01 December 2009|09:12pm
say nice things to me?
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bratfarrar
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THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME
There would be reviews here (I watched Up! this weekend and it's as good as everyone's been saying), but I spent all day requesting journals off of a very long spreadsheet and didn't finish before having to close up and so will have to spend some more time on it tomorrow which I'm not looking forward to, so. Am pretty brain dead and don't feel particularly inclined toward typing up the handwritten reviews I wrote over the course of the week.
Oh, and I just remembered that I've got some more bits of Things Already Seen to write since people were so kind as to leave me nonsensical comments (and I say that gratefully, truly--it really does help motivate me), and I'd love to do that right now but like I said: my brain has turned itself off. i hate spreadsheets or at least updating them
Phwee. I could use a little positive reinforcement right now.
(If you have a thread, drop me a link and I'll gladly give you some positive reinforcement too)
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01 December 2009|05:14pm
What We Have Here Is A Failure To Cogitate
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morgandawn
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A&E's TV show "Intervention" (a show about kicking drug addiction) featured a woman with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome who was taking 2x the maximum daily dosage of fentanyl (a pain killer). She was also mentally ill: the flowers were killing her, people could zap her with their stored electricity over the phone and she advised - at all costs - for people to avoid Connecticut. Why? Because Connecticut did not have enough people to absorb the evil electrical rays.
So you'd think any rational person watching the show would assume that her addiction problem was most likely the result of a severe mental illness. And not watch the show and come away thinking that Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome was not a real medical condition because she was freaking about flowers. Or decide that her pain and symptoms were not real because she had odd theories about the electrical properties of people talking on phones.*
But sadly, this level of rationality is not a universal given. So the next time you run into someone with cancer or arthritis or MS and they also happen to have a delusional disorder that causes them to eat flowers and rant about alien probes - remember, that automatically means cancer and arthritis and MS do not exist.
Just wanted to make certain we're all on the same page. Or not.
*There is some doubt whether she was suffering from EDS or, at the very least, that her symptoms had progressed to the point that she needed to overdose on pain meds every day. The show did bring a doctor to the intervention who was familiar with EDS and he very carefully side stepped the issue.Saying things like: "even if she does have EDS, there is no need for her to take a lethal daily dose of pain meds."
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01 December 2009|08:35pm
no subject
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valerie_z
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Valerie: I thought this episode of House was supposed to go extra long.
Mike: Maybe they meant this episode was supposed to be extra gay.
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01 December 2009|07:05pm
GIP Space!
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ithiliana
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NASA image of International Space Station in orbit (over Africa).
*WANTS TO GO TO SPACE*
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01 December 2009|07:31pm
Hello, hello
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zvi_likes_tv
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I'm back from the hospital. I had minor surgery, and I am recovering at home. Although this is not a terrible physical setback, I've discovered my financial situation was even more dire than I let myself believe. :(
Probably, I will be making lots of locked, not crossposted entries about searching for work/money.
Thanks for well-wishes, thoughts, prayers, candlelighting. I did and do appreciate all of them. I don't quite have the energy to respond individually at this time, but it helped, you guys.
P.S. Does anyone who navigates the web using firefox 3, javascript, and the keyboard have any suggestions for expanding options that have been collapsed with clever javascript. I am thinking specifically here of collapsed inbox messages and the filters on the Archive of Our Own.
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01 December 2009|05:35pm
Fic: Blood Fever (Spock/Uhura, NC-17)
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st_reboot
[tristesses]
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Title: Blood Fever
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Spock/Uhura
Word Count: ~2200
Prompt: From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) bridge2sickbay: Spock/Uhura, True Blood AU
Warnings: None
Kinks: Vampires, bloodplay, banter, a bit of dom!Uhura
Summary: The sheriff of Area 9 always gets what she wants. Tonight, Uhura wants the Vulcan.
Disclaimer: All recognizable characters and places belong to their logical and respective owners. I make no profit from this.
Author's Note: This started out as a little ficlet written in ten minutes, and then grew into a porny vampire AU. Everyone needs one in their life, after all!
Blood Fever
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01 December 2009|03:52pm
Crack in mouth.
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jengrrrl
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Happy December!
Posting late. Not much to say today, other than I forgot Gossip Girl was on last night, so I wrote. And I'm glad I did! 1100 words into the Katie/Effy rock reversal I owe ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) botherd, delayed because I lost any ability to write for, like, weeks. A fairly good start, I think; maybe I can finish it soon! I hope so, because I've got a shitload of junk to take care of, and who knows how long this little writing spate will last.
Actually, I think I was going to ask whether any of you had any stuff by the Silent League. I went searching last night, but couldn't find anything online, although iTunes kept refusing to connect me to their store, so. :|
Also, pirateygoodness has a REALLY IMPORTANT POLL about what sort of magical creatures Blake Lively and Leighton Meester might be, so you should definitely participate. We're all pretty sure Blake is a unicorn, but I think there's some controversy over Leighton. Dragon? Hippogriff? Who can tell? SHE IS FULL OF MYSTERY.
I feel like I was going to say something else, but I've forgotten. I'm sure it wasn't important (like it ever is, lol). So, here, have a link to a clip of Rachel Maddow making croque-em-bouche with Martha Stewart. I ♥ Rachel.
ETA: I still don't know what Google Wave does, but apparently I have 6 2 invites. First come, first served, if you want one. (I'll need an email address where I can send it.)
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01 December 2009|06:48pm
neat music toy
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hradzka
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It's a cute little gimmick, embedded below the cut. Very simple, but quite fun to play around with. Trying to figure out what its note scheme is, but I have a singular lack of perfect pitch...
( Cut ahoy! )
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01 December 2009|11:21pm
no subject
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merlinxarthur
[becsx]
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Title: Four times Merlin and Arthur nearly kiss (And the one time they do)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin ,
Summary: Four times Merlin and Arthur nearly kiss… and the one time they do.
Disclaimer: Not mine. No money being made from this. Entertainment purposes only… Blah blah blah…
Author Notes: Okay so I know this idea has been done to death but I really couldn’t help myself. This is what happens when you leave uni okay? Your brain has to do something to keep active! Hehe!
( Four times Merlin and Arthur nearly kiss (And the one time they do) )
P.S. I am also exceedingly excited about using my contributor tag for the very first time. Is that sad? Yipee for my 6th post here! :D Thanks to everyone that has commented on my previous posts. You all make my life :D
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02 December 2009|12:17am
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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trek_news
[rapunzelita]
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Are we missing your post, your community, or your journal? Leave us a note in the comments, or email us at trek.watch@gmail.com, and we'll add you to the reading list. Please check our posting guidelines before requesting that we add a link.
Please, be advised that if you have no visible headers in your posts, but only a cut, it is likely that your post will not be included in the newsletter.
- Challenges:
where_no_woman has a holiday season drabble prompt fest
wickedvengeance announces the Round 5 winners for startrek20in20 along with the rules and information for Round 6
- Discussions/Meta:
folkhore discusses alien-influenced actions in Star Trek (any franchise)
igrockspock discusses the unnamed Orion cadet in STXI
dahmers_girl picspams Trip Tucker, from Enterprise
_into_shadow_ links to an article on domestic violence written by Patrick Stewart
box_in_the_box discusses the possibility of integrating Gaila into the main characters
abigail89 announces the results of the bourbon survey
kirkspock is hosting a Kirk/Spock-oriented rewatch of TOS episode "The Menagerie II"
- Fandom:
crackenterprise has 6 ST XI slash recs
awarrington announces the launch of the 2009 Kirk/Spock advent calendar
- Fan Art:
He blinded me with logic by akitron (Spock/Uhura; G; Star Trek XI)
- Fan Fic:
Gen - Completed
darkness and despair by mamaesme (Kirk; PG; Star Trek XI)
The Merits of Emotion by danahid (Spock, Kirk, McCoy; PG-13; Star Trek XI)
Slash - WIPs
Baby-Daddy II by _beetle_ (Sulu/Kirk, McCoy/Kirk; R / NC-17; Star Trek XI)
The Edge, Part VII by littlexmuse (Kirk/Spock; R; Star Trek XI)
During Leave by adwriter223 (McCoy/Spock; NC-17; Star Trek XI)
The One [7/7] by verizonhorizon (Kirk/Spock; R; Star Trek XI)
Slash - Completed
Living on the Promise in Your Last Kiss by dreamlittleyo (Kirk/Spock; R; Star Trek XI)
The Ribbon by sangueuk (Kirk/McCoy; NC-17; Star Trek XI)
Isn't It Romantic? by awarrington (Kirk/Spock; PG; TOS)
Last And First by tatyan85 (Kirk/Spock; G; Star Trek XI)
Interference (part 1/?) by azjol_nerubian (Spock/McCoy; PG-13; TOS)
two ravens in the old oak tree by ineffort (Sulu/Uhura; PG; Star Trek XI)
Tradition by inell (Kirk/McCoy; Teen; Star Trek XI)
Lovely Baby by near_family (Kirk/McCoy; PG-13; Star Trek XI)
Het - WIPs
Trouble Sleeping: Chapter 38 by sadhappiegurl (Spock/Uhura; NC-17; Star Trek XI)
Baby Gifts: Seven by teaoli (Uhura/Spock; G; Star Trek XI)
Vegas Baby! [1/?] by recumbentgoat (Spock/Uhura, Kirk, McCoy, Scottyn Chekov, Sulu, OCs; R; Star Trek XI)
: 10 McCoy/Chapel drabbles by doozer7787 (McCoy/Chapel; PG to R; Star Trek XI)
Human, 4a/7 by black_alnair (Spock/Uhura, Gaila; PG-13; Star Trek XI)
Of Tea and Music - Chapter 56 by nerdielady (Spock/Uhura; NC-17; TOS)
Into the Wild Black Yonder - Chapter 49 by nerdielady (Spock/Uhura; R; Star Trek XI)
Het - Completed
10 McCoy/Chapel drabbles by vega_ofthe_lyre (McCoy/Chapel; G to R; Star Trek XI)
10 IPod Drabbles about McCoy and Chapel by elbowrocks911 (McCoy/Chapel; PG-13; Star Trek XI)
Misc - WIPs
Baby Book - Chapter 77 by nerdielady (Spock/Uhura/Grayson; PG; Star
Trek XI)
Misc - Completed
Taste of Cherry Chapstick by tristesses (girl!Chekov/Sulu, girl!Chekov/Gaila, girl!Chekov/McCoy, Uhura, Spock; NC-17; Star Trek XI)
World Enough, and Time by the_dala (Kirk/McCoy, Joanna/OMC; PG; Star Trek XI)
Ten Stories by medie (Kirk/Uhura, Sarek/OFC/Gaila, Pike/Sulu, T'Pring/Spock, McCoy/Uhura, girl!Spock/Pike, Pike/OFC, Kirk/T'Pring, McCoy/Gaila/Kirk; pg13; Star Trek XI)
Four short fanfics by emiime (Chekov/Sulu, Scotty/Gaila; PG-13 to R; Star Trek XI)
- Icon/Graphics:
18 icons in a multifandom post by ng_x
- Searches:
seanchaidh is looking for a specific passage of Star Trek V
codfisch is looking for recs for long (10 000 words or longer) Kirk/McCoy fics
taraljc is looking for a member of the where_no_woman comm she met IRL at Chicago TARDIS
Send your fandom news to Trek News!
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01 December 2009|04:10pm
Four Teenyfics
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st_reboot
[emiime]
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Title: Object of Affection
Characters: Chekov/Sulu, kinda
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 292
Warnings: None.
Summary: This isn't what he should be concentrating on.
Notes: For the prompt "Sulu/Chekov - The model and the geek". High School AU.
( Object of Affection )
Title: Scars
Characters: Chekov/Sulu
Rating: R
Word Count: 347
Warnings: None.
Summary: Here are Hikaru's scars.
Notes: For the prompt "Author's Choice - Scar fetish". This just in: I fail at titles.
( Scars )
Title: Plain Stupid Luck
Characters: Scotty/Gaila
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 288
Warnings: None.
Summary: Monty's not sure how to be cool.
Notes: For the prompt "Scotty/Gaila - Freaks and Geeks". High school/college AU.
( Plain Stupid Luck )
Title: Notorious
Characters: Chekov/Sulu
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 214
Warnings: 214 words, three sentences. Ouch.
Summary: They each have their roles.
Notes: For the prompt "Sulu/Chekov - Bank Robber AU". So yeah, another AU, and also vaguely Mirrorverse, whee!
( Notorious )
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01 December 2009|01:36pm
FIC: The Best Luck I Ever Had
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blueraccoon
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Title: The Best Luck I Ever Had
Authors: ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) blueraccoon & sanders
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairing/character: Derek Morgan/OMC, hints of Spencer Reid/OMC
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Word Count: 26,717
Kink: first time, dirty talk, mild hand fetish, handjobs, oral sex
Warnings: sex between two consenting adult males; references to past relationship and child abuse and domestic violence
Summary: It's been a very long time since Derek Morgan's had someone in his life long enough to meet his friends and even longer since anyone's taken him home to meet their mother. When he meets Christian Godfrey, he gets all that and the bonus of a small white cat with more attitude than Garcia.
Artist: sylum_tru made us a truly kickass banner and solved our (years long) issue of trying to cast Christian.
Part One (Redirects to kink_bigbang LJ community)
Single post (Redirects to Dreamwidth)
Comments locked. Please comment at our Kink Big Bang post.
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01 December 2009|04:23pm
Guys, a question, please...
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digitalwave
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Like I said, we're going to be selling a bunch of stuff to raise the money for the new living room furniture. We have a really pretty 8' X 10' 8" Modern Abstract Oriental rug that we'd like to try and sell because, unfortunately, it won't match the new sofa. It's from back in the days when we actually had money so we paid almost $700.00 for it new.
It's not really dirty but I plan on having it cleaned by Coit before giving it to whoever buys it. I'd do it myself but you can't just use a steam cleaner on one of these rugs because of the way they're made. It'll really be just like new then.
Okay, I'm going to take my aching, sneezing body to make some hot tea. I have to go pick mom up from daycare in less than an hour and I feel like crap.
Do you think $125.00 would be a good price to ask for it? Too much? Too little? I have no idea what's best so I thought I'd toss it out to you, my wise and sage f'list.
Help me ObiWan Kenobi, you're my only hope! :)
PS
I promise to get the wish_list Master list updated, hopefully tonight after mom's in bed. I'm sorry I haven't been able to before now.
PPS
Almost forgot something important. Here's what it looks like. There are six different pictures so just click through:
http://pics.livejournal.com/digitalwave/pic/001sza08/g22
*hugs*
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01 December 2009|03:09pm
the fic love meme
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sageness
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as seen around my flist, and really well-timed, I thought, what with holiday challenge fics due in less than three weeks and panic rising. *g* (Link goes to my thread.)
THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME
 comment(s) on this post at Dreamwidth
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01 December 2009|09:17pm
adventures in SPN
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trobadora
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Ugh. Feeling awful right now, some sort of stomach bug, I think. Can't concentrate, so anyone who's expecting something from me will have to wait for tomorrow. (Sorry 'bout that.)
What I've been doing is rereading some Dean/Castiel fic. I haven't been reading the pairing for long, and although it feels like I've read a million stories by now I don't actually have that many favourites in the fandom. But here, randomly, are two I love to pieces - one you'll probably know, and one you might not:
Light Up the Sky for Me by starandrea
This is a WIP, but it's up to part 11 of 12 now, and it's fabulous. Perfect voices, great plot with surprising twists, just all-around brilliance. Anyone else been following this?
Except Thou Bless Me by architeuthis
This is just about everything I want out of Dean/Castiel porn, and it's pretty much my new happy place. *shivers* And if you like a toppy Castiel and haven't read this yet, why?
(And there's fabulous DVD commentary as well: part 1, part 2.)
I think I've found most of the fic I'd enjoy by now, but if you have recs, share!
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01 December 2009|02:08pm
no subject
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marthawells
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So the plumber came, and Friday afternoon I will be the proud owner of a new water heater. Yay. Closer examination of the old water heater with the plumber's help revealed that the tank was leaking down onto the pipe, which is why it looked like the pipe was leaking. It's also leaking from the top, and the back, and many other places. It's a bad time to have to do this, but the old one lasted twenty-one years, so you can't really fault it, especially since it's (knock on wood) holding on long enough to be replaced and didn't just burst at the first opportunity. And it's apparently had a lot of opportunity.
I'm not getting a tankless, because after looking up more details online, I think they'd have to rebuild half the garage and the gas system to install it, and it's not going to be that much more efficient than a new not-21-years-old water heater to warrant the price tag and rebuilding the garage.
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01 December 2009|11:50am
question...
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blueraccoon
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Anyone know how long the Amazon Farscape for $57.99 deal is going to last? Is this a "buy today" offer or can I wait until, y'know, I get paid?
Also, am being pleasantly surprised by American Airlines. So far this morning I've received an automated call from their baggage claims department letting me know my luggage will be delivered today and a human call from the delivery service confirming my address and letting me know it should be there between now and 4pm today. So, yay. I can haz clothes.
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01 December 2009|02:28pm
But I'm too lazy to be OCD...
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miss_porcupine
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Okay, so at some point in the past (20 February 2008, apparently), I started using Delicious to keep track of my fics. It's linked on the sidebar of my LJ, right under the website, and it's as close as I get to a catch-all because, as many people have pointed out over the years, I sort of suck at getting everything up on the website.
(Except the delicious page doesn't have my comics fic or Homicide stuff, which is probably no loss and all on the website anyway.)
My tagging thus far has been relatively minimal -- type (au, series, crossover) if necessary, POV character first, then other characters. I have bundles for OCs and canon characters and a tag for stories over 20,000 words, but that's it. I didn't even need a fandom tag until 2009.
I am now considering a more useful/detailed tagging system. Nothing too crazy. But as the 'pay attention to your customers' conferences I have to go to keep reiterating -- I am not the one who is using this as a tool. You are. So...
(I do not have ticky box power, so we're going to kick it old-school)
* Do you use the delicious page to find stories of mine? Did you even know I had one?
* Is there a new tag/tagging system you'd like to see?
* Is there a modification to existing tags you'd like to see?
* Anything else?
Right up front: I am not tagging for tense and if someone's going to go through 217 stories to check for specific word counts, that someone is not going to be me.
What I am considering: an SGA tag for earthlike events (Christmas and Passover stories, the Eurovision and Superbowl stories, etc.) and a Five Things tag (I have one here on LJ, but not there).
And, yes, I have looked at how other people tag my stuff, but it's not always helpful. Although it occasionally is really entertaining. Especially when there are slash tags applied. ;)
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curious
chipper
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cheerful
cheerful
okay