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November 22nd, 2009
lotr_findr_feed
| 06:01 am - Merry/Pippin hurt/comfort
http://community.livejournal.com/lotrips_finders/810823.html This was a Merry/Pippin hurt/comfort fic...
I believe Merry comes down with a terrible illness when he is supposed to be visiting Pippin, Pippin comes to check on him and finds him. He is unable to eat or talk for a while, but Pippin takes care of him, eventually feeding him and bathing him.
I remember Merry sobbing as another scene, and Pippin comforting him...
That's about all I got. If anyone could help me out, I would appreciate it.
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November 21st, 2009
mirabile_dictu
 | 11:22 pm - Twenty-first day of writing
xposted to IJ and LJ
Word count: 137.
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sorchar
 | 10:45 pm - Today's Twittiness
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zillah975
 | 05:37 pm - One last thing
about Thursday's Supernatural. And this isn't bitter angry recriminations or anything, just, there was that one scene, right? If you've seen the ep, you know which one I mean, I think. I've seen some folks' interpretation of it and want to present an alternate viewpoint.
( SPOILERS AHOY )
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bandslashman_lj
| 04:45 pm - Veins
http://community.livejournal.com/bandslashmania/1482661.html Title: Veins
Author:mcrvampy
Beta: Alex (who is yet to get an LJ)
Pairings: Ryden [Brendon Urie/Ryan Ross], Spyro [Ryan Ross/Spencer Smith]
Rating: R to be safe
Summary: He slides a knife out of his pocket now and you squirm to get away, suddenly just that more afraid of him.
POV: 2nd person; Ryan
Length: 1630 words
Disclaimer: FAKE.
Warnings: slash, kidnapping, blood
Authors Notes: Hope it's not too horrible.
Read here
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elfwreck
 | 12:19 pm - Wicca: still not a race.
In today's "Activism: Ur Doin It Wrong" department, we have accusations that slurs against pagan rituals are racist. Set aside, for the moment, that said slurs don't actually exist. That... give some insight into the mind of the commenter, but isn't, in fact, relevant.
What's relevant is that she thinks Wicca's being insulted, and she's "calling" the supposed insulter on her "racism." (In a community about public transportation. So, um, more than rather severely off-topic all around.)
I don't have an icon that's halfway between "facepalm" and "headdesk." (And I don't want one; that would mean I expect to find *more* stuff like this to post about. Which I'd really rather not.)
Oh, and the comment threads hit Godwin's law, ablism, classism and childfreekiness. And NEVAR AGAIN TEH BURNING TIEMS! A glory of fucktupitude all around.
(I got this from ![[info - livejournal.com]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) dot_pagan_snark, and it's been on stupid_free, so apologies to people who already know about it. Sharin' the pain, folks; sharin' the pain.)
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elfwreck
 | 07:52 am - She is too fond of books
Hi, my name's elf, and I have a reading problem.
When most people say "reading problem," they mean "the letters look blurry to me" or "I've been assigned more pages than human eyeballs can absorb this weekend" or "ack, my comprehension of Russian is too low for me to get the right concepts out of this physics paper." It almost never means "I think I've been neglecting other parts of my life for reading."
Because reading isn't considered a dangerous addiction. It has no physical side-effects. It doesn't make the mind slow or incompetent. At no point, in the throes of reading, is one incapable of driving or performing surgery, should one's skills go in those directions. (Well, save for the "must put book down" part. However, after that immediate shift in awareness, one's reflexes and attention are both available to whatever tasks might be at hand.)
And it's not expensive. Nobody sells off his car and formal clothes to get books. Nobody hocks her wedding jewelry. Books--really good books--are available everywhere at prices ranging from "cheap" to "free." And the internet hasn't made that any less true. Entertaining content, informative & educational content, useful, delightful, important content, is free by the terabyte.
And oooh, I want to read it ALL.
( I read a lot. I could read a lot more. )
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boji
 | 06:52 pm - Qu:
For anyone importing fic to Archive of Our Own:
I'm still fiddling with the uploader, namely because I haven't decided if I want to upload via LJ html - with all my icons - or not. The icons that came with comments on the original posts seem cluttered to me (on the archive) when I preview.
What do you all think?
Eta: I think, and this is the opinion of a luddite, that I'm getting all comments and icons attached because some of my url's come with cut tags, i.e. the #cutid tag. Weird.
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kyuuketsukirui
 | 02:02 am - Daily Happiness
1. Carla got her new computer today! My old laptop (which she's currently using) is really starting to die (looks like it needs a new hard drive), so instead of saving the new computer til Christmas, we decided she'd just start using it now.
2. Had a nice walk tonight. Four miles, which is longer than we've done in a while. She's been busy with school, I've been busy with work, there's yoga two nights a week interfering with our schedule, and then for the past couple weeks she's been sick. But tonight Alexander wanted something from the Apple Store, so we walked down to the Promenade and back. Stopped at El Pollo Loco on the way, yum.
3. Speaking of chicken, I was boiling a whole chicken earlier today for use in enchiladas and I kind of forgot about it on the stove and so it got cooked way longer than I meant it to...but that ended up being a good thing! The chicken was just falling off the bones!
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mirabile_dictu
 | 11:13 pm - Twentieth day of writing
xposted to IJ and LJ
Word count: 1,024. Yay! No end in sight, though.
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sorchar
| 10:45 pm - Today's Twittiness
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boji
| 03:29 am - Sundries when sleepless
* So, who in the UK actually read last week's Doctor Who article in the Radio Times? And if you did, do you think that their nod to The Deadly Assassin is purposefully there to foreshadow the Christmas Special this year?
If the dieu ex machina is a computation matrix I shall be most pissed off! And no, I haven't seen the entire episode but feel free to get yourself over to YT and search via the title. Also, I take it the premise was the inspiration behind The Matrix films?
* Talking sci-fi I will undoubtedly tune into the BBC's Paradox which starts Tuesday. I am convinced that this is where Torchwood's Series 4 budget really went - regardless of what RTD tells the US press. What I will say from the preview (on YT) is that Dr. Christian King seems to have John Sheppard's haircut and the blond copper, Rebecca Flint, seems to be just tad Gwen Cooper with a hint of Scully - though blonde and looking as if she's bitten into a lemon, while she totters in impossible heels. Yes, Tamsin Outhwaite does set my teeth on edge.
Hopefully this will be more Children of Earth and less Bonekickers. That said I actually think they'll go the way of Five Days. The preview has me betting I won't tune in for the whole five weeks.
* Did my f-list notice that the author of Belle du Jour was unmasked - or rather unmasked herself? I don't know if I believe her at all when she says it hasn't affected her professional life - she's a research scientist - or rather that it might not do so at a later date. What's mildly interesting is that a fellow blogger twigged six years ago and set up a Googlewhack tripwire for the mainstream press. Oh and what's also interesting in a financially salacious sense - yes, money not sex - is a comment left on a newspaper blog which reads:[...if she’s continued to publish stuff and be paid for it after being employed on an academic contract, she may well be breaching it. My own contract (I work at a similar university to Bristol) states that any extra wage-earning activity besides academic publishing and external examining must be disclosed to and approved by the university in advance.
If there is a similar provision in Dr. Magnanti’s contract, she has earned money from non-academic publishing since and the University of Bristol doesn’t take disciplinary action against her as a result, then it will effectively render itself unable to take action against any other member of staff who ignores the ‘no outside earning without our permission’ clause, as they would have a defence in employment law that this provision is not being enforced consistently across the university’s workforce...]
A tad gossipy, I know, but interesting I found.
* I'm not going to read the reviews for the N.T's The Habit of Art as I have tickets for January, but am delighted to see the same paper give it 5*'s. Richard Griffiths I will forever adore after his role as Hector in the History Boys.
* I could also mention I have tickets to see Ben Whishaw in Cock at the Royal Court, but then you'd really, really hate me - wouldn't you?
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November 20th, 2009
darkrose
 | 06:49 pm - Television Without Pity--But Racism is Dandy!
Okay, I should have known better. But I was enjoying the SGU thread on TWoP, with all of the lovely snark. And I appreciated the fact that most of the posters seemed to get why having sex in someone else's body was skeevy, and why it's problematic that the black guy in SGU is yet another Angry Black Man.
( Seriously--I should have known better. )
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zillah975
| 08:08 pm - OH ALSO
There's a huge goddamned difference between wanting "all women characters all the time to be treated like goddesses" and wanting some women characters to at least some of the time be treated like real human beings. See: Leverage, The Three Days Of The Hunter Job.
In that episode, a female broadcast journalist is portrayed as scheming, evil, heartless, grasping, and not terribly bright, AND YET. Because Leverage typically treats its female characters -- especially its two female leads -- as real human beings, the fact that this one character is an awful, awful human being is not problematic.
So fuck off with your* blinders, all right? It's not as fucking simple as you want to pretend.
*"you" being no one actually on my flist, as far as I'm aware. This rant brought to you by my failure to avoid reading comments on the internet.
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boji
| 10:21 pm - Doing the business
Singing Old Time Rock and Roll:
Though slightly out of sync.
Enjoy!
ETA:  _
Icons:Please C&C if interested.
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boji
 | 10:04 pm - CiN Vids
I have no idea why the Doctor Who Special from this years Children in Need isn't being linked to all over my flist, so here:
Also on the BBC's YT
I adore the second half of this - when the Doctor joins the circle - but found the opening really sad. There's such over-compensation in the Doctor's behaviour; fear, loneliness and a stubborn arrogance that is oddly adolescent. All of which worked quite well for me, while simultaneously grating on my nerves - the point of that part of the scene I imagine.
He really is diminished by solitude.
In other CiN news, John Barrowman covered Bob's Seger's Old Time Rock & Roll in white socks, boxers and a blue shirt - a la Tom Cruise (who I think wore a white shirt in the dance sequence in Risky Business) but it hasn't hit the interwebs yet folks. I'd have linked/embedded if I'd have found it.
More on that when I do.
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kyuuketsukirui
| 01:19 pm - Supernatural 5x10, Modern Family 1x08
( Supernatural 5x10 )
I also watched Modern Family, but I don't really have anything to say there. There wasn't anything wrong with it, per se, but it was the weakest episode so far and I just wasn't finding much to get excited about. (Probably because the main storyline was about Phil and Claire and I just don't care about them.)
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lotr_findr_feed
| 03:12 pm - OMG!! Boondock+LOTR?????
http://community.livejournal.com/lotrips_finders/810735.html Since suffering from a bit of Boondock Saints fandom-hysteria lately, combined with my all-timeLotr-obsession ----> and Ping! - why the hell have I never thought about THAT?!
Maybe it exists lovely combinations of the two; or more - like Endless Possible Verses and I´m going to faint immediately if that is so and DOES ANYBODY KNOW?? Say it does - say it does..pleasepleasepleeeese
*bounces and ties myself up with ropes*
Is there by any chance any crossover/Au-fics between Boondock and LOTR (Fp or Rp) floating around anywhere??
I would squee myself to death. And I crave it!!
*draws smutty hearts*
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