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(Just, y'know. Fair warning. Mostly I post over on LJ still.)

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I really miss you, Abby. Happy birthday. I had Coke for lunch today. :)

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Sign ups are open for Yuletide, but I'm forced to use IE 6.x for work. So I can't sign up until I get home and can use Firefox.

(No, Firefox Portable will not function on this computer. Yes, I've tried it. I've even tried grabbing the proxy server out of the information for IE and putting it in the appropriate spot on Firefox, and it still won't work. I may be good with computers, but I'm not that good.)

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Every now and again, I get lovely feedback on my story where Atlantis wants Elizabeth and John to have babies. (Not to mention the fact that Atlantis loves Elizabeth.)

I know, I know. Shut up. I love that fic, though. I wrote it in response to several factors (not just the ones listed in the author's notes of that story), including a story where Elizabeth felt excluded by not having the ATA gene (um, no, stfu), and conversations with mylittleredgirl about how Atlantis loves Elizabeth, and is a little lonely without her. Because, after all, Atlantis had Elizabeth to keep her company for ten thousand years.

Don't ask me how that went to "Atlantis wants Elizabeth and John to have babies." Maybe Atlantis loves John too, and is matchmaking? Never mind the fact that Elizabeth and John are already together in this fic. Babies. (Why did my matchmaker fic involve the damn city as the matchmaker? Why did my brain go there?)

Regardless of why I did it, I have to say, I get some good feedback on that story. So I can't complain too much.

ETA: Um, the fic is here. Sorry. Didn't think to link it.

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You know, some episodes, I can really tell that Ron Moore was involved. Like the last two I've watched, which are Babylon and Pick a Number.

( Spoilers for Babylon and Pick a Number )

Given Ron Moore's involvment, and my problems with women in BSG (especially after the first two seasons), I think I'm glad that Carnivale ended after only two seasons. I'm not sure, though, because there are some damn good actors on that series, and I'm enjoying the rest of the plot. Hopefully this was just a detour from the awesome.

Please don't spoil me on anything past the first six episodes. I'm trying to watch the series unspoiled.

In other news, the Claymore DVDs I've been getting off Netflix have been consistently awesome. I love Claire like nobody's business. Raki annoys me, but that type of character (who doesn't listen to the expert) always bothers me. I'm halfway through the discs.

Other things I've watched from Netflix: The modern remake of The Initiation of Sarah was surprisingly enjoyable, if not great. It had Summer Glau and Jennifer Tilly, and was, therefore, pretty awesome for that alone. The Lost Boys: The Tribe was awful. I mean, seriously. It was horrible. The Thirst, which has the Whedon cast of doom, was enjoyable, if not the best vampire movie ever. Partly it was enjoyable just because of the Whedon cast of doom, mind you. Also, I'm partly through series one of Coupling UK. My God, these people are all crazy. Thankfully, it keeps me amused.

ETA: The comments of the LJ version of this post, while spoilery for Carnivale (if you care), have also turned into a recs list for media with awesome women. If you're into that sort of thing.

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Guys! miera_c is hosting a Sparktober Drabble Tree in her journal.

I'm personally fond of lyssie's Sparkly John fic. *cackle*

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For those who are fond of FK (and who don't already know brightknightie or amilyn, they're going to be running fkficfest in early 2010.

I'm looking forward to GOBS of FK fic coming in early 2010! (Anything more than one story is gobs of FK fic these days.)

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You know, even I, who happen to be burned out and bitter on the Gateverse and its PTB, am uncomfortable with the level of trashing of the characters I've seen for SGU. The thing is, you really can blame the PTB (and even dislike the show!) without trashing the characters.

Also. To the two or three people I've seen doing so: Trashing the women and the characters of color = not awesome. (Critique and trashing are not the same thing.) Neither is casually referring to Greer as "Psycho" in your ep review. (I believe the PTB have wised up and removed that as a nickname for the character now that he's been finalized for the series. THANK GOD.)

Like I've said, I hope that I end up wrong, and that SGU won't burn people the way SG1 and SGA ended up burning me. Some of the things I've heard have me concerned. But, hey, with any luck, you guys can reassure me later, and I can watch the DVDs after the canon closes.

Just. Please. Stop trashing the characters instead of critiquing the show.

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Tomorrow is your last day to claim prompts for sg_rarepairings. :)

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I just posted Going For Broke, which is very short Parker/Sophie.

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We have, um, more prompts than I could have possibly imagined. Yay! (Also, wow, could vicki/vicki595 be any more prolific?) That said, tomorrow is your last day to post prompts for this year's sg_rarepairings.

Prompt claiming will start as soon after that as we can get the prompts organized and posted!

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It's not that I don't have any moral outrage over Roman Pulanski's behavior (not to mention the Lambda Awards fracas), because I totally do. It's that I don't have any energy right now to express said outrage.

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If you're of the Elizabeth/John persuasion, you need to go and read this story RIGHT NOW. If you haven't already, that is.

Anabiosis & Anacampserote - Part One and Part Two by tenacious_err

Yes, it's ascended!Elizabeth. There is nothing wrong with this trope. It happens to be one of my favorites when it comes to post-s3 fanfic. (The other is when an awesomely evil nanite!Elizabeth comes after Atlantis. I haven't written ascended!Elizabeth yet. I may have to correct that, once I'm done writing creepy Lovecraft SGA fic and fpreg SG1/SGA fic.)

It also involves John dealing with his mistrust of post-Lifeline Elizabeth, and it also has three of my five favorite Ancients(Ganos Lal, Oma Desala, and Janus). Plus! OMG! It's like this fic was written for me (even though it wasn't), because there's bonus Elizabeth and Teyla female friendship moments, and there are not enough of those.

A lot of the Elizabeth/John writers have been drifting away from Gateverse fandom, and for obvious reasons. (My bitter, let me show you it.) But. You might want to come back and read this fic.

If you're in the mood for more post-season three fics involving Elizabeth, I have a metric ton or so of recs here, mostly of the Sheppard/Weir variety, and my delicious account has a bunch more Sheppard/Weir recs under my recs:sheppard/weir tag. I won't make any claims that either rec list is complete. I have a horrible tendency to forget to add fic from friends to the delicious account since I already know where to go to find their fic.

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The Organization for Transformative Works has started a project to preserve the fic archives on Geocities, which is going down at the end of October. They are offering beta accounts on the Archive of Our Own for anyone who holds a Geocities account and maintains a fic site on it.

There's more information in this post on otw_news. Or just contact the people at Open Doors with your fic site info.

If you get an account, please let me know! I'm on there as, unsurprisingly, havocthecat. I'm slowly uploading all my old fanfic, including the, um, older (can we just call it less-polished?) stuff from the 90's.

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Because it's too short to wait for rarepairings, and adding 300 or so words would make it too long, I (finally) posted Vigil, which is gen fic for Janet Fraiser and General Hammond, late at night in the SGC.

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OMG, the kidlet's going to cry if his eggs die.



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The 2009 round of sg_rarepairings is going to be a prompt-based ficathon (er, open to fanart and such too, but I hate the term 'thingathon' and haven't found anything better). Think of it like apocalypse_kree in style.

You can go over to the post and leave prompts, whether you plan to write or not. This year, crossovers are allowed, and the pairings defined as rare haven't changed.

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I have no idea if it's related to the LJ hacking or not, but I can't read my LJ friends list. It just freezes partway down the page and crashes IE. (Calls to use Firefox or another browser will be summarily rejected. I'm at work and forced to use IE 6.x.) But this is REALLY annoying.

If you post something on Dreamwidth, I'll see it on my reading list. That's not crashing, thankfully. If you're posting something solely on LJ, chances are I won't. SO FRUSTRATING.

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You should check this post for more information. LJ has more official info here too, and it includes an easy way to tell if your account was one of the ones affected.

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