write like you need it to survive

1) From BLDGBLOG, a post entitled "Nakatomi Space", which starts by describing Die Hard as "one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years" and just keeps getting more fascinating and awesome from there, including diagnosing in architectural terms just where the Die Hard sequels went wrong. Man, now I really want to see the architecturally appropriate versions....

2) I just finished reading Mary Gentle's Ash: A Secret History (in its undivided 1100-page glory-or-something), and ... has anyone else read this? Could someone please come help me figure out what I think of it in the comments? I'm pretty sure I liked the ending, I think I just wish it had gotten there about four hundred pages faster.


This entry is crossposted at http://dsudis.livejournal.com/543676.html.

And on her eighth day in a new fandom, Dira looked around and saw that it was good, and then started plotting kidfic.

MP3 copy of the Guyz Nite Die Hard song (now with new 4th verse): on sendspace for your listening pleasure.


In tangentially-related news, I now have two Die Hard stories in progress on top of the one I've already posted, which adds up to three. If I write four stories in a fandom it gets its own page on my website. This always causes me a ridiculous amount of anxiety; at the moment I am determined not to write any more Die Hard after these two stories so it stays a Miscellaneous fandom, but then what about Yuletide? What happens when I get around to rewatching the second and third movies? /o\



For anyone who is thinking, about now, that librarianship is exactly where I belong: yes. Yes it is.

Never mind Bruce Willis, I just realized that I have been reading and writing slash about BRANDON FROM GALAXY QUEST. OH GOD.

This is one of those moments when I'm really, really glad #2 Brother doesn't have a LiveJournal and doesn't read mine. (Unless he secretly does, in which case I AM REALLY REALLY SORRY AND YOU SHOULD PROBABLY STOP READING NOW, I REALLY DID NOT MEAN TO SLASH YOUR FAVORITE ACTION HERO FROM YOUR ALL-TIME FAVORITE MOVIES. REALLY. VERY SORRY.)

Ahem. Oh look, Dira wrote Die Hard slash, you are all dying of shock. Many thanks to emilyray for being wonderfully if inexplicably enthusiastic about this given she has never seen any of the movies, iuliamentis for being game as always, and lamardeuse and missmollyetc for actual beta.


Live Free or Die Hard. McClane/Farrell. PG-13. 1,405 words.
It's Holly's birthday.


( The One You're With )