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(  Gerard is just walking down the hallway, minding his own business, thinking about faeries, when a locker right next to him bangs and rattles. )

NON-BANDOM FLISTERS: please read.

On June 13th I'm going to be posting a lot. Everything will be under LJ-cuts, for maximum ease of scrolling, but there will be around nine to ten posts. If you don't feel like scrolling that much, please feel free to temporarily defriend me or filter me off for a day.*

Thanks!

omfg i fucking love everything i ( Read more... )

If you haven't heard yet: Dr. George Tiller, a doctor known for helping women with late-term pre-natal complications, was shot and killed at his church.

zoje_george has spoken poignantly about her experience with Dr. Tiller here, and excerpts a letter from Charlotte Taft about the terrorist action of anti-abortion members here. At the bottom of that post ( Read more... )

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

The burgeoning Star Trek fandom should make me wriggle around on the floor with joy. To a certain degree, it does. Bring me your fic! I will pay you handsomely in fawning feedback ( Read more... )

Let me hitch you up to the bandwagon:

• valerie-z wrote The Master of Fractions (Bert/Quinn, Bert/Quinn/Jepha).
  
• foxinmyhands wrote Enough Ain't the Test (Dan/Jepha, D/s & makeup).
  
• swear_jar and apiphile wrote Texts From Last Night, This Morning, and Now (text message style, filthy language).

And this!

Go Ask Alice
The Used, Bert/Quinn.
PG-13, 3900 words, high school AU.

Thanks to just_katarin for ( Read more... )

I am so utterly super-bonkers crazy about The Used. They are like delicious freezer pops on a hot summer day. I want to lie down on their bus couch and listen to them say shitty bitchy things to each other while I linger halfway between waking and sleeping. I love their pot-filth hair and their ugly suet-sack faces ( Read more... )

I had a pretty bad surprise this morning -- I may have to pointlessly delay starting my dissertation for a semester while I wait to retake the Spanish translation exam -- but I think I'm just about over it. I really cannot overstate the importance of ramen and grape soda for my mental well-being.

( Blah blah stories I'm working on. )

( A friend sent me a link to a post I shouldn't have read. )

I have been grading essays all damn day. As per usual when I have been grading all day, I have Opinions on what one should and should not do when writing a paper.

( Alas, a list. )