Bwah!

...really, Fiction Alley should have a wizard. 'Cause that would be funny.

Still feeling v. ambivalent about having some of my stories there. Still sort of enjoying the feedback, and yet a few of them have me banging my head on the desk and wondering whether maybe I just prefer having a handful of readers after all. Sample feedback:

r u sure? all that dialogue was begenning to confuse me...but r u sure?....remus/snape...gahh...im not saying ur fic was bad tho!

WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO SAVE LETTERS? THERE IS NO LETTER RATIONING IN PLACE!!! THIS IS NOT A FRAKKING MOBILE 'PHONE!!!

Ahem. God, I'm such a curmudgeonly old cow.

I happened across a misplaced apostrophe in a menu at a famous coffee shop in York the other day, and was all "Eeek! Do I get my pen out?" and Mum and WeeSister stopped me. This led to a discussion of punctuation, in which my sister put forward the suggestion that we should just get rid of apostrophes.

Captain Rational abandoned my tugboat at this point, and was eaten by sharks.

However, I told her, after a shocked pause, that I still loved her.

I happened across a misplaced apostrophe in a menu at a famous coffee shop in York the other day, and was all "Eeek! Do I get my pen out?"

At the krav centre I borrow a sharpie and mark up one of the copies of whatever they've misspelled or punctuated and hand it in at the front desk.

They're pretty tolerant, considering.

They're pretty tolerant, considering.

Well, they probably realise that you could kill them with the sharpie if you needed to, and that you're being remarkably restrained.

Bettys, however...well, if they aren't worried about it in the name of their restaurant, they're not going to get their knickers in a twist about their menu, I guess. And they DO have very, very yummy food indeed. Traditional Yorkshire scrummy things, like proper Vanilla Slices and Curd Tarts and lovely salads and sandwiches and french fries chips.

...aaand now I'm hungry. Damn.

God, I'm such a curmudgeonly old cow.

I love you.

Captain Rational abandoned my tugboat at this point, and was eaten by sharks.

Hee! I love you.

Maybe "A" was for angst.

Dana gets it. Gossamer had a two-tiered system. First was the story type: Adventure, Casefile, Crossover, Story (i.e., drama). Then there was a subcategory for other things, usually R for romance, A for Angst, H for humor, and so forth.

So, something like one of Nascent's casefiles would be X, M/S UST, A. Once you understood the system, it made some sense. Although it's now more information than I'm willing to put on my stories. These days I don't even label the pairing unless I'm forced to. ::shrugs:: (But then I don't write much in the way of pairing fic, anyway.)

The Library of Congress catalog has a number for Demonology.

Am now struck by HS-era BtVS bunny about converting the Sunnydale catalog from Dewey to LC.

Am now struck by HS-era BtVS bunny about converting the Sunnydale catalog from Dewey to LC.

And that's just Demonology under Folklore. That doesn't include Demonology under teh Occult Sciences section.

133.4 is the base Dewey number for Demonology. Just being helpful.

Does Dewey make the same distinction between Occult and Folkloric Demonology?