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| I CAN HAZ ADVICE TIMEZ ABOUT CHICAGO NAO? |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|07:42 pm] |
I honestly do not know why I wrote that in LOLCAT, livejournal, but I did.
ANYWAY, I am headed to Chicago for a magical 6 days. Many of these days will be spent at the American Library Association Annual conference (where I will be taking over as the chair of a committee and trying not to have a TOTAL FREAKOUT over it) but I will still have time for sight-seeing and STUFFING MAH FACE WITH FOOD.
I know for sure that I'm going to the Harry Potter Experience, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Leather Archives & Museum. (that's the best sentence I ever typed.) And I have all the guidebooks, etc. but now I'm soliciting any Chicago must-haves (ESPECIALLY THE PART ABOUT STUFFING MAH FACE) from y'all.
I'm staying at the Hilton Chicago Downtown, because it's the conference hotel, but I have a CTA card for a week, a best friend to go exploring with, and no trouble at all rambling around, being a tourist, going out of my way, getting lost, and starting over.
Hit me with your best shot! :) |
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| help, FL! this is a question about smallvile, believe it or not ... (old school!) |
[May. 2nd, 2009|08:51 pm] |
I have a teenage employee who is about to graduate who is totally obsessed with Smallville. And yes, this is constantly weird to me, 'cause I'm thinking about how much I enjoy a good Superman/Lex Luthor story while she draws hearts around Tom Welling and Erica Durance. (really. her work password, which I have because I am her supervisor, is clark&!lois92) When she found out I KNEW about Smallville and used to watch it constantly she was blown away. When I told her Lex was one of my favorites she was like "LEX LUTHOR? BUT HE'S THE BAD GUY!" When I told her they had renewed the show for one more season, she screamed so loud people from another department came to check. She was like, "Now I will have it to keep me company during my first year at school." Awww, baby!fen.
Hehe, ANYWAY, the point of the story is, as you can tell she is one of the sweetest and dearest girls around and, for her graduation I'd like to get her a "Property of Smallville High" or a "Daily Planet" t-shirt or, possibly both. I just have NO IDEA where I should go shopping online for said material. Obviously, I'd like good material and a good vendor.
Basically for the non tl;dr version: Anyone have experience or shopping suggestions for Smallville material, especially, but not exclusively, clothing?
Now I'm gonna go read some of my old CLex classics! :) |
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Poughkeepsie: Veronica Mars fic for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) picfor1000 |
[Mar. 3rd, 2009|11:18 pm] |
Holy mother, it's my first fanfic (besides yuletide) in YEARS. Looookeee here! I kicked this around for a long time, I tried writing a story where Veronica Mars has taken over the X Files at the FBI and meets Spike in a bar! (no, really) I tried writing a story from the show The Big Bang Theory, which I spent a weekend watching in its entirety, but I couldn't get the voices. I tried writing a story where House wants to go to work for Undiagnosed Diseases Program at the National Institute of Health so he can avoid his big gay love for Wilson, but it never gelled. I tried writing about Lorelai on her "honeymoon" with Chris, but I didn't know that period in GGcanon well enough. I tried writing something about Harry, Ron, and Hermione chasing the horcruxes but that turned into a giant epic that was somehow also becoming a Bring Back Black fic. WHEW! (maybe I need to write all these stories?)
FINALLY I came back to dear Veronica Mars and went back to an old piece that's been sitting on my hard drive for years and punched it up and loosened it on the world. It had a continutation, but it shifted out of second person POV and, well, just never finished. BUT THIS DID. So, here it is, at long last. Whew! :)
Title: Poughkeepsie
Author: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fairy_tale_echo
Fandom: Veronica Mars
Spoilers/Timeline: through S1, slightly AU for who is at the door.
Summary: You should know better.
Notes: Logan angsty!fic. Written for the picfor1000 challenge. Thanks to slodwick for having the party and being flexible with deadlines!
Picture Prompt
( When you were almost eleven, you thought there was no way for you life to get worse. ) |
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| Yuletide Reveal! |
[Jan. 1st, 2009|02:11 pm] |
Wow, so this was an amazing Yuletide for me. (I'll probably be posting my stories here later today, just for archiving.) The main story I wrote got as many comments as anything I have ever written, which for a "small fandom" challenge is pretty good. My main story was Being Roger Maris from Bull Durham, written for spuffyduds. Some specifics: Trey Wilson, the legendary character actor who played Coach Riggins, really did die less than a year after the movie was made and it was Ron Shelton who gave me the idea of Visalia. I volunteered to write this because I had just rewatched the movie and because of the rumor that broke this year that they were in talks to make a sequel to this, wherein Crash manages a major league team that Annie and Nuke own. Annie and Nuke own this team because they ARE MARRIED. And though I raged about this at my personal blog, only fanon could make me feel better. Naturally, the possibility of the people who made this movie I love COMPLETELY UNDOING EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD ABOUT IT filled me with rage. And, of course, fanfic exists so we can rebel against things like this. Sooo...
I really struggled with this story, so all the positive feedback was really gratifying. See, the thing is: I feel like I don't know a lot about baseball. (hence all the research mentioned in one of my other Yuletide posts.) I love this movie like MAD and, well, 2008 was very much a year of loving a man who loved baseball, so I was hoping those things would be enough to make something seem believable. During my romance with this guy, I called him my own personal Crash Davis, so for a while I really toyed with making the story from Crash's POV and talking about how Crash loves sabermetrics (because wouldn't he JUST?) but then I realized it was Annie doing all the talking in my head. 'Cause guess what? That guy WASN'T Crash Davis. But, maybe, I am discovering, I can be Annie Savoy. (is that cheesy?) ANYWAY, thank you so much to everyone that gave this story love and attention, I really needed it, not just because I was afraid the story sucked but because writing it reminded me of who I am and what I want, and I hope that's what everyone saw in it. (I know, that's stupid, but...) We all deserve to wear white and we all deserve partners that make us say oh my and laugh with us over cereal. I won't settle for anyone's second best this year. I will wait for my *real* Crash Davis.
Then I took a pinch-hit just so I could write a Mad Men story, so I quickly banged out Three Presents Sally Draper Never Received (And Two She Did) for zarahemla, because I am compulsively addicted to that format and I think Mad Men is built for it. I came off a lot harder on Betty than I meant to. I love Betty lots, really! I don't think Don would be "the perfect" parent, but I think he's a lot more aware of what's happening with his children than it seems on the surface. Moreover, I think he understands what it's like to feel trapped and smothered AND he's willing to, he WANTS to, change and break out of that. I wanted *that* to be Dick Whitman's legacy. I hope that someday Sally does call and that he tells her the truth.
In all, it was a FABULOUS yuletide ... so much great stuff to read, so much fun. Thanks to everyone who wrote and participated and commented. (especially claudia603 and t_lyrical, who I now know wrote stories *just for me*, thank you extra!) Let's all get together and do it again next year, OK? ;) |
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| Yuletide 2008 Recs! |
[Dec. 28th, 2008|02:05 pm] |
yuletide has been a real joy, as usual. I'm so glad I did it this year, I came close to missing it, but this is really my favorite challenge that I can participate in. (my favorite that I can't is the Remix.) Anyway, thanks to all writers and rec-cers and the organizers, of course. The past few years I *should* have done a recs post, so here it is this year instead!
I got *two* stories this year, la squee, and they were fantastic. One was my long sought after (every year I have asked for this) Gone with the Wind story: Clean Slates was seriously written by someone who, like, reads my brain and knows everything I like. It is *also* a great, sharp, lovely character study of Scarlett and Rhett that nails the glorious push-pull of love and fear they have with each other. The other was some totally cute, sweet, romantic, and dorky Gonna Be Me from Tropic Thunder and it has the tone (and the canon!slash) totally dead-on. Get on and read 'em!! THANK YOU, YULETIDE AUTHORS, if you're reading. You made it a doubly-lovely season for me, and I appreciate it!
Meanwhile, here's a handful of some other recs ...
9 recs in 7 fandoms, including, Archie Comics, 3:10 to Yuma, The Breakfast Club, Mad Men, Annie on My Mind, Tropic Thunder ( 2008 Yuletide ) |
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| yuletide |
[Dec. 20th, 2008|11:33 am] |
So, Yuletide is all uploaded. I just barely broke 2,000 words, which always makes me feel good. Other than that, as in every single year past, I am filled with loathing, self-doubt, and shame over said story: as well as the conviction I have created something unbelievable within the canon, unbelievable in general, and just plain bad on top of that. (OK, I don't think I felt that the year I wrote the How I Met Your Motherfic.) Ugh. Gross. I wish I had never written this story. I wish only my recipent could read it and then it would go away. I hope that's actually what happens. I hate this part. |
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| dear yuletide writer, |
[Nov. 12th, 2008|12:34 pm] |
Oh, it's the most magical and nerve-wracking time of year, yuletide, when all of fandom gets together and starts pulling their hair out in glee while they fret over writing obscure fanfic. Delish. And you, dear reader, are my yuletide writer. Thanks so much for participating in this and for taking my request and pulling your hair out over it. I really appreciate it so much. So, if you're looking for some more info about "what I like" you can just take a look around this journal, my user info, and some of my fic. For something more specific about my requests, well ...
( I like )
In short, I kinda love and then what happened? fic, but also love details and backstories and alternate possibilities and character sketches and things that capture tone and mood. I LIKE EVERYTHING, IS WHAT I AM SAYING. And I know I'll like what you write for me. Don't pull your hair out too much, OK? (but a little is expected. It is yuletide, after all! (; |
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[Oct. 14th, 2008|08:12 pm] |
Dear House,
That was the gayest thing I EVER SAW IN MY WHOLE LIFE.
Dude, thank you.
xoxoxo! |
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| Jim uses Battlestar Galatica to torment Dwight ... |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|12:22 pm] |
So, this is Jim' attempt to bait Dwight into wasting time at work. I had to transcribe the dialogue because I was laughing so hard I was almost crying.
It's from episode 5x2, Business Ethics, which was written by Ryan Koh and that you can view at Hulu, which is what I used. And you should watch it because the transcription simply does not properly get across how good Rainn Wilson and John Krasinski are in this scene, both audibly and physically. I know there's no realistic way anyone in Dunder Mifflin would STILL think they are being filmed and that sometimes the awkwardness is so bad you have to look away? But the performances, I think, are what keeps the show tight, even when it's weak.
Oh, Jim and Dwight, I love you so. Spoiler cut, I guess, even though it doesn't reveal anything plotty.
( It's about this guy named Dumbledore Calrissian ) |
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| David Foster Wallace |
[Sep. 13th, 2008|08:34 pm] |
I just read David Foster Wallace killed himself yesterday. That really, really bums me out.
I know it's easy to dismiss Infinite Jest as hipster, self-indulgent bullshit, but I really loved that crazy, sprawling, ambitious, original book.
Also, I think hurricanes are the scariest, worst, most upsetting things on the planet. I am, perhaps, biased by Katrina, but I feel it anyway. I will NEVER live anywhere near where one can occur again. My thoughts to Texas, I hope everyone is as safe as can be.
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| An Open Letter to Rob Thomas, You Know, The Writer, |
[Mar. 13th, 2008|09:52 pm] |
Hi Rob Thomas!
So, word broke today that you're working on the pilot for a "contemporary spin-off" of ... Beverly Hills, 90210. First off, what does that even mean? Steve and Donna Martin Graduates! and Brian Austin Green are...the parents? We catch up with them in middle age? Anyway, that's not the point.
The point is this.
First, thanks for Veronica Mars. That show brought me two solid years of fabulousness, and I can't thank you enough for throwing Veronica out into the "kick-ass heroine" pool. And, hey, *I* still love Logan Echolls.
But I was wondering if you remember what you did BEFORE you were a super famous TV writer?? Because, see, I'm a librarian and I sure do.
I know this seems insignificant now, but in 1996 when you published Rats Saw God ... that book changed the face of contemporary YA literature. No, really, it did. You saved the teenage boy's voice! You reminded the publishing world that boys read books too and that, GASP, girls didn't mind reading books with male narrators either. I know, I know, this seems like nothing. But it was so important. And, here's the thing. The reason Rats Saw God did that? Was because it was a fucking awesome, brilliant, wonderful YA novel that pulled no punches about what it means to be a teenager. I can still get any kid I know to read it by just reading them the first line. And they still love it, still FEEL Steve so much, so deeply.
You published this book at the beginning of a great renaissance in young adult literature. Within a few years, the ALA would launch the Printz Award, acknowledging that YA had fully freed itself from children's literature. And a slew of genre-busting-mind-opening books would pour forth from authors new and experienced. Rats Saw God was a book that helped push that shift, that helped "disturb the universe" (much like the book that most consider the starting point for YA lit.) and say that teenagers needed (WANTED!) to see their lives reflected in fiction, that they wanted to read about a world outside that of puppies and simple answers.
Rob Thomas, I know that the world of young adult literature can't offer you Emmys and WGA nominations and gushing TV reviews and TWoP recaps and icons. But...we NEED you. Young adult literature needs you, Rob Thomas. Please don't forget us. It's not too late! I know you've got a novel itching under your Hollywood hands. Veronica knows it too!
Write something that disturbs the universe again. Please come home!
Lots of Love,
-A Grateful Librarian WHO MISSES YOU! |
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| Help me FL! Be My Anti-Valentine: Lyrics & Poems for the Emo Teen Inside Us All... |
[Feb. 5th, 2008|10:41 pm] |
So! I am throwing my teenage patrons a "Love Stinks" party. I know, wouldn't it have been fun in high school? So, cross fingers, this should be a well attended event. (that means, like, 20 people. Which, for a teen program at my library is, ya know, HUGE!) We have tons of fun decoration ideas and will be making anti-valentine's and magnets, etc. It's my first BIG teen event and everyone else on the library staff not just in my department AND my co-workers hate teenagers and want everything I do with them to fail. (this might be slight hyperbole, but the real problem is that it actually FEELS this way.)
So, what I need now are some totally ZOMG intense!!!11 lyrics about breaking up and broken hearts and how love is all an illusion and you should just stay single and etc. etc. etc. stuff that I can use on cut-outs for the cards they're making and to decorate.
Emo! Bandom! BRING IT! Classic! Country! BRING IT!!! I want all your favorite lyrics/poems/you name it.
Especially bandom because I know I have bandom people on my list (oh, hai thar, couldbeyourlife and luna_k!) and because those are lyrics my target demographic is going to recognize.
So, whatcha got to depress me and a bunch of 13-17 year olds??
(I'll even post party pictures if, you know, anyone shows up...) |
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| If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it. |
[Jan. 22nd, 2008|11:34 pm] |
Heath Ledger was probably the first male that my male best friend (at the tender age of 16) looked at and felt powerfully sexually attracted to. Heath Ledger was, in so many ways, the "ding-ding" that told my best friend in no uncertain terms he was gay.
We'd tease about him for hours. I know that my friend found relief in being able to just TALK about celebrities and cute actors the way straight people take for granted every day.
"Oh, PermHead McPermy," I'd taunt "he gets one more perm and his hair is going to fall out!"
"Shut up, his hair is naturally wavy!" he'd defend.
"Ooooh, Knight's Tale! Way to wow us with your monotone and unmoving eyebrows!" I scoffed.
"Just you wait, someday, you'll see what he can do!" He swore.
"Well, here it is, the night before Oscar nominations. I guess I owe you an apology."
"No, not really. I mean, I did always love him. But I never thought he'd be nominated for an Oscar. Well, not for playing a gay cowboy, anyway."
And, oh, how we laughed.
So, Heath Ledger was an actor, an actor who was just getting interesting, I guess, but to me and E. he was so, so much more. He was a common lexicon, a world of possibility and a secret language of normalcy, the ever-present hope that, at any minute, your favorite Hollywood hunk could turn around surprise you with something that mattered, deeply, in your life.
RIP, Heath Ledger.
And thank you. |
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| Blog for Choice Day, 2008 |
[Jan. 18th, 2008|01:24 am] |
Tuesday is the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. And, in celebration, for the third year in a row NARAL is asking bloggers to participate in "Blog For Choice Day." The theme, in this election year, is to blog about "why it's important to vote pro-choice."
I did this last year at my personal (i.e. non-fandom) blog as well as posting about it here. Writing about my pro-choice feelings was a really great experience. (Of course, there was some controversy, especially after I attracted the worst kind of troll, the concern troll. YAY!)
So, naturally, I have to do it again!
I encourage all of you to spread the word on your FL and to any non-LJ-bloggers you know, so we can again flood the blogosphere with progressive, feminist voices. And, of course, y'all should head over to NARAL's site to sign up and participate! (and be sure to give me a link to your blog if you do!) |
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| a belated yuletide revelation... |
[Jan. 6th, 2008|12:19 pm] |
So, I always miss the yuletide reveal, BUT this year I at least have a good excuse (which is actually the same excuse as last year, actually) and it's that I was all wrapped up in seeing my boyfriend again. This year it was the first time since August! SO, needless to say it has been delightful and distracting. But I thought I would spare a moment or two to try catching up with Yuletide and to reveal my story. I know you're all waiting with bells on, teehee, sooo... ((drumroll))
Title: Prestidigitation
Fandom: E.L. Konigsburg's The View From Saturday
Feedback: Um, yes, of course, if you're at all familiar with this fandom and you read this at all, I will love you forever.
Notes: I am only playing, E.L. Konigsburg did all the hard work here. Takes place in the future of this universe. Dearest tiscwslabmuz walked me through this, as she usually does.
Written for: elucreh as part of that monster, Yuletide 2007.
Summary: We are a chain unbroken. Watch closely, it's magic.
It turns out that when guys like Ham Knapp want to gay-bash you, they care more about the fact that you love musical theater than the fact you had a girlfriend.
That's right, I wrote fic for kid!lit. Hehe. It was a challenge that left me pulling my hair out and wondering what I'd signed up for, but alas, such is the description of Yuletide. Not only did elucreh actually like it and leave me a nice comment, my one Yuletide dream, but more than one person actually read and reviewed it which, believe you me I was not expecting and it TOTALLY made my universe. In all, another successful, and angst-tastic, Yuletide season. Let's get together and do it again next year, eh?
What did you guys write? |
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| it's (finally!) a yuletide celebration! |
[Dec. 26th, 2007|11:19 pm] |
Yes, all the angst and suffering and head-bashing that composed another year of yuletide has made it all worth it now that the 2000+ stories in fandoms you never knew existed (and can't live without) have gone live.
First, I got a lovely and atmospheric and tense and wonderful present, the story The Deeds of Mercy from the fandom 3:10 to Yuma. I command you all to go read it right now!! Yuletide Santa, if you are peeking in to read this, I want to say thank you again, it was really a great story I've read three times now, and it just takes me instantly into canon and reminds me why I loved it to begin with. Thank you so much for writing it!
AND!! Not only did my recipient like their present, but they left me awesome feedback, thus breaking my streak! WHOOOOT! Also, I then went to my recipient's journal and found that their "Dear Yuletide Santa" letter (which I had never seen before) almost perfectly reflected what I wrote. (at least, I think so.) So, I am a happy, happy camper.
I can't wait to read myself into a stupor. Bring the recs, y'all! ;)
But, really, all my requests (save one, my ever unfulfilled desire for Gone with the Windfic) were "granted" by talented authors for people other than I, as I have found tons of Hot Fuzz and Eastern Promises fic and it's been wonderful. That's the best part of Yuletide, isn't it? When you end up feeling like you've gotten all these secret and original presents in the form of fic?
(oh, and if you haven't read The Fearless Moral Inventory of Milhouse Van Houten [well worth every single one of its 62 comments] and Strangers in a Strange Land [a Northern Exposure crossover-explosion that explains everything that is lovely about fandom in general] you're MISSING OUT!!) |
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| But what are your thoughts on yaoi? (no, I have a serious question I need help with...) |
[Nov. 13th, 2007|05:47 pm] |
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Hahaha, but I have longed to use that subject line.
So, here's what I need help with, FL, if any of you know anything about manga/anime. As some of you know, I am the head of youth services for a mid-sized library. In my last four months of employment, I've kicked my program's teen services into overdrive, as they didn't really have a teen services program before that. The local high school anime club has been attending and they all made suggestions about what they'd like to see.
Today I was working with one of my employees on the monthly AV ordering and saw that one girl had requested a DVD called Gravitation which was, of course, anime. I thought it might be something new and worthwhile to add, so I did some googling and discovered that it's yaoi. In and of itself, this is not worth noting. (although it did crack me up. 'Cause, you know.)
But I have to decide if this is the right series to be spending our limited AV budget on. Is this a "quality" series or can I do better? (and I don't mean, like, Naruto or Fullmetal Alchemist, we already have those. I'm talking something a little less familiar but that would still appeal to teenagers.) Is ANYONE familiar with this series? Can you discuss it as either a manga or the anime series? Is it worth it?
Or, conversely, can you make other recommendations? |
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| The Incident: How I Met Your Mother fic |
[Sep. 8th, 2007|09:09 pm] |
As previously stated, I am in the process of moving all my fic from random places over to the ElJay. This is something I wrote for Yuletide 2005. This fandom remains so rare that it still doesn't have a category on Fanfiction.net. (there's an LJ com, though: himym_fic.) But, over the last two years, bit by bit, I've received several nice comments on it. I can't imagine there's anyone, anywhere, that would be interested in this that hasn't already read it. But here it is anyway. I do kinda love it.
Title: The Incident
Fandom: How I Met Your Mother
Pairing: Ted/Barney, baby!
Timeline/Spoilers: Let's say through S1, since that's when it was written.
Disclaimer: Bays & Thomas and CBS own, no profit for I, etc. etc.
Feedback: Gosh, that'd be great! If you recommend this anywhere, please let me know so I can squee in private.
( It really started the night we took Robin to MacLaren's Mega-Margarita Monday ) |
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| Five Times Lorelai Married Luke (GilmoreFic) |
[Aug. 29th, 2007|11:54 pm] |
So, in my never-ending quest to round up all my fanfic in one place as part of the far-away dream of someday, someway participating in Remix, I bring you yet another five things fic I was powerless to resist, in the fandom I can't seem to stop writing in! Gotta fix the end of the show, after all! :)
Title: Five Times Lorelai Married Luke
Timeline: post-show, naturally.
Feedback: of every stripe is cherished and adored. On the off-chance this is recommended somewhere, please let me know.
Disclaimer: sadly not mine, ASP owns Lorelai, I just love her.
( five ways to live happily ever after ) |
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| Much Unseen: Friday Night Lights fic for twicetoldfandom |
[Aug. 27th, 2007|01:18 am] |
Title: Much Unseen
Fandom: Friday Night Lights
Spoilers: takes place the summer after S1.
Pairing/Characters: It's all about Tyra Collette. Tyra/Landry if you squint.
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing, etc.
Feedback: This is my first FNL fic, so be honest. It's un-betaed so all help is appreciated. All kinds of feedback is worshiped and adored, if you recommend this anywhere, please let me know so I can squee privately.
Notes: This was written for twicetoldfandom, which means it was inspired by an image that other authors wrote stories about as well. This was my image, entitled Highway. This is my love letter to, well, the impact books can have when they find the right reader at the right time. And, I guess, selfishly, this is my love letter to my recently earned MLIS and, of course, some of the books that matter most to me.
( That summer, the books changed everything for Tyra ) |
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