Date: 2007-08-03 09:47 Subject: Sorry i haven't been around much! Security: Public Tags: fuck you lj

If you're not already aware, ponderosa121 was banned for a Harry Potter picture, where Harry looked well over the age of consent.

( Cut for your delicate sensiblities )

If I disappear, the website will still be alive, so email me if you need me to.

To be absolutely clear: I'm disgusted by LJ's seeming inability to create a clear, consistent TOS, and by their policy of banning and purging instead of warning. When I got TOS'ed from Tripod, I had a free account-- no harm, no foul. These are paying customers. Paying customers deserve respect. Period.

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Date: 2007-06-21 23:03 Subject: Bartday! Security: Public How I Feel: bouncy What's On: Daily Show Tags: dcu

I know many of you are acquainted with the DC-verse, but may not know glossing, who declared today to be BARTDAY, full of love for Bart Allen/Impulse of the DCU.

Full list.

Enjoy!

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Date: 2007-06-08 20:50 Subject: A question for the knitters (and crocheters)! Security: Public How I Feel: curious Tags: flist knows all, knitting

Or anyone who knows much about old metal, actually-- Google so far is not helping.

My great-grandmother was a knitter, and I have inherited many of her old needles. Some of them are clearly usable; some are just as clearly shit (and one rather notorious pair broke as I was testing them!). In the middle are some old metal needles that have some sort of corrosion on them. I have no damn idea how I could clean them-- anyone got any ideas?

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Date: 2007-06-01 19:36 Subject: Drivers wanted. (Or betas, if you prefer.) Security: Public How I Feel: nerdy What's On: Scrubs Tags: beta call, flist knows all

Need a beta for D. Grey-Man, Rabi/Kanda, one-shot. Anyone?

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Date: 2007-05-26 12:31 Subject: How PC are your stories? How PC is this poll? Security: Public How I Feel: cheerful Tags: meme sheep, meta

Characters of Diversity, Fanfic, Mine meme. Stolen from theemdash.

Methods and Materials

All fics in memories and at my sadly neglected website. I still like that layout. Many of my drabbles are not memoried, or are in meme posts that I haven't bothered with, but I'm just doing tihs for fun, so what the hell.

This means there are...fifteen archived at the website (I wrote more DBZ than I'd remembered, and I can't remember where I put the bonobos story), and about 70 at the journal, to make...85. My.

( Stats below the cut )

I'm not sure how useful it is overall, especially for an animanga writer, but it was interesting.

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Date: 2007-05-25 23:21 Subject: Did I mention, today, that my flist is awesome? Security: Public How I Feel: cheerful What's On: Supernatural Tags: linkblogging, meme, recs

anatari tagged me with: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weirdthings/habits/little-known facts about themselves. People who gettagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/littleknown facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need tochoose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks.

( The list! )

If you want to be tagged, consider yourself tagged.

Also, FURTHER PROOF MY FLIST IS AWESOME

From telophase: Okay, this is eight minutes long but still awesome: Buffalo vs. lions vs. crocodiles. It's a smackdown, yo. And then at the end the people videotaping are talking about what they'll do with the video.

From lindentreeisle: Painfully Unforgettable Cartoon Theme Songs. Oh God, did he just call his powers “fabulous?" Tell me his costumeisn't really just glorified S&M gear. Holy crap, He-Man's a madge.

And then there's this Cat with wings. REALLY.

And then RUSSIAN SOLDIERS DANCING, no joke, thank you imre_nico. Watch it here.

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Date: 2007-05-22 20:13 Subject: Baa! Security: Public How I Feel: thoughtful What's On: Countdown Tags: fanon, meme, sheepage

All kinds of people have been doing this but I stole language from daegaer:

Name a character in any of my fandoms, and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal character-apocrypha.

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Date: 2007-05-21 21:35 Subject: Let's wallow in nostalgia, shall we? Security: Public How I Feel: pleased What's On: Prince. PRINCE. Tags: american idol, nostalgia

Do you think anyone will be able to do anything this kickass at this year's American Idol finale?

I normally never embed video. But. Dude. Prince. Where do I get those shoes?



BTW, I thought this was going to be Kelly Clarkson. Which would have made me happy. But not this happy.

EDIT: DID NOT GET TO SEE HEROES YET. SPOIL ME AND DIE.

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Date: 2007-05-20 21:47 Subject: I've been playing around with this a while. Security: Public How I Feel: pensive What's On: Bleach Tags: b plus, fic, wk

This may or may not turn into a series of related mini-fics, set very loosely in the Side B-verse.

( Mamoru, gen )

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Date: 2007-05-20 14:23 Subject: Deep Gluhen Thoughts Security: Public Tags: blather, wk

( Does anyone care if I cut for spoilers? It's Weiss. )

I want to open a flower shop and call it House of Kittens. Oh bad translation, I love you.

Interesting that Mamoru doesn't use an honorific addressing Rex. She 'sama's him, which I expect, but I'm surprised there's nothing at all addressed to her. Mamoru seems to keep distance with language as much as drawing people close, so the lack of honorific might be a sign of affection-- calling her 'kun' would seem weird. Thoughts?

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Date: 2007-05-20 10:51 Subject: Smallville babbling Security: Public What's On: Maggie and the Ferocious Beast Tags: smallville, speculation

Nice interview with "Martian Manhunter."

( Speculation with casting spoilers for next season. )

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Date: 2007-05-17 22:24 Subject: GIP. Security: Public What's On: South Park Tags: gip, heroes, weiss

Because I can, can, can.

So close to making an Omi/Nagi icon that says something to the effect of 'tiny gay men who will fuck your shit up,' but I'm not sure I'm up to finding art that would work.

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Date: 2007-05-14 20:49 Subject: Bleach question. Security: Public How I Feel: so, so very confused What's On: Countdown Tags: bleach, flist knows all

I am caught up to the Adult Swim releases, so I know a lot of Renji's Angsty Backstory, and I also know some minor hints about backstory. (Well, okay, MAJOR BACKSTORY SPOILERS in one character's case, but I digress.)

...and I don't get it. How the hell does the afterlife work? Rukia and Renji seemed to age there, so you don't exactly stop living, but... can you have kids? (this is where that ONE MAJOR BACKSTORY SPOILER) comes in. WHAT IS THE DEAL?

I mean, Yami's easy. You die, you go to the afterlife. You have emo, you hang around until you feel better. You have GIANT SOUL-CRUSHING EMO, you become a shinigami. You don't age, you just hang around. EASY.

But Bleach? I DON'T GET IT.

Can anyone explain without megaspoilers?


The good news about springkink: Several of the good prompts were completely claimed before I signed up. The bad news...same.

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Date: 2007-05-12 20:01 Subject: TV! Security: Public How I Feel: happy Tags: sheepage, tv

I Love New York, this season's best guilty pleasure show, is open for another round. (You mean those crazy kids didn't work out? I'm shocked.) Go to I Love New York 2 and vote for the people who will win New York's love. Or, if you're like me, vote for the people who will have the highest trainwreck value! I love audience participation!

And a meme, ganked from mayatawi:

- Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

I'm not sure I've seen every episode of anything.

( the list )

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Date: 2007-05-10 20:27 Subject: Via How Magazine's awesome design blog... Security: Public What's On: Countdown Tags: crafty, easily amused

Epson Hong Kong's Page of Paper Plants.

Make your own Riko! Or evil bamboo!

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Date: 2007-05-06 20:19 Subject: Drabbles! Security: Public How I Feel: accomplished What's On: Law & Order: Criminal Intent Tags: drabbles, fic, go, saiyuki

What better day, when we've all been told how lame we are for writing drabbles, than today for me to pick up my drabble writing again? It's fate I say.

( One Good Omens and three Saiyuki under the cut )

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Date: 2007-05-05 22:23 Subject: Today's Giggles: Security: Public How I Feel: giggly What's On: Supernatural

A friend's Tide Commercial.

Star Trek with LOLcats. You know you want to watch it.

Less giggle-worthy but still worth noting: The Cool Bits Story Generator. I got It begins in the Jazz Age and ends in a graveyard. Plot elements include reincarnation, premature greying, and assumptions. The hero is a woman who dresses sensibly for battle, and the villain is a person torn between two worlds.

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Date: 2007-05-04 20:51 Subject: Free comic book day! Security: Public How I Feel: happy What's On: Countdown, again, yes Tags: free stuff

It's tomorrow! The Official Website even has a store locator. Yay, for once I won't know the day after like usual!

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Date: 2007-05-02 20:35 Subject: Insta-rec! Security: Public How I Feel: amused What's On: Countdown Tags: rec, stephen colbert

Steven Colbert and the Eagle of Truthiness. Stephen Colbert becomes the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

...do you really need any more details? I only read one Harry Potter book and still found this hysterically funny.

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Date: 2007-04-29 22:06 Subject: Remix! Again. Security: Public How I Feel: pleased Tags: fic, remix

My story was So Bright (The Timbuk 3 Remix), written from daegaer's brilliant Five Lives Brad Crawford Never Lived. As you may have guessed from my question a good while back about German oops.

I almost wrote a Phoenix-Wright-ish fusionfic with Brad the Lawyer from that Remix (that was when I asked about utter crack), but I wasn't happy with the way it jelled, and was afraid I'd never compare to "Big Manly Kidnappers" from last year. Cause pretty much nothing can.

I still might write Brad the Lawyer one of these days.

daegaer wrote one of my remixes as well, so it's all a lovely full circle. Though I still need to see who the goldfish-mixer was.

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