There was a really good blog about the fanfic here: [dearauthor.com]

Chelsea Peretti has a good riff on this: [iraffiruse.net] (the text on the image is NSFW so I'm linking out.)

I will fully cop to this behavior and confess to you all that up until a year ago, I hated Joss Whedon. Hated. This was due entirely to over-jealous fans who talked up Buffy, Firefly, and most especially Dr. Horrible until I wanted to scream. I knew at the time that my dislike was purely subjective but after the…

"Concern-trolling" is my new favorite term for being condescended to by strangers on the internet.

The original manuscript "Master of the Universe" is available pretty widely online. I read the first 30ish pages switching between page 1 on the Amazon preview and then page 2 on the fanfic and honestly, the only difference is that all the names are changed and there are occasionally different overwrought adverbs.

I second that emotion.

I know her as well from [redacted]; she's whip-smart and gives really good hugs.

Even at it's worst (last season in general, the Walking in a Winter Wonderland sex scenes) it's still a really fun and enjoyable show and I always look watching it. I only wish I had a gang of friends to watch it and make catty comments with.

Not that the books are anything but the roughest outline for the show but the last book in the series is coming out in 2013. I wish that the show would get a closer to the series sometimes, not for the mystery angle but more for the continuity.

I don't think it's a bad thing for people to post if it helps them but I don't want to be held accountable socially for responding to their posts if I'm uncomfortable with it (i.e. that friend who gets annoyed that you don't immediately know what she's talking about when she posted it on FB three days prior.)

I remember a friend posting a bulletin on MySpace (remember those?) in 2005 when her mom died and being completely creeped out by it. It seemed so invasive and oversharing and made me feel weird.

I found out two of my best friends were pregnant because their husbands posted about it (one miscarried a week later and the other was wise enough to wait 3 months and let her husband plaster a sonogram up there.)

I had an acquaintance post about her miscarriage on Facebook but do so while sitting at a bar with me and a group of our friends. It made me feel really weird that she didn't say anything about it at the time though it was obviously on her mind.

Aww thanks. I don't want to hate on some of the frustrated people (whose comments I typically really enjoy here) but I'm bored by it too.

I created a new fake twitter but when I go out and try to convert to said fake twitter account, it's not working for me. However... I'm going to be reasonable and try again in a few hours.

I lived in Osaka for a year and a two hour train ride outside of the city put you in fairly dense forested areas. Outside of major cities, there is a decent amount of land.

I'm listening to it as an audiobook (I spend a few hours every week in my car going to my grandparents) which is making it less of a trial - the narrator is great at class=specific accents. However, the sections about the Napoleonic war are so boring I could cry. I get ready to give up on it but then I hit a really…

@Lassus @realwildchild They are both on my Goodreads TBR shelf now — I heard good things about the Night Circus but just haven't gotten there yet.

Will do as soon as I finish Jonathan Strange and Mr. How many more pages are in this lovely book that I'm so tired of oh just one more chapter. Or five.

Stephanie Meyers reminds me a lot of Poppy Z. Brite. I think they both have really amazing stories that they want to tell and are pretty damn creative except that neither one of them is a strong enough writer to pull off the scope and tone of what they want to say.