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The urban fantasy novels that I'm currently writing (... or failing to write, as has been the case the last few days) are set in New York, specifically in the Ithaca area, but a lot of the current novel takes place in New York City. This is making me want to write White Collar crossovers LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE. It does make the research simpler, though -- a lot of it is doing double duty on both sides. *g*

Here, have some links:

whitecollarhc is having an Abduct-a-Palooza comment ficathon - prompts and fills pertaining to the theme of kidnapping/abductions. I want someone to write a gen version of this one like you would not believe, too. ("Someone" possibly being me eventually, but I really don't need more plot ideas right now. Still ... presumed-dead is one of my favorite things, and my id is calling ...)

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? is a link that's been passed around on my flist a lot, so I expect a lot of you have seen it already, but I thought it was definitely worth passing along -- completely fascinating research into how our brains have a limited ability to make decisions, leading to increasingly poor decision-making, and even more interesting, a corresponding lack in willpower, when we've been having to choose between a lot of options.

I don't remember how I found this, but it amused me greatly: Absurd Warning Signs & Disclaimers and an equally amusing companion page celebrating Brilliantly Pointless Fliers. (This one is my very favorite.) Neither page is particularly worksafe/kidsafe.

ETA: I knew I forgot something I was gonna link to -

xparrot put up a really useful post on searching AO3 - getting around its currently search limitations, and using the search function more fully in general.

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USA renews for season 4

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/25/usa-renews-white-collar/?iid=blogTV-5H-LN-USA renews 'White Collar' for 4th season

Re: your novel - why'd you pick NYC? Just curious. You lived there? or just some place you always wanted to?

I've finally managed visit there for a few days in 2010. It was quite the culture shock - so different from CA. In so many ways. I'd already been to London - so I'd had the OMG!SUBWAY! shock already about how many levels underground and all that. But we were in Manhattan for like 4 days - and just.... wow... the rumbling underground, the way trash is just piled on the sidewalks in trash bags at night (no trash cans!!) the way the street in the morning turned into an obstacle course with soooooo many people walking (really!) the sea of building tops and watertowers we saw out our window (we had a high floor - good for sightseeing)

I saw that! It made me squee! *squees*

I set the novels in Ithaca because my sister lives there and I have friends in the area, so I've spent some time there and I have excellent insider sources of information on the town. This book is in NYC because part of my plot required a big city rather than a college town, and NYC was handy. Ironically, right before I started watching White Collar, I'd just been writing a part of the novel that takes place in a fancy high-rise apartment near Central Park. It's so very White Collar, and yet I hadn't seen the show yet. *g*

O_O ...oh MAN I want that wchc prompt so bad. (Has anyone ever done Peter presumed dead in WC? Because it needs to happen. SO so badly!)

I KNOW RIGHT?! No, I haven't run into Peter-presumed-dead yet (and believe me, I've been reading every scrap of Peter h/c I can find in the fandom ... there isn't all that much of it!). If no one else does it, I may be forced - FORCED I SAY - to write it myself. *g*

ETA: While I'm at it, WC canon hasn't done anyone presumed dead, have they? Because they really need to, at some point. I don't actually care who! Anyone will do! ^^

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I don't know if you read Mouse8's Suspect - http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6032418/1/Suspect - but that has some excellent Peter-presumed-dead (mostly by Neal), and both Peter and Neal whump.

Oh, thank you so much for the link! :D I had not seen this before, and this and her other WC story were exactly what I've been craving!

If no one else does it, I may be forced - FORCED I SAY - to write it myself.

OH THE HORROR! *gets out the billy clubs for some quality forcin'*

Yeah, the fandom definitely needed more Peter h/c when I was into it...Neal seemed like the designated whipping boy, which I get because he's pretty and emotionally vulnerable in that whumpable way...but Peter is the one I wanted beat upon *ahem*

And yessss, the show needs to do presumed dead! With anyone...they all do worry so nicely...!

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I really liked the Fatigue article, especially the part about temptation, because people don't fully realize the power of having something right there. I like to veg-out in front of the TV before going to bed, but if I don't have something already in mind to watch right when I'm ready to watch, I end up settling for flipping through channels. Always a big mistake, because then I end up watching something (like a cheap SyFy movie) that I swear temporarily kills my imagination with its stupidity. But like a car wreck, I can't get myself to look away O.o

Abduct-a-palooza is also tempting me, but I'm out of writing steam and am saving it for prompts I already promised to write (and that are probably going to end up being long).

I'm desperately trying not to get sucked into Abduct-a-palooza, because I already have SO MANY stories I'm writing, plus several prompts from

collarcorner that caught my fancy. *tries to be strong*

I've noticed that about zoning out and just doing the easy thing, too. It's fascinating to me that there is actually research to back up a lot of the things that we always kind of suspected our brains were doing but could never prove. *g* I mean, it makes sense that having to choose between different options makes you tired, or that having temptation right in front of you is harder to resist than avoiding it completely, but it is really interesting that this can all be confirmed with actual studies of the brain's activity and so forth.