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Still grading, also sick; send help or anaesthetic.

At least I'm participating in this:

Everything Mitt Romney likes, autotuned.
( Irredeemable, Sime/Gen, YA vacation horror stories, post-apocalyptic Americca )

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New podfic of my SPN fic Entanglement (Sam/Dean), by liannabob.

The Floppy Disk and other icons that don’t make sense any more:  Though I find this article plenty funny, I also think there’s absolutely nothing wrong with having a signifier with no present relation to the signified; we do it all the time!

( Old favorites: Mira Grant, Nancy Kress, Naomi Novik, Claudia Gray, Jean Lorrah )

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Resolved: If I make headway on grading, I will allow myself to write the [guest character]/girl!Dean snippet that came to me immediately after I watched 7x20.

Not actually spoilery for Game of Thrones: Anna Holmes: "I marvel at the semi-medieval society’s standards for personal grooming, which seem to anticipate the Brazilian waxes of the late 20th and early 21st centuries: I call the pubic hair pattern so often seen on Westerosi women 'the King’s Landing Strip.'”

V.v. sad to discover that, on closer listen, lyrics of Call Me Maybe are not “all the other boys try to change me.” I thought it was a song about finding a good boy, not finding a distant boy!

Nice description heard at ROFLcon: you became an engineer because you like working with your hands and dislike working with your arms. (Zach Weiner’s choose your own adventure, also the theme of the con program.)

My worlds collide (copyright law v. vampires). Best fannish answer I ever got was on a question featuring Jack O’Neill, Sam Carter, Daniel Jackson & Teal’c. Since the question involved O’Neill’s property, one student put in a side comment about the fish pond.

Unpack the gendered notions of work and value suggested by this quote about music hitmakers, which comes after noting that producers are almost always men and top-liners are usually women: “The producer runs the session and serves as creative director of the song, but the top-liner supplies the crucial spark that will determine whether the song is a smash.”

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Eureka: ( Spoilers are still in the Matrix )

A Softer World: this could work for so many of my fandoms!

Rec: Pairing Pendragon/Merlin: Meta, really, in which BBC Merlin characters are Starz Camelot fans. I have rarely felt more directly hailed by a text! (As Sady Doyle once said, this must be what guys feel like all the time.) The embarrassing stuff is there, along with the love.

Interesting article on Foreign Policy’s gender issue (pun, sadly, intended).

( space opera and Stephen King's daddy issues )

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On AO3.

For chemm80, remix of Drown Me in Your Reign. Takes place shortly after episode 6.22. Prompt: Sam/Dean and “Shelter from the storm.”
Sam/Dean, explicit; Sam's got a messed-up head.

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Here’s a neat post explaining tag wrangling on the AO3 from accidental marriage to zombies!

( Who owns the past? )

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“By fans, for fans”: Gearing up for the DMCA hearings; have my fingers crossed that a new Register will still hear our voices.
Fic recs: First, Jayne L.'s Epilogue, which I was privileged to beta.  NC-17, Dean/2014Cas/Castiel, and permutations thereupon.  Warnings: 'The End'-verse, and all that entails.  Lucifer sends Cas back.

Second, malkingrey's Elsinore, SPN/ Hamlet fusion. It’s like it was written just for me! Demons! Winchester family drama! Sam with powers! Hamlet and Horatio as scholar-buddies! Murder most foul, as in the best it is! Also, best Sam and Dean aliases ever, which I’m now so tempted to appropriate for a story set in our time!

( Lauren Beukes, Tanya Huff )

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River Tam beats up everyone: my daughter, yesterday.

( copyright and Hollywood; copyright and music sampling )

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rollerroller translated Hideaway!  And there is lovely art by blackbee for those of us who can't read Chinese.  I hope that this is a link to one of the images, featuring Clark, Lex, and pizza.  (Image uploading has always been one of my weaknesses.)

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Remix Madness! I missed the main signup this year, but I will try to participate in this and my stories are up for remix.

Pro parenting tip: If your 4-year-old who is learning to ice skate asks you to assume a position that might end with a skate to your face, say no.

The more I read from Evgeny Morozov, the more I like him—though he might be hard to take on a daily basis.

( Long-Term Capital Management; the British and American slaves )

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