Dear fandom in which Pairing A rules massively over Pairing B,

If somebody writes a Pairing B in a mainly Pairing A dominated fandom, but you like the story itself, say that you like the story itself. I mean,

"I usually hate Pairing B, but this was good."

"NEXT TIME WRITE PAIRING A LOL LOL. this was cute tho!!"

"This is a huge compliment from me, considering that I don't ship and therefore despise Pairing B, but your story was good."

is not necessary.

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First off, you can come hang with us at...
COOL YULE ARTY PARTY
Held at the Artdc.org Gallery at the Lustine Center
5710 Baltimore Avenue
Hyattsville, MD
December 12, 2009
1pm until 7pm

Meet and Mingle with local DC artists, enjoy live music and fun... This will be an amazing day! Not only will we have an opening for the artdc.org Patron's show, we'll be open during the Gateway open studios. We expect to see a great deal of foot traffic. Perfect for last-minute holiday shopping or just visiting!

Now the pictures. :D

( AnimeUSA: Good Times! )

General rant across any fandom involving men-
The refractory period is a fact of life. Young guys (and all porn stars) can have multiple orgasms without going limp, but that generally exponentially increases the time before they can come again.

On the flip side, guys do not instantly get soft after coming. It's entirely possible to keep right on going. He's highly unlikely to have another orgasm, but it's not as if it suddenly stops feeling good.

We're back from AnimeUSA!

And lemme tellya. This con was just such a wonderful experience! The venue was nice. The staff were amazing. The attendees were fun & funny. I handed out over 1300 flyers in person, and I know I spoke to each and every person I gave one to!

The con was structured so that the artist alley NEVER CLOSED. Lol! We stayed for a 14 hour shift the first day, 16 the day after, and then 10 the following day. I spoke to complete strangers (who are no longer complete strangers, as we made friends with a number of them over the course of the con), for 40 hours in 3 days.

I'm a little hoarse. I spoke with some folks when I got home and they thought I'd picked up some horrible con-flu thing, but I swear, I feel fine! Heck, my throat doesn't really hurt. I just sound like Joan Rivers. "Oh! OH! Can we TALK?!"

We have a lot more funny pictures, but they're on Roxy's camera. (Psst. Roxy? Please to send pictures?) I'll post'em when I get'em. In the meanwhile...( Kevin does Commissions! )

We're doing a small, local art show in December:

COOL YULE ARTY PARTY
Held at the Artdc.org Gallery at the Lustine Center
5710 Baltimore Avenue
Hyattsville, MD
December 12, 2009
1pm until 7pm

Meet and Mingle with local DC artists, enjoy live music and fun... This will be an amazing day! Not only will we have an opening for the artdc.org Patron's show, we'll be open during the Gateway open studios. We expect to see a great deal of foot traffic. Perfect for last-minute holiday shopping or just visiting!

A thirteen year old is not going to be allowed to join NCIS. Not even with permission from her parents. It's not legal. And I seriously doubt Gibbs would let her on the team. No one would approve this, even if she was a genius who graduated from high school at the age of ten or something.

This reminded me of a Numb3rs fic I read a year ago where a twelve year old joined Don's team. Wouldn't work there either.

Teenagers cannot become special agents of NCIS or the FBI!

Teaser:





23 icons from issue #5

1. Your fic is not "humerous" (Or, for that matter, humerus).

2. Apostrophes. Your You're doing it wrong:
a) were =/= we're
b) [noun]s = plural, [noun]'s = belonging to the [noun]. Not the other way around. Really.

3. You know what's more annoying than in-paragraph author notes? In-paragraph author notes without "AN" in front of them. Especially when the fic is narrated by a character and the AN says something like "this was mentioned in [part of the canon]". It sounds like the character breaking the fourth wall for no apparent reason.

4. You do not need to capitalise the words "wizard", "wizarding", "scruffy" and "emu". Or words that come after commas. You do need to capitalise people's names. You also need to use more full stops.

5. been =/= being (although this might have been a typo)

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A girl helps cyrus capture the 12 spirits of The Black Zodiac.
Okay, I see where you're going with this, and names are spelt with capital letters, BTW.
But what she doesnt know is that The Torn Prince just so happeneds to be her high school sweetheart.
Wait, WHAT? And what is happeneds? Is it like a time warp?
Can she help set things right again or will she parish along with the other 12?
I, wait, "parish"! I see what you unintentionally did there.

That's the summary.
The fic starts out with an author's note, specifically: As some of you may know I wrote an Inuyasha/Yu Yu Hakusho story a while back. I am sad to say that that story was not mine.
Wait, you're telling me you've stolen someone else's fic before the story even begins? Props to your honesty, mate, but it doesn't make me want to read your story any more than your summary.



Edited to add a cut, because it looked a little long.

My friend, being on a David Bowie roll, forced me to watch Labyrinth with her, a film which wasn't a part of my childhood and is relatively unknown over here. Our reactions were: "ZOMG fanart!" (her) and "ZOMG gimme fanfic, now!" (me). I started looking with a bit of trepidation since chances of encountering a MarySue!Sarah and GaryStue!Jareth were large, I felt. The latter in particular would be terrible.

The first fic I decided to read was so brilliant that I stayed up till three at night to finish it and thought of starting a campaign to make it into a script and force it down some producer's throat so that I could have a sequel for grown ups.

Other fics weren't that brilliant. While many of them are decently written, the characterization is somewhat of a hit and miss. Okay, while the more "evil" parts parts of Jareth's personality (I put evil in the quotation marks because I stopped thinking of Jareth as evil the moment he did his "magic pants dance" song) could be interpreted as a fulfillment of Sarah's dreams, making him detest spiriting away children feels like robbing him half of his, ahem, charm. Jareth sitting there in his throne room angsting about how he hates the Labyrinth's demands of him... Oh c'mon. That's not Jareth. Woobifying Jareth must be done very carefully because the line between touching and incredulous is thin. Also, I can see how some writers would want to make Labyrinth more grown up, but is getting rid of most of the craziness and placing Jareth behind a royal desk busy with budget the best way to go about it?

It looks like it's going to be a rocky love between the Labyrinth fandom and me.

And a question: how do you go about finding good fics in a completely new fandom? New to you, that is, not new in general.

Even if Ginny was cheating on Harry for Luna in a femmeslash relationship I highly doubt he would say and I quote 'I'm the god-damned boy who lived' before abusing her. Not to mention there's the issue of how he actually feels about the title.

PS: Can we quit trying to change Tsukasa's real life gender? If you still want to write Tsukasa/Mimiru or whatever and can't deal with the fact that you're writing yuri why not not write it at all?

”I like different writing styles so that’s why I change tenses in my stories.”

No! Tense change is not a style. Gargh!! It’s pointless and super-annoying and makes your stories impossible to follow.

Example of a bad tense change (my own):

Draco watched Potter from head to toe, smirking. “I hate you, but I wouldn’t say no to that mouth.” He leans even closer, and grabs Potter’s arms, almost breathing the same air with Potter. It annoyed him that Potter didn’t flinch. He should have. Draco wasn’t making any sense, and Potter knew that. He hates the way his stomach feels lighter all of a sudden, and how his palms get sweaty as though he’s moved by all this. It’s embarrassing. It was supposed to be a joke.

Don’t do that!

Yes, you can change tenses if you know what you’re doing, if you actually use tense to separate scenes from each other etc. But that above there, that’s not good. That’s not a style. That’s just crappy writing.

Standard Caps of Legend of the Seeker 203 : Broken

I loved this episode, and i think there is a distinct lack of LotS caps from mid season one onwards. please comment if you're taking, because i'ld like to know if there is interest in having other episodes capped.




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thanks! i'll be clicking as i go through my flist. :D
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ATTENTION WRITERS EVERYWHERE:

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She walked ovr 2 John...n took his man thing in her mouth n then was sorta giving him a blow job only it didnt relly count cos she was using her hands 2.

Here's a Pro Tip for you Bad!Fic Author Person:

How to tell if you're giving a guy a Blow Job.

Is his dick in your mouth? Yes?...Well there ya go.

Eta: Seeing as someone has expressed an interest in reading the fic in it's entirety. I have just posted my sporking of it over at my personal LJ.

http://emerald1972.livejournal.com/5928.html

In the Heights fandom - where the hell are you? Seriously? I mean, it's a wonderful show. It's got all these fic worthy ideas. But where is the fic? Where is the fanart? For that matter, where are the various fan communities? Please tell me I'm not the only one who has an urge to write Daniela/Carla or Usnavi/Benny stuff! Or even what happened in Abuela Claudia's life before the play! So please... exist?

If you're writing a fic set in a fictional world, feel free to come up with all the myths you want for the people of that world. I don't think I've ever come across a canon that goes into so much detail about the religious history of the people of its world that there isn't any room left to flesh it out.

If you're writing a story set in the real world, but so far in the past that the myth could have been forgotten or so far in the future that new ones might have cropped up (I can name at least one series where people in the future think people in our time worshiped the great god Mickey Mouse) then sure, go ahead.

But if you're writing a story about someone from the real modern world, from a culture which isn't your own and which already has its own creation myth, maybe you should think about poking through the real mythology for a story that would work for your purposes instead of making up a story out of whole cloth and saying it's a myth everybody knows and have made up a version of the zodiac around.

Maybe I'm just being overly sensitive, but I got really uncomfortable every time it came up in the story that sparked this rant. It would be one thing if it was just a story the main character and his knew, but a religious myth is something else.

This whole rant is a spoiler. ETA: for Fruits Basket.

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Dear Kuroshitsuji author,

Let's get something straight here: Victorians didn't "space out". That term did not exist in the 1880s.

I was mistaken for a minor twice today. I am used to it but I never got the comment twice the same day before, so it was somewhat amusing.

First was at my mother's store, someone asked how long before my graduation. And then in this shoe shop, mom applied for one of those discount cards (I really don't know why since it's unlikely we'll be getting anything from there anytime soon) and when she asked me if I wanted to fill the papers out, the girl behind the counter intervened with this little comment:

"Oh no, I'm sorry but you need to be legal for that."

Imagine her embarrassment, when I told her I was as old as her. X)

Anyway, my 5 years old sneakers finally fell apart. The whole shoe weakened to the point of not providing any kind of support anymore, the soles detached and while that could still be repaired, the fabric on the inner side, where the back of my ankle rests, is so torn apart that long walks do some serious damage to my skin. I am still wounded back there and it hurts enough to not make me want to leave the house.

So, on to the point of this entry. Today I finally got these:





OMG.

YES.

His name is Pogue, not Pouge. Pogue, especially as embodied by Taylor Kitsch, is a sexy name. However, in the middle of a sex scene, when Tyler moans, "Pouge," a decidedly unsexy word, I'm thrown right out of the delicious boy!sex. And this has happened several times. So please, for the love of slash, proofread your fic first to at least make sure that you're spelling the characters' names right.


Love,

A Tyler/Pogue fan