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First of all, thank you for being willing to write a story just for me :-)  A few general things to start off with. I am primarily, though not exclusively, a slash fangirl. Also, I have a deep and abiding love for the well-done crossover. I like happy endings, plotty, twisty stories that has more than just porn, and I tend to get particularly attached to one or two characters in a fandom. Dark is...

I am declaring it Fanart Amnesty Day. It is frickin' hot in the apartment, my face is all clogged up with allergies, and a sink full of dishes is calling my name. Operation Procrasturbation is a go . an aborted HELLBLAZER fanmix: The aesthetics really didn't match, and besides, how many goddamn fanmixes can be constructed solely out of Cat Power, Okkervil River, and Gillian Welch? Throw...

Harry Potter Perpendicular , by akissinacrisis (Harry/Ginny, AU) Harry Potter, member of Stonewall High’s sixth form, meets a pretty redhead at a party. I absolutely love this fic -- it starts off with a teenage Harry, who has no magical powers, and goes from there. The non-magic AU is an old cliche in HP fandom, although I haven't read much of it in H/G, and I absolutely love the twists...

Busy morning has been busy, I've been organising and shuffling things around and working on my WIAD (word limits are hard, my life is clearly unfair) but I have two links for you. I always enjoy Explodingdog, the quasi-webcomic that artist Sam Brown does, and not just because I think it's cool we share a first name. But I swear to god ever since he posted this one I have to go look at it whenever...

David Hines presents some really bad writing. Mirrored from Twenty Palaces . You can comment here or there.

...but as others have observed, his posts always make me feel better about my own smut-writing skills. http://hradzka.livejournal.com/333471.html

Warning: there's some pretty dark stuff in this post. As I posted on twitter at 6:30 or so this morning, I think I need to go see a psychiatrist. I had the most dark, rage-filled, OH JOHN RINGO NO-esque dream. It basically started like most dreams--inexplicable situations in which I'm dressed only in my underwear, wandering about generic school hallways (I do seem to recall that I was on some...

Postscript Publication have released a sample subdivision from Bathroom Berlyne 's Tim Powers bibliography Secret Histories ( see Graham Sleight's review ), concentrate on The Anpu Gates , and including a testimonial to the novel by China Mieville; you can get it here [ pdf ] David Hines on the second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles , and on Terminator...

Okay, guys, I want us to come up with a name for a genre of books. Something snappy, like “chick lit” but not too derogatory, unlike “chick lit.” I speak, of course, of the modern-fantasy-setting first-person-pov-female-narrator loner-badass-chick. Yes, this is why I am not in charge of naming things. Think Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson , Devon Monk, Ilona Andrews, L. A. Banks, Morgan Kingsley...