So you want to be a fantasy writer? Or a SF writer or a book reviewer.

Choice quotes:

Fantasy comes in trilogies or more. Stephen Donaldson once completed a Fantasy in two parts and look what happened to him.

*loves Stephen Donaldson, but bwah!*

SF is all about ideas. If you haven’t got any ideas, make it really hard to understand so the reader will think that you have ideas but he or she is just too stupid to understand them.

and, of course,

Really? Are you sure? Does your mother know about this?

I'm having Soujin-withdrawal. T__T

Am also working on a Westmark fansite. I forget which of you lot have actually read Westmark, but at least I'm not alone. Suggestions?

I made biscuits for dinner last night! And this afternoon I made cupcakes. Out of a box, but STILL.

So I'm lying there in bed trying to fall asleep and mulling over figments, and it occurs to me. Here you have a character who, canonically:

* is passionately interested in a few subjects
* has a tendency to go on and on about these subjects and completely fail to notice that his audience is bored to tears
* has limited social skills
* is sometimes acutely sensitive to sensory input (like loud echoey noises in the morning omgwtfRAR) and sometimes supremely indifferent to it (like being wet through because dude, tidepools!)
* has a child who is clearly autistic to some degree

conclusion: stephen maturin = HFA, if not Aspie.

--yes, I'm sure this has been brought up before. That's the fun of being new to a fandom; you get to come up with the crackpot theories all by your onesies. And no, I'm not actually convinced of this; it just beat counting sheep. feel free to comment with "Manon, you're a dork".

now back to bed for me.

tomorrow I will be home. yay or something.

Ahem.

Westmark/Orsinia OTP!

theirloveissovaguelywesterneuropean!

( Elements )

Mmkay. I am not quite done having panic attacks about things I cannot possibly control, but I think I'm done being incapacitated by same.

Anybody read these Kushiel books? Would I like them? Bearing in mind that I have a relatively high tolerance for purple prose and a relatively low tolerance for modern!fantasy?

Apparently all the cool kids on desperatefans have MASSIVE ANGSTZORS OMG. Perhaps I should give Feuilly a crush on, oh, Princess Leia or something.

I raked some yard today. Go me.

I miss comite. ;__;

And I totally pooed out on fic tag this time around. Blah. I should've been a plumber.

So there appear to be two well-respected scripts available to create public fanfic archives. What there does not seem to be is a freely available script for a single-user fic archive, i.e. one which has the search functions, ease of uploading etc. but allows of only one site maintainer.

Or if there is, it is described so arcanely that I can't find it, and if I did find it would likely be hopelessly confused if I tried to set it up.

This looks to me like a gaping niche waiting to be filled.

I like the script that my dad wrote, but it doesn't do me a whole lot of good if I can't actually install it on a new server.

Okay! For those of you just tuning in, previous rounds of fic tag can be found here.

1. You read my ficlet and leave me feedback. Pweeeese?.
2. You pick one of the challenges I've posted after the ficlet and write it, and post the results as a comment to this entry. You just take the character/s or pairing and the prompt and write till the time limit is up or the story is finished, whichever comes first. You can go over, but only a tiny bit to finish the sentence or whatever. Quality is not a big concern here. :)
3. You go here and generate a bunch of prompts, pick one that you want to read, and post it at the end of your comment for someone else to write.
3a. New rule: You only get to post one challenge for every ficlet you do. Yes, I know clicking the ickle button is more fun than writing. Tough ;) Otherwise we wind up with way too many orphaned challenges and that's just sad.
4. Someone takes that challenge and writes it and posts it as a reply to your comment, and generates their own challenge for the next person.
5. Rinse and repeat.

(yes you can do crossovers, yes you can do weird implausible shit, yes you can write about your RP character, yes you can do gen or slash or het or femslash or genderfuck or whatever occurs to you to do. You just have to use the characters and the prompt given, and not go too far over your time. Quality, did I mention? is not the main issue here. The issue is lots and lots of fic for everybody.)

Here is mine:

( Feuilly/Cosette, G )

And here are the prompts (yes, there are three. Hush. It's my game, I get to cheat ;)):

Pairing: Bahorel/Favourite
Words: brass, bow-legged, exotic
Time: 15 minutes

Character: Jean Prouvaire
Word: detest
Setting: Paris
Time: 30 minutes

Characters: Combeferre, Bossuet
Word: cleaner
Time: 10 minutes

Regarding desperatefans:

MamselleManon: I can tell [Feuilly] and Draco are going to get on like... a house afire. Yes. that's tolerably descriptive. XD
RainbowSoujin: Mmmboy.
MamselleManon: he's English /and/ he's a spoiled brat! What's not to hate? :D
RainbowSoujin: Of course, anybody and Draco are going to get on about that way, I imagine. *g* // Exactly!
MamselleManon: well, yes.
RainbowSoujin: Do you know, Nemo feels exactly the same way?
MamselleManon: *chortles*
RainbowSoujin: And they're both Polish! Not.

Poll #466396 This is not, actually, an April Fools' joke. Sorry.
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Time for another fic tag?

My Depressed French Consumptive Whore name is Antoinette Cunegonde.
Take The Depressed French Consumptive Whore Name Generator today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

Just, you know, so's you're all aware.

ETA also,

My Fairy Princess Name is Cobweb Starlight.
Take Fairy Princess Naminator today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

Okay, so to cheer myself up I'm making an Anti-Mary Sue Generator. Anyone want to suggest some wholly unromantic early-19th-century female occupations?

ETA: Not entirely to the point, but this page! Courtesy of the Wayback Machine. This was one of my absolute favorite references back in my RPing days; it's GREAT for fantasy settings.

*happy*

SON OF ETA: Okay, here. Test drive?

Soujin asked for this awhile back, and as I have way too much nothing better to do, here it is.


Noses are love.


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*skips through her memories*

Anyone who hasn't seen this yet? Really really should.

...in other news, I woke up this morning contemplating Grant/AriJr. It WON'T GO AWAY.

Verily, I am going to hell.