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| Monday, December 28th, 2009 |
troyswann
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11:00a |
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seperis
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10:59a |
my problems are more awesome than yours
I feel like sulking prodigiously for reasons that have to with my realization that I have a really mundane fantasy life. I mean, catch this, some people are undead shaman-wizards and... Oh, should I stop there? Level with me; are we doing this wrong? I mean, I'm just saying my imagination feels inadequate and that is the penis size of the fandom world, if you will forgive the patriarchal aspects and stop to visualize that for a second, because seriously, it's hilarious. I'm not sure where I was going with this, but I am just saying I do not feel virile anymore. Or--okay, yes, I googled that, right word, possibly context is creepy and--well, wrong, but I have been dealt an emotionally challenging blow. Did you not see comparisons to penises? *curls up* Hate. Current Mood:  aggravated |
01100100
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3:36p |
ST and ST RPF Comms Fanfic Dump
Ahoy hoy all. Hope you all had a festive few days. Mine were reasonably tolerable, which is always a good thing. I took out some time to compile these links here of all the recent anon fic/ficlets I've written over at two of the ST comms. It turned out I wrote way more than I intended or anticipated, which is awesome. There's still two more that need to be finished and added, but I guess those will have to wait until the new year. Anyway, for those interested, enjoy :) ( List of links )This entry was originally posted at http://danvers.dreamwidth.org/74033.html. |
seperis
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9:04a |
it's too early for logic
So it's morning and I'm usually like, much more subtle at making people read something for me, except when I kind of whined to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) winterlive who gave me jamesinboots because I was kind of like, about to have some kind of seizure and I wrote her Adam/Brad porn in GChat. That is now off-topic. My Method of Convincing My Friends to Read My Fic (this shit is hard. svmadelyn last read my Chuck fic. Last year. It was a Christmas present. I am a really cheap date sometimes.). As you can see, it is highly effective. *context-I describe a really, really generic fandom trope (I am not going for original here. I am going with "Okay, this would be fucking hilarious" and then write it. It is an awesome method.) Seperis: Is that okay? I want you to read it. *insert really long pause here Amireal: It's fandom, we can all be what we want? Seperis: SO I FEEL LESS ALONE OKAY Seperis: ...it's much less creepy than it was! Later: Seperis: Eventually. Not now. IT IS MUCH LESS CREEPY...Seriously! How often do i say that so excitedly? Amireal: more than you think? Huh. Also, yes, she agreed, obviously, but okay, for the record, I do not normally lower my creep factor. Okay, if I am going to blood and toads and Clark brands Lex for the Religion of Superman and Merlin mindfucking Arthur during sex while plotting Uther's death, I hit drive, not neutral. Sometimes admittedly I do it really badly and then there's--confusion on what happened because sometimes I forget how to not use adjectives in non-standard ways, but anyway! I feel really--hurt--that anyone, anywhere, would assume I would, that I would edit out creepy things. So we all have that? Thanks. My Monday morning. Any questions? The taco people will be here soon! Current Mood: awake |
sg_fignewton
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1:02p |
Vala Alphabet Soup and SG-1 Gen Fic Day: one week to go!
SG-1 Gen Fic Day is one week from today, on January 4th! That is also when we will be enjoying 26 highly spiced servings of Vala Alphabet Soup. I hope those of who who have signed up have written your stories. Or at least started them! Or, er, like me, at least thought about it...Don't forget that while Gen Fic Day will feature Vala Alphabet Soup, any SG-1 gen fic/meta/rec/vid/icon/whatever is more than welcome for the occasion! Feel free to browse past round-ups to see what we've enjoyed in the past. If you're new to Soups or would just like a quick refresher course, detailed instructions for posting can be found here. If you expect to be internetless on the 4th, please follow the link for instructions on how to post in advance. And if, for reasons beyond your control, you can't write your letter prompt, please let me know immediately so that I can find a back-up writer in time. Smug gloating about finishing, absolute panic at not having started, or anything in-between is more than welcome in the comments. :) |
dougggie
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9:04a |
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synecdochic
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12:52a |
seriously, how does this monday thing keep happening?
Mondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.
(And if you feel uncomfortable doing this in public, I've set this entry to screen any anonymous comments, so if you want privacy, comment anonymously and I won't unscreen it unless you tell me it's okay. Also: yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to!)On Dreamwidth:  comments | comment (OpenID) |
| Sunday, December 27th, 2009 |
recsrainbow
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7:06p |
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princessofg
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7:50p |
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recsrainbow
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4:38p |
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| Monday, December 28th, 2009 |
the_arn
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1:01a |
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| Sunday, December 27th, 2009 |
recsrainbow
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1:18p |
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destina
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11:08a |
Yuletide recs: 28 stories, 19 fandoms
First, we must discuss the stories written for me, and how much I love them. I received the only three The Outsiders stories/snippets in this year's challenge. ALL FOR MEEEE. Well, okay, and for everyone else, too. Whatever. *g* ( stories! )Thank you all SO MUCH for writing these wonderful stories for me. I'm a very lucky girl. :D Now to the recs. I skip around a lot when I read through the archive, especially this year. On my first pass yesterday, if there were stories that wouldn't load as I opened tabs in a fandom, I made a note to self to try again later when the archive isn't besieged. But here's my first go at it. ( 19 fandoms, 28 stories: The Great Escape, The Stand, Watchmen, Dracula, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ladyhawke, Mad Men, Kindred the Embraced, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Deadwood, Enemy Mine, Tombstone, Ocean's 11 'verse, Miracles, Breakfast Club, Rome, Band of Brothers, Hornblower (TV and books), Lost Boys ) Current Mood:  chipper |
dougggie
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2:56p |
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dougggie
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1:29p |
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the_arn
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1:01a |
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| Saturday, December 26th, 2009 |
mingmerciless
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8:18p |
Terrorist suspect background
Amazing. It's only taken about half the day but it seems the BBC has twigged that the fact that a student was staying in a million+ Pound apartment in London is not in itself suspicious as a) some families do in fact support their children through university and b) some of those families might in fact be wealthy, especially in the case of overseas students in London - just to be an overseas student in the UK means your family has to be reasonably well off, for the fees if nothing else! BBC News 24's constant harping on about how a student could be living in a place like that had been irritating the Hell out of me since seeing it this morning. As aeshna_uk can attest, I was yelling at the TV to tell us who his family was! Sure enough, BBC News 24 has just mentioned a banker in Nigeria has apparently said that the guy may be his son. I just hope the security services were a tad quicker on the uptake... Current Mood:  irritatedCurrent Music: BBC News 24 |
seperis
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1:43p |
child, recovering from a semi-broken heart
Me: Look, you shouldn't try that hard with girls. Him: I was thinking when she break ups, I'll swoop in. Me: Rebound man? Him: I saw it on TV. That's how you fall in love. You know, the alarming thing isn't that he has a strategy or anything. It's mostly that she's "seeing", for value of that in the pre-puberty stage, a chemistry geek, for value of that in seventh grade. I don't know if the hard sciences cross over; he's more physics with a heartstopping love of genetics in ways that make me worry about my hairbrush and bone fragements. Can you go from chemistry to physics? Do you want to? That's the question I'm pondering. Should I push him toward one of the bio girls? ...his school actually has kids who self-identify by hard science. You try navigating that one day without feeling alarmingly uncomfortable with your self-identification as geek, untyped. Apparently that is not on without a specialization. Fandom geek? I don't even know. Current Mood: awakeCurrent Music: you gotta be - des'ree |
seperis
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12:17p |
i just need to get this out
Child loves his toys. He breaks his toys. That's why when I get him things that make my credit card sad, the first thing I do is set them up and figure out how to use them myself before his little fingers go near them. Because it sucks when they break, but it's so much worse when I lose my temper and get angry at him for breaking something, and he's barely twelve. So I learned to stop doing that. Unfortunately, being philosophical about the hand eye coordination, attention span, and development curve of a child is like, hard or something for people who are related to him. ( vent )And in other news, Dr. Who! We have it slated for this afternoon viewing. Potentially with some sort of chip-related snack food and dip. Delicious. Current Mood: tired |
| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
tafkarfanfic
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7:41p |
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| Saturday, December 26th, 2009 |
the_arn
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1:02a |
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| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
tafkarfanfic
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3:58p |
Our Geek Christmas
On our tree hangs (among other ornaments) a USS Reliant (from Star Trek II) and a Mach Five (from Speed Racer). And today my honey gave me The Complete Farscape. And the manufacturer of my new holiday bike also makes a high-performance bicycle for triathletes called the "Aeryn," which I can't help but think HAS to be a reference. Happy Christmas if you're celebrating it! Happy Newtonmas to everyone celebrating Newton's birthday! And happy Holiday to all the Pastafarians! |
destina
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11:19a |
A couple Yuletide surfing/commenting tips
The heavy server load, which is impacting the usual Yuletide reading/commenting bacchanal, doesn't really seem to be getting much better at all as the day goes on. Alas. But I do have a couple of tips to offer that might help. ( cutting to spare the flist ) Later, I will flail about how incredibly lucky I am to have received four stories (three in the archive and one as yet to be revealed in Madness) this year. I am a very, very lucky and happy girl. Merry Christmas everyone! Current Mood:  full |
tafkarfanfic
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10:38a |
The Aeryn bike
My honey got me a new bike for Christmas! But when I went to their website, I discovered they also make a bike called the Aeryn bike, which is a high-performance bike specifically for triathletes. I seriously wonder if some geek on the staff named it that on purpose. (I wonder what a Chiana bike would be...) |
seperis
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11:59a |
it's like christmas exploded!
I have: 1.) hooked up the xbox for Child. He is playing Pure, since we need to do a serious rearrangement of the game room to facilitate online play. ( okay, this went off-top )My fantasy life always involves a shopping spree at Frye's, really. Fabulous vacations and superhot men wearing leather pants only work for me when they're helping me pick a router set-up and murmur hotly in my ear they are master electricians while holding miles of ethernet cable. 2.) The fire truck pedal car is built and awesome. As it turns out, I accidentally picked out a really durable all-metal model with wooden ladders and that sucker will last. Niece 2 and Nephew fought over it and it was glorious. BIL did the assembly becaues he got new tools for Christmas and looked as us all pathetically until we let him have the truck to play with. He was so happy. 3.) Bouncy horse is not assembled. Reluctantly, he and my sister and co went to Christmas with his brother's family, but his toolkit stayed here, in anticipation that we will be overcome by post-Christmas laziness, which is pretty likely. 4.) I got my Mom a Flip Ultra Camcorder and as it turns out, she loves it--we all love it. It's not that I am scared of multifunctional things--see my G1--but seriously, would it kill progress if some things don't require a complete reading of the owner's manual and a training course to use? So far, for ease of use, I'd recommend it--the set up is super fast (set date, set time, set language, and we're off!), it has five buttons, the record button is huge and stuck in the middle, and flip out USB, so the only extra cords needed are if you want to hook it directly to the TV. It comes with batteries, but grab some rechargeables and an adapter and you're done. My dad, who is not either a huge fan of changing technology or one who likes to use it was playing with the Flip as soon as he found an excuse to pry it from Mom's hand. Since his birthday is in March, if he seems to really enjoy it, I can grab him one too. I'll check the video quality when they're done playing, but honestly, unless it's grainy or impossible to see, I love this. Fact--yes, awesome camcorders that record in 1080i/1080p with digital sound are great, but that shit I am not taking to the beach (water! sand! air! my warranty!) or to visit friends, and if I have to renew my acquaintance with the owner's manual or google for tips on how to make it work every time I pick it up? I am never going to use it. I had a samsung camcorder and learned to hate it in like, a month. So far, I approve. The living room is awash with toys and games and books, and everyone's settling to gloat over their stash and share it with others. We're making prime rib sandwiches for lunch if we feel like moving, and no one is taking off their pajamas to save their life. It's a very, very good day. To everyone who celebrates it, Merry Christmas, and to those who don't, Happy Holidays or have a wonderful day. Current Mood: awake |
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