It's that time of year to start thinking about seasonal cards again (well, actually it was that time of year a few weeks ago, but hey). So if you'd like to get a card from me, you know the drill -- post the name and address you'd like on the card/envelope, and any Christmas/holiday theme preferences below. As always, comments are screened, and no ( Read more... )

Other than the assorted HP/LotR/whatever tie-ins, that is. Anyway, I think these new Finnish stamps (scroll down to the foot of the page) might be popular with slash fans ( Read more... )

In case you haven't seen this, there's a new chapter up:

http://www.georgerrmartin.com/excerpt-from-the-winds-of-winter/

POV is "Mercy". No spoilers from me, except the very minor one that GRRM seems to be enjoying himself by getting in a riff on ( Read more... )

I never seem to have got the hang of this "organisation" thing, and therefore didn't manage to make a cards post this year. :( So may I simply wish you all a Happy Christmas (or Happy Holidays if you prefer) and all the very best for the New Year.

... for coming up with a 50th anniversary episode that worked, one that managed to do homage to the history of Doctor Who without becoming bogged down in it, one that resolved old plotlines and then headed off in a new direction, one that managed to both work within the parameters set by the show's previous canon and also reconstruct them to ( Read more... )

Belatedly, a quick comment on David Cameron's reply to a question asked him in Kazakhstan that he would want to be Harry Potter. In your dreams, Dave. It was widely reported that he then said people in Britain would cast him as Voldemort. Powerful evil wizard? In your dreams, Dave ( Read more... )

This has been bugging me and I clearly haven't been Googling the right things to find the answer: in last night's Doctor Who, one of the kids says to Clara "When someone offers to make you Queen of the Universe, you say yes!" I'm pretty sure that's a reference to a line in something else I've heard or seen fairly recently, but I can't remember what ( Read more... )

Updates to snorkfics -- the McG-Percy-Beedle-goblins fic The Sacrifice of Right, and this one from melusinahp's "one prompt, many writers" challenge:

Title: Automatic Reactions
Rating: PG-13
Length: 500 words

Summary: "To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves."― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma ( Read more... )

The evil that women do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Thatcher.

Since I'm a mean person, I wonder how many extra hits this is getting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-BZIWSI5UQ

I thought you might like to see a couple of short extracts from the latest fic I'm working on. Since I do seem to write a lot of stuff that's basically Harry Potter genfic, this time I've gone for source material that's quite definitely NC-17 -- namely the E.L.James bonkbuster Fifty Shades of GreyThe fic itself is basically a good old fashioned ( Read more... )