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Frustrating!! Okay, so my vidding computer up and died on me a few months back (it has been in the process of slowly dying for a year now before it gave up the ghost entirely). This was sad, but not an entirely urgent issue because I've been experiencing extreme vidblock for so long that combined with my current mental state I was more 'I wasn't going to vid anyway because I suck and everything I make sucks and I'm going to go eat worms' than gazing longingly at the place where Premiere used to be. So the gap between it dying and the financial and practical bits being in place to build the new computer...eh. I have my laptop for general internet surfage and the playing of mindless games (and no, I can't really vid on it for various reasons).

But, as a result of my hyperobsession with SPN. I have a vid idea now. One that I am honestly a bit terrified of (because it's kind of...complicated and I doubt my ability to pull it off, so it could end up being a confusing hot mess instead of what I want it to be. Or, even worse, I am overestimating my ideas and it will just be *boring*). This kind of vid angst, however, is the kind that that means I am actually going to make a vid, though. It means I have an idea that I really, really want to see...badly enough that it bothers me that I might not pull it off like it is in my head, so I have to at least try.

It would really help, though...if I had a song, which is frustration number one. I tend to get ideas in search of a song more than the other way around, so this is nothing new...but I kind of hate the song search part, digging through piles of music and bugging my go to "I NEED A SONG FOR THIS" people, listening to song after song that is not quite right until the right one stands up and hollers 'I am your vid'.

But also, even when I do find the song, which I have faith I will since I've yet to have an idea I wanted badly where a song didn't eventually present itself. The process of building my new vidding computer won't even start until next month. And suddenly, not even really having the option to vid is distressing. What if the right song shows up tomorrow?!? I am attempting to deal with this by putting together an honest to god clip database in an excel spreadsheet. A thing I have gaped with awe at when other vidders do (my first vid partner made these and I thought of them a bit like magic), but I have never managed because I get bored and distracted and wander away and end up with, like, an episode and a half done (kind of like when I attempt to actually clip before I vid and give up after two hours and just start scrubbing through ALL the source as it stands in one big chunk). I dunno, maybe the inability to just wander away and cheat through to the really fun part is actually good for me? Because this database is actually closer to becoming an entire thing than I've ever managed before. Then again this show has eight freaking seasons, so I'm not patting myself on the back just yet.

If I do pull it off, I suspect that when I do have the new computer and the song, the actual vidding process might go really fast for me because I won't have to flailingly search for a single thing, I'll be able to do a quick filter search for whatever in my spreadsheet and have, like, actual timestamps in seconds. OMG, if I do find a song before the new computer is built, I might even try storyboarding. I'm vaguely fascinated to see if this theory that pre-organization and planning will end in a faster process on the back end...or if I'll just end up tossing my neatly organized plans out the window in favor of the wildly messy free for all that is my usual process the second I'm sitting in front of premiere for real.

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surexit

Lost Prince newsletter! Tell me if you've posted something about The Lost Prince, because I am not exactly being scientific about this newsletter. >.>

-

osprey_archer has written a ficlet about Marco and the Rat in a dungeon together! And posted Chapter 1 of The Unlikely Traitor, a fic in which Rat goes into the dungeon alone. :(

- I wrote a ficlet about the Rat and Marco in old age and a ficlet about Lazarus and Stefan having a thing.

- The fandom began a collaborative story! (Okay, no, what happened is that I wrote a ficlet about Marco accidentally making a double entendre, and then

halotolerant wrote another. But if three more people write them, WE HAVE A FIVE THINGS STORY. :)?)

- A discussion was had about crossing The Lost Prince over with Monstrous Regiment. I am mainly linking to this because I am desperate for someone not-me to write it.

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petra

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devohoneybee

Happy birthday to the wonderful and talented Barb G aka troutkitty. I couldn't wish for a better friend. May the day be delicious!

morgandawn

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zvi

My father spent his years fighting his size, wishing he was smaller, weaker, less of a giant. He was taught to hate his body, and he was ashamed of the amount of space he took up. But he passed his strength to me, and I won’t squander my inheritance. I will not let myself be diminished.

I am my father’s daughter. I too am a giant, built of strength and flesh. And I am strong enough to carry myself and others, even when they can’t carry themselves.

link to complete essay by Tiffany Kell

morgandawn

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cimorene

1. Anna Field rubber boots in navy 2. Joules "Welly Print" in floral 3. Tretorn "Asoho" in green 4-5. Ilse Jacobsen "long rubber boot" in turrquoise & gray
6. Aigle "Malouine" in yellow/white 7-9. Hunter "Original High Gloss" in Violet & Cornflower & Smoke
10-11. Tretorn "Skerry" rubber rain boot in Amparo & Yellow 12. Tretorn "Kelly" in Aqua Sea 13. Hunter Original Adjustable in green

surexit

Title: Psmith Learns
Word count: 1400
Pairing: Mike/Psmith
Summary: Psmith jolted. “So forward,” he said, a slight crack in his voice. “I begin to suspect your intentions. Comrade Jackson, Casanova of the Home Counties.”

Notes:

somebraveapollo held my hand at the final hurdle. ♥ I am working my way up to writing actual Psmith porn, so here is Step One: The Kissing.

At the AO3.

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cimorene

Acne runs in both sides of my family. It's a drag.¹ I'm 30 now and I still deal with it. I'm a little disappointed that it hasn't mostly vanished yet with age the way it did for my dad's sisters; but on the other hand, there are far worse cases out there.

About 6 years ago at

isilya's recommendation I made a longer (1.5-2 year?) attempt with the acne.org regimen (gentle face wash and a thick layer of 2% BP followed by optional moisturizing 1-2x day). I knew from high school that BP had made a slight difference, so I made what is for a disorganized person like me a truly colossal effort and did it, even though the whole routine took at LEAST 25 minutes per day. This was long enough to see an improvement, but also to see the maximum amount of help it could offer, which was not enough to be worth it to me, because besides the huge time suck, the procedure was actually pretty uncomfortable and had super annoying side-effects (mainly ruining things with bleach stains from accidentally touching clothes or linens with my face or neck within less than ≈1.5 hrs of the routine).

Then I read online last week that some studies have shown 5% tea tree oil comparable to 5% BP, with fewer side effects².

I am already familiar with tea tree oil dating from my sojourn at Crunchy Aunt's house in 2003-04. It's an effective, pleasant topical anaesthetic (and antiseptic, although I haven't measured its effect on germs personally). Until last week I had more or less given up on acne products - for a few years I've mostly just applied tiny dabs of mint toothpaste gel³ as an anaesthetic to extra-painful inflamed zits, the ones that sit there throbbing distractingly on the skin, which are the worst part for me.

I figure that since my skin is tough, the worst that can happen is very mild skin irritation and it's far more likely that it just won't help. Even if it's less effective than BP, as long as it does make some difference the lack of bleach-related and thin-layer-of-gel-on-your-face-that-can-later-come-off-related (tea tree oil basically absorbs into the skin without leaving a residue, not even an oily one like moisturizer) inconvenience would make it worth it. Even if it turns out to do nothing for me after six months or so, I'll still be slightly better off because I'll still have discovered The Body Shop's tea tree oil face cleanser, which I really really like (I have literally NEVER found a face cleanser that I really really like before: I'm sensitive to perfumed shit, which makes the land of face and body cosmetics a miserable jaunt into NONE OF THIS IS FOR YOU AND YOU WILL PROBABLY GAG IF YOU EVEN WALK INTO OUR DEPARTMENT OF THE STORE MUAHAHA - though kudos to Finland for having a couple of dependable domestic brands of unscented shampoos, shower gels, soaps, and moisturizers).

Oh, I should mention though, on the off chance that anybody has a sensitive nose and is suddenly thinking about tea tree oil - it has a really strong smell in its concentrated forms. Like, tea tree ointment⁴ or moisturizing mask, or even the facial cleanser, have a definite, rather penetrating, planty-medicinal odor that some people hate and some people like, but it's nothing that's going to knock you back into the wall. You don't have to write home about it. You can get a whiff, form an opinion and then quickly move on. It wouldn't necessarily influence your decision whether to buy a product one way or the other. I am slightly warmer than neutral towards it, without loving it. But if you open a bottle of the 15% solution? WOW. I put it on Wednesday night and then lay in bed awake for half an hour wrinkling my nose.

waxjism walked into the bathroom like 20 minutes after me and shouted "WHOAAA!" So, like, don't do that without cautiously sniffing the tester in the store or something first.

Two of my contemporary cousins with slightly worse cases had several teenaged years of Accutane, the antibiotic that has been the popular Big Guns treatment; ten years later they're pretty much fine. But that has side-effects that make it still pretty hotly debated, so I think I'm still glad that my doctor was more cautious and prescribed a face cream with benzoyl peroxide that didn't actually help significantly.

Although the medical trials with 5% oil found no significant side effects, I've seen anecdata about severe skin irritation caused by using it in a higher concentration. The Body Shop's oil, which I bought to try out because it was easy to obtain locally and a small, relatively cheap package, contains 15% tea tree oil. I'm planning to dilute it, but in its present form it was not a skin irritant to me, either. On another note, it can be poisonous if ingested in large quantity, and apparently can even cause symptoms when applied topically to animals? Although I have to admit I've put my own tea tree ointment on the cats and formerly on the dog for small cuts, needle trackmarks and rashes respectively without noticing any effect on them, so again, it might need a much larger concentration to do that. My ointment - typical for a healthfood store product - doesn't have any information about the concentration of the active ingredients in it even though it makes antibacterial claims on the packaging.

Obviously, that doesn't work for like, going out. You can't wear toothpaste on your face under makeup. It's more of a Saturdays and before bed thing. I understand some people quite like drying spot treatments, though. I haven't tried any, but I don't rule out the possibility. If you know any brand names to suggest, they probably won't help me unless you're European because the EU has all kinds of laws that NA doesn't and also different brands of most OTC stuff in any case.

Or lip balm, which I have owned before, and which I find really bemusing now that I know it's poisonous, because uh, even if lip balm has less than 1% of what you would need to be poisonous, it's not like you NEED it on your mouth, we have plenty of medicated lip balms that are perfectly effective already on the market...

therienne

It is Saturday, and I was supposed to meet with someone super early this morning, but I blew them off and told them I couldn't make it, because this is the last Saturday for a very long time where I get to sleep in. This time next week, the contractor will arrive with his guys, probably at like, 7 or 7:30 am or something obscene. And then every day thereafter except for Sundays for weeks and weeks and weeks.

So this whole "renovate the kitchen because it's unusable and the wooden counter tops are actually rotting" thing seemed like a great idea back in January. Right now, faced with the prospect of losing access to half the downstairs for a minimum of 6 weeks, and strange men arriving so early every day that I will probably have to forgo early morning showers for evening showers and my hair will turn into a rats nest, as it always does when I shower in the evening, and no downstairs sink, and no oven, and therefore no kettle for tea, and the cats being locked up and distressed, and having to pack everything up this week and find somewhere to store it, and possibly a period of time when we will have to go downstairs to the basement to use the bathroom because of plumbing work, and also the possibility that every choice I made about cabinets, counters, fixtures and tile WAS THE WRONG CHOICE, and all of this during what is known in these parts as 'vidding deadline season,' and it is possible I have some feelings of trepidation.

Also the new doors and windows are not arriving on time, which we can deal with, unless they continue to push the date back. Then I will flip out.

But at any rate, today we will empty stuff out of the dining room (a.k.a.

mollyamory's office) and the kitchen, and stuff it into nooks and crannies. We are planning to move the fridge and the microwave into the living room. It will be crowded. An afternoon trip to Costco is planned so we can buy all the paper plates and utensils in the world. We have a nice grill, but that part is dependent on the weather cooperating. I intend to raid Trader Joe's microwave meal section with impartiality ASAP.

At some point soon, I will take "Before" pics. I already have the "Way Before" pics that I took when I was looking at this house during inspection. Things have already changed a lot since then! For the better, mostly. Be prepared for future picspam, as things progress!

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wyomingnot

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torachan

1. I got Monday off! Monday is Memorial Day, which is one of the federal holidays my work considers paid holidays for full-time employees. We don't get overtime if we work on a holiday, but if we work that day we can get another day off with pay, or if we don't work that day, we will still get paid for it. Because it's a Monday, I figured I wouldn't be able to get it off, since that's usually order day and I have to be there to print POs. But it looks like all the companies we order from are off, so ordering will be moved to Tuesday and I can have Monday off. I already have Sunday off, but I'm going out with Alexander that day, so this will be nice to have a day off after that to be able to just completely rest without going anywhere or seeing anyone.

2. I wasn't thrilled about working tonight on my day off, but I got to take home a ton of free meat, so that was a nice bonus. (I posted a picture on Twitter of my haul.)

azurelunatic

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

Friday, 0013: Tumblr favorite: http://gyzym.tumblr.com/post/51188595902/the-longest-shadows-ever-cast (from gyzym)
Friday, 0028: Tumblr favorite: http://tatterdemalionamberite.tumblr.com/post/51178013591/temporaldecay-nightingales-before-we-begin (from tatterdemalionamberite)
Friday, 0101: My fitbit #Fitstats for 5/23/2013: 1,150 steps and 0.5 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/23LLYD
Friday, 0127: @trixieleitz Hee, snuggling hens are awesome.
Friday, 0225: @trixieleitz Clingy hens!

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Follow me on Twitter.

metaphortunate

So toilet training, unsurprisingly, began with me freaking out. ( Cut to spare those who do not wish to read a huge long thing about toilet training. )

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heresluck

I'm sitting here looking at this hot mess of a vid draft and realizing that I honestly have no idea whether the problem is that these are all the wrong clips or that they're the right clips in the wrong order. Or both. Probably some of both. Dammit.

I think it's officially time for bed.

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teaotter

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spuffyduds

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dine

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seperis

Okay, this is because a.) exhaustion and b.) lack of sleep, so paranoia is probably rampant at the moment.

Amazon Worlds, earlier post about it here.

Again, my defense is paranoia:

I figured out what was bothering me as a writer about this.

Okay, assuming this takes off and paid fanfiction is a thing; would that be grounds to start C&Ding free fanfiction on the net? The thing is, right now, the original media is not in competition with free fanfic, and they also aren't losing money because there is no paid equivalent. However, with the advent of paid fanfiction--that they get money from as well--free fanfiction would be considered competition.

Anyone legal or economic or philosophically inclined have any kind of odds on it becoming worth the effort to C&D free fanfiction since it would actually be direction competition and because money theoretically is being lost for every fic that is downloaded for free from AO3?

The thing is, while the original media doesn't make money off this, neither do fanfic writers. Now they have a way to make money off fanfic, will AO3 be the textual equivalent of Pirate's Bay in the future?

Yes, paranoia. It's been a hell of a week.

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via_ostiense

Honest to God finally done with the school year as of 5:10 A.M.

musesfool

So after I made the dough on Tuesday night, on Wednesday evening I made brown butter salted chocolate chip cookies (pic - man am I a terrible photographer or what? I mean, that's taken with my phone under the very unfortunate lighting in my kitchen, but still. I suppose considering I have no space to set up, I shouldn't worry about how awful my pictures are, but sometimes I'm reminded and this is one of them.).

They are really tasty, though I don't think the salt really added much, so I didn't add it to half of them, but I don't think anyone noticed or cared (I brought the majority of the cookies - I got about fifty out of this recipe, because I only made them about half as big as the recipe instructed - to work yesterday and they were a big hit; I kept about ten for myself, which I ate last night for dessert and then this morning for breakfast).

Yesterday wasn't a bad day, per se, just a really frigging busy one at work, in a way where I was being interrupted by the next new URGENT thing every three minutes, which made it hard to concentrate on any of them, but everything got done, even if I had to stay until nearly 7 to finish it all, because today was a furlough day. There'd be some talk of me talking some other day as a furlough day, but both my bosses were like, "No, have the four day weekend! It's the lone silver lining of this situation."

Speaking of the furlough, I got my first paycheck since it started and it's almost exactly $100 less than usual, so it's not as bad as it could be, but it's still bad, if you consider that I'm down $200 a month now for the next five months just as my rent jumped $250 (and will likely jump another $200 come October 1, if I don't move). I mean, I can manage? But only by paying only the minimum on my credit cards and cutting back (even more) in other ways etc. No more mindless consumerism when it comes to books or cooking implements. (I gazed covetously at grill pans and crepe pans this morning on Amazon. Sigh. Not that I would use either of those much at home, but I still want them.)

Speaking of rent, I got the return receipt yesterday from when I mailed the lump sum payment to the landlord AND THEY STILL HAVEN'T CASHED THE CHECK. THEY ARE MAKING ME CRAZY. CASH THE FUCKING CHECK PLEASE SO IT CAN ALL BE OFFICIALLY OVER. UGH.

So anyway, I didn't get home last night until about 8 so I missed all of the first period, which I'm glad of, because it sounds like it was terrible, and I have to say, when the Bruins went up 2-0, I was like, wow this is going to end and the Rangers aren't even trying. But then they got that fluky first goal and things turned around for them, at least a little. I mean, I don't believe they can win four straight from the Bruins, especially not with two of those games in Boston, but at least they showed some kind of spark and didn't just let Boston have their way completely. *hands*

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Current Music: I Love You - Said the Whale
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the_shoshanna

Since our whale watch was canceled, Geoff and I spent the afternoon just wandering around Gloucester, admiring the buildings and looking out to sea. ( Wanna hear about it? )

Now we're home and up to our eyebrows in work again. Except that I slept until almost eleven on our first morning home (with chemical aid; I can't sleep that well on my own, dammit, which is why I occasionally need to take some Benadryl and crash for ten or eleven hours!). Now I'm trying to work on four rites of passage simultaneously without getting them confused, and also figure out what I'm going to do for dinner tonight; we have Geoff's son here and probably also his mom as well. (Geoff's mom, not Geoff's son's mom.) Given how little I'm in the mood to cook at the moment, I may end up making my famous phone call to the Chinese place ("Xander, does your family even own a stove?").

bethbethbeth

It's been forever since I've updated my recs site...

Okay, so here are 8 new Avengers fic recs (mostly Clint/Phil), with many, many more to follow in the coming week.

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surexit

( In angry news: )

In other news:

- Still rewatching Psych, and cannot get over how in love with Gus Shawn is. I'm about halfway through Season 3, and my mountain of evidence is getting higher by the episode. He looooves him, but he doesn't think he's good enough for Burton Guster, and he's completely unable to handle genuine emotion, and it's just sad. And I think what the show's been doing wrong recently is forgetting how completely central Shawn and Gus are to each other. And Gus' face is flawless in every possible way, oh my God.

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vaznetti

( parental semi-bragging under the cut )

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cimorene

1-4 Puma "Suede Classic Eco" in pale blue - Converse "All Star Hi III Superman" - Converse "All Star Ox III" in yellow - Nike "Blazer Low" in light green
5-8 Osiris "NYC83 Slim" in Cyan/Lime/Berry - Lacoste "Ziane" in silver - " " in gold - Reebok "Lifestyle Rhythmcity Athletic" in Navy/Pink/Zing White/Tin Gray
9-12 Lacoste "Marthe" in dark blue - Reebok "Dance Ur Lead Mid" in blue sport - DC "Stance Low" in white/turquoise - Roxy "Lido Rope" in blue/white stars
13-16 Palladium "Monochrome" in red - Keds "Double Dutch Stripe" in white/black - Converse "Chuck Taylor All Star Star Print Hi" in Mirage Gray/white - Palladium "Pallabrouse Baggy" in Navy/Vapor

rachelmanija

Spoilery for the entire series - seriously. And you really don't want to get spoiled for this if there's any chance whatsoever that you might read it.

I remembered something about book six (The Broken Fortress) and re-read it, and...

...how the hell did Hale do that? I don't think I've ever come across this particular use of foreshadowing before, or at least not the way she did it.

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alexandrina

Next time you're going to write a scene where Tazer is trying to make Kaner eat a salad with no dressing as their entire lunch on a practice day mid-season?

Please reference this handy article about hockey player eating habits first. Thank you!

gwyn

I have a wrap-up post to make about my trip, but for now I'm posting my premiering vid from VidUKon. I was so amazed that there were people at the con who knew the series, and that even some of the people who didn't grokked what the vid was doing.

Pick Up the Phone
Fandom: Awake
Artist: The Notwist
File: 39.9MB avi
"If you're telling me that the price of seeing them, feeling them...of having them in my life is my sanity, then that's a price I will happily pay."

Streaming at YouTube here, and embed below

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morgandawn

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kouredios

I haven't had time to Storify yet, and I'm off to Rome in less than an hour, but I just had to say:

During today's last lecture, she referred to me by name (and our tutorial yesterday) four times.

And, um, not to anyone else's once.

*faints*

Current Mood: shocked
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skud

A month or so back someone on Twitter linked to an article about Israeli politics, from an Israeli media outlet. Reading it, I found I was missing a lot of context, so I started looking at things like the "Who is a Jew?" debate and opening 200 Wikipedia tabs. Not long after, I found myself on Youtube watching a series of rather awesome head-covering howto videos, and then sidetracked into watching documentaries about Amish and Hutterites, and all about religious orders (fuelled also by watching Call the Midwife around the same time).

At the same time, the seasons have changed here, and it's getting cold. I brought out my winter underwear, which is mostly the merino leggings and long-sleeved undershirts/spencers that Target Australia sells. I habitually wear them under *everything* in winter -- sometimes in basic black, sometimes stripes and colours depending on what Target has.

Then, also, I'm working from home, which means I am dressing for practicality and comfort, and not worrying too much what other people think of my attire. I don't have to "fit in" with a work culture, and the area I live in (inner north suburbs of Melbourne) is somewhere on the border of "hipster" and "hippie" so pretty much anything goes.

Also, I like natural fibres (especially wool and linen, but cotton's okay too) and wear them as much as possible; I've recently discovered Gudrun Sjoden and have some of their simple dresses in linen and cotton, and I just ordered some new stuff from Flax in preparation for my upcoming US trip since I'm short on summer clothes after wearing all my last batch almost to rags. (Btw, anyone else know similar mostly-natural-fibre brands, that serve plus sizes? Apart from Eileen Fisher, which I'm not that into at that price point, but will occasionally buy from charity shops if I get lucky.)

Also, I am a history nerd and know quite a lot about historical (western) clothing styles. I've also spent a fair amount of time wearing them, through the SCA and stuff like that.

Also, I am kind of a nanna and into things like wearing aprons (because they keep your clothes clean and save on laundry) and wearing hats outdoors (for sun protection and because I don't like the feel of sunscreen) and buying clothes that will last and/or can be mended rather than throwing them out.

Also, I do the "no poo" thing where I only wash my hair with water, or occasionally conditioner, rather than using shampoo/soap/detergent of any kind. My hair's getting longer and going through a bit of a phase where it gets a bit greasy sometimes, but isn't long enough to put up/back on bad hair days. Actually it's just at that irritating length where I can't do a damn thing with it.

The result is that at the moment I am kind of dressing in a style that I would call "European grandma meets inner north hipster". I tend to wear knee-length or slightly-below-knee-length (because I'm short and haven't hemmed them up) dresses with long underwear underneath, a cardigan over that, and lately usually some kind of bandana or head scarf over my hair. Sometimes there is an apron. When I am around the house I wear ugg boots, but when I go out I usually put on Doc Martens or my Vevo barefoot boots which kind of look like those ones boxers wear.

So maybe it's because all this season-changing and bad-hair-month-ing is going on at the same time that I've been reading/watching all this stuff about religious communities and religious modesty, but I'm having lots of complicated thoughts about the way I'm dressing lately, which has a lot in common with religious modest dress styles, and wanted to sort of poke at them and see what happens. So, in no particular order...

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melusina

I have 86 works posted on the AO3 - pick a number between 1 (most recently posted) and 86 (first posted) and I'll tell you up to three things that I like about that work! (Alternately, you can just pick a title. . .)

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brownbetty

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vass

I finished Kate Bornstein's memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, today.

It was definitely good and worth reading (although to be honest I liked My Gender Workbook and Hello Cruel World way better) but there is a BUT.

Things that Kate warns for:

- BDSM. (Not for BDSM in general, but for a chapter where there's a detailed description of a scene involving permanent marking and breathplay, both without prior negotiation. Note that she doesn't say that in the warning, just that the passage really disturbed the editor, and if BDSM disturbs you too, here's where to skip to.)

Things that Kate does not warn for:

- eating disorder triggers, in particular anorexia. All through the book, either Kate is actively starving herself or is hating her size. There is unexamined stuff about obesity that made me feel, well, not good. There is stuff about how to starve oneself.

- self-injury triggers, in particular cutting. Again: detailed, almost a how-to.

- child abuse (physical), suicide attempts, cults, drug and alcohol addiction. In all three cases, less HOLY FUCK than the things I listed above, and in the case of the suicide and the cult probably something you'd expect going in if you knew who Kate is when you picked up the book, but since I'm listing trigger warnings, well, those are major triggers to list.

- rape. Described in detail, and the reader doesn't get any more warning than Kate did.

None of these are deal-breakers for me in a book I'm reading. I still would have read A Queer and Pleasant Danger if I'd known in advance. But I'd have gone in prepared, and I think that would have made my reading experience better (it was still a good book.) So I'm posting this, in the hope that it'll make someone else's reading experience better.

Current Mood: awake

azurelunatic

So it turns out that I do know "Do You Hear The People Sing" well enough to sing along with the chorus, thanks to Summer Fine Arts Camp and my general time spent around various musical theatre types. (And I have a difficult time not singing along to "I Dreamed a Dream" because while I was not in the actual musicals, I spent the better part of my youth in various choirs.) I discovered this on the phone with

zarhooie the other night, where by "the other night" I am pretty sure it was around the end of April, because hilarity directly began to ensue.

And then the bottom fell out of my schedule because conference and also conference.

But the conference is now over.

Do you hear the bloggers sing
Singing a song of angry fen
Heave-ho, hoist up the colors
We'll not be struck-through again
When the posting of your gif
Reveals they all reload as one
There is a site about to start
When tomorrow comes!

(Musical note: you either have to sing "heave" on two notes or skip a note to make it work, and go fast-and-light on "we'll not" and really hammer "be" to make it scan right.)

torachan

1. Looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow. I have work in the evening and lunch with my mom, but that still gives me plenty of time sleep in.

2. For some reason it was really hectic at work today (I feel like I was constantly being called to do something or running around), but I still managed to get a little bit of the inbox backlog taken care of.

3. Most of my shows are done for the season now, but tonight was a new episode of Hataraku Maou-sama, which is currently my favorite show anyway, so yay. :)

azurelunatic

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

Thursday, 0010: I'm watching MythBusters (307 are watching) http://getglue.com/tv_shows/mythbusters?s=tch&ref=azurelunatic #GetGlue @MythBusters
Thursday, 0010: I unlocked the I Can't Stop Watching sticker on #GetGlue! #comedyweek @youtube http://getglue.com/stickers/youtube/i_cant_stop_watching?s=ts&ref=azurelunatic
Thursday, 0011: RT @nadyne: I've never seen air sitar before.
Thursday, 0101: My fitbit #Fitstats for 5/22/2013: 3,495 steps and 1.5 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/23LLYD
Thursday, 0431: (finding my bff's attempts to friend like an adult inexplicably adorable. he's lucky I like him. <3)

( read the other 28 )

Follow me on Twitter.

killabeez

I could talk about the day I've had, but let's not. Instead, I point you to some amazingly wonderful fannish things.

First,

anoel made a Homeland vid to Drumming by Florence and the Machine, and blew my mind. If there is a more perfect song choice, I can't think of what it might be. But beyond that, the rhythmic intensity of her cutting, the use of the song, and the perfect understanding of the character of Carrie Mathison make this a special vid that deserves attention. Watch the bridge of the song, where Brody comes in and all the jarring jumpcuts and staccato-sharp edges suddenly begin to flow into harmony. And then watch what happens after, as Carrie flies apart but in such precise, clear stages. It's pretty much inspired genius.

Then, two SPN fic recs:

A Mobius Strip (Sam/Dean) by

downjune—an SPN/Looper fusion written for

spn_cinema that demonstrates the true meaning of fusion. I had the privilege of betaing this, but honestly, I didn't add anything of significance, because it was damn near perfect when I got it. I don't think you have to have seen Looper to appreciate it, but it's even better if you have. I just love this writer's mad skills.

and finally—

Rough Riders by

rivkat (Sam/Dean, NC17)
This is labeled id-fic, and I wouldn't presume to debate otherwise, but it is also the hottest thing I've read in... possibly years. There are certain things Dean won't believe until Sam proves it to him.

wyomingnot

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zvi

I have 167 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 167 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

meme gakked from

sohotrightnow However, if I can't think of three things,I may tell you something that happened before, something that happened during, and something that happened after.

Ps. Have not had time to work on five things not!fic, but I have but forgotten.

mollyamory

I have to get back into the posting habit, right? This is posting! :)

( A-Z meme )

Crossposts: http://mollyamory.livejournal.com/81430.html

china_shop

I have my primary computer back. It was gone for about 24 hours, and my old backup one behaved perfectly in the primary's absence, rendering the shiny new laptop entirely gratuitous, but whatever. I can has laptop! It's very exciting! I even managed to connect it to the 'net just now (via cable! let's not push my technological advancement -- my brain might melt!) and send an email. And now I'm back on the primary where I belong, and I really should be cleaning ALL the things because I have someone coming over in two hours (two! meep!) and a whole posse of people coming over tomorrow night. But I don't want to move. *clings to keyboard*

Also, possibly relatedly, it is freeeeeeezing! *clutches hands together to maintain feeling in fingers*

Funny story: I connected one of my external drives to my DVD player late last night, to see if I could play things directly from there instead of faffing around with flashdrives all the time. The only file I could get to work -- out of the dozen or so I tried -- was the White Collar pilot. So I ended up watching half of it, helplessly, held in thrall. Apparently having seen something a billion times before does not always make me immune.

Crossposts: http://china-shop.livejournal.com/872384.html

shayheyred

Wow, haven't posted in ages. So here's a meme, snagged from...Dira, Pollitt, Sage...no doubt dozens more. But it's cool!

I have 179 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 179 (the most recent) to 1 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

musesfool

omg after the day i had i can't even with overtime again.

*cries*

eta: HOLY FUCK THE RANGERS WIN IN OT!

\o/

Current Mood: stressed
Current Music: rangers v. bruins, going to overtime
Crossposts: http://musesfool.livejournal.com/2282762.html

jamethiel

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Crossposts: http://jamethiel-bane.livejournal.com/232645.html

gloss

I currently have 141 works archived at the AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 141 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it. I was only intermittently scrupulous about preserving the original publication dates, so the order is haphazard and not exactly accurate, despite the meme wording.

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