Posted in Strikethrough07 on May 31st, 2007
There are a lot of places out there covering Deletegate very comprehensively, so I’m not going to attempt that. Check here for an extremely comprehensive overview.
What it comes down to for me is this: LJ is a business. The TOS says they reserve the right to delete any journal at any time. I […]
Posted in Blogging on May 30th, 2007
If anyone has a pressing need to back up their entire journal right about now, you can find a program to do it here. (Sorry, only works for PCs.)
Also here. (This one is supposed to work on Macs.)
Posted in Fic discussion, Writing, meta, movies on May 29th, 2007
Weekend - good. Saw POTC3. Not as good as the first one, but a definite improvement on the second, although I do agree with some of stoney321’s plot criticisms.
lynnevitational story at 13,000 words and counting, and am only now getting to Big Climactic Fight Scene. Sigh. I talk too much. […]
Posted in Fic discussion, Writing, btvs/ats, meta on May 25th, 2007
Xander
1. Really likes the smell of wood shavings.
2. Visits the grave where Jesse isn’t once a year. He doesn’t bring flowers, but he does bring a couple of comic books and reads them aloud. Just in case.
3. Starts going grey when he’s twenty-five. All things considered, he’s surprised […]
Posted in Fic discussion, Writing, btvs/ats, meta on May 23rd, 2007
What was I going to say? Damn mad cow…
But anyway: characterization! I’ve been thinking about this in connection with not just the recent kerfuffle, but several other unrelated conversations all over the place. I’m reasonably flexible when it comes to characterization. I’ve always felt that for any given character in any […]
Posted in Fic discussion, btvs/ats on May 23rd, 2007
Gakked from all over:
Name a character I write, and I’ll tell you three facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.
Posted in Fic on May 23rd, 2007
Ahem. tkp said she would write me schmoopy S/B porn as soon as I wrote her schmoopy B/A porn. Little does she know that I am MAD BWAHAHAHA in the habit of taking up insane fic challenges (and yes, me writing B/A is insane). Therefore I present one schmoopy porny B/A drabble:
Hunger
By […]
Posted in meta on May 20th, 2007
I was going to post something on the latest kerfuffle, and then I decided no one needed to hear my thoughts on yaoi. So instead, some tips for not getting caught up in a kerfuffle in the first place:
1. If you know there are certain posters who annoy the snot out of you, […]
Hmm. 10,400 words and I’m just getting to the Big Climactic Fight Scene. This may run longer than I anticipated…
Every now and then you run across a story which just makes you want to turn in your keyboard and never write again, because you ARE NOT WORTHY. tkp’s Man’s Best Friend is one of those stories.
