Very happy birthday to cim_halfling!!

My dear friend-
I'm sorry I won't have a card to you on time due to my travels, but know that I'm thinking about you and will give you a call today. You're one of the 'oldest' fan friends of mine in terms of years known in person and I treasure our friendship. Have a marvelous day, celebrated in whatever manner you most would enjoy!! ♥

I'm going to write an article on slash!

Woo hoo! I'd emailed the editor at filamentmag over the past year and offered myself up to write an article on women slash writers and artists. And she said it could work! So I'll be looking to some of you for the most current media references and papers (especially to do with visuals versus writing), and also to get some anecdotal material. It will appear in the December issue, so I'll be writing this over the next couple of months. It shouldn't be more than 2K, so it'll be an overview and some conjecture, but I'm thrilled to be able to write on this topic in nonfiction form once again. I'd especially like to hear from any slash fan artists/vidders I have on my flist as one of the premises for Filament is that women enjoy seeing men and enjoying looking at their bodies— so while it is very common that women are slash writers, they also do photo manips and videos and art.

On an unrelated note, I'm slowly getting my England photos uploaded, turned around the right way, and resized from enormous to manageable. Once I have them up, I'll link to them in my gallery.

England pictures- in the gallery!

At last, here's about 3/4 of my England pictures. I picked what I felt were the best ones, and didn't include some duplicates and whatnot. Sometimes I take pictures of odd things (signs for cookies that amused me, a redheaded Shakespearean actor because, well, you all know me), but if you'd like to check them out, go here to my 2010 U.K. trip pics! Callum won't feature in any pictures as he'd prefer to keep his privacy, and to my shame, I never even got my camera out while visiting matildabishop! But I'm in some, and a couple of choristers, and lots of cathedrals.

Enjoy!