Completely inane RL post where in I ramble on what's been going on and boy porn. Egads!!! So let's see... 1.  I disappear from lj for about week.  Bad friend, bad friend!  But it was RL, honest *laughs*  We put our kids in a new school district and with all the bumps and hitches with everything starting up again...well, I was pretty worn out ;-P  I was reading but not commenting or posting.  Forgive...

Hoo-boy. I step away for one day to go to a family reunion (that was an interesting story, in-and-of itself, mind you), and when I return my flist is bulging. It's strange, since Sundays are ususally 'downtimes' on LJ. But it's kind of nice, too -- gives me a lot of fun stuff to read and enjoy. And lols -- dianic_study is just bursting with conversation these past few days. A lot of beautiful...

I'd better do this according to school year rather than calendar year, since my eyes won't be in shape to do links-chasing in January. These are works that I discovered or rediscovered during the past year that I was especially impressed by. Writings and Websites marked with an asterisk (*) are by authors or Webmasters who have been, or still are, members of the fan fiction community. FICTION WRITINGS...

Good morning! *blinks sleep away* Ah, isn't it nice, waking up to a bunch of reviews of your latest chapter? On top, I was warmly welcomed in the new noir_script community (place to share darker, not so happy-go-lucky kind of fiction and therefore fitting perfectly with what I'm writing). I discovered it, by the way, with the help of originalpuck 's origslash_news , a nice...

I'm like a ketchup bottle, I know. First there's nothing, and then nothing, and then comes everything at once. With my posting, I mean. But I just gotta rec this one-shot original fiction by dontkickmycane .  It's m/m relationship rather than slash, and it's wholly wonderful. Slight angst to make it interesting, and it makes you think about The Way Men Say I Love You . Yeah, that's the title...

I edit a market report for origslash_news on professionally published original slash/femslash/yaoi/yuri. That's quite a mouthful. I've been abbreviating the four genres as SFYY, but that's not very pronounceable. SYFY doesn't work either, because it sounds too much like sci-fi. Can anyone suggest an abbreviation or term that would encompass all four of these genres?

I edit a market report for origslash_news on professionally published original slash/femslash/yaoi/yuri. That's quite a mouthful. I've been abbreviating the four genres as SFYY, but that's not very pronounceable. SYFY doesn't work either, because it sounds too much like sci-fi. Can anyone suggest an abbreviation or term that would encompass all four of these genres?

Origslash big update: http://community.livejournal.com/origsla sh_news/11013.html Their focus is primarily in the area of anime, but it has other info relevant to slash and GBLT writing.

erastes  has updated literotica with several new calls: http://community.livejournal.com/_litero tica_/ Original Slash News has a whole roundup of links. I only glanced at them, but I suspect they'll be of interest: http://community.livejournal.com/origsla sh_news/10887.html The other day someone once again stated the old saw about slash fiction written by women for women being oh-so...

I've posted at origslash_news (The Skinny, an original slash news blog) a market report that may interest some of you. It lists publishing opportunities from e-zines, printed magazines, and presses that regularly publish original slash, femmeslash, yaoi, or yuri, or that have actively solicited submissions from slash and yaoi creators. (For those of you who don't know the terms, these are...