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Friday, December 31st, 2010
11:59 pm	Fanfic Index Looking for some fanfic? Pretty much all I have around here is POTC, but you're welcome to check it out and leave feedback, critique, whatever. All I ask is you keep it civil. Under the cut are my stories, in no particular order. I have sorted them into a few broad categories, and I've put no rating warnings in the very brief descriptions of each - each individual story/drabble has its own disclaimer, summary, rating, and the like. ( Doesn't matter if you take the red pill or the blue pill, you end up under the same cut )
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
12:59 am	yo dawg Holmes The sister and I went to see "Sherlock Holmes" today. ( Yet another review of the new Holmes movie ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 25th, 2009
1:31 am	Happy holiday! A present for some fannish types *G*: see more Lol Celebs Also, the sister and her friends made me watch "Twilight" tonight. I still don't want to touch the books, but the movie wasn't too bad. Lots of LOLZ to be had, and fortunately they had good senses of humor as I sat and picked through it ("Oh no! Edward's constipated again!"). (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 21st, 2009
10:18 pm	for the POTC J/W fans If you're a Jack/Will fan, you'll enjoy the post-AWE (WELL after AWE) story hatofhornigold wrote for me at merrypirates for this year's fic exchange. You can find the story here. Leave her feedback! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
2:59 am	weird fanfic wish Maybe I've just had too much wine, but I'm watching "Three's Company" reruns, and I REALLY want (happy ending) fanfic about the characters 30 years after the show. Not 'shippy, necessarily. Just older-life characters. /iz weird (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
10:49 am	POTC PWP - "Abrupt" So, a short smutty idea that came to me in my modern AU with Jack and Will, taking place in the "Uncle" timeline that you can find here. (You don't have to read them, but this might make more sense if you do.) title: "Abrupt" rating: NC-17, M pairing: Jack/Will disclaimer: I don't own them or turn (or even Turner) a profit off their portrayals summary: A smutty PWP in bed. Not difficult to summarize at all. :-) a/n: Unbetaed - but spellchecked! ( The heat of their second coupling still washed around Jack ) (20 Comments |Comment on this)
2:00 am	account credits So, I'm confused about the $10 account credit things. I've received two from well-meaning friends, but apparently I can't combine those? And if I accept one and pay the $9.95 to sign up for one year, I'm also committing myself to being automatically billed in a year for another subscription to paid account at that time - and every year thereafter? That's what the FAQ info page seemed to imply, anyway. /confused (I'm not as upset by the gender identity-box issue as I ought to be, I guess, possibly because I've had to fill out these things before and have more than once screwed with ticky boxes by checking "male" instead of "female." I figure the ability to say anything I want and read anything I want online comes with some cost - I'm just glad it's as banal as advertising, which I can ignore.) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
8:02 pm	Writer's Block: Honesty is such a lonely word Do you think honesty is really the best policy when it comes to relationships? Is total honesty possible, let alone desirable? Submitted By ryokimayuu View 664 Answers Why, no. Not at all. It is far better to squirrel away your annoyances and grievances until you let them fester into resentment and imagined slights, and instead simper and hint around once in a while that things might not be quite as good as they should be. We wouldn't want to be impolite or unladylike, after all. (19 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
1:19 pm	Writer's Block: Password protected If your best friend and/or romantic partner read all of your email for the last month (or longer), how would it impact your relationship(s) and why? Submitted By bacon_fiend View 905 Answers Absolutely none. I don't say anything under a cut or in a private e-mail about anyone, that they don't already know I think about them. Same in real life - if I say it behind their back, I've already said it to them. People who accept me at anything other than face value are doing themselves more of a disservice than I ever could. Speaking of pissing people (or cats) off ... see more Lolcats and funny pictures (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 14th, 2009
1:23 am	Frank & Fred (Fred is the stuffed sheep.) (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
7:13 pm	some muppety goodness First, thanks to metalkatt - now one of my very favorite versions of my favorite holiday carol ("Chain saw!"): Then, from immortal_jedi comes "Bohemian Rhapsody" Muppet-style ("Let me joke!" "We do not like your jokes!"): (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
10:17 pm	flakes and flowers I have three f-listers who have left me snowflakes and a flower. Thanks to joey112, alilacia, and pigeongirl99 for their gifts! *hugs* (2 Comments |Comment on this)
11:56 am	POTC gift exchange fic - "Monsieur! Monsieur!" Title: “Monsieur! Monsieur!” Rating: PG Characters: Gov. Swann/Captain Chevalle (SLASH - I'm not warning you twice), Murtogg, Mullroy, others mentioned Disclaimer: I do not own these characters nor turn a profit from their portrayal; just tricks. Summary: Slight deviation of canon events during AWE. Written for the prompt: I would like an old-fashioned (gentleman) pirate kidnapping, with the Governor treated as a reluctant captive and guest aboard the fancy ship. Manlove happens. Do not want: Elizabeth/Jack, Will/Jack, Barbossa anything. Also Norrington/Beckett. I do like Jack/Norrington and Elizabeth/Norrington or Beckett. No harsh violence or SM situations. For lolitalockhart in the 2009 merrypirates challenge. (Happy holidays!) A/N: Thanks to betas gryphons_lair and metalkatt for their corrections and suggestions. Any other errors are my own. This is something a bit different for me, so I hope you like it. :-) ( Tell me, is it custom in your family to take your elders out away from the rest, and threaten their lives? ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
1:47 pm	everything you want, everything you need, everything inside of you that you wish you could be (Gotta love Vertical Horizon) The friggin' Borg meme assimilated from everywhere - • Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile." • I'll respond to the comment by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity • Update your journal with the answers to the questions • Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions And particularly asked by pktaxwench: When will we see a PotC/Trek crossover fic? Dude, it's been done. Go read ... Name 1 thing not many people know about you. I wanted to fly, so I applied to the Air Force in high school, but was turned down on the weight limit, so I took a night aviation class in college and passed the pilot's ground test with a rather high score. But I couldn't afford more than a couple of actual lessons in the air, so I never got that coveted pilot's license. :-( If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to? I'm going to take advice from a "Friends" character here and choose Princess Consuela Bananahammock. Do you believe in the afterlife? To paraphrase Chris Rock from "Dogma," I think believing anything that comes to the metaphysical or religious is a mad, bad, dangerous idea. So I'll just say I have a feeling there might be an afterlife, sure. There are things I'd like to know and do at some point in my existence, and they are things I know will never be possible in my mortal lifetime. *G* Plus, while I don't know that I'd want to spend ALL eternity with my dead relatives - there's a reason I moved hundreds of miles away - I'd like the option of popping over and visiting with them whenever I felt like it. On the topic of abortion, how do you feel about cookies? I firmly believe it should be against the law to remove chocolate chips or morsels from any cookie dough in which they've already been implanted. God wanted that chocolate there, or He wouldn't have made your elbow knock the bag into the bowl, so we should honor that by suffering the warm, melted chocolate gooeyness. And immortal_jedi Do you think there will ever be another TurnerCon? Oh, I do hope so. It's been mostly a positive experience for me. Maybe in a few months ...? Who is your favorite Star Trek character, any series? Data, probably because of the way his actor played him. He had no emotions for several years, but there was always a hint of it anyway, especially the eybrows. Have you ever shipped canon? *grin* Data/Tasha Yar, for absolute YEARS. Actually, with TNG, I liked the "established" pairings, canon or otherwise: Riker/Troi, Picard/Crusher, etc. The only one I was never really down with was Worf/Troi. I liked him much better with K'Ehlar (sp?), Alexander's mother. Why is Will your favorite POTC character? I started out liking all of them in 2003, but particularly Jack and Will together and separately. I guess I liked the way metalkatt imagined Will in our later joint writing/chat efforts - he had a backbone and a smart mouth, and a brain, and it was a pleasant departure from the widespread "wet bitch Will" so often written in early POTC fanfics (not all, but widespread). I cannot stand a strong/weak pairing (in fiction or IRL). After DMC came out and I would see discussions about how liberating being with Jack would be for poor, oppressed Elizabeth, I (foolishly) would become part of said discussions, wanting to know precisely how it was that Will was oppressing her. Between many contrived and nonsense answers, and the Will-bashing I saw in a lot of J/E fic at the time (again, not all, but widespread), I guess fandom sort of swayed me in his direction. As for the character himself, I'll say the same thing I did about Data: It has a lot to do with how the actor played him. Here's a relatively uninspiring stock character (on paper) given some life by well-placed scowls, eyerolls, and pratfalls, not to mention voice inflections and uncomfortably good looks. How long have you had your current job? Close to three years. It'll be time to move on in a couple or three more! :-D (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
12:38 am	gee, do they know me, or what? On the twelfth day of Christmas, veronica_rich sent to me... Twelve justawenchs drumming Eleven astolats piping Ten benkenobigals a-leaping Nine crevettes costuming Eight concertigrossis a-traveling Seven joey112s a-writing Six placeofinsanitys a-reading Five ithi-i-i-icajackals Four connosmemses Three _jack_sparrow_s Two poetic_selfs ...and a potc in a fantasy. Get your own Twelve Days: (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 30th, 2009
2:17 pm	Mike is right! An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore Monday, November 30, 2009 Dear President Obama, Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. Pure and simple. And with that you will do the worst possible thing you could do -- destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you. With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what they've always heard is true -- that all politicians are alike. I simply can't believe you're about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn't so. ( We are a civilian-run government. WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do, not the other way around. ) P.S. There's still time to have your voice heard. Call the White House at 202-456-1111 or e-mail the president through www.whitehouse.gov/contact (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
12:37 am	theatre, bitches! You guys remember my post from this weekend about our experience with a couple of overinflated-ego bitches following a production of "Chicago?" Well, my friend W can no longer get a press pass because of someone's trouble-stirring bullshit. Son of a bitch ... (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
4:40 pm	for mutual acquaintances Some of you also know metalkatt, so I'll post here (I don't know her LJ password to post to her account, and anyway, she'll probably be posting at some point herself later today or tomorrow, whatever). Those of you who would know her will know her female medical TMI stuff, so I won't rehash all that. I'll only say she was having problems all yesterday and overnight with bleeding, and today she notified me that she'd been told by her campus physician service to go to the ER. Last I got from her, she was being prepared for surgery - whether this is a simple D&C or something more involved, I don't know and neither did she. (But the fact she doesn't have surgical insurance and they went ahead and OKed whatever the procedure is tells me they think it's worth exploratory at least.) When I know more and if she doesn't go home to her laptop tonight, I'll update this post, so check back here if you don't see something from her. It might be updated. ETA: The above post was made about two and a half hours ago. I just got a text from her sister that surgery is over and she's recovering. If she can eat, she can leave the hospital tonight; she'll be spending the week with her sister and brother-in-law. I have not heard from metalkatt herself, but likely will later tonight or tomorrow. I won't give medical details except to say it's nothing alarming, I don't think; I'll let her make that update to her own LJ with as much detail as she wants later on. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
2:24 am	this is why we can't have nice experiences My friend W invited me to a traveling production of "Chicago" tonight (the one starring Tom Wopat as Billy Flynn) since she had an extra ticket and thought I could use something humorous and fun to counteract my ... well, whatever sadness is in my brain lately. I've seen four live productions of this play, each with a different cast, and each one has something good about it. This production was particularly rowdy and raunchy, and the actress playing Roxie really played well to the audience, hamming it up for laughs and cheers. In fact, there were many scenes people knew and they would cheer at the proper spot, or when a favorite character came onstage or did something they liked. ("Chicago" is one of those stories a lot of people have seen or are familiar with thanks to the movie version and/or the theatre cast recording CDs.) In fact, at the end after the cast took their bows, Wopat made a short speech about a charity the production was helping raise money for, to help AIDS patients; he jokingly promised anyone who made a $1,000 donation "a ride in the General Lee." Well, during the last 20 or so minutes, this woman in front of us kept turning around to stare and occasionally hiss something at W - W has a very distinctive laugh, and loud. The woman in front of us was really distracting and it was difficult for me to concentrate on the performance (meanwhile, everyone around us was also laughing loudly and some of them were howling or cheering occasionally). So after the lights come up at the end and W and I are discussing the performances and picking up our things, the woman in front of us and another with her proceeded to whirl on us and start lecturing us about theatre etiquette and how they've been to hundreds of performances and how they've never been so embarrassed or offended, etc. etc. They just kept going on and on, with no break so one could get a word in edgewise - I know I was just staring at them, and I'm pretty sure W was as well. Finally, we had the chance to point out that (a) at a live comedic performance, the desirable response is laughter, and that we were laughing for the performers and not for them; and (b) we were hardly the only people exhibiting an enthusiastic response. I also pointed out that W was my friend, that was her laugh, and they needed to get over it. A person cannot control how they laugh - unless they just don't do it at all. (I really wanted to point out that spending your time hissing at the people behind you and whispering among your own party is much less respectful of the actors than paying attention and having a good, loud laugh now and again in the proper spots.) Anyway, the old woman who'd begun lecturing us in the first place made some remark about having to sit near us, so I said, "Thank God I'll never have to sit behind you again." The fun part? She had the temerity to look *offended* by this. (Imagine! A stranger you've insulted and treated badly expresses a desire to stay far away from you!) Man, I am just a jerk magnet in 2009. I swear to Dog, I'm tired of this entitlement rap I've gotten this year from various assholes thinking their shit doesn't stink and that I'm always wrong. I've had a fucking horrible year and I'm frankly tired of it. Current Mood: angry (17 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
8:27 am	Oh ho Ho Listening to the news this morning, there was a Republican talking about how a government advisory panel's recommendation that women don't get mammograms until age 50 instead of 40, saying this is how health care will be restricted under a health care reform law. (Let us put aside for a moment that I think it's boneheaded to advise women to have LESS screening. Just for the record.) He then says the problem is how the govt. is getting between women and their doctors. It doesn't take much probably to guess my reaction to this. You mean how you and your party want to interfere with a woman's access to abortion and birth control? Honestly, do these Repubs think, or just parrot? (10 Comments |Comment on this)