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November 23rd, 2009
dianamoon
 | 10:25 pm - Various Star Trek Drabbles Part Two
Same drill as last post. =D Also one or two I was thinking about expanding maybe. Theme was "one word prompts."
Prompt: Author's Choice - Ring
Rating: G
Kirk/Bones
( Read more... )
Prompt: Spock/Uhura - Speech
Rating: PG
( Read more... )
Prompt: George/Winona - Dance
Rating: G
( Read more... )
Prompt: Spock/Amanda - Tea
Rating: G
Gen.
( Read more... )
Prompt: Kirk/McCoy - Fear
Rating: PG
( Read more... )
Prompt: Author's Choice - Unknown
Rating: PG
OT4! Kirk/McCoy/Spock/Uhura
( Read more... )
Prompt: Kirk/McCoy - Denial
Rating: NC-17
( Read more... )
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lore
 | 11:53 pm - BloMo23: Doggies....
We're watching my sister's dogs while the lucky biatch is in Italy.
They're Schnauzers, but one is 14 and on her last legs. She takes a ton of medicine, is all skin and bones, has to be walked on peril of accidents in the house and coughs like an old man. But she's kind of the family dog, because she started with my sister and father, then was just with my father, then went to my mother after he died, and is now back with my sister because she was too much for mom.
It's a little heartbreaking, and a lot smelly. ^_^ But it's nice to have this time with her before she goes.
*****
I meant to write about something else, but I ran out of time. *laugh*
love, lore
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scribbulus_ink
 | 09:44 am - November Blogging: day 23
Watching this video review of New Moon made me laugh and forget how much I want to kill certain fest participants with my brain right now.
Caveat: It's not a flattering review, more like a "It's funny because it's true" review, so if you're a die-hard Twilight fan, you might want to give it a miss.
On the subject of Twilight and vampires: elsewhere on the internet, a RL acquaintance of mine wrote about how Christians ought to be careful about reading/viewing the Twilight saga because vampires are false idols who offer a dangerous brand of immortality. That's not a discussion I care to touch, but he mentioned Coppola's film version of Dracula as another example, which got me thinking about some things that we talked about in my lit course this semester when we discussed Dracula.
The interesting thing to me is that Stoker wrote Dracula as a pretty clear-cut tale of Good vs. Evil, God vs. the Devil. He draws the characters in broad, black and white strokes, and the Christian references and symbolism are everywhere throughout the book.
( My tl;dr thoughts about the evolution of vampires in 20th/21st century pop culture )
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torino10154
 | 08:15 am - Drabble: Recompense, PG-13, Severus/Harry
Title: Recompense
Word Count: 100
Pairing: Severus/Harry
Rating: PG-13
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) snape100 Challenge 309: "Wikipedia, Redux!"
Warning: Reference to homophobia/verbal abuse.
Disclaimer: Not mine. They belong to JKR.
A/N: I wouldn't even believe me, but I swear this was the first thing that came up. :) Pornophobia.
( Recompense )
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tetsubinatu
 | 08:16 pm - The Storyteller
Title: The Storyteller
Rating: M
First posted as commentfic at kinkme_merlin #6
Prompt: Arthur/Merlin
Merlin had to run from Camelot after his magic was revealed and, years later, Arthur doesn't know what happened to him. In the meantime, Merlin has been traveling about, making a living by telling tales about Arthur and life in Camelot. One day, Arthur hears people talking about some story involving him that only Merlin could have known and realizes it's confirmations that Merlin's still alive
( read on )
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November 22nd, 2009
scribbulus_ink
 | 06:31 pm - PS
Did I mention that today is the extension deadline for Snupin Santa and that 22 people still hadn't turned in their gift as of this morning? Yes, really. Twenty-two. I counted three times to make sure I hadn't miscounted due to excessive boggling.
As of this evening, lo these many hours later, one of those 22 people has turned in their gift, and two of those 22 people have asked for more time, because 2 1/2 months isn't enough. >.>
This entry was originally posted at http://scribbulus-ink.dreamwidth.org/516200.html. It's cross-posted to LJ and IJ, and comments are enabled at all three journals.
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drusillas_rain
 | 03:51 pm - holiday cards
If you'd like a holiday card from me, please leave your contact info.
All comments screened.
If I've missed your post, please leave a link!
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scribbulus_ink
 | 11:31 am - November blogging: day 22
As a follow-up to yesterday's Fest Mod Drinking Game, Rosy suggested adding,
Take two drinks every time a participant doesn't meet the prompt.
I'd also add,
Take two drinks every time someone decides that fandom isn't fun anymore/they've got a "real life" now that's cooler than fandom/they're too busy for fandom/they've got a new SO and so they're dropping out of fandom less than two weeks after assignments have been sent out (you would think that would be rare, but actually, it happened in Snupin Santa both last year and this year).
In other news, Mr. T is a spokesman for World of Warcraft, and they just launched a new in-game item called a "Mohawk Grenade" (official game info with a link to a Mr. T promo commercial here. I have screen caps of my Blood Elf Death Knight meeting the legendary Mohawk and buying the grenades.
( Night Elf Mohawk )
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lore
 | 07:10 am - Natterings....
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter any damn time it pleases. *scowl*
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lore
 | 06:51 am - BloMo22: lore and Snupin, part II....
As I ended yesterday, I was preparing for my Epic Campaign to encourage more Snape/Lupin.
By Epic Campaign, I really mean that I decided to comment on every Snape/Lupin I came across, and that anytime I saw anyone offering drabbles or art, I would ask for Snape/Lupin. Now, you have to understand, the RPG was my first attempt at interacting with fandom. I don't think I had even commented on many journals then. So, when I say I started commenting and asking for drabbles/art, this was a big deal for me.
I made myself one ground rule: Don't say anything to anyone that I wouldn't want to hear myself as a creator. That meant not asking when the next chapter of a Work in Progress might be out or asking for a sequel, or commenting to someone else without actually commenting on the fic or art itself. Two years of lurking will at least teach you what not to do. There were times when I worried that some regular Snape/Lupin writers (*cough* McKay, Arion *cough*), were going to think I was a stalker, but I toughed it out in the name of more Snape/Lupin. ^_^
I'd like to think that my enthusiastic squee and encouragement helped inspire more Snape/Lupin in some small way, but I suspect Arion and McKay's April Showers challenge had more to do with it. Actually, what happened during that same month is that I had been thinking of asking to help out at ![[info - community]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) lupin_snape for quite a while, too shy and under-confident to act. But the renewed interest in the community and the mods' busy real lives made several other Snape/Lupin fans muse "aloud" in their journals about asking to mod at the community.
And yes, my ego has come far enough along now to admit that I thought I was the best person for the job at the time and that I'd better get on the stick before the others went from musing to asking. I was wrapping up the RPG, and I'd gained some experience managing a group of people with varying desires and needs from the game. I'd made plenty of mistakes, which helped to an extent, although I feel I've made plenty of mistakes at lupin_snape, too. I guess I learned that I could make mistakes and only hold on to them quietly, rather than actively beating myself up over them. ~_^
But I had ideas, too, and, again, those two years of lurking showed me which communities thrived and which died out after the initial excitement waned. For just about 5 years, the ship has been running strong, mainly because there are mods obviously on-duty there. People want to know that other people are paying attention. What kind of a "community" runs steadily without a sense of togetherness?
My modding philosophy has been simple: It's Our community, not my community. A community is nothing without its members, and I've tried to run lupin_snape as openly and all-inclusive as possible while maintaining that final "say" only because sometimes someone has to make the decision. I can't think of any time I've actually put my foot down, other than to protect the community from spammers, and to this day, I've never banned anyone except known "problem" accounts from back in the Russian Invasion LJ days. Anyone who tells you that they're not welcome at lupin_snape is imposing her/his own exile.
I remember one of the people who wanted to mod (long gone from fandom now), talking about how she wanted to take over and then she could demand Marauders-era fic because that was her favourite era, which scared me to the bone. Snarry, even back then, had more than one "basic" community, and I knew the Snape/Lupin ship wasn't big enough to survive with a lot of splinter communities, which is what would have happened if LS (Lupin_Snape from now on) had become Marauders-focused. Eventually, someone unhappy with that focus would have gone and started Snape_Lupin_Adults or something, and the fans would have been scattered. The ship might have never grown.
Hum. I've meandered away from the question. It's because I love LS and its members so very much; I could go on about it all day. So, after being frightened into action, I consulted with a few friends for some final hand-holding and wrote the mods, offering to be the active mod. I was completely surprised when both women responded within the week with easy Yes'es, and my account was given mod status. Surprised, only because I thought it would be harder to convince anyone to take me on. ~_^
My first month was kind of rocky because I'd barely introduced myself when there was a major death in the family. But you know, in case anyone has the wrong impression, the original LS mod, ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) makishef, has always been interested in the community and pairing, she just didn't have time to maintain a hands-on approach to the community. That month, she stepped right up and made sure the monthly challenge was issued and on-track while I was away. The other mod that was on board when I came on has since moved on, but she was always friendly and supportive as well. They're great gals, and I hope no one thinks anything but the best of them. We wouldn't have LS without them.
I was back by June with a new monthly challenge and there's been something new every month or two since then. I think people cross-posting their challenge-inspired works to their journals and other communities helped let people know that LS was an active, interesting place to be, as well as a treasure-trove of great Snape/Lupin content if they were interested in finding more. I think we hit 750 members by the end of the year and 1000 members a little over a year after the April Showers challenge. Somewhere along the line, "Snupin" became the preferred moniker for the pairing, and I stopped trying not to use it about a year after that. ~_^ I still use Snape/Lupin, though, when I go outside the community, if only because now that fandom is waning, new people coming in don't always get the squished nickname phenomenon.
So, that's it. That's how I came to be mod at LS. And while I answered why I shipped Snape and Lupin together before, in my normal fandoming I always point people here when they ask me why I ship Snupin. It's short and to the point, and I couldn't have said it better myself.
love, lore
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November 21st, 2009
lore
 | 11:56 pm - BloMo21: lore and Snape/Lupin, part I....
geri_chan asked how I got into Snupin and ended up as a mod for lupin_snape.
I think I've sort of told this story in bits and pieces in different places over the years, but to have it all in one place....
Once upon a time, I was a fandom lurker. I'd drifted into HP from XF and after a couple years of lurking, some LJ friends were pimping a new RPG on their journals...over and over again. I started to wonder if I shouldn't give an RPG a try. I wanted to write again and I'd been reading an RPG avidly, so why not try it myself? From my reading experience at my fave RPG and checking out a few others, I was sure putting in an application so late in the casting period would net me a super-minor, low-maintenance character like Hannah Abbott or Stephen Cornfoot (remember him?); a student character not close to the main action. I said I'd take anyone. I received back: Snape.
Severus Snape? Are you kidding me? I don't care about the adult characters?! Arrgh!
But I said I'd take anyone, so I went on a research bender for Severus Snape. O....k. You know, when you bother to look beyond the surface, there's something up with Snape. He's not just the year-long red-herring; he's Albus' right-hand, he's powerful, he sees through Harry and when Voldemort comes back, Albus sent him off to re-join the Death Eaters (this RPG started in the weeks before OotP was released). I came to respect Severus Snape while looking at the facts. I fell in love with him when I started reading the fan fic.
RPGs are all about the shipping, did you know that? (*snicker*) I started to wonder with whom I could possibly ship Snape (even in a longing, unrequited way in the RPG). I ruled out the kids right away (I didn't even know what "cross-gen" was back then, but I don't like unequal relationships), and I realised there were no developed women in HP that were Severus' age either. I'd just had the slash light turned on by Aragorn/Boromir -- surely I could slash Snape! There were at least a few candidates around his age. With those limitations in mind, I hit the Snape FQF archive.
I read several pairings for Snape, but the character that I kept going back to was Remus. I read some great stories in many pairings, don't get me wrong. But much of the Sirius fic was hatesex or I didn't recognize Snape or Sirius in them, and Harry fics bothered me as much as I thought they would. Albus usually involved power games, the Weasleys weren't really in play back then, Kingsley wasn't on the horizon, James was dead, Lucius was a married bad guy and I wanted my Snape to secretly be good, etc.
Severus had real history with Remus. They were the same age, had held the same job, had gone to school together, had darkness tinging their souls. Snape had followed Remus' gang around school, Remus had almost killed him and Snape still made him Wolfsbane. Severus and Harry have history, but it's convoluted and uneven at best. Same with Albus. And Sirius, not so much. In fact, I've always found it hard to believe that Snape/Lupin wasn't a popular ship right off the bat. Maybe it seemed too easy to some people, I don't know.
ANYWAY, the more I explored Snape/Lupin, the more in love with the idea I fell, until Snape/Lupin was all I wanted to read. The problem I had was that there wasn't a whole lot of Snupin out there. After I went through the FQF, I found lupin_snape, which, at the time, did not have much activity, and I scoured the journals and archives from there. Once I'd exhausted all the resources I could think of, I knew there was only one thing to do:
Go on an Epic Campaign to encourage more Snape/Lupin.
To Be Continued in the next post. I started this late for a reason....
love, lore
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zephre
 | 04:19 pm - having a life
It's me, doing things and having culture and stuff!
that is the entrance to Jones Hall from the underground parking garage that spans the underbelly of the entire Theater District. Cool art, for an underground lair. :D
Brahms was excellent. Mahler was odd. It was a great night.
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scribbulus_ink
 | 03:32 pm - November blogging: day 21
I've spent today trying to balance getting some much-needed rest with getting things done, although admittedly, I'm leaning more to the "getting some rest" side with the justification that I'll feel more capable of getting things done if I'm not exhausted. I'm doing laundry and washing dishes, though, and I'm planning to do a little housework before grading a few papers.
Meanwhile, tomorrow is the deadline for extensions in Snupin Santa, so there's a flood of incoming gifts this weekend. After tomorrow, I have to check the spreadsheet and see who'll be getting poked.
There really should be a drinking game for fandom fest mods. Something like...
Take one drink every time a fest participant asks for an extension.
Take one drink every time a fest participant assures you that they only need a couple of days to finish, but then you don't hear from them for a week.
Take a drink every time a fest participant disappears without warning and isn't updating their journal.
Take two drinks every time a fest participant disappears from the fest without warning but is updating their journal and is blatantly ignoring your emails and comments.
Take a drink every time you email a fest participant to remind them that they've missed the deadline and they tell you, "Oh, I can't do it. Sorry."
Take a drink every time a fest participant turns in their gift with a note reading, "I didn't have time to get it beta-read/my beta was too busy".
Take a drink every time a fest participant turns in their gift with a note reading, "It sucks, but I hope X likes it anyway!" Variation: they manage to slip in a passive insult of X's prompt and/or blame the suckiness of your matching skills for the quality of their gift.
Take a drink every time a fest participant turns in a .jpg with their name in the file name.
Take a drink every time a fest participant asks you a question that is answered in their assignment email (and in the rules post, which you linked to in their assignment email).
Drink the whole damned bottle every time a fest participant threatens to leave fandom forever because of you.
This entry was originally posted at http://scribbulus-ink.dreamwidth.org/515741.html. It's cross-posted to LJ and IJ, and comments are enabled at all three journals.
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torino10154
 | 01:26 pm - Someday I may post fic again . . .
. . . but until then, more random posts.
severus_sighs posted their interview with ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jadzialove, who just happens to be my beta. *squishes her*
I must point you especially to her answer to number #5, "What is it about Severus you find sexy?" because OMG it's a great answer (in under 100 words).
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lore
 | 11:59 pm - BloMo20: Halloween....
osmalic asked how I celebrate Halloween.
As a kid, I generally looked forward to trick-or-treating. I did that through age 14, and then I was officially too old for it. If only I'd have known then that most people ignore the age limit!
As an adult, I've tended to hold my own birthday/Halloween party. This is the first year we've had to cancel because of illness. Sometimes, when my birthday falls in the middle of the week, a party isn't as feasible. If the weather is good, we like to set up the candy in the front yard and make the kids walk through the leaves we refuse to rake. On occasion, we've also blared scary music.
I'm not really a great decorator or costumer. I kind of enjoy clever, low-labor costumes, but I had so many "that's lame" reactions that I stopped even doing those. In my house, it's pretty much Halloween year-round in terms of decoration, and my aunt always gives me something neat that's Halloween-themed, so while I have a huge pile of Halloween stuff in basement, I hardly ever get it all out. But I could deck this place out like the Adams Family mansion if I wanted to. *grin*
I love haunted houses, although I don't get out to them every year, but they're always on my mind each year. And I celebrate Friday the 13ths as kind of adjunct holidays to Halloween. When I'm particularly vexed, I take a hex for myself on Halloween.
Probably my best birthday was last year, turning over a decade and having all my friends and family around. It was a nice night and most of my friends got good and silly in front of a fire, which was different for us, but verrrrry entertaining. Worst that I care to document was definitely this year. ~_^
love, lore
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envinyatar15
 | 12:05 am - who wants to share writerly squee with me?
After months and months of not touching the keyboard, thanks to mini_nanowrimo, I'm back to writing daily. Each day in November (so far), I've managed to write at least 100 words. Go me!
But that's not the object of this post.
I've been thinking about what to do when Mini Nano is over. How to kick my butt and stay with the writing daily? And I've come up with an idea:
Is there anyone who'd like to open up a writer's group, so to speak (via email or whatever), where we can report our word counts, keep each other on track, and squee about our writing? I was thinking maybe we could give out prompts if someone fails their target or some such. What do you think, anybody for it? *puppy eyes*
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November 20th, 2009
scribbulus_ink
 | 11:15 am - November blogging: Day 20
I only have two more holiday fest stories to write, and the only thing that's keeping me from diving into writing my Yuletide story is the fact that it would look pretty bad for the mod of Snupin Santa to be a slack-ass on her own fest. It isn't that I don't like my Snupin Santa story or that I'm not inspired. I am! But somehow, the Yuletide idea has grabbed me by the proverbial throat, to the point that I've had to open a google doc and jot down some lines and ideas so I don't forget them.
The one bad thing about writing for fests is that I can't ramble about the writing process for the stories, because they're anonymous, and by the time the reveal is up and I can talk about them, I've forgotten what I wanted to say. I suppose I could write notes in google docs and post them once reveals are up, though.
I haven't worked on my Snupin Santa story in longer than I'd like, but last night, I re-read what I've got so far to refresh my memory and get the creative juices flowing again. Looking at it with a fresh eye, I really am pleased with the idea, and I'm excited about getting back to work on it. I hope I can sneak in some writing this weekend, but I'm determined to finish the papers from my 10:00 class before I reward myself with fun writing. Or with Warcraft, because OMG I'm going into withdrawal from not having time to play at all this week, and the Pilgrim's Bounty holiday is supposed to start on Sunday.
I'm feeling better today, like I'm regaining some of my equilibrium, which I attribute in part to it being Friday and having all next week off and in part to the Starbucks peppermint mocha I had this morning. Coffee, chocolate, and peppermint: perfection in a cup.
This entry was originally posted at http://scribbulus-ink.dreamwidth.org/515583.html. It's cross-posted to LJ and IJ, and comments are enabled at all three journals.
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November 19th, 2009
dianamoon
| 11:00 pm - Of Twitter Musings
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lore
 | 11:47 pm - BloMo19: Screw you, Runway!....
Here are a few thoughts about Project Runway tonight:
Whoever made up Heidi in that pink must be shot. Also, she looked like she had eye work done. But I hope not.
The wrong person won.
There was a costume-heavy line. Rosy was right when she said in chat that the hats made the models look like penises.
Tim Gunn spazzing out was adorable.
I wasn't so pissed off that I won't tune in come January, but it's a close thing.
*****
Good friend had a birthday today. We managed a small gift and short visit, and I'm glad because this friend isn't celebrated enough.
That's all I have for now. Maybe I better keep this up in December, just to get to all the topics I'm not hitting on yet.
love, lore
P.S. See the Bones icon? It needs help, but I'm not sure what....
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