Hey all! I've made a couple of syndication feeds for various Gaia blogs and twitters, and realized I ought to link them here so that more people can friend them than just me. ;)

gaia_artistblog - feed of http://gaia-artists.blogspot.com/
gaia_devs - feed of http://twitter.com/gaia_devs
fin_twitter - feed of http://twitter.com/Fin101 (kind of dull, but sometimes he links to previews of things)

And I didn't make this one, but it couldn't hurt to mention:
gaia_rss - feed of Gaia's announcements

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I am sick to death of all the overdone token eating disorder fics that seem to leap out from behind every fandom lamp-post. I mean, I get it - eating disorders are srs business, you know this, you suffer from one or have a friend who suffers from one, so you want to show the world what horrors lie in wait for those who starve themselves, etc. I'm not personally a fan of the whole ED genre because I very seldom find it done well, but if you feel absolutely compelled to turn your favourite character into an obsessive calorie counter or b/p-er, please bear in mind:

1. It's not always about being thin. Not everybody who has an eating disorder looks in the mirror and sees a grotesquely fat individual staring back at them. For some people it's about control, an escape from an uncontrollable world through something that's solid and definite. For others, it's self-punishment. Denying yourself food is brutally destructive and painful. A lot of eating-disordered girls have been sexually assaulted, and it can become their defense mechanism - making themselves as skeletal and sexually unattractive as possible keeps them safe from further attack. Some people are hurting and just want their bodies to reflect how fragile they feel. It can be all of these reasons, or none. There are all kinds of motivations for eating-disordered behaviour. It doesn't have to be about looking like the cover-girl of a Vogue magazine.

Also, I would like to draw fandom's attention to the fact that said Vogue aesthetic is a cultural thing. 'Skinny' has only very recently become synonymous with 'attractive' in the eyes of pop culture. People far removed from this culture are unlikely to be convinced that weighing 45 kilos will make them beautiful. Hermione Granger probably isn't overly fussed about having a supermodel's body. Legolas probably doesn't look at his reflection in puddles and go 'oh man, I wish I looked more like Mary-Kate Olsen.' Lucy Pevensie isn't going to adopt 'bones are beautiful' as her motto for life.

2. Anorexia is not the only way. The 'perfect anorexic' doesn't really exist. Real anorexics don't live off air and water - their daily intake is insufficient and highly regimented, but they still eat. Also, they fluctuate. They fuck up, they decide to 'get better' and then relapse, and sometimes they'll eat a lot more or less than other times. Bulimic behaviour is even less predictable - they are usually (and I'm generalizing) much less regimented in pretty much everything. They're likely to be more openly out of control. Also, middle ground is possible. Not everyone has to be The Most Extreme Anorexic Evar. Ever heard of ED-NOS? Binge-Eating Disorder? There are plenty of ways to have messed-up attitudes to food without subsisting on two cornflakes a day.

3. Cuddles and tearful catharses do not fix eating disorders. The End.

If you're going to answer your own prompt on an anonymous kink meme, you might want to wait more than two minutes between making the prompt and putting up a response. Just so it's not blaringly obvious that you're just putting up your own fic under cover of meme.

For bonus points, make sure you haven't posted the response somewhere else a few weeks before you actually put up the prompt on the kink meme.

All right, guy. When I post to the discussion forum asking for advice on what to do with my current project, I do not expect you to camp in my thread and ignore all my attempts to make conversation in lieu of pimping your own terrible fics. This is made even more frustrating by the fact that you tack generic advice like 'introduce the characters first' to somehow balance out the fact that you spend two block paragraphs chattering about how you've written a crossover in which the heroine of the series hooks up with Captain Marvel, and that makes you a revolutionary.

hi, second community post ever... um, I read a fic, a long time ago, after surfing from Slashing the Doctor. It was a fic where the Doctor had come to the Hub and Ianto was wondering just what had happened between the Doctor and Jack. It was all Ianto POV as far as I know, but I don't know what else happened in it because my computer died before I got to finish and I totally lost it. I just remember that Ianto and Jack were involved and Ianto was wicked jealous, almost to the point of hating the Doctor because Jack seemed so happy to be around him. 

If any one thinks this sounds familiar thanks so much, I've been thinking about this story for a very long time, like... since the begining of 08, so it's not a new story either.

thanks,
Aeryn

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People writing College!AUs or, for that matter, anything with roommates.

( It's not as simple as you seem to think it is... )

Hi, this is my first post to a community. Anyway, i read a multi-part story a long time ago that had Jack,Ianto and the doctor together and Jack was pregnant. One scene I remember is that Jack is locked inside the TARDIS with Owen.The TARDIS isn't letting anyone in because Owen was doing fine by himself. The doctor and Ianto are both worried about Jack. Without thinking about it, the Doctor gives Ianto a kiss to comfort him. Gwen starts yelling at Ianto because Jack is inside having his baby and he is cheating on him but Martha or Tosh slaps her across the face.

Thank you in advanced.

hey I'm looking for a story where Jack comes back after the Year That Never Was to find Ianto and Owen are a couple / friends with benifits.

I don't care what pairing it is by the end, I just want the scenario and reactions stated. thank you!!!!

I have just finished reading 'Complication' by the brilliant tanarian and I was wondering if anyone knew if there is a sequel to it at all? Thank you in adavnce!

The first story is where Ianto goes to an AU and meets Mean!Jack.  Mean!Jack sleeps with anyone he wants because he comes from a powerful family.  Ianto ends up in prison where his only hope of escape is to let Mean!Jack have his wicked way with him.

The second story I'm looking for has a scene where Jack sees Ianto with an OC having sex in an alley.  Ianto explains to him something about bottoming to top (or some such).  I dont think it was a rentboy fiction per se, might have been one part of a multipart fic.

Thanks.

This probably goes without saying, but I hope all of you will keep your reviews and comments on "Half Blood Prince" as general and spoiler-free as possible over at least the next two or three weeks.  Please give everyone a chance to see and enjoy the movie before getting into too many specifics.  I'm sure at some point, many of us will want to debate certain aspects of the series, and this sixth film in particular.  But let's try to control ourselves. 

I have noticed a great deal of restraint in other fandoms on this issue...Star Treck, Transformers, etc., have all been very good about this.  I hope the Harry Potter fandom will be equally thoughtful.

Preaching to the choir is now complete for today.