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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
helkamaria
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2:35p
Boo for Copenhagen
So the Copenhagen climate conference was a massive failure. Big surprise.
Bloody rich nations. When countries like Brazil said that they could do this much, we ought to have matched it with a statement of being able to do more. Instead, we just sat in our corners, mistrustfully glaring at other nations lest they get a better deal than we did. I'm soooo pround of being European right now. Or, you know, not.
I get so frustrated because it seems like there's nothing I can do. I can change my own habits but fat lot of good it will do when the government doesn't lift a finger to make it easier. Where's the renewable energy with which to heat my flat during this bloody cold winter? Where's better public transport? Bike lanes? A ban on private cars in cities? (I know that last one is controversial, but I'm so sick of cars taking space in cities and polluting the air that I'd cheerfully ban them.)
I think I'm going to hide under the covers and not come out any time soon.
Merry fucking Christmas, everyone.
This entry is also posted at http://helkamaria.dreamwidth.org/66270.html. There are  comments there.
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pre_raphaelite1
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2:53a
Impending Spam
I've just realised I failed to post like half of my 2008 Lusty Month of May fics to my personal journal... so I'm going to do that now.
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slythwolf
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3:12a
9_9
As peeved as I get about the misuse, in fiction, of the word "ravish" to mean something other than rape--it's even worse when the author means to say "ravish"--describing a kiss, for instance--but says "ravage" instead.
"Ravage" means to violently destroy or ruin. Someone who kisses you and "ravages" your mouth has probably bitten your lips off.
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(Hex me!) Friday, December 18th, 2009
pre_raphaelite1
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11:19p
Alright, alright, alright!
I'm updating! Just for you, ![[profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) marilla82 and your 12 LJ "nudges" in the space of 4 minutes. GEEZ. :P
I have recovered from crap strep throat, finished my grades, and gotten hired back for winter quarter. All good things.
Everyone should go visit Daily Deviant and see the fun stuff posted for their Kinky Kristmas! One of my fics has been posted and I've also gotten some AMAZING Minerva/Bill art: "Let Your Hair Down, Miss Kitty" which everyone should go see. It's tres hot! RWOWR. Minerva+FuckMeBoots+Corset=OT3! This is just incredible and needs to be on my office wall!
And in grabbing the link for that I just found out I got some a lovely darker, dreamlike Luna fic from one of the fabu D_D watchers: "The Running of the Deer" It takes on my love of "Carol of the Bells" and twists it together with some paganism into a haunting fic that demands a 2nd read.
So go check those out and all the other stuff. During the course of the month, you'll eventually find 2 fics by me and one by my darling Magpie! But remember they're meant to be anonymous so don't spoil it if you can spot them. :P
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eeyore9990
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11:14p
Recs from Week Three of Fests
I have several links here, most of which you've seen already (heh, I was a lucky, lucky girl this week!), but I'm dropping them again, because fest comments are down across the board and I figure maybe a bunch of y'all didn't see when I posted them last time, for one reason or another.
Remember, y'all, when you read/view something and you like it? Leave feedback for the author/artist. It's disheartening as hell to work your ass off on a fic, get it as perfect as you can, and then hear nothing but resounding silence in return.
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) daily_deviant's Kinky Kristmas:
I actually haven't been reccing individual things from here, because everything's just been THAT AWESOME, but these were for me *is lucky lucky lucky* and therefore deserve a bit of extra acknowledgement. He Wants Him is the most delicious of kinks: double dipping. Guh and yum and bullet-proof, this kink is. And the fic more than lives up to the kink! Bill/Draco, Charlie/Draco and hints at more. Oh, sweet lord, I think this fic may have spontaneously impregnated me. If it didn't, then the art I received CERTAINLY did. Taste is a Kingsley/Charlie art of utter holy hell hotness that just... omg. Tongue and freckles and hipbones and scruff and Kingsley's bald head and... Well. If I was a guy, I'd have been in the same visible state as Charlie. Ahem.
lupin_snape's Snupin Santa:
I have not read a lot from this fest, but this one came highly recommended to me. Mad Wolves and Englishmen. Hilarious and hot and everything I ever want from a fic, including Texas. :D This Snape is just perfect and Remus--who, let's be honest, it takes a lot to make me like since I kind of hated him a lot in canon--was believably himself while somehow also being a fucking awesome character. I have no idea how the author pulled that one off, but she/he did it splendidly! I loved this fic to death and can't rec it enough.
( More recs under here )
There will be a part two to this tomorrow. I am tired and know I'm forgetting a bunch of fic and art, so. Tomorrow. There will also be non-fest fics in tomorrow's batch, so for those who need to know the author before committing to reading, look out for that.
For now, though, I will simply nag stress again, comment! Comment, comment, comment. Pleeease.
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(Hex me!) Saturday, December 19th, 2009
joanwilder
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1:02a
FIC: Noel Destinations
Title: Noel
Author: ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) joanwilder aka RaeWhit
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 421
Summary: The best gift is often intangible.
A/N: This was written for lulabelle72, who guessed my entry in snarry_ldws correctly. She asked for H/D. Thanks to jadzialove for beta reading.
( Noel Destinations )
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(1 slug belched | Hex me!) Friday, December 18th, 2009
musesfool
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11:44p
and if you believe that what's done is done
I made this chocolate mousse tonight. It's good, though I think I made the same mistake the poster made, because mine is also riddled with small bits of unmelted chocolate (or perhaps the meringue was too cool? It is fairly cool in my apartment so I don't think "room temperature" means what they intended it to mean). And also, there are way too many fucking bowls involved. Okay, it's only two, but you have to wash one of them in the middle of the process and I do not have enough room to be pouring things from bowl to bowl and washing up in the middle. I have a cutting board laid over my sink and a strip of counter space about 12" long by 4" wide, and the top of my stove. That is it. My life, so hard. wah wah wah.
I think I'm pretty much decided on what I'm making for gifts, but tomorrow I will be trying out some kind of cinnamon chocolate cake. I will report back how it turns out. If it is really awesome, maybe I will drop out the nutella cake and substitute it. Decisions, decisions.
I think baking is a good way to spend the coming snowpolcaypse, don't you?
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current mood:  sleepy
current music: that history repeats from father to son
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alchemia
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10:11p
GoogleWave
Any of you there? Ive barely looked at it have little clue wtf to do with it or even how to find people. But uh, I'm there, and have some invites.
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snarry_holidays
[ snarryhols ]
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10:07p
Fic: Invasum (Like Father, LIke Son) - for fanficforensics
Title: Invasum (Like Father, Like Son)
Author: Rudolph
Giftee: fanficforensics
Word Count: ~14,800
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Highlight to view: * Harry/Ginny, Harry/Tobias (sorta), Harry/Severus *
Warnings: Highlight to view: * A brief moment of het sex *
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Harry, searching for Snape after he disappeared from the Shrieking Shack, follows a trail into the Muggle world and runs into Tobias Snape.
Author's Notes: My heartiest of thanks to the Snarry Holidays mods: your forbearance knows no bounds! This fic was saved by last-minute pinch-betaing by L, and any other inconsistencies or errors are totally mine. Fanficforensics, I don’t know if this is what you meant with your prompt, but this lodged in my head and would only come out by writing it down, hope you enjoy it.
Invasum (Like Father, Like Son)
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florahart
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4:21p
I often find this blog thought-provoking...
So, Shapely Prose...
I don't actually agree full-bore with everything she says all the time, because I do think there is a relationship, if not quite the one(s)* being pushed by large chunks of society, between weight/food and health, but I also think that given how prevalent those social messages are, having some voices that are a little over the top on the other side is probably all to the good.
Anyway, today she talks about the effort to have kids not leave Santa cookies because cookies are a sometimes food, and the comments, in which people write letters to Santa and tell him why he can't have cookies, may have me falling off my chair with giggle. Possibly repeatedly.
*The messages I think are bad are: 1. fat people are unethical and weak and probably pathetic; 2. fatness and weight can be measured and talked about in absolutes even in the absence of other data; 3. only thin people are pretty. The messages I wish we spent more time on are: 1. feeling well and strong are worthy goals and sometimes but not always weight management/reduction is a part of reaching them; 2. the ethics of consumption are about sustainability and sharing of resources, not about fatness; 3. beauty isn't about skirt size.
Nothing about any of that should be taken as a criticism of the efforts I am aware many people who might read this have made to change their own bodies.
I originally posted this at http://florahart.dreamwidth.org/1015256.html, and you are welcome to comment there. OpenID and/or anon comments are allowed.
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snakeling
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11:38p
Drabble and holiday cards!
I received a card with a drabble from ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) misswinterhill! It's Jack/Estelle and completely awesome and exactly what I want from this pairing :) *pets it and snuggles it and calls it George*
Homecoming
He went back to her one Christmas, with a carefully forged letter in hand. She took one look at him and he knew that the game was up, but she was happy to play along.
She took him out, proudly, to Bridge Club meetings. They all changed partners for the night and Jack was reminded of playing cards in muddy trenches, of the card tricks of his own life. Estelle didn’t mind when he held her a moment too long as he left.
“I’m an old woman,” she said. “People will talk.”
“You’re a beautiful woman,” he replied. “Let them.”
*happy sigh*
Also, thanks to dementordelta, foudebassan, gingergirl, and skuf for their cards! Every time I receive one, it brightens my day ♥
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painless_j
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11:52p
Happy belated birthday, Viki!
Here's some music for you: three songs each from four bands and singers I love. The files are at Box.net, which means (for those unfamiliar with it) that you can listen to the songs as well as download them.
Mylene Farmer. I can't help loving her songs even when they are kitchy 'cos the woman is so artistic. I love her videos too!
California
Je te rends ton amour
L'ame-stram-gram
My beloved Rammstein released a new album. I can't say I loved all of it (I never do though) but I liked half of the songs.
Fruhling in Paris -- this one is the best, as for me, from this album. Also, Till singing in foreign languages is sexy :) Here he sings in French.
Rammlied -- the opening song of the album and yet another version of Rammstein including their own name in their song. Fun! And quite strong.
Pussy -- the notorious Pussy, the one of the NC-17 video, with which R+ came back after their years of silence.
My beloved Pulp. I know you know and like some songs of theirs. Do you like their Separations though? It's one of their first albums and still my favourite of theirs. Actually, this was the album that turned me from classical music to pop and rock :) I don't like what Jarvis Cocker does now and didn't like even their last album with Pulp. IMO it lost all their earlier vitality. But still, they hold a very special place in my heart :)
Separations, the title song.
Don't You Want Me Anymore -- a bit morbid, more than a bit ironic and role-playing, and all-in-all wonderful melodically.
Acryllic Afternoons, from His'n'Hers.
And my beloved The Cranberries. I swear, I listen to Dolores O'Riordan mewl and scream while trying not to hear the lyrics. She's, to put it mildly, not a good poet. But her energy! Her voice! I love it :)
I Just Shot John Lennon
Electric Blue
Hollywood
And here's the link to the entire folder. Enjoy! :)
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celandineb
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2:27p
TGIF
Can't-miss for Jane Austen fans: Pride & Prejudice in emoticons!
So far today I have skinned my knee falling down the stairs (yes, I am three); walked Juno despite sore knee; returned a nonfunctioning electric candelabra to Target; gassed up the car; and wrapped a wedding present. We'll be leaving in about an hour and a half for the wedding, so I'm gonna try to do a little writing in the interval.
Today's ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) 3fan_holidays fic is fluffy Bill/Neville. Today's drabble from me:
current mood:  mellow
current music: SO grumbling about grading
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cluegirl
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3:04p
We twa hae paddled i the bourne and pu'd the gowans fine...
"So why hunt the wren then?" Says Milder to Mulder,
"Why hunt the wren then, if it's such a small thing?"
"It's an old Pagan custom," Says Mulder to Milder,
"And 'Hunting the Sausage' don't have the same ring!"
The Ton Cake is done, glazed, and cooling on the countertop. It weighs roughly as much as Brazil, and smells like Sin-in-a-Bundt-Pan. I cannot wait to cut into it and taste that bad boy. I've made up another batch of candied orange peel, which I will presently put into oatmeal cookies, along with some Ghiradeli dark chocolate chips -- Anybody got a really good oatmeal cookie recipe that'd be a good vehicle for that? I've got nothing that I remember with any particular fondness when it comes to oatmeal cookie recipes, -- and after a trip to market, I'll get a start on the Teriyaki Turkey Meatballs. I'll be leaving the Wassail until tomorrow night, given that it'll be served from the stove.
And along the way, I've been pecking at a fun little Holiday ficlet.
Naughty of me, I know, with Tempus Fugitive languishing away, but I refuse to pretend contrition -- I'm having fun tying fandom cliches into knots on this one, and I mean to carry on enjoying it, thanks. TF will hold for a day or so, at least.
So... What, my Witchkin, are YOUR plans for Solstice this year?
current music: Joy to the World -- 3 Dog Night.
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skuf
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8:48p
Meta shill!* (One day I'll get around to posting my feelings on "pimp")
noracharles posts "Call for contributor guidelines to metafandom, and for more dw meta", including a poll on "How would you as a reader like to be made aware of interesting meta posted to dreamwidth, including the sort not accepted by ![[community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) metafandom?".
Fine, let it be this day: Considering the association of the term with the exploitation of women, I definitely have days where I feel it's a bad thing for me as a women to use it - in a way it legitimises prostituting women for your own personal monetary gain - the same way me using the terms "bitch" and "cunt" as invectives in a way legitimises the notion of female/female genitals = bad.
The reason why I don't hate it 100%, 100% of the time, is because it's such a damn good word, short and to the point. It's not the same as "rec", and I really like the distinction! Is there another short word which works as well, which I can't think of?
ETA: yourlibrarian says "shill" has been suggested. I like it! Except "shill cane" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. And an icon with a duck decoy would probably just confuse people… ETA2: Or would it&hellip?
* Shilling?
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musesfool
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1:51p
glimpse your many futures
Bring me the finest bagels and muffins in the land! My yuletide story has been sent off to beta!
It turned out all right in the end, I think. It needs a good polishing, but it isn't the horror I was afraid it was going to be when I was struggling over each and every word.
Now onto Broken Toys!
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I stayed up late last night and now I am very tired. It was hard to get out of bed this morning. It is very cold outside, and it's supposed to snow. My parents said not to come, because of the weather. So I have an unexpected weekend at home. Surely there will be baking. And writing. And sleeping. Dear god, so much sleeping.
Have a poem, since I am clearly incapable of writing an entry:
The God Who Loves You
It must be troubling for the god who loves you
To ponder how much happier you'd be today
Had you been able to glimpse your many futures.
It must be painful for him to watch you on Friday evenings
Driving home from the office, content with your week—
Three fine houses sold to deserving families—
Knowing as he does exactly what would have happened
Had you gone to your second choice for college,
Knowing the roommate you'd have been allotted
Whose ardent opinions on painting and music
Would have kindled in you a lifelong passion.
A life thirty points above the life you're living
On any scale of satisfaction. And every point
A thorn in the side of the god who loves you.
You don't want that, a large-souled man like you
Who tries to withhold from your wife the day's disappointments
So she can save her empathy for the children.
And would you want this god to compare your wife
With the woman you were destined to meet on the other campus?
It hurts you to think of him ranking the conversation
You'd have enjoyed over there higher in insight
Than the conversation you're used to.
And think how this loving god would feel
Knowing that the man next in line for your wife
Would have pleased her more than you ever will
Even on your best days, when you really try.
Can you sleep at night believing a god like that
Is pacing his cloudy bedroom, harassed by alternatives
You're spared by ignorance? The difference between what is
And what could have been will remain alive for him
Even after you cease existing, after you catch a chill
Running out in the snow for the morning paper,
Losing eleven years that the god who loves you
Will feel compelled to imagine scene by scene
Unless you come to the rescue by imagining him
No wiser than you are, no god at all, only a friend
No closer than the actual friend you made at college,
The one you haven't written in months. Sit down tonight
And write him about the life you can talk about
With a claim to authority, the life you've witnessed,
Which for all you know is the life you've chosen.
~Carl Dennis
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/108764.html.  people have commented there.
current mood: sleepy
current music: I'll Fall with Your Knife - Peter Murphy
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sams_cafe
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11:18a
OH AND I saw the episode of House everyone said I had to see, the one that was all about Wilson.
( Three Things! )
3a. I have to say this outside of cut, because really, Wilson? Really?
"She hurt my friend. She should be punished."
Dear House and Wilson: It's okay to be hurt if a woman rejects you, and it's okay to be hurt if she's dating someone you consider a friend. It's even okay to be hurt if she's your friend and rejected your other friend.
You know what it's not okay to do? Punish her for not loving you.
Creeps.
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sams_cafe
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9:25a
So I totally didin't realise NCIS was new this week. Which is why Sam's Three Things are BELATED.
Spoilers for Episode 7.10, ( Faith )
3a. Okay normally I would mention how I absolutely DID NOT tear up at the end, with McGee and the Most Adorable Child Ever, but instead I have to say this: I watched the latest episode of Merlin last night as well, The Fires Of We're Not Nazguls, Really, We're Not, and the first ten minutes were the most awesome ten minutes of Merlin ever, followed by the most ridiculously stupid forty minutes ever (okay not the most ridiculously stupid of Merlin, though, that would be the fucking troll episodes).
OMG YOU GUYS DID YOU SEE MERLIN THROW HIM HIS SWORD THAT WAS TOTALLY BADASS AND THEN HE DRESSED MERLIN'S WOUNDS WITH HIS OWN. CLOTHES. AHAHAHA.
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snarry_holidays
[ snarryhols ]
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9:56a
Fic: Footfalls echo in the memory - for dandru
Title: Footfalls echo in the memory
Author: R.A.B.
Giftee: dandru
Word Count: ~17,500
Rating: R/NC-17
Pairing: Snape/Harry (with references to past Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione and Ron/Pansy)
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Snape and Harry lose their memories of the past ten years.
Author's Notes: I hope you like this, dandru! It's not quite time travel, but it was as close as I could get while incorporating most of the rest of your prompts. Thank you so much to my beta mairi, who had to hear me wibbling about this fic. Any remaining mistakes are my own.
(Footfalls echo in the memory)
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beck_liz
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7:53a
SNOW in Virginia! *gasp*
As a result of the Nor'easter that is forecast for tomorrow, there actually is a pretty good chance of SE Virginia getting snow tomorrow night. (Much better than I thought last night, goldy_dollar.) Cue Virginians freaking out variously: "YAY SNOW! Let's get out the sleds!" or "ACK, SNOW! Stock up on supplies!"
*facepalm* Oh, Virginians. Y'all are so cute.
ETA: Note that, even if it does snow here tomorrow night? It will almost certainly melt by midday on Sunday. If we even get so much as to actually cause problems driving (although that's not really that much for folks around here).
current mood:  amused
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musesfool
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1:16a
i got a little story you should know
\o/
1240 words!
I'm not done, but the end is in sight!
Woo!
And now I must go to bed, because I am up way too late.
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current mood:  jubilant
current music: one for my baby - frank sinatra
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(Hex me!) Thursday, December 17th, 2009
obsessed_one
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11:37p
This is one of my favorite CM quotes. Because it's so true.
Morgan: Garcia, baby girl, please tell me something I want to hear.
Garcia: You are a statuesque god of sculpted chocolate thunder.
Morgan: How about something I don't already know?
Garcia: *pause and leer* I have a sweet tooth.
I have signed up for a Delicious account at long last. I've stopped using my regular bookmarks in Firefox, because they're a bloody mess and full of dead links and mis-matched organization and I'm considering dropping a small WMD on that portion of my harddrive to clean up the mess. At least with Delicious, I can keep track of fic I like and fic to read and fun and useful sites and such. Not to mention that I'd be able to get a handle on organizing my fic in lieu of fixing up my way the hell outdated website.
Anyhow, there's nothing there right now, but for those of you interested, here's my Delicious page. Any tips or tricks would be hot, if any of you are experienced in it, since I'm too freaking stubborn to actually go through the tutorials to learn what I'm doing.
What? I taught myself jewelry making that way, so why not social bookmarking?
I managed a very small amount of writing today, but it was for me and not school, and I feel confident that tomorrow I'll be able to get more done. I've got three fanfic projects that are my priority right now, one of which most likely won't even have any smut in it. I know, it's weird. But it's gonna be awesome once I get it done, which is why I'm focusing on that one, even though it's not the one I'm most done with. That, and it's Part One of the fic for enablelove, who gets two fics because my first bunny was awesome and incapable of fitting in some of her more awesome ideas, but is perfectly useful for leading in to a second story in the 'verse that DOES have smut. On the upside, since they're Castle AUs, by the time I'm done with them, I'll be an old hand at writing mysteries.
Five more posts on LJ and I'll hit 2000. I don't think I even looked forward to my 21st birthday as much as this. IDK. Current plan is either to magic up a 2000-word fic between now and then or to promise 2000 comments in the next year (thanks to wendy for both ideas!). Any other thoughts? I was considering a fic meme, but I'd need to find a good random thing to be the prompt reasoning. HELP ME FLIST YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE.
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auctasinistra
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7:19p
I don't usually do these...
... which, as anyone who's ever looked at my journal more than twice knows, is a huge understatement ...
( meme )
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musesfool
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10:22p
i had sex with your wife
Friday Night Lights
( spoilers )
I love this show so so much. I can't believe that it consistently gets shut out of awards, because it is pretty consistently (early season 2 aside) head and shoulders above most other shows on television. Sigh.
***
I came home from work tonight and took a nap. I haven't done that in ages (I mean, okay, a few nights ago I fell asleep on the couch, but that wasn't planned - this was planned). I also ordered in, something I don't do very often anymore either. I got my period this morning and it's freaking freezing out. I felt I deserved both.
Also, my new comforter arrived. I haven't had a new one in ages. I still love my old (fifteen-years-old) black comforter with the lilies on it, but I needed something new and this one is pretty. Hopefully it's warm, too. I'm not going to put it on the bed till my period's over, though, just to be safe.
***
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current mood:  mellow
current music: Absolute Beginners - The Jam
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dementordelta
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9:05p
The (Much Belated) State of Clank and Chains
Hugs: Big hugs to everyone who sent snowflake cookies! And to sillypowers and gblvr for the non-snowflake gifties! You guys rock!
Cards: I'm enjoying all the holiday cards coming in! I don't put up a tree so having festive (and sometimes porny) cards around really brightens the holidays! All my fannish ones went out last week—will post the artwork by the lovely veridian_dair after the holidays!
Actual Fannish Content: The folks over at severus_sighs did artist and author interviews last month and you can find mine, over here!
Fests: I haven't had a chance to read many, er...*checks* Er, actually nope, none, no fics...Any Snarry Holidays recs?
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snegurochka_lee
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8:31p
smutty_claus Recs
I need to take another reading break and finish writing something if I want to post it before the end of the year. Which I really, really do. But reading is so much easier! :/ Well, anyway, reading has prevailed over writing this week. Ah, well. :) I've got a few of the longer smutty_claus stories bookmarked, but here are some one-shots I've loved so far.
Throwdown by Anon (Harry/Tonks, NC-17: Tonks-lives!AU, 5K)
Voldemort had been a piece of cake compared to fighting a pretty girl.
PAIRING WIN! I was just talking to a friend about how we slashers love to keep canonically dead women dead and resurrect the men (which I do all the time myself, so no judgement there), but it's lovely to see the reverse for a change. Tonks survived the war, and several years later, she's Harry's physical combat instructor in Auror training. Winning set-up before I even tell you another word, right? :D They are each wonderfully characterised, and I especially love Harry's narrative voice as he tries to talk himself out of a raging crush on this 30-something family friend, mother of his godson, training superior, and overall super hot, fit, awesomesauce woman.
Ride the Drafts in Empty Bedrooms by Anon (Snape/Narcissa, NC-17, canon character death, implied infidelity, 3K)
Severus is well aware that some of his housemates tend to turn to the liquid comfort of Firewhisky and gin after being so totally rejected; it is now his turn to turn to the sweet assurances of liquid luck.
This is one of the only Snape het ships I can handle, and when it's done well, I really like it. I mean, HI, Unbreakable Vow, anyone? a;lksjf. This short fic does a nice job of switching between a school-age timeline and an HBP-era timeline, and I really like how the author characterises both Snape and Narcissa and develops the chemistry between them. I also really like the style of writing here; I can't really explain what's different about it, but it has a nice, fresh feel, with some well-placed parenthetical asides and streamed-in dialogue and oh, IDEK what I'm talking about. It works, though. :)
A Little Sideways by Anon (Cedric/Luna, NC-17: Cedric-lives!AU, 9K)
Cedric was never as dead as everyone thought. All he needed was one person to see him.
This one had me at the summary. :) It's a lovely, romantic tale about a boy who died and might have become a ghost (or might have come back, except no one can see him but Muggles), and a girl he used to know a little bit who spots him one day and slowly brings him back to life. Sort of. It's a universe only a character like Luna could make work, and the way it unfolds is nothing short of beautiful. I also decided it's part-meta on minor characters like these in general in fic: all it takes is for someone to 'see' them. ;)
Upon the Midnight Clear by Anon (Draco/Hermione, NC-17, 4K)
Years after the war, things have changed. Hermione meets Draco at a Christmas party and goes home with him to make a little music.
This might be a horrible, back-handed sort of compliment to give, but it took me a few tries to get into this one. First of all, unless you're one of maybe two authors I can name off the top of my head who excel ridiculously at it, I probably won't be on board for your first-person narration right off the bat. Second, I, ah, had some trouble with Hermione in the first few paragraphs. BUT! But! I was intrigued enough to keep reading, and by the time Draco enters the scene, I was completely hooked. A bitter, broken-hearted Hermione is actually pretty kick-ass by the time she loops her arm into Draco's at a Christmas party and starts chatting him up just to make a philandering Ron jealous. I was rooting for her the whole way. Draco, meanwhile, is quiet, charming, and there is a passage about his relationship with his son that melted me into a puddle of goo. It's a great set-up and has a lovely follow-through. If you're wary of first-person the way I am, I recommend plunging in and letting yourself sink into the POV. It's really nicely done.
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6:16p
Oops!
Forgot to say, got a delightful card from aome today - thank you!
current mood:  embarrassed
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7:14p
Hang dang-donglers on the bathtub! Trim the occupant with floof!
I was just totally busted singing Seussian nonsense to myself in the kitchen. I didn't think Dominus was going to come home before he went bowling. Am not thoroughly mortified.
I was singing Trim Up The Tree by way of self-medication against the rather awful scene I've been writing today. If a story rides on the strength of its villain, then I can't fear for TF on that count. Because Hughes is thouroughly creeping me out. He's a mad, bad bastard, he is. *Shivers* It's surreal to be writing him while listening to OFHM. (Other Folks' Holiday Music) "Do you see what IIIII seee?" "God, I hope nobody sees what you see, Thomas. One of you who sees that way is quite enough, thanks!"
Today's temperature has been hovering around 12 F. That's without factoring in the windchill, by the way. The Faithful are Not Best Pleased, and are convinced, to a whisker, that somehow it's All My Fault. Mithril has begun to come and inform me about the dereliction of my door duties on a fairly regular basis, alternating between scolding me for Doing It Wrong, and sucking up in case I might be convinced to open the door properly, so it's warm.
One day, Cat Physics will overturn the scientific world, you know. It's just a matter of time... and then learning to write, really. It'll happen any day now, you mark my words.
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(Hex me!) Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
(Hex me!) Thursday, December 17th, 2009
snarry_holidays
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6:24p
Posting Break
We're ahead of schedule so there will be no more gifts posted today. Posting will resume tomorrow morning as usual. You can take this time to play catch up. :D
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(Hex me!) Friday, December 18th, 2009
(Hex me!) Thursday, December 17th, 2009
florahart
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12:50p
Fic: "Conspiracy" (Kirk/McCoy, PG)
Title: Conspiracy
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Words: 1600
Rating: PG
A/N: I know, shocking lack of porn. Sry. Established Kirk/McCoy, shortly post-XI.
( Conspiracy )
I originally posted this at http://florahart.dreamwidth.org/1014744.html, and you are welcome to comment there. OpenID and/or anon comments are allowed.
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11:14a
Are you jealous yet? Are you?!
So my week of awesomeness continues being awesome. Another gift for me posted! ART. Yes, someone really loves me. *buys another lotto ticket*
The only downside is that I'm pretty sure this is the last possible gift to post for me, lol. BUT! Considering how awesome everything I've been given has been? I am so so so lucky.
Today's gift: Taste on Kinky Kristmas, which is ART, of the VERY not safe for work or inlaws or children variety. It's a gorgeously drawn Kingsley and Charlie (unf!) and there are bits of male anatomy sort of front and center, but dude. The tongue and the licking and the hipbones? I'm...just... unf. And ngngngh!
I believe I shall just collapse right here into a puddle of gooey squee. *collapses*
Also, and this is like a 180° twist in this post, but leela_cat is doing a Eight Days of Hanukah event on her journal. I've already snagged some delicious recipes from her and read one of the most beautiful bits of original femslash, but yesterday's offering was a Snape-centric gen fic which is just completely moving. The Friday Box is a story you really need to read.
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10:28a
it's like trying to fight gravity
various. and also sundry:
= 850 words on my yuletide. I am getting there, I think. I hope. *meep*
= I have Google wave invites (I never log in, because it seems pointless and counterintuitive to me, but whatever), DW invites, and those LJ holiday coupons if anyone wants them.
= I posted two ficlets in the past two days:
Sometime Around Midnight
Dark Angel; Max/Alec; pg; 310 words
Since he can't get drunk, there's only one way to forget.
I look at the world and I notice it's turning
Harry Potter; Remus/Sirius; pg; 650 words
"I needed to hear this song." (sequel to The Love There That's Sleeping)
They were the only complete results from my foray into the ten songs/ten ficlets thing this time around, though I started a couple others that might get written once yuletide is done.
= Is it me or is delicious really flaky lately? Half the time I click on something and I get the "experiencing technical difficulties" message.
= I am attempting to put together some top 10 lists for the decade and while I think I can sort of do favorite characters (way more than ten *snerk*), favorite episodes is frustrating me, partly because my memory is pretty crappy, and partly because I can only think of WW and BSG episodes, and also because I waffle about whether to include "The Body" or OMWF. Though I have to say, I think best episode title of the decade has to go to "Dim Sum, Lose Some," but only because I am ridiculously fond of bad puns.
It is a puzzlement.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/107954.html.  people have commented there.
current mood: sleepy
current music: falling is like this - ani difranco
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bethbethbeth
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9:40a
Fests and Whatnot
What season is it? It's fic/art exchange season!
Okay, not that I've really had a chance to read much of anything yet since I'm hip deep in final exam grading (and finishing my yuletide fic, a process which is swiftly approaching the OMG BEARS! phase *g*), but I did want to draw your attention to the two other fests I'm currently participating in:
1. snapelyholidays. I haven't received my story yet, but for those of you who, like me, love Snape in all pairings, this year's assortment will make you think it's your birthday! Along with the always welcome Snape/Harry and Snape/Lupin and Snape/Hermione, we've already had Snape paired with Lily and McGonagall and Regulus and Sirius and Dumbledore and Lucius and Neville and Filch and Moody and Slughorn and Shacklebolt. Wheee!
2. And then there's Good Omens. The go_exchange is one of my "must-do" fests each year, even though I'm only on the periphery of that fandom, and one of the reasons is because of stories like the one I received this year: a long, wonderfully written, future history that's only dystopian to the extent that a canonical Apocalypse is dystopian, which...oh. Hmm. No, okay, go back to where I said "wonderfully written" and then add original and clever. "World Without End"...go read!
Oh, and just as an addendum: I will be running hp_beholder (the fic/art exchange designed to get some loving for the most unloved of HP characters) for the third time. Sign-ups will commence at the end of January/start of February (to give everybody a chance to recover from the holiday fic blitz). And just so you know, I'm giving each new participant this year a car! (*is a lying liar who lies*)
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