Bring Back the Porn

Fic 2 done and off to beta. OMG, I feel like I'm actually on top of things right now. Scary, huh?

So tomorrow I start Fic 3 and hopefully will finish that Monday (seriously, it shouldn't be a difficult fic to write--which means I'll likely be whining all over the place about how slow the progress is on Tuesday).

But for now I get to splash around in the happy feeling of "yay, fic completed!!"

And six days early, too. Whoot!

I believe this calls for wine.

Tea is evil!

That is all.

Title: Liar Liar
Pairing: Neville/Luna, "Rolf"
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Challenge: Written for neville100's prompt #94: Neville and his women
Disclaimer: I am neither J.K. Rowling nor any of the corporations to which she has licensed her creation.

( Liar Liar )

Title: Looking Great
Author: alisanne
Pairing: Neville Longbottom/Bill Weasley
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Warnings: Fluffy fluff!
Beta: sevfan
Challenge: Written for neville100's prompt #94: Neville and his women
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.
A/N: Neville has the perfect day.

( Looking Great )

Saturday is a TV wasteland. It's pathetic, how the networks have basically abandoned the night to reruns of stuff we watched during the week. Luckily, there's still off-network syndication and the TiVO....

Legend of Seeker
Remember Xena and Hercules? Well, this show is from the same team, only it's 9 years later, they have more money and they're taking the story-telling much more seriously (probably because Terry Goodkind is still alive to kick their asses if they mess up his Sword of Truth book series too much). Oh, don't get me wrong, there's still a layer of fine fromage over the proceedings, but the show is definitely more exciting and dangerous than its roots. The SO and I love it, and we try to get it on Saturday (syndication means we can get it Sat. or Sun.) because the day is so empty.

Saturday Night Live
I've been watching since I was a kid. Why stop now?

Dollhouse
Usually, we watch this on Saturday. It's a Joss Whedon show, which means, 1. It won't be on much longer and 2. It's smart and slick and above the average TV viewer's head. I won't even ask you to watch it, even though it rocks, because you'd just be letting yourself in for heartbreak. But if you have a huge jones to watch a show where people's memories are stored away in order to allow new memories to be reprogrammed into them over and over again, allowing them to be anyone or have any skill, then go ahead, tune in. I dare you. ~_^

Dr Who
New special next week! Maybe it's sad, but I could never get into the series until they updated it. I guess I can only stand modern cheesy production values.

Being Human
A vampire, a werewolf and a ghost rent an apartment together...and what follows for all of 6 episodes is much more than the punchline to a joke. There's a second season we're looking forward to from the BBC, and SciFi is going to do an American version next year. We'll see how that goes when the time comes....

Merlin
Yes, we watch it. It's fun. But I have a heck of a time making myself watch it. We tend to go in spurts. It's probably because it's damn hard watching Anthony Stewart Head play a character that's anti-magic. ~_^

True Blood
...cannot get back on the air fast enough. The show is silly, illogical and even stupid at times, but the SO and I can't get enough of muttering "Sookie" at it.

How I Met Your Mother
This is another show I didn't get into until after the first season, but that should tell you how charming and engaging all the characters are, that I picked it up in later seasons.

House/Lie to Me
or, Shows With Fascinating Leading Men. I picked up House in season 4. Huge Laurie, once he caught my eye, was mesmerizing. Plus, I think I'm the only person alive that likes 13. Lie to me is MUCH better this season than last. The show is about Tim Roth's character, and that's where it should stay focused.

Chuck/Lost
COME BACK, SHOWS, COME BACK! I don't disagree that maybe network television would benefit from BBC-like shorter seasons and constantly new material, but it still sucks having to wait almost a year to see shows I adore again.

Ok, anything I'm forgetting, I'll pick up tomorrow.

People were married today and we got to watch live, via satellite on the internet. There were a lot of tears, so if you experienced any network outages today, it's probably because a few key wires were rusted in the process. ~_^ Anyway, it was sweet and a little disturbing (did those people in the back row wander in??), but overall, an interesting experience. Good luck to the shappy couple!

love, lore

I have very few personal passions in life, fandom/Snarry being the one you all know most about. :) Gaming and crafting area also passions of mine, but, my longest held passion is cooking. I don't have many memories from my childhood, but being in the kitchen makes up the majority of the ones I do have. I can vaguely remember helping my Great-grandmother fry corn fritters on her farm. I can remember getting after my grandfather for pushing the cooked eggs into the uncooked ones while he made me scrambled eggs, and I can remember watching my mom cook all sorts of delights for Christmas, granted this was while she was bitching about doing it, but seeing the happy people because of her food helped off-set that. I don't know if you all can tell, but I have self-esteem issues. (LOL more issues than Severus Snape had of Potions Monthly, I imagine. ^.^) While these issues hinder several areas throughout my life, cooking has been the one area where I am extremely confidant. I know, more often than not, if I make something it's going to be good, and most likely damned good. I LOVE to cook. And I love to share this passion, thus all the recipes. :)

Today's recipe is relatively easy one. And it's one that tends to disappear fairly quickly around here, which is funny, since it's a side dish.

Canned, cut green beans
Bacon (diced)
Onion (diced)
Summer Savory
pepper

The rule of thumb with these are three pieces of bacon for every one regular sized can of beans. But that's it. Everything else is too taste, and even the bean to bacon ratio can be changed. (which is why I like cooking and not baking. Baking is too exact.)

Heat a heavy bottomed pot, add bacon and onions, and cook until onions are soft. Add savory, stirring through. Add beans, liquid and all. Stir gently, just to combine. Turn heat down, and let almost all of the liquid cook away. Make sure heat is down low enough not to burn beans, as you won't want to stir these often. They tend to turn to mush if you do. When I make these for dinner, I normally use 2 cans of beans, and it takes anywhere between 20-30 min for the liquid to cook away. When I make them for holidays, I double that, and it takes 30-50 min, depending on how many other burners I have going as well. (I cook on gas. I HATE electric stoves with a huge passion.)

Enjoy! :D

( Who is Joseph Cao? )

Guys!!

You all know that fall_fantasia has been posting for like a week now, right? Well, guess what?! The gift for me posted today!

How awesome is that?!

I urge you all to run out and read The Proper Incentive. The pairing is Snape/Bill and a surprise pairing that will make you squee and want to hug the fic to yourself. :D

Go. Read!

Title: No More Dreaming
By: Bridget McKennitt
Pairing: RPS - Gina Torres/Monica Bellucci
Rating: PG
Word Count: 670
Summary: Both Gina and Monica say goodbye to their shared past as they take their separate paths into the future.
Contains: No warnings in as far I know that can't be extrapolated from the header itself.
Disclaimer: Any real person, location, or organization mentioned in the story below own themselves. This is only a fictional story meant for entertainment and not intended for profit or believing the real people mentioned are like this in real life.
Author's Notes: This is an AU where some people possess powers.

No More Dreaming

Yes, I have more or less slept since getting home from the concert.

Anyway.

Thursday afternoon I had my MHMR appointment, Sucked as usual. I was supposed to see the doctor but they fobbed me off onto a nurse. Grr. But I got home in plenty of time to take a nap before showtime.

Hitting Frank beforehand didn't work out :( Was looking forward to it, too.

But that was not the important part! doombuggie and I chattered on ride there, and I told him this would probably be the most fun I'd had since my RHPS days, and we discussed our mutual RHPS days a bit, and the possibility of investigating the current local cast, preferably with rehd_fawx.

( What I wore )

We were early enough to get good parking, which is always nice. We hung around a bit, and then we went up to the merch table, cuz Voltaire was there! doombuggie bought a couple of CDs and had them signed, and I gave him, as I'd hoped to, the bottle ofConjure Oils La Calavera (which he sniffed and seemed to like... he also asked if I was the one who made it, which makes it two for two since Neil Gaiman asked if I wa a Labbie when I gave him a bottle of Shub... now I just need to find a goth icon to give a bottle of Arcana to) and got my copy of OH MY GOTH signed.

[Unknown LJ tag]





Moments after that was taken, I got an unexpected Voltaire-hug! Of the friendly variety, not the creepy one. It was smile-making.

Waiting time. The very loud DJ music, bright spinning flashing lights, and smoke machines were far too much for me, and I mostly huddled up with my eyes closed so I wouldn't burn out.

doombuggie also greatly overestimated my ability to hold a conversation in a noisy club, which is pretty much nil.

Then we had the opening act. Oh lord! He played a keyboard with so much bass that the seat of my metal chair vibrated, which is the best that can be said of him. He had this wannabe-Nick-Cave thing going and sang as if he'd been gargling ground glass and lye, but his speaking voice was normal. He did a few 'oooooo I'm morbid' songs, and then...

"Beth" by Kiss. I thought we had reached the pinnacle, but he followed it with "Chim Chim Chiree" from Mary Poppins. Good thing I'd just hid the restroom or I might have wet myself. If this dude stuck to doing incongrous covers he could be the next Richard Cheese!

And then.

And then.



It was magic, completely magic. The man has astonishing stage presence, just a wonderful personality that shines through.

doombuggie went to do a little more circulation, and during 'BRAINS' a simply adorably pink-haired girl came up to compliment my barrettes. She asked where I got them and I let her know they'd been a Walgreens Halloween item. Poor dear looked so disappointed! Now, the thing about these barrettes... I had them both on one side because the way they were made, if you wear one on each side, one would be upside down. So it was an easy snap decision to pull one out and give it to her. I mean, this was a fifty cent barrette. The gleeful expression was worth much more than that, and she kissed me, too! And it gives each of us a nice little extra memory of an already awesome concert.

As I've said, Voltaire was busily being awesome, doing a lot of his classics and a few new ones. Each one had me enthralled.

And then...

Truly Voltaire is a Messenger of Fate, for he closed with this




I yelled "FUCK THE BACK ROW!" scary loud. And I tried to do a standing ovation, and I fell down.

Stone cold sober, folks. I'm just that cool.

And that is basically how it went.

Fucking AWESOME!! lol This vid is lol funny!

I am so done with being sick. I can haz a day where I can breathe through my nose and I'm not hacking up a lung now plz?

There is now a Draco Big Bang and a Percy Big Bang, both of which will be taking sign-ups soon.

There is still no Neville Big Bang. This makes me sadcakes. At this rate, Stan Shunpike will have his own Big Bang fest before Neville does. This should be rectified, y/y?

Therefore, a poll, open to both authors and artists!

Poll #4569 Neville Big Bang?
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

I would participate in a Neville Big Bang.

I'd like anyone who might be even remotely interested to vote, so feel free to link this to others!

God, this tragedy at Ft. Hood has everyone on edge in my town. You see, I live in a military/college town. A small town near Corpus Christi. We have a navy base and we have a major college. Before 9/11 we were able to get onto the bas easily. Shop, go to the bar, swim, all sorts of things. Afterwrds, they boarded it up. Literally. Have to be with military pesonel at all times. Security is tight as it should be. Things are just not the same.

Going to our college, we have over 8,000 Islamic/hindi/muslum students. And lots of them, I consider my friends. They certainly know how to party! Anyways, its sad that most people wil view this and start condeming a nation because of the actions of a few, And I don't need to tell you that this is wrong.

This article says it much better than I could...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re/us_rel_fort_hood_shooting_muslims

( In which the LIS work is overwhelming )

( Teaching stuff )

Also did the grocery shopping today, though SO did a couple of other errands (picking up dog food, for instance). Now going to go start working on the Greens and Herbs Tart we're having for dinner, since it takes a while. It's going to be more a side dish than a main dish this time, along with turkey sausage for SO and pulled pork for me, plus pureed turnip/potato/carrot, and pomegranate for dessert.

Oh, and I shall pimp again the 3fan_holidays ficlet fest! Signup post is here; so far there's only 3 folks signed up, plus me. *makes puppy dog eyes* C'mon, you know you want to write a holiday drabble or ficlet for someone and get one in return!

• 02:22 ffs, was thinking about looking up something only not to remember what it was! >_< #
• 14:08 Whohoo didn't sleep the entire day away and OMG SNOOOOW! *_* #
• 15:39 FlashForward: WHAT THE HELL! #
• 16:06 I want my Zune! #
• 18:05 I have make up! But asides from the tequila I do not have a lot of booze. #
• 18:46 Packed, drugged and ready for a party. #
• 22:31 Lets twist again..and Im too drunk to care. #
• 23:02 Friend wondering what twitter if, Im stuck explaining. #

Tweeeet, tweet I say.

Title: Aromatic
Rating :PG
Author: lilyseyes
Word Count: 100
Challenge: snape100 #306: Smell
Warnings: *AU, post-war/Hogwarts, fluff, implied Mpreg*
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.
Summary: Headmaster Snape sometimes wished his remarkable nose didn't work quite so well.
Thanks to the_minx_17 for the once-over! *smooches*

( Aromatic )

The current theme in qaf_icons is BLUE and the "rules" said that we could include whatever we want as long as it has the color blue in it (blue clothing, blue lighting, blue textures etc.)
So,this is what I did with the theme:

Teaser:




( More BLUE-ish this way )

Hope you'll like!

Ooops!
I missed a birthday several days ago. *sheepish*

Happy Belated Birthday to

demonkitty03! on the 3rd

and

Happy Birthday today to

gin_tonic!

and



jaxinny!

Many happy returns to you all! ♥

Title: Drowning In Memories
By: Bridget McKennitt
Character: Tamara
Rating: G
Word Count: 327
Challenge: supernatural100's prompt grave
Contains: No warnings in as far I know that can't be extrapolated from the header itself.
Disclaimer: Supernatural is owned by Eric Kripke and other companies. They are used here without permission, and for entertainment purposes only. No challenge or infringement upon the copyright is intended, nor should any be inferred.

Drowning In Memories