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Friday, January 9th, 2009
telesilla
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12:21a
THIS IS THE SCENT OF A KILLER!!
So, as many of you know, I'm somewhat addicted to small indie perfume e-tailers. One of these is Bathed and Infused--they have a line of bath products and a truly humongous list of scents, some of which are actually original to them. Including the following from their latest update:
Love Triangle – Three’s a crowd. Especially if one is a vampire and another is a werewolf. Inspired by the hit book Twilight, these scents will keep you up from dusk to dawn. (by Lesley85 from the B&I Forum)
EDWARD: Sensual and old-fashioned, mysterious Edward's translucent glow shows with a base of amber kissed with a touch of honey, woods and sapmoss. Catch one whiff and he’ll suck you in.
BELLA: Simple. Innocent. Her captivating notes of lilac, lavender, and Pink Sugar lure even the most dangerous of creatures.
JACOB: Dark and handsome, Jacob’s wild nature comes out with musk, sweet grass and a hint smoke.
Wait, "Bella" doesn't smell like freesia?
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poisontaster
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12:08a
Is that Narrative Causality or Historical Imperative or just plain weird?
So I finished reading Watchmen a little while ago. The thing is, when I try out something that I know my friends like, I feel really weird and uncomfortable when/if it turns out that I don't like that thing as much as they do.
Sometimes, with fandoms like Due South or The Sentinel or Blade Runner, there's a bit of a left-out feeling; the idea that there's something really awesome there, and if I could just look at it the right way, like one of those 3-D pictures, I, too, could 'get it' and see the dolphin.
Sometimes, it's that people can feel really uncomfortable when they're all squeeful about something that their friends don't like. It's the fandom equivalent of dating the Bad Boyfriend; he makes you happy, you're ecstatically happy and, at the same time, your friends can't stand him and it's awkward. And I don't like the idea of imposing that feeling on anyone.
On the other hand, I really dislike the idea of self-censoring myself because I'm scared it could, possibly, at some point make someone feel bad. I don't extend that to mean that I need to air my opinion on everything I think about everything (else this journal would have a LOT more entries), but I also do a lot of my processing and thinking through the transmutative medium of writing things down and if I'm at a place where I want or need to process something, I don't want to deprive myself of that based on an ephemeral maybe.
Um. So take that as a disclaimer or something. I didn't hate Watchmen, by any means, but I don't love it, either and I'm trying to work that all out. So if that's going to harsh your squee, don't click the link, ne pas?
( Need I point out that this will be very spoilery? )
current mood:  thoughtful
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(comment on this) Thursday, January 8th, 2009
gweneiriol
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10:29p
JTTW
Steps: 500
Minutes: 13 minutes and 96 seconds
Steps left to go: 9,996,050
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poisontaster
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1:07p
State of The Writing
Daily Count: 383
Weekly Count: 7,047
YTD: 7,047
AKB 39: 159 words. I am SO OVER this creative dry well I have going on right now. Yeah, blah, blah, cycle...but okay. ENOUGH NOW. On the other hand, it's nice to get back (sorta) to Jared and Jensen being friends. It's something I've wanted to have more present and, as Jensen observed, something he hasn't had a lot of time for. I feel like I could spend ridiculous amounts of time exploring this world and these characters and the struggle is always in choosing the details that will keep the narrative tight and moving while not being so storyline oriented that I lose dimensionality.
On the other hand, this conversation between Jared and Jensen feels kind of limping and I can't tell if that's my writer-muse issues or whether it's actually limping. I suspect it's all me.
Appetite: 18 words. *cries* I MISS this story so badly. But at the same time, I feel like I've lost confidence in it in a big way and I don't know how to get it back. I open the file nearly every day and most days, I end up closing it unaltered. The fact that 18 words is a triumph makes me so sad. I don't know how to get my mojo back, but I'd really, really like to.
Rules of Attraction (Criminal Minds): 206 words. So I pimped ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) wrenlet into Criminal Minds. And she, in turn, has re-pimped me into doing a rewatch. Despite my deep, craving yen for long, character-driven fic about two of the characters overcoming their many, many issues to grudgingly and gradually get together, my new fanon is that Hotch and Reid have been messing around since before the pilot. I don't know if I'm going to write anything (else) about it or if I'm going to post this little doodle (when/if I finish it), but it pleases me to think of it.
What pleases me: They work with some of the smartest, most perceptive minds in the world. Profiling is their work, but it's also their hobby, it's a reflex. Even in normal workplaces, only about 26% of office romances remain hidden. Theirs is not a normal workplace.
What I'm reading: Still chugging through World War Z. I haven't really done any reading for the last couple days, though. *face* Need to get back to that.
Distractions: I think my biggest problem is a lack of words and that makes it easy for me to be distracted by whatever shiny blows past. But mostly I'm just staring at that cursor, watching it mock me. On the other hand, I have new FNL to watch and JDM's interview on Jimmy Kimmel to fill me with wild, crazy flail. Oh, JEFF. How do you be so wonderfully adorkable?
Happy birthdays to fidelis5588, rei_c and zvi_likes_tv. I hope it's the most joyous of days for you all.
current mood:  frustrated
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telesilla
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4:23a
FIC: Some Days? Not So Much. (SGA, Ventura Highway AU, NC-17)
Some Days? Not So Much
Author: telesilla
Fandom/Pairing: SGA, Ventura Highway AU, John/Rodney
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~1090
Disclaimer: The SGA characters do not belong to me. Duh.
Summary: Some days even Rodney is less than god-like in the kitchen.
Notes: This kind of came out of no where; I was just wondering if there was ever a time when Ventura!Rodney had a crappy day in the kitchen. Thanks to Darkrose for the once over.
( Later, John realized that he should never have let Rodney cook that night. )
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(2 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
gweneiriol
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10:06p
JTTW
Steps: 500
Minutes: 14 minutes and 13 seconds
Steps left to go: 9,996,550
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telesilla
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6:52p
Haven't wanted to...oh I don't know, jinx it or something...
And so I haven't mentioned the fact that I was getting a new computer. I'd gotten to the point with my old one where I simply could not game any more; it was just too slow and I had way too much lag. So, since we'd paid down the Dell account enough, I am now the proud owner of a Dell (Product) Red XPS M1530.
It's fantastic. We had a copy of PC Mover and so with that, along with Mozilla Backup, almost everything I wanted off the old machine was moved over in about three hours. I'm downloading CoX now, a process that will take a long damn time, but I'll still probably be able to game some tonight.
I'm calling it Candyfloss after one of my more flamboyant Heroes; my highest level alt is a villain named Malachite Fire and naming a red computer "Malachite" seemed a little foolish.
*cuddles it a lot* I loffs it! It's so RED!
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medie
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8:37p
This isn't making me paranoid or anything...
LJ goes down (I love their little "this has nothing to do with the layoffs, HONEST!" message) but I come over here to make an update (which I need to get into doing more. I like it here.) and I have the devil's own time getting up to the posting interface.
Oy.
Anyway, the main reason I wanted to make the post was to squeal and complain. See, greensilver wrote me a gorgeous little girl!Merlin ficlet over on fandom stocking. Hence the squeal. It is GORGEOUS I tell you. Absolutely gorgeous. Reimagining their first meeting from a female Merlin's perspective (though not letting on that it *IS* a female Merlin til halfway through) and all the fun THAT entails.
Except, then I started contemplating how a female!Merlin would work and somehow found myself contemplating a ficlet. One that's more genderfuck than genderbend. I'm blaming the dragon. But it'll come in handy anyway. I've been trying to find a way to get myself writing in that fandom. I promised azarsuerte that we'd write a Merlinized National Treasure for Reel_Merlin on LJ and...well, I need to actually start writing in the fandom, right?
I'm toying with it now. Anyone want to take a peek at what I'm working on? There's not much of it yet.
current mood:  annoyed
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07refugees
[ littlegirllover ]
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6:30p
Livejournal=Deadjournal, yet?
I'm getting a dead signal at livejournal from all browsers at the moment - anyone else?
If off-topic or prematurely worrisome, just delete, of course.
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(21 comments | comment on this) Thursday, January 8th, 2009
aurora_84
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12:15a
Dude, LJ, I was just about to start going through the 200 posts in my LJ message center. STOP TIMING OUT AND GENERALLY BEING A DICKWAD.
No love,
me
current mood: cold
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(1 comment | comment on this) Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
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poisontaster
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12:57p
Fic: Outtake #3: Kane
Fandom: CWRPS
Pairing: None. Sort of Chris Kane/Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Rating: Adult
Warnings: Slave fic. Language. Abuse of RL events.
Disclaimer: This is in no way a true story.
Word Count: 2,744
AN: Another outtake from the AKB universe. Theoretically could stand alone, with basic knowledge of the universe. Takes place about 15 years before the current timeline. Big thanks to those who held my hand: beanside, meredevachon, mona1347 & nilchance. *mwah*
( I'll manage. Master. )
current mood:  busy
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ratcreature
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8:55p
SGA rec
Through the Looking Glass, by Kristen999. Gen, team. (ca. 19,000 words)
The story had me on edge the whole time. It is great with the suspense, starting with a slowly growing sense of wrongness and urgency, that gets worse as some of the narrators become more affected. It's not extremely dark though, but a great mix of disturbing elements from their problems (which I don't want to spoil), angst, h/c and the team caring for each other.
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07refugees
[ atalantapendrag ]
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1:47p
Simulposting with Semagic help?
I hope this is all right to post here.
Back during Strikethrough, I used Snapetoy's post on how to set up Semagic to simultaneously post to multiple journals and have been happily doing so. However, I got a new computer this week and realized I don't remember how to set that up, and of course the post was on GJ and is now history! Does anyone remember how?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me.
ETA: Thanks to eemilyvr1 for the link!
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poisontaster
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11:30a
State of the Writing
Daily Count: 1,560
Weekly Count: 6,664 (I'm changing my format for this to sync up with findyourwords, which statuses on Thursdays)
YTD: 6,664
AKB: 1,560 words. OMG, that's more like it! Finished the Kane outtake; just need to polish it up and then I'll be posting it today. The "outtake" is now as long as any of the LONG chapters of AKB. *sighs* This just highlights my inability to judge how long it's going to take me to say anything. Of course, my initial ideas about the outtake were complicated by realizing what had "canonically" happend to JDM in the same time frame as the events of the outtake. As someone who likes to mess around with this whole writing thing, I don't know if there's a greater pleasure than the random, textural seeds I've dropped in the story coming together in ecstatic serendipity into something that feels both brilliantly inspired (at least in the eye of the beholder) and bigger than myself.
I talk a lot about my stories as an observer, a recorder, a transcriptionist and that's how I think about them, a lot of the time. Something that comes to me from elsewhere and that I only have the most ephemeral of control over: the choice of a director--to pick what details I want to illuminate and which I want to push to the background, the choice where to pick up or put down, the opening and closing of scenes. So when all these small details that I'm juggling (but have "no control" over) come together...it's like finding the final clue that solves the mystery. The one thing that brings into relief all the others, taking them from being mere details to being breadcrumbs along a path. And I full on LOVE that.
I don't know if the readers ever enjoy those moments as much as the writers do, but I also don't know that it matters. La Muse has be fully collared and shackled with no hope of escaping. But when it's good, he makes it DAMN GOOD.
Anyway. Not sure what I'm going to work on today. *pokes at WIPs*
So I'm not really in popslash fandom, but I did have a brief, intense flirtation with it and became really enamored of Rhys' work (so much so that I borrowed her Chris for a cameo in The Killing Moon). I was telling nilchance and beanside about Book of Secrets and found out that her site has been suspended. O NOES! I don't even know if she has an LJ or if her work is available anywhere else. I would hate to lost Book of Secrets or MPREG...does anyone know if her work is available elsewhere?
Happy birthday to lostakasha, whose poetry-prose always leads me to embarrassing heights of fawning and despair that I'll ever be able to do with words what she does.
current mood:  excited
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