| Meta meta meta on the table table table: Naming your Muses! |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|12:32 am] |
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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| Hunh. |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|10:03 pm] |
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One big-ass portion of noodles, meat, and Chinese broccoli at a Thai place = four meals for me. Dinner last night, breakfast today, and dinner today, with enough remaining for either breakfast or lunch tomorrow. ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) goddessgoddess, thank T. again for me, would you? And what was the name of that place? It was yummy.
Thinking of plugging iDoser and drifting off with some aural opium. The annual Coast to Coast JFK special is on tonight, but the prefeed is some bullshit about intelligent design. |
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| I had no icon for this entry. |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|10:18 pm] |
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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| Local Radio Fail |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|05:20 pm] |
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How could I forget about KGSR?
It's weird to listen to a local station streaming. |
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| Cat rang bell. I ate food. |
[Nov. 21st, 2009|11:39 pm] |
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Lovely afternoon/evening with goddessgoddess, T., and S. (who turned out to be a cute longhaired fellow in a fetching paisley skirt). We went to Clay Pit for lunch (dodging all the burnt orange turnout on our way downtown); it turned out they have a lunch buffet on Saturdays as well as during the week. That turned out pretty well, they had saag paneer, lamb korma, and vegetable pakora. Stuffed!
After that goddessgoddess made her desire for warbat known, so we went to Sarah's. They're always fun to browse; T. got some rose syrup, goddessgoddess got eight warbat, and I caved and got a packet of honeydew shisha and a little vanilla sugar (which was really cheap!). The lady behind the counter was once more super friendly and chatty, joking about how I got goddessgoddess addicted to warbat and how I should eat more. If I hadn't been so massively stuffed I might have snagged a falafel or two, they're so good there!
Went back to T.'s for lazy-afternooning. There was checking of emails, Facebook, and the like, and it was learned that I cannot use a nipple mouse. There was sharing of warbat. There was cozy napping and the watching of TV, some current shows I didn't recognize, and the first three episodes of Coupling; I had forgotten how deeply I love that show. And how awesome Susan was in the beginning before she got all domesticated.
Eventually dinnertime rolled around. Dinner was chosen with remarkable ease, and we went to a Thai place. I had a Thai iced coffee, which I haven't had in years. S. had one too.Tasty, tasty drinks, those. My entree was a pork and noodle dish, peppery without being actually spicy, that I ate maybe a third of. Yay leftovers! There was also a dessert of some sort that I tried a bite of. Very sweet and sticky. After, Planet K was investigated, and another pipe shop, with discussion of further explorations, but I realized that I was dead on my feet and regretfully said my goodnights.
So now I am doing my night-time catching up, getting loved on by Molly, and discussing the awesomeness that is Discworld with waywardoctagon before collapsing into sleep. With a very full belly. |
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| The windy rambly thoughts of Xie |
[Nov. 21st, 2009|07:21 pm] |
So, I've been working on Directions today.... it's so good to feel the fic flowing again. :)
I am going to try to finish it this weekend and send it for beta, although I may need next weekend to get it done. I should probably wait until after the Thanksgiving weekend to post it, shouldn't I?
In other news, I have bunnies for a Xena/Gabrielle fic, a Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer fic, and a Michael/Ben fic, and NO ONE but me really wants to read any of those things. It makes me sad, yo.
Although I also have a Drew/Emmett bunny and I know at least Travis likes to read those! |
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| It's Saturday, right? |
[Nov. 21st, 2009|10:51 am] |
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I just finished Unseen Academicals. I love Pepe so very hard.
I have lunch plans with goddessgoddess, T., and their friend S. This is probably a good thing, as my food intake the past few days has consisted of a can of not at all good soup. A meal I can chew would be nice.
Am wearing The Bra That Fits. At present there is only one. I have taken steps to remedy this. It is a front-hook. It kind of has to be. There are eight rows of hooks. Also wearing The Jeans That Fit, courtesy of hcolleen, and a not bad tshirt courtesy of some thrift shop somewhere. Smelly of the day as yet to be decided. I'm thinking Hungry Ghost Moon. |
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| Just sort of blankish |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|11:02 am] |
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Thankfully I am not tempted by BPAL's Naughty or Nice Inquisition. There are a few scents that sound nice but most don't appeal.
It's rainy and I'm stiff and kind of queasy. more sleep is called for. |
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| goodbye to the home that was |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|12:23 am] |
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I said goodbye to the house in which I grew up and was abused by my father, walked around, went to my favorite place to hide and play, remembered the good stuff. May this make my life easier, yes, please, yes, PLEASE.
Then I bought a Cookie Monster stuffed toy to sleep with. So OK, NOT doing that well after all, but that's how it goes, right? Yeah, that's how it goes. |
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| Gobble gobble gobble? |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|03:03 pm] |
How is it possible I have no QAF Thanksgiving icons? I have every other freaking holiday!
Anyone help a fangirl out? Are there any Thanksgiving icons floating around you feel like sharing?
Love,
Xie |
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| Easy Recipe #3: Apple-Oatmeal Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|05:16 pm] |
This was the most popular choice in the poll, and funny enough, I haven't encountered yet a person who didn't like it, even when initially sceptical towards oatmeal or apples. (Well, unless they have allergies, of course.) I'm going to use °C and metric measurements for the recipe, but converters are easy to find online and also it's not one of those where you have to be super accurate, so that shouldn't be a problem.
What you need:
- oatmeal (I buy the 1 kg package which lasts for several meals)
- 2 to 3 apples
- sugar
- cinnamon
- a bar of butter (I use the 250 g bars -- you'll definitely need less than a pound)
- vanilla ice cream
and a greased baking pan, casserole dish, or similar (if it's fireproof and somewhat flat it'll work).
( Read more... )
Serve fresh out of the oven, in small bowls, with some ice cream on top. Makes for a nice hot-cold contrast. Oh, and you eat the cake with spoons.
Additional info:
- Makes you feel full extremely quickly. I've had huge people who are big eaters laugh in my face when I served them the "tiny" dish, only to see them declare defeat after their second bowl.
- The dough can be kept in the fridge to use it up later, and also works great as a muesli breakfast substitute.
You can't really mess up this one. Trust me. |
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| Dealt with, for now. |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|09:35 am] |
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Thanks to doombuggie's indispensable and much appreciated aid yesterday, I was able to get the paperwork I needed. Bright and early this AM I took my quivering self to the office, where the manager made copies of everything to take to the caseworker (she said she was going in this afternoon) and put a "recieved" stamp on all of the originals.
Nothing I can do now until December 18th. My hands continue to shake.
The cats have been doing their job, though. Last night there was some contention between Anya and Molly as to who would curl up on my chest. Being Boss Cat, Molly won of course, and Anya snuggled up at my side. |
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| WHOOOOOOO~!!! |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|07:15 pm] |
I got hired by Tim Horton's.
No, I did not move to Canada. Canada? Who's that?
But I did get hired. To the second place I applied to.
I start on Friday.
OMG OMG OMG.
Now, fast food is not my ideal employment situation. However, not being broke is my ideal situation!
BE EXCITED WITH ME, GUYS!
I HAVE GOOD NEWS!!!!
Also I kinda quit Nanowrimo. But that's not important! I have a job now. |
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| Landing |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|11:28 am] |
Never, ever go on vacation, especially a really good one.
The crash when you get back to real life is a bitch. |
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| Still stressing out |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|10:07 am] |
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( More whining ) |
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| Question Tiemz! |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|11:59 pm] |
Do you know of any video games ("with nice graphics" would be a bonus) where there's a transformation sequence of a MALE character where the camera pans lovingly and repeatedly over the guy's ass and bare chest for what feels like ten minutes? And he wears, I dunno, a thong and a few strings of strategically placed floss to cover his nipples.
You don't have to guess why I'm asking. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|02:56 pm] |
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Fucking bureaucracy. Fucking paperwork. |
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| Three things not like the others |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|12:43 pm] |
1) For anyone looking to buy a laptop or netbook, you may be interested in the results of this study which indicated Asus and Toshiba are the most reliable models, but that regardless of brand, 1 in 3 laptops fails to last 3 years. I wish they'd also done a study on desktops which are presumably less vulnerable to accidents. Aside from the fact that these expensive purchases are exceedingly unreliable, what most made me blanch was the idea of the monumental amount of waste being generated by so many short-lived machines.
2) In more optimistic news, health care costs may go down if successful vaccines are developed, and apparently there are a lot of major ones in the pipeline.
"Among other possible vaccines out in the coming years: herpes simplex, rheumatoid arthritis and a better seasonal influenza vaccine. A malaria vaccine -- a development that would revolutionize public health around the globe if successful -- could be on the market in the next several years."
3) When looking at the tags being used so far at the AO3, I got the immediate mental image of the classic comedy/tragedy masks (Angst! Humor!). However, I was also quite struck by how many stories are apparently carrying the humor tag – far, far more than for some other stories we commonly see like an AU or crossover. It's not that we rarely see funny stories in fandoms, but I rarely see stories advertised as such (whereas, by comparison, people label their stuff "crackfic" quite often). So I just thought I'd throw the question out there: what percentage of what you read or write would you consider to be a humor story?
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