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December 2nd, 2009
teamromy
 | 01:53 pm - Oh my
Genesis the Being failed to put deodorant on this morning. I noticed this fact in the middle of history class when I raised my hand to add to discussion. It's not scorching with odor, but I am hoping that others do not notice very much. I am trying not to sit or stand real close to people out of courtesy. How embarrassing.
The body started the monthly also, which could account for some of the earlier stress-induced flail post and the emotions that went with it. This also accounts for the fact that I am looking for someone else to tackle the next class and the discussion on the group project. Maybe I can bribe someone with a promise to make meat buns over winter break?
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December 1st, 2009
shiegra
 | 11:26 pm
You know another thing I love about Anne Bishop's books?
I love the role reversals. Men are stigmatized by rape, an attempt at rape, or the accusation of rape--INSTEAD OF WOMEN, THE VICTIMS. Women are viewed as the more stable gender; men are the ones who are in the position of 'overemotional' and 'hysterical.' Which is funny because it is a reversal of the way our society views us, but the behavior is not at all unrealistic for our culture, just amplified by magical excuses the way scientists put a microscope over bacteria. Look at this. Think about it. Women are the providers and protectors, not men. Men are in the social position of 'tempering' the women (this isn't as explicit as other reversals, but Falonar tells Surreal 'yeah, we do the grunt work because you guys are SO MUCH SCARIER when you get pissed off' and that draws parallels to the gendered views of parenting--the mother manages most of it and the father does the discipline.) The very way the story is told is a reversal in its own way; it's the story of the men only inasmuch as it is the story of how Jaenelle affects their lives.
Yes, we have Terreille, where there's the flip side to that--the negative one--but we also have decent male rulers in our world, and downright evil ones. It's reality, cast into fictionalized relief, emphasized by the support of the magic and manipulation to throw it into bold unignorable prominence.
I really, really loved her handling of the rut. Especially since I read a lot of supernatural stories, and even the ones that aren't romance novels screw this up consistently. Yes, she says, men have lusts, sure, and powerful physical urges, blah blah blah. But this does not even begin to make it okay. No, not even when it's all magical and shit! Considering that's a particularly rage inducing and deeply ingrained misogynistic part of our culture, that was beautiful to read.
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shiegra
| 10:40 pm
THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME
I'm gonna give it a try?
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shiegra
| 10:17 pm
These Black Jewels FSTs are just gorgeous. I haven't finished the downloads, but the lyrics fit perfectly.
Twilight Rhapsody - five songs about Witch (scroll down)
These Castles and Dreams - Wilhelmina Benedict
Black Jewels Trilogy - fan soundtrack (zip not working, but the lyrics are still worth perusing.)
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shiegra
| 09:40 pm
I was thinking thoughts about the media's treatment of celebrities--specifically female celebrities, prompted by the treatment of Megan Fox.
They at once expect and demand these celebrities to surrender private lives and display their desires, tastes, thoughts and opinions, and at the same time demand that these thoughts, tastes and opinions fall in line with the media's image of 'acceptable.' And I think we're all familiar with the media's image of acceptable--racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, the list goes on--so when Megan Fox shows that she's not only comfortable with her sexuality but not a demure/contained/controlled woman, they reject her. Spectacularly. And all those either threatened or sheeplike enough to follow do, and there's a huge percent of the population that is sheeplike in its adherence to 'the TV said so' or threatened by a sexy young woman who knows her own mind and is honest about it.
Whatever. She's awesome.
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shiegra
| 08:19 pm
Kink Bingo's December challenge: ohhh, it is so good to me. Yuletide fandoms up for grabs!
...although, as I look through them, they are slightly less delicious than last round. Last round I was looking through the leftover prompts and I kept going 'ooh, I haven't thought of that one in ages but I sure could write it!' Still, plenty of yum.
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maureenlycaon
 | 09:11 pm - Two old scifi novels: "Dream Games", "War Games"
Has anyone else out there ever heard of these two scifi novels by Karl Hansen? A post on Elf's LJ reminded of them. Published waaay back in the 1980s, they were two novels of pretty much the sort of thing I like to write and read now: morally ambiguously, extremely dark and even more disturbing, full of decadence, violence, and perversion. Oh, yes, and furries. Actually, in certain of their elements they're too unpleasant even for me.
( Cut for length and NSFW unpleasantness )
At the end of Dream Games, Mark explains that in the future, he sees his armies will have Terra under seige, but that then the Terrans will develop a terrible new weapon, and he does not know what will happen after that. I eagerly awaited the sequel, wondering what would happen. And waited. And waited.
It was never published. To this day I sometimes wonder sadly what happened to Karl Hansen. It was this discussion in ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) elfs LJ that brought this up in my mind over the past couple of days.
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Current Music: Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt
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shiegra
| 06:44 pm
Someone writes a whole huge essay titled The Lust Arc = IchiHime FAIL which, among other priceless gems of logic, claims that because soppy displays of concern were not made in the midst of a battleground, they TOTES DON'T CARE ABOUT EACH ENOUGH (FOR ME).
I'm not going to address the shipping, because I don't really 'ship in this series and I don't care. What I am going to address if the fact that because a young woman who made an enormously brave choice to sacrifice herself asked for help after an extended period of time where she was isolated, threatened, terrified and had her head fucked with, they explicitly equate her with evil cannibalistic spirits.
I cannot believe I ever even skim the surface of this fandom. I am also not capable of resounding-enough rude gestures over the internet. But it is, in my elegance and eloquence, all I have to offer, because I am still trying not to dissolve into obscenities over rage-inducing things.
I REALLY REALLY NEED SOMETHING LESS RAGE-INDUCING. SOMETHING. ANYTHING.
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shiegra
| 05:43 pm - WELL NOW
Ask Amy tells rape victims they did it to themselves. Any words I would have for this are obscene and full of hate, and I'm trying to cut down on that.
Mike Briggs eloquently debunks the popular arguments supporting piracy one by one.
an NYT article on female desire.
Patrick Stewart on domestic violence. Beautiful.
![[info]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) fiction_theory's lovely post about and containing links concerning the relationships between agents and new writers. Specifically it contains a link to this remark by an agent:
I rejected a manuscript that I had been seriously considering last week because upon a cursory online search, I found a LiveJournal post by the author badmouthing me and several of my colleagues for what she thought were excessive response times. Well, that blog post cost her representation from at least one agent. (OH, and it was a LOCKED LiveJournal post. You do know that Google Reader doesn't respect locked posts, right? Well, you do now.)
I feel like 'mind your damn manners jesus christ' should be sort of an acknowledged constant--ever heard of common courtesy, people? Especially in this type of scenario when you are asking a stranger to take a leap of faith. But entitlement, I have noted, is heavy in many young in America.
Also LOCKED POSTS ARE UNPROTECTED AAAAAAAH **terrified**
ETA: Falconesse with the math behind Harlequin’s vanity press: how many books you’d have to sell to break even, hidden costs, and the like. Recommended reading for anyone who wants to self-publish, vanity publish, or get published.
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dogmatix
 | 07:32 pm - Opera, Recs, and Sheep
General rambling update post, go! Man, it's just been insane with holidays and stuff, not to mention that my 'net connection is as slow as a slow thing living in Slow-town, with extra slow on top, egh.
( So, opera. )
( Sheep. )
Okay, something more cheerful! ( Recs! )
Man it's gonna be cold for the next few days, brrr. Time to cuddle up with the kitties and play P4. :D
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shiegra
| 07:42 am - Glee fails, as usual
Glee: Hairography
So let me get this straight: those precious abled Glee kids singing over another choir is supposed to be fucking heartwarming?
You know what would happen outside of TV land, if you just started singing over another choir's performance? Nothing good, let me assure you. How fucking rude and entitled can these people be? So now treating performers with complete disrespect and undermining their efforts is 'progressive?' Fuck you, Glee.
Not to mention my disgust with the epilepsy joke.
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dustandroses
 | 10:58 am - AIDS Awareness
 The Fabric of a Lifeart by Steve Walker Today, World AIDS Day, I'm remembering my dear friend Darin, who died of AIDS related cancer on September 6th, 2002. I found a bunch of fun and smutty art online, but didn't have the energy to post them all here, since I've already posted them on ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) smutday, so for those of you who aren't members of Smutday, you can take a look at them here. AIDS Awareness Art Enjoy! ~
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maureenlycaon
 | 06:38 am - Testing, testing, one, two, three
This is to see if I've fixed multiple-journal posting in Semagic.
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November 30th, 2009
shiegra
| 05:12 pm
Legend of the Seeker: now with 500% more delicious femslash! APPROVED. Okay, it's all subtext, but let me dream.
I've been reading books about World War II and the Vietnam war. Not the most pleasant, upbeat or rejuvenating of subject material. I feel a little worn out.
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dragovianknight
 | 09:15 am - Supernatural fics I wish someone would write
bridgetmkennitt, you might want to not click the link until after you're done with your fic fest fics. :D
( Random ideas are pretty womancentric, really. )
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November 29th, 2009
dragovianknight
 | 08:40 pm - Maybe one of you will recognize them
So, cleaning out my purse for the first time in...a long time, I found two fic fragments, and I don't know if I ever typed them in/posted them, and in the case of the second, I can't remember which universe it was in, though it seems like something I should have talked about. (The first is clearly a sequel to the fic in which Angelo found Marcello in Pickham.)
So, behind the cut, ( two DQ8 snippets, and hopefully one of you can tell me where I was going with these... )
I think it's sad that I have to rely on other people to remember what the hell I've written, to be honest. But there you go.
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shiegra
| 05:25 pm
Procrastination: it does beautiful or maybe just crazy things.
![[info - community]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) bishoptoqueen: a fan community for old school Anita Blake. Because I miss her. Probably no one will join but what the hell, it'll be fun to play in.
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dragovianknight
 | 11:45 am - The Interweave Store is having a sale
20% off downloadable patterns! So I broke down and finally bought the pattern for the Bacchus Socks I've been eyeing forever. Now I just need to convert the pattern to magic loop, since that appears to be the only way I like to knit socks. And get a 2mm circular needle.
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shiegra
| 11:26 am - Anita Blake
Apropos of exactly nothing, this is my Anita Blake.
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maureenlycaon
| 09:46 am - If any of you not currently playing WoW are considering it . . .
NOW is probably a good time to act. I should have posted this yesterday, but forgot to, alas.
Just for this weekend -- meaning, until tomorrow -- World of Warcraft is on sale. The deal is: the original World of Warcraft game is available as an electronic download for only 5$. That's right, 5$. It's seldom sold in stores alone any more, but when it is, it's normally offered for $20.
Now, with this original game, you cannot go to Outland or Northrend, you can only level your character to level 60, and you won't be able to make a death knight, period. I think you also will not be able to make a blood elf or a Dranei. It's painfully limited. The only thing this original edition of the game is truly suited for is for the timid beginner who wants to spend the bare minimum of money finding out if they really, actually do want to play in the World of Warcraft -- so cautious that they are less afraid of having to spend more money on the expansions later than they are of making a mistake now. Because, trust me, if you decide you do want to play, you WILL be buying The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King.
HOWEVER, you will still be playing online with other people, and you will have ten days to play free. After that, you have to subscribe. WoW has various payment plans -- by the month, every two months, every three months, annually, or using time cards (even gift time cards). Take note of this, kiddies, as it will be a little important later on.
The other big deal, which is the one I recommend even for beginners, is this: the World of Warcraft Battlechest edition. With this, you get the original, base game, AND the Burning Crusade expansion. You'll get to make blood elves and Dranei if you want, and you can go to Outland and level up to 70. You also get two thoroughly out-of-date little game manuals, at no extra cost. You still won't ever be able to make a death knight, or go to Northrend (which is a fantastic place, if you ask me). Normally, it's $30 in stores. Supposedly only this weekend, Blizzard is selling the BOXED EDITION ONLY (not the download edition) for $20. Again, if you stick with the game, you WILL eventually be buying Wrath of the Lich King. Trust me.
Again, you'll have ten days to play for free.
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