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I Need Book Recs

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:10:07 GMT

For my thirteen-ish cousin Michael, specifically. He actually likes fantasy (his favorite author is Rick Riordan)! I am so excited, y'all, the rest of the family is all Dean Koontz and Stephen King. I very much wish to encourage this, so I want to give him ebooks for Christmas, but I am kind of having trouble thinking of good YA with male protagonists. Like, I've got Only You Can Save Mankind and The Demon's Lexicon and the Owlknight trilogy, but I am blanking. That branch of the family is also more religious/conservative, so I hestitate to rec things like Good Omens.

HELP, PLEASE?

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The Clock Is Ticking

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:21:47 GMT

Poking at the big bang and hey, I'm appending a resources post to the end; anyone have any awesome links for girl-centric fic? I've got ralst and some tags/collections on the AO3 and witchwinter and femslash09/etc. and halfamoon and femgenficathon and Twisting the Hellmouth and galpalficathon and ladiesbigbang and hermionebigbang and littlebang and the het id crack comm and I think some other stuff? But it's not exactly something you can have too much of, so more would be very much appreciated.

For two, how do you post with the community's icons instead of your icons? Can you? Because I would totally love to have at least one icon for each fandom, but I don't personally have enough slots for that.

For three, this project is not breaing down like I had expected. Right now it's f/f > gen > f/m > f/m/m > f/f/m > f/f/f (I had expected more het, less gen, and at least one f/m/m/m).

For four, content notes! I think I've got notes for most of the actually objectionable stuff, but I may be looking right past something hinky. I am also doing content notes as enticements/genre indicators. So! I am going to put the list of what I have behind the cut, and would love any suggestions.

( Content notes as things stand. )

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Enjoy the Random Commentary

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:43:32 GMT

Added a bunch of fic to that stuff I mean to rec post. Trek (Reboot, DS9, & TOS), Buffy, crossovers, small fandoms, RPF (band & AI), Supernatural...random pet formatting peeves. Relatedly! Is there a way to get my individual DW entries to display like my individual LJ entries, i.e. no frills/text fits screen instead of an annoyingly narrow box?

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