I am not the Jo you're looking for

4:12pm: I AM AN ARTISTE!
Guess what came in the mail today?

Guess guess guess!!!

My first cheque for my photography!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I HAVE INCOME I HAVE TO DECLARE ON MY TAXES FOR ART!!!!

Dudes, my life is so awesome!

9:19am: Wow. Just... wow.

I don't know if this is wank so much as an incredibly overdeveloped sense of entitlement. And I say that as someone as part of the community.

[Basically, it's a snark community for the comic strip For Better or For Worse. The creator, Lynn Johnson, recently posted up a letter, and this is the response of one of the comm members. Just... OMG overdeveloped sense of entitlement. Snarking is one thing. Demanding LJ stop writing because of her divorce is another.]

I'd submit to a wank comm, but I'm not sure if I want to. *shudder*

12:44am: My Very Quick Review of "Moonshine" by Moira Rogers (aka Bree & Donna)
(I will do a more thorough review later over on my LJ)

Things I Liked:

- Having a male character in an erotic novel specifically talk about how he's not going to have sex with the heroine unless he's sure she wants it. I read one too many "I married my rapist!" books when I was a kid to not think that's awesome.

- When Claire says something like "if I find you with another woman, I'll kick your ass", Lars responds "If that happens, you should kick my ass." Awesome!

- Claire getting over the concept of "good girls like X sex, bad girls like Y sex, and I have to be good so I better lie back and think of England."

- Without getting into the whole Oversharing bit... I liked the erotica. Hi. :) Seriously, though, I enjoyed it, there's a real element of sexual play in it, and even if it wasn't right up my alley, I'd enjoy the whole idea of sex being something fun.

Things I Didn't Like:

- Ignoring the whole last point - I am a PRUDE. OMG PEOPLE PUT YOUR CLOTHES ON YOU WILL GET COLD!!!!!

- I really wanted there to be more story to the story. I know this was supposed to be a short vignette (as it's identified on Cobblestone's website) but I wanted more. (Or is that the point? *wink*)

- I've read one too many stories where The Hero shows The Heroine her True Strength, which she would never have found without his Firm Guidance. (Of course, this something Lars is just thinking, and there isn't enough Story to determine if he's right or wrong.)

Overall Thoughts:

More pls. Totally worth the small price tag of $2.99 US. I have many friends off JF that I would recommend it to because it's intense, fun, because I liked what little I did see of the characters and would like to see them again, and because it's a short read (31 pages, pdf). I'll admit I probably wouldn't have read it if Bree & Donna hadn't written it because I'm not a huge fan of erotica as a rule. I'm glad that I got the chance to read it, and I'm really looking forward to the full-length stuff that I know is in the works.

9:22am: Moira Rogers has a bookshelf on Good Reads called "written-by-me".

I love Moira Rogers.

Bree, I think it's at 9:15 Atlantic Time, does that sound right?

9:52am: I hate everybody so I made pie.

The end.

11:09pm: Is it just me, or is it really stupid of someone to say "Well, things are better for gays - the Holocaust isn't happening!"?

Cuz that just... yeah. No.

1:06pm: Headed that off at the pass!
Ha!

I belong to this Once-A-Month "Tell us What You're Reading" club at the library here. Last month one of the people involved was very much "Well, people who read books for reasons other than understanding deep literature are reading for the wrong reasons."

This month I started out telling everyone how I was re-reading the Sweet Valley High Books.

Strangely, there was no condemnation of "certain types" of books.

Ha! Rawr!

12:09am: PUI! Phosfate kinda sorta BANNED ME!

Fix it? *wibbles*

9:47pm: Condoning a Threatening Atmopshere!!!!!!
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO POINT OUT TO EVERYONE THAT I AM GETTING DEATH THREATS ON FANDOM_WANK AND THE MODS DON'T CARE!!!!

Obviously you all Don't Care!

I'd flounce, but... well, there's rhubarb pie in the oven. And flouncing is so much effort, woe.

7:24pm: I have won three games of chess in a row. This makes me awesome! Go me!!!!

11:47pm: I have to admit, I am always taken aback when I say to someone "Please don't use fag here the way they use it with /b/ or anonymous, cuz we don't do that" and they say "Oh, okay! Sorry!"

I'm always expecting a fight about it, and it never happens.

That makes me so happy. :)

9:59pm: OOTS, I love you
BELKAR YOU IDIOT!!!

Randomly reminds me of a PC I had in a LARP that grabbed one of the other characters and said to a mystical tree in a mystical realm "She is my student, she represents my pride, and I sacrifice my pride to you" - and then was SHOCKED! (shocked I tell you) when she was then lost to the tree.

No, I don't really know what one has to do with the other directly. But BELKAR YOU IDIOT!

2:34pm: Photos!
( In Response to Ashenmote, and Three Other Photos, including of my hair )

10:08am: Biggest Flat EVAR!
Happy Thoughts:

My new flat is awesome and HUGE! and has a view of the harbour, and last night I would get up and wander around it just to be in a different room than Don! Cuz I am *dull* that way!

Really, though, the most amazing bit was having a window that didn't look out onto a brick wall. I just stared out the window at the sky for an hour last night, because it was lovely.

I know in a week or two it will all be old hat, but right now - there is sky and ships and water, and I am happy.

1:06am: I'm gonna be up really late tonight finishing packing. The irritating thing is that even if I called in sick tomorrow, it wouldn't give me more sleep or more time - moving folks are here at 9 a.m. May as well go to work and get paid for the day.

Ugggggg... I *hate* this. I'm glad we paid someone to come do the moving since we both lack a car *AND* the ability to drive, and don't know anyone who has a big vehicle to help move, but if friends were helping us move I'd leave the rest of the bits and bobs till tomorrow.

Ah well.

*exhausted*

12:15pm: This whole "Don being in a music video" thing would be more entertaining if I'd ever actually heard of the band. Or the allegedly famous song. Or... really, anything at all.

Ah well. Good Monday Morning, JF. If Don's gonna keep showing up at 5:30 in the morning smelling like fish, I may be single. This is even more upsetting than the "What is this There's a Monster At the End of This Book thing you're talking about?"

8:09am: Shallow like a puddle
I have short hair. :(

I know it's probably cute or lovely or wonderful or sexy or all these other things, but I didn't go in asking for short hair. I went in asking for hair below my shoulders, and it doesn't even touch my shoulders, and I don't look like me, woe.

I loved my long hair! It will take me *years* to grow it out.

I want to cry.

I don't care that I'm shallow.

9:39am: Bree! I got my magnets on Friday! Yay!!!

12:05pm: I HAS A MELLE!

I have now actually talked to bubosquared herself, instead of having people who may not be reliable narrators tell me that she's alive! She's living with friends right now, and is doing that pesky eating-sleeping-interacting thing.

*\o/*!!!!!

8:54pm: Dear breecita

Why did you not tell me it was a buddy-cop movie except with more makeup and fabulous shoes?!?!?!?!?!!

<3

Me.

2:14pm: And now our heroine has just been brutally raped. Three times.

I cannot believe this. I just can't. I feel sick. This writer's first set of stories about this woman are the ones I always recommend when stories of strong kick-ass women are requested. Always. But in the second series she's been reduced to not even able to rule her own Kingdom without consulting her husband, and is raped by her ex-husband as revenge against the country that defeated him in war, or something, I don't know.

Oh, Inos.

10:42am: There is something kinda amusing about the fact that I can SCREAM IN OUTRAGE at this book and Don's response is to merely open one eye, make sure I'm not dead, then roll over and go back to sleep.

I'm gonna go have coffee with the Atlantica Party, which... I dunno why. For great lolz?

7:22pm: OH DAVE DUNCAN NO
Let's see. Black. Savages with nose spears made out of human bones. Cannibals. And an inability to speak English properly. Oh right, and the women are overly sexualised.

*headdesk*

7:49pm: Queen Susan Kicks Ass and other people also go to Narnia
Icon Request, but movie-spoilery.

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2:32pm: Nostalgia
You know, Don misses the days when I used to call him up longdistance just to read the latest thing from PotterSues to him.

Now I send him emails full of Pony-Threats.

I love my world, it is awesome and full of win.