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seven years of macgyver finally paid off [1st December , 2008|09:04 pm]

musesfool
[Mood | lethargic]
[Music |Keep Yourself Warm - Frightened Rabbit]

I realize I never posted about last week's Bones. ( spoilers )

Then tonight I watched Pushing Daisies. I am still incredibly SAD that it's been cancelled, because its AWESOME CANNOT BE TEXTUALLY RENDERED. ( spoilers ) I am going to miss the show so much - it kind of hurts to watch knowing there is so little left - but I will be looking forward to the dvds.

And then there was Chuck. ( spoilers )

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it wasn't you who held me down [1st December , 2008|11:08 am]

musesfool
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[Mood | tired]
[Music |Already Gone - the Eagles]

I can't believe it's December already. Wasn't it just February? What the hell happened to this year? I guess that means it's time for the monthly wrap-up.

Top 5 songs - November 2008

5. Handle Bars - the Flobots

4. Dilaudid - the Mountain Goats

3. Devil's Playground - Gram Rabbit

2. Deep Red Bells - Neko Case

1. It's a Shame About Ray - Lemonheads

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Monthly writing round-up – November 2008

Riddle Me This
Supernatural; Dean and Sam; pg; 1,020 words
Sam and Dean meet a sphinx. Hijinks ensue.

I've never been too good with names (but I remember faces)
Supernatural; Sam and Dean; pg; spoilers through 4.08; 8,330 words
Dean's glad that Sam is focusing on the case and not what Dean can't or won't say about what he remembers.

Angel Radio
Supernatural; Dean/Anna; spoilers through the promo for 4.10; adult; 2,545 words
"The world could end tomorrow."

Tale as Old as Time
Supernatural; Dean; g; no spoilers; 1,880 words
"You're the one who's so great with kids, or so you keep telling me."

A Moveable Feast
Supernatural; Mary, John, Dean, Sam; g; 2,675 words
Five Winchester Thanksgivings

Opposition Research
Supernatural; Dean/Bela; adult; 1,080 words
"You know, when this is over, we should really have some angry sex."

Considering all my bitching about not being able to write, it was a pretty good month. I guess I am just frustrated with a number of my wsip, and also, I keep forgetting to forward myself the catchallathon document so I can work on that. I am pretty happy with these stories, though, especially "I've never been too good with names," which turned out almost exactly like I wanted it to, even though I didn't realize that while I was writing. Thanks again to everyone who's commented. I really appreciate it, more than I can say.

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I also updated [info]unfitforsociety this morning with 22 recs for November 2008:

* 13 Supernatural
* 3 Dark Angel
* 2 Iron Man
* 2 Crossovers
* 1 each Friday Night Lights and Anne of Green Gables

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the "Be Pete Wentz" meme:

1. Put your music player on shuffle
2. The first lines of twenty songs = a poem; the first line of the twenty-first song is the title

( breathe it in and breathe it out )

Huh. That's not half bad. I didn't write down the songs, but I think most of them are obvious. I suppose if I were more ambitious, I'd have uploaded each of them, 'cause it's not a bad mix, either.

It's only Monday. I do not know how I am going to survive this week. Wah.

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Boys will be... LAME. AND GIRLS TOO. AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN! [30th November , 2008|09:38 pm]

pre_raphaelite1
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A few more student quotes from an essay on gender in The House on Mango Street.

As always the quotes are precisely as my students submit them to me at my lovely university. All mistakes are theirs. All sarcasm is mine and damned theraputic.


Women actions before today were made solely to please others around them. Today women make choices for themselves.
Because yesterday, I was a total pansy. But today, GIRL POWER!

Commonly associated with the male species, the emotion and ambition of Esperanza are in appropriate for her, since she is female.
She is female, but what species is she? *snort*

Our society as a whole has began to accept the transformation of gender roles from a more conservative outlook to one that is more retro sexual.
Retrosexual as not conservative... right. Cause Retrosexual Code isn't found on the Radical Conservative website or anything.

She embodies the child that never wants to grow up and is divergent to the invasion of her place of margin.
As [info]thegildedmagpie said when I read this to her, "What?"

After the 19th Amendment was passed in 1848, women began to fight more for their happiness and began to take on new roles.
Historical fail.

Boy who play with action figures do not feel the same way as girls because they were all hideous looking.
Uhhh- The girls? The boys? The action figures?

A person who does not match with their gender role will not necessarily be a homosexual a different gender.
Nearly insightful but primarily amusing.

Girls and boys were branded with the colors pink and blue ever since they were young.
"Hey Pa! Get out that there pink brandin' iron. Ma just birthed us another girl."
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OMG! They check your teeth?!?! [30th November , 2008|09:25 pm]

pre_raphaelite1
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My written exams are done- they went very well. Thanks to everyone for their good wishes! Unfortunately my oral examination which was scheduled for 02 Dec has been postponed as one of my examiners was hospitalized last week. It's now looking like it will be the week of 15 Dec but there's no solid word yet. RAR.

So I'm spending tonight grading essays and have just come across a real gem:

In Cisneros's novel, it i unclear what sex the narrator is, leaving one to assume that the narrator could be either male or female. Taken form this point of view, it is valid to state that the narrator is either a heterosexual or a homosexual.
*blinks* *blinkblink* Er... it's actually really clear that the narrator's a girl, but beyond that, I've got nothing but laughter for this student.
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get yourself in position [30th November , 2008|11:26 pm]

musesfool
[Mood | hot]
[Music |Bears v. Vikings on tv]

Oh my god, you guys, it is SO FUCKING HOT in my apartment right now. I am sitting here in my underwear with the window open, but the heat is still banging in the pipes. If I disappear, it's probably because I've been broiled to death. *fans self*

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I was very happy to see the Giants did not, in fact, need Plaxico Burress to win. Let's hope that keeps up. I still am all WTF? about the whole thing. He literally shot himself in the foot leg. *shakes head* The depths of dumbness required for that are best not plumbed.

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This week, Katee Sackhoff is on Law & Order. I may actually watch in first run for that. They're actually advertising her like she's a big star or something. I am a little confused.

I've mentioned the Chuck casting spoiler, right? ( casting spoiler ) Now if they would just get Lena Olin to show up as Chuck and Ellie's mom. That would be so BEYOND AWESOME.

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You guys, I am having trouble writing. I am having plotting issues again. I was rereading some of [info]resonant8's posts on plot, and other stuff about writing I've got in my memories, and I just...I find it really difficult to come up with an external plot that is complicated enough to be interesting, but not needlessly complicated, and something that doesn't rely on Sam and Dean being idiots to work. And obviously that somehow underlines or illustrates something going on with Sam and Dean, which is kind of the whole point, anyway. The plot is just a macguffin, but I'd like it to be one that keeps people reading until the emoporn hits, you know? I recently read something that, well, the whole problem could have been prevented if Sam had just done ten minutes of research, and since it's Sam, not only was it annoying that he didn't do the research if I thought of it, but it was out of character for him to not do it, since, hi, have you met Sam, the walking encyclopedia of weird? But there would have been no story if he had. Or the writer would have had to have come up with a way around the answer research would have given him. And that is the kind of thing I am really really bad at in my own stories (though I can sometimes spot them in other people's).

But I just had a conversation with [info]angelgazing and she made some suggestions, and while it's a lot more complicated now (possibly more complicated than I can handle, as plot and I are unmixy things), I think it's also more interesting and it's got more of a story to hang the emoporn on. It might also take me a really long time to figure out and write, but it's not like I don't have a whole list of other thigns I want to write, too.

In my frustration with that last night, I ended up banging out (no pun intended) some snarky up-against-a-wall Dean/Bela smut:

Opposition Research
Supernatural; Dean/Bela; adult; 1,080 words
"You know, when this is over, we should really have some angry sex."

Because there's no other way Bela got the hand of glory out of his jacket pocket. And I am still bitter we never got any Dean/Bela angry sex in canon.

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Seriously, I think I'm melting.

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fic: Opposition Research (Supernatural; Dean/Bela; adult) [30th November , 2008|01:54 am]

musesfool
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[Mood | amused]
[Music |Crazy - Alanis Morissette]

Opposition Research
Supernatural; Dean/Bela; adult; 1,080 words
"You know, when this is over, we should really have some angry sex."

Thanks to [info]amberlynne for looking it over. Written for the West Wing title project.

( 'You know, when this is over, we should really have some angry sex.' )

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...and Jupiter aligns with M-- er, Venus. [29th November , 2008|04:02 pm]

midnitemarauder
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Okay, LJ - WTF is up with the userpics? They're there one minute, gone the next. Gremlins in the servers? (Or maybe it's just me.)

Thanksgiving was wonderful, and I have so many leftovers!! (Leftovers are always the best part! *g*)

Today, I'm lazing about and watching Aangs-Giving on the Nicktoons channel. They're showing every Avatar episode in order - yesterday was season one (Water), today is season two (Earth) and tomorrow is season three (Fire). I've also been watching some anime. Watched the latest Junjou ep, and I've finished 8 (of 12) episodes of Antique Bakery, which is adorable, funny and slashy, but since it takes place in a bakery, it also makes me hungry for cakes and pastries. :-P

Next up is Kyou Kara Maou. I've managed to snag the first two seasons so far. (I see there's an OVA, too. Can anyone tell me where that falls in, order-wise?)

I also have a short fic to beta, which I'll get to in a little while. (It's so weird not wringing my hands over Smutmas this year.)

I don't know if you read/saw, but that trampling incident at Wal-Mart yesterday? Yeah, that was my local Wal-Mart. I'm so disgusted and horrified by those people. All in the name of retail. It's truly disgusting, and I feel awful for the family and friends of the worker who died. This is why I don't go shopping on Black Friday. Ever. People are animals. (Reminds of the whole Cabbage Patch doll/Tickle-Me Elmo debacles as well. Seriously - what the fuck is wrong with these people??)

On a more cheerful note, all of you in the northern hemisphere should take a few moments in the hour or two after sunset and take a gander to the southwest, where Jupiter and Venus are brightly visible and awfully pretty in the evening sky! They're pretty close together and will get closer over the next two or three days. (Venus is the larger, bottom one.) Also, the crescent moon will be visible nearby as well for a nice little trifecta. Hopefully you'll have clear skies! Happy viewing!
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Remus and Sirius comic strip/Year Seven. [29th November , 2008|06:36 pm]

remeciel
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Remus and Sirius comic strip/YEAR SEVEN


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and if you believe that what's done is done [28th November , 2008|07:22 pm]

musesfool
[Tags|]
[Mood | accomplished]
[Music |how history repeats from father to son and on and on]

I was the designated reccer for Supernatural this month on [info]crack_van. Like most recs lists, [info]crack_van is hit or miss for most people, and especially so in SPN, where so many of the reccers disappeared without making a full complement of recs for their month. I tried to make up for that by reccing a full 12 stories, plus 1 crossover and 1 vid. And I'd have recced more if the rules allowed it. *g*

all of these have appeared on [info]unfitforsociety, where my recs live, but these are somewhat more expanded (and they all include excerpts) from those recs. I just wanted to have them all in one place for my own reference, as I'm sure I'll sign up again to rec soon, and I don't want to repeat myself.

Hopefully you'll find something you haven't already read, and something you like, amongst these 13 stories (and one vid). If you do, you should let the author(s) know. And as always, I am interested in knowing if the recs work for you. Now that the notes field in delicious is longer, I may start writing recs that consist of more than one sentence again. *g*

anyway, here are the recs:

Mockingbird by [info]hiyacynth

( what I said about it )

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Homing by [info]sophiap

( what I said about it )

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Tchaikovsky's Another One Bites The Dust by [info]uschickens

( what I said about it )

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i just got out when i did to prove the exit route was clear by [info]minervacat

( what I said about it )

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Hiding in Plain Sight by [info]joosetta

( what I said about it )

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I Got Me a Nice Little Place in the Stars by [info]luzdeestrellas

( what I said about it )

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Harvester of Eyes by [info]gwendolyngrace

( what I said about it )

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Like the Sea by [info]caelumi

( what I said about it )

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Plant Your Flag on a Fault Line by [info]tripoli8

( what I said about it )

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the quaint tragedies we invent by [info]winter_baby

( What I said about it )

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I Dunno Third Base by [info]vee_fic

( what I said about it )

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Beach Blanket Poltergeist by [info]hansbekhart

( what I said about it )

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We Could Be Heroes by [info]missyjack

( what I said about it )

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And the vid rec: Bricks by Luminosity

( What I said about it )

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That was fun. *g*

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We're no strangers to love [27th November , 2008|01:30 pm]

midnitemarauder
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So, Macy*s Rick-Rolled the nation at the Thanksgiving Day Parade. [ETA: Thanks to [info]thescarletwoman for the youtube link!] It was like two worlds colliding! Sure as hell took me by surprise and I'm still snickering. (And I still like that song - yay '80s!)

I'm on my way out the door (well, after I dry my hair at least) to head to my sister's for the holiday, but I just wanted to wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving! (and for those who don't celebrate, Happy Thursday, and make sure you eat something yummy today in solidarity! I'd share my leftovers, but I'm greedy and nobody's getting my sweet potato pie!)

So many things to be thankful for, but today, my thoughts are with those in India and their families, and also with our troops and their families. Sometimes it's hard to believe we live in such a dangerous world, where atrocities are an everyday occurrence, and so many people live in fear, in poverty, under staggering degrees of oppression, especially considering the technology, conveniences and luxuries we're afforded. (the internet, livejournal, and our fandom hobbies included. Such small things that bring us joy.) It defies logic and reason, and ventures far into the lands of the absurd. The inhumanity of humanity.

But I'm still thankful for my family and my friends, and while my health is variable at times, and I grumble and bitch a lot about it (not to you - more to myself, but there it is) I'm very aware of just how lucky and blessed I am.

Happy Turkey day. Also, Happy belated Birthday to [info]snegurochka_lee (yesterday) and Happy Birthday (tomorrow) to [info]nk_aoede. You're both lovely and talented, and you make fandom a better place when you share your wonderful stories and art with us all! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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fic: A Moveable Feast (Supernatural; Sam and Dean; gen) [26th November , 2008|01:34 pm]

musesfool
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[Mood | hungry]
[Music |you took the words right out of my mouth - meatloaf]

A Moveable Feast
Supernatural; Mary, John, Dean, Sam; g; 2,675 words
Five Winchester Thanksgivings

Thanks to [info]angelgazing for handholding, and to [info]devildoll and [info]luzdeestrellas for looking it over. Inspired by [info]cereta's post about Thanksgiving.

( Five Winchester Thanksgivings )

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Feedback is adored.

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both my parents taught me about good will [25th November , 2008|11:21 pm]

musesfool
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[Mood | hopeful]
[Music |just the kindness i've lavished on strangers is more than i can explain]

Wishlist meme thingy. Er, I'm not hunting down the rules. You know how it works.

My 2008 wish list:

1. I would like to rule fandom with an iron fist. Every year I ask, and every year, I am DENIED. This year, I would like a sparkly tiara to go with the iron fist. The velvet glove is, as always, optional. I don't like to be greedy.

2. Give some money to charity. Do it throughout the year, when you can, but do it now, too. Three organizations I feel strongly about are: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and, for less directly personal reasons, Save Darfur. I also like Doctors Without Borders.

3. Give feedback. To me, sure, because I adore it, but to other people too. In anonymous fests. For those stories and/or vids you loved but never had time to leave a comment on, or felt weird about, or whichever of the million reasons we don't leave feedback on any given day, go back and do it now. It's not something anyone's going to turn down.

4. A DVD commentary on one of my stories. I love this idea so much. Yeah, it's kind of like extended feedback, and how is that bad, exactly? Reader commentaries are awesome.

5. olive oil soap from Lush. I love it, and it keeps me from turning into a scaly, skin-shedding reptile in the winter.

6. Any (or all!) of the following vid ideas turned into reality:
+ a Dean vid to I Wish I Was the Moon by Neko Case
+ a Kara Thrace vid to Every You Every Me by Placebo
+ an Alec (and Max/Alec) vid to Flesh Mechanic by Placebo
+ a Sam and Dean vid full of them doing tough guy jazz hands and being all competent asskicking hot boys with weapons and flashlights etc. to Super Bon Bon by Soul Coughing
+ a Sam and Dean vid to Long Road to Ruin by Foo Fighters (n.b.: I don't mind Wincesty subtext, but I find manips of kissing etc. really jarring and DO NOT WANT)


7. Icons of the last scene of 4.10 - preferably ( spoiler? )

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all alone with (no) memory [25th November , 2008|07:37 pm]

midnitemarauder
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Do you ever open up a 'post' window and then just sit there staring at the blankness? It's been one of those weeks, and it's only Tuesday!

And when I say "one of those weeks", let's just say it started yesterday with me pulling into a gas station, running inside to get coffee and a couple of little things, pre-paying for $20 of gas, then getting in my car and driving off... Yes, I totally forgot to actually put said paid-for gas in the tank, and I was miles away (it was a half-hour later) before I realized what I'd done - or forgotten to do. Today I went to the bank and left the deposits I needed to make at home. And then I put the wrong address on the label on the Fed-Ex package, (remembered AFTER I'd dropped it in the box) and had to go back (with a correct label) and wait for the Fed-Ex guy to come and open the box so I could switch them.

I have no idea where my brain has gone, but whoever's co-opted it, may I please have it back? I mean, I feel like I'm preoccupied with something, only in order to be preoccupied, you sort of need something to be preoccupied with. *looks around* I've got nothing. Seriously. Unless I've completely forgotten what I'm supposed to be preoccupied with, which, all things considered, is a distinct possibility.

Tomorrow is my four year LJ anniversary. It feels like it's been longer, and then I realize that before LJ, I had 2 blogs, I've been nosing about various online fandoms for more than 10 years, and I'd been reading the HP books for 3 years before I got my LJ. (My friends dragged me to see the first movie - I was indifferent at the time - and I went out the next day and bought SS, CoS, PoA and GoF, and never looked back.) It's also kind of weird to realize that 4 years ago this time, I was still somewhat flabbergasted that we'd elected Bush again.

On the medical front, I had my CT scan last week. I went on Thursday morning, was there for nearly 3 hours and could NOT drink the nasty stuff. I won't go into detail, just suffice it to say: it was a day of fail. So I went back the next day, Friday afternoon, and was more successful. I was supposed to drink 40 oz of nasty berry-flavoured barium stuff, but barely managed 25. Still, much more successful and the tech said it was fine - he was able to see enough for the scan.

The diagnosis is that there is once again some inflammation in my intestines (obvious diagnosis is totally obvious. I could have told them that without the nasty drinky tests!), so I go back to the doc on Monday, and we get to discuss new medications for me to start. It's going to be one of the biologicals - maybe Remicade, which is given by IV infusion, or one of the new ones they've come out with over the past year or so which would require learning how to give myself injections.

Um, I can't even put contact lenses in. (Well, not successfully.) I don't mind when other people stick me with needles, but the chances of me doing it to myself are not good. Seriously. Just thinking about it makes me feel light-headed, and my hands shake. Hell, I couldn't even give my dog his insulin injections. (Neither could my mom - it was my dad's job.) Well, we'll jump off that particular bridge when we get to it. At least I don't need to be hospitalized or anything. (Wow. I just realized - 3 years ago today, I was in the hospital, having gone in Thanksgiving morning.)

I meant to go food shopping today, but I drove by the supermarket (after groveling to the fedex guy) and the lines were ridiculous, so I came home instead. I'll muddle through with something from the freezer. I'm sure I have a Lean Cuisine in there, and I know I've got plenty of veggie patties. I'm not hungry right now anyway. Oh! I just remembered that I have a Snickers almond bar somewhere (!), which I bought yesterday at the gas station and, yep, forgot to eat last night. *headdesk*

I need a drink.

Is it summer yet?
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i am riddled like the tide [24th November , 2008|11:05 pm]

musesfool
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[Mood | sleepy]
[Music |Song to the Siren - Sheila Chandra ]

Things that are currently making me happy:



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not everyone is suspect [24th November , 2008|04:16 pm]

musesfool
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[Mood | anxious]
[Music |imagine - john lennon]

I was going to post a poem I really like, but it has all sorts of funky formatting that I can't quite get to work, the phones have been going crazy, and the rich text editor is of the devil, so I am just going to link:

[I have to go back to 1994 again to kill a girl] by Karyna McGlynn.

[info]fleurdeleo asked me how things are here at BEMC and I was like, "Oh it's the usual panic and despair." We are meeting tonight for dinner and I plan to have at least one big glass of sangria.

Self-medicating ftw!

Meanwhile, LJ went down yesterday right as I posted a story (which seems to be its usual MO these days *sigh*), and since it's been back up, it has been withholding my comment emails. I was getting them fine after the move, but now? not so much. Sigh.

But yes, I did post the infamous Dean babysits a five-year-old girl story last night:

Tale As Old As Time
Supernatural; Dean; g; no spoilers; 1,880 words
"You're the one who's so great with kids, or so you keep telling me."

Because Dean + kids = AWESOME. Someone should totally make art where Dean has sparkly barrettes in his hair.

I'm just sayin'.

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fic: Tale As Old As Time (Supernatural; Dean; gen) [23rd November , 2008|08:44 pm]

musesfool
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[Mood | amused]
[Music |Hard Sun - Eddie Vedder]

I've been threatening to write this story for a long time. I'm not sure why today was the day it finally got written, but it amuses me. I hope it amuses you, too.

Tale As Old As Time
Supernatural; Dean; g; no spoilers; 1,880 words
"You're the one who's so great with kids, or so you keep telling me."

Thanks to [info]mousapelli for looking it over. The ball thing was graciously suggested by [info]ella_menno.

( Tale As Old As Time )

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Feedback is adored.

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the review from up top [23rd November , 2008|02:29 pm]

musesfool
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[Mood | happy]
[Music |Jets v. Titans on TV]

TV catch-up:

Pushing Daisies. I am SO SAD this has been cancelled. SO SAD. I just. It's SO MUCH BETTER than most everything else on TV - it's clever and funny and quippy and full of heart - it has real emotional depth beneath the candy coating. It's different, and I get that it might be too whimsical for some people, but it's just ingenious. This week's ep was not one of my favorites, but I did like how it pushed the various long-term arcs along, and Emerson Cod will ever NOT be awesome. Sigh.

Bones was enjoyable, as always. ( spoilers )

The Office. ( spoilers for the last two eps )

Friday Night Lights. Man, after so many misfires last season, this season is just spectacular. ( spoilers )

So yeah, there was quite a bit of crying with this episode, mostly happy crying, but still. Show! How are you so awesome?

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In other news, I now have the perfect title for my catchallathon story, and a slight shift of the plot I'd planned to write, to make the title fit more perfectly. Hopefully I can make it work. It's a pairing I've never actually written before. Heh. We'll see how that goes. And I plan to review my [info]yuletide source over Thanksgiving. I should probably be more worried about that than I am, but it's a source I love and think could actually be a really good fit for the kinds of stories I like to write. We'll see. I'm sure a week from now, I will be singing a different tune. *snerk*

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let me be the future [22nd November , 2008|09:52 pm]

musesfool
[Mood | content]
[Music |Dip - THC]

I was rewatching 4.10 before I left to pick up the kids and I really like ( spoilers )

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I am so tired and sleepy and warm, sitting all curled up on my couch. Today was very fun and busy, but I am just not made for cold weather.

I picked up the kids at Penn, and we schlepped up to 86th street, and had brunch at the Popover Cafe, which was really nice. We had to wait for a table, but it wasn't a tremendously long wait. I had the lemon pancakes, Alyssa had the chicken salad sandwich, and Anthony had the French toast. Oh, and the iced chai was really good.

Then we walked down to the museum, and because BEMC is a corporate member, we got in free and only had to pay for the special exhibits we wanted to see - we chose Climate Change and The Horse, and the guy sent us into the IMAX theatre for Climate Change, except that that was a movie about Sea Monsters. Which was fine and all - very "Finding Nemo" at parts, except with ancient dinosaur-like giant fish things (every time the big giant prehistoric turtle showed up, I was like, "Duuude." and the shark reminded me of Bruce: "Fish are our friends!" - but was not what we wanted to see. Then we wandered upstairs to the horse exhibit, which was far too crowded, but very interesting.

Then we wandered some more, and finally hit the meteorite, minerals and and gems exhibit, which none of us had seen before. Well, obviously, Anthony had never been to the museum before, so he'd never seen it, but neither had Alyssa and I, and we've been there a few times.

Well, we spent quite a lot of time in there, and both kids really seemed to enjoy it (Anthony's affinity for sulfur was amusing on several levels). We saw the Star of India, and a smaller star ruby, and a lot of other gorgeous gems, and some really cool looking rocks - pyrite and hematite and quartz and a ton of other stuff none of us had ever heard of, but was really pretty to look at. Anthony was actually considering a future in geology for a bit (he is fifteen and unsure about what he wants to do with his life, though architectural engineering is his current fancy; my dad was a draftsman, so he is kind of chuffed by that idea).

Then they started announcing the museum was going to close, so we went back out into the cold, where it was even colder, because it was dark, and had dinner at the Shake Shack. The burgers were really good (and so were the fries, I'm told - I didn't have any), but man, they need more seating. Some really rude people left their coats on a table and didn't leave a person sitting there, so I sat on one bench and some other guy set on the other bench, until the people came back (and the moron was like, "I guess my plan wasn't foolproof." I felt like lighting into her, but I didn't. I didn't even make a not-really-sotto-voce nasty comment, though I wanted to. I am growing as a person!).

After we ate, we took the subway back down to Penn, and I put them on the train, and came back home. It was a good day.

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Hey, maybe I will attempt to write something tonight! It could happen!

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Canon vs. Guide [22nd November , 2008|09:52 pm]

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[caithyra]
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Okay, so I love reading writing guides (even when I really should work on fixing the layout of my ij) and also love reading fan fiction guides.

Ahem.

Dear FanficGuide Author,
If many of your points begin with "Yeah, it's canon but..." and then proceed to tell others to break the rules of canon/consider stuff that's not canon, then maybe you shouldn't be writing guides.

To clarify: You are telling fan fiction writers to, when they write Pokémon fan fiction, have their trainers ask the wild Pokémon if they want a trainer before capturing/keeping them. Among many other things.

In the games you capture a wild Pokémon and then work on getting its trust so that Return can 1-KO. You do not get the option, when having captured a Pokémon, to ask it if it wants to come along or be released before the nickname option.

In the anime, Pidgeotto certainly did not get any options about Ash capturing it.

As far as I know, that also goes for (all of) the manga (series, at least three the last time I checked, all of them very different).

What do you know, all three wildly contradictory canon sources agree on this point.

Yet you tell your readers that a hero can't capture a Pokémon without asking it first. You go as far to say that it's fantasy racism to take that choice from the Pokémon, nevermind that according to the games' canon, it's remarkable if a Pokémon-species is sapient.

To quote the PokéDex entry of Dragonite:
An extremely rarely seen marine Pokémon. Its intelligence is said to match that of humans.
It suggests that it isn't the norm for Pokémon to be as intelligent/sapient as humans.

And this is just one point where you say "Yeah, it's sort of/really canon, but I say this and you should write what I say".

You present this Fan Fiction Guide to help new writers in the fandom. Yet you just lay down the rules that's your opinions and likes. It kind of leaves a bad taste.

No love,
Caithyra

ETA: Word in wrong place got changed.
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Remus and Sirius comic strip/Year Seven. [22nd November , 2008|06:22 pm]

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Remus and Sirius comic strip/YEAR SEVEN


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[22nd November , 2008|05:38 pm]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY [info]magnetic_pole! :D
I hope you have a wonderful and amazing day. I dearly miss comments from you and I hope to hear more from you soon. *smooches*
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