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It's 1999, and everyone is talking about the Y2K bug. Ricky Martin is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. New terms coined include: active shooter, adorkable, bling, blogosphere, carbon footprint, clickbait, e-waste, incel, pwn, and texting ( Read more... )

I just put my Pros fandom cards in the mail. They were all Christmas-themed, so here's hoping they get there by Twelfth Night, at least. My process has been somewhat disrupted this year-among other things, I'm currently fighting my second cold in a month-so I ended up having to send cards I already had, rather than create a new image. I'm not ( Read more... )

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It's 1998. Britney Spears is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Saving Private Ryan. This is also the year I saw the movie As Good As It Gets (released on Christmas Day 1997), which marked the first time I remember seeing a gay person portrayed in media. New terms coined include: amirite, bit rot, camgirl, cyberbullying, dark ( Read more... )

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It's 1997. Celine Dion is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Titanic. New terms coined include: auto-tune, cube farm, deep state, emoji, epigenetics, freegan, friends with benefits, fursona, nurdle, and weblog.

I read seven fics for 1997: two Man from U.N.C.L.E. and five Professionals.

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It's 1996. The Spice Girls are on the radio, and I'm hearing their song "Wannabe" ad nauseum while practicing for my school's talent show. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Independence Day. New terms coined include: cromulent, embiggen, face-palm, fist bump, flip phone, live streaming, trans man, trans woman, phishing, and turntablism ( Read more... )

This is an index of my rec-focused posts. There are other posts, especially from my reading games, that carry the rec tag and have recs in them. Here I've only included posts that exist primarily to share recs, however.

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As I discussed in a post a year ago today, I usually use text-to-speech software to read fanfic ( Read more... )

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During the first 10 rounds of my Lifetime Fic Bingo game, 1986 to 1995, I read 54 fics. Of those, the six that I would most recommend today are:

The Seventeen Days in October Affair by Terry L Neill and J. M. D’Agostino-Toney (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; 14,854 words; gen)
The Devil's Attic Affair by C. W. Walker (st_crispins) (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; 28, ( Read more... )

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It's 1995. TLC is on the radio. (Among the songs I've featured in these posts, their "Waterfalls" is the first one that I remember being aware of at the time of its release.) Here in the USA, the year's top film is Toy Story. New terms coined include: anti-globalization, cap-and-trade, eurozone, genderqueer, jack in, lawyer up, meatspace, mom ( Read more... )

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