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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
poisontaster	10:44a	Calendar Boys: March - Kiss Me by Jamie Craig There's an art to short story writing. I think it's much harder than writing a novel, because a short story has such a limited space to introduce the characters and the conflict and then create a satisfying resolution. It requires a specific economy of vision and language that's hard to carry off. Kiss Me does not carry it off. ( This is spoilery. ) Current Mood: bored (Comment on this)
asylum_promo [ bri ]	10:06a	Graphix & other Asylums Before joining any asylums, you should always read the info and rules if any pertain! :) graphix - a long-time standing graphics asylum for all to post and anyone to take (while crediting). ijelite - a graphix affiliate that has a few makers that offer their talents to you in various icons, layouts, and more. iconism - an icon-only asylum, also a graphix affiliate. christians - for Christians and non-Christians alike to discuss the Christian faith, share testimonies, prayers, and have fellowship. This has been around for quite some time, but is look for more active members. addme - a great asylum to gain new friends! Just post! General note towards all long-standing asylums: These five asylums (as well as many others) have been around for quite some time, please help us make the asylums that are already created active rather than having 100,000 different asylums for the same thing. :) Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
amalthia	9:27p	Program Pimping Corel WordPerfect X4 I'm testing out the publish to html in trial download version. So far it's doing a great job of creating plain html for the document. There is this one line of weird code but replace all took care of it. Plus this program is new and up-to-date so it should work on Windows 7. I've been having issues with MS Word 97 in that it would not apply italics correctly to each paragraph and etc...And the other issue is that not everyone has it so for converting fanfics to ebooks MS Word 97 is about 10 years too old to be much use. So I'm cautiously optimistic for WordPerfect. I'm just amazed I had to hear about from Jane Fancher of all people. In other news, I'm sick. :( My nose is icky, I'm breathing through my mouth, and feel all around god awful. And I have a midterm I still need to take online. http://amalthia.dreamwidth.org/601761.html#comments (Comment on this)
stele3	12:33p	Jeremy Renner: psychic gumshoe I just woke up from a super-super detailed dream that was sort of a period film? I think it started out in the 60's but then it switched to the 40's or 50's. In it, Jeremy Renner (the lead actor from the Hurt Locker) was a psychic looking into the disappearance of a young woman and her paramour. (I posted this to my private journal but then it was just so WEIRD that I want to share it with others; apologies to anyone who sees it twice.) It started out with Ben Stiller - who was some kind of shy, poor, cynical photographer/artiste - being told by a rich old dude to please hang out with his son (the paramour), the son's girlfriend, and the girlfriend's sister, you know, show them the sights. Actually the father also rather crudely asked him to get his son some girls, since things were dicey with the girlfriend; I got the impression that the father didn't like her. Stiller's character immediately developed a crush on the girlfriend's pretty, sweet younger sister and was paying her all his attentions. Unfortunately, this didn't turn out in his favor: while they were hanging out in the park the son and his girlfriend walked into a nearby cafe and vanished. Enter Stiller's two friends, one of whom was Jeremy Renner's character (I don't know who the other dude was played by - he was very tall, and had a real mother-hen personality). Stiller wa in hot water with the cops and the millionaire, and everyone wanted to know what happened. He begged his friends for help; I got the impression that Renner had sometimes worked as a detective or something? Anyway, he started working on the case: he followed his visions to the edge of town and a barn, where he 'saw' the girl and boy being forced into a car by mysterious people. He sensed that the girl was pregnant: she and the son had been planning to slip away for an illegal abortion, but something went sideways and they're in trouble. He knew the baby is still alive. He couldn't tell about anyone else. There was something else the vision was trying to tell him, but he can't figure out what. It had led him up into a barn hayloft, overlooking the area where they'd been taken; there was red dirt on the ground in two straight lines, and also outside the empty barn. Stiller, the sister, and the mother-hen dude were sort of dubiously following him around, and then a car pulled up with a couple of black dudes inside, the main one played by Don Cheadle. They were well-dressed, a pair of slick businessmen representing the interests of the local black community; apparently a black girl who worked in the cafe as a dishwasher had gone missing at the same time and they were trying to figure out what had happened, since obviously no one else gave a shit. Stiller and the mother-hen dude were wary and maybe a little bit racist, but Renner just crouched in the dust beside the dude's car to ask him questions and even shared a pull from the flask tucked in his shirt (after darting a guilty glance at the mother-hen dude, who glared back angrily - I got the feeling that Renner's character had had some problems with booze). In the middle of their conversation, in which the businessman revealed there wasn't any real connection between the son and girlfriend and the black girl besides the fact that they disappeared at the same time from the same place, Renner glanced out over the barn's yard, froze, then jumped up on top of the businessman's very fancy car. Ignoring his cries of indignation, Renner recalled that in the vision he'd been blinded by the sun as he watched them being pushed into the car. "West," he said, pointing in that direction. "They went West." And then I woke up. Now that I'm awake, I'm still deciphering clues in the dream. That red dirt underneath where the bad guys' car had been parked - maybe clay? That possibly could have led them to a quarry or something. But how was the dishwasher involved? Was it a kidnapping plot? If so, why hadn't any demands been made to the millionaire father? Why would the son and daughter have disappeared in such a public fashion in order to get an abortion, instead of manufacturing some story about taking a 'vacation' and slipping away overseas? Maybe they were afraid of the father, and the dishwasher girl was part of some kind of illegal abortion ring. What do you guys think? Help me solve my dream mystery! (Comment on this)
musesfool	2:17p	i wanna guard your dreams and visions Memery, from various people on the flist: This is how it works. Whoever started this meme left five "clues," which were passed onto me via multiple flisters (I don't care if it's DW, they're still flisters). I've responded with the five stories that meet the criteria of the clues. You can do so too, should you wish, and/or leave a clue for me. The clues can be anything from "Your favorite story" to "Story in which the most characters died" to "A story that includes both a threesome and a wrench." These are the original five clues: 1. Your story with the closest word count to 1,662 words. 2. Your story in the rarest fandom you write in. 3. The longest story you've ever written. 4. The story that's title starts with the last letter of your user name. 5. Story written for your favorite prompt you've ever gotten. These are my answers: 1. A Proportional Response (SPN) is 1670 words. I'm sure I've written something that is exactly 1,662 words, but I couldn't be arsed to find it. This was the most recent and closest to the target. 2. What a Swell Party This Is (The Thin Man), or maybe Swiss Diplomacy (Catcher in the Rye); possibly they are among the only stories in their fandoms on the internet (though I haven't gone looking), if you could call them fandoms. *snerk* 3. Beggars Would Ride (SPN); 46K words of always-a-girl hetcest AU. You guys, it's been three years and I STILL don't even know. 4. Leap and the net will appear (Life) I still really like this story, even if the recipient never commented. I like the title, too. *g* Again, it was just the most recent title that started with an "L" on the list. 5. The Uillean Ululation Undertaking (SPN/The Middleman) My Little Pony! How could this not have been the bestest and most awesome prompt that ever prompted? It is Empress Prompt of Promptonia! Sam and Dean! MM and Dubbie! wacky sitcom aliases! fake badges all around! chyrons! I reread this story when I want to remind myself that writing can be fun. Feel free to leave me clues; I can probably dig up a story to match, though there are some things I've never written. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/142198.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: just wrap your legs round these velvet rims and strap your hands cross my engine (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
asylum_promo [ i_want_2 ]	4:06p	Fic Bang Be Not Proud! We at t_31_bang have run a moderately successful mini-Big Bang for 19 rounds. In that time we have accumulated over 265 prompts. That's a lotta fics that need to be written. In fact, there are so many in some fandoms we had to lock them out. You can imagine the creative constipation that causes! Terrible thought, I know. Think how those prompters must feel. Anywho! We, the mod-staff of t_31_bang have come up with a novel solution. Put your hat down, we're not talking about that length. Quite the opposite! For the next 31 days, plus whatever hours remain in this day when you read this, we will be hosting a free for all fic writing spectacular. 200 words to every prompt and you're done! We normally want 5000 words or a few fingers and toes, but this time we'll just take 200 words. Come on over and sign up for a prompt. Write 200 words on it, slap a 'Done' sticker on it, and post. It's that simple! Whadda ya say? (Comment on this)
blue_soaring	9:07p	-_- Just so everyone knows, Etsy sellers that refuse to ship to anywhere but the US annoy the POO OUT OF ME. Why. Just WHY. It's not like international shipping is some arcane science. Originally posted at Dreamwidth here. Please comment there using OpenID or ask me for an invite code. :3
musesfool	11:31p	another place to hide it all White Collar ( spoilers ) *** I am so sick of getting story ideas I have no clue how to write! Brain, stop that! I desperately want to write about twenty different things right now, and several of them should be no-brainers that I could bang out while I'm trying to work the others out, and nothing is working! And I know part of that is the PMS (but I got my period this evening so that particular cycle of uncreativity should be over *snerk*), but part of it is that I want to write this story I was hit with this evening on my commute home - it has a title and a summary already! But it either has to be a big epic thing, which is not going to happen, or I have to figure out how to write it so it feels epic in scope while still being of manageable length. It is very far outside my comfort zone, and not at all a story I ever really expected to even want to write (though I desperately want to read it), and I keep thinking of how it could be bigger! When what I really need is a way to make it... more intimate. *hands* I have other things I need to write! Stupid brain. Stupid writing. *** Two Three cool things I saw on my flist, and now can't remember in whose journal: + A BSG vid to Sabotage in the style of the original video. Which works way better than you'd think, or maybe I should have expected it, given EJO's presence. Hee! Which just reminds me - harriet_spy and I have talked about this forever, but WHERE is the SPN vid in the style of a 70s cop show, preferably set to the Stevie Wonder version of "Superstition?" WHERE? If ever a show were made for that treatment, SPN is it. And yet, there is no such vid. *sadhair* + And speaking of SPN versions of things, SPN Monopoly. How cool is that? + And a genderswapped version of SPN that I would pay money to see. (Well, except I'd flip the Sam and Dean casting because Katee will ALWAYS be girl!Sam in my head; other possibilities for girl!Dean include Jen Garner, Michelle Rodriguez, Stephanie Jacobsen (though that is probably the lingering vestiges of my Kara/Kendra thing), and of course, The Dushku.) I can count. no, really. *** Lastly, I think every commercial ever should end, "I'm on a horse." *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/142046.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: frustrated Current Music: Seasons - Chris Cornell (Comment on this)
musesfool	3:27p	eleven years of sacrifice There are many reasons to love amberlynne, and this post is but one of them. But it's a really good one. *g* What she said! For serious! *cough* I may or may not be one of the people she's talking about in terms of people who angst at her on AIM after posting a story. You can't prove anything! *cough* *** Last night's Chuck was AWESOME! ( spoilers ) I also thought Big Bang Theory was utterly hilarious. The problem with the show is that as Sheldon has become the breakout character, they've made Leonard more and more of a dick, because they really don't know what else to do with him, but episodes like last night's show just how horrible it really must be to live with Sheldon. I mean, I love Sheldon. I am kind of already referring to my new laptop as Sheldon. but he is frequently infuriating and self-absorbed and must be a huge giant pain to live with, and I like the show best when it's about the whole group of them (and when Raj gets to be AWESOME). As for Castle, I think what I like most about the show, aside from the banter and Castle's relationships with Martha and Alexis, is how much Castle digs Beckett, especially when she's ordering him around. I don't even mean it in a romantic or sexual way, though there is that component to it, but he always seems so thrilled to be spending time with smart, competent, take-charge women, and that pleases me. ( spoilers ) *** Oy, this day. My back is killing me, and that's mostly from walking from one end of our (fairly large) office to the other repeatedly to fetch each round of interviewees from the green room in which we stashed them to wait while the prior interviewees were, uh, being interviewed. Not difficult (except for the part where someone stole my stash of water for the green room before anybody actually showed up for hte meeting! How wrong is that that you can't leave three bottles of water in a meeting room for ten minutes without them walking away?), but tiring. I did get a really good (free!) turkey and bacon sandwich out of it, though. Mmm...bacon... *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/141653.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: busy Current Music: Not Gon' Cry - Mary J. Blige (Comment on this)
poisontaster	3:12p	Yip-Yip! I'm thinking about dropping out of both my big bangs. Or, rather, I've already dropped out of the au_bigbang and I'm debating whether I should/need to drop out of the spn_j2_bigbang, too. There are lots of reasons for it, but the biggest is that I feel like I've just lost passion for the stories. I feel like I want to really curl up with finishing AKB and working on my original stuff. I feel guilty every time I blow off working on my big bangs to work on something original; I feel guilty every time I blow off the original stuff to work on fanfic. And, at the end of the day, I don't want to feel guilty at all; I want to feel glad and happy that I'm so motivated to work on my own things. I want to feel glad and happy that I'm having ideas for my own work again. I'm even musing taking a pass on Remix this year, which is both stunning and sad. Remix is/was my one untouchable fandom THING. So yeah. There's that. I had to put aside the book I was reading. It was aggravating me too much and I'm too hormonal right now to endanger my husband's life and the life of my pets by reading a book that was making me angry. They make me angry enough all on their own. *g* I went back to Tamara Allen's Whistling in the Dark, a book that is continuing to please and delight me, since I didn't want to take a chance on an unknown and risk another disappointment. Fortunately, when I'm done with Whistling, K.A. Mitchell's new book No Souvenirs came out today, so when I dive back into my pool of unknowns, I have another high-quality, comforting fall-back. Or just something I know I will enjoy reading, on its own merits. And if you don't believe me that No Souvenirs is awesome, you can check out this Dear Author review. Other books I'm looking forward to: Josh Lanyon's The Dark Farewell and Catch Me If You Can by L.B. Gregg, whom I've never read before, but merepersiflage recced it to me and I trust her to know what I like. And the husband got the first two Kenzie-Gennaro books by Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War and Darkness, Take My Hand (sadly, both paper, two more books to pack!) so I've got those waiting on me, too. Yay! In other news, Avatar: The Last Airbender (series) is as much made of win as my brother promised. He is suitably smug about this. Current Mood: thoughtful (Comment on this)
stele3	3:34a	Writing magazines Hey guys, I'm thinking that I'd like to start submitting stuff to writing magazines - you know, short stories, poetry, stuff like that. Does anyone have any suggestions as to good magazines that I should submit to? Y'all know my writing preferences, but basically: sci-fi/fantasy/horror, queer, feminist, that sorta thing. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
asylum_promo [ shesborntorun ]	4:26p	LOST Desperately seeking Jack Shepherd. Our Jack had to bow out due to real life issues. As you can imagine Jack is integral to any LOST community. http://asylums.insanejournal.com/litapplications/ There you'll find everything you need about our community. You'll find we have a rather large cast, and there is always room for more. We're starting this season, with a plane crash and memories wiped. This community is looking at the difference between determinism and destiny. We need a kick ass Jack who can keep up (writing wise) with out talented cast. Good luck on finding what you want in a game. (Comment on this)
Monday, March 8th, 2010
musesfool	4:47p	naturally i'm a little wilder I managed to install the software to transfer pictures off my camera onto this computer, and also downloaded GIMP so I could fiddle with them. (as an aside, how did I manage to back up everything on the old laptop but my pictures folder? I have none of my images on the external hard drive. This is...baffling to me. What the hell was I thinking?), so have a post with some pictures of my new cabinet, plus the pudding I made last night and the bread I baked this afternoon. ( cabinet! ) But there you have my culinary adventures for the past 24 hours or so. I still have to bake something for breakfast. And also make dinner. And possibly write something. I haven't written in a week, and it's hard getting started. *whimper* *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/141347.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Guess Who Ran Off with the Milkman - the Pipettes (Comment on this)
musesfool	3:09a	to live in this town you made your whole life in I am pleased with how the Oscars turned out. I mean, I've always liked Sandra Bullock (I once watched Speed every night for a month; admittedly, that's because I'm kind of ridiculous about Keanu - I also watched The Matrix every night for a month when it first arrived on HBO), so while I am less than sanguine about The Blind Side as a movie, I don't mind that she won. And her speech was awesome, so... And I am exceptionally pleased about The Hurt Locker, which I certainly think was the best movie I saw in 2009. Well, tied with Up, so that was great, and Kathryn Bigelow's win was awesome. I'm up right now because I took tomorrow off, and I realized about forty minutes ago that I was supposed to make dough so I could bake bread tomorrow, and I'd completely forgotten. So instead of putting it off til the morning like a normal person, I ended up trying out a new recipe entirely: Dutch oven artisanal bread. Amazingly, the beer I bought sometime last summer which has been sitting in my fridge since then is still good. Since I only needed 3 oz. for the recipe, I am drinking the rest of it now. Apparently I've been out of school for almost twenty years, but still can't face wasting good beer. All my frat boy friends would be so proud. (Yes, my friends in college were mostly frat boys.) I'll finish the recipe tomorrow, and hope it all works out. Earlier this evening, I made homemade chocolate pudding and fresh whipped cream, and it turned out lovely. I will still have to do some baking tomorrow night for breakfast for the rest of the week though, since I can't take pudding to work for breakfast. Or, I could, but it would feel even more decadent than orange ricotta pound cake or chocolate cupcakes. I also made polenta again - this time from a box, and it worked out perfectly. Then I folded in some butter, sprinkled shredded mozzarella on top, and baked it for ten minutes, so hopefully it can be cut into slices and be reheated for lunch. We'll see how that goes. I admit, I'm a little skeptical. But at least this time it didn't just harden to the consistency of cement before I even got to stir it more than once. Small steps, man. Small steps. Okay, I just finished the beer, so I'ma sleep now. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/141181.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: ditzy Current Music: Leaving Atlanta - Vienna Teng (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
amalthia	9:20p	Supernatural and Merlin Recs Supernatural A Pointed Absence Of Static by luchia13 (Castiel/Dean) I loved the premise and felt for Jimmy. (tags: Castiel/Dean recs-Supernatural f3) The Bright Lights of Disturbia by leonidaslion (John/Dean Sam/Dean Dean/OMC) INSTANT REC!!! I was captivated reading this story through a 6 hour flight yesterday. I loved the premise, the character voices, and it was dark and angsty. (tags: author-leonidaslion recs-Supernatural incest John/Dean Sam/Dean Dean/OMC length-novel rape prostitution f4 recs-instant!rec) Apocalypse Maybe by aggybird (Sam/Dean) I had a blast reading this story! :) (tags: recs-Supernatural Sam/Dean f4 humor) Like Glass by entangled_now (Sam/Gabriel) I loved the imagery and the character voices. (tags: recs-Supernatural author-entangled_now f3 Sam/Gabriel) Merlin Ethics of Attraction by nagi_schwarz (Merlin/Arthur) I really enjoyed the premise and the character voices. I also liked that the guys didn't fall immediately into bed together the sexual tension was very well done. :) (tags: recs-Merlin f4 length-novel Merlin/Arthur first-time AU) http://amalthia.dreamwidth.org/601503.html#comments (Comment on this)
stele3	8:50p	Alice friending meme Hi, y'all! I see more and more people on my flist getting into Alice - some of them under my nefarious influence, mwahahaha - so I thought I might host an Alice friending meme! On...my Insanejournal. When most people are on Livejournal. Um. I don't know how well this is going to work. But oh well! Onward! Name: Age: Location: Previous/other fandoms: Fandom likes (do you like PWPs? RPGs? werewolf AUs? what?): Favorite moment from the mini-series: Tell us something about yourself: Rec an Alice fanwork, if you know of any: Anything else? Random stuff?: I'll get us started! Name: stele3 Age: 26 Location: Oregon, USA Previous/other fandoms: Bandom, Supernatural, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Primeval, Battlestar Galactica, Touching Evil, Alias, Lord of the Rings, Farscape, Firefly, The X-FIles Fandom likes (do you like PWPs? RPGs? werewolf AUs? what?): Plotty gen epics! Lots of plotty gen epics! Kink! Accidental comment fic! I can't read most non-con, though. I love any and all writing exchanges/charity ficathons! Favorite moment from the mini-series: When Ratty says "She's Alice, tell him who you are!" and the Hatter says, "Wow." The Wow comes out as halfway between a duck quack and a cat meow, and is absolutely hilarious to me. Tell us something about yourself: I write a lot. When someone can describe to you a story, and THEY know that you wrote it but YOU don't, then you know you've written too much fanfiction. Ummm, I'm trying to become a comic book writer! The first chapter of my graphic novel is here. I'm queer and my journal is friendly to ALL parts of the gender/orientation spectrum, full stop. If someone hasn't declared their gender to me, I usually use non-gender pronouns to describe them ("sie" and "hir"); I hope that doesn't offend anyone. Rec an Alice fanwork, if you know of any: angeleyesjg24 makes awesome icons! Anything else? Random stuff?: If you want my IJ posts to show up on your LJ or DW flist, you can friend my syndicated feeds here: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/stele3_at_ij/profile or http://stele3-at-ij-feed.dreamwidth.org/profile. If you want me to be able to see your flocked stuff on LJ or DW, my OpenID profiles are here: http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?userid=13797985&t=I or http://www.dreamwidth.org/userinfo?userid=3399&t=I. Sorry for being so complicated! IMPORTANT NOTE: Some of you might be confused as to how to comment here. You can actually do so using your LJ or DW OpenID. See the three options above the comment window? Choose the second one and type in your LJ or DW address (xxxxxxx.livejournal.com or xxxxxxx.dreamwidth.org). If you want to be a repeat visitor you can permanently sign in here: http://www.insanejournal.com/openid/ and then select "Remember Me." Link this, peeps! Let's get this little fandom rollin'! (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
asylum_promo [ mugetsu ]	1:33p	Commedia - Octopon - Vagrant Story octopon - Pirates of DarkWater fandom asylum. vagrant_story - Vagrant Story fandom asylum. Pending/WIP. Please feel free to join commedia; a personal project of mine, aiming to review and analyze comics (and other selected media) that feature DC Comics' The Joker. Finished cataloguing my collection: 867. I do not download torrents/scans, or refer to them as sources. Two important polls need to be voted on, as seen here explaining two routes the asylum's project can take. IE: spoiler free reviews, spoilerific reviews, etc. This asylum will remain as a WIP until further interest is shown.</lj></lj></lj> (Comment on this)
Friday, March 5th, 2010
asylum_promo [ blue_siofra ]	1:03p	4 Asylums dwicontest, IJ's Doctor Who icontest is back! Under new management, we will soon be picking up where we left off! Right now, we are voting for Challenge 56! thetardistimes IJ's Whoverse newsletter, posted every Wednesday! butterfly_fics is where blue_siofra posts her fanfiction from Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Torchwood and more. flutterby_icons is where blue_siofra posts her icons featuring Doctor Who, Torchwood and more. I am currently iconing series 1 of Torchwood. (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
musesfool	4:22p	sometimes you have to try to get along I just watched this week's episode of The Good Wife, and man, what a SATISFYING hour of television. ( spoilers ) The show is on the cover of EW this week, and it well deserves to be, because it is AWESOME. Well-written, interesting women who drive the action, an intriguing ongoing arc investigating what actually happened, and how the characters all deal with the fallout not only on their careers, but in all their relationships. Plus, fantastic guest stars - Titus Welliver, Joe Morton, Dylan Baker, Gary Cole, Sonja Sohn, ALAN CUMMING. Jen's grandma from Dawson's! I also really like the rotation of judges they've got going - David Paymer, Peter Riegert, Joanna Gleason. Hopefully we'll see Peter Gerety again too. Not to mention the regular cast. Let's face it, I was going to give anything with Josh Charles and Christine Baranski a chance, and since I always liked Hathaway on ER (I was a total Doug/Carol shipper), Juliana Margulies was also a draw for me. Plus, Chris Noth. I was skeptical of the premise and the courtroom drama thing, but the show totally makes it work. And it's given us Kalinda Sharma, as played by Archie Punjabi, who is probably the best new character on tv this season (well, possibly tied with Vince Howard on FNL). I'm not good at pimping shows out, because the things I like are often not the things fandom likes (or, the things fandom likes are frequently things that leave me cold), but this show is fantastic, and it offers many pairing opportunities (both het and girlslash - I suppose you could make a case for boyslash, but why would you when the women are so fantastic?) and political intrigue and adults acting like adults and mostly being good at their jobs and trying to do the work of relationships as well. I was also amused to read the producer say something like, "We try to figure out how little of the actual cases we have to show," because that's how I write casefiles. *snerk* *** In other news, Die Hard was on, and I couldn't turn it off, even though it was full of commercials and bleeped swears. YIPPIE KI YAY MOTHERFUCKER! One day I'll actually have to watch Die Hard 4. Now, I'm trying to decide what to bake, and if I need to go to the grocery store and pick anything up. Oscars tonight, so I'd like to have some tasty snackage. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/140914.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: satisfied Current Music: Fool's Gold - Stone Roses (Comment on this)
musesfool	12:11p	will you call me your darling tonight? Guys, guys, I don't really care about this whole "Anyone but Dean" campaign (I'm just happy the push for Castiel to win failed), but how in the name of all that is good and right and true is TAMI TAYLOR losing to SETH COHEN? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK IS THAT, PEOPLE? TAMI FUCKING TAYLOR IS MORE AWESOME THAN ALMOST ANYBODY ON THAT LIST (except, like, Kara Thrace, though Tami is certainly more emotionally stable and, uh, sane than Kara; CJ Cregg and Veronica Mars, and possibly Lorelai Gilmore, even though I voted for Charlie Crews [I would have voted for Dani Reese if she'd been on there!]) and she's losing to some whiny emo kid? FOR SHAME! *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/140630.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: shocked Current Music: Call Me Your Darling - Thea Gilmore (Comment on this)
poisontaster	8:11a	Channeling Morpheus for Scary Mary by Jordan Castillo Price In recent years, I have not really been a vampire fan. It's a truth that's hard to spot, given that I continue to read the Anita Blake and the Southern Vampire books and True Blood is still appointment watching for me, but it's true, even so. A good story will always suck me in, but a vamp story will seldom get a second look from me to even find out if it's good. Which is why it was both a surprise and delight that I enjoyed reading Jordan Castillo Price's Channeling Morpheus for Scary Mary so much. Though I generally try to approach all books with an open mind and heart, I'll confess that I came to this one really expecting to dislike it. I haven't had the best of look finding m/m books that I enjoy, lately, and between the vamp thing and everything else, I was feeling pretty cynical about the whole thing. So JCP had a lot of prejudice on my part to overcome and the fact that I did enjoy the book as much as I did is a testament to how hard JCP worked to involve and enmesh me in the world she'd created. Successfully. ( More, with no real spoilers. ) Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)
musesfool	12:50a	cannot dream this all away Wow, Saturday is over. How did that happen? I've spent the last eight hours or so updating the Remix FAQ and then watching as astolat fixes problems with the signup form. Before it opens live (in a couple of weeks, hopefully), we'll be opening it up to testing, so you'll be hearing about that soonish - doing a dry run of signing up, I mean. So the AO3 folks can fix any issues before it goes live for real, and we can finetune the FAQ to handle any issues that come up in the test run. And also there are still some other issues that have to be resolved that are particular to Remix and its matching complications. Remix has a very ... I don't know that it's complicated? I guess it's complicated and also exceptionally LONG for a FAQ and set of rules, but that is mainly because as things have come up over the years, we've added them in to clarify. I know - I know this from my years of meeting planning if not from 7 years of running remix and various other challenges - people don't read. It doesn't matter how often you shove the instructions at them, they don't read. I've done it myself, to my embarrassment. So we just keep adding stuff to the rules/FAQ, so even if people don't read it (and we know they don't), we can point to it and say, "Well, see here in the FAQ, it says no, you can't do that." It's the polite version of RTFF, I guess. Which I would suggest everyone do, but I know how futile that is. This year I've done a 'bullet points' version for people who don't want to wade through the whole thing, and it's still ridiculously long, but I think it covers all the pertinent points. Especially as there are some changes this year. One thing I would definitely recommend is watching remixers_lounge, or at least checking in fairly regularly, as it is where all Remix-related announcements will be made this year. I'm really tired. I think PMS is doing a number on me this month - I think my fever the other night was totally PMS-related. It wouldn't be the first time it's given me a faux illness that disappeared as soon as my period showed up. Meh. I'm so glad I have Monday off. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/140523.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: drained Current Music: Mermaid Blues - Tom McRae (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
poisontaster	10:28p	Where Life is Beautiful All The Time Writing: 500 words on AKB 80 and about 168 words on El Corazon yesterday. Not as much as I was hoping, not as bad as I thought. Today, I didn't get a darned bit of writing done. Meh. Movies: Instead, The Husband and I hung out, going to see Percy Jackson & the Olympians. I wasn't crazy about the racial or disability politics, but it was otherwise a pretty enjoyable movie and it has been WAY TOO LONG since I have seen Kevin McKidd in a chiton and armor. Nom. Reading: I'm 0 for 2 with the book group so far. I didn't enjoy February's book of the month and I'm enjoying this month's even less. First of all, like And Call Me In The Morning, it's set in Chicago. But where Okati had the sense to gloss past geography she knew nothing about, I feel like this author has gone out of her way to demonstrate that everything she knows about Chicago, she got from wikipedia and Mapquest. I don't even want to name names, because I feel like I have absolutely nothing good to say about this book or the author's writing style. And, worse, the author is part of the group (which I think is such huge mistake) and thus, I can't even go back to the group and feel like there will be honest discussion or that I can be honest without potentially really hurting some fellow writer's feelings. *sighs* I'm really torn between just quitting the book now, and putting myself out of my misery, or pressing on, so that I can feel like I evaluated it fairly. (Yes, I know most of you will tell me quit now; that would probably be the sensible thing to do) I did finish Channeling Morpheus for Scary Mary, though I have yet to write up an "official" review for it, I have to say I really enjoyed it. Even with my anti-vamp leanings. *g* It was so nice to read something that I just enjoyed. Reading shouldn't be this stressful, yo. Current Mood: cranky (Comment on this)
stele3	1:40p	"If they're not using their powers for good, we are screwed." I might possibly be having a mini love affair with the band OK Go. I was recently linked to their videos for Here It Goes Again (the one where they dance on treadmills and look a bit like they're skating), and now everyone and their cat and dog are watching the video for This Too Shall Pass, which is just amazing and hilarious and beautiful. Equally hilarious is the introduction to that video that they taped, in which lead singer Damien Kulash address Youtube as an ex-lover who hasn't been returning their calls. (Check out the little Hand of Silence [tm sinsense] that guitarist Andy Ross holds up at 0:19. Hee, I already have a favorite.) Also fascinating is the Making Of video series (4 parts) that detail exactly how they got this machine together, with the help of Mind Share Labs, a creative nerd community, and a bunch of trash. Also, Damien calls his friends "geek-monster, awesome-toots," and threatens to make out with the machine at some point. The whole band strikes me as a bunch of dorks. (Comment on this)
Friday, March 5th, 2010
amalthia	9:36p	Legend of the Seeker 2 x 13 - Princess Reaction post I finally had the chance to watch the episode I missed while I was at Escapade and I'm now wishing I had seen this with my friend lovesrain44 I just about died laughing. I hadn't laughed this hard since the Mirror episode in season 1. ( The rest of my reaction is under the cut ) http://amalthia.dreamwidth.org/601168.html#comments (Comment on this)

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