Random ARRRRR!

moreteadk!! Look at what I found - The Pirate Captain's Livejournal!! Sadly abandoned in 2004, but he probably got too interested in Adventures to sit around and write his journal.

A snippet... The Pirate Captain on "how to adopt the perfect Pirate Stance."  I love the last one particularly. How many romance books have you seen with this pose?

1. Keep the feet apart to lend yourself a dramatic 'pirate of action' pose. I use a protractor to get my legs at exactly 55º - any less and I'd look like I was waiting for a bus, any more and I'd risk doing myself a mischief.

2. Push the crotch forward. ( Read more... )

I've read of The Pirates! books now and I really can't recommend them highly enough. I've perverted converted moreteadk to them... Who's next?

The new origslash_news is out. If you aren't signed up for this, you should be.

I got one! TWO! *beams*

Being Human

Being Human series one finished this evening and WOAH! What a great finale episode, great last two final episodes actually.  I've really really enjoyed this show. I mean - a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost all living in a flat--in BRISTOL of all places--they could have played it as a sit-com and had it done for laughs but they didn't.  I hope to god that they continue the series, I'm pretty sure they will, but they'll need to think of a new plotline, because if they stick to what they are doing, it's going to get tired very soon. ( Read more... )

 If you have missed it, then catch up with it, I'm pretty sure it's online in lots of places. Seriously. It's good.

Best livejournal story of the week goes to alex_beecroft with this:

So, I was coming out of church this morning and the vicar stopped me with the words "I've just been looking at your website. Gay romance fiction, eh?"

I gave a sort of shrug and smile as if to say "oh, thanks for being interested!" while thinking 'OK Reverend (and by extension the entire church of St. Andrews), now's your chance to show your quality.'

"That's right," I said.

"I must try one," said he. "I'm a big fan of the Age of Sail."

Just. Dies. "I'm a big fan of the Age of Sail."  PRICELESS. I admonished her for not having a copy of False Colors with her to whip out of her bag to press upon him.

I sent out two submissions today, one to Future Destination and one to Starbooks. Both stories had sold to Haworth for two anthologies but of course--mine timing being classic it went down, so time to put those puppies to work--hopefully!

Just worked out that I've read 41 books so far this year. Eep.