a turquoise flower

Awesomely awesome links/stuffies:

+ GO READ THIS WONDERFUL BOOK: The Girl Who Would Be King
The first eight chapters are online/free. And the book will be published um...sometime? I don't really know. But if you like strong femal characters, check it out!

+ Kink_bingo is starting up and while I've not been comfortable enough with my own writing of kinky stories yet to fully sign up, the fanworks produced by awesome people are awesome! Including these essays which I've found informative/fun to read:
Ramp-up Essay: Making Fanworks For Kinks That Aren't Yours, or, "Oh God, How Do I Do THAT Square?"
Ramp-up Post: Let's writing on the body!
Ramp-Up Essay: From Kinky Fanworks to Kinky Practice

+ Also, I've been trying to get back into the groove of reccing because, once upon a time, I did love to rec the awesome stories I read, but then college got in the way and once you let a month go by of not reccing or whatnot, you don't feel so bad about it having been two years since the last update. The reccing journal I (try to) maintain is here on LJ and mirrored on Dreamwidth too.

(yes - I know I overuse the word awesome. It's a character flaw.)