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| Thursday, December 4th, 2008 | ||
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ac1d6urn |
11:47p | Harry's Home (PG) Inspired by ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} saridout's wonderful artwork Time(Since childhood Harry had dreamed of a home of his own) |
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telesilla |
5:06p | Give a little? bunnymcfoo is trying to raise $200 to help by some nice new underwear for teen-aged girls living in a homeless shelter. She has more details about it here. These poor kids don't have any new clothes, all their clothing is used, including their underwear, so yeah, even a few bucks would help. |
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icarusancalion |
4:38p | Oh where, oh where are the Merlin recs? Who has Merlin recs? I've seen a list from nel_ani (here, allow me) and frogspace (do enjoy). There must be other Merlin rec lists out there, yes? Current Mood:  hungry |
| Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 | ||
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telesilla |
11:21p | Holiday Meme I might not have posted this one, but that last line just yelled out "Grace!" to me. :) On the twelfth day of Christmas,  telesilla sent to me...Twelve pagans traveling Eleven rps writing Ten geeks a-mocking Nine books cooking Eight tinhats a-tigging Seven chairlifts a-twerpeling Six migraines a-napping Five ba-a-a-atman begins Four stargate atlantis Three jason isaacs Two queer girls ...and a judewan in a bisexuality. |
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auburnnothenna |
6:51p | Rec me some good books I am messing around with yWriter. Second time I've tried it and I'm still not liking it very much. It seems too constrictive and compartmentalized, but maybe that'll change when I'm doing more than trying to put together background notes and loose ideas. If not, it's back to Keynote, which works perfectly for the way I think, but lacks some of yWriter's bells and whistles. Yes, stuff for the original novel, theoretically titled The Mirror Crack'd but hereafter referred to only as Mirror. I have the names of my two main characters. Funny thing, you'd think, naming original characters you'd name them some favorite name of yours, right? Doesn't seem like that. The name has to fit the background of the character and, well, fit the character. I have a shameful fondness for names that only sound right in Georgian or Regency tales (Damon, Julian, Gabriel, Lucien, Remy, Tristan, Christian). Not right at all for this. And proof that no book is ever a mistaken purchase: my father indulged me and bought me Paolo Soleri's Arcology: The City in the Image of Man back 1981. It is a long, awkward book with a soft cover from MIT Press that I have cursed many times because it confounds shelving in any fashion. But now it has come into its own, as I am basing all the arcologies in Mirror on Soleri's drawings. If any of you don't want to read my babbling about trying to write something original, comment and I will either set up a filter or at least stick it all behind a cut. I expect that a lot of my posts will be devoted to that from now on and if you've friended the journal for fanfic, you may want to drop it. So I'm poking around the webs, looking for interesting stuff to spark ideas, not quite research, just noodling, and I fell into a nest of math! I barely escaped with my life. I think there may still be an outermorphism clamped onto my ankle. One thing I think is pretty clear: my novel will not be filled with elegant mathematical structures or based on current physics theory. Err. Anyway. I'm about to go on an Amazon spree. Suggest me interesting things to read. Thinky stuff, comfort stuff, fiction, nonfiction, but maybe not Lit - I have zero tolerance for pretention. What was that book last year with the essays on fanfiction? Or good GLBT fiction? The one frustrating thing about Amazon is that I can't hold the book in my hand and pick up all the subtle cues that often decide me whether to buy or not: font, paper weight, reading a couple of paragraphs at random from the middle, you know, just whether it looks like it was made with pride or just slapped together.(This has screwed me over a few times, resulting in the library receiving really gorgeous books that I thought sucked.) So I turn to all of you. Anyone else read the Dick Francis writing with his son Felix books? Reactions? Don't worry about spoiling me, I've read them, I'm just angling to find out what other people thought. Current Mood:  contemplativeCurrent Music: Commander - girlyman |
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dementordelta |
8:22p | Live Long and Marry Art (and Holiday Cards!) I got one of the commissions I won in the LiveLongNMarry auction! It's by the wonderful rezokudan, and she bravely attempted Snarry for me! It's called Snowflake:Here (sorry, link takes you to Live Journal since I don't know how to put up photos here!) And in the spirit of Snarry,(and a snappy segue) if you'd like a cheesy, schmoopy Snarry holiday card, my sign up post is here. |
| Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 | ||
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icarusancalion |
9:09p | Sissyphus and school papers. Glrgh. Having such a hard time starting this paper. *Pushes the paper cart uphill.* Current Mood:  frustrated |
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icarusancalion |
3:21p | Who's more important, cats or mice? Cutest kitty ever. Exhibit A: I have the mouse on the couch next to me. Kitty has sat down next to me (after frustrated attempts to sit on my and my keyboard). He is now scootching closer and closer to the mouse, soft as a cloud, stifling said mouse usage. When called on this, "Monte...." he looks up at me with luminous eyes. He reaches with a paw and touches my arm. Petting must ensue. I don't care if I'm rewarding feline distraction. (The mouse has been knocked off the mousepad.) Current Mood:  busy |
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mirabile_dictu |
3:06p | Beautiful video Saw this over at Andrew Sullivan's blog and had to share -- so beautiful: Fourth Estate's twenty-fifth anniversary Fourth Estate are publishers located in the UK. |
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bethbethbeth |
5:39p | One of us. One of us... Okay, now change.gov is posting Wordle "word clouds" of Tom Daschle's health care talk on their website. I swear, it's only a matter of time before Obama starts posting memes, Biden begins to upload his chatlogs, and Rahm Emanuel starts to post self-insert RPF. |
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bethbethbeth |
5:26a | Why look: it's transformative government :) I just saw this on the feed for change.gov (i.e., the website of the office of the President-Elect). Link to the full story here. President-elect Obama has championed the creation of a more open, transparent, and participatory government. To that end, Change.gov adopted a new copyright policy this weekend. In an effort to create a vibrant and open public conversation about the Obama-Biden Transition Project, all website content now falls under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License: [...] (I wonder if Obama and Co would like an account with the OTW's Archive of Our Own? *g*) |
| Monday, December 1st, 2008 | ||
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auburnnothenna |
10:53p | the Great Old Ones are watching So. This taking a break from writing thing. I may be in withdrawal. Either that or I'm psychic and a giant meteor is about to decimate the planet. The formless dread and aimless restlessness are hard to tell apart. I feel like I'm supposed to be doing something. If it's the meteor? Been nice knowing you all. Also, this taking a break from writing thing, means I am already doing serious damage to my to read pile of books. This will shortly lead to me and Amazon doing serious damage to my pocket book, I fear. Current Mood:  weirdCurrent Music: Golden Palominos - Ride |
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meri_oddities |
6:54p | Crack Broom Recs I was reccer for Harry/Snape on Crack Broom for the November. I went with the theme of stories I would have said from the summary that I wouldn't have liked. Then, of course, I really enjoyed them once I read them. The stories I rec'd were: Exegesis by Femme - Review here Getting Familiar by Gingertart50 - Review here Learning the Landscape by Beth H - Review here Between the Lines by Dementordelta - Review here When Fate Steps In by The Minx 17 - Review here In the end, I just ran out of time. Which is kind of said since if I'd had just a little more, I would have totally rec'd: What I did on my summer Vacation by littleblackbow.This is a cross between a vid and a drawing, and it is all together amazing storytelling. I was literally slack-jawed with awe the first time I saw it. And I keep going back to watch it. It makes you think and it makes you feel. I adored all of the characters, but especially Alstromeria (if you don't know what it means, look it up. It's perfect). If by some chance you missed this on the Snarry Art Games, go and watch it right now! LittleBlackBow also did a sequel as a Christmas present for her flist. It's just as amazing. It will break your heart and make you cry, but in the best possible way. And with a happy ending. Through the Snowflakes Current Mood:  accomplishedCurrent Music: Adventures In Solitude by The New Pornographers |
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bethbethbeth |
9:54a | Hi, folks. Many of you will have read back in October (on Making Light and other blogs) about Scraps (Soren) DeSelby (aka, baldanders), a freelance copyeditor who suffered a hemorrhagic stroke. The most recent updates say that he's progressing in his convalescence (starting to walk again, etc.), but as he had no health insurance, money is a problem - and will likely continue to be for the foreseeable future. I only know him by reputation, but many of his friends (and friends of friends) have been involved with fund-raising efforts to help defray the costs of medical treatment. One of my own friends - sykii - is selling prints of her [quite wonderful] photos for the first time as part of this fund-raising effort. If you get a moment, please visit her journal (here), and see if you might be able to help out with this worthy cause. |
| Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | ||
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icarusancalion |
7:50p | Hiding out in memes. Picked up from sage_theory: The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it: Stargate Atlantis The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets: Harry Potter The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved he doesn't actually live in town: Supernatural The steady: Stargate Atlantis The one you repeatedly cheat on your steady with: Merlin The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with: Ironman The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't: Supernatural The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere: (I don't really have a good answer for this one) The one you slept with on the rebound who still smiles at you, yet you have no interest in any more: Stargate SG-1 (so I made up my own) The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "Him? How the hell did he land all these cool babes?": Dr. Who The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly: Supernatural Current Mood:  cheerfulCurrent Music: Mediaeval Baebes - There Is No Rose Of Swych Vertu |
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auburnnothenna |
1:09a | RIP UOM This is an unfamiliar feeling. Not good, not bad. I've decided to abandon Upward Over the Mountain. I was looking at revising it and first estimate involved probably another 62000 words. That wouldn't have made it good, just made it make sense. Then I sketched out an entirely new ending, cut a whole sub plot, started rewriting and that would have been at least 36000 more words. Then I got the last beta in, reflected neither of my proposed revisions would do a single thing to make the basic plot any less flawed. I'd been holding on to finishing it, even knowing this, and put my betas through reading it because I wanted someone to tell me I was wrong. I wasn't wrong. It's a failed story. Usually I'm fortunate enough to realize something isn't working before I've put this many words into it, but stubbornness and the fact I'd intended it as a gift kept me with it long past when I would have normally seen it wasn't working. Or rather, I could see it wasn't working, but I told myself I could fix it. Hunh. This is sort of liberating. After I manned up and dumped UOM into the failed folder to become mental compost, I scoured the WiP folder and removed nearly thirty things, separating them into outtake/junk and failed/abandoned. There's not much left. Sitting here, I realize I don't want to start another SGA story. Not until the last episodes have aired and I have some idea of what the series is ending as, at least. Though, for all I know, maybe I won't want to then either. I wonder if the SGA well is finally running dry, for me and for others. Maybe everyone is working on something for secret santa. But me? I've got nothing to write. I wander how long I can go without starting something new. How long until I start to twitch. Current Mood:  drained |
| Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | ||
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telesilla |
10:46p | Seen all over the place... I tired to do the photo mosaic meme, but every single picture I chose--and I made sure to choose ones that weren't protected--came up blank. Every single one. :( So I did this meme instead. The "Be Pete Wentz" Poetry Meme 01. Put your music player on shuffle 02. The first lines of twenty songs = a poem; the first line of the twenty-first song is the title It was interesting and not as Vogon as I expected. :) ( Have I Lost You? ) |
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icarusancalion |
7:25p | On the End of Canon: What keeps a fandom alive? A question came up on my f-list about the end of canon in Stargate Atlantis. I'm not sure whether the imminent end of the series has any significant effect on readership In the Harry Potter fandom it certainly didn't. I can't imagine the end of the series would have a significant impact right away. Quite the opposite. There's a spike in interest as people mourn, fret over what's not neatly tied up, are annoyed at the author's/PTB's ships, or just miss it and want more, darn it. In time I think it will taper off as people find other active canons and drift to new fandoms, but no boom is going to be lowered late December, no, not at all. How active the fandom remains depends on the fandom: - Do the main archives, challenges, communities, still have people to run them? (Most Important Factor.) - Is the fandom old enough to have a solid body of work, and fandom tropes, to sustain it? - Are there lots of Swiss cheese-like holes remaining to play in? - How dependent on canon is the fandom (are the majority of fics episode tags, or have the fic writers embraced AUs and crossovers)? - How committed are the fans to keeping their fandom alive? Have fans declared that nothing will stop their ship? Or have they been ho-hum about the end of their series? - Are there other factors to keep the fandom alive? Spin-offs, movies, conventions. Current Music: The Ventures - The Cruel Sea (The Cruel Surf) |
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icarusancalion |
6:34p | Merlin kink meme. Run, do not walk, to the Merlin kink meme. Forget to get me something for my birthday? Feel a need to (Note the music.) Current Mood: cheerfulCurrent Music: The Ventures - Walk - Don't Run |
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mirabile_dictu |
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| Thursday, November 27th, 2008 | ||
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telesilla |
8:37p | Done and done! or Game Hens and Gratitude! Dinner is over and the dishes are washed! Go me! *does victory dance* ( food talk ) This hasn't exactly been the greatest year for us. Never the less, I'm grateful for my wonderful friends, my great family and my lovely wife. I'm grateful that this country elected a President we can be proud of and I'm grateful that, even though it took a defeat to do it, my people and our allies are energized and ready to fight for our rights. I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving or an enjoyable Thursday! ♥!! |
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telesilla |
6:09p | FIC: The Festival of Giving Thanks (SGA, John/Rodney, PG) The Festival of Giving Thanks Author: telesillaFandom/Pairing: SGA, John Rodney Rating: PG Word Count: ~700 Disclaimer: The SGA characters do not belong to me. Duh. Summary: "Why, on this night, do we give thanks together and not alone?" Notes: Just a little Thanksgivingish piece that was written for mcsmooch. I hope everyone who celebrates had/is having a wonderful holiday!( ''Tomorrow, it will be twenty years to the day since we stepped through the gate and into Atlantis.'' ) |
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mirabile_dictu |
3:27p | Gratitude sings Cross-posted to my LJ Happy Thanksgiving, y'all! Even those who have already celebrated or who don't celebrate -- it's always give to good thanks. Most of the time I'm not sure to whom I'm offering thanks, unless it's to a specific individual or group of people, but even so, I believe in being aware and appreciative. The Last Good Name wrote a wonderful Thanksgiving post, She wrote And I love Thanksgiving because it's about giving thanks and speaking your gratitude to others, and ( I'm going to emulate her: ) One of the many things I'm grateful for is Cate on LJ, and her terrific ideas, like the recurring McSmooch festival. For this go round, start here, a charming and sweet little story by Kass Rachel and start clicking the little green arrow to the right. Around sixty stories, containing many John/Rodney kisses, and for that, I am deeply grateful. I wrote two little smoochies this time: The Darkest Evening of the Year and John smiles -- which was an awfully lot of fun to write. Only two sentences long! Finally, I want to share two columns from favorite writers of mine. First, Anne Lamott's Thanksgiving column. She's a Christian and I sure as hell am not, but I still really liked it and it really resonated with me. I do not speak for my church when I say, Hah hah. And Jon Carroll's annual Thanksgiving column. But still we have to get through the day. And, I am convinced, the route through the day is gratitude. |
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auctasinistra |
8:45a | So ... Thankfulness. ( Behind the cut ) |
| Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 | ||
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auburnnothenna |
8:17p | Kisses in the Morning So, ages and ages and eons ago, I promised enname something with kisses.So, kisses. Set in the same universe as the nights are better (out here) John kisses his fingers and tells Kanaan he never ate a better breakfast. Teyla kisses Torren's forehead solemnly, but smiles like the sun rising before heading out to work in the greenhouse. Kanaan kisses the top of Torren's head, or maybe he blows a raspberry into Torren's hair, since Torren giggles madly and Kanaan walks away from the table with a smile nearly as bright as Teyla's. Ronon scoops Torren up from his seat at the table, holds him high in the air, and definitely blows raspberries against Torren's belly button, making him kick and shriek with laughter, before putting him down. Torren presses sticky, jam-sweet kisses to John's jaw before he takes off after Ronon. Rodney kisses John's cheek, kisses his jaw, kisses his lips, and leaves him breathless and dazed, before he heads off to work in the tower, murmuring, "Sweet," and leaving John with the dishes. |