I'm bored.

[conuly]

Entertain me.

Acceptable forms of entertainment: Various fanfics (good), various fanfics (bad), stories of any sort (good or bad), news articles, friendly arguments.

Non-acceptable forms of entertainment: Um... I suppose flamewars. Or anything that ends up with me having spyware on my computer.

Comments

[readerravenclaw.livejournal.com]

I can introduce you to a forum I really, really like. It's not Harry Potter based, it's an everything forum, without any subdivisions at all, and no such thing as going off-topic, but it's populated by intelligent, thoughtful, funny adults (and some older teens) who talk about everything ranging from major, fact-based debates about all the hot politic, religious, social topics, to the latest movies, to personal issues, and so on and so forth. There's lots for everyone. And the really, really nice thing is that the debates are all very focused on facts, on proving your point, on providing links with information to back yourself up. I see it as a mostly liberal board, although that may be because I'm a conservative, but the liberal POV definitely seems to me to be more outspoken than conservative.

The forum is part of Orson Scott Card's site (have you heard of him? He's a big sci-fic author) and it's split into two; one section is stuff that has to do with OSC, the other section is the random section that I've been describing.

Anyway, enough with the intro, let me provide a link:

http://www.hatrack.com/ubb/forum/ultimatebb.php?ubb=forum;f=2

[conuly]

OSC is also a slightly anti-gay mormon, but that's irrelevant except in the context of "Folk of the Fringe".

[readerravenclaw.livejournal.com]

Well, there is a higher percentage of Mormons on the board than you'd find elsewhere, but they're definitely outweighed by the liberals. It often amazes me how non-reflective the board is of OSC's own beliefs. Rants are always popping up about his latest articles, in fact. :) The forum is moderated, but only to stop real spammers, or major, long-time trolls. I come to LJ and the SugarQuill and the Leaky Cauldron for HP-related stuff, and I go to hatrack for everything else - though I'm actually mostly a lurker there.

[conuly]

*grins*

I'm not anti-mormon, actually (though I am anti-homophobia), but I thought that sharing the tiny tidbit of information was more interesting than saying "I've read all of his Ender books, some of his Earthborn books, and a few of his random novels".

[conuly]

And no, Earthborn isn't what they're called, but I can't recall what they *are* called, so that'll fill in for now.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

If he's the OSC I'm thinking of, he can make Lenny Schafer look like a supporter of disability pride.