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Two things. First, while watching Star Trek XI again this weekend, I tripped over this bit of dialogue when Nero's torturing Pike:

"I need the subspace frequencies of Starfleet's border protection grids. Specifically those surrounding Earth."

Either this is just an excuse to do what he's gonna do already, and the grids aren't actually a barrier for him, or ... this is a major plot hole. Because you can't tell me Vulcan, being the other founding Federation planet, didn't have a grid of its own. And he can't have got the codes from Spock Prime. So did some ship-capture of Vulcans happen that we never heard about, or what? Can't believe I never noticed before.

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Also. ALSO also. backagainharry is the story that just continues to give and give on the crazy fan front.

( My most recent review, on the Pit of Voles: )

Because clearly, I write for TEH FAME AND GLORYZ. *facepalm* I have no idea what 'section' ze's even talking about - most of the people who share that link around do so quite outside my knowledge or prompting. I'd never dare myself, for this exact reason.

Finishing that mofo's going to be like handling an unexploded bomb every time I check my email. Which will be, ugh, probably starting October this year. lesser_men_saga has been much harder to write, but infinitely saner on the fan front!

Check this out: all LJ accounts that are suspended OR inactive? After an obligatory wait period, the LJ scriptmonkeys will now not only delete the account itself, but EVERY COMMUNITY POST AND COMMENT ever made by that account. ('Inactive' includes communities not posted to in 24 months, as well as similarly sluggish LJ's). Details here.

So much for fic communities being good places to find old orphaned stories. Or old fic-comments on comment-fic memes sticking around for future appreciation. Or old RP stories. LJ's value as an archive (what value it had) is going to be totally gutted by this; who knows how many old authors have moved on to other pastures or retreated from fic in the last couple of years, that will be erased from LJ by the change, not to mention comms for older fandoms and pairings where fic can go a couple of years between posts, but which are still the best index point.

I might have to finally put serious thought into investigating DW as more than just a long-fic posting zone.
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For those of you who follow me but not the tthdrabbles comm I moderate, I'll be running a challenge/competiton there for the next six weeks, in which I will reward frequent posters with fic of 1000+ words to their specifications. If you think you can stretch to at least one Buffy-crossover drabble a week, come chip in!

( Details of the competition as follows: )

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In other news, I was scanning the watchlist for crossover_news when I came across the following pairing tags in the Smallville newsletter, all for the same fic: Chloliver, Cliana, Bruois, eventual Clois

You know, I've never been especially fond of the smush-name pairing indicators, but I think that's just a leetle excessive. *shudders* WTF are casual readers supposed to make of that kind of coding?
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