I can't get the formatting right, so no cut. Gear Ready as For Battle by brown_betty This is just funny. Dick trying to sexy talk Tim, when what they're wearing just... isn't sexy. Developer by geeksicle_kezzy Wrong. Just wrong. So this is fucking awesome. A cool Tim character piece. The One Where Kon Randomly Gains The Ability To Switch Other People's Genders by...

So this one is for Writing and Writer Resources. I will add more to it as time allows; right now a big fic project is consuming most of my attention. In spirit of that, let's talk about writing fanfiction! ETA: My Muse is a real person (best friend, wardrobe consultant, purveyor of inspiration). Just wanted to assure you guys that I don't have multiple personalities or anything. These basic tips...

Okay, so here's the second post, as promised. For those who participated in the first post , THANK YOU. Your input was invaluable. First, I have to say the community screwed up ROYALLY in it's response to afro_dyte . She went through a helluva of a lot of crap in that post she made. And folks filled up the Bingo Card below and BEYOND. And the way it was(n't) handled WAS WRONG. So,...

I have cleared out all of my Firefox tabs except for about a dozen that fall into the to-read category! Fic recs coming as soon as I pull everything from delicious and lgbt_fest that I meant to come back to later. Here, have some random: In which many people write Nine things About Oracles , as inspired by a pendant . I Has a Sweet Potato , the saga of a dog and some sweet potatoes...

Fandom : Leverage Title : The Underwire Job Author : brown_betty   Pairing : Hardison/Parker Size/Length : 48k / 4.709 words Rating : R Spoilers : None. Summary : Parker recruits Eliot for a side job. Comedy and horror ensue. Comments : Very funny Eliot/Parker interaction and right on the spot dialogs. Links : at the author's journal

I saw this post on being a good artist versus being a good human being by brown_betty contrasted by liviapenn in the comments of an entry by Elizabeth Bear in which she explained what her job is and is not as an artist . And it brought up, for me, some of the issues that I have not only with other people's philosophies of writing and social responsibility, but my own issues in...

These are my thoughts on the Star Trek movie. They are short and they are shallow. I give them to you. That was kind of adorable. Except for the miniskirts. It is so sad how with all the sixties era "liberation" and "equality" and miniskirts and more or less focused on the white guys, this is still twenty times better on gender and race than most recent big sf-ish franchise movies. Maybe...

( brown_betty , ilyena_sylph , __marcelo : ya'll might be particularly interested in the linked article. Others who read this probably would be as well, but when I saw it I thought of ya'll.) Hello, internets! Just a brief note to let everyone who reads this blog (so, me and my split personality, Captain Spatula-Q of the Fourth Dimension) that I still breathe. I've been crossing...

Alright, so I'm a secret lurker on quite a few online author's livejournal accounts... especially Te's, brown_betty's, and rubynye's. And now I must share some of the genius that is brown_betty's "let's talk about books" conversational meme. Seriously- just read the first two pages of comments. I swear it's worthy. I got to- poisonivory 2009-03-24 01:01 am UTC ( link...

Oh, bronchitis and sinus infection, my old friends. Know that I love Amoxicillin more than you. Probably shouldn't have waited ten days to see the doctor. I woke up to a nice surprise, though! Last night, I quickly scribbled some down some Chuck fic that I didn't want to forget and thought I had maybe two pages or so of notes in huge handwriting. And okay, it was still huge handwriting, but more...