Rationale & welcome
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Q: OK, so why this one? Who are you, and what’s the title for?
A: I decided I wanted to write about SF, and in a way my existing blogs wouldn’t really support. The rest is on the “about” page.
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- @susanas4321 Could've been a great deal worse, thank you!
- @requireshate I'm happy to install forum software and do the mechanical stuff, if that would help.
- @HistoryNeedsYou My great-uncle Wilfred was a Flight-Sergeant - I inherited his stripes as a small child.
- @ActuallyAisha @freezingkiwi @requireshate @Squirrelpunkd How about queer 99%-white genderqueer people?
- RT @EmergencyPuppy: I don't care what your opinions are, this #SuperbOwl is pretty great. http://t.co/cmSrZwmr
- @Jin_Shei Urgh, that's awful. #wrb
- @arkadyrose @MmeGuillotine Or, in my case, because someone else wouldn't take them back.
- @freezingkiwi @requireshate Hope it works out for you.
- @sevenhelz Farming? Bollocks to that.
- @arkadyrose Oh, probably.
- @freezingkiwi @requireshate Well, diddums. I left mine with a nervous breakdown, and I'm fine with the concept.
- @sevenhelz Oh, why so?
- @arkadyrose Nah. http://t.co/AayCr7zJ - latest installment in current fandom argument.
- He's proud of being nasty and misanthropic, and that's such a trivially obvious red flag...
- Christ, this Bakker bloke is a smug egotistical asshat.
- @Siedhr You could well be right - it's been a long time since I read them. My take was that Phedre was much less controlled by sexuality.
- @freezingkiwi I grew up on it too, back in Wales.
- @freezingkiwi Neck end.
- Roast scrag end of lamb: success! Really tender and delicious.
- @ActuallyAisha @Squirrelpunkd ...that sounds kinda hot.