The ever wonderful and resourceful valinorean as turned her 300+ bookmarks into an extensively tagged library. *boggles* It's an incredible resource you should most definitely check out!!!

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1) I just watched the first disc of The Big Bang Theory. On a hunch, I checked out Sheldon/Leonard slash. It exists. *brain explodes* Now I will say that I can slash just about anyone in my head and make it work out okay, but Sheldon is the most asexual creature on the face of the planet!! He is unslashable!!!! (at least in my head) It got me to thinking about how and why we slash certain people over other people. I've never had a slash malfunction before this.

2) "There's just something about you Merlin, I can't quite put my finger on it"
Now I ♥ me some Merlin/Arthur fic. I do. In fact, I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me some Merlin/Arthur fic. As a matter of fact, I ♥ it so much that I read lots and lots of it. The result is that I have read "There's just something about you Merlin, I can't quite put my finger on it" about 9,400,003 times. The weird thing about this is that I can't figure out what I feel about it. Usually something like this would either irritate the hell out of me or make me smile. I understand why the line is there, it's just that when I read it now, it triggers this weird fight-or-flight response in me. I'm paralyzed.

3) Podficcage.
I am podficcing. In fact, I am working on a rather epic (for me) podfic (H/D). It should come out to about 4 hours long (I think). I was in the middle of recording it when I came down with the the cold/flu/bronchitis/lost voice/horribleness of death. So...I polished the first part and now I am just hanging around waiting for my voice to come back from vacation and my coughing to go back to where ever it came from. Big, big thanks to ladydeth12 for listening to the first 45 minutes of it and waving cheerleading pom poms and giving me the enthusiasm to continue on in the face of perils and the treachery of my body. I also have a few more stories in the line-up. AND I got a brand spanking new microphone. I might not be good at podficcing, but that doesn't mean that I can't do it with zest and enthusiasm.

4) I'm generally more than a little skeptical of polls, but this one cheered me up: More people support Marriage Equality than don't. I'm not sure I believe it, but the fact the the numbers are even in a place where they can be skewed in this direction is positive. Who knows, maybe someday, a majority of people will actually believe that LGBT people are...well...people.

5) Don't look now, but I think that spring might actually be in the immediate future. 70 degrees today!!!!!!!!!

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So...It looks like Yahoo is shutting down Delicious, which is a true bummer, since I have over a thousand fics bookmarked and cataloged there. *flails* So, I have tentatively decided to move my operation over to Diigo, where I can (theoretically) import all my Delicious bookmarks, complete with tags.

To those of my friends who use Delicious (that's pretty much everyone, I think), you might want to think about migrating to Diigo, Lovemarker or Pinboard, or at the very least, export your bookmarks! Maybe this is all rumor and myth, but I would be totally heartbroken to lose my bookmarks.

Original Report at TechCrunch

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Okay, so I realize that I am a little late to the podfic party, but OMG! Podfics allow me to "read" fanfiction while I am working.

cue: A Whole New Wooooooooooooorld....

Also, there are so many Merlin podfics that are amazingly well done. FayJay is currently rocking my little computer technology world with her own reading of her fic "The Student Prince". It's beautifully read and the story is just....so.... *words fail*

So...for those who are even later to the party than I am...get thee over to audiofic and discover the joys of the podfic.

And a special shout-out to reikokatsura who got me started...

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