Found on DW's Metafandom comm, An entry about naming muses and nicknaming fics, I have decided to open a discussion about the subject here on IJ.
Do y'all name your muses? Do you have nicknames for your fics?
( And stuff!! )
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So I am using this one because it is fun. :3 :3 ;3
Dear Muses,
Now that I'm starting on the Zero Princess Saga/Void Space Saga/Whatever the hell you want to call this series, Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, turn this into Viceroyverse done Kairi/Rinoa Style.
Please. I don't care how well it works, I don't care that it works on a multitude of levels. I don't care if it'd be cute (and about a quarter as creepy as Quistis/Kairi is!). I don't care if it makes a lot more sense than any other Kairi pairing in existence, Sora/Kairi included. But the Nonsense of Sora/Kairi is another show rant. Aaaanyway, no one would read it.
Even if it is a really good idea--
No. No. If you try and steer it in that direction, and we know that the one-sided Rinoa/Kairi in Braceletverse is enough, I will turn this brain around and write...umm...
I WILL MAKE US WRITE MPREG. SORA/KAIRI MPREG. HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES!?
No love,
Jordi.
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Whenever someone says Jo was 'too immature'--ostensibly in general but, it is fairly easy to discern, meaning 'for Dean'--I have to laugh. By anyone's estimate, Jo Harvelle is a great deal more mature than Dean Winchester.
Let's see...wants to strike out on her own, seems perfectly capable of it. Doesn't collect venereal diseases like stamps. Behaves with maturity, is self-contained, isn't a total sleaze. Independent, quick and clever, capable...although Dean may have those qualities, too.
Just--can't you shut up now that [spoiler] has happened?.
Supernatural has been leaving me with a bad taste in my mouth for far too long. It's amazing how you run into this stuff when you no longer have the slightest amount of interest in the canon and never had an interest in the fanon.
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I have been watching Rome.
Surprise! I am fond of it. It is, in some ways, all about the menz, but the female characters are fabulous, despite the fact that their lives seem to revolve around the male characters--I think that's not unreasonable for the time period. There was--GODDAMNIT--what I would definitely classify as a fridging, but I'm hanging on for the other women. I don't actually know that there are any male characters besides season 1 Octavian where I'm actually interested in finding out what happens to them, never mind liking them. The fandom corners I've dipped my toes in are full of raging misogyny--how dare she be angry with the man that caused her mother's death! How dare she try to move on and pursue a life of her own after her husband's death! Bitch, slut, whore, etc--as to be expected, I suppose. But I love the way the show never makes me feel as though I'm intended to blame Niobe for her choices, or Eirene or Vorena for their anger. And while male characters are shown as sympathetic after doing terrible things, female characters are too. Which is really cool.
The sets are pretty fantastic, and I'm told that it goes to great lengths for historical accuracy. I think they do a really good job of making the characters' certain outdated views understandably their own without supporting it textually, which far too many shows/movies fall into doing.
My favorite characters are Eirene and Octavia, but even the female characters I find reprehensible are fascinating. The male characters are well written as well, but a lot of the qualities I'm intended to find interesting and sympathetic fall flat.
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Title: Dain af Niohoggr
Author: GW Katrina
Beta: Skeren
Fandom: FFVII: Mercverse
Claim: ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) mercverse for story_arc
Themeset/Prompt: Thirty Set 01: Balance
Wordcount: 1,717
Ratings: PG-13
Link to Archive Post: Here
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Another batch of shinies. Apparently icon making is a great way to procrastinate.
( Random Shinies )
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"If" Black Women Were White Women"
Written, apparently, in the style of 'What if Men Could Menstruate' by Gloria Steinem. To quote ![[info]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) fiction_theory: There is some discussion of sexual assault in the essay - but I feel it is worth it.
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I'm watching an Emily Browning image community that keeps tagging entries with heaps of tags about Twilight and how she's Bella Swan, Edward is the only one for her, etc, etc.
I...actually find it really obnoxious. I'm not sure if this is obnoxious of me, in turn? I ended up commenting today. They basically replied with 'shut up, we're going to make up whatever tags we want.'
It's funny how feeling snooty can salve your worries about your own obnoxiousness. **shifty eyed**
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Title The Fred and Ginger Kiss
Characters Lester/Blade
Fandom Primeval
Rating PG
Prompt #20 Romantic ( 25 Moods )
Series More Delightful Than Wine
Summary Lester teaches Blade to dance.
Author's Note Thanks to fred for a super speedy beta and for letting me use Blade. For Fiona :D
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Net Speed: 78 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 90%
Gross Speed: 86 WPM
(words/minute)
**sadface**
ETA: No wait!
Net Speed: 92 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 97%
Gross Speed: 94 WPM
(words/minute)
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Title The Thank God You're Not Dead Kiss
Characters Lester/Blade
Fandom Primeval
Rating 12
Prompt Thankful ( 25 Moods )
Series More Delightful Than Wine
Summary Set during the S2 finale. Blade and Lester share a moment.
Author's Note Thanks to fred for the beta and for the use of Blade. Thanks to Luka and Jack for their help as well. As always, this is for Fiona :D
( The Thank God You're Not Dead Kiss )
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IT'S LIKE A FREAKING TRAIN WRECK. I can't stop opening these posts about Glee. How can people defend this show? Oh wait--ignorance, all the sundry ugly -isms, privilege...
haddayr: For the record:
1. When an old folks home has a tag sale, they do NOT have a dozen state-of-the-art rigid lightweight wheelchairs in funky colors to get rid of for nothing. The hardware they had in there, even massively used, would have paid for dozens upon dozens upon quadrillions of bus rides. Old people get piece-of-shit rundown folding chairs that are nearly impossible to push on your own.
2. When your sister has Downs? You don't hold her hand as you read her stories in precious, pwecious tears at her pathetic wretched handicapableness. You've known she had Downs your whole life. You're over feeling sorry for her, assuming you ever did, since you're her LITTLE SISTER.
3. When you are in a wheelchair and you find out that your love interest has been FAKING HER STUTTER? You are not angry because she's now "normal" and you are "stuck in this chair for the rest of your life." You are angry because she's been playing at what you actually experience. You are angry because half of the world treats you already as if you're faking it, and she really WAS faking it.
4. Noble and adorable cripples do not clasp their hands and give an "aw, shucks" look when their AB comrades in wheelchairs say: "This is for YOU," and point at them cheesily.
5. Schools that are not fully wheelchair accessible are BREAKING THE LAW. You do not have to give up your bus to pay for handicapped ramps. People do not have to write their own checks. Ramps are not provided out of the goodness of people's hearts. IT. IS. THE. MOTHERFUCKING. LAW.
6. And no one is worried about getting sued if they don't hire disabled people. Disablism in hiring practices is rampant and accepted. Threatening someone with the ACLU is a way to get yourself laughed out of the place, not immediately hired in a horrible economic climate. This show actually had someone pretend to be disabled to get a job. The sheer breathtaking offensiveness of it is a marvel. Also? For any idiot who wants to whine 'it's just a High School Musical soap opera TV show, you're taking it too seriously' I'd like to quote balgarIt's quite odd to assume that certain cultural products are beneath analysis. Operas, symphonies, novels in the "literature" section, and subtitled movies more than two hours long do not convey more information or perspective than thirty second commercials, top 40 singles, network television shows, or comic books. I'd say that mass-marketed, "low culture" works are less idiosyncratic in their perspective and are therefore more useful in terms of understanding the society of which they are a product. So how about all the morons who thought writing about the ~poor hopeless needy~ disabled person without a life was a good idea watch this gorgeous piece of work? This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/61145.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
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…and I'm a submissive. As in, a contracted and collared sub to my husband, Matt. D/s, BDSM, leather, lifestyle, call it what you will. It is what it is.
Originally, I intended to post something like an introduction because, as my fandoms branch out, there are new people on my flist. And I tend to be loud and opinionated when it comes to head exploding kink fics. Figured offering some insight to me might help explain the tangent rants I sometimes have. Along with the fact that most, if not all, of my fics have some display of power dynamics, no matter how subtle.
I'm sure those of you who know me best find that to be an understatement. Heh.
This has morphed, through conversations with friends, into not only a hey, this is me post, but also one that, for lack of tact on my part, is a whoa! let's think about this before you write it post. Mainly because BDSM comes under enough fire without having misleading works of fiction floating around out there stirring up more trouble than they're worth.
And, honestly, not trying to be a bitch, but if a piece of fiction disregards the basic principles of safe, sane, and consensual they really are more trouble than they're worth. They set a stage for others, those not in the scene, that can lead to misunderstandings, arguments, and, most important, serious injury.
Not cool.
Not when it takes just a few lines of dialogue, or even implied conversation to lend believability and credibility to the work.
To that end, I've started a list. ( Which is actually quite funny seeing as I despise lists. )
Got questions? Ask 'em. I'd rather you ask me something embarrassing than you make my head go splodey in the next fic I run across.
* * *Whoa! Additional Lifestyle discussions taking place... ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) irana is talking about consent, SSC, and RACK. You can read that post here.snapesgirl_62 is talking about polyamory. You can read that post here.
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I. Love. Gossip. Girl.
...and want to roleplay it like badly.
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Your result for What color would your lightsaber be?... Blue BeamThe Negotiator 
You are a peacekeeper, plain and simple. Only the most dire of circumstances will make you draw, much less use, your saber. The serene color of your blade matches your cool, calm exterior. Your high sense and style scores show that you are always willing to talk first, and to use persuasion where reason fails. Negotiations can go sour, however, and on those occasions you are well-equipped for escape or confrontation. Others like you: Obi-Wan Kenobi Take What color would your lightsaber be? at HelloQuizzy Also - I have cola! I can't drink the sugary stuff because of my diet (plus diabetes runs in my family) and I used to drink litres of the diet stuff but then I found that the aspartame was causing an allergic reaction. Morrisons though make a max version with no added sugar and no aspartame. I have missed cola and I find I write better with cola.
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Oh! Oh! Also I would like this share this. It's something of an examination of fanfiction and original fiction, and the differences between, and I like it. It starts out by a (relatively non-spoilery) excerpt of a review of Cassandra Clare, the famous plagiarizer's, 'original' work, and expands.
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Disney FAILS. So hard.
I'd just like to quote randomsome1 on this--I don't think I could put it better if I tried--from here.
Also, it appears the publisher Harlequin has shot themselves in the nuts. They added on a new vanity publishing wing--a wing towards which authors who are rejected from their commercial branches will be funneled. Reactions seem to vary from "But self-publishing isn't bad!" (which completely ignores how this isn't self-publishing, it's vanity publishing, and yes it fucking is) to the hardcore, as the RWA (Romance Writers of America) has (have?) revoked Harlequin's recognized publisher status.
I'll be the first person to mock the romance novel section, sure--but that's still one hell of a shitty thing to do to potential authors: lure them in with an established name, reject their novel, then flip them over and shake them for whatever money may come out while telling them that this is really the best way for their career to start. Fun times, people. Or not. This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/60420.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
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The second batch of my solstcis and yule themed icons.
( Seasonal Icons )
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Watching an old Las Vegas rerun and, low and behold, Hal Sparks is guesting on the episode. As a relationship adviser.
Oh, Michael!
*snickers*
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The bad part of being depressed - for me, that is - is that when those words - 'I'm so depressed !' - are in my mind, I actually hear them in my head as they are said by Marvin - voiced by Alan Rickman --- which makes me burst out into giggles. There is something hugely wrong with this scenario ...
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