Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff...

When I got up this morning, I thought I'd lost an hour. Had I really been lazing in bed so long?

Then I realized it wasn't just me. Everyone lost an hour. (I really don't like this time-changing business... I don't think there's any point to it.)

And what a snowy world it is out there today.

Oh those hyphenated names...

This made me laugh: huaband/wife names which ought not to be hyphenated. Really.

It's the verbal equivalent of NSFW.

About the ratings...

Once again I am musing over a chronic problem: How to rate a story for sexual content.

I've read the rules and they don't make much sense to me - not enough to be predictive. Usually, to be on the safe side, I tend to call any story NC-17 is I put any graphic sex in it at all. And probably most of them are NC-17, by any standards. Except I'm not even sure of that. Even when I write PWPs, my stories tend to be character-and-theme oriented.

So what do I do with a story that is mostly talk, but some of it's talk about sex, and there's talk about sex acts, and at least one sex act depicted (maybe more on a rewrite), and none of it's particularly like what I see other people writing, in terms of sexual content. It's about feelings and denial of feelings, and it's a Torchwood story, which means it isn't very conventional anyway, and there's references to m/m sex and f/f sex and m/f sex. It's about both a love triangle and a threesome.

So... how do I judge? How do you judge what ratings to put on your stories? What do you expect when you see "R" or "NC-17" or "PC-13"? (I'm not even asking about the British ratings because they confuse me even further!)

Any advice would be appreciated!

Wanna see snow? I can show you snow...

It has been snowing here a lot lately. Today was the first day after a huge snowfall; but it might be said to be the first day after a series of huge snowfalls that have been going on for four months now.

It's pretty, but we're tired of it.

Might as well show you the prettiness, though.

Pictures all taken during the past week:

Monday: it snowed.

1. ( Man walks dog... )

2. ( The trees by Patterson Creek... )

Tuesday: It stopped snowing... for a while.

3. ( Bank and Third... )

4. ( A house on Third Avenue... )

5. ( Walking home along Third... )

Today: after the deluge...

6. ( Outside my apartment... )

7. ( The only ploughed road... )

Tomorrow things should be back to normal. Winter normal.