| SGA Santa |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|03:52 pm] |
Dragging this SGA Santa story out of me, one sentence at a time.
I whimper at every NaNo post I stumble across. I stalled out early. Too much going on in RL, from temple, to work, to the job search, to WG not sending me my things, to the difficulty in finding time to write, to being several months out of the writing vein from having my life turned completely turned upside down.
This doesn't stop me from hoping that I can write something on this story once I get my mental pen to work.
Working tonight (yay!). I've also received my first paycheck. |
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| Merlin/Narnia fanart |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|02:56 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | merlin, merlin art | ] |
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| [ | Current Music |
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Merlin fanart must-see.
Morgana + Edmund from Narnia.
Startling how perfect they are together. I see trouble brewing right on the page.
*sings* They say it's my birthday!
Since it's my birthday, could someone tell me what the really good fics are from the SGA Big Bang? A few Merlin recs wouldn't go amiss either. ;) |
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| Joining the posting frenzy at AOOO: Two more HP fics. |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|07:09 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | aooo, hp | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
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I'm joining the posting frenzy at http://archiveofourown.org/, starting to upload my HP fics.
Now available:
Primer to the Dark Arts.
Harry learns he is to be given private (and secret) tutoring in the Dark Arts. His teacher? Professor Snape. Features ghost cats and cursed harps, spells that are supposed to go wrong and don't, a friendly sociopathic Death Eater. and Snape's naughty, naughty library. (Written 2002, post GoF.)
Cursed Artefacts For Sale.
Severus drags Harry to a Wizarding auction. "Collecting Cursed Artefacts is a registered form of madness in the Compendium of Wizarding Mental Disorders and Other Things That Make You Twitch," Severus said, "like most compulsions to collect. But it's very a popular one and I plan to beat everyone else to it." |
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| Merlin: the one where Arthur swordfights. Not that one, the other one. |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|05:26 am] |
( Merlin: spoiler, spoiler, spoiler, herein comes some spoilers. )
I love this show. And to think that if mom hadn't kept me up late I would have ... okay, I probably would've watched it Monday.
This week: the GRE.
I'm not ready for the math section. I haven't taken math -- I haven't so much as poked a stick at math -- in 20 years. But... I'll never be ready for it. So let's just do it. |
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[Nov. 15th, 2009|04:20 am] |
For some reason crossposting isn't working on Dreamwidth for me.
It was. And now it isn't.
I wonder if I need to hit the backdate option ... hmn. *tries it*
ETA: Aha. I'd changed my LJ password but didn't update it here. |
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| Yes, but would you *really* read my grocery list? |
[Sep. 28th, 2009|05:25 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | fic, nano | ] |
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I'm ready to write.
Specifically, I'm ready to write something new. I thought I'd be all worn out when I finished Out Of Bounds.
I thought I'd have the writer's postpartum depression. I had it after Primer to the Dark Arts.
But no, not really. I'm a little stale from not writing enough.
So.
Who's up for Nanowrimo this year? |
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| My way: by Michelle Grissom, formerly ani Dechen Drolma |
[Aug. 15th, 2009|01:35 pm] |
I'm cleaning up my relationship with my teacher, Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, and temple, Kunzang Palyul Choling.
In order to do so, I need to post my clean-up confession just as publicly as I once posted my criticism. I'm crossposting this to Dreamwidth, but most have seen it here.
To some of you I've alluded to my past Buddhist associations. Maybe three of you I've told in detail. If you've been curious all these years, well ... here you go. Some of you might read this and go, "Wow, I want nothing to do with this person."
I'd be a liar if I said I wasn't worried about that. LJ and fandom have been a refuge from the rest of my life. But here goes.
( The truth. )
A few of you have noticed over the years (maybe more than a few on Fandom Wank) that I've been a pretty angry and arrogant person in the LJ community and fandom. Hanging on to this stuff has been a large part of why. I hope I can treat you guys all a little better now.
ETA: If you would like to help -- PLEASE DO LINK TO THIS POST.
There are people who are using my past words and my RL name to continue to lambast Jetsunma. If this post is linked to and has hits, it will show up in the search and mitigate what I've done.
She's taken flack no male teacher would receive, just because she's a woman.
This is a mostly female community. She's a rare woman Lama and deserves our support.
![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) sharp_tongue put it best: "Jetsunma sounds like a woman of profound compassion."
c_smith_author has done so here: http://c-smith-author.livejournal.com/40016.html
sharp_tongue has done so here: http://sharp-tongue.livejournal.com/43103.html
rellan has done so here: http://rellan.livejournal.com/60186.html and http://rellan.dreamwidth.org/1035.html
kijikun has done so here: http://kijikun.livejournal.com/947614.html
ix_tab has done so here: http://ix-tab.livejournal.com/320965.html
violetknights has done so here: http://violetknights.livejournal.com/29145.html
undinae has done so here: http://undinae.livejournal.com/7630.html
rabidfan has done so here: http://rabidfan.livejournal.com/59623.html
bella_the_dark has done so here: http://bella-the-dark.livejournal.com/49779.html
kirby_crow has done so here: http://kirby-crow.livejournal.com/301205.html
laney_cairo has done so here: http://laney-cairo.livejournal.com/24214.html
wildebeth has done so here: http://wildebeth.livejournal.com/346799.html
wadjet_theperv has done so here: http://wadjet-theperv.livejournal.com/336397.html
severedscythe has done so here: http://severedscythe.livejournal.com/669820.html
lexstar29 has done so here: http://lexstar29.livejournal.com/46509.html
tekalynn has done so here: http://tekalynn.livejournal.com/250456.html
You guys are amazing friends, as you've proven again and again. Thank you all. |
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[Jun. 25th, 2009|09:57 pm] |
Brief fly-by: I'm at the University of Virginia doing a language intensive with very limited computer access until August 6th. I'll be around on weekends to work on fic, but not much more than that. Hope everyone's fic challenges and Big Bangs are going well.
Ta-ta for now. :) |
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| Out Of Bounds is Done. |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|08:20 pm] |
Done!
Out Of Bounds is done and with my betas.
I'm on a plane to Virginia in two hours. I'd say that's cutting close, wouldn't you? *laughs*
Now ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) amothea points out that the SPN Big Bang launches Monday. She's going to be overwhelmed with stories. I don't know how much overlap there is between SPN and SGA.
Are you guys going to be flooded with stories? Would you prefer that I hold onto Out Of Bounds for a little bit (once I get it back from the betas)?
*skips around happily throwing rose petals*
Done! Done! Done! |
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| Banging head against the wall. |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|09:51 am] |
Working on final transitions in the lead up to John's freeskate in Out Of Bounds, almost out of time. Damn it, they're driving me crazy. They're short. They should be easy.
They're not.
Up until 3am last night, until I realized that I had shut my eyes and ... no more writing was going to happen.
Now none of my usual suspects are online, and I have to talk these scenes out with someone.
Help.
Is there anybody out there? |
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| WG's going to be laid off. |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|12:05 pm] |
News just came down the pike.
The guys at WG's shipyard are being laid off. He just went back to work this week after months of being injured.
I leave in three days. I come back to no job and no school and not even unemployment. Now he won't have a job either.
Can we assassinate Bush? Please? It would be so satisfying with what he's done to this country with this god damned war and deregulation. |
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| Out Of Bounds ... I think I need a glass of water. |
[Jun. 2nd, 2009|11:37 pm] |
Rough draft of John's freeskate for Out Of Bounds -- done.
*pant, pant, pant* |
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| Out Of Bounds -- periscopes down, dive! |
[Jun. 2nd, 2009|06:12 am] |
Five days before I leave for the summer intensive. Computer time looks like it will be limited to weekends only thereafter.
Submerging for LJ for a bit to finish Out Of Bounds. |
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| Fic rec: Together, Yet - Spock Prime/Kirk, PG-13, mostly Gen. Mostly. |
[May. 29th, 2009|03:13 am] |
Together, Yet by calicokat, Spock Prime/Kirk, PG-13, Gen, with hints of slash
A compassionate and compelling look at the mind meld in the Star Trek: Reboot. Calico took a moment of the movie that felt like machinae and turned it into so much more. The passing of the torch. Hope. Welcome. Acceptance. Mourning.
Just beautiful. |
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| SGA Big Bang? Truly? (And Old Skool Trek ... it's educational.) |
[May. 29th, 2009|12:38 am] |
There's an SGA Big Bang going on? Is there?
Where is it? Not that it would be insane for me to sign up given Out Of Bounds but I would like to drool a little bit.
Also:
1) I can't wait till the next season of Merlin starts. Can. Not. Wait.
2) WG and I are watching Star Trek episodes on CBS' website. I am delighted to see my f-list has sprung a Star Trek leak. Also, I have learned a great deal about Our Respective Slash Goggles.
Icarus: Oh, my god. How slashy can they get? No wonder this is the classic.
WG (squinting): Because of how close Spock is standing to Kirk there?
Icarus: No! Aliens take over their bodies! Two of the aliens could be gay lovers. Or the female lover of Kirk's alien could take over Spock's body. There are a thousand possibilities. It's so easy!
WG (light bulb moment): Ah. So it's the scenario.
Icarus (light bulb moment): Oh. So it's the intimacy.
Not only is Star Trek fun, and a classic, it's also educational.
Not to be missed: smittywing and reccea's Old Skool Trek Reviews. |
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| Out of excuses. |
[May. 28th, 2009|12:22 pm] |
Good news: skinscript and I finished the choreography for John's freeskate! Now I just have to write the actual scene and I'm all out of excuses and stalling techniques.
I'm skipping class today because:
a) I've already finished my final project so I don't need another workshop,
b) my project is 22 pages long, so no one will have time to give it a read through in another workshop,
c) my project is 22 pages long, so two copies means 44 (!) pages and,
d) I am a skinflint.
WG is walking around the house naked with one sock on. That's entertainment.
(Does it qualify as naked if he's wearing one sock?) |
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| Yahoo emails ... blank? |
[May. 27th, 2009|10:21 am] |
Usually when Yahoo screws up, I'm not able to get into my email account at all.
This is a tease. I open my emails ... and they're blank. Trotting off to clear my cache to see if that solves the problem. |
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| Office party last night. |
[May. 23rd, 2009|11:21 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | work | ] |
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I've decided that I'm never attending a party with less than 500 people. |
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| Long program: aaargh! |
[May. 22nd, 2009|11:24 am] |
Out Of Bounds. The long program ... aaaaargh!
It's officially stuck.
On the plus side, I do get some computer time today. With WG at home I had to share my toys. |
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entertained
frustrated
distressed
puzzled