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Due to a cancellation and scheduling faith in me, my presence on the Identity in SF & Fantasy panel where I'd be giving my Snape paper, is now, in fact, just 60 minutes for me and my paper. OMG, TERRIFYING. If you're going to be at Dragon*Con and have that slot open, please show up. The full academic programming schedule is here: http://thehangedman.com/events/2009/dragoncon.html

If you read Torchwood fic and have not yet been turned on to alex51324's Servant Hearted series, you should check it out. What I love about the series isn't that it's kinky, and often about kinks that I share sometimes in text and sometimes in actual life, but that it's about two people with very different levels of kink experience learning how to be kinky together. As a reader, I've found it rings very true: from the missteps of excessive gentleness, the difficulties of communication, to the absurdity of sex-toy shopping, the awkwardness of improvisation and repurposing -- there's a lot of stuff in these fics where all I can do is nod because hahahahhahhaa, so been there (and, in the interest of slightly fuller disclosure and my allergy to assumptions folks might make and my own personal rather 20th century hang-ups, I need to state for the record in both roles at various points). Anyway, the series is more charming than filthy, although I find the hotness factor has gotten ramped up with each story in the series. Today's offering: In His Service, which does a nice job of reminding us about how certain oddities of the relationship came to be, if you haven't read the earlier stories.

We went cheese shopping out here in Ocean Grove, and OMG! Among other things, we got this cheddar with carmelized onions from Wales that is the Best Thing I Have Ever Eaten.

In the ongoing world of work is never-ending -- when we get home tomorrow night I have to do big revisions on a document and send it in before bed. Not how I wanted to spend Sunday night after a weekend of relaxing, but hey, I got a weekend of relaxing!

For Dragon*Con we have now booked our aquarium tickets (we are not going when the con is going) and our dinner at Legal Seafoods.

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The ficcy bits.. :)

[sarantha.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this link. I haven't delved into the land of fanfic in a good long time and this person's stuff is really top notch. I'm trapped at home at the mercy of my husband's capricious employer to allow us to finally enjoy our one-child-free night of the week. :)