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The Erosion of the Fourth Wall
So I've been long absent from this journal and fandom has a whole, the publishing, and graduate school has been eating my time. Along with that I have been increasingly more active on other kinds of social media (twitter and tumblr) which has made me sadly neglect this journal. I have recently however had some fandom thoughts and I thought I might ( Read more... ) -
A Temporary Home (fanfiction-NCIS)
Title: A Temporary Home
Author: slash4femme
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing/Category: Timothy McGee (character study)
Rating: PG-13
Warning: a little angst
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, I do not make money off of doing this. The only thing I'm getting out of this is pure unadulterated creative enjoyment and less hours for me to spend doing my ( Read more... ) -
This Side of the Tracks
-so lots and lots of important life stuff happening to me over the last few weeks. My sister had her baby about a week ago so I've been spending lots of time with her and her husband and her new son, hanging out and helping her do cooking and cleaning. A friend I've known since she was about four got married over the weekend. It was a lovely day, ( Read more... ) -
Pimping an Art Sale!
Hey all,
so Joanna Estep is an extremely talented and wonderful artist along with being a really nice person. Unfortunately she's been having some bad financial troubles so is selling prints of her Avengers and Thor art over on Tumblr. If you are at all interested in Avengers, Thor or Norse mythology art head over there, and support her. I've ( Read more... ) -
Before and After (fanfiction-Star Trek)
Title: Before and After
Author: slash4femme
Pairing: Spock Prime character study with past Spock/McCoy
Universe : Star Trek Reboot/ Star Trek movie-era
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: mentions of canonical character death (sort of), kissing, sweetness
Summary: There is a peach tree in Spock's garden and it makes him feel strangely nostalgic
Disclaimer: I do ( Read more... ) -
Fandom Squee
+So I saw the Avengers movie about two weeks ago with my brothers. I liked it a lot, I've never been a huge Avengers fan but the movie I thought was excellently done. I went into it assuming I was going to ship Steve/Tony if anyone and walked out totally shipping Banner/Tony and Thor/Loki ::throws up hands:: I don't even know. It has interestingly ( Read more... ) -
Thing 10: two stages of my editing
so when I get a fic (or original story manuscript) back from a beta reader/editor I go through and make revisions in two stages ( Read more... ) -
Thing 9: I don't like my fandom and my academics to mix
This is totally my personal preference and should have no bearing on what anyone else does but it is totally something I've learned from being part of fandom.
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Thing 8: Build a relationship with your beta read/editor
I know lots of people who don't use beta readers and that's fine. I person love it when someone beta reads for me though because my editing is extremely poor due to my disabilities ( Read more... ) -
Thing 7: You can not please everyone
I've touched on this before but I think it's worth repeating, there are some people out there that are going to hate everything you do. There are also some people out their who will love 99% of everything you do but there is no one who will love a 100% of everything you create. Not your most die hard fan, not your best friend, not you significant ( Read more... )