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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
musesfool	11:01p	please tell me we'll stop for popcorn on the way Big Bang Theory ( spoilers ) *** Castle I don't think I like Beckett's hair. It's too...helmety. Or something. ( spoilers ) *happy sigh* Castle is my happy place. Now I need to sleep because I have to be in early tomorrow for meetings. Ugh. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/99055.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
musesfool	11:44a	fic: your ears tuned to the roar (SPN; Jo, Ellen; gen) your ears tuned to the roar Supernatural; Jo, Ellen; pg; spoilers through 5.10; 1,510 words In which Jo grows up. Thanks to angelgazing for handholding and title-wrangling. ( your ears tuned to the roar ) ~*~ Feedback is adored. ~*~ This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/98389.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: hungry Current Music: Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
musesfool	9:33p	i am riddled like the tide Sigh. My cake didn't rise, and worse, it tastes like failure. *crosses that recipe off the list* On the upside, there was reviewing of yuletide source. Now I just have to figure out what I'm writing. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/98189.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: quixotic Current Music: Song to the Siren - Sheila Chandra (Comment on this)
musesfool	4:32p	be at least three days til she knows her heart has been broken Okay, this is the plan for hiatus: 1. yuletide 2. Broken Toys 3. the 5.10 story I'm working on right now (I keep having to stop because it's making me cry! That never happens to me when I write!) 4. The Dean-Michael dream story 5. Drought Conditions (casefile) 6. Nothing but Winter in my Cup (casefile) 7. the Dean/Sam/Pam story That's quite a lot, considering November and December are usually the time of my fannish malaise. This song is not helping with the crying, iTunes! Now, though, I think I am going to bake a cake. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/98022.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: ambitious Current Music: Leaving Atlanta - Vienna Teng (Comment on this)
elfwreck	12:19p	Wicca: still not a race. In today's "Activism: Ur Doin It Wrong" department, we have accusations that slurs against pagan rituals are racist. Set aside, for the moment, that said slurs don't actually exist. That... give some insight into the mind of the commenter, but isn't, in fact, relevant. What's relevant is that she thinks Wicca's being insulted, and she's "calling" the supposed insulter on her "racism." (In a community about public transportation. So, um, more than rather severely off-topic all around.) I don't have an icon that's halfway between "facepalm" and "headdesk." (And I don't want one; that would mean I expect to find *more* stuff like this to post about. Which I'd really rather not.) Oh, and the comment threads hit Godwin's law, ablism, classism and childfreekiness. And NEVAR AGAIN TEH BURNING TIEMS! A glory of fucktupitude all around. (I got this from dot_pagan_snark, and it's been on stupid_free, so apologies to people who already know about it. Sharin' the pain, folks; sharin' the pain.) This entry is crossposted at http://elf.dreamwidth.org/283818.html. You can comment there with OpenID from your LJ or IJ account. Comments so far: (3 Comments |Comment on this)
elfwreck	7:52a	She is too fond of books Hi, my name's elf, and I have a reading problem. When most people say "reading problem," they mean "the letters look blurry to me" or "I've been assigned more pages than human eyeballs can absorb this weekend" or "ack, my comprehension of Russian is too low for me to get the right concepts out of this physics paper." It almost never means "I think I've been neglecting other parts of my life for reading." Because reading isn't considered a dangerous addiction. It has no physical side-effects. It doesn't make the mind slow or incompetent. At no point, in the throes of reading, is one incapable of driving or performing surgery, should one's skills go in those directions. (Well, save for the "must put book down" part. However, after that immediate shift in awareness, one's reflexes and attention are both available to whatever tasks might be at hand.) And it's not expensive. Nobody sells off his car and formal clothes to get books. Nobody hocks her wedding jewelry. Books--really good books--are available everywhere at prices ranging from "cheap" to "free." And the internet hasn't made that any less true. Entertaining content, informative & educational content, useful, delightful, important content, is free by the terabyte. And oooh, I want to read it ALL. ( I read a lot. I could read a lot more. ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
musesfool	1:58a	across the fields of mourning, lights in the distance Oy, this day. Or, well, yesterday, at this point. The less said, the better. And did I mention I got my period this morning? oy. I left work late - I think I was the only person left in the office - and all I wanted was to come home and watch this week's Friday Night Lights. But the file I dl'd wouldn't play on WMP or QT or even VLC. I updated DivX and it wouldn't play on that either. So I deleted it, rebooted, and redownloaded, and it worked. I thought I might actually get through the episode without crying. I don't know why I thought that. I don't think it's ever happened, and it certainly did not happen tonight. Friday Night Lights: A Sort of Homecoming ( spoilers ) *** Okay, I just asked this in meret's comments, but ( spoilers for SPN s5 that's aired so far ) *** *yawn* Man, I totally need to sleep. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/97606.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)
Friday, November 20th, 2009
naodrith	7:41p	( Claire for Modestus ) (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
elfwreck	10:35p	Five Random Things Hair is on its way to being its proper color again. Just have to sleep on it and rinse it out in the morning. (Brr. We often don't have hot water in the morning; our unit shares a hot water heater with two others.) Windows Vista apparently doesn't come with an unzip program. I can't unlock ZIP or RAR files. (Somewhere in my portable apps collection is a nice unlock-anything program; I've forgotten the name of it and can't be arsed to figure it out right now, since I can unzip the comics tomorrow.) We got Dish network. 250 channels, although I gather that some of those might be music channels, and too many of them are sports. Still, lots more than we've had. I watch DishEarth a lot, which is a satellite feed of the earth, with classical music. I like it, but I miss the snow channel. It's been cold enough recently that both Rob & I wake up with our shoulders tense and knotted in pain. It doesn't go away. I'm taking drugs for pain (erm, Advil; I'm a drug wimp) and it bothers me--I hate taking drugs to alleviate symptoms instead of doing something about the base cause. Phoenix's school counselors suggest we should get her some philosophy to read. (Her reading skills are off the charts, which I find entirely unsurprising. Also, she's prone to getting randomly existential at her teachers, which disconcerts them.) Any suggestions on good philosophy texts for a 14-year-old who loves Pokemon fanfic and the Poltergeist movies? This entry is crossposted at http://elf.dreamwidth.org/283213.html. You can comment there with OpenID from your LJ or IJ account. Comments so far: (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, November 20th, 2009
thete1	12:48a	The glory as I dreamed The glory as I dreamed [Reference] by Te November 12, 2009 Disclaimers: No one and nothing here is mine. Spoilers/Timeline: No real spoilers, takes place when Bruce is eighteen. Summary: In which the two most obsessive people in the universe do what they do best. Ratings Note/Warnings: Sexual content. Author's Note: An AU 'missing scene' for ending *2* of A way so familiar. Will not make any sense without the other. Acknowledgments: To Jack, Pixie, and Mildred for audiencing, encouragement, and putting up with me when the story veered sideways. Story! Current Mood: enthralled Current Music: Badly Drawn Boy: "Bewilderbeast" (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
musesfool	11:47p	lacrimae volvuntur inanes Supernatural: Abandon All Hope Okay, so I tried to do a rant section and a non-rant section of this post, but the ranty stuff kept intruding. So while I really liked many aspects of this episode, the rage kept intruding. Just so you know. ( spoilers ) *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/97045.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: distressed Current Music: God's Children - The Gutter Twins (1 Comment |Comment on this)
thete1	8:37p	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH I just renamed the files on teland because a rather gratitude-inducing individual informed me that -- somehow -- it got indexed on google, which... no. WORLD OF NO. I -- look. It could be as simple as the fact that I've been using my gmail to point people to the story, but I would like to ask -- *beg* -- that those of you who have read the thing *not link it anywhere*. At all. Yes, that includes del.icio.us, nalasalad2. And maybe don't write out the links in your google apps? Christ. I'm going to put in that thingy to block robots just as soon as I can make my brain work enough to do that. In the meantime... Hell. Just take the 'me' out of the file name. Save it onto your hard drives if you want it, because I'm *thisfuckingclose* to yoinking it. Current Mood: gaaaaaaaaaaah Current Music: Angie Martinez: "Live At The Jimmy's" (1 Comment |Comment on this)
musesfool	10:44a	sirens ring, shots ring out So I watched the Space promo for tonight's SPN. ( spoilers for the promo, speculation for the episode ) On a similar, but not quite the same note, faye_dartmouth has an interesting post about the issues she has with the show in s4 and s5, and while I don't agree with a lot of it (I am more optimistic about how the end game will play out, at least in terms of Sam and Dean and their relationship), I think her point about the apocalypse is sound. The thing is, they used to connect with the people they saved - they used to save people because people needed saving, and they used to get some satisfaction out of it. At least Dean did, and I think Sam was getting there. Stopping the apocalypse means, yes, saving 6 billion people, but it also tends to make them 6 billion faceless, unknowable people. I said this way back in season 2, but this kind of arc always draws things inward and narrows the world when it should expand it out - instead of concentrating on saving people! hunting things! Sam and Dean are themselves hunted and in need of saving, and the lack of connection with the people they are saving hurts the show as much as the fact that they can't really go all out and give us a real apocalypse. Last week's episode was a nod towards earlier seasons, when they did connect with the people they saved, but now they spend too much time being backed into corners and having to save themselves, and it's just less compelling to me that way (the same thing happened in the later seasons of BtVS and Angel, so it's not like I wasn't expecting it). ( casting spoilers for tonight's episode ) Meh. I am PMSing and cranky. Hopefully tonight's episode won't give me more reason to be. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/96852.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: cranky Current Music: 6th Avenue Heartache - The Wallflowers (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
musesfool	10:48p	remember the power of the ballad Criminal Minds ( spoilers ) Glee *facepalm* Could we have one woman on the show who isn't crazy, scheming, manipulative, or simply around to serve the men's storylines? Also, ( spoilers ) *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/96738.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: disappointed Current Music: This Girl Is Taking Bets - Thea Gilmore (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
musesfool	11:22p	began one afternoon with you long ago and far away Work = busy and will be from now until 12/1, when we have our board meeting. I just wish they'd stop springing surprise!committee meetings on me at the last minute. The time to tell me you need a committee meeting is two months ago, when I was scheduling all the other committee meetings. Not yesterday afternoon. Oy. So my writing brain is pretty fried and probably will be until after 12/1. At least yuletide source has been acquired, and will probably be reviewed numerous times. Tonight, I left work right at 5 pm (usually I saunter out at about 5:15) so I could get home and change because I was meeting fleurdeleo for a super sekrit sneak preview of "Nine". Except that apparently, the super sekrit sneak preview of "Nine" was last Tuesday night, and she'd confused the dates. So we went to the diner for dinner and chit chat. Since I was home by 8, I stopped off at Associated and bought some dried cranberries and slivered almonds and an orange so I could make innie_darling's orange-cranberry-almond loaf, and it smells absolutely fantastic. Tastes good too, although my oven apparently runs hot and I probably shouldn't have cooked it the full 55 minutes, because the edges are overdone. Ah, me. I should have learned from the banana bread. But otherwise it is very tasty. So writing might not be happening, but at least there is baking? In TV news, I watched The Good Wife and ( spoilers ) *** There's something adorably failtastic about Peyton Manning and Alyson Hannigan in those MasterCard commercials. *hides from amberlynne* *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/96271.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: mellow Current Music: 1 John 4:16 = The Mountain Goats (Comment on this)
musesfool	11:18a	when i awoke, he was next to me I woke up this morning at 4:52 am and had one of those middle of the night freakouts. Ugh. Then I fell back to sleep and dreamt that the train I was on derailed. Thanks for that, brain! Nobody was hurt - it was just a convenient excuse for me to be unable to get to work. Clearly I need to be independently wealthy so I can stay home all day and watch dvds and read fic. WHY HAS THE UNIVERSE NOT SEEN FIT TO PROVIDE ME WITH THIS LIFESTYLE? *** I am not a Sheldon/Penny shipper (or, as some of them call it, Shenny. Which will never stop being hilarious), but if I were, last night's Big Bang Theory would have put me over the moon. As it was, I thought it was hilarious. ( spoilers ) Actually, I did read a casting spoiler for BBT, ( casting spoiler ) Castle as always, was adorable. ( spoiler ) *** So I am victoria_p aka musesfool at AOOO. I've been fiddling around with uploading stuff and I think the importer is nifty, even if you still have to do a shitload of editing once you've imported stuff (stripping out headers and code etc.) and adding fandom and character tags etc. I will probably attempt to upload the year of stuff that I never managed to put up on my site before I switched to the WordPress version, but I just can't be arsed to move everything. I've got over 700 stories, and even if I don't bother with drabbles and first line ficlets etc., that's still probably, like, 500 stories. That just ain't gonna happen. Otoh, if there's some way to import the non-LJ remix archives, I would be all over that, because I don't want to lose those stories but I also can't maintain that database. Hmm... *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/96042.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: anxious Current Music: A Kinder Columbus - Deb Talan (Comment on this)
Monday, November 16th, 2009
auburnnothenna	11:27p	I think I've ODed on SGA Big Bang stories. Also on the apple cobbler/crisp thing I made yesterday. This entry was originally posted at http://auburn.dreamwidth.org/229446.html. where there are comments. Comments are enabled on all cross posted journals. (Comment on this)
musesfool	11:33a	say I'm the only bee in your bonnet copracat gave me the following words to talk about: discussion I love discussion! Debate! Argument! I have been known to debate whether it's day or night! I've been known to dispute things I agree with, just to keep the conversation going! I have been known to pull out the dictionary to win arguments! To me, it's a normal mode of discourse, the back and forth, the rambling tangents that help me figure out what I think about things, and that occasionally change my mind. I started out in online fandom on discussion newsgroups, and discussion of the sources I love is what I came to online fandom for, and even more than the fanfic is what makes me feel engaged and excited about a source. I mean, fic can be a solitary pleasure - amirite, lurkers? - you never have to interact if you don't want to, but discussion - you need someone else to bounce ideas and theories off of, to multiply squee and talk you down from rage. At least, I do. Once I don't have someone to discuss a source with, I don't stop loving it, but I may stop being fannishly active about it. It's the lifeblood of my fannishness. Even fic, in a way, is a discussion - with canon, with fanon, with my own stories and other people's - and it certainly fosters discussion and relationships - a lot of the people I am friends with now, I met through leaving or receiving comments on fic, or on posts about sources we have in common. Discussion! It's what's for dinner awesome! Xander Okay, so I mentioned above that I came to internet fandom via discussion newsgroups, and the second of those was alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer, soon after Becoming 2 aired. That was the summer of Xander Lied! A flamewar discussion that went on so long as to become legendary. I was on Xander's side, of course. I still don't think he did anything wrong in that particular situation, but I don't really want to revisit the topic here and now. Anyway. What I love about Xander is that even though he has no special powers, no special destiny, he's just a nerdy loser who somehow never even gets trained in basic self-defense, he throws himself into the fight over and over again, because once he knows what's out there in the dark, he can't not. He can be bitter and angry and resentful, he can hold a grudge, but he's also loyal, funny, and kind, and smarter than he looks, and he will have your back when you need him when the apocalypse comes knocking, and he'll find a way to help you win. Because he's awesome like that. Xander! ♥ rock I don't even know what to say - music is so fragmented these days, so niche marketed that it seems almost ridiculous to talk about rock'n'roll and have it mean something. I mean, the history of rock, of R&B, of country, of doo-wop and Motown - it's all rock to me on one level, before it splits out into genres. Most of what I listen to is rock - alternative rock (or modern rock, as we called it in the '80s), classic rock, hard rock, southern rock, angry chick rock, pop rock - right this minute, my iPod is playing "Love Reign O'er Me" as covered by Pearl Jam. I am less hung up on genre than I was as an indier-than-thou teenager - nowadays, I like what I like, mostly without regard to the labels the music comes with - and I wish there were more public outlets for that kind of mixing and mingling. Have I mentioned that NY radio sucks? So I don't really listen to it anymore, and that makes me sad. New York (it's one word, Frank says so) Frank! I love New York! There's just something wonderfully alive about walking down the street here - on one of those unexpectedly warm days in February, or when it's a beautiful spring day in March, or a cold crisp night in November - there's an energy, a powerful belief that anything could happen at any moment, and that even though we don't know each other, on that street in that moment, we are all in this together. It's corny, but I do feel like my heart swells with love sometimes when I walk down the street, even when I'm just going to CVS or picking up my laundry or whatever. I love the neighborhood I live in, where I can walk to the movies, to the bookstore, to a great bagel place and more restaurants than you can shake a stick at. Where I can hop on a bus or subway to go to someone else's neighborhood. I find it energizing, even though it is also very fatiguing sometimes to live here. poetry I love poetry. I find the way it uses language fascinating, the way words and images can double back on themselves, invert, subvert. The way so much emotion can be packed into something tiny, something regimented, something that is both subject to and free from rules. I love that it can contain itself and its opposite, ideas that seem jumbled but with the right rhythm, it all makes sense. I think my fascination with playing with structure and tone in stories comes from my love of poetry. I write to the rhythm in my head. *** *yawn* I am very tired. I dreamt last night that I woke up late for work (at 8:46 am, which is usually when I'm arriving at the office), and called in to say I was late, and then I woke up *in the dream* and went to work and told one of my co-workers about it. Even in my dreams I have anxiety dreams. I don't even know. *** I posted a story last night: swim in my blood when it's warm Supernatural; Sam/Dean; pg; spoilers through 5.04; 3,434 words Sam's seeing everything clearly now. Talking about playing with structure - this is built around the five senses, and started out mostly as a way to make myself write more sensory detail, more vivid imagery, so it's pretty plotless and very schmoopy and features the staples of my oeuvre: boys doing laundry,brotherly banter, insults, and references to Pinky and the Brain. *** Ugh. I suppose I should work now. Sigh. *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/95836.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Birdhouse in Your Soul - TMBG (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
auburnnothenna	11:24p	SGA fic: Know How to Fall :: AU :: Big Bang :: complete It only took three days to occur to me that I could (ought even) post the link to my Big Bang story on my journals. I am so slow I'm moving backward in time. Yuletide story idea has been hatched, however, complete with thinky theme. Minimum of ten thousand words to even hit the high points. So I'll need to get cracking. But back to what has been written. Here is where you can read Know How to Fall. (Which I consider to be an Equestrian AU slash Harlequin, if that helps. I suppose it might hurt too.) This entry was originally posted at http://auburn.dreamwidth.org/229187.html. where there are comments. Comments are enabled on all cross posted journals. (Comment on this)
musesfool	10:34p	fic: swim in my blood when it's warm (SPN; Sam/Dean; pg) swim in my blood when it's warm Supernatural; Sam/Dean; pg; spoilers through 5.04; 3,434 words Sam's seeing everything clearly now. Thanks to luzdeestrellas for betaing and to angelgazing and amberlynne for handholding. ( swim in my blood when it's warm ) ~*~ Feedback is adored. ~*~ This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/95677.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Pats v. Colts on TV (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
elfwreck	8:22p	Got my YT assignment One solid match--yaay!! Two more that I'm "aware of" more than "familiar with," but could easily get familiar with enough to write. One I've never heard of. But I'm off and running on the actual match. Have rough outline in mind, know what canon details I need to check, have looked over my victim's recipient's journal to confirm that my normal writing style isn't likely to send said vic recipient into screaming convulsions (of the unhappy variety). This entry is crossposted at http://elf.dreamwidth.org/282384.html. You can comment there with OpenID from your LJ or IJ account. Comments so far: (Comment on this)
auburnnothenna	7:07p	An SGC oopsie snippet The rest of SG=[team number redacted] wandered back to the gate eventually after no one showed up after the gate dialed in. They looked around the clearing before shrugging. "What do you figure?" "Wrong number?" "Bad autodial?" "Didn't like the neighborhood? This planet is dead boring." "Who cares? No one's shooting at us." "Hey, wasn't Bamber on watch here?" "Uh, the new guy? Yeah." "I don't see him." The officer in charge tried his radio. No answer. "Ah, crap." "What?" "Aren't those his boots in front of the stargate?" "Sonova -- Didn't somebody tell him to get out of the way when the gate dials in?" "I guess not." "Now I've got to explain losing another newbie in my report. What do you figure I should say this time? Ori soldiers, cannibal natives or rogue Jaffa?" "Mix and match, sir. I don't think anyone's used cannibal Jaffa yet." "Good idea. Well, I guess it's time to dial home. Someone toss his boots into the whoosh." This entry was originally posted at http://auburn.dreamwidth.org/228984.html. where there are comments. Comments are enabled on all cross posted journals. (Comment on this)
elfwreck	6:14p	Yuletide Notes My Dear Yuletide Author letter, mentioning my 4 fandoms: Elfquest, Vorkosigan, Wild Cards, & Sime/Gen My addendum (because I don't know when to quit), offering 33 plotbunnies split across those fandoms. Because I like plotbunnies. Go, bunnies. Go find fics to nest in. Go find happy Yuletidish authors to nibble on. Go forth & multiply; become 75 fics. And GET OUT OF MY HEAD. There's barely room for me in here. (Comment on this)
auburnnothenna	5:10p	Yuletide! I've got my assignment! And... A big smile on my face because my recipient's first request is for something that I'll love writing. A thousand words will not be a problem. Not writing a novel might be. This entry was originally posted at http://auburn.dreamwidth.org/228625.html. where there are comments. Comments are enabled on all cross posted journals. (Comment on this)
musesfool	7:12p	all that glitters is gold Holy shit, you guys, I was so panicked about a couple of the sources I offered to write (not being able to do them justice) that I totally blanked on some of the things I did offer, and OMG YOU GUYS, I GOT THE BEST YULETIDE ASSIGNMENT EVER!!! Ahem. Assuming it's not like two years ago, where they snatch the awesome from my greedy little hands, that is. Of course, I realize now that I don't actually, um, own the source. That shall have to be remedied shortly. But ZOMG! YULETIDE ASSIGNMENT = AWESOME! I mean, I'm sure 500 words in I will hate it with the fiery vengeance of a thousand suns, but, you know, right now, the shiny hasn't worn off yet. *g* If otoh, you have stumbled over here because I am your (probably not very awesome, sorry!) yuletide assignment, here is my dear writer letter. To reiterate, optional details are optional, and please have fun. I'm sure whatever you do will be awesome, because I asked for four awesome fandoms! *** This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/95265.html. people have commented there. Current Mood: giddy Current Music: Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin (Comment on this)

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