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Like magic, only more annoying.

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1973-11-17

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Bio:

Who: Me, a purveyor of high-quality smut and low-quality snark. I'm also known as

littera_abactor; on that journal, you'll find my occasional fan fiction and my even more occasional non-fandom posts.
What: I nominate the very best in fan fiction for the very silliest of pretend awards, the Slashy.
How: Via a mystical process involving a keyboard, key limes, 100% wool handspun yarn, a metronome, and a Labrador Retriever.
Why: It's a compulsion, really. I'm trying to work out some kind of medication schedule that will take care of this.
When: When the thyme is ripe.
Where: Here.

Friends

By all means, friend me; I will rejoice. If you're reading this LJ regularly or you've friended me, I'd like it if you'd comment from time to time - about something I wrote, about the weather, about a miracle cure for grouchiness - so that I can get to know you, but you don't have to. Lurkers get love here, too.

I used to friend back everyone who friended me. I'm running out of friends slots, though, so I can't do that anymore. I still usually look at the LJs of people who have friended me, and I most definitely check out the LJs of people who comment. If I don't friend you, it doesn't mean I don't love you, because I do - I so totally do. I'm just, you know, running out of space. Also, I don't friend totally empty journals; that's not because I don't love the lurkers - I do! - but, you know, the friends slots shortage.

If you got to this page because I friended you, I like your recs, your stories, or both. Or, you know, maybe I just like you. If you write fic, it's possible that I recently recommended one of your stories; I try to friend everyone I rec.

If I unfriend you, it's not because of anything you said, or did, or, you know, ate. Whatever. I have a lot of people friended, and much as I love them all, there are times when I'm pretty sure the friending is no longer necessary. Like, for example, when the journal has been abandoned so long it's got dandelions growing out of it (or, in other words, six months, as measured by the nudge list). Or when all the entries in a journal are deleted, or maybe just invisible to me. Tiny hints like that. I prune mostly because LJ limits how many people I can friend, and I need to have spaces available to friend the people whose work I recommend. But there's no limit on how many people can friend me, and so far I haven't had to prune anyone I thought might, by even the slimmest of chances, still be reading this LJ, so yay for that.

I do friends-lock stuff occasionally, but my recs and my rants, which are what most people come here to read, are always completely unlocked. (My motto is "Porn! Porn for all!" I try to make it a reality. Won't you try, too?) I hardly ever post to filters. If you don't friend me, or I don't friend you, you really aren't missing much in these parts. Sad but true. Well, the info section is for facing the hard facts, yes?

Last but not least: you are, of course, free to defriend me for any reason at all. I won't resent it or argue or whine. (Well, I'll whine; for me, whine is like oxygen. But I won't whine about that.)

Comments

I read and appreciate every comment I get, and I try to reply to all of them. But "try" was the operative word in that sentence. If I don't reply to a comment you left, believe me, I still read it and loved it and cuddled it to my heart; RL just ate up the time I had for replying to it.

If you read something I nominate, I'd like to hear about it; in particular, I'd like to know if you enjoyed it or not. If my suggestions cause you to read something outside your normal fan fiction horizons, I would love to hear about that. And if a link is broken - inevitable but regrettable - please comment and I'll fix it if I can. (Some stories disappear for good, sad to say.)

If you read this LJ but you don't want to comment or you don't have a LJ at all, I'd love to hear from you anonymously or by email. The @livejournal.com address above will find me wherever I roam. Supposedly. And I make a huge effort to reply to the emails I get; if you send one and don't hear back from me in a few days, please let me know via a comment somewhere. My fannish email account is not the world's most reliable beast, I'm afraid.

Linking

You are welcome to link to anything I post in this journal that is not locked or filtered; if I want something to stay between me and my friends list, I'll put it under lock. If you do link to something here - well, thank you for liking it enough to link to it. And if you get a chance, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know - just with a comment or an email saying, "Hey! I linked to you [here]." But if you don't have time, not to worry; Herne the Hunter won't come for you or anything.

If you arrive here via link in a community or other LJ, again, I'd love it if you told me about it. But, again, it isn't a duty or anything. This is pretty much a duty-free zone.

Obligatory Warning, As Required by LJ

This LJ is for grown-ups. Naughtiness will be discussed - nay, reveled in. If you aren't old enough to revel in naughtiness, you shouldn't be here, and you shouldn't be reading anything I link to, or you might see something nasty in the woodshed.

Authors

If your story is nominated in this LJ, that means I loved it. Please don't take offense; none is offered. Really. This is all about love, people - love and peace, to quote a man much crazier (and better at dodging bullets) than I am.

Quotes

Most of my quotes come from my head, which is tragically full of useless trivia that spends its days viciously crowding out the few actual useful facts that have survived the last 8 million cullings.

If I misquote something in a title, feel free to tell me; I might have intended to, but I'll still be pleased to know that someone is actually reading the titles. And if you happen to recognize the quotes in the above information, I'd really love to hear about that.