I’m reading ‘s Five Things That Never Happened To Aubrey & Maturin
Five: The World Turned Upside Down.
What a hoot and so delicious. Just imagine Jack Aubrey as a woman, who is in command of his masculine mindset and nature but physically a woman.
Astolat’s writing is superb. I could hear POB in her words. It’s a must read if you like Master and Commander fanfic. It’s a genderfuck (astolat’s word) done with intelligent and yet very enjoyable.
Computers hate me – they give me two years of glorious devotion and then start acting like an adulterous lover.
Jake and Heath hate me – I’ve been writing the same story over and over again. Third person, First person, past tense, present tense. And what is so bad, damn if I can tell if any of the versions are any good.
Ennis and Jack hate me – I got Jack running away from dearest daddy. He meets up with the ranch owner’s son, Ennis. And that’s it. Then I have them, in another story, meeting up after years apart at Junior’s wedding. Now I think there is a story in the second idea but Jake and Heath have hijacked me.
My body hates me – I’m not feeling so good. Damn weather can’t make up its mind and so my body follows suit. I’m sitting here sneezing, suffering with aching muscles, sore throat while I pay homage to the most horrifying downloading ever because computers hate me.
How’s that for a sad Saturday. The only way to happiness would be if a few BBM writers would update their stories.
I’ve just learned from reading my Flist that the beautiful and wonderful writer, ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
thamiris has passed away. She will be sorely missed in Fandom. She kept CLex alive and well. Thamiris was an awesome writer, and her LJ posts a treasure dove trove of sparkly, twisted, humorous, and deep discussions.
I miss her.
I don’t know this person personally, only through her fandom writings for which she is still very involved. I want to say congrats for being nominated for the Hugo Award. A woman among men. I found out about it searching for information on the Flesch-Kincaid readability scoring. Ironic huh.
It makes my heart swell to gladness to know one of our own has risen to such heights in the professional writing world. It makes me cackle with glee to know she doesn’t deny her relationship to fandom and how it has helped with her writing.
I just had to give a well and meaningful shout out.
