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International Women's Day -- prompt me or write your own!

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Saturday, March 8th, 2014 09:17 am
In the past I've written in response to International Women's Day. If you have a fem-oriented prompt, please leave it, and I'll try to write something cheerful and fun and maybe it will have the added bonus of jump-starting the rest of my downcast muse.

EDIT -- please feel free to signal boost, fill any prompt that catches your eye and cross post to your own journal!  Gif!  A sentence!  3 sentences!  A personal reflection!  anything that inspires you!  The sun is shining (here at least) so let's celebrate women and spread the cheer.

The wonderful and awesome [personal profile] jjhunter and alexseanchai are doing the same thing here and here so go play!




Source

( if you are interested in seeing the final chapter of H&M )

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Why yes I am very grumpy

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Thursday, July 12th, 2012 09:57 pm
Why yes, I would rather be writing a book chapter than working on my NFE.  Oh please, yes, because I so adore work done in the name of "development" that others give me because "it is good for me." 

Excuse me, but at my age, I'm entitled to know what is good for me and what is not.  Exercise is good for me.  Fannish fun is good for me (as opposed to fannish angst (gawd, what is with me a fail?) which makes me an insomniac).  Watching the latest update to the Lizzie Bennet Video Diaries is good for me.  Trying to write a 20,000 word chapter in three days is not good for me.  oh, yeah, I get a pub credit.  Yippee.

Here, see Bing Lee and Jane Bennet be totally adorable:


Adorbs, right? I am so in love with the casting and with Charlotte's story arc. Last week's episode with Caroline was a complete thrill for me. I'm really curious how they are going to handle th e Wickham/Georgiana/Lydia issue. I just don't think that seduction, eloping or even pregnancy is enough. I think it's going to be a bit grimmer.
And Princess Leia is going to be an X-Wing pilot, which I know some are sort of down on, but I think it's pretty cool.
Also, anyone else watching Twitter and getting depressed at not being at San Diego Comic Con?  Sigh.  Really, I'm sure it would be too crowded.  Really.
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Pit of Voles Bites Back-- back up your stories!!

rthstewart: (Gutter)
Thursday, May 31st, 2012 09:04 pm
So apparently FF.net is in the process of massively removing stories.  Reasons cited include incorrect ratings, M-rated content, and inappropriate words in summaries.  They are also apparently targeting stories with "inappropriate ratings" where the story content  summary (at say a T rating) is not deemed appropriate for a G rated fandom/not appropriate for all audiences. See here and related comments.  

I also saw that they were deleting stories in the Hunger Games fandom that were too interactive. 

Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.  It's the pit of voles and what do you expect.  I remember the M rated purge of 10 years ago or so, give or take and another one in the last few years centering on Twilight.

This seems very widespread so back up your stories.  The sad thing is that it is the largest gen archive out there and for people who are just starting out or who aren't comfortable with all the different places fic can hide and what else might be under the rocks, it's still the biggest and very easy for the reader.  I do prefer their feedback and alert options to AO3.  I would have never met so many of you were it not for that archive and it makes me sad to see this happen.  Still, it's their site and if all they want on it are puppies and rainbows, that's their decision, as stupid and arbitrary as it might be. 

I'll keep posting there and I had a few things that were only on ff.net and I've now backed them all up. 
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Something rotten in the state of...

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 07:57 pm

So, let’s see…

Big Bang is at 41,000 words (including a glossary and cast of characters so that you can keep track of how a Sten is different from a Bren).  I’m guessing maybe 10,000 words left?  Granted, that's a BIG bit to do in a week for a rough draft but I actually have a pretty coherent outline and as I’m following an order of battle, it’s not, as things go, a huge challenge.  So I say now.  Gawd.  A war story.  I'm such an idiot.

I’m assuming that the H&M update got hit by ff.net being down or something -- possibly something.  Thanks so much to those who did persevere against the site problems and comment!  In less chipper news, I have been called out in two separate things on ff.net for harassment and flaming.  I responded to one and didn’t bother with the other.  My thanks to those who have assisted/weighed in/provided moral support.

A burning question.  Why is my world not full of the new Upstairs Downstairs and the promised relationship between Alex Kingston/Emilia Fox  aka River Song/Morgause?  Why?  Why?  Where is the fic?  Where are the gifs?  WHERE WHERE?  Show me NOW.  Cross over madness I tell you.  This is the sort of thing that drives me to the sort of infringing conduct that is not age appropriate.

[livejournal.com profile] intrikate88 has been doing some terrific Once Upon A Time Fic  exploring Belle and Rumpelstiltskin so do check that out.

Which brings me to the related issue that I have finally seen Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.  It was a typical and very grown up sort of thing – a late matinee with Important People in the audience and no one under the age of 30.   I dearly love Le Carre’s book and it and Conant’s The Irregulars inspired a lot of TQSiT and my TSG AU.  I enjoyed the film and Oldman plays a very, very cold Smiley.  It’s a good adaptation in a 2 hour film.  The challenge is that so much of Smiley is internal and he reveals practically nothing to others.  That can get dull in film.  Le Carre is not great with his women characters and the film I thought provided a critique of that – we never see Lady Ann’s face.  She could be anyone.

It seemed every respected British male actor working was in the film, except maybe Alan Rickman and Jim Broadbent.  So the eye candy was excellent.

Some spoilers – if you don’t know who the mole is, you might not want to read.


( Spoilers for Tinker Tailor beneath the cut, poor loves )

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Narnia Fic Recs

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Monday, March 28th, 2011 10:45 pm
NFFR just posted 5 stories for their 2010-2011 fic contest.  They are all awesome and well worth a look.  Do go check them out!  Really, when you see what is here, it is so much a cut above the usual.  There's voting in a contest for your favorite as well.  Thanks to the awesome authors who wrote!

And another thing, if I'm receiving ff.net notifications, they are coming at least 24 hours late.  It is completely screwed up, so I really do not know who has seen it or who has seen my replies or really any communication that is ff.net related.  It is really bad and has been going on for 10 days now.  So, my apologies and I will find things if they are in reviews, though I have go looking for them, and may spot PM,s though those are getting lost too. 
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