Moving on from my previous post, because why the hell not :-), I just heard NPR (aka National Public Radio) do a bit about AO3! Apparently they're up (somehow?) for a Hugo award, which I always thought was related to SciFi works. Francesca (isn't she Francesca /Esperanza of classic early TS fame?) was interviewed ( Read more... )

So it turns out that my health care is vanishing into thin air at the end of October; I've fallen into a gap where I'm too old to continue receiving the Medicaid that's (literally) saved my life these past two years, but too young to qualify for Medicare ( Read more... )

Fun facts: my phone autoselects "Cramps" when I type in "Verano." I do not always pay sufficient attention to this ludicrous willfulness. Ergo, I have now actually sent out email signed "T. Cramps."

We are not amused.

(Okay, we are amused. But only slightly. In what bizarre universe is it expected that a person who has correctly typed the ( Read more... )

Yes, that's me singing the Behr paint commercial "Done" song. (TV isn't usually part of my life these days, but a recent encounter left me with two musical themes in my head: the "Done" song and a commercial for something I can't remember that demandingly sings "I want it all, and I want it now." Because entitlement, impatience, and greed are ( Read more... )

1) How much do I love libraries... Case in point, my new obsession with Gregg Hurwitz's thrillers. They hit all my buttons -- characters I come to care about; writing that's so evocative in description it's almost poetic, but still manages to stay seamless within the overall straightforward, gritty tone. Intensity with a capital I and a truckload ( Read more... )

So, I get depressed uploading my most distressingly angsty fic to AO3, right?
Then I run across this:

"I think of every reason there is to live. Mothers, and sisters, and gorillas, and cake. Flying."
~  Wonder Woman #42

Wisdom is the best superpower.

:-))

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Deep breath. Again.

Okay.

Okay, I'm really actually finally planning on doing this. Doing it around the edges of things, yes, and possibly doing it ineptly, but doing it ( Read more... )

Oh sheesh, I've been back for like five minutes and already you can't shut me up.

But. I saw a post yesterday from the always-inspiring Sallymn, and somehow (to my continued disbelief -- isn't my Inner Writer defiantly on permanent vacay? I seriously thought so), fic ensued. Comment-fic. Anthropomorphic-fic. Fic about (loosely, so very loosely ( Read more... )

In which I attempt to leap (limp?) back into the fray ( Read more... )

Hi, folks? (Update approaching, one paragraph ahead.) First, though: I dearly hope that much holiday happiness has wrapped each of you in warm, loving, feathery wings (does that make sense? I'm thinking of angel wings... or wing-fic wings, whichever works for you ( Read more... )