Why is it that when we get possibly-good news, we don't talk about it so we don't jinx it, but when we get possibly-bad news, we don't talk about it b/c talking about it makes it real?

I need yall to tell me some happy things. Please?

So I've been thinking about sci-fi, and what happens with fans when directors redo old series, and decide that maybe the chicks should have a bigger role than standing off in the corner with a headset.

( I apologize in advance for the alphabet soup )

But yes. I am alarmed by some of the fannish reaction to women getting equal, or closer-to-equal, roles to that of men in reimaged sci-fi – well, that’s putting it mildly. The real point? Sci-fi isn’t the white boys’ club anymore. Get over it.

Addendum: In one RDM BSG review, someone asked, “well, how would you feel if they re-made Star Wars and cast Leia as a guy?”

I don’t have an Amazon account, and I really didn’t care enough to respond, but the first thought in my head? “That would be awesome”.

1. So bandomvalentine, a Bandom Valentine Fic Challenge, has just been set up by reni_days, playfullips, and ashlein. Both sign ups and prompts are now being taken so you guys should head over and check it out. Even if you're not a writer, you can still totally leave a prompt. Also we are accepting art so you're more than welcome to sign up for that too. Anyway, if you guys could let pimp this in your journals that would be awesome. Thanks ♥

2. I read Zihuatanejo, which is Shawshank Redemption fanfic that was recced on copperbadge's lj, and I highly enjoyed it.

3. I got pulled for Correspondence at work, so starting tomorrow I don't have to be on the phones. I get to sit there and process shit for 8 hours a day WITH MY IPOD! I'm pretty damn excited. :)

4. It's just about time to start getting excited about Big Bangs! secretlytodream created a wonderful vid trailer for the 2010 Big Bang over at spn_j2_bigbang. Please go watch and tell her how awesome she is! GET EXCITED!

5. harriet_vane is made of WIN and when I hit the lottery, I'm gonna pay her to be my full time story teller.

6. Today is a certain sexy tattooed bassist's birthday. Where is all the Jepha!porn?

7. The Fifth Annual OWL Awards are upon us! See the Announcement on the OWL home page to start making nominations! (this is copied from twitter, b/c for some reason I can't access the Tauri pages from my computer tonight? idk if it's just me or what.)

8. valerie_z made a wiki for Rancid lyrics! To quote her LJ post: If you'd like to add any interpretations or thoughts on songs please feel free. RancidLyrics.net. You don't even have to care about Rancid. You can just think of it as discussing poetry except all the poetry is about poverty and alcoholism. Yay!

9. You know you've been in fandom too long when you're watching Paranormal State and start slashing Ryan and Sergey. Also, did you know they sell Starter Ghost Hunter Kits on A&E.com? :P

10. WINCON 2010 IS IN CHICAGO! October 15-17. I wanna know who (besides wendy) is planning on going, or would be interested in going with me? (see wincon for more details)

Normally I wouldn't find this post-worthy but a certain quote in the article really stuck out to me. To wit:

"Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded."

I'm not even offended. More amused that anyone who considers oneself a business person can use the word "fattie" with any seriousness. To me, the word is on par with words like "stupid-head" and "poo-face". I mean, really? "Fattie"? It's not even demeaning, it just makes you sound like a toddler.

It's sites like this that really up my self-confidence as an average-looking lady with a generous amount of chub on her already chunky bones, actually. At least I can engage in professional dialogue without sounding like I am six years old.

That said I had an awesome breakfast with my mom, where I ate food that delicious, if not likely to help me lose weight. She almost ran some poor guy off the road in her minivan on the way home. She does not yet seem to grasp that "well, I work the nightshift" is not an excuse for manslaughter. It makes quality time with her all the more fun.

For those of you interested, the gay space regency romance is coming along well, though it is more turning into awkward political crack. I should probably work on something for serious, but I equally probably won't.

Also, check out this artist. Her stuff makes me wibble with joy. Wibble.

IT IS NOT TEAM EDWARD OR TEAM JACOB. THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE 'SHIP OF THIS SERIES IS TEAM BELLA MOVES FAR, FAR AWAY, GETS OVER BOTH OF THE CREEPERS, DATES SOME NICE GUYS IN COLLEGE AND MAYBE MARRIES ONE OF THEM IN A HEALTHY, COMFORTABLE RELATIONSHIP WHERE THEY WATCH ZOMBIE FLICKS TOGETHER AND MAKE GRILLED CHEESE OUT OF DEFIBRILLATOR PADDLES AND HAVE LOTS OF FUN, NORMAL, NON-UTERUS-EATING SEX.

My words are truth. You know it.

Speaking of romance, lilian_cho has helpfully identified the best genre yet: gay space regency romances. I think we should all attempt to write one before the end of the year. I think mine shall entail AU versions of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron. STFU THEY ARE MY RPF OTP OMG HOW MANY ABBREVIATIONS CAN I FIT IN THIS SENTENCE IDEK.

Also people rec me your scruffy, handsome men who are under the age of 30 please. I am looking for a PB and unless they are named Jeremy Irons or Gaspard Ulliel guys are not hot to me anymore do not ask what is up.

Though, sidenote, stormantia and I have decided that Katee Sackhoff, in her roles as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace from Battlestar Galactica is pretty much the litmus test* for ladies who like ladies. Watch this. Is she smokin'? If yes, you are probably a lady who likes ladies. If no, you are probably not. I do not know if this works for the menfolk as well. Gentlemen, is she hot or not?

*NB: Test not intended to be the decisive factor of one's sexuality

This always happens when I go without making happy lists and such. I end up with a bunch of links I've been meaning to post.

Fancy Feathers by dragons_rage598
Jepha Howard/Tobin Esperance, NC-17
Summary: Jepha gets an invitation to a very special ball.
When did I develop a fondness for wing!fic? Also, I have no idea who Tobin is, but reading this still made my day yesterday.

this is the artwork by howifall that led me to the Fancy Feathers fic.

The Winterbook by copperbadge and bluejeans07.

this post that wendy made, with an article by Anne Lamott.

posting has started at sodamnskippy for the Christmas exchange fics. (whatever, don't judge me!)

rancidfans

Um, I'm pretty sure I had a couple other things I intended to share, but I can't remember them at the moment. I think the space heater has warmed up the bathroom that I might not turn into a popsicle when I strip to take my shower, so that's where I'm heading. Love yall! (and before one of you makes a comment, the space heater isn't IN the shower, or even near it. :P)

Okay, I know this was the end-of-year meme, but we’re only two days into 2010, so it’s still totally acceptable, right?

( stolen from everyone on my flist )

He should have come back as a girl, damnit.

Making resolutions is difficult for me. I cannot think of life as anything segmented, and resolutions necessarily segment life. That’s not bad, really, but it also doesn’t work for me. Still, I want to say something because I am, to some extent, a word-person. So, here: I want to keep becoming the person who I ultimately want to be.

My more immediate goal is to outline, what, exactly, that entails, before the month is over, but the basic idea is that I want to keep moving forward. And, possibly, find a way to talk about this without sounding like an overly-moralistic dubbed anime. And, in addition, stop making jokes to cover up the seriousness of everything I say because I am a wimp.

Also, I want to read Julian and Maddalo by Shelley and Christabel by Coleridge and that massive Byron biography I have sitting on my bookshelf. I would like to maybe take a painting class and write a chaptered story. And re-learn my viola/piano skills as I am heinously out of practice and worked too hard to at music to lose it all fullstop.

Actually, most immediate goal: stop splitting my infinitives, no matter how “right” or “good” it sounds.

In a sign of how classy my dad is, he has his beer on the back porch in a cooler, and he has SNOW packed around the beer to keep it cold.

Also, he talked my 7yo into giving his (MY) number to the waitress - written in crayon on a napkin with a drawing of an alien and a heart. It's a good thing we know everyone that works in that place. (also, then Ronnie used my phone to txt melmo_lovesyou a msg that read Davey. is supercheating on you. B/c my kids are utterly ridiculous.)

I've been asking my sister for over a month now to make invitation for my mom's suprise party. My mom turns 50 at the end of this month. Tell me why I had to come home tonight and make the invitations and get them sent out myself. I'm not the only kid in this family!!!!

Okay, I'm going to go read the superawesomeness that is in my inbox, courtesy of harriet_vane, and then I think I'm gonna work on hs au. Maybe. snarkyrainbow and reallythateasy and ashlein seem to approve of it.

Happy New Year, yall!! <333333

Happy (Belated) Holidays & Happy New Year, F-list! =D

Thank you for the fantabulous snowflake cookies, Anon, ayes_sid, ego_chan, issahime, & romaine24! They really brightened my day <3 *smooches & hugs* I'm so late at thanking you all because I wanted to write a drabble in thanks. Clearly, I failed.

oconel, I got your card, thank you!

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1 a. I haven't watched Merlin 2x08, 11, 12, 13.
1 b. Or Sherlock Holmes. Or Avatar.

2. Josh Lanyon has been a hit or miss for me, but I do like the Adrien English mysteries muchly. The fifth & final book just came out last week at LooseId (I.D.? Id?)

They're not that riveting as mysteries, I def. am more invested in the characters, esp. Adrien and Jake. I think of Adrien as beautiful because Jake thinks him beautiful. I think of Jake as caring (minus the obvious Major-Closet-Case-itis problem) because Adrien is so sucker-punched in love with him. Yep, invested.

Mystery-wise, I like the first & fifth mysteries and aren't terribly invested in the other three. I do like the villain in the fourth book, just because.

3. Other things I've read of late:
- Gay Regency in Space (for srs)
- Clueless-about-his-fuckability Secret Agent and the Rentboy Who Loves Him
- Big Korean Tabloid Reporter with Fangirl Stalkerish Tendencies for His Beloved OCD-Mildly-Agoraphobic Author
- MOAR Gay Regency
- etc

...I should have a HUGE backload of Merlin fanfics to read by now. Should write some drabbles first.

More WIP Amnesty. This is the Teacher!Brendon fic. You think that as long as I've been fooling around with this, I'd be done, but I'm obviously not. So, have at it. That leaves me with only the ONE actual wip, the hs au, aka SS Teacher, fic, that has taken on a life of it's own.

This one is obviously unfinished, but I know HOW it ends. So there is a happy ending, even if it's not apparent here.

teacher!Brendon/daddy!Frank
Brendon's a kindergarten teacher! Frank's daughter is one of his students!
5700 words, unbetad, ridiculous

( Brendon thought it was probably wrong that he loved his job so much. )

Some old lady today told me "I don't have time for all these shenanigans" and I had to try really hard not to laugh.

It's WIP amnesty week or something, right? Have some fic! or, not!fic, whatever. (although, admittedly, the stuff irisgirl12000 and harriet_vane posted was so much better)

This is Shelter fic I was working on for someone and never finished b/c I'm SO BAD at finishing things. Whatever.

( 750 words of Zach/Shaun )

So, James and I are supposed to go look at a house when he gets back from South Carolina on Wednesday, right? And tonight I come home from work and mom's like "so, I found a four bedroom over off cleveland by the college; do you wanna go look at it?" WTF? MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MIND!

anyways. who wants some music?

Here's what I've been meaning to post - the mix of my favorite songs that came out in 2009. This was HARD b/c I listen to a lot of random shit and trying to find songs that actually came out this year was difficult.

but here's the link to download the zip file

and you can find individual song downloads (b/c some are country and I know some of yall would rather skip those) and the track listing ( under the cut )

And the mix of my current happy songs! I really don't want to talk about it, and chances are if you email/txt/comment to me something about RL, I'm going to ignore you. Better to just talk me about Luna falling for a certain red-haired dragon keeper, or actor!Brendon and restaraunteer!Spencer, or hs Dan and Quinn. Point is, I needed songs to keep me more cheery. And my ipod choices are very limited.

Happy Days Zip File

( Track Listing )

For those of you watching, Ophiuchus hit the archives early Saturday morning.

I was all ready to blaze through chapter 4 (which is about beautiful, beautiful, childish treachery) over an autistic weekend, but an impromptu dinner party thrown in the kitchen ruined that.

Normally this would not have been a great excuse, except my desk is less than two feet away from the kitchen and it's kindda hard to ignore some guy "cooking up a storm" in there... and while I must say I was appreciative of the meal, which wasn't bad, I'm also bursting to point out that as much as girls like guys who cook, I'm not sure it really applies to the ransacked pots and pans. hm. Then again, consider that I'm the sort of person who can count on one hand the number of times the girl I introduce to people as my sister has ever been to my place/s of residence, and even she has only ever used my kitchen once in all that time. I don't consider there to be anything worth being territorial over. Apparently I simply have a borgish disdain for general inefficiency.

I haven't really bothered to tease out what that means specifically either.

So, I always have crazy ass dreams, and the past couple of nights they have been completely ridiculous. I wouldn't even know where to start explaining them, but one part of it involved being rescued from a sinking ship by irisgirl12000 & phaballa and going to wendy's house (which is probably symbolic of something) and there was this tiny kitten we rescued from the ship from inside a stove and it's name was Pancake. Yeah, idk.

The night before, part of my dream included a hotel with a beach in the basement. I'm talking sand and surf and sunshine, THE WORKS. I blame Phineas & Ferb.

I'm having a breakdown this weekend and I really don't wanna talk about it or think about it or whatever. Yes, avoidance is a valid way of handling shit, right? Thank you all for your txts & emails. I know yall love me, but there's more going on than I know how to explain. I can't deal with responding to things right now, but I'm okay. Or, will be, anyway.

it's not too early to begin counting down to Feb 12th, right?

I am so done with this shit. I fucking give up. Obviously, everything I do is wrong and I'm not supposed to have anything that makes me happy. I'm about three steps away from deleting everything - lj, twitter, myspace, facebook - and going back to being friendless and miserable and worthless b/c that's apparently how I'm supposed to be.

Ugh, being sick on Christmas SUCKS.

My favorite presents this year: a gift card for ticketmaster (who says I'm difficult to shop for?) and one of the scrabble tile charms from etsy. This one says "mischief managed" on it, which is aweome. :) plus, the baby thing, that's totally an awesome present as well.

Thursday at work, we had to stay ALL DAY, which was completely fucking ridiculous, since I was there for 8 hrs and only took 12 calls. And we got in trouble for being disruptive, when it totally wasn't out fault! I mean, it was Christmas Eve, there were no other departments in the building except us, there were no supervisors in our department, and we had down time of anywhere between 15 and 45 minutes between calls! Plus, we (meaning myself and the collective group that sits near me) have been dubbed The Naughty Spot, so idk what they expected.

One day earlier this week, we were talking about something and I was only halfway paying attention and I chimed in with "there's no starbucks in Louisiana." Which meant I had to elaborate and tell the story of me, irisgirl12000, vic_ramsey, & playfullips driving from Houston to NOLA (okay, so Heather was driving, the rest of us were being horrible passengers and falling asleep on her) and how there was no Starbucks in LA until we got to NOLA. But nearly every exit had an adult bookstore and a waffle house. So Amy was like "well, who needs coffee when you have waffles and porn!" Of course Robbie walked up right at that moment so we had to repeat the story and Robbie was like "Hell yeah! Let's take a road trip to Louisiana!" So now Robbie will randomly walk by our daisy and be like "Road trip; porn and waffles!" At one point, Amy asked what he was going to tell his wife and Robbie was like, "She can come too if she wants; she's into that stuff!" Which, y'know, doesn't lessen my desire to facebook stalk her.

We apparently shared some type of stomach flu for Christmas, which meant me and Tim and Davey were all sick and cranky, but we still had a good time. The boys got lots of toys (not that they needed any more, lol) and clothes (which is always a plus) and played Call of Duty for FOUR HOURS with their uncle Tim & cousin Elvie. I was feeling blechy so I didn't eat much even though the food looked and smelled awesome. I did eat a couple helpings of sweet potato casserole b/c I wasn't passing that up, and my aunt made some kind of dip with cream cheese and hot pepper jelly that was pretty awesome, and when we went to Pam's I skipped over dinner and went straight for the eclair cake b/c Drewber makes the BEST eclair cake. Pam & Jay got a puppy (right before Pam found out she was pregnant) and she's this tiny, adorable beagle puppy named Molly.

I saw two accidents coming home from Aunt Lettie's house. We had freezing rain for Christmas weather, good times. One was pretty horrible, a car had rolled and smashed the top in & my brother's buddies, aka the volunteer fire & rescue, were loading people onto stretchers when we went through. The other one, someone had rearended someone else on the interstate and they were standing by their cars fighting - yelling & pushing & shit in the middle of the interstate. Crazy people.

Um. Today I'm being lazy. Taking the boys to see the Squeakquel in a little bit. Hope yall are having a great holiday weekend!