Tricked!
Dear achariya, that was a dirty trick! Now I have Carameldansen on the brain, and I am seriously thinking of ways to get the MP3. *facepalms* Oh CRAP.

*cheers*
Looks like kevinsensei will finally rejoin us here in Japan. Are you sure you want to be an April Fool, Kevin? *laughs* Anyway, let me know what you're doing and if you need help settling in again!

Livejournal
Apparently there is a Livejournal Content Strike. It starts at 9am on Friday and goes to 9am Saturday, I suppose. *sighs* Considering how dependent on Livejournal I am for my social circle, I'm not sure whether I want to join it.

My F-List Is Unique
Wow, all the votes for PWP and smut. You guys. *chuckling* Is my smut really all that hot? I definitely remember someone else telling me it wasn't.

Musing About Plagiarism, aka "When Is It Re-Telling, And When Is It Copying?"
Both this post (thanks to issen4 for the link) and this one talk about the line between fanfiction and plagiarism. Reading the posts (and doing a bit of link-surfing on my own) reminded me of Planeswalker. There are similarities, the biggest one being that the book in the post was originally a fanfic dusted off to become an original. It touched a nerve, and we all know what Ai does when she's looking to procrastinate.

( About 1000 words worth of soapboxing under the cut. HnG spoilers for the insei examination arc and beyond. )

Look At The Time
Good lord, I need to stop soapboxing. It's 4pm and I've done nothing but watch Hungry Heart Wild Striker all day (except for this entry and some LJ comments). I have in my hands Stein on Writing, delivered today--I'll be reading that before settling down with more background work. It IS my day off, though, and I do need a bit of a rest, so I shouldn't feel so bad about not working on PW or anything else.

ETA: One Million Words
thephoenixboy, considering I can do 1000 words of meta on a semi-regular basis at the drop of a hat, and I've been writing offline for years, I suppose I'm closer to one million words than I originally thought?

ETA2: Thank god for IRC archives. Now I can get the final three episodes in two hours instead of nine.