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Just because I whine about something doesn't mean I want you people to take out your credit cards! *feels silly* Thank you tstar78 for the extra icons and paid time, and rivkat for even more icons. What a pleasant surprise to find in my inbox this afternoon! Just wow. I'll have to do something to thank you both...

I'm updating on a school Mac. It's always strange to make the switch from frankenPC to Mac. Things are all in the wrong place and just wrong, wrong, wrong in general. Also, the monitor just looks odd. How do people use these hideous things?

I was sitting in a lecture on Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept and my thoughts drifted to fic. Specifically, fic as biography.

1) Does the space between writer and appropriated characters prevent fic from being biography? Should it? Is that desirable? Does the space make it more likely that fic will be biographical?

2) Are there any fics written as fictional biography (i.e. The Life and Times of Albus Dumbledore)? How would keeping an explicit biographical goal in mind change the process of writing a fic?

Anyone have interesting thoughts to share on the search for the authentic in fanfiction?