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Fanfiction: Complete
Equals by oneangstychick (R | Owen/Mark Lynch)
A Million Thoughts, A Million Lives by primeverse (T | Jack)
The Office Block by a_silver_story (NC-17 | Jack, Ianto)
You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (Anymore) by blue_fjords (R | Tosh/Adam, Jack, Owen, Ianto, Gwen)
The Fairy Godmother by huskyfriends (G | Gwen, Duncan, Tosh | Spoilers for CoE)
House Call by huskyfriends (G | Gwen, Duncan | Spoilers for CoE)
Never Despair Lest You Have Forgotten (Me) by enkanowen (R | Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys)
Realms of Death by sadera992 (PG | Ianto, Jack, Owen, Tosh)
Mates and Hangovers by szm (G | Ianto, Jack, OC)


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Living The Dream 106/? by missthingsplace (NC-17 | Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Andy, John, Martha, Owen, Tosh, Myfanwy)
Tear-Filled Trails of Blood (39/?) by not_rude_ginger (R | Owen, Ianto)
Queen’s Equerry (7/?) by coffee_kris (NC-17 | Jack/Ianto, Ianto/Lisa)
Valiant Effort (3/8) by nos_tylluan (PG | Ianto, Jack)
But Time Didn’t Stop: Jack - October 22nd, 2009 (3/?) by ericadawn16 (PG-13 | Jack/Ianto | Spoilers for CoE)
Memories (5/?) by pirate_moose (T | Jack/Ianto)
Gold Iris (2/?) by suellen128 (R | Jack/Ianto, OCs)
Amends (47/?) by missthingsplace (NC-17 | Jack/Ianto, Gwen, Owen, Tosh)
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Ink in my Coffee by cs_whitewolf (R | Jack/Ianto, Ianto/Michael | Crossover with Prison Break)
Come and Save Me (25/41) by cjharknessgirl (NC-17 | Jack/Ianto, Tosh/Owen, Gwen/Rhys , Martha/Tom, 10th Doctor, Donna, John Hart, Mickey | Crossover with Doctor Who)
Torchwood Academy (3/?) by green_lemon_pie (PG-13 | Ianto, Jack, Tosh, Lisa, Gwen, Owen, Rhys, John Smith, John Hart, Rose Tyler | Crossover with Doctor Who)
18 Hands and Blue Fur by laurab1 (NC-17 | Jack/Team, Jack/Nine/Rose | Crossover with Doctor Who)
The Course of Love (28/?) by beth_mccombs (NC-17 | Jack/Ianto, Doctor/Tosh, Owen/Kate, Tommy Brockless, OCs | Crossover with Doctor Who)
Throughout Time and Space by bassair (NC-17 | Jack/Ianto, Gwen, Martha, Rhys, Mickey, Rhiannon, the Doctor, Rose, OCs | Spoilers for CoE | Crossover with Doctor Who)


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My friends, I love that you care, because I care too. But I think there’s some misunderstanding of what I was trying to say in the last post. No, for the timeline-obsessed, you are never going to jam into the puzzle every reference everyone has ever made to how old they are, or how long they’ve been practicing medicine. Certainly not if you’re taking them literally; and possibly not even if you’re taking them as kidding or speaking colloquially.

Let me quote for a minute from a response I made to a comment:

“I'm not saying there may not be continuity issues, here or elsewhere; but it's also legitimate to note that when characters speak colloquially they talk the way people talk -- they round numbers up or down, and they joke. I've never forgotten that once on the X-Files Mulder told his ex-girlfriend, "I'm cursed with a photographic memory." I assumed at the time he was saying in his smartass way that he couldn't forget the hurt she'd caused him, and I was taken aback by the number of fans who interpreted it absolutely literally and felt it was later contradicted by canon. I'm not saying that it might not have turned out to be literal; I'm just saying that when people talk, they don't speak with the exactitude of Wikipedia. Similarly, when a woman says that she's 38, one may choose to believe it or not. When the guy fixing my sink argues with me about the cause and says, "Look, lady, I've been doing this for 20 years," I don't count backwards to exactly that month 20 years before and assume that's when he got his plumbing license.

Again, I'm not saying the House timeline is free of continuity tangles. I know for a fact it's not. (And since I'm often trying to patch new and old canon together, may I say, boy do I know.) But there seems to be a certain amount of slack that's understood in real life that is not always offered to fictional characters. We actually discuss this when debating our options with lines of dialogue -- and I mean, not only writers, but actors and directors. How if a certain line were changed to something more specific it might fit better, but it would sound weird. You do the very best you can and hope that that part of the audience that's paying close attention will understand.”

So, Doris, you’re claiming it will all make sense if we just aren’t literal?

No, I have specifically not said that. I would love if it did, but it’s unlikely to ever happen. (Though I have a personal timeline that I believe actually would make sense, if you’re not absolutely literal, of House saying he’s practiced for 20 years, his present age, knowing Cuddy when she was an undergrad, etc. But it’s dependent on some things you’re probably never going to see in the show, including what I like to believe happened during “House: The Lost Years,” so let’s not pretend it’s going to solve anything.)

The post is saying something else. It’s saying – well, simply that I care, that I try, that these characters are important to me and I make a concerted effort to fit whatever I’m doing into what’s gone before. I’m saying that Matt and I pulled every reference to House and Cuddy’s shared past, had our work double-checked, argued things out with a number of people, discussed the fan Wikipedia reference where the assumption about Hopkins had been made, and even came up with internal character reasons why Michigan was first and how he got into Hopkins. (Nothing you’re ever going to see, again, but you want it to hang together in your mind if you’ve got to write it.)

So when you hear stuff that suggests people think you’ve been sitting at the keyboard eating chips and typing at random, without making the slightest effort to check canon, because clearly you don’t give a damn, you think, no, I want people to know I do care. Because I’ve never forgotten when I was a kid, watching a show called It Takes a Thief. Throughout the series, the hero would say, “I’m a thief, like my father and my grandfather before me.” Then suddenly there was an episode where a woman asked him why he became a thief, and he told a story about having been a geologist and getting into thievery almost accidentally. And this wasn’t presented as a lie. You can tell the difference; even as a kid, I could tell the difference. They expected you to accept this – for this episode. A few episodes later we’d go back to the previous story.

I’ll never forget how betrayed I felt, because I loved that series with a love only a pre-teen can feel. And I thought, “Someone had to have noticed that. If nobody else, the star must have noticed. And yet nobody fixed it. Which means… I care more than they do.” It was disillusioning and depressing.

Which is why I’m a continuity believer. I know Oscar and Felix met three different ways, but in my own little world, I work to make anything I add fit. I write 600-page science fiction novels in which I create entire universes that I try to make fully consistent. So it’s a bit disconcerting when a friend points me to things like this:

“Apparently, Doris Egan has tweeted an explanation for the confusion over the Michigan/Hopkins timeline. However if you have to do that, you've been rumbled.

I'll never understand how TV writers can get continuity wrong in this information age: they can post anonymously in fan forums and ask obsessive fans for info (because fans know their TV faves better than the show's own production team - FACT) or they can bloody Google it.

Maybe Doris Egan and/or Matt Lewis' mistake means that other House writers (and TV scriptwriters in general) will be a tad more careful in the future.”

And I think, no. You may or may not like the results, but dammit, it’s not lack of care or effort; I don't want that impression to stand. I want people to know that’s not the way I work. I believe it would be disrespectful of the love people invest in the characters.

None of this means you won't see errors in my writing, in TV or in books; it just means those errors will be there because I'm an idiot, not because I don't take my work seriously.

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Okay, here are the nerves. I am absolutely bricking it about the exam tomorrow. I've been fine, I've even been somewhat cocky about it, but now, now I've got the most horrible plunging feeling in my stomach. Tomorrow, I'm going to just walk into the room and dance. There won't be time for warm-ups or final rehearsals. I'll arrive, change my shoes, dance four dances back-to-back, and then I'll leave. No time for conversation, last minute tips or pep talks. I'll just walk in and dance.

Fuck, I'm nervous. I'm excited. I'm nervous. I can't wait.

Dance!

In anticipation of the end of radiation (and with it the end of active treatment) I'm doing a few things. And a poll.

1. I have begun the process of downloading and watching all the shows I am behind on. Hopefully I will be all caught up this week which will give me stuff to talk about, and the ability to click on cut-tags on my f'list. Actually catching up on and getting back into the habit of reading LJ regularly also on the list.

2. I signed up for festivids. In addition to just being fun, I'm hoping it will kickstart my vid mojo. Also, I have been jealous for years of Yultide and now I don't have to be! Have you signed up yet dear vidder friends? The more of us the better, and the more likely the Jo/Blair Facts of Life vid that should exist in this universe gets made. Or, y'know, whatever small fandom vid that floats your boat, though I am secretly judging you if Jo/Blair is not on the list.

3. It is time to start thinking for real about the Fuck Cancer Guitar/DJ Hero party that I wish to throw in celebration of being done. This last nine months have kicked the shit out of me and I need a bit of exhale time before this happens, so I'm thinking early December. Which brings us to the poll,

Poll #1485468
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

I would probably be able to make it some time in the first two weeks of December

This date (or dates) work best for me

So, umm, this happened. IDEK.

Vid Title: Blister in the Sun
Song: Blister in the Sun by The Violent Femmes
Fandom: Supernatural

Summary: Just dancing with myself.

Characters: Chuck, nominally.

Spoilers: Through "The Real Ghostbusters"

Sizes: 15.2 MB (720 x 480 .avi), 5 MB (420 x 280 .wmv)
Length: 1:03

Download from Sendspace: The .avi file is here and the .wmv file is here.

( Streaming link and embed under the cut )

Website: Monsters from the Vids

Thanks so much to rhoboat for the beta.

Comments welcome.

comments at Dreamwidth

Tags: my spn vids, my vids, spn, vidding

Waaaaaiting for my Yuletide assignment. It's like baring your arm for a tetanus shot and then just sitting there with all that anticipation while the nurse gets two fingers stuck in one finger-hole of her rubber gloves. Not that Yuletide is like a tetanus shot, except inasmuch as the symptoms do continue on for several weeks.

In other news, I would like to be Astrid from Fringe. She gets to discuss the flavor of brains! Or really, what I would like to do is see Astrid carry a weapon and (sweetly, with panache) kick somebody's ass. She and Olivia can get busy any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.

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I woke up at 8:20 this morning and that was it, I was done sleeping, even though I went to bed at 2 am. Sigh.

Since I was up, I made these popovers, which came out really well. Only one of them deflated. Hopefully they freeze well.

Last night I made apple cake again, with Fuji instead of gala apples this time (not planned - just what I grabbed in Food Emporium on the way home), and it is good too. Plus, the whole apartment smells like cinnamon while it's baking.

Then I watched this week's Friday Night Lights.

( spoilers )

In slightly fewer words, oh, Show...

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Maybe I will take a nap now.

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Tags: recipes, tv: friday night lights
Avoid me because I'm: sleepy
and listening to: Somebody to Love - Glee cast

Following on from my link to The Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy, londonkds wonders how legitimate it is to say "This person has previously shown themselves to be ignorant/misinformed/lying/batshit on this subject on several occasions, therefore I have better things to do with my time than to rigorously investigate all their arguments this time". I've replied on the original thread, but I thought I'd create a new post with my reply in:

Reminds me of Yudkowsky's stuff on reversed stupidity and the follow up, Argument Screens Off Authority.

If someone is reliably wrong (a well informed liar), you can learn something by listening to them: you just increase the weight you give to beliefs which contradict what they say on topics where you know they tend to lie. But this might not be useful, if you already strongly believe stuff which contradicts what they say.

In practice, the people are ignorant or batshit haven't carefully studied how to be wrong. There are more ways to be wrong than right, so they probably are wrong, but you don't learn anything by listening to them, because their statements aren't tangled up with the truth at all. As Yudkowsky and brokenhut say, you can decide not to listen to such people because life is too short, but that decision shouldn't influence your opinion on the truth of their argument (though it's hard not to be influenced in practice). So I think your quoted statement is a justifiable one as long as you don't append "and I'll believe their argument less as a result".

Suber's stuff on logical rudeness covers the case where your belief that they're batshit is because of some theory you hold which includes explanations of how all critics of the theory are batshit (examples exist in evangelical Christianity, atheism and feminism, that I've seen). ISTM that such a theory can't be used to dismiss critical arguments, though it can be used to explain why so many people apparently don't believe the theory.

(You can comment on the original post: I've disabled comments on this one to keep all the discussion in one place).

Tags: cognitive bias, eliezer yudkowsky, philosophy, rationality

Hey, so I have an Archive of Our Own invite code—first come, first served.  [ETA: and, taken, but if you want the next one I get let me know.]

( art & free speech and mom & pop stores )

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Tags: au: bezanson, au: spector, fan fiction, fandom, nonfiction, reviews
Avoid me because I'm: ouchy
and listening to: New Order, Mr. Disco

Am having a lovely weekend so far, helped by the fact that Scotland won their first rugby match in bloody ages today, 23-10 against Fiji, who are a proper team and everything. Yay!

Spent most of yesterday reading some of the dw_femslash stories, that ficathon always throws up some cracking fic, but of the ones I read yesterday two that were absolutely outstanding:

And Explode Into Space by biichan (Donna/Ace) Which was written for me, and has a time travelling motorbike, Ace in a tux and Big Fucking Dinosaurs. It's like all my favourite things were smushed together into one totally fabulous fic.

Show Me More of This Traken Thing Called Kissing by doyle_sb4 (Tegan/Nyssa) Which is a lovely hilarious cuddly toy of a fic, that I just want to hug forever. It makes me all nostalgic for Five era's dysfunctional time travelling family.

While I'm here I shall also rec this Morgana/Gwen/Arthur heartbreaking vid of heartbreakiness

Yes, so Merlin's on a bit, and it's Waters of Mars tomorrow. Plus, I have to see if I know any Fijians that I could call and gloat.

Yesterday, I wore my new black jumper over a black tshirt and with the indigo jeans. It occasioned a lot of positive comments from work colleagues, so we can chalk that up to a win, I feel.

Today, I have been wearing:

1. A pair of black briefs; and
2. Occasionally, a navy dressing gown.

Which is to say, I've not even bothered getting dressed. Yay!

It is really windy outside, and there has been a lot of rain. We've not had a great deal of daylight. Outside my bedroom window, the branches of the trees in the garden have been leaping and bowing all day long, rearing, reaching and genuflecting with every furious gust. It's been beautiful. I love the sound of the wind racing around the house, that sort of hollow grumbling boom. I love that it's chilly and dark. This time of year is my favourite - autumn shading towards winter. I feel so much more connected to the landscape. I wonder if that's because I was born in August, so this time of year is the first I really experienced? I dunno. I just love it.

Tomorrow is my exam. I can't wait.

Speaking in regards to the Fort Hood shooting, Mark Shea accuses other people of being namby-pamby in regards to Muslims. "It was a spectacular display of deliberate willed stupidity," he bellows, "by a media culture that demonstrates repeatedly it does not want to acknowledge that Islam tends to breed such acts of terror with startling frequency." (He also complains that Roland Emmerich is not destroying a mosque in his latest disaster porn movie. Religious conservatives complain about very odd things nowadays.) To prevent future "acts of terror," we should employ "theological and philosophical profiling."

[W]e treat ideas as though they are genetic traits we can't help having and refuse to acknowledge the possibility that ideas have consequences. We regard theological and philosophical profiling with the same horror as racial profiling. But here's the thing: Skin color doesn't kill. Thoughts of the heart, however, are exactly where murder begins. That doesn't mean instituting Thought Police, but it does mean that when somebody (or some particular ideological group) demonstrates a pattern of sympathy for violence, we are idiots to ignore it.

The bit about "Thought Police" reflects a certain awareness on Mark Shea's part that he opposes scrutinizing "the heart" concerning another matter -- hate crimes. Here is his position

Hate Crimes bills are just attempts to destroy free speech and thought. If you beat my brains in because you want my wallet, you are guilty of murder. If you beat my brains in because I am a Catholic, you are guilty of murder. If you hate me because I'm a Catholic, you are entitled to your opinion. It's a free country. Hating somebody for their race, sexual orientation, class, gender or whatnot is a sin. It's not a crime. Only mischief will result from such legislation. It's designed to penalize Christians for thinking homosexuality a sin. It will end by penalizing everybody for thinking any thought unacceptable to Caesar.

So, consideration of motives after a crime is a Thought Police tactic. Marking certain people to be potential threats before they've done anything is not a Thought Police tactic. Shea isn't clear what exactly should be done with such pre-judged folk. Should they be fired from their jobs? Should they be denied gun licenses? The one vaguely concrete action he proposes is becoming "theologically literate again" and returning "to the sanity of the Catholic Faith." In other words, he plans to stop terrorism by getting everybody to become Catholic. Of course, that's pretty much his solution to everything.

Tags: wuh?

Spoilers for Season 1, Episode 1 of BSG.

I thought, therefore I twittered:

• No one would have believed in the opening years of the 21st century we were being observed by slit-eyed aliens in our own homes....
• Off to a job-seeking workshop at Career Source. This unemployment gig is sure a lot of work....

It's a Job Seekers Network Group that meets once a week, but perhaps it will spur me on to get more organized and on track with what I'm pursuing.  It gives me pause to realize that everyone there was older than 35 (a participant polled the room) which may just be a reflection of what job seekers make it to a Cambridge strip mall setting or whatever.

• I'm attending Microsoft and NaviSite Present: Elite Web Optimization Event -- bit.ly/3gFBHk

This I heard about at the Boston Web Designers meetup the night before.  There's some considerable free software on offer there, including Microsoft Expression and Silverlight (their answer to Dreamweaver and Flash, respectively) which wouldn't hurt me to know, especially if it ties in well with Visual Studio....)

• RT @TeresaKopec RT @Atrios: i think Obama should really rethink his plan to bring Magneto to new york city.

Had to retweet this, because it's obvious both of them have read my favorite-ever X-Men comics story sequence, not to mention the rather cowardly reaction by some conservatives to -- eek! -- bringing Guantanamo detainees onto mainland US and actually treating them like the war prisoners they are.

• How Somerville is it? 'Smart Car' parked on Highland Ave, with a Denver boot clamped over a wheel....
• Perhaps I will feel less achy if I take a random shower (defined as any shower taken outside of regular shower hours...)

I subsequently crashed and burned by 8:30 PM -- too tired to do more than go upstairs and see if I could sleep.  And it turned out that I could... which, you know, if I can do that, I really really need it.

Still, it's been a busy week, and most surprisingly one that isn't devoid of achievement....

Tags: job, programming, school
Avoid me because I'm: cheerful
and listening to: The Avett Brothers - The Weight of Lies

The end of Mad Men series 3 is _Fantastic_.

That is all.

What should happen the next time we spot a potential Nidal Malik Hasan -- another violent Muslim ready to perform his own personal jihad? Give him an editorial in the Washington Post.

Well, really, the Washington Post shouldn't do that. The paper should have some standards. Sometimes, though, it's hard to pinpoint the standards of its editors. For instance, a man can declare that "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity" and speak other such gems, but the Post will still give him a spot to rant about, among other things, people "walking their dogs."

On the other hand, the Post hasn't turned the mike over to John Hagee. For spewing a lot of violent apocalyptic gibberish, you have to settle for being pals with Joseph Lieberman. ("He is a man of God." -- Lieberman) Or you can be a member of an influential lobby that cites Hitler and Stalin as organization models.

Whenever a Hasan causes destruction, some Christians boast that their co-religionists hardly ever do such things. And if an abortionist gets shot somewhere, Christians are quick to apologize.

Of course they are. They have nothing to lose by denouncing such acts. And at the end of the day, even Christianity's most wool-headed adherents have something to gain in America.

I have no problem with analyzing the beliefs of Muslims. But such analysis has to go beyond philosophy. It has to look at power. And when you have power, why would you go on a spree shooting?

Tags: right kind of crazy

So much cuteness, so much evil....

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Tags: via ljapp
Current Location: US, Massachusetts, Middlesex

Excited to get my word count in so early today, but even more excited that it was all in book 3, which needed more fleshing out anyway.

Shiny counter:

36241 / 50000 words. 72% done!

Avoid me because I'm: accomplished

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I don't often post work-specific stuff here but this is so outrageous that I must.

Aminatou Haidar is a human rights activist from the Western Sahara, most of which has been occupied by Morocco for the last thirty years. Last year she was given the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award; last month she was in New York to receive the Train Foundation's Civil Courage Prize. On her return to the Western Sahara yesterday morning, she was arrested by the Moroccans, purportedly for failing to complete her immigration form on landing.

This was pretty much announced in advance by King Mohammed VI of Morocco in a speech a week ago, when he announced that "it is time to stop outlaws taking advantage of civic freedoms to agitate from within". This in turn was probably helped by Hillary Clinton the week before endorsing the Moroccan policy on the illegal occupation of other people's territory.

I know some of you guys are fans of Hillary's, but really this is disgusting. The EU is not much better. It can put out a statement condemning Azerbaijan's treatment of bloggers, but I haven't heard a peep from them on the arrest of someone who happens to be awkward for the Moroccans. It is a shameful performance.

Tags: eu, world: us, world: western sahara

Thanks muchly to Padmini for the Revolutionary Party.  I went as John Lennon, Julie went as Princess Leia and we both had a good time.  Here's a couple of photos, taken by Erin (first one) and Morag (as Erin's _in_ the second photo as James Dean):




Julie helped me put together the t-shirt - recolouring the John Lennon picture and sorting out transparency issues for me, for which I'm rather grateful.  Having a photoshop whiz in the flat is dead handy :->

...Michael Moorcock to write Doctor Who book.

Of course, he has already included the Doctor and a Dalek in one of his earlier works!

Tags: doctor who, writer: michael moorcock

It's a fantastic idea that sadly doesn't look like a lot of fun:


Actually, I'd love to see this as an RTS.

• Slash, Or Something Like It, Comes to the Scalziverse
  Nice to see a sensible author.
  (tags: slash writing sf)
• How the US army protects its trucks â“ by paying the Taliban
  Huzzah! It's all working perfectly!
  (tags: afghanistan taliban war military usa security bribes)

Tags: delicious glue, links

How on earth this story is supposed to be compatible with the Fourth Doctor classic City of Death - wherein among other things we find out the Mona Lisa currently residing in the Louvre is ( spoilers for City of Death ) - is anyone's guess, but I'm looking forward to fanfic explaining it.

( Also, Phil Ford likes to quote Billy Wilder )

In other news, waiting for a certain comic is still torture.

Tags: episode review, sarah jane adventures
Current Location: Bamberg
Avoid me because I'm: contemplative

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Cooler People by bassair [Clyde/Luke | PG-13 | no spoilers beyond 1.04)

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Tags: twitter: daily tweets

White Collar

I am totally crushing on Peter Burke. <- that is not a spoiler.

He's cranky and rumpled and competent and smart, and did I mention cranky? I find that kind of irresistible.

( spoilers )

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So I keep checking my gmail, waiting for my yuletide assignment, and then I remember I signed up with the unfit address and I check that one instead. *facepalm*

Speaking of assignments, I sent out the Broken Toys assignments tonight. We got a whole twelve people participating (including me and ranalore, and you wouldn't think it'd be that hard to match that few people up, but there were a couple of tricky things. I managed it, though. Or, at least, I haven't heard back from anyone in horror yet anyway.

Now I just have to decide which prompt to write.

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Tags: diary of a mad mod, tv: white collar
Avoid me because I'm: content
and listening to: White Collar: Flip of the Coin

So I was wandering around the web today filling in a few hours on a hot Saturday afternoon and came across this review on Twitter for Unseen Academicals. I've just finished reading it recently and absolutely loved it. What did you guys think of it?

http://www.kickoffyourheels.com/unseen-academicals-by-terry-pratchett/

Tags: unseen academicals
Avoid me because I'm: bouncy

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::facepalm::

(At what point do I accept that that's now my default state?)

My household just LARPed The Wiggles.

See subject line.

Name: Cooler People
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Sarah Jane Adventures
Pairing: Clyde/Luke.
Summary: A long time ago, Clyde made an offhand comment. Something Luke still remembers. And fears.
Disclaimer: Not owning any of this.
Author’s Note: So yeah. Gave in. Wrote Clyde/Luke. I give up avoiding pairings and getting sucked into things. And honestly, this is set during 1.04, at the end, just before Maria, her mum and her dad come charging in. But, look, it’s just kissing... No harm in that :)
Author’s Note Mark II: I DON’T HAVE A CLYDE/LUKE ICON!! THIS IS NOT ON :( SO I HAVE TO USE CHLOE IN ALL HER PRETTY NON-SARAH JANENESS =( I’M SAD NOW.
(Does anyone else's LJ posting thingy keep going into HTML instead of Rich Text? Coz this is driving me nutty.)

( Luke isn’t sure he should tell Clyde that he actually thinks about Clyde late at night... because that’d be weird, right? )

Tags: fic
and listening to: Lady GaGa - Bad Romance (Album Version) | Powered by Last.fm

Goodnight Moon revealed.

Tags: neato, reading

omg why is today NOT OVER YET?

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I have a cold. I have cough syrup. I have a copy of this Twilight book all the kids are mocking about, which has been shifting through the TBR piles since I got it as a Christmas gift. You know, last Christmas.

What could go wrong?

ETA: There is a typo on PAGE NINE. Page nine of a four-hundred and ninety-eight page book that is the hottest thing since coals. The hell?

The Love Ditty of an ’eartsick Pirate

It’s time we be goin’, me hearty, avast!
When the night’s nailed up its colours to its mast
Like some swab loaded to the gun’les ’n’ lashed to the plank;
Arr, make our way by th’ ghosty ports o’ call,
The bloody Triangle,
Quietin’ the parrots, kippin’ in dens of iniquity,
Where the scraps o’ the earth mixes with the scrapin’s o’ the sea:
Down alleys where ye argues if ye durst:
The forebodin’ of th’ accursed:
An’ all to get ye to the point of a certain little matter …
Nay, never ask what it may be,
There be a gentleman I’d like ye to see.

In yon chamber the ladies do perambulate
a-jabbering o’ some oilpaint addlepate.

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Tags: verse

Story:What Not to Miss While Traveling in France
Author: MinervaFan
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 478
Author's Summary: Four drabbles set during the First Doctor episode, The Reign of Terror.
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Susan, Barbara, Ian
Warnings: Spoilers for The Reign of Terror obviously.

Recced because: Four looks at our intrepid heroes during a rather trying time in their journeys. It's an interesting look at how the four of them dealt with the situation and provides a bit of insight into how they'd learned to cope.

Tags: author: minervafan, companion: barbara, companion: ian, companion: susan, doctor: 1, rating: all ages, reccer: amaresu, type: gen

Written for purple_bug at dw_femslash which you should check out because the other entries look awesome.

Like You I'm Indestructible
Doctor Who, Tegan/Nyssa, 1023 words

( The one where Tegan stays with Nyssa on Terminus )

Hello! This is my first year doing yuletide - so if you're nervous please be assured that I almost certainly feel worse - and my first attempt at doing one of these letters.

First, the good news, you have volunteered to write in one of these fandoms which means you rock. Go you! Also, I am ridiculously easy to please and I will like almost anything. I would also vastly prefer that you write something that you enjoy rather than tie yourself in knots trying to please me.

That said, my only absolute bulletproof squick is non-con, so, please, no.

Things that make me especially happy: Female characters kicking ass, gen, humour.

( In which I bibble amount my requests - Christopher Brookmyre, Megan Whalen Turner, Being Human )

Of course you should feel free to ignore any of that. But if you want more information here are a couple of links: Things I have written and Things other people have written that I love

THIS POST HAS FANNISH CONTENT! YAY! *\o/*

Supernatural 5.09. Basically, I loved it. I know that there are a lot of you out there once more up in arms that the fourth wall has been breached and that, omg, the writers are not only acknowledging our existence but are aware of the private conversations we continue to have in public, and God forbid that they're commenting on us in the same mix of delight and horror that we comment on their choices, but I repeat my previous advice to you: shutchernoise. They love us.

I have not a great deal to say about the content of the episode (except, perhaps, to say that there was repeated LOL'ing and once - once - a girlish manly hand-clap of glee), but I would ( pay actual money )

I keep forgetting to post. Sometimes it feels as though I've fallen off the face of the Earth and got wedged somewhere between furniture and a wall, in the dark where the dust bunnies breed and live out their limited lives until they're tragically killed by a Swiffer.

There is a very shiny and expensive new computer still in the box on my bedroom floor. I am working from home today so I could sign for it. The rub, of course, is that I actually have work to do, so the boxes will remain sealed shut for a few more hours. In the meantime, I am on my bed wearing flannel pants and a band T-shirt, and I'm surrounded by laptops.

It's going to be a busy weekend, what with the new computer to customize and the Archive of Our Own going to OPEN BETA on Saturday! \o/

And I'm also waiting for my assignment to arrive for a little thing called yuletide (aka JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION GET IN THE CAR).

I think new computer's name is going to be Ada Lovelace. Does anyone have any Windows PC computer game recommendations? (Preferably adventure/puzzle/quest/strategy type games.)

Tags: archive of our own, otw, yuletide
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Big Finish Winter Preview Podcast.
DWO WhoCast episode 143.
The Sonic Newsdriver, November 12 and November 13.
Two-minute Time Lord: How Much TARDIS Is Too Much TARDIS?
David Tennant to guest on Jo's Road Trip on Sunday.
In a shocking turn of events, Doctor Who Confidential: Is There Life on Mars? will air just after Waters of Mars on Sunday.
Doctor Who Methadone 2008-2010 reviews The Runaway Bride.
Radio Free Skaro - The Chronic Hysteresis reviews The Talons of Weng-Chiang 1 and 2.
Photos from filming of Doctor Who series 5. (Spoilers!)
Tennant interview on Heart Breakfast. UK only!
More new Big Finish Doctor Who Lost Stories.
Info on DWA issue 141.
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Challenges/New Communities

smith_n_jones: Challenge 5 results.


Fanfic

Completed/Single Part
A Thing, With Aliens by livii [Liz Shaw/Sarah Jane Smith, The Brigadier | G]
F.N.T. (Fantastic New Thing) by cinderlily [Doctor/Rose | PG]
And Explode Into Space by biichan [Donna/Ace | PG]
Romeo, Juliet, and the corset by sykira [10/Donna | PG-13]
A New Man (6/6) by sensiblecat [Tenth Doctor/Rose, Jack | teen]
All That Hopping (A Multi-Dimensional Love Story) by magicallaw [Rose, Gwen | PG]
Exceptions To The Rule by joanne_c [River Song/Lucy Saxon | R]
Somebody Hold Me Too Close by hangingfire [Toshiko Sato, Romana II, Johnson, Sarah Jane Smith | PG-13]
Through Windows and Small Doors by hafital [Rani Chandra/Lady Christina de Souza, Luke & Clyde | PG]
Time Turned Inside Out by ionlylurkhere [Martha/Romana II | G]
New Beginnings by quiet_empire [Izzy/Destrii, 8th Doctor | PG]
Requiem For Events Yet Passed by kowarth [Donna Noble / Jo Jones (nee Grant) | PG]
Ice-cream Castles by glinda_penguin [Peri/Erimem | PG]
One More Time, Not Like the First by jinxed_wood [Martha/Romana II | PG-16]

Crossovers
Shattered In Aspect by aeron_lanart [Torchwood Team and CoE characters, Methos and Joe from Highlander: The Series, OFC, The Doctor and TARDIS | PG-15 (M) | crossover with Highlander: The Series]
Ferragosto (4/5) by wildwinterwitch [Peter Carlisle/Rose | M | crossover with Blackpool]


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sapphire_child: 16 Series One and 8 Series Two icons.
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snowgrouse has a cracky Ten/Simm!Master animation, adult, NSFW.


Fanvids

Have You Ever Seen the Rain by sea_thoughts [Donna]


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I need OTC medication recommendations.

I have The Cold From Hell. Sneezing, runny nose, horrible cough which is trying to tear my esophagus apart. I do not have a fever or any aching (other than my head from constantly sneezing, blowing my nose and sinus pressure, and my throat from being attacked by Wolverine every time I cough).

I have been taking DayQuil, which always used to work for me before in suppressing these symptoms so I could get my work done. Not so much anymore. Here are my problems:

1) Codeine makes me vomit, so cough syrup with codeine is out.
2) Sudafed thinks "Please stop my nose from running" means "I would like a myocardial infarction."
3) Afrin works great when my nose is stuffed up, but when it's runny, all it does is make it a gazillion times more runny.

I'm doing the zinc stuff, and I know it's definitely reduced the time the cold would naturally have taken (the progression from tickly throat to stuffy nose to sneezing to coughing as it moves from head to chest has been superspeedy), but I need this to STOP so that I can get these essays finished.

I have a Walgreens across the street, so anything you can buy there is fair game.

Help?

ETA: I cannot bear spicy foods.

Not going out of town this weekend after all, so I'll try to tackle some of the tough parts left on the NaNo. Got another couple of scenes covered today, though.

Shiny counter:

34092 / 50000 words. 68% done!

Avoid me because I'm: accomplished

via morgandawn is this interesting as hell article on cancer and cancer prevention.

Of surprise to me is that more women at high risk for breast cancer aren't doing the five year Tamoxifen thing. It's useless to me with my hormone negative status, but it's kind of a wonder drug. It prevents cancer, and it treats cancer (even metastatic, there are stage IV women who live for years taking nothing but tamoxifen). That's some good shit, and far less invasive than other options for high risk women like a prophylactic mastectomy. And definitely less invasive than full on cancer treatment (plus, having cancer).

And then I nearly fell off my chair laughing going to the link that predicts your individual risk for breast cancer. I did the form as of the time *before* I was diagnosed just for shits and giggles to see what it would say. I had a 0.6 percent risk of developing breast cancer in the next five years when I got it. ZERO POINT SIX. seriously?!?

Whatever, I have only ONE MORE WEEK of radiation left, and then I get to be done. DONE. Maybe I'll stop being utterly boring and have something to talk about that isn't cancer.

( Instareaction - what? I've only just seen it. )

In other news - I think my N key is not well. Oh noes!!

Tags: spn 5.09

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Tags: fandom, supernatural
Avoid me because I'm: amused

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Fanfic:

Complete:
Coat Tale by sqyd [Greatcoat, others | R]
Borrowed Time (or, That One Time Ianto and Jack Committed Grand Theft TARDIS) by lionessvalenti & amand_r [Jack/Ianto, Jack/Ianto/TARDIS | NC-17]
A Brighter Day by jacksgirleen [Jack/Ianto | G]
Terms of endearment by scottishwillow [Jac, Ianto | G]
Timeless by robling_t [Andy, Tosh, Emma Louise Cowell | Teen]
On This Winter's Night With You by sassysailorgirl [Jack, Ianto | G]
You have the heart of a star by electro_club [Jack/Ianto | PG]
The Small Door to the Hidden Sanctum by wiredblowfish [Owen/Gwen | NC-17]
Ianto's Journal Entry - The Plot!Bunny Incident by frakkin_addict [Jack/Ianto | NC-17]

Works in Progress:
Familiarity Breeds Contempt (7/11) by alex_annn [Jack/Ianto, team, Cthulhu, Jack the Ripper, Andy | NC-17]
Bad Seed (3/?) by angstosaur [Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Tosh/Owen | Adult]
Discovery (38/?) by aviv_b [Ianto, Owen, Brigadier, Stephen, Martha, Tom, OC | PG-13]
We Worked Together (25/?) by socalrose [Jack, Tosh, OC, Team | R]
Amends (46/?) by missthingsplace [Jack/Ianto, Gwen, Owen, Tosh | NC-17]
Valiant Effort (2/8) by nos_tylluan [Jack, Ianto | PG]
Meet the Parents (9/?) by pitac89 [Jack/Ianto, OC | PG-13]
Growing Closer (89/?) by everlongsplace [Jack/Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, Owen | Adult]
Silent Running in Deep Waters (13/?) by choccy_grl [Jack, Ianto | PG]

Crossovers:
A Time for Every Matter: Mourning and Healing (21/30) by teachwriteslash [Jack/Ianto, Andy/Tosh, Owen/Alice, Gwen/Rhys, Steven, Mica, Donna, Wilfred, Doctor, Martha | NC-17 | DW x-over]
Shattered in Aspect (5/5) by aeron_lanart [Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Ianto/Methos, Jack/Methos, Methos/Jack/Ianto | PG-15 | DW & Highlander x-over]
The Temp and the Tea Boy (2/?) by shadowing_light [Ianto, Donna, Ten, characters from The Fires of Pompeii, spoiler character | M | DW x-over]
The Course of Love (27/?) by beth_mccombs [Jack/Ianto, Doctor/Tosh, Owen/Kate | NC-17 | DW x-over]
Some Things Change (5/