We're sure that Meyer isn't deliberately attempting to paint her clumsy-and-repressed-yet-awesomely-fabulous Mary Sue character as a teenaged twit with no common sense, right?
Cordelia: You're him. You're Angel's son. Connor: It's not like I got to choose.
'Hell Bound'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 14, 2009 6:32:19 am PDT #5773 of 10436
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Fay - Apr 14, 2009 6:42:26 am PDT #5774 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Reasonably sure.
But if it's on purpose, then it's a magnificent success.
Connie Neil - Apr 14, 2009 6:42:48 am PDT #5775 of 10436
brillig
it makes one wonder just what the "L" stands for
LaDell, Laverkin, Levi, Laman, LaRon, LaVell--no, he'd use LaVell, because that's the name of the hallowed BYU football coach.
Fay - Apr 14, 2009 6:44:29 am PDT #5776 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I've concluded that he is in fact L.
Morgana - Apr 14, 2009 11:27:50 am PDT #5777 of 10436
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
Hey everyone -- something called Dreamwidth keeps popping up on my flist. It seems like most people already know about it, but this is new to me. I popped over to look at it, and it looks very much like LiveJournal. Does anyone know what the difference is? Is there likely to be a mass migration of users from lj to dw?
As for Twilight, I haven't read the books, so I can't contribute to the snark. But really, Reneesme? It doesn't roll trippingly off the tongue, does it?
Dana - Apr 14, 2009 11:31:42 am PDT #5778 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Does anyone know what the difference is?
It's based on the LJ codebase and built by former LJ staffers, but they actually have things like users and accessibility in mind. Check out dreamwidth.org for the full details.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 14, 2009 12:03:56 pm PDT #5779 of 10436
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Am I the only person who does a double-take when people say 'DW' and are talking about an lj-replacement rather than a fandom?
Liese S. - Apr 14, 2009 2:21:24 pm PDT #5780 of 10436
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I know! I think I have to say DW.O
amych - Apr 14, 2009 2:21:42 pm PDT #5781 of 10436
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Is there likely to be a mass migration of users from lj to dw?
Absolutely no idea. I see a lot of people signing up for both, but even those who are planning to make DW their primary journal are planning to keep up with things on LJ. It's a very high priority for the devs to enable crossposting between the two sites (in a few weeks), to allow people to link to their LJ identities and keep their content, and to make it as easily possible to let LJ (and other sites) users comment, track comments, keep flists, etc. on DW. The whole idea is to make it possible to connect with people wherever you want to hang out, unlike previous movements to try to leave LJ for somewhere (which never worked because you'd immediately lose all your LJ friends and content).
But what that means in terms of mass migration? Absolutely NO CLUE. It could be anything from "everyone ends up liking DW better" to "a few DW fans move over and crosspost to both sites, but most stay on LJ". I'm thinking it'll be big, because they've really thought hard about how to build a community and not just a something-that-isn't-LJ, but then I'm a needs-disclaimerishly big fan of the place.
amych - Apr 14, 2009 2:24:22 pm PDT #5782 of 10436
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Am I the only person who does a double-take when people say 'DW'
Am I totally brainfarting on an actual fandom? Or is it just the casual tossing-around of initials?
(I keep thinking of the DW that is short for Dear Wife. But I also have issues with Dollhouse fandom, and worrying about people's husbands -- will DH be shitcanned? Can you believe how sexist DH is?)