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| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 | ||
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ratcreature |
6:07p | random poll As another decade ends (I can't believe it's going to be 2010 in just a few days. yikes!) you see all the usual retrospectives etc.; also I've been editing fanlore (and you should too, the wiki needs more people /end shameless plug). This led me to wonder: if you've been in fandom a long(-ish) time, do you ever feel nostalgia for fandom how it used to be? ("Fandom" in this case intentionally vague as I just mean whatever form of fandom you were involved in the era you are nostalgic for.) And if so, for which time period? So I thought I'd do a poll. The first is a question of whether you feel nostalgia, and in the second you can check tickyboxes to indicate for which time period you are feeling nostalgia. That I have split into two options for each period for an indication whether you actually were in fandom in that time period and feel nostalgia due to firsthand experience, or feel nostaligia because you have read or heard about that time and wish you had been in fandom then, because it just sounds more awesome to you than fandom now. I did give up to the early 2000s as options to feel nostalgia for, though I am a bit dubious whether you can call it "nostalgia" proper if it's less than ten years ago. ( fandom nostalgia poll, cut to spare your f-list ) Current Mood: curious |
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syn_promo [ makara ] |
10:28a | ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif){kind=small} yesmeansyes - Anti-rape/sexual violence blogblackandmissing - Blog that focuses on highlighting the Black missing & murdered ignored by mainstream media |
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odditycollector |
2:13a | So, uh, you may have noticed I haven't been mirroring my livejournal posts on insanejournal lately. I still check my ij-flist quite often, but I don't... feel as connected to the service as I hoped to become. I know there's a couple people who primarily read me here, though, and I'm a little guilty about that. (If you're curious what I've been up to, here's more issues of the recoloured Legion of Super-heroes, an Amanda Waller poem, and some Solicit Monday photoshopping. The rest is equal parts whining about yuletide and chatspam.) With LJ's recent genderfail, I am back in the mindset where I am wanting to do something different. Yes, they fixed it, *but*. It does not do much for trust. Maybe I will actually start using my dreamwidth account. I am curious, though, how many people are interested in reading my journal on ij but have no interest in dw? I can check out crossposting if I do decide to go that way, so it'd be good to know. Current Mood:  embarrassed |
| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 | ||
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the_willow |
10:41a | Dis Mornin' Something went further wrong with my little brother's computer. So my mom called me. I suppose this is a reasonable hour to her. But not to me. Especially since I was woken up at 3am, by the landlady (who apologized profusely) asking me to keep a tap on so the pipes wouldn't freeze. It's snowing by the way. When I went to bed, there was a light dusting on the ground. Then I saw after I hung up the phone with the landlady that snow was STILL falling. Now this morning there's snow on the ground. Actual snow. Like two inches or more of snow. It's a freaky white winter land. Freaky because this place gets cold but doesn't get SNOW. WTH. Climate change SO in my face. |
| Friday, December 18th, 2009 | ||
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limyaael |
10:18a | Rant on flawed characters (again) Characters in most novels, of course, have to have flaws. Novels exist where they don’t, but often the character is either boringly idealized or part of a historical and cultural context that doesn’t exist in most twenty-first-century Western countries any longer. (Characters like Herman Melville’s Billy Budd and George Eliot’s Eppie are also meant to serve a specific allegorical purpose that’s rare for modern fantasy novels). But it’s also possible to make a character too flawed, or to add only “charming” quirks that don’t actually impact a character’s life in any discernible way. I’m sure you can think of at least one protagonist whose only fault was being too generous, or too kind-hearted. (I will never get back the hours of my life which I wasted reading The Wayfarer Redemption). Here, then, are some (more) ideas about adding flaws to characters and what to do once you have them. ( Read more... ) A rant on loyalty is probably next. |
| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | ||
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thete1 |
5:27p | "I know it's racist, Te, but the special effects look awesome!" *points up* I hate that. I really, really, *really* hate that. Can you guess why? Wait, wait. If you can't, I don't really want to know. This has been on my mind -- harshing *my* squee -- since that first Transformers movie came out and so many of you were full of excuses about why you were going to see it anyway. Despite the racism. Yes, yes, giant robots and you love them. I love things, too -- I know how it goes. But. ( But. ) Current Mood:  bitchyCurrent Music: Jay-Z vs. The Verve: "Brush Your Bittersweet Shoulders Off" |
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ratcreature |
11:21a | random rat post Why is it that rats themselves can smell so awesome, when their pee smells just like smelly pee? Seriously, rats themselves smell very nice: If you bury your nose in their fur it is a pleasant smell, much better than most other animals I've smelled up close (admittedly mostly cats and dogs so the comparison sample is small). And yet -- they pee in their sleeping spaces where they then lie down, and they pee on each other anyway, but while I smell like gross rat pee when they inevitably mark me or my clothes, they come out smelling like roses. Well not roses, but a nice non-pee smell. I just don't get it. |
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thete1 |
5:08a | Infinite, undying Infinite, undying by Te November 14, 2009 Disclaimers: No one and nothing here is mine. Spoilers/Timeline: Mostly vague and AU-ized references to older storylines. Takes place not long after "War Games." Summary: There is careful, and then there is careful *enough*. Ratings Note/Warnings: Sexual content which mostly doesn't have a damned thing to do with the content some readers may find disturbing. Author's Note: A closer-to-real sequel to ending two of A way so familiar. Will not make sense without the other. Acknowledgments: Pixie and Mildred asked very nicely, and then joined Jack for audiencing duties. *hugs all around* Story! Current Music: The Spinners: "It's A Shame" |
| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 | ||
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the_willow |
6:14p | Therapy Day Had therapy. Had back spasms all through therapy (not liking consistent back pain at. all.) Therapy was helpful; I'm numbing out to conserve spoons because being in the moment with my emotions right now, would likely wear me out till March. So I'm going to stop worrying it's backsliding and focus on getting through the end of year. In other news I have no idea where I put my gift bags. I'm not up to buying more either shopping wise (energy) or money wise. This sucks especially since I have something I want to give my landlady next time I see her. Using icon purely to cheer myself up. Current Mood:  in pain |
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devilc |
7:02a | FNL-SPN: The (sur)Real Ghostbusters Title: The (sur)Real Ghostbusters Fandoms: Friday Night Lights - Supernatural Characters: Tim&Landry, Sam&Dean, cameos by both Beckys and Carver Edlund Rating: Teen (language and themes) Length: 8700 words Spoilers: Assumes you've seen 5x09 of SPN, and the first few eps of FNL S4. Author's Notes: (1) Thanks to Tartysuz for the beta. (2) In this story, I've placed the con hotel in Colorado (3) I've made a few minor changes to the events of 5x09 for the purposes of making this story work (4) For one particular thing in this story, I use ' where I'd usually use ", but it's for the purposes of making things easier to read, as you shall see. Legalese: FNL and SPN are copyright their respective owners, this was written because I wondered aloud about what would happen if it were Tim and Landry and not Barnes and Demien, and several friends said they'd like to read that, and not because I'm raking in the phat cash. ( More Misadventure! ) |
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the_willow |
9:25a | Random Morning Thought It's kind of difficult to talk about the pathetic, dismal, desperate, lonely lives homosexuals lead, when they're out there demanding the right to get married and adopt children. Getting married and adopting children isn't pathetic, dismal or desperate. It is just like 'everyone else' aka straight people. What are those who disapprove, loathe & hate; while insisting they're following the good word, meant to do when the homosexuals have become so visible? What are they to do when gays aren't all waiting to turn eighteen and run off to the 'lawless amoral city' and live lives they'll pretend are fulfilling?; Because a life unlike a straight life is not a life. What are they to do when the queers instead want to stay in town, right next to them and get married and have or adopt children who'll think it is all normal and go to school and have their children or grandchildren thinking it's normal?! Screw civil rights, I guess - they'll make sure this constant changing pace of life stops. They'll send those gays back into the shadows where they belong. They'll create 'gay marriage' the way they created 'partial birth abortions' and push sex into all their arguments because that at least has not changed; gay sex is still DIFFERENT! Even though children learn about heterosexual relationships in school; Jimmy's Mom is married to Jimmy's Dad ; and there's no mention of sex or even how Jimmy got there, the concept of Jimmy's Papa is married to Jimmy's Dad MUST include mentions of sex. Details! And that is why they fight, because the school will indoctrinate children into early sex education! Because Jimmy's Papa is married to Jimmy's Dad is NOT living life in the shadows, it is PUSHING THAT LIFESTYLE INTO THE FACE of little children. It's not just old men at the head of industry who are unable to cope with how quickly life has changed in the past centry and espeically the past half century. Within a single lifetime a man has walked on the moon, computers have shrunk down from building size to palm-top, blacks are walking around like they deserve to hold their heads up (heads with strange hairstyles!), first nations peoples keep insisting they're still alive and the homos get to have white picket fences. It is not the America they grew up in. It's a world gone mad with change. --- Meanwhile I'm over here thinking how the Trans Panic defense is like the Homo Panic defense, is like 'One Drop Rule' defense (if the murder of African Descended individuals, particularly women had been treated as a crime in the first place). The need for there to always be some human, somewhere who just didn't count. It makes me want to point out to people that the Omega in a Wolf Pack is actually still PART OF THE WOLF PACK. Though I'm not promoting the idea that there needs to constantly be a social under for the social upper's to be able to function. Human beings aren't just animals, we're reasoning animals. |
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ratcreature |
8:13a | it would probably be intrusive... ...but sometimes I think it would be cool if journalling sites had a function to "suggest me a new journal to read" not a random one, but a suggestion based on your current subscriptions, interests, maybe on some kind of other fuzzy, internal data-mining (the aforementioned "intrusive" part). I'm not sure how these things work, but like what Amazon does when it suggests books to you (sometimes they even suggest me interesting things, though that one is hit and miss, even though I actually tried to refine it manually) or that online music thing, Pandora?, that tries to guess what your tastes music are (that wasn't bad, though I couldn't use it for long, because eventually these location blocks happened). Anyway, something more advanced than the "popular among your friends" feature that LJ offered (offers? I can never really find that on the site anymore), and you could refine its suggestions. |
| Monday, December 14th, 2009 | ||
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the_willow |
9:08p | Too Tired I was originally excited to subscribe to the Tiny House Blog. I'd re-embraced my love of small spaces, a sense of cosiness, a certain chic elegatarian style of living; simplistic and unwasteful and hopefully sustainable. I've been subscribe for about a month and a half now, possibly a bit more and I keep seeing the same things. 1. The need to be a certain economic/social class to even try to have this dream. 2. Or to be incredibly poor and brown and need an organization full of white people to create this dream and sell it to you. 3. An utter lack of accomadation for the disabled; tiny houses have no width for wheelchairs, no ramps to get into them, no consideration as to how to have a small space that includes crutches, canes, walkers, or manual or power mobility devices. When I come to look at small spaces and dream and marvel, I want to rest. I don't want to think of having to pick up the baton/torch/speaking stick/drum/you name it. So I'm just going to unsubscribe, regretfully but with respect for myself. The places I go to to recharge cannot be addtional places to have to speak up about not seeing myself or people I know reflected anymore. Not to mention the weird quirk of realizing that you have to be middle class/have access to a certain measure of money in order to live simply in the first place. Live simply as in intentinally, vs making do with a touch of innovation because one is poor. |
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the_willow |
5:18p | America The What? Lamya Cammon. Another black child, another set of foolishness. Teacher cut her braid off, cause teacher was annoyed girl was playing with her hair in class. 7 year old child. Teacher? Gets $175 fine. DA refuses to go forward with charges. School board says: Teacher was upset because of budget cuts. I am -done- with the American Public School System. D. O. N. E. It's not just this, it's autistic children being voted out of class, and other children with neurlogical disorders being suffocated to death by teachers attempting to get them to 'behave'. It's calling traditional African hairstyles - distractions. It's calling traditional First Nations hairstyles - distractions. It's -fining- families ridiculous amounts of money because their kids are 5 minutes late. D. O. N. E. And that's without dealing with Texas. Current Mood:  pissed off |
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the_willow |
12:41p | My I is Plural aka What To Call Me I prefer I to we. We assumes multiple aspects at once, which rarely happens outside of therapy. I (plural) assumes rotating aspects in the moment, which is more realistic; moment to moment, sentence to sentence there is one active person no matter how many might be listening. On the internet everyone seems to come up with ways ways of signifying things. Spoons + Forks = Sporks, for example. So I'd feel weird bringing up something else, but if someone felt the need to be reminded my I is plural, I'd write it as Ii. Though this only comes up when people are being curious, since I know what I mean when I use I and they're the ones second guessing my reality with everything they've picked up from pop culture. -- My pronoun of choice, is They. It includes the speaker and listeners and references the sum of the whole does include all parts. I don't twitch much when people refer to me with she, especially in person, as that is what they see. Hie, Hir, Zir, Zie, feel reserved to me, for individuals dealing with non binary gender identity as a singleton. Such a little thing, they, but it says 'I remember you're not neurotypical and thus process information differently, and I'm trying to keep that consciously in mind'. -- It is not a neutral personal pronoun to me. It is neutral about objects, in the way some objects are referred to as feminine; like cars and ships; and others are referred to as masculine (can't think of any right now). It is object neutral, it is not people neutral. It refers to a thing that is not human and use of the term for people, marks an individual as homophobic and/or transphobic and/or psychophobic. ETA: Yes this is a totally random post. Current Mood:  blah |
| Sunday, December 13th, 2009 | ||
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the_willow |
5:07p | PSA Don't talk to me about VB. I stopped being able to care years ago and all that happens now is a slight cramp until I remind myself that me being who I am, and being honest about it, is not the same as someone taking my words to create an identity for themselves. I have seen posts where apparently people are being asshatty about pronoun use, to which I point out that VB also qualifies as an individual with mental illness problems and if you're going to judge an entire world population of people trying to manage and deal with their mental illnesses by VB, just as you're apparently judging all trans individuals everywhere and making yourself the authority on whether or not someone is truly trans - GTFO of my journal, defriend, ban me from -your- journal and let us part ways. VB is VB Mental Illness is Mental Illness' Transgender Identity is Transgender Identity. VB != Mental Illness != Trans Identity. And people playing that logic game can go shoot themselves in the head. |
| Saturday, December 12th, 2009 | ||
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the_willow |
10:42a | End Of Year Holidays For years I've tried to get into Channukah. I enjoy hearing the story. I enjoy thinking on it every year. But Judiasm is such a community religion - and I an extreme introvert most of the time. But still, Happy Channukah to those who celebrate it! (Dec 22nd is still my personal fav holiday which only occasionally falls near the Solstice). |
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red_eft |
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| Friday, December 11th, 2009 | ||
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ratcreature |
8:57p | I got my Yuletart gift! The ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) yuletart gift for me was just posted, and it is a very cute Spock/Uhura piece with a tribble. So check it out. |
| Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | ||
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ratcreature |
8:49p | two more drawbles I didn't manage these two last night, so they got them today. ( An octopus flying a helicopter for Odditycollector ) ( Matt Murdock--as Matt or Daredevil--stopping at Starbucks (or other coffee place) for a break during Christmas shopping. for Tartanshell ) |
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devilc |
11:05a | FNL: Think About Direction, Wonder Why You Haven't Before Title: Think About Direction, Wonder Why You Haven't Before Rating: Teen (language) Characters: Billy & Mindy Spoilers: All of S4, especially 4x05 Author's Note: Written for FNL_Laundrylist #37 prompt #14 -- What does ( Major Spoiler for S4 ) look like to somebody at the far periphery? What does Vince, Mindy, Luke, Becky, Lyla or even JD think about it? Legalese: Friday Night Lights is copyright its respective owners. This is written as a labor of loving whatiffery in response to a fannish challenge. ( Your feet are going to be on the ground / Your head is there to move you around. ) |
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ratcreature |
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ratcreature |
3:19a | more finished drawbles These are the last for tonight, the rest I will have to wait until tomorrow. ( A giraffe in a Star Trek sciences uniform for Reginagiraffe ) ( rats dancing / performing in old Hollywood musical style a la Fred Astaire for Siljamus ) ( A superhero pajama party for Marinarusalka ) ( Spider-Man carrying Captain America's schoolbooks for Caia ) |
| Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 | ||
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the_willow |
7:54p | My Digital Brain So simple and yet, it illuded me for most of the day. My computer is my digital brain. I had to reinstall software. I lost things. I've feel out of sorts and emotional, but just on edge all day. I've felt incredibly grateful to everyonee who had a chance to carry on with me, just like usual. It was comforting. But my digital brain had a kind of surgery so of course I would be out of it, and irritable and out of sorts and upset that things weren't the same any longer and it's not all about an averseness to change. It's me trying to make the connections work like they used to, so things are at my fingertips and I feel confident about them. This will take more time than just a day or so because things aren't currently rearranged and some things might be new to make the system work better. I've felt a bit lost all day at feeling so lost. And wanting to cry even though I'd mentally prepared myself as much as possible for everything. But I guess you can't really prepare yourself for feeling vulnerable and disrupted. |
| Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | ||
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ratcreature |
12:18a | finished drawbles so far ( Aeryn Sun and Ellen Harvelle, being awesome for Cofax ) ( John and Ronon surfing, or just hanging around on the beach for Telesilla ) ( TOS!Trek characters making friends with a tentacle monster for Shadowvalkyrie ) ( Woolsey with some animal. Some alien little creature. His new pet. for Astridv ) ( Lorne debating paperwork vs painting...with John looking hopeful for the former. for Seikaitsukimizu ) ( a rattie party, with hats and balloons for Droolfangrrl ) |