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| Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 | ||||||||
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kaesa |
10:31p | So last week I posted about the Archive Of Our Own, which if you missed it is being called AO3 because AOOO sounds like a basset hound. But I didn't really post as a reader. It didn't occur to me because I had just spent several days uploading all of my fanfiction there. (Well, that I still like. I actually do have two Greek mythology fics that I haven't posted there, but the second one is a sequel to the first, which was written in high school and has some gender issues I'm really not proud of.) Anyway, after all that posting, I had kind of expected people to read my fic, but I hadn't actually gotten around to reading their fic. And omg you guys, AO3 is great for fic-reading. At least for me. ( AO3 as a reader. ) Anyway. Having said all that, Chapter Seven of Between Here and Now and Forever is posted on: The Archive Of Our Own FanFiction.Net Skyhawke LiveJournal In honor of this, ( more YouTube music links! ) | ||||||
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tetradecimal |
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| Saturday, November 21st, 2009 | ||||||||
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rotten_fish |
6:22p | I was just at the library, and I could have sworn that someone wrote, "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sith," on the pavement outside. But it was just that regular 'sin' version. The nefarious Dark Lord's grip on my college campus remains unquestioned. Current Mood:  nerdy | ||||||
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tetradecimal |
1:38p | Am I supposed to change my filter, or rinse it off and put the old one in :/ ? It says to change it every 3-4 weeks, but as usual, internet advice is different. Anyway, I got NEW PLANTS today, and spent some time planting them for the Gang. After the initial "OMG! ONOZ!" reaction, they started giving the plants little nips and zipping around curiously, so I take this to mean All Is Forgiven, Giant Hands. I am happy, too, because they shall have more stuff to poke at. So, here are my water test results: pH: 7.6 Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: .25ppm Nitrate: 20ppm I think I should keep an eye on that nitrate especially. I've been using this weekly water additive called EasyBalance that supposedly has "Nitrate Reduction Granules", but I think I'm supposed to have 0 of both nitrate and nitrite. Platies: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21334371@N Geese: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21334371@N ETA: After I put that weekly stuff in, the test is now 0ppm nitrite/10 ppm nitrate. Yayyyy~ | ||||||
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notjo |
2:36a | Oodles of Ood I watched Doctor Who: Waters of Mars! Behind the cut is my summary of the episode, my reactions to "next time on Doctor Who", and my random theory on what will happen next series, based only on having seen photos of Eleven and his companion. ( Cut cut cut cut cut! ) | ||||||
| Friday, November 20th, 2009 | ||||||||
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tetradecimal |
6:40p | If anyone knows what the hell is up with KIBA, I would love to know. I stopped watching because (a) I was pretty sure it was all going to end in tears (see also: Wolf's Rain) (b) As each successive episode aired, it had me asking, "What the fuck is going on?!" (c) It's kind of derivative, like that Avenger thing about Mars or something and then no one could have kids and WHAT WAS UP WITH THAT SHOW? KIBA is about a kid named Zed who is kind of an asshat and then he is transported to a Magical World (TM) with magic, where he is still an asshat. He also has a super powerful spirit named Amil Gaoul who is awesome and kills things but mostly it's about Zed and his annoying uke brainwashed friend Noa, who is so incredibly annoying and brainwashed he spends a good deal of time contributing to a false sense of dramatic tension by murdering people because... um, someone told him to? It's kind of like Miaka and Yui, if Miaka was a power-hungry jerkoff with absolutely zero social skills. But they are BEST FRIENDS AND YET ENEMIES. It gets to a point where they're constantly introducing various half-explored characters and countries and then something happens and everything explodes, but then for some reason Zed (who goes through 51 episodes and is still, somehow, an asshat) merges with Amil Gaoul or something. I watched a full half of this series and I still have NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON, which I guess happens a lot when you mix together a bunch of things you liked from other cool anime shows but actually have no idea what you are doing. Stop trying to blow my mind, Japan! It never works! | ||||||
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tetradecimal |
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| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | ||||||||
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rotten_fish |
5:36p | Well, I now have a job lined up and a roommate moving in starting tonight. I also have three papers due next week. I'm a little bit stressed, and I'm not sure how to calm down. Besides cleaning and exercising that is. Deep breaths, self, deep breaths! I also picked up Nano this year! Did anyone else? I'm like, four days behind D: For a while I just couldn't concentrate on anything, and I barely wrote. This cold weather just makes me want to curl up in bed and do nothing. Bah! Anyway, could be so much worse. Dark Forces is keeping me sane. How are you folks? | ||||||
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tetradecimal |
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tetradecimal |
12:03p | Okay, I just saw a listing with a HUGE DARK STAIN on the hardwood in two of the pictures. "Not a short sale or foreclosure"? I could believe that. It looks more like someone bled out all over the floor. I don't even know if I WANT to buy a place. Up to $300,000?! That's like more money I've seen in my life! (And you should see some of the crazy shacks people want to sell for $250,000, let me tell you internets) Argh, housing is such a pain. The real estate agents, and the lost weekends, and the... ARGH. So, to summarize, here are the reasons for and against moi buying a house/condo/townhouse:
And wouldn't you know it, the thing I am most excited about is decorating and more fish. I don't really like the idea of owing people things. I don't think I've ever bought anything I couldn't pay for, but since housing is so monumentally expensive, it'll be 30 YEARS until I can pay it all off, and how do people take the pressure? Jeez. On the other hand, I guess it's better than paying rent. I mean, either way you need to pay something monthly, but at least you own something at the end of it :/. You know what would be hilarious, though? I would probably have to... ...get a roommate. LOLOL I hope the market's better than in New Haven. | ||||||
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ajatshatru |
2:23p | 'I'm so depressed' ... ... The bad part of being depressed - for me, that is - is that when those words - 'I'm so depressed !' - are in my mind, I actually hear them in my head as they are said by Marvin - voiced by Alan Rickman --- which makes me burst out into giggles. There is something hugely wrong with this scenario ... ... Current Mood: I'm so depressed | ||||||
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also_not_a_pipe |
5:01a | I don't have much to talk about lately. Everything I have to say seems either trivial1, interesting only to me 2, or both3. I remember seeing a meme a while ago where the question was something to the effect of "Hey, we sure don't know each other as well as the Internet makes us think we do. If there's anything you've been wondering about me, feel free to ask." I'd been going to post that one, but I can't find it now. So, hey, we sure don't know each other as well as the Internet makes us think we do. If there's anything you've been wondering about me, feel free to ask. 1 I get to work twelve hours next week! I'd have got to work fourteen hours this week, but I had to wait around to let some inspectors into the house of a neighbor who had to move back to Mississippi and is trying to sell her house today. I honestly don't mean that in any kind of snide way. I really like my job, I just don't get hours anymore. When some librarians retired this summer, the system replaced them each with two part-time staff. I was stupid and didn't apply because I wasn't sure I'd make enough to cover driving out to Xenia twice as much, and I was pretty sure I was about to get a full-time job out on the east coast. So now they're all covered and only need a sub a day or two a month. My choice this week is to cancel Rhapsody or go to a couple of NaNo write-ins. The Panera near me is hiring and I can't say I'm not tempted. 2 I did the math and I'm nineteen thousand words behind schedule for NaNo. Yeah, I'm not recovering that. I can't type quickly on the AlphaSmart--I did 579 words in ten minutes on Write or Die using the desktop downstairs the other night, which is on the slightly high end of what I can do in an hour on the AlphaSmart--and my laptop is out being fixed. Partly I'm stuck around 12K because I have to do something I really don't want to do to a character and so I'm avoiding it. I borrowed him from from the bad high school writing from which I scavenged my NaNo idea, and he wasn't native even to that story. He goes back to the very first story I wrote for a creative writing class, where his name was Adrian Blackburn and he was a Gary Stu so good-natured and sweet that he'd hurt your teeth. I feel kind of bad abut all the things I'm putting Adrian through, because he is a nice guy, and he's not really in a position to defend or help himself until about halfway through the story. He's one of the characters who keeps hanging around in my head, so I keep using him. This is about the third story in a row where I just kick the crap out of him (fourth, if you count the old free-form RP character I played in the White Wolf-based rooms on AOL). Because I was raised Irish Catholic, I feel guilty about that. Also I've been giving myself nightmares. The story I'm working on is a combination of ideas that I scavenged from really bad old stories I wrote when I was in late high school and early college. One of the ideas I kept was of a world populated by characters who were the embodiment of trope characters--the Wise Woman, the Charming Rogue, those sorts of things--and have powers of a sort based on their tropes. So far the most active villain in this story is a beast that's the affable-but-vicious pair of villains like Croup and Vandemar or the "hands of blue" guys from "Firefly." It calls itself the Dyad. I've been playing in the "rate the above poster's excerpt" threads on the boards a lot lately. I haven't planned it, but my last few excerpts have been scenes involving the Dyad (this is the one I'm using now) and generally what people have to say about my excerpt is "oh my God, that thing's horrible! Oh, and also your writing's pretty good for NaNo." I don't remember exactly what I dreamed last night, but I know that the Dyad was there, and it was horrible. I had to get up and put on some lights and futz around on the Internet for a while, it freaked me out that badly. When I went back to sleep, I had another really vivid dream about my other story that scared me awake. When I stall out on my official NaNo story, I write Charlie and Nicholas fluff, so they are still loud in my head. The story I started for NaNo 2006 and have never been able to write looks like it runs to two books. For a while I was thinking of killing Charlie off near the end of the second one because I just didn't see any way that he'd make it through. Then I decided that the reason in-story wasn't good enough to justify that, it would probably come out as one of those things that make the reader throw the book across the room. I still have no idea how the story actually ends. I don't remember exactly how this dream began, but it involved Nicholas discovering that his Charlie had been murdered, shot through the back so that his heart and chest were gone. The two of them had been fighting about something and hadn't talked in a few days. Nicholas already had a bad feeling because he couldn't get hold of Charlie, and he was absolutely devastated. Then the frame of the dream switched, and instead of just watching this all from some removed third-person perspective, I was Nicholas in the dream and I think the horror and grief and helplessness he was feeling was what woke me up. Yeah, I had to fool around on the computer a little while after that one too. Nicholas has always been really close to me. Charlie's dashing and boisterous and charming (even I'm charmed by him), but Nicholas is the one in whom I see a lot of myself. His voice is easier for me to write than Charlie's. I... don't know how I came to be that wired into him, though. What's weirder is that last night wasn't the first time Nicholas has showed up in my subconscious; the first time I saw "The Talented Mr. Ripley," he turned up that night to tell me how much the movie upset him. And I don't think I'm going to do any better tonight because I just spent about twenty minutes looking up clips from movies like "An American Werewolf in London" and "The Howling" for a post I started to write and decided I ought to do some other time (like when it's light out), then I YouTube-wandered into some parts of "The Shining" and now I'm kind of spooked out. Also my second order from Adagio came today and I tried all of them, so now I'm all caffeinated to hell and back. 3Jack the cat is my shadow lately. When he thinks I've stayed up too late, he tries to lead me to bed. When I kept getting up last night, he didn't like that at all. There's a step stool sitting next to the computer desk for some reason. Every now and then he'd put his paw on my knee and when I glanced over, there he would be sitting on the stool and glaring at me like a little schoolmarm. And if I didn't get the picture and go back to bed, he would dig his claws in and scold me. Current Mood: restless Current Music: Urinetown Original Cast - Follow Your Heart | ||||||
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | ||||||||
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tetradecimal |
2:26p | I have been documenting function outputs for six hours straight. /wrist | ||||||
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tetradecimal |
9:06a | Yesterday I went to my mall pet store, which inexplicably had much happier-looking fish than the last place. It also had super awesome fish, like a big silver arowana that glared disdainfully down at me and a sleepy lionfish. I'm not buying any fish atm, but I like looking at them. So, the next step up from a 5 gallon tank would be... what? I'd like to get at least a 20 gallon, because I want morefish and more room for plants and hiding places. Still freshwater, although I think it would be awesome to eventually have a marine tank with coral and everything. Also, any suggestions for types of fish/plants/whatever? And how come every single piece of fish advice on the internet is different >:(? | ||||||
| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | ||||||||
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persona |
3:26p | so weak and powerless over you So apparently some people are in an uproar over President Obama bowing to Emperor Akihito of Japan. Even Miss Manners oh-so-smugly weighs in (not that she's usually relevant to today's world). I fail to see the grave offense; first of all, it is Japan. Everyone bows. Yes, the President isn't just anyone, but it's roughly equivalent to a handshake, and I for one feel that he shouldn't be below him to put forth polite gestures such as it. Second of all, he is the Emperor. Give me a break. Would such uproar take place were Obama to genuflect before the pope? If one wants to criticise him, I suppose one could correct his form, which was rather awkward. But the simpering about how it either shows weakness or is just Not Done smacks of cultural imperialism, lingering insecurity, and stereotypical US-American arrogance. Current Mood: *thud* Current Music: A Perfect Circle - Weak and Powerless | ||||||
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kaesa |
4:05p | So, long time no post! I posted the sixth chapter of my novel-length Founders story on LiveJournal, Skyhawke, FF.N, and the Archive of Our Own, which is now in Open Beta, and which, strictly as a user and not getting into fannish politics or whatever? I fucking love how it's set up. There are a few flaws, but overall it's a really nice way to upload. ( Firstly, the features I like. ) ( Things I think other people would like but that I haven't used. ) ( Issues I've had. ) Anyway, my stories uploaded there are all at this link. And in honor of the actual chapter posted, ( some music from YouTube, with accompanying blather. ) Current Mood: cheerful | ||||||
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tetradecimal |
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| Monday, November 16th, 2009 | ||||||||
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tetradecimal |
8:48p | Uh, so. If you like Japanese CG bio-armor cyberpunk, CASSHERN MAY BE THE MOVIE FOR YOU! ( Excuse me whilst I kill your internet connection ) I know I have no coherent reason here why you should possibly watch this goofy-ass movie. So, um. It's the campiest Darker and Edgier remake I've ever seen? And. There are pretty bishounen? And fighting? AND ROBOTS! ...why do my favorite characters always die :<? First Yakuza with Revolver in Versus, and now Katana Dude. SHENANIGANS. More photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21334371@N03/sets/72157622695442491 | ||||||
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the_seventh_l |
6:19p | LJ-cross post icon post of yay ♥ x17 Axis Powers Hetalia x14 Gensomaden Saiyuki x10 Doctor Who (Sixth Doctor) x10 Umineko no Naku Koro ni rules: [x]comment if you like them please :) [x]comment/credit if taking [x]no hotlinking or editing icons w/o text preview:
see them here at ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kept_unspoken | ||||||
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krazycat |
11:56p | Maybe I need to do some situps or something On the tube today I was standing between seats, reading a book, minding my own business when the gentleman sitting in front of me looked up. The following exchange occurred: Him: Would you like to sit? He thought I was pregnant. I know my posture is a bit crap when I’m standing on the tube so my gut kinda gets pushed out a bit, but I’m starting to consider getting a t-shirt that says “Not pregnant – just snacks too much.” Mirrored from This Space Blank Comment here or there. | ||||||
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tetradecimal |
5:25p | Provolone is the best cheese! | ||||||
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the_seventh_l |
2:55p | obligatory DW rant here Apparently, because a desperate and grief-stricken Rose absorbed the Time Vortex and saved the Doctor's life only for him to suck it out her & regenerate, that the remnant power of the Vortex has been slowly turning him mad, as we saw in Waters of Mars. Okay! Sweet theory, must admit. Oh, did I mention IT'S ALL ROSE'S FAULT? Cause she made him regenerate and she "selfishly" took the Vortex in her (because fuck, in her severely emotional state, she couldn't remember anything from Boom Town -- HOW DARE SHE HAS FEELINGS FOR HER BEST FRIEND/GIRLCRUSH ARRRGH) and if Rose was still around after Doomsday, she would have just fucked him up even more and egged him on to be a lonely god of emoness. I LOOK FOR LOGIC; I FIND NONE. I FIND NOOOOOOONE. ;______; FAN THEORY I JUST MADE UP GUYS REALLY: The Ninth Doctor takes the Vortex energy out of Rose to SAVE HER LIFE and accidentally sees everything, including the break of the time lock surrounding the War by the Master and the ~triumphant return~ of Gallifrey. When he regenerates, he forgets, but the closer he comes to the event horizon when everything will change (SUP "END OF TIME") his mind slowly turns against him to keep him from remembering. Thus, the madness and arrogance and Lonely God shtick we've been seeing, the constant reinforcing of I'M SO ALOOOOONE AND THE ONLY TIME LORD ;_____; ---- so he never remembers that Gallifrey is coming back, until it becomes impossible to hold back and that ---- swush. (Swush?) Gallifrey comes back, the Time War is broken out of his lock, insert some crap with Daleks, and by the end the Doctor is no longer alone and also looks like that one chap from Party Animals. SWUSH! REGENERATE! Yeah? Current Mood: *thud* | ||||||
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tetradecimal |
7:30a | I'm trying to think of some things to buy myself for Christmas. This is part of my larger plan to not become like my relatives, for whom Christmas is a time to drive a couple hours to someone else's house so they can get an electronic foot massager they didn't want anyway. When, in fact, the best part of any Christmas is PRESENTS. SHINY SHINY PRESENTS. ( Also, I'm trying to figure out some animation problems: ) | ||||||
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also_not_a_pipe |
3:08a | Ha ha. I just cracked Also. I don't know whether it's the remains of Tropical Storm Screwed Up Hormones moving through, but all I'm of a mood to write right now is PWP. Even though I typically get really self-conscious and embarrassed when I'm called on to write smut so that I give up a page or two into it and there's really, really no place for a sex scene where I am in any of the stories I'm working on right now. The only real +1s of this week are that I found a fantastic little coffee house in the cutest town I've ever seen while I was scoping out options for northern write-ins, and now I can look down without feeling like I'm going to puke and/or pass out any moment. (two weeks of that good fucking hell) However, I did write this while I was at the fantastic little coffee house, which I like pretty well for raw NaNo draft. Current Mood: *siiigh* Current Music: The Arrogant Worms - Celine Dion | ||||||
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khym_chanur |
6:38p | Police worker fired for backing psychic investigations claims religious discrimination A police trainer who was sacked for believing that officers should use psychics to solve crimes is going to court to prove he was the victim of religious discrimination. | ||||||
