Let’s talk about asexuality, the BBC’s Sherlock, and today’s interview with Steven Moffat*.

*In a totally, completely non-ad-hominem kind of way, because that doesn’t get anybody anywhere.

The Eames/Arthur
"I only saw the movie once and
I was too busy keeping up with the *plot*"
Survival Guide

Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

Subject Line: Captain America/Iron Man (Marvel Comics)
Title: A Sword, a Horse, a Shield
Author: Elspethdixon
Spoilers: moderate ones for years of comics continuity, major ones for Civil War. [note: a lot of canon has transpired since I first wrote this, some decent, some good, and some inexpressibly horrible. Because trying to keep a this manifesto up to date would be a study in futility, given that canon is always ongoing, I'm not going to try and update it for new canon events. I may, however, occasionally add new fics to the recs list at the bottom]
Email: elowry@umd.edu

Just leave the kids alone, OK?

So, a few weeks ago my friends offered me free advance tickets to see Star Trek . I laughed and refused: I had never been able to get through a whole episode of Star Trek . But I kept hearing about how awesome the new movie was, and so I thought, well, I could use a break from restoring my …

In order to make sense of the confusion that is reboot and the Prime universe and to try to make sense of it I have created a time line of events. Yes, I am that much of a geek! This time line has been developed from information on Memory Alpha and the official Star Trek website . Hence I am …

James T. Kirk: Smooth as Sandpaper by idvo<br />
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Nu!Kirk is totes not a playboy either. The bravado is an act that certainly had *me* fooled.

Introduction: My motivation

I have written different versions of this document many times over the years with differing tones and differing goals. I've always been reluctant to put much effort into this for a variety of reasons. My motivation for doing it now is having read Aja's post about her time in the Inner Circle and Ari_O's post during the Ms. Scribe Story.

I am trying to explain exactly what happened in June 2001 from my point of view. As you read, you may say, "Your grudge is showing." You're probably right. I do have a grudge. It is not possible for me to provide a wholly unbiased account of these events because I was involved. On the other hand, I am in the interesting position of being the only person with any access to some of the information about this incident.

Too Much Wank to Name
gentleblaze
March 10th, 2011
Saw someone asking for an update on F_FA about my Blaze of Glory and thought I'd share, since I've been advised to make a public record of this for legal purposes anyway. Yes, I am also this anon. Coincidentally, I am also this anon, so the end of this tale is a little sensitive for me.

This is a pretty long story, and I’m not sure if you want so much detail, but I’m waiting on a huge upload, and writing about this amuses me to no end, so.

This will require some background.

Pinto is an equal opportunity staring competition.<br />
I was discussing Chris staring at Zach during interviews with [info]ermer00. and said that I would post this. A couple of weeks ago I had an anon on Tumblr tell me that they thought Zach did 95% of the staring during interviews, I compiled gifs and caps to prove that's not entirely true.

Beautiful list of Pinto awesomeness.

Title: Where No One Had Slashed Before
Characters: Kirk/Spock
Author: Killa
Spoilers: Lots. The series, the movies, etc.
Website: Adventures in Melodrama

Some readers may have already expressed surprise at my assertion that Jews do not write fantasy literature. Haven’t modern Jewish writers, from Kafka and Bruno Schulz to Isaac Bashevis Singer and Cynthia Ozick, written about ghosts, demons, magic, and metamorphoses? But the supernatural does not itself define fantasy literature, which is a more specific genre. It emerged in Victorian England, and its origins are best understood as one of a number of cultural salvage projects that occurred in an era when modern materialism and Darwinism seemed to drive religious faith from the field. Religion’s capacity for wonder found a haven in fantasy literature.

"Normal Female Interest in Men Bonking": Selections from The Terra Nostra Underground and Strange Bedfellows
Edited and introduced by Shoshanna Green, Cynthia Jenkins and Henry Jenkins