Ordinarily, I do not get involved in the wank much, but Boobgate '08 has really hit a sore spot with me as I deal with this shit daily. I'm just gonna copy and paste a comment I made to a clueless moron (and boy was he ever) in liz_marcs's journal here. Witness how he does not get it. (and bless havocthecat for smacking him one)

( and this would be what I said )
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You know, I always adored my Dad. He was awesome. As a person and as a man, but I think, it wasn't until I grew up and had to deal with every asshole out there who thinks my boobs (and my body) are there for public consumption (btw, I ever go to a con and theferrett is there? I'm bringing mace. JUST IN CASE.)?

Now I REALLY appreciate him. He died when I was seventeen, but not once did my dad ever make me feel like, as a woman, I was less than. My dad made me feel beautiful, special, important, and most importantly? Smart. Something everyone knew. He was as proud as hell of my intelligence and made sure I knew it, even without ever really saying it verbally to me. I never once doubted it. Ten years after his death, I still don't doubt it. I doubt a lot of things in my life, but not that. And I grew up believing my brain and my opinions mattered, not my body parts and their respective sizes.

Thank *GOD* for that. Otherwise, with guys like theferrett...

yeah. My Dad ruled.

they're trying to give dangerous offender status to a drunk driver.

here

I mean. Dude. He killed four people. Not mitigating his crime, but we do usually save Dangerous Offender status for the really bad ones. Like the habitual offenders who have next to no chance to be rehabilitated. Guys like Paul Bernardo. This guy is a repeat offender with three drunk driving convictions on his record and I agree he needs a stiff sentence.

But Dangerous Offender? That's "lock you up and throw away the key" territory and a designation I don't think we should throw around lightly. It's difficult to get that status and it's difficult for a reason.

Four deaths, he deserves a very long sentence. Upwards of 25 years at least. It's not so much the length of sentence here that bothers me. It's the designation. His crime is serious, but Dangerous Offender is the top of the line. There are lesser labels (Ala Long Term Offender) that would suffice. There's just something about this that's not sitting right with me. I think it's the level of maliciousness involved. To me, Dangerous Offender is someone who is actively engaged in the hunting of other people, in terms of pedophilia or serial killers. There's a conscious and active decision to torture/harm/murder someone.

While this man is a danger to society and deserves a hefty prison term, he's lacking that kind of malice and I think there's a line there that should not be crossed. If this is more of Harper's "tough on crime" trickling down to the provinces, I'd really rather he do something constructive about this. Locking drunk drivers up and throwing away the key isn't going to stop the problem. It's cleaning up after the fact.

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Am I the only one who hears that Sean Kingston song "Beautiful Girls" and immediately wants to smack his face off something? The lyrics just irk me like nobody's business. Seriously. I thought it was a nice tune until I started to pay attention to the lyrics.

Now? Seething rage.

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Somebody tell me to stop adding Fly Fusion accessories to my Amazon wishlist (am I the only person who uses that thing as a personal shopping list? *G*)

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bantha_fodder, aj, voleuse, my Pretender fen? OMG WTF? They may resurrect The Pretender? *SQUEAKS*

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OMG. WANNNNNNNNNNNNNNT!!!!!!!! Curse the fact I avoid my family on the internet like the PLAGUE. I'd touch them toward this link. (Seriously, online is MY TERRITORY and the idea of my family anywhere near my online hang outs is a big ol' pile of DO NOT WANT)

title: The Most Confusing Time of the Year
author: medie
rating: PG
word count: 792 words
pairing: Mohinder/Matt
note: Written from a prompt by quarterturn for the Advent Drabble meme. Matt/Mohinder w. Molly for their first Christmas. Molly didn't actually *MAKE* it into this, but she's very much there in spirit. *G*
summary: Matt looks up. He's got that 'Honey, I love you, but you're a moron' look on his face again and Mohinder sighs.

( The Most Confusing Time of the Year )

title: ain't no way (this auld acquaintance'll be forgot)
author: medie
rating: R
word count: 1471 words
pairing: Dean/Jo
note: general S3 spoilers. Written for the Advent Drabble meme for quiet_rebel who wanted Dean/Jo and New Years.
summary: "So," she says. "How's Sam? Still not Antichrist?"

( ain't no way (this auld acquaintance'll be forgot) )

OMG. We have been sold to the RUSSIANS people. See?

Jokes aside, I'm a smidge apprehensive about this. Wasn't there all sorts of wank over the Russian side of LJ filtering out some group's name last year?

Just when you think it's safe to venture out onto your f-list...*Jaws music*

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Also, in funnier news, best typo ever. "Her lips curve into a wicked smirk as Dean's frustration summers."

Yes, that's right folks. Dean Winchester's frustration pwns your frustration.

Dean Winchester's frustration summers because he is Dean Winchester and he is just that badass.

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The first of my advent drabbles was posted last night.

A Better OfferSmallville; Chloe/Ollie; S7 spoilers ; 567 words "To be honest," Oliver says, leaning on the rickety table, "I think you're wasting your time at the Planet."

title: a pirate's life for meauthor: medierating: gword count: 379summary: It'd been a while since Serenity had seen a proper mutiny and they were always fun.note: written for IBARW for debc reposted for international talk like a pirate day. Because, yeah, my arrrrrr is pathetic. ( a pirate's life for me )

I am in dire need of something good to happen to me today (if that something good were of a monetary nature, dear universe, I would not be averse to this), but in lieu of that happening, I am writing and trundling around YouTube.

This fanmade Justice League Movie Trailer is of the AWESOME. It is seriously one of the best, fanmade things I've seen done in a while. It's just a hair-short of professional. Watching it makes me long for a fanmade Supergirl movie trailer. In my happy mind, it would be perfect. Use, say, Katherine Heigl as Supergirl - she would make an awesome movie-verse Kara (Kristen Bell would make an awesome tv-verse as tv requires snarkier) and you can totally poach her Grey's Anatomy and Roswell footage for adult!Kara (I like the idea of a Kara working in medicine though, generally, I think of her as a nurse) and then there's Stargate: Atlantis for shots of a futuristic city to stand in as Argo City (Argo City as a flying city, rather than "omg, it spun off into space on a fragment of Krypton" reasoning, works much better)...

It could so easily be done.

Alas, I am unable to do it as I have no access to all the necessary bits and bobs. But someone *SO* could. I live in hope. *G*

See, my friends (WHO ARE AWESOME) designed me a new layout for my website for my birthday. The fic is not up yet, not even close (for lo, I am prolific) but I have managed to transfer the layout over. The rest I can figure out later.

It's so GORGEOUS.

A Curious Mix. see? Some day, I will manage to get all my fic back up. Which, given the amount I have written, will probably instantly crash Ink And Quill and my fellow I&Qers will vote me off the island.

In other news, I really hate being emo about things. I am not an emo-person by nature, truthfully, I find it unproductive and frustrating. (I should clarify, I am a terrible procrastinator so, do not allow my words to convince you that I am, y'know, organized and get-up-and-go-y.) So much so, that I am awesome with the "deny, deny, deny" emo? What emo? I do not know of emo! I try to avoid even suggesting emo most of the time. That may just be paranoia about not wanting to seem negative in my journal space, or it just may be my natural grouchy-self. Whichever.

It's probably been a lot with the upheaval and such going on in the RL (plz to be paying me now, employers!) but I've been fighting with writing my spn_harlequin fic like nobody's business. I didn't completely transform the SPN-verse into that of the prompt, instead I've got canon!Sam and Dean making a swing through Louisiana. That had me uncertain enough, but I'm just a hair over 13,000 words right now and I'm possibly a little over halfway done. And with Sam/OFC, that's an awful lot of story to ask people to read. I'm enjoying myself, which is all that really matters, but you know how it is. You want to please the audience too.

Well, worst comes to worst, I've got the bare bones of a pretty cool gothic romance novel. Change some names, flesh things out, and bob's your ghost-in-a-skull, we're in business. *G*

Now, to change things up, I have a few hundred words of a Supernatural snippet. If I had time, I could go trolling through the spn_xx prompts to find one to match this and flesh it out into a real story. It has the potential for that.

For now, though, it remains a few hundred words of random that popped into my head. It was completely tossed off in the space of a few minutes, but I like it.

( I will put enmity between thee and the woman )

Link of the day. An Australian men's magazine is offering, as a prize for a contest, a set of new breast implants for the winner's girlfriend. It gets better as the competition? Consists of men taking pictures of their girlfriend's cleavage which, then, be posted on the internet for voters to choose the woman 'most deserving' of the implants.

What makes it more special, someone points out in the article, these women may not necessarily even know their significant others are entering them into the contest. The whole thing is quite stomach turning but, I'm not under the delusion that it hasn't happened before. I'm sure that somewhere, some other magazine in whatever country, has either considered, done, or is planning on doing something very similiar. I may have even heard about it but it escapes my rather pitiful memory.

The worst of it? I wasn't even surprised. I do think, still, that having larger breasts? IS NOT all that it's cracked up to be. Seriously, when you're 5'2" and people still manage to have entire conversations with your breasts? NOT as fun as you'd think. And let us not even speak of trying to find dresses that fit your upper body that aren't large enough to house half the United States Marine Corps on the bottom. And the penchant toward skinny shirts? Thanks, but, no, I like breathing. I've tried some lately and, I swear, corsets are less restrictive. Not to mention living with your breasts shoved up under your chin? How is THAT attractive?

Ahem.

/end rant.

How fitting is it that a Dolly Parton song just came on my Yahoo LaunchCast Radio. Oh psychic LaunchCast, your music fu is genius today.

Random quote from my spn_xx fic, just to cheer things up! ( click for excerpt )

title: keeping watch
rating: pg
pairing: xander/spike ust

( Keeping Watch )

( A Manly Ritual )

Never written Tara before and this isn't beta'd. *G* Consider yourself warned.
( Pushing Up The Deities )

Title: Between Recollection and Reality
Author: M. Edison
Archive: Please ask first.
Rating: PG
Category: Post- X2 Scottfic
Spoilers: X2
Disclaimer: X-men, Stan Lee's. I'm not Stan.
Summary: Ghosts of the past never let go.

Can't believe I wrote Scott/Jean. *G*

This is unbeta'd. ( Between Recollection and Reality )

Title: Clocktower
Author: M. Edison
Archive: Please ask first.
Rating: PG
Category: Futurefic, AU, crossover with Batman. Chloefic
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Smallville, Batman etc belong to DC Comics, M&G and whoever else has their finger in the pie.
Summary: Batman plays the mysterious 'Oracle' a visit.
Note: Sequel to the 100word fic A Great Gulf Fixed Between

Thanks to LaCasta for the beta and the title! ( Clocktower )

More!

"Strange New World"
by M.
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After dropping the Luthors off at the hospital, the Kents all but raced back to the farm, Jonathan backing the truck right up to the barn doors.

Turning off the engine, he jumped out and lifted the tarp to reveal their friends huddled in the shadows of their ship, Jor-El holding his wife against his side, their son lying across their legs. ( Continue on... )

For Celli's Princes of The Universe (HL SV Title Challenge) fic challenge. Needless to say, dangling Highlander and Smallville in front of me? How could I resist?!

Title: One Minute To Midnight
Author: M. Edison
Archive: Please ask first.
Rating: PG
Category: Angst, Challengefic
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Smallville, Highlander, Connor MacLeod, Chloe & Gabe are the property of their respective producers, networks, creators etc. Danielle? Mine.
Summary: The illusive safety that surrounded the Sullivans' life just got blown apart.

Yep, another 'where Chloe's mom went' fic from me. *G* Go figure. ;-)

Thanks to LaCasta for the beta( One Minute To Midnight )

Title: Best Gift Ever
Author: M. Edison
Archive: Please ask first.
Rating: PG
Category: Bobbyfic. Holidayfic.
Spoilers: A vague hint from the biggest one from X2.
Disclaimer: the X-Men, Iceman et al are the property of Marvel. .
Summary: On Mother's Day, what do you get the Mom who just found out her baby boy's a mutant?
Unbeta'd since Medie's on a deadline. (Had a wedding, completely forgot I had to finish this thing. *G*)
( Best Gift Ever )

Title: Unforgivable
Author: M. Edison
Archive: Please ask first.
Category: Angst
Pairing: Cordelia/Angelish
Disclaimer: Angel, Cordy, Connor? not mine. Dey belong to Joss. The twisted, demented, god of all the 'verse. Well, his 'verse anyway. *G*
Rating: strong PG-13
Summary: Cordelia never truly comprehended why Angel carries such guilt about Angelus...she does now. Experience truly is most cruel of teachers.
Author's note: Wildly AU I'm betting after tonight but I felt like posting anyway. This, kiddies, is not my usual 'happy fare'.
( Unforgivable )

Title: Scandalous
lAuthor: M. Edison
Archive: Please ask first.
Category: XF, PWP
Pairing: Doggett/Kim Cook
Disclaimer: The X-Files universe is the property of Chris Carter, 1013, and Fox
Rating: R
Summary: Kim never understood *those* couples, the ones that snuck off together during work...she does now.
Author's note: Written for the Doggett Manwhore *giggles* Fic Challenge. My first time writing Kimfic. Gah! I so with the freaked!

Thank you to azarsuerte for betaing! She got fast turnaround time I'm tellin' ya..but with kristenk2 looking all ominous, she probably had to. *G*
( Scandalous )

TITLE: Three Days
AUTHOR: M. Edison
SERIES: Enterprise
Part: 1/1
RATING: G
CODES: Archer/Other
CATEGORY: GEN/HET
SPOILERs: None
ARCHIVE: No - fic incomplete.
DISCLAIMER: Enterprise is the property of Paramount. No profit is being made. Ben and Deena are mine butwhy would anyone want to borrow them anyway? LOL
SUMMARY: With Klaang's injury and the subsequent need to return him to Qo'nos in a hurry, Jon is torn between eagerness to get out there and guilt over the fact the moved up date has unexpected consequences for his family.

( Three Days )