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Eek. How time flies. I've been a bit distracted; I've been spending my nights lately playing Zeus on Dota 2, watching the VODS for the SCII HOTS MLG Winter Championship, and reading up on the drama that is the Sim City release on reddit. As Zeus says, "To err is human. To respawn, divine!" :DD

Hope everyone else is having a good March so far.

Reading
p5’s list of pitch perfect fic that everybody should read by perpetuallyfive
havocthecat was asking for some Pitch Perfect fic some time ago. I'm enjoying the fics but many don't seem to pass that second read through, and if they do, they're still a WIP. :)

Common Writing Mistakes, from A to X by Benjamin Dreyer (VP Executive Managing Editor & Copy Chief of Random House Publishing Group)
Pretty useful!

Recs
James Bond
A Tragedy of Error by coldgreydawn (James Bond/Vesper Lynd)
"Vesper negotiates with life after death."

Interesting fork-in-the-road AU that I came across.

Currently listening to:

Which is why you have a lot more non femslash fanfic related links.

Reading
Misc
snarp: "Recommend some fantasy BDSMy books for me. Lesbians preferred."

gleefsbigbang: authors are starting to post their glee femslash big bang fics. There will be another slew of updates on the 19th, if writers stick to the schedule.

Writing
thelastgoodname: The Writer as God. Does "the three axes of approach--god-creator vs. ignorant narrator; random access vs. linear development; detailed outline vs. headlong flings and wrong turns--overlap at all? Does one say something about the other? Does it even make sense to think about these variables?"

cupidsbow: The Formula for Writing Sex Scenes using SGA slash examples (kudos to dharma_slut).

Perspective
Mona Eltahawy: Let me, a Muslim feminist, confuse you (The Star) (kudos to akilanajmah)
"I'm no fool. I know that terrible violations of women's rights are committed in the name of my faith. But Islam belongs to me too. I'm in a boxing ring. On one side is Bill Keller's right wing: bigoted and xenophobic. On the other side is the Muslim right wing, which uses Islam against me to fuel its misogyny."

Femslash Case Study: Bitch Slap
A couple posts back someone in a meta post asked why femslash flourished in some really obscure categories as opposed to others. A perfect case study to ponder upon would be Bitch Slap (2009; trailer); it's a movie that had oodles of maintext femslash but resulted in very little femslash fanfic. ( more... )

Now, onto what you were originally here for...the recs.

( Lost Girl(2), HP(3) )

Currently listening to: Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way (Yasutaka Nakata Mix) (download)