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November 7th, 2009
kyuuketsukirui
 | 07:33 am - Daily Happiness
I forgot to mention the happiest thing yesterday! After waking up Thursday to find that I'd been slapped with a $49 fee on an old credit card because they've decided to charge a yearly membership fee if you don't use the card, I called to see if I could get it reversed. The guy gave me no trouble about reversing it, but said he would have to cancel the card to do so. Fine with me, since I'd been planning to cancel it anyway, since I have no plans to use it and there's no reason to keep it if they're going to charge me a fee to do so.
Anyway, this is the second time in the past year or two that this has happened, so it finally got me off my ass to go through our cards and cancel the old unused ones. You see, although this year we finally got ourselves out of debt, for many, many years we had $20,000+ in credit card debt and were constantly juggling it between cards to try and get lower interest rates. Which meant we signed up for a lot of new cards if they offered a cheaper rate for balance transfers. So the cards just sort of accumulated over the years.
Between the two of us, we called and cancelled about ten cards, leaving us with three cards each. Which I still think is overkill, but just in case we ever need them, they're there. We have two that we usually use and pay off immediately if we need to use a card for something, but I'll try to rotate them so that they all get used a bit and thus not hit with any fees if these guys decide to institute them as well.
It felt really good to get those cards sorted. I'd been meaning to do so for ages, because we really just do not need all of those cards sitting around. It also made me think about how happy I am to be debt free, really for the first time in my adult life. It's such a weight off my shoulders, especially considering less than two years ago I couldn't see a way out of it and thought I'd be crippled by that debt for the rest of my life.
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kyuuketsukirui
| 05:43 am - Modern Family 1x07, Supernatural 1x08
( Modern Family 1x07 )
( Supernatural 1x08 )
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sorchar
 | 10:45 pm - Today's Twittiness
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lotr_findr_feed
| 12:41 am - lotrips_finders @ 2009-11-07T00:17:00
http://community.livejournal.com/lotrips_finders/807915.html Um, hello, everybody. :) I hope this is alright. I'm not new to the lotr fandom, but I've not read very many stories in a long time as it seems the few authors I did follow have stopped writing. Anyway, if I could ask you for your kind assistance I would be very grateful. What I'm looking for are at least semi-novel length stories that are what you think are well written. The pairings I'm looking for are Aragorn/Legolas, Gimli/Legolas, Gandalf/Legolas, Eomer/Legolas, Elrond/Legolas, and Elladan/Legolas/Elrohir. I'm a Legolas fan...yeah. I don't mind the more effeminate Legolas, but I don't mind him being strong and independent either. I kinda like a mush of both, I guess. Again, thank you either way.
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sassywitch
 | 02:32 pm - Vampiric Questions
Two questions for the readers of Vampire fic amongst you (Guess who's nano fic involves Vampires?).
Firstly in vampiric folklore is the transformation from human to vampire more consistent with the Buffy/Angel portrayal or the Twihard trainwreck?
Secondly after a vampire has sired another vamp, what is the relationship generally considered to be more parent/child or consistent with lovers, or does it depend on the sire and the situation?
You would have to wonder why someone who's only experience with Vamps is Buffy would choose such a topic for Nano wouldn't you?
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November 6th, 2009
elfwreck
 | 04:53 pm - Another truth about marriage
I was looking for statistics* about same-sex marriage opposition when I ran across this precious article posted back in June. (Warning for extreme sexism and various other acts of privilege.)
The author--Sam Schulman--goes on at length about what he objects to about same sex marriage, and what he thinks marriage really is. Bolded sections are emphasis added.
The relationship between a same-sex couple, though it involves the enviable joy of living forever with one's soulmate, loyalty, fidelity, warmth, a happy home, shopping, and parenting, is not the same as marriage between a man and a woman, though they enjoy exactly the same cozy virtues. These qualities are awfully nice, but they are emphatically not what marriage fosters, and, even when they do exist, are only a small part of why marriage evolved and what it does. Got that? It's important. He's tackling the key issue of what is marriage, which is absolutely crucial to any non-religious discussion of and why same-sex couples can't have it. Brace yourself... 'cos he hits the same conclusion about "traditional marriage" that I got, only he thinks it's a good thing.Marriage, whatever its particular manifestation in a particular culture or epoch, is essentially about who may and who may not have sexual access to a woman when she becomes an adult, and is also about how her adulthood--and sexual accessibility--is defined. Marriage is not about raising children, or living together and sharing resources, or being a unit in the community. Marriage is about female sexuality--and the control thereof. In case that wasn't obvious from his earlier quotes, he makes sure you understand: This most profound aspect of marriage--protecting and controlling the sexuality of the child-bearing sex--is its only true reason for being, and it has no equivalent in same-sex marriage. He also points out that "A same-sex marriage fails utterly to create forbidden relationships." He seems to think they are important--nay, mandatory, because, "without social disapproval of unmarried sex--what kind of madman would seek marriage?" He then goes on to talk about the "kinship" that marriage creates: Even in modern romantic marriages, a groom becomes the hunting or business partner of his father-in-law and a member of his clubs; a bride becomes an ally of her mother-in-law in controlling her husband. There can, of course, be warm relations between families and their children's same-sex partners, but these come about because of liking, sympathy, and the inherent kindness of many people. A wedding between same-sex lovers does not create the fact (or even the feeling) of kinship between a man and his husband's family; a woman and her wife's kin. This kinship is important to him--he says
In a world without kinship, women will lose their hard-earned status as sexual beings with personal autonomy and physical security. Children will lose their status as nonsexual beings. That latter seems like a bit of a red herring, and he doesn't explain it well. But it does tie into some of his other points, about marriage and illicit sexuality and the importance of at least giving lip service to the idea of virginity.
Marriage, to him, is all about men getting access to women's sexuality, and since same-sex marriage turns that concept on its head, it is wrong.And he doesn't even spend much time grumbling about the "wrongness"--he's bitching about how the inevitible failure of same-sex marriage (because marriage can't survive without illicit sexuality and forced kinship) will destroy the last vestiges of men-owning-women marriage.
Umm.
Yay?
* Stats: Specifically, I was trying to find out if the opposition splits equally along gender lines, or if more men oppose same-sex marriage than women. Any relevant research info would be welcome.
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seanlily
 | 06:29 pm - Not Car-Less!
I have an awesome mechanic who called me a little while ago to tell me I can pick up my car tomorrow!
He got the window in this morning and then fixed my car.
So yay! not car-less for the weekend.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/mood/lierre/asciimations/black/happy.gif) happy
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lisaroquin
 | 03:41 pm - Q&A version Fic.
last two trick or treats are up! YES! Got them all done. They're snippets of some original stuff floating around my hard drive. one is here and the other is here
I'm failing at the whole daily blogging, I realize this. Too many RL distractions and too little sleep, writing is sketchy and too much chaos.
Excitement of the day? A moving blanket that made me go WTF? Boo has a yankees blankie. It was wadded up on the back of the couch and started moving. Yeah major wtf. Took a bit of digging since the cause isn't much bigger than my fist but burrowed in the yankees blankie was the Yankee BabyCatses.
Free for all on questions about fic/characters/writing 'til Monday how's that? (uh yeah, tapped out here on creative w/ writing, so not original or probably not interesting with the attempt to blog for november)
Blanket answer to when something's going to be done....when muses & real life cooperate at the same time.
Blanket answer to will I send you wahtever fic...no.
Blanket answer to when something gets added to the pdfs?...when I get another few ready and have time when my connection and mediafire play nicely.
What's the concentration at the moment? Away With The Boys in the Band, A Little Bit Backwards, Never the Easy Way and the last Try Anything (which is about 1/3 done after being comepletely torn apart twice).
And yup, at best my fanfic is spellchecked/continuity checked rough drafts. relaxation/fun minimal sleep & minimal ability to think in straight line some days. ~shrugs~ so this seems kind of silly to do but...why not? anything want to ask abt character, story whatever. though ~points at blanket answers above~
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bandslashman_lj
| 12:43 pm - Before and After
http://community.livejournal.com/bandslashmania/1464249.html Title: Before and After
Author: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) desfinado
Pairing: Gerard/Mikey, MCR
Disclaimer: They don’t belong to me; not making a profit.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Incest
Word count: 10,412
Summary: A minor obsession with bleach jobs and a lot of frottage.
Mikey can't stop thinking about this confidence that Gerard has. He knows, rationally, that it must have been years in the making, that it can't just be a stupid hair colour and cut, that Mikey can't be such an inattentive brother that he didn't really notice this until now.
( Before and After )
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kyuuketsukirui
| 06:15 am - Daily Happiness
1. I loved today's Wondermark. Don't miss the mouseover!
2. I also loved this super cute picture of a puppy!
3. And this capcha fail.
4. The past few days I've been really good about working on transferring lyrics from my old site to my new site (if you're new to my journal, I've been moving stuff from this old site to this new wiki-based site) and today I decided to compare and see how much I still have left to go...only 350 romaji and 250 translations! And that's all from eight artists + the Digimon lyrics (which were separate, but are now just going to be mixed in because if people want to search just for Digimon, there are category tags). I really feel like I might get this done someday! After over two years of this, it was just feeling like no matter how much I worked on it, it was never going to get done. I think (hope) seeing the light at the end of the tunnel will help keep me on track with working on it every day.
5. I also did other productive stuff yesterday! Always something to be happy about.
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November 5th, 2009
karadin
 | 10:55 pm - More news
Some Good news, missing baby found alive and well in cedar chest, mother had claimed baby was kidnapped
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/05/florida.baby.found/index.html
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karadin
| 10:19 pm - LATEST NEWS on FORT HOOD SHOOTINGS
SUSPECT is not dead.
An Army psychiatrist opened fire with two handguns at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, killing 12 and wounding 31 others, Army officials said, adding the suspect was shot several times but survived.
Authorities identified the suspected gunman as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who had treated soldiers wounded in foreign wars preparing for foreign deployment at the post.
Major Nidal Hasan was born and raised in the United States, at the present time, his motivation in considered personal (he was about to be deployed overseas) not political. He did however, target people that he knew.
Fort Hood in Killeen Texas is the largest military facility in the world.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5A454F20091106
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lisaroquin
 | 09:19 pm
there's two of the trick or treats left. I'm hoping to get those done tomorrow. hey only a week late. ~sighs~ writing has not been cooperative this week in the least.
Thinking has not been all that cooperative this week. It's just kinda been one of those weeks.
part 1 & part 2 of Pieces out of place were posted as part of the trick or treats did not want to post that as a WIP but I'm to the point am desperate to finish up the treats. And connection has been made of fail to maybe do a few songs for treat.
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bandslashman_lj
| 08:46 pm - Your Silhouette (Dance on the Coast)
http://community.livejournal.com/bandslashmania/1464059.html
Title: Your Silhouette (Dance on the Coast) Author:longerthanwedo Beta:melody_so_sweet Pairing: Rydon Rating: PG-13 POV: 1st – Brendon’s Summary: Your silhouette smiled. “I’m thinking how everything’s easier in the dark.”
Disclaimer: I don’t own the people, and the title/inspiration This Providence’s “Sand in Your Shoes”.
Author’s Note: A short, semi-sad standalone written for the![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) rydenrevival community.
Falling in love is easy to do.
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karadin
| 03:40 pm - Hyakujitsu no Bara (Maiden Rose) OVA2
Remember that wonderful anime I rec'd some months ago? Beautiful bishounen Lord of an AU Japan somewhere between WW1 and 2 with the tall Germanic soldier who serves as his right hand?
OVA 2 has now been subbed by arrinfantasy! And it's better than the first half!!!
http://www.aarinfantasy.com/
You can also see a link to the preview of the NEW version of Ai No Kusabi! It's a yaoi lovers paradise today!
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karadin
| 02:27 pm - Not your Mother's Sesame Street
thanks to kayay for this link!
You can watch old episodes of Sesame Street on DVD, but they come with this warning.
"These early 'Sesame Street' episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today's preschool child."
Why do these early shows need a disclaimer? Because the street looks dingy? Because Oscar was a Grouch? Because Cookie Monster eats too many cookies, or because Bert and Ernie sleep in the same bedroom?
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/04/sesame.street.anniversary/?imw=Y
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karadin
| 09:19 am - Taichi Saotome - Sakura
Some of my friends don't know Taichi, which means I'm not blogging about him enough! But this is I think, one of his most remarkable performances, from a few years back, in his stage shows he alternates between male and female roles, in an upcoming film he will take on a male role, and he's very happy! He grew up in Kyogen theater, and the decision to make him onnagata was his father's.
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kyuuketsukirui
| 07:09 am - Daily Happiness
1. The Weekly Jump stuff seems to be coming earlier and earlier. I already did One Piece last night as usual, and did Bleach and Naruto early this morning. I have started Bakuman as well, but they said it wasn't as much of a hurry, so I could go to sleep and do it when I wake up, which is good, because I'm kind of falling asleep here. XD But it's still nice to have almost all of that out of the way.
2. I was productive in other areas last night, too! I finished reading my 60th book of the year! (Wow, compared to twenty books last year, and eleven the year before!) I translated two very short doujinshi, half of a one-shot, and a couple pages of Saint Young Men. I wish I'd gotten more done, but I was also traslating the Jump stuff as well, so.
3. We had super delicious grilled chicken and rice last night. OMG it is the best evar.
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