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Guest Post

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:28:51 GMT

I wrote a guest post for Love Joy, Feminism about my experiences with home hospital education as a high school student. Might be interesting to some of you.

Homeschool Reflections: Home Because of Sickness

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Beta Request like Woah

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 03:27:22 GMT

Anybody able to do a reeeeeeally quick beta of a ~2500 word white lotus exchange fic? PM me if you want specifics. (Please dear God, please!)

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Yes, there is a Hurricane Sandy fandom relief auction, and I am offering!

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 05:08:34 GMT

So I am not the only one who thinks it's time for a fandom auction! fandomaid is running a fandom charity auction to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy in North America and the Caribbean, and I will be offering fic, and I encourage everybody who writes fic to do the same. Also, everyone who has any money on hand, please bid!

For more information, links to the different auctions, and directions on how to offer an item or make a bid, please click this link.

I'm offering a 2000 word fanfic in Avatar: the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra, Harry Potter, or White Collar fandoms, starting bid $15.00 AUD.

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Beta, anyone?

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:03:19 GMT

Would anybody who isn't participating in the orderofthelotus fic exchange be willing to do a quick beta of an under 2000 word fanfic?

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My Grandfather, Matt

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:35:08 GMT

This morning, my step-grandfather, my grandmother's beloved husband for four years and dearest friend for twenty more, died of a cerebral hemorrhage caused by falling onto a tile floor. Just recently, he fought off a benzodiazepine addiction, and was staying with his children for the holidays in Florida when he took a sleeping pill and woke up in the middle of the night for a drink of water.

Though he went into the hospital conscious, the Plavix in his blood prevented his body from being able to stop the bleeding, and prevented the doctors from being able to operate to relieve the swelling and save his life. Unlike other anti-coagulants which can be reversed in an emergency, Plavix cannot. The doctors were able to do nothing to save his life. If you are on Plavix, please, please, please talk to your doctors about this risk and ask if you should consider switching to other medication.

Matt grew up in New York City to German immigrant parents in the 1930s. He learned to box and joined the merchant marine, owned a restaurant and a marina, loved both his first wife and my grandmother for as long as he was able to have them, had three children and many grandchildren and step-grandchildren. He nursed his first wife through the lung cancer that eventually took her life, and is one of the best people I have ever known.

He and my grandmother met when my grandmother moved into his neighborhood and became good friends. My grandmother helped him get through his first wife's sickness and death and was a dear friend to both. After his first wife's death, friendship turned to love, and they were married. I have never seen my grandmother so happy.

My father's father died before I was born, and my mother's father and I have not been close for a long time. Matt was my grandfather and my whole family misses him terribly. Due to severe winter storms, my grandmother couldn't even fly out to be with him when he died.

Just this Thanksgiving, he carved the turkey and stole bits of food while we cooked. Since the beginning of September, my cockatiel Nero, my mom's dog Liam, and my step-grandfather have all died sudden and surprising deaths. This is the most stunning of all. He had just fought his way out of a horrible addiction and was healthier than he had been in years. It doesn't seem fair. He was eighty-one years old.

RIP Matthew, 1930-2011

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Irene checkin

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:40:01 GMT

You Eastern Seaboard people need to stop having problems. Seriously, it isn't cool.

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East Coast Roll Call

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:27:08 GMT

So you folks who had an earthquake? Mind telling me how you're doing?

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Awesome Ladies of White Collar Fest advertisement

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:03:33 GMT

I'm running a fest! The wc_women_fest is a prompting fest focusing on the women characters of White Collar. White Collar fandom is lucky to have many awesome female characters and this is the place to celebrate them! All genres of fic and fanart are welcome, including gen, femslash, het, and OT3, so long as the fic is focused on our awesome ladies. Round one is here, please join us!

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Help Japan Auction Offering

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:50:44 GMT

Due to the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and the continuing problems faced there because of it, there is once again a fandom auction up and running, help_japan. There are offerings of custom written fic, food, graphics, music, all kinds of things. I urge anyone who can to offer something, and/or bid for the offerings already up. Because the money needs to be there as soon as possible, bids close on the 31st of March, so hurry.

My own offering for charity, a 2000+ word fanfiction written to the winner's request, can be found here, bidding starting at $15.00.

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Livejournal Clearly Still Doesn't Get It With Regards to Privacy

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:07:32 GMT

Remember how a little while back, Livejournal enabled the crossposting of comments to facebook and twitter without the journal entry poster's consent? and how the hew and cry from their customer base (which would be us) caused them to change it so that users could only cross-post comments on public entries?

Well, Livejournal has gone back on its word. Now anyone who has opted into Cyrillic services can cross-post comments on anyone's (even someone who has not opted in) f-locked entries. The solution Livejournal proposed before was not satisfying, but acceptable. This smacks of deceit and manipulation on the part of the Livejournal business administration. If you disagree with this move on the part of the administration (which also smacks of ethnic prejudice) please comment on the above linked post.

Thought I'd warn you all, this mess has unfortunately not gone away.

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So You May Already Know About Livejournal's Latest Blunder

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:19:34 GMT

Anyone who crossposts a comment to one of my entries on Facebook or Twitter will be summarily banned, even if it's accidental, because I can't trust it won't happen again. If it happens repeatedly, I have a dreamwidth account on which I have almost everything backed up. I'd really rather not leave livejournal, as I have loads of friends and a wonderful community here, but if needs must...

Here's hoping the overwhelming negative response to this will convince the livejournal admin to remove this "feature"

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Help_Pakistan auction update

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:20:18 GMT

There is less than a day left to bid on my help_pakistan auction offering of a 2000 word fanfic in either the Harry potter or Avatar: the Last Airbender fandoms. It can be found here. Bidding currently stands at $25.00 dollars, and bidding ends August 29th at 1:00 PM EST, so hurry up.

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Yes, I'm doing this again, Auction Offering for Help_Pakistan

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:57:44 GMT

Pakistan is under water, so I'm I am offering to write a 2000 word fic in either the Avatar: the Last Airbender or Harry Potter fandom for help_pakistan , a fandom auction to benefit the relief effort. My offering can be found here Starting bid is $15.00. If you've ever wanted me to write something in either fandom, here's your chance to get that by doing something good. Bidding ends August 28th at noon EST, so hurry up.

Aaaand I misspelled "circumstances" and used some funky grammar in my offering post. Man, I know better.

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"Blurring" in Russian

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:19:53 GMT

The lovely jayfortuna has translated "Blurring" into Russian. The first chapter is already up on their account on hogwartsnet.ru here. EEEEEE! See, unlike "No Difference" in French, I can actually read enough Russian to read my own fic in another language!

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Question

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:36:18 GMT

Would anyone who reads this blog be interested in reading some of my original fiction short stories?

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Awesome Artwork/Charitable Stuff/HELP

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:41:19 GMT

In keeping with the not very funny tone of my blog the last few posts, I have news. Cat, who you might know from his crazy adventures with me and terrible sense of humor, recorded here on this blog, is offering commissions, and for the first time is offering to do fannish commissions. In his own words, he will draw Snape fucking the Giant Squid if you so ask. Why is he doing something so wildly out of character? His girlfriend's house burned down, and gentleman that he is, he's throwing himself into helping her rebuild financially from the disaster.

A sample of his work is below, and if you click on any of the images, the full size piece will come up

His deviantArt page is here. The commissions are cheep, the guy's reliable, and you'd be doing a good deed. And, I will throw in a drabble for anyone commissioning a piece from Cat on any topic the commissioner desires, so long as it's either original fiction, Harry Potter, or Avatar the Last Airbender. I will also throw in a 1000 word story in either of my two fandoms for anyone who commissions three pieces from him.

Or, you know, if you don't commission something, the ghosts of artwork unmade will creep into your room and devour you in the night. Your choice.

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I'm Sorry!

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:55:57 GMT

There's no excuse, I know. I promised I'd have a Children of Mars chapter for you on the first of every month, and less than a year in, and I've already broken that promise. To make it up to you, dear readers, I'll have a chapter up on Thursday at the latest, and a new installment in the Parchment Underground universe sometime late in the month.

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Happy July the Fourth, Though I do not Make it Happier

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:52:13 GMT

To all my fellow Americans (of the sort who live in the USA, and not those who are Americans of the Mexican, Central, South, or Canadian types, through I hope their days are happy as well) happy Independence Day! To the rest of you, you poor things, you miss the fireworks. I'm sad to say my computer is fried, and I'm typing this on my mother's less than youthful machine, so while you, reader mine, will get your usual dose of Children of Mars on time, and perhaps another "Parchment Underground" story, I will not be posting my usual volume of blog posts and book reviews. I lost my data, and while I have most of my novel backed up, and all of my fanfiction, I have some salvage work to do on the last week or so's worth of work. awww.

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