Except for the fannish and RP stuff, this journal is friends only. Comment to be added.

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

I'll find a FO banner soon.

I went and removed some people off my LJ friendslist who hadn't posted or commented in a very long time, and whom I presume have abandoned their journals. If I'm wrong, and you would like to be re-added, please let me know!

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The current mod is about to stop working on it, and asks if anyone would like to take over.

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This morning, I ran into a lovely post about how to claim your OpenID comments on Dreamwidth, which basically updates your OpenID comments from other sources (like, for example, LJ imports) so that they come from your Dreamwidth account.

This is a new release and prone to being a little buggy. There's also no FAQ for it yet. On the plus side, you can claim your OpenID comments and merge them into your Dreamwidth account. (Should you wish to do so.) Also, it's irrevocable.

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Reposting from zillah975, who lists the people she got this from

Someone explain to me the point of not buying or downloading media entertainment for an entire month? (Did we make sure to tell people to avoid watching anything on streaming sites like Hulu or Netflix?) Please? Because there'll likely be a rebound and their profits will rise in April, won't they? So...would it be pointless or not?

What will it do to the people who are involved in the entertainment industry that aren't making major profits from it, like writers and editors? If there's anyone I don't want to punish, it's small presses, independent film companies, and writers and editors.

(These aren't rhetorical questions. I would like to hear your opinions on the matter, please.)

I feel that a month of encouraging people to mine public domain sites like Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive would have a better effect. Like, "before you buy that copyrighted thing, think about supporting something in the public domain in your country of residence instead," you know?

Of course, I may not have a full grasp of the complexities here, I know. But wouldn't a public domain works-themed ficathon be lovely?

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I have, in the past two days, finished a St. Trinian's story and a Once Upon a Time story, both of which have been sent off to lady_krysis and brightknightie respectively, both of whom are detailed, thorough betareaders.

I also found an SGA wingfic that had gone into character development I didn't like, pared it down into the snarky bits and what I hope are adorable femslashy moments (it's Cadman/Lorne and Heightmeyer/Weir), relabeled it a five things story, and sent it off to monanotlisa for beta.

Today I was looking through my old WIP folders and found a complete post-series Jekyll story.

I know I have a Priest story that was betaread and just needs edits.

When I say that my health problems stopped me from having the energy to finish things, I really, really mean it. And we're talking multiple years' worth of that from my health problems, apparently. OH JOY.

Well, at least I'll have stuff for halfamoon this year, after many years of wanting to write something for it and not having the energy. (Not the Priest fic, though; that's about Black Hat.)

Also, I have at least one half-finished story about Donna being Amy Pond's PA and a mostly done Anna/Bonnie story for TVD.

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( 2011 Fanfic Round-Up )

2010 fanfic round-up
2009 fanfic round-up
2008 fanfic round-up
2007 fanfic round-up
2006 fanfic round-up

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I have about 900 words of fic about Denise, intrepid investigative reporter and (in my headcanon) former St. Trinian's Head Girl. It's set after the second film. Is anyone able to beta for me? I'm not in a rush; I'd like to post this in time for halfamoon.

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My season one and two DVDs need to get here now. They were on backorder, which is very frustrating, but at $14/season, I suppose I can't complain too much. Even though I will.

Okay, I am confused. Can someone please let me know if I'm right as to which universe is which?

( I will spoiler cut, though, as I discuss the current season. )

( Spoilers for 4.08: Back to Where You've Never Been )

Semi-relatedly, I need to redo my icons so I can get some more Fringe, Leverage, TVD and TSC icons.

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Just read this quote in a food article in the NYT:
But hacks will still sometimes get in the door, just as they do in every game: craftsmen rather than artists, regular joes, people exactly like most of us.

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

Just because someone isn't a chef in a restaurant (critically acclaimed or not) doesn't mean they're not an artist in the kitchen. I'm ridiculously tired of this whole art versus crafts divide (not just with cooking, but with any creative endeavor).

Cooking brilliantly with access to fresh, high quality ingredients straight from the markets and using well built industrial equipment on a restaurant's budget? Along with, more likely than not, a lot of hard study and training in a professional or academic environment? I'm not saying it's easy, or that anyone can pull it off, but having access to good ingredients, academic or industry training, and using a restaurant budget make it a lot easier.

Cooking brilliantly with what you have in your kitchen, on whatever budget for food you can scrape (and by God using everything because you don't just throw out food, that's a waste of money), while (possibly) having to worry about dietary limitations and using average quality equipment that has to be double or triple purposed due to space and budgetary considerations, and whatever training you've managed to scrape from your parents, home ec classes, reading food blogs, or watching Food Network? That's harder. AND YET IT'S STILL POSSIBLE.

Being a home cook instead of a chef doesn't make you any less of an artist in the kitchen. And I am very tired of the idea that it does.

As a home cook who has been learning to cook - and cooking - for most of my life, I have a serious bias to my opinion on this. And that's okay!

ETA: I'm aware not everyone feels this way. I'm also aware of the misogyny behind this same idea. Sometimes I just need a good rant.

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( This episode reaction post was going to be a comment to someone else, but it became long enough for its own journal entry. )

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I suspect that monanotlisa did not tell me that John Sheppard Joe Flanigan was on an episode of Fringe to see how I would react. I probably heard about it at some point in time, but forgot.

(JF is a guy and gets his own tag in my journal. This doesn't happen very often.)

Also, Lincoln is kind of adorable with glasses.

I am intrigued by the first four minutes already.

( ETA: With spoilers. )

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I don't consider it that spoilery; however, ( since this is a picture from tomorrow's episode, you might not want to click on the cut. )

Why, yes, I am enjoying my health being good enough for me to make multiple posts in a day once again.

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Because I promised monanotlisa that there would be Fringe meta in my future:

( I'm not terribly worried about spoilers. But. Just in case this hasn't aired the world over yet. Also, it's going to get long. )

So many reasons to love Fringe. So many reasons to watch and rewatch and go back and check out the commentaries on the DVDs. Someday, I'll even upload some Fringe icons. (Though an Elizabeth Weir icon can't go amiss either, after all. Someone remind me not to write any SGA/Fringe crossovers, please.)

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So. I have three episodes left until I finish out the series. And then I will be done. It will be all over, and there will be no more Life on Mars or Ashes to Ashes. I may also end up finding out what the hell is going on. (I'm not terribly spoiled for the series and would prefer to remain unspoiled.) But that's never a guarantee, not with tv.

I've been procrastinating, because I don't want it to be over. But I want to finish it, because petra has a bunch of fic that I want to read.

Still, Mr. Havoc is starting to insist, and I can't put him off much longer now that we're done with season three of Fringe. Plus I love Alex, more than I loved Sam, and I just really want her to be happy. And she hasn't been, not through the majority of the series.

So, next up on the tv watching schedule: Ashes to Ashes with Mr. Havoc, Lost Girl season two with wiliqueen (I want all the Kenzi and Hale everything, seriously, especially after the Baba Yaga episode), Doctor Who Christmas with Mr. Havoc, and then solo watching of celli's Good Wife DVDs. Plus my constant rewatching of Leverage, because I love the series, and because Sophie Devereaux is on it.

ETA: Also, I need to give Heartcatch Precure a try. It looks like it's totally my thing. I love magical girl anime; I just don't post about it much.

All of this after promising celli that I would write 500 words a day on the space vampires story. AND SHE WILL LECTURE ME IF I DON'T. (You're all free to give me stern looks too.) I have ten to twenty thousand words to go, I estimate, of a daring interplanetary escape before I finish my first draft. Thirty thousand to be safe. I can do this!

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They left it there? ( Spoilers )

That was cruel. The next new ep in s4 airs on Friday. I'm going to have to catch up on all of s4 before then.

I do kind of want to rewatch the whole series from the start now.

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Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition? Seriously?

I am not blowing hundreds of dollars on yet another new edition of this game.

Let's not talk about the character generator either, shall we?

ETA: On the plus side, the edition wars in the comments section are hilarious.

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I don't know if it will happen, but I signed up as an author for sgareversebang/sgareversebang just in case someone creates that one brilliant piece of SGA femslash that I can't resist using as inspiration.

Part of me hopes it won't happen, so I don't have to write anything. But I'm signed up just in case there's something amazing that I can't resist. Which is bad of me. 2012 is the year of original fic! But 2012 is also the year of keeping my options open and doing something fun if it happens.

Who knows? I might get lucky.

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Does anyone know of any tabletop or LARP game comms on Dreamwidth? girl_gamers is defunct, girlgamers is mostly for video games, and this list of gaming fandom comms on Dreamwidth seems to be for video games only.

(Hint: "Gamer" does not just mean someone who plays video games. SHOCKING I KNOW.)

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