Prompt 100

♥ Happy Birthday plasticine_star ♥

I hope you had an awesome day!

*licks*

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 I think they do a really good job of making the characters' certain outdated views understandably their own without supporting it textually, which far too many shows/movies fall into doing.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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♥ ♥ Happy Birthday noteverything ♥ ♥

I hope you have an amazing day filled with joy and fun and people you love. *hugs*

Had such a nice dream today - and instead of enjoying it while it lasts, kept searching for inconsistencies, due to a vague feeling that it's too good to be true, therefore something must be wrong. (Well duh! the mere fact that we were together had to be a major tip-off!) At the end, focused on the fact that he's supposed to be taller than me. This destroyed the illusion and woke me up - even not to the reality but to another, stupid and boring dream - well done :( Damn perfectionism ;)

In the happier news, back online. Unlike the previous incident 2 weeks ago, was mentally and technically prepared, and actually in a pretty good mood; had a bitching fit only once, during the dinner, and stopped on my own accord; spent most of the time writing. I even start to believe that putting limits on the Internet usage might make sense ;)

( Read Me NOW! )

"If" Black Women Were White Women"

Written, apparently, in the style of 'What if Men Could Menstruate' by Gloria Steinem. To quote 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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So, NaNo. Going well lately. I had a lousy week and had serious trouble making my word count on Thursday, leading to my taking it out on Guybrush on Friday and therefore finishing the first part of TSE. Glee! (Guybrush, on the other hand, is most likely plotting my untimely demise. The poor boy.)

Though, technically it's not quite finished, as there's a number of missing/cut scenes. Last year, with the Ferret, I wrote every scene as it came along, but then, because the story was longer than 50K, I never actually got around to finishing it. I'm hoping I'll have better luck completing the story this year by just going back and writing in missing scenes after NaNo's done.

So, now in the Google Docs folder, we have the mostly finished copy of The Second Element I, the start of The Second Element II, and a list of some of the scenes missing from TSE I. (Since some of them are...erm, rather important to the plot. Oops?)

Also, my NaNo backlog is down to around 1,800 or so words, so I'm catching up...in between bouts of playing Left 4 Dead 2. Which has so far, while being fun, not managed to derail NaNo. There was, however, a palpable sigh of relief around here when Telltale announced the last episode of Tales was delayed until Dec. 8th. As sad as I am that it's been delayed...I don't think NaNo could have withstood the simultaneous distractions of work, L4D2, and ToMI. That would have just ended in tears.

33195 / 50000 words. 66% done!

Luna is a Large Robot that is fitted with an Electron Ram, a Flamethrower and a Whirling Chain, runs on Petrol, and is Completely Motionless. Force: 9 Handling: 2 Weaponry: 4 To see if your Battle Robot can defeat Luna, enter your name and choose an attack: fights Luna using Force Handling Weaponry

( Randomness )

Title: Please, Tell Me....
Fandom/original: Original, Poetry
Characters: None
Rating: PG-13, I Suppose....
Word count: 212 (I Think....I Lost Count....)
Word Prompt: ( Word #87 )
For the 15_minute_fic Community!

( Please Tell Me )

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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I went to the supermarket yesterday.  There were fairly long lines with the pre-Thanksgiving crowd and the cashiers were hauling whole turkeys over the scanners. 

 

I was very grateful not to be working in a supermarket anymore. 

 

In fact, the market was always open on Thanksgiving and I started working there in September of 2006 so this is going to be the first Thanksgiving since 2005 where I won’t have to go to work. 

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 balgar

It'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?



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Walking over to the UCC for dinner tonight, I noticed a girl just sit down on the steps by one of the building, and I just knew she was upset. So I looked to Jess and went, "I'm going to see if she's ok." And walked over and asked what was the matter.

Apparently her grandfather is very sick and she was pretty sure she had just gotten off the phone with him for the last time. I just gave her a massive hug and said that I was so sorry, a loss like that is hard. I then suggested if she wanted to go sit inside the building, given it was raining and I had no umbrella with me and she didn't have her coat on even. So we walked her to the doors, I asked if he was in town or not, apparently he's in Chatham (about an hour or so away) and school was keeping her from going. So I gave her another hug and told her I hoped for the best and that she could see him soon. And she smiled and said thanks and I was happy.

I really hope that everything is ok and that she can see him again before he dies. A couple of people passed her and it just seemed sad to me, I walked by and got "Someone needs help!" While others kept walking. Suppose people just don't care to notice others anymore...

First, a humorous antecdote from work.

ME: Okay. You take the garbage back, and I'll attack the floor.
COWORKER: ...aww, don't attack the floor.
ME: It looked at me funny.

...I was proud of myself. I don't usually think that fast :3c


L'anyhoodle, in a couple of weeks I shall be taking my pharmacy tech certification test, the reason for my absence from the interwebs--even had to skip out on NaNo and most of autumnwrite for it. And it is my intention to then catch back up on all my fannish activities, because I miss them very very muchly.

I do already know a few things that I'm going to do/work on: Song of the Wind (MKR), the sequel to A Perfect Act (DC/MK), and finishing That Darn Fic over on the Layton meme, like...a year after I started it XD And some stuff for 100fandomhell because I has ideas, oh yes I do. I also have some maintenance stuff I want to get done on candyfics, but that can wait.

So! I would like some RECS! Movie, TV show, anime/manga, book, cartoon, whatever! I just want some new stuff to watch and/or read when this whole stupid test is over and done with :D I like just about everything, so lay it on me pleeeeeeeeease? Let us share fannish interests!


*sits back to count how many times Doctor Who appears in comments because I know at least two, if not three of you are going to recommend it here* I had a really awesome review for What You Wish For on ff-dot-net that explained to me why I should watch that show. That was a fun review to read :D

Also, I need to upload the rest of my icons over here at some point...

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.

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I've noticed that my usage of the word "lovely" is slightly unconventional. It's a high compliment on something artistic/creative which I appreciate specifically for brutality/violence/abuse/pain. This doesn't deviate from the standard meaning of "lovely" as pertaining to love and beauty, but probably implies a slightly uncommon perception of love and beauty. Maybe that's why the album "Liebe ist für alle da" had so precisely "clicked" with me.

Of course, in real life I'm not a monster or maniac, I think it's kind of my "stage image" - after all, most of the musicians, writers and other people of creative professions behave reasonably sane in real life, in spite of depicting all kind of darkness and atrocities in their art.

It's just that when your stage is imaginary, sometimes it's difficult to find where exactly it ends.