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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
10:38 am	Television meme Gacked from amanuensis1: Television of 2011 meme ( This is all I do now. ) (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
9:05 am	Rose Red, Supernatural fic, gen Title: Rose Red Word Count: ~1,000 Rating/Warnings: PG-13, strong language, sexual situations mentioned but not described, brief mentions of torture and suicide Summary: All demons were human once. ( The villagers called her a sinner and a slut, and worse things besides, but she couldn’t bring herself to care.  ) (Comment on this)
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
2:14 pm	Fic Masterlist I figured it was about time I had one of these. Here goes: Nice Day for a White Wedding Fandom: Supernatural/Pretty Little Liars (TV Show) Crossover Warnings: Some strong language Word Count: 2,000~ Summary: AU/Crack. Sam and Dean get invited to Jo and Ezra’s wedding. The Faces You Will Meet Fandom: Torchwood Authors: co-authored by myself and dreamscapemusic for the tw_bigbang. Lovely art by the_silver_sun. Warnings: Canon character death Word Count: 16,600~ Summary: AU paralleling canon. During her time at Torchwood One, Lisa was keeping a secret about Toshiko. Now, after the destruction of Canary Wharf, what impact will this have on Torchwood Three? Small Victories Fandom: Gunnerkrigg Court Warnings: None Word Count: 300 Summary: Kat watches Annie move on, a little bit at a time. Be Thankful Fandom: Trying Human Warnings: Interspecies romance, but they don't get up to anything naughty Word Count: 1,200 Summary: Longus meets Don't parents. Untitled Commentfic Fandom: Harry Potter. Written for mctabby's Cat's Birthday Drabblethon for kellychambliss Warnings: No actual sex, just foreplay. Sillyness and wizarding tattoos. Word Count: 155 Summary: McGonagall/Hooch, tattoos and BDSM A Hole in Time Fandom: The Odd Sea Warnings: Some strong language, angst Word Count: 4,100 Summary: “I think the strangest sketch I wrote was one in which he came back and found that no one wanted to believe he was still alive.” Ethan’s return as imagined by Philip. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
6:01 pm	FIC: Supernatural/Pretty Little Liars Title: Nice Day for a White Wedding Fandom: Supernatural/Pretty Little Liars (TV Show) Crossover Rating/Warnings: Some strong language Word Count: 2,000~ Summary: AU/Crack. Sam and Dean get invited to Jo and Ezra’s wedding. Author’s Notes: I think this requires a little bit of explaining. This is a birthday present for my roommate, set in the combined universes of two of our favorite shows. Supernatural just has so many crossover-inducing guest stars. Sorry I broke up your favorite couple, Ashley, but I think Aria gets a pretty good consolation prize. Thanks to other roommates dreamscapemusic and Kayla for consulting and betaing. You guys are the best!     ( Nice Day for a White Wedding )   (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
11:38 pm	Torchwood fanfic My lovely roommate has spent the better part of today slaving over the formatting of our fic for the Torchwood Big Bang. Now it is up, along with links to the lovely artwork. For those unfamiliar with the Big Bang format, dreamscapemusic and I co-wrote a fanfic, which the_silver_sun then illustrated for us. And she did an AWESOME JOB. I did a happy dance when I saw it, and you should go look so you can do a happy dance as well. Here it is: community.livejournal.com/tw_bigbang/23684.html If you're into this sort of thing, you should keep an eye on the community. The posts are staggered, and we're one of the first, so there are a handful up now and lots more great stuff to come. Current Mood: sooo happy (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
10:47 pm	Another one of those things, hey Title: Small Victories Fandom: Gunnerkrigg Court Pairings: Annie/Kat, suggestion of Annie/Reynardine Author’s Note: Written when the comic was up through Chapter 29. Warnings: None Disclaimer: Gunnerkrigg Court belongs to Tom Siddell, and I am in no way profiting from this work of fanfiction. Word Count: 300 Notes: Thanks to dreamscapemusic for the beta :) Summary: Kat watches Annie move on, a little bit at a time.     ( Small Victories )   (Comment on this)
11:55 am	Speak Loudly. If you're reading this, you probably already know that SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson is one of my all time favorite books. If you've read it yourself, or have read anything about it, you know that it's a YA novel, one that is often taught in schools (including Marshfield High). Unfortunately, it often gets misinterpreted and challenged. www.news-leader.com/article/20100918/OPINIONS02/9180307/Scroggins-Filthy-books-demeaning-to-Republic-education This opinion piece is from a Missouri newspaper. The writer is Wesley Scroggins, an associate professor of management at Missouri State University. He was also involved in a seminar called "Reclaiming Missouri for Christ." In the article, he calls SPEAK "soft-core pornography" and also trashes SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE and TWENTY BOY SUMMER by Sarah Ockler (not familiar with Ockler, but I love Vonnegut). If you've read any of these books, you'll see that Scroggins is totally missing the point. SPEAK deals with rape, and it is not intended to titillate. The rape scenes in the book contain almost no physical descriptions, they focus on what the victim is feeling- confusion, terror, pain. The novel isn't about rape so much as it is about the aftermath and Melinda's path to recovery and happiness. I read SPEAK for the first time when I was in sixth grade. My experiences were not similar to Melinda's (but can you imagine the amazing benefits this book would have for a teenage rape survivor?), but I still feel like I learned something. There's a message about not judging people we don't understand. It made me think about who I would talk to if bad things happened to me, and I realized how blessed I have been to be surrounded by loving friends and family. I reread SPEAK last year, as an education major, and I started to see that there's a lot in there about what makes a good teacher. I could go on forever, but instead I'll just link you to Laurie Halse Anderson's blog post about the article, which gives all the relevant information about that article and what  you can do to fight against censorship. As she points out, the people with the power to make decisions aren't always on LJ or Twitter, so I'm going to dust off my stationary and write a letter to the superintendent of the school district in question. Here's hoping many more do the same. halseanderson.livejournal.com/318655.html Current Mood: determined (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
5:05 pm	Hey look, it's one of those fanfic things... Title: Be Thankful Fandom: Trying Human, which can be found at tryinghuman.com/ Pairings: Don/Longus Author’s Note: I’m writing this as Chapter 13 of the comic is being posted. This one-shot would take place pretty far down the line in the continuity. Warnings: Interspecies romance, although they don’t get up to anything naughty. Disclaimer: Trying Human belongs to Emy Bitner, and I am in no way profiting from this work of fanfiction. Word Count: 1,200 Summary: Longus meets Don’s parents.     ( Be Thankful ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
11:52 pm	I need ideas, help please? I am conducting a poll. In the comments, tell me the title of one novel you have loved because it was beautifully written. I'm looking for compelling plots, believable characters, and good prose. All of this totally removed from genre or subject matter- actually, bonus points if this beloved novel was outside of your usual favored genres. This request is not entirely selfish. In a few weeks, my mother is having some surgery that will require a 6-10 week period of convalescence. Since she's going to be off her feet for so long, I'd like to gift her with a book (or two or three) that will keep her entertained. It's hard to guess what she's going to like, though. Subject seems to have no bearing. For example, she adored Water for Elephants, but when someone gave her something similar about an elephant trainer, she didn't like it. She loved The Book Thief, but she says she's tired of books about the Holocaust.  She was the one who turned me on to The Sparrow, but she generally avoids religious fiction- she HATED The Shack- and science fiction. I've come to the conclusion that the only books she really loves are the ones that are original and simply well-written. I'm kind of the opposite. While I love a good book, I'll take a mediocre one if it involves some of my favorite elements. Earlier today, I impulse-bought a book solely because I know it's futuristic dystopian with a female heroine. So I am calling on all you lovers of really good fiction. Help me out! Current Mood: pleading (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
2:21 pm	Everyone should do this. The Multifandom Zombie Apocalypse Comment!Fic Meme (like a kink meme; but instead of sex, there's zombies) This is pretty new, but I think it has great potential. I was looking for filled prompts to read or unfilled ones to write, and I found only 2 of the former and none of the latter in fandoms I am familiar with. I'm hoping over the next few days it will get more divese. So if you're into it, go write a few prompts and see what washes up :) (Comment on this)
Monday, August 10th, 2009
7:31 pm	Alphabet song meme From dude_isotopes : Comment on this post saying you want a letter. I'll give you one, then post to your journal your five favorite songs that begin with that letter, along with downloads if you like.   My letter L songs:   Love Me Like a Man, Diana Krall Oh they want me to rock them Like my back ain't got no bone I want a man to rock me Like my… backbone was his own   Let Me Go, CAKE When she wants She wants the sun instead of the moon When she sees She sees the stars inside of her room   Luck Be a Lady, Frank Sinatra A lady never leaves her escort It isn’t fair, it isn’t nice A lady doesn’t wander all over the room And blow on some other guy’s dice   Last Night’s Dream, The PushStars Take me home to where I’m whole You say “Well, that’s never easy” But all the wine will change your mind I say… “Let’s not pretend that is does”   Little Green, Joni Mitchell Born with the moon in cancer Choose her a name she will answer to Call her green and the winters cannot fade her Call her green for the children whove made her Little green, be a gypsy dancer   (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
8:17 pm	Short and sweet I've spent too much time today on mctabby's Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon 5- found here: http://mctabby.livejournal.com/438144.html It's great fun. I even contributed. Here is my oversize drabble:     ( Untitled McGonagall/Hooch, humor ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
6:37 pm	Books I finished two books today. Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King, which is skinny but dense, I have been picking at for a month or so. Bloodhound by Tamora pierce, which is thick but good fun to read, I have polished off in under a week. I was also able to put Namaah's Kiss on hold at the library, which means I have that fun somewhere in my future. Now I am contemplating the thirteen book high pile of things I could read next. I've decided to put it to you, dear friends, as to what I should read next. Poll #1424796 Pile of Books Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7 What should I read next? View Answers The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne 1 (14.3%) A Room with a View, E. M. Forster 0 (0.0%) The Aeneid, Virgil 0 (0.0%) White Teeth, Zadie Smith 0 (0.0%) The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross 1 (14.3%) Angels and Demons, Dan Brown 0 (0.0%) The World Made Straight, Ron Rash 1 (14.3%) Santa Olivia, Jacqueline Carey 0 (0.0%) Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman 2 (28.6%) Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman 0 (0.0%) This isn't a complete list of all the unread or unfinished books in my possession, just the ones I want to read this summer. Somehow The Bell Jar doesn't seem like it would suit my mood just now. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 12th, 2008
10:18 pm	Andie's English Final ( A Hole in Time ) (Comment on this)
Friday, March 14th, 2008
12:24 pm	1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies. 2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie. 3. Post them here for everyone to guess. 4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie. 5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions  ( Quotations ) I realize that most of my favorite movies are ones with oft-quoted lines. I did a little digging in an attempt to make it some fun, but a few are still absurdly easy.   (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
1:31 am	Tonal Harmony, Stefan Kafka and Dorothy Payne  1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions. 5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1). 6. Tag five people. If possible, you should also hear the example sung and performed my several combinations of instruments. The four parts of the example are presented in what is generally cosidered the order of preference on the part of the composers in tonal music. However, this ordering is not to be interpreted as a rule. The quality of the sonority is affected as much by the spacing as it is by doubling, as you will discover by comparing the last two chords in Example 8-10. (This is my music theory text book. They're talking about using inverted triads in part writing, in case anyone is curious.) Current Mood: epic (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
11:55 am	Help?  Okay, I need computer help. I need a way to get all the music from my old desktop computer onto my laptop. I've tried emailing my iTunes library to myself, but I can't figure out where to go from there. Any suggestions? Current Mood: frustrated (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
1:29 pm	Two things that don't happen very often. (Conversation re: How was your weekend?) Me: My birthday was on Saturday. Dan: Cool. How old? Nineteen? Twenty? (Conversation re: My Halloween costume) Tyler: So wait, you're supposed to be a dude? Me: A very effeminate dude. Tyler: But you can't do that, you've got tits! Current Mood: hungry (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
10:39 pm	Three books meme. * Three books that have marked your childhood...  -The Ghost in the Mirror, John Bellairs/Brad Strickland- This is the first book that I remember being unable to put down until I finished. My hands were literally shaking when I finished. Bellairs was such a huge part of my life- at least, the Lewis Barnavelt books were, Johnny Dixon and Anthony Monday I could take or leave. Rose Rita was the first literary character I ever saw myself in, or tried to model myself after, or whatever it is that I do. A quick google just revealed how much of the Bellairs/Strickland canon I have yet to explore. Definately adding those to my list. -Little House on the Prarie, Laura Ingels Wilder- This one isn't so important for the book themselves as for the fact that my dad read it to me. Actually, he read all of them to me. My parents made a huge point out of reading to me every night before bed, and obviously it had some effect. And I repeat, he read every single one to me... even The Long Winter, which was utter tedium except for that one brilliant line: "Heap big snow come." -Peter Pan- Now, I can't recall if this was the original J.M. Barrie version or not. It was in a collection of children's stories, mostly fairy tales. At the time I read it, I was only aqquainted with the happy Disney version of the story. When I got to the part where Peter Pan tries to come back home to his mother and finds the windows barred, I was devastated. I cried so hard. My mom found me and hugged me and told me it was okay, because it was a story, and that's the author's job, to make you feel something. And that someday when I wrote books they would make people feel things too. This incident is very vivid, and yet I don't remember when I decided I wanted to write books. * ... and your teenagehood :  -Kushiel's Dart, Jacquelyn Carey- I read this pretty early on in my (still ongoing, I suppose?) teen years. It set my standard for all future erotica very high- sex is all very well and good, but I've gotten very persistant about demanding there be an underlying plot. -Sweep, Cate Tiernan- I'm cheating and saying "all of them," because even though there are fourteen books they're all supershort and really just one long story. I like the first six the best, up through "Spellbound." Plots are riddiculous, dialog is occasionally crap, but I just believe the characters so much. I could just walk into the library one day and Morgan could be sitting there, and it wouldn't suprise me. I still reread these when I'm in need of comfort. -Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson- This is the first book that I ever read that dealt with the horrors of rape, but I don't think that's why it was so important to me. In a lot of ways, it's about high school and not fitting in and teen angst in general. At the same time, parts of it still make me laugh out loud. * Your three favourite books (only 3, even if it's hard!):  -A Widow for One Year, John Irving- I've actually only read this one once. I should fix that. It's still one of my favorites. Irving's writing is just amazing- beautiful complex plotting, but it never feels contrived or overdone, just perfectly placed and so right. I love writers who write about writers. When I'm driving, I almost never take a left turn without thinking about this book. -Shade's Children, Garth Nix- I love futuristic, post-apocolyptic type books. This one is just perfect. I think the obsession started when I read The Giver in fifth grade. Evil totalitarian (alien) rulers, a human race reduced to being someone else's livestock, a secret resistance... it has everything. -Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett- It's just funny and sweet and the perfect thing to put me in a good mood. If you are reading this now, it's quite possible that I've given you this book as a birthday or Christmas gift, because I need to spread the love but I am reluctant to loan out my copy. That's how much I adore it. * Three books you've read or are reading recently :  -Dune, Frank Herbert- I started reading this when I was stuck in the condo in Vermont, bookless. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I bought it. Good call. -Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card- Yeah, I'm on a sci-fi kick lately. I think I liked this better than Ender's Game. Ender just seems so much more human in this one. -Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen- So amazing- what a plot twist. * Three books that you'll read soon :  -Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer- I held off reading these for so long, but now I'm hooked. I cannot wait to get my hands on this one. -Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire- Because I'm a sucker for fairy tales, and this is the last one of Maguire's adult novels that I haven't gotten to. - Specials, Scott Westerfield- Because WTF, he went and wrote another one, Extras, and I haven't even gotten to this one yet. * And one special, fetish book that you'd keep with yourself all the time : Currently it's Page, by Tamora Pierce. It's almost always something by Pierce. A lot of her books fit every category in this meme for me. These answers will have changed by tomorrow, at the latest. I'm already lamenting a few that I couldn't squeeze in... A Wrinkle in Time... The Sparrow... Cat's Cradle... The Secret Life of Bees... you get the picture. Current Mood: sleepy (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
10:23 pm	Laundry? What laundry? Wow. Did you know that Gordon Goodwin wrote the score for Fern Gully? Because I totally didn't. (Comment on this)