for DS9 -- from back in 1999 ( Read more... )

I realized this semester that I can only work on manuscripts in Times or Times New Roman.    A month ago I was having a lot of trouble with one student's paper, so I changed it to Times and tweaked some of the rest of the formatting and that made it easier to work on.  Just now I took another paper  (from my former, incompetent postdoc... grrrr), ( Read more... )

On Friday, I decided to give this story a try:

http://madlorific.livejournal.com/35273.html

and was glad I did.  It is AU where Sherlock and John are film actors and fall in love while working on a film together.  The fic is notable for a lot of things, including really detailed settings and insights into film production and the Hollywood system, ( Read more... )

The following article in polyamory in the media:

http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2011/09/future-of-our-defining-word.html?showComment=1317609533666#c7186191809181464363
And made the following response, anonymously since I am uncomfortable directly linking my LJ identity to outside blogs, and I don't do other social media sites:

I have noticed a ( Read more... )

My congenital prosopagnosia (face blindness) must really be kicking in -- I figure that the people
in the Buckleup meme October banner must be Chris Pine and Karl Urban, but I can't make
my brain recognize them:

http://buckleup-meme.livejournal.com/8433.html

The bad side:  Now we (myself and the rest of my family) have to wait until winter for more!

The good side:  I can go read all the fics that have spoilers for episode 310 :)

This story looks at the dynamics of adding new partners to an already existing poly relationship -- something that is pretty rare in fanfiction.  Deals with one of my favorite themes of "Chosen love" -- learning to love your partner's partners over time.

Girl on the Side (14050 words) by lionessvalenti

http://archiveofourown.org/works/253690