Is that Narrative Causality or Historical Imperative or just plain weird? [09 Jan 2009|12:08am] poisontaster [ mood | thoughtful ] So I finished reading Watchmen a little while ago. The thing is, when I try out something that I know my friends like, I feel really weird and uncomfortable when/if it turns out that I don't like that thing as much as they do. Sometimes, with fandoms like Due South or The Sentinel or Blade Runner, there's a bit of a left-out feeling; the idea that there's something really awesome there, and if I could just look at it the right way, like one of those 3-D pictures, I, too, could 'get it' and see the dolphin. Sometimes, it's that people can feel really uncomfortable when they're all squeeful about something that their friends don't like. It's the fandom equivalent of dating the Bad Boyfriend; he makes you happy, you're ecstatically happy and, at the same time, your friends can't stand him and it's awkward. And I don't like the idea of imposing that feeling on anyone. On the other hand, I really dislike the idea of self-censoring myself because I'm scared it could, possibly, at some point make someone feel bad. I don't extend that to mean that I need to air my opinion on everything I think about everything (else this journal would have a LOT more entries), but I also do a lot of my processing and thinking through the transmutative medium of writing things down and if I'm at a place where I want or need to process something, I don't want to deprive myself of that based on an ephemeral maybe. Um. So take that as a disclaimer or something. I didn't hate Watchmen, by any means, but I don't love it, either and I'm trying to work that all out. So if that's going to harsh your squee, don't click the link, ne pas? ( Need I point out that this will be very spoilery? ) post comment

The Razor's Edge, CW RPS, NC-17 [08 Jan 2009|10:47pm] phantisma [ mood | sleepy ] [ music | dishwasher ] Fandom: CW RPS Title: The Razor's Edge Part Nine (previous parts here) Characters/Pairings: Jared Padaleck/Jensen Ackles, Christian Kane, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, OMC Rating: NC-17 (because we have reached the hand-job stage) Word Count: 2690 Summary: In a world where birth rates are dropping every year and 2/3rds of all woman are barren, a government experiment is attempting to keep mankind from extinction. When Jared Padalecki comes into the hospital at seventeen with a burst appendix, the government offers his parents a large sum of money to include Jared in this experiment. A/Ns & Warnings: Um. Hi. This is me. I'm not writing mpreg. Really. Except that this is mpreg. I'm sorry. *heavy sigh* I think this is where I have to admit that yes, this is mpreg, and yes I am actually writing it. I guess I'm not as sorry as I thought I might be. ( His face was pink and squished up as he started to cry, a mitten-covered hand escaping his blanket to press against his face. With so much space between them, Jared couldn't tell what color eyes he had or if the little bit of hair on his head was dark blonde or light brown, but none of that mattered.  ) post comment

best hiatus ever [08 Jan 2009|09:03pm] ponderosa121 dear kink meme, thank you for all the hot daddyfic. hugs and kisses, me. I only dropped a single request because everything I would've asked for was already showing up in spades. Now if I could just stop trolling the thing long enough to finish my spn xmas gift.... Also, I have joined the new moviefics comm, because I figure it's about time I start actively posting places again and I like panfandom places. Lookit me, being sociable. Wee. 2 comments|post comment

28 Leverage icons [09 Jan 2009|12:07am] fandom_icons [winterfish] 28 Leverage icons from episodes 1x05 and 1x06. Sample: The rest are here. Previous Leverage icon posts: here and here. post comment

SG-1/SGA cross over vid rec [08 Jan 2009|10:36pm] paraka Title: Wake Up Vidder: obfreak Song: Wake Up by The Living End Fandom/Pairing: Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis Why I Love It: Are you all getting tired of angsty vid recs yet? I promise to thrown in a couple funny vids, this one, however is not a happy vid. It's an SG-1/SGA crossover, and I think what I like best about it, is that this vid somehow manages to keep the two shows separate within the vid, but still feel cohesive. It doesn't feel like two random shows thrown in together, but isn't an AU crossover either where the vidder implies that the two shows are interacting. post comment

Home Porn: or how about this one [08 Jan 2009|06:23pm] morgandawn or how about this one - House Tour: Jessica's New Home  - life in a 200sq foot studio post comment

My Ongoing Love Of Home Made Porn [08 Jan 2009|06:21pm] morgandawn ApartmentTherapy - design suggestions for people living in small spaces. They have general articles and then questions and featurettes for major cities across the US.  NY, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago etc Good Questions: Sprucing Up a Walk-Thru Closet? House Tour: Margaret Unpacks Fluorescent Fixer Lighting Cover Warms Up CFL Bulb Light Great Tip: Hiding A Spare House Key How To: Improve Your Indoor Air Quality in Winter Scavenger: Tufted Queen-Size Headboard for $200 Genius Idea of the Week: Lighting Up Dark Closets with Motion Sensor LEDs Eat Light! "Things I Find in the Refrigerator" Soup post comment

This is a special picture just for equusentric [08 Jan 2009|07:14pm] paraka The rest of you can probably just ignore :P post comment

Money: Free Suze Orman Book [08 Jan 2009|03:30pm] morgandawn GetRichSlowly reports that Oprah Winfrey's website is offering Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan book as a free download. More here post comment

State of The Writing [08 Jan 2009|01:07pm] poisontaster [ mood | frustrated ] Daily Count: 383 Weekly Count: 7,047 YTD: 7,047 AKB 39: 159 words. I am SO OVER this creative dry well I have going on right now. Yeah, blah, blah, cycle...but okay. ENOUGH NOW. On the other hand, it's nice to get back (sorta) to Jared and Jensen being friends. It's something I've wanted to have more present and, as Jensen observed, something he hasn't had a lot of time for. I feel like I could spend ridiculous amounts of time exploring this world and these characters and the struggle is always in choosing the details that will keep the narrative tight and moving while not being so storyline oriented that I lose dimensionality. On the other hand, this conversation between Jared and Jensen feels kind of limping and I can't tell if that's my writer-muse issues or whether it's actually limping. I suspect it's all me. Appetite: 18 words. *cries* I MISS this story so badly. But at the same time, I feel like I've lost confidence in it in a big way and I don't know how to get it back. I open the file nearly every day and most days, I end up closing it unaltered. The fact that 18 words is a triumph makes me so sad. I don't know how to get my mojo back, but I'd really, really like to. Rules of Attraction (Criminal Minds): 206 words. So I pimped wrenlet into Criminal Minds. And she, in turn, has re-pimped me into doing a rewatch. Despite my deep, craving yen for long, character-driven fic about two of the characters overcoming their many, many issues to grudgingly and gradually get together, my new fanon is that Hotch and Reid have been messing around since before the pilot. I don't know if I'm going to write anything (else) about it or if I'm going to post this little doodle (when/if I finish it), but it pleases me to think of it. What pleases me: They work with some of the smartest, most perceptive minds in the world. Profiling is their work, but it's also their hobby, it's a reflex. Even in normal workplaces, only about 26% of office romances remain hidden. Theirs is not a normal workplace. What I'm reading: Still chugging through World War Z. I haven't really done any reading for the last couple days, though. *face* Need to get back to that. Distractions: I think my biggest problem is a lack of words and that makes it easy for me to be distracted by whatever shiny blows past. But mostly I'm just staring at that cursor, watching it mock me. On the other hand, I have new FNL to watch and JDM's interview on Jimmy Kimmel to fill me with wild, crazy flail. Oh, JEFF. How do you be so wonderfully adorkable? Happy birthdays to fidelis5588, rei_c and zvi_likes_tv. I hope it's the most joyous of days for you all. post comment

Ottawa and a Meme [08 Jan 2009|12:45pm] paraka Ok Ottawa, WTF. *Yesterday* was the snow storm. Why is it, I was able to get to work yesterday in 70 minutes but today it took me 2 hours. *And* I left early. I'm so not impressed. So there's an ottawa_slashers meet up this weekend. Do people on my flist need rides again? I'm already giving seanchaidh a ride, how about madeira, diurnal_lee or kronos999? Warning if you do need a ride, I'm heading over to lilithilien's place afterwards so we can plan our Europe trip, so rides home will either be early (before I go over) or late (after I go over) or arranged some other way, we can talk and figure things out. And lately, a meme stolen from wwsd: Reply to this entry with whatever is in your cut/paste buffer. Just click on the "reply" link and do a paste into the resulting box. 2 comments|post comment

So about this Merlin and Arthur thing... [08 Jan 2009|08:39am] elke_tanzer [ mood | amused ] Ahahaha. I so do not need a new fandom right now, but I've been seeing rumblings on my flists for months, including this post on dragojustine's LJ that sums up the series: In short, Merlin is the gay lovechild of Smallville and Torchwood, christened and glitter-sprinkled by Xena. Uh-huh, I thought. Riiiiiight. Can't be for real. So today I finally caved because I'm sick and feeling crummy, and I'm wishing for summer sunshine and Renfaire food and sparkly pretty boys in costume, and I've always loved Merlin ever since I read the Mary Stewart books and the Mists of Avalon when I was wee, so this morning by way of a rec from frogspace here I read this fic, because I don't mind being spoiled for this show and the description included the hotbutton genre 'bodyswap'... Woke Up New By Zee Summary: Merlin and Arthur switch bodies; complications ensue. Merlin/Arthur, NC-17. 22,083 words. Notes: Spoilery for the series in general. *glee* Ahahaha ahahaha ahahaha... OK, now I'm utterly hooked on the fandom, even though I've already read that although the show is sparkly and slashy and very, very pretty, the show isn't particularly good (that doesn't bother me about Smallville) and also has bad gender and race issues (which will likely bother me but I have faith that fandom will fix everything in fic), aaaaaaand I haven't even figured out how to watch the actual show yet (pish, details). Hit me with more fannish links, people. :-D I've already found the FanLore page at http://fanlore.org/wiki/Merlin_(BBC) which is chock full of useful links, and I've found the crack_van overview here and all of the crack_van recs here although I haven't read them yet. I've also found frogspace's recslist here and I am sooo happy to have studied enough German to understand that page. :-) Is there a fic comm here on IJ for this fandom yet? Whee! New fandom! (In other news, my dark green dragon Thunbergia Sedge has matured into a healthy male adult, and I have snitched a new egg, dusted in sparkly snow: ) ETA: I've seen the first ep now, and I'm enjoying the show. And as far as the Issues go, I'm not the person you want to be reading about that stuff. I'm really, really not thinky right now (Am I usually thinky about this stuff, relative to the rest of Fandom At Large? I have no idea). But today I am sick and medicated and in my admittedly only-slightly-informed-from-skimming-flists-while-travelling-and-rather-groggy-today opinion, the gender and race Issues in Supernatural and/or Atlantis are likely as significant or more so than whatever Issues exist in this enjoyable romp. ETA some more: And yes, it is rather much the gay lovechild of Smallville and Torchwood, christened by Xena. I haven't seen any actual glitter yet, though. *pouts* I would dearly love to see the Merlin characters at their version of QaF's Babylon, though. And now I can't get the image of the Hercules eps with the Widow Twanky out of my head. What the hell is in this cough syrup?? 8 comments|post comment

[08 Jan 2009|11:20am] fandom_icons [elfennau] » 61 Doctor Who/Torchwood icons ...all things are possible... post comment

Their swords are Fair Use! [07 Jan 2009|11:27pm] morgandawn From an artist whose vid was taken off Youtube: "As these woman from different TV shows pass a sword around throughout the video, they share collective power. They are fighting cultural Patriarchy on its own terms and they are doing it together. In light of the take-down notice, a new read of the video has emerged for me. I now see them as fighting out-dated copyright laws which have begun to prevent the free-flow of culture. Their swords are Fair Use." 'Sancho, fetch me my horse and my sword. Onward to glory we go!' post comment

Due South Vid Rec [07 Jan 2009|10:52pm] paraka Title: Duet Vidder: wistful_fever Song: I Know by Jude Fandom/Pairing: Due South - Fraser/RayK Why I Love It: Well, first of all, I have a weakness for Due South angst vids (well, angst vids in general, but Due South in particular because I always think of this show as a funny one, but some of the vids just tear me apart). This one is great and makes good use of the slower beat of the music. I like the blurring of the lines for emphasis and the parallels she draws between Ray and Fraser. post comment

Another friend in need [07 Jan 2009|07:11pm] elke_tanzer [ mood | indescribable ] In addition to the two fannish friends I mentioned in this post who are selling off their belongings to try to pay bills and rent (and who find it comforting during what is obviously a difficult time to sell their fannish items to fellow fans who are friends of friends and such), I've just discovered another fannish friend in need, and she linked to still another situation... Again, if your finances are stable such that you can be in shopping mode, please check these out. Cloudwatcher on LJ fell in December, and thanks to this sucky economy, needs serious help with her medical bills since her job benefits vanished. She's selling some musical instruments on eBay, and looking for job leads. Info is in her LJ: http://cloudwatcher.livejournal.com/ http://cloudwatcher.livejournal.com/260067.html (plea for help of any kind) http://cloudwatcher.livejournal.com/260119.html (list of instruments) Also, Cloudwatcher has linked to http://community.livejournal.com/saveours00j/ which is a community of the friends of LJ user s00j, who are trying to raise money to help pay for incredibly daunting medical bills... I don't know s00j myself, but I'm passing along what information I have: "SJ Tucker, s00j, a touring musician with no health insurance, recently ended up in the hospital for nearly a week, and was released on Christmas Eve to await test results and more tests." "We've established this community because many of [info]s00j's friends can't afford to donate a lot of money, but can make things, or write things, or build things, and very much want to help. This part is very much a work in progress - as we sort out whether we're posting auctions or raffles or printing chapbooks or juggling geese, we'll update here." Please check out the community for updates. Thank you. If you know of other fannish friends in need, please link 'em here. post comment

Oh LJ [07 Jan 2009|07:08pm] paraka Way to make everyone feel all comfortable LJ: 7 comments|post comment

Livejournal=Deadjournal, yet? [07 Jan 2009|06:30pm] 07refugees [littlegirllover] I'm getting a dead signal at livejournal from all browsers at the moment - anyone else? If off-topic or prematurely worrisome, just delete, of course. 21 comments|post comment

Fabulous! [07 Jan 2009|07:27pm] lamardeuse So LJ appears to have disappeared up its own asshole. Hopefully this is temporary, but in the meantime, I am so glad to have backed up yesterday. ETA: LJ appears to be back now. ;) 7 comments|post comment

Backing up LJ [07 Jan 2009|03:09pm] 07refugees [cozzybob] I posted this huge bullet guide of programs to help Windows, Mac & Linux users backup their LJ's via the current drama going on. There's even some programs to transfer your entire LJ to IJ! :D Find the post here, if you're interested. *loves and dashes* 1 comment|post comment

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