Alyc Helms's Blog, page 8

I’m sad that the camera doesn’t pick up all the gradients of blue and purple. In real life, it looks like octopus tentacles sprouted from my head. Also, my timing is totally off. It’ll be faded by the Nebulas, and I’ll need to redo for Wiscon.

Still… DEEPSEA DARK SPACE UNICORN HAIR!!!

I'm sad that the camera doesn't pick up all the gradients of blue and purple. In real life, it looks like octopus tentacles sprouted from my head. Also, my timing is totally off. It'll be faded by the Nebulas, and I'll need to redo for Wiscon.

Still... DEEPSEA DARK SPACE UNICORN HAIR!!!

“Words signify man’s refusal to accept the world as it is.” Walter Kaufmann

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” George Orwell

To be filled in later. Totally yoinked from  boosette  

[This space for rent.]

Dear Yulewriter,

I want to thank you, first and foremost, for writing me a story at all. You're awesome, and I promise I'm laid back and easy to please. Write a story that you want to write; write a story that makes you happy, too. Basically as long as you don't deliberately use yuletide for trolling (ie, writing from the DO NOT WANT list on purpose), you're golden.

[here are things I like a lot]


[here is my yu...

Dear Author, First and foremost, thank you thank you thank you for volunteering to write for me. I will try to give you sparks for ideas, but I’m a pretty easy cookie to please, so if you had a fic you really wanted to write that doesn’t quite fit with any of my suggestions, please write the fic you wanted to write. That tends to work out better for everyone in the end.

I have a few general squees and squicks that I figure I’ll cover at the beginning here.

Squees: Porn that is in-character. I...

 Last night I dreamed I was a space rock star. I had a sleek, silver space shuttle and a lovable group of misfits that I collected to make up my band. There was an androgynous J-Pop star, a German Death-Metal lady (they had a romance sub-plot), an android made of glowing blue nanobots who was trying to understand the connection between math, music, and love (guess who I had a romance sub-plot with), an adorable Latina urchin girl who was an undocumented immigrant - lots of hijinks around...

Last night I dreamed I was a space rock star. I had a sleek, silver space shuttle and a lovable group of misfits that I collected to make up my band. There was an androgynous J-Pop star, a German Death-Metal lady (they had a romance sub-plot), an android made of glowing blue nanobots who was trying to understand the connection between math, music, and love (guess who I had a romance sub-plot with), an adorable Latina urchin girl who was an undocumented immigrant – lots of hijinks around sneak...

I spent a chunk of last night and all my morning lie-in-bed time trying to compose my recommendation for Netflix's Orange is the New Black. I finally gave up because the more enthusiastic I am about something, the more I lose any ability for persuasive language and just want to pound my 'this is fucking awesome' into other people's skulls.

Language. What's up with that? Where's my telepathic rail gun?

So I just want to say... Orange is the New Black. Fucking amazing. Ignore the horrible trailer...

I spent a chunk of last night and all my morning lie-in-bed time trying to compose my recommendation for Netflix’s Orange is the New Black. I finally gave up because the more enthusiastic I am about something, the more I lose any ability for persuasive language and just want to pound my ‘this is fucking awesome’ into other people’s skulls.

Language. What’s up with that? Where’s my telepathic rail gun?

So I just want to say… Orange is the New Black. Fucking amazing. Ignore the horrible trailers....

A caveat: I am a strong believer in the necessity of the presumption of innocence. However, I have recently witnessed first-hand how in some cases, the presumption of innocence spurs a criminalization of the victim. This needs to stop.

As some of you know, I just got off jury duty for a several-weeks-long domestic violence case. The defendant was a white, middle-aged professional male. The victim was a Chinese woman who was married to another man, but had carried on a long term relationship wi...