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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
icarusancalion	1:03p	SGA Santa Uh-oh. My requestee for sga_santa requested a rarepair which I couldn't resist. And it's ending up with a totally different rarepair in the final scene. Shit. Any volunteers for a beta? I've been chopping at this fic rather ruthlessly trying to solve quite a few problems. Current Mood: anxious (Comment on this)
alchemia	3:33a	wishlist 2009 I've been pretty conflicted about posting my wishlist; on one hand its something of a fandom/lj/lj-clones tradition, and although many people try to grant wishes, its not a required or expected part of making the list.  On the other hand, im really ashamed that I screwed up with Holiday wishes last year.   I don't even remember who I promised to send stuff too last year (can't look back at my emails because there was a computer mishap) I could explain about all our medical and financial and family crisises but I don't want to focus on the negative and I doubt you'd enjoy reading it either. If I promised you something last year, please let me know, and I'll try to make it right this year. ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
accioslash	12:19a	Thirty Days of Spam...Day 29 - Audience Participation ( WriSoMiFu Day 29 - Recs for Fics synonymous with hot ) (18 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
sshp_prophet [ alisanne ]	8:07p	SS/HP Prophet for November 22 - 28 One Shots [x] Bil: Menagerie [K] [x] DeathJunkE: Ripples [16+] [x] EllaElenie: Alea Iacta Est - A Forgotten Moment [K] [x] Graciella Bellanotte-Diadoro: There's No Wrong Way [K+] [x] Leilia Snape: Not Quite So Terrible [K] [x] Ponytail Goddess: Half-Life [T] [x] Ramelia: Naked Trees [K] [x] Scorpia: Forced Confessions [K+] [x] Snapegirl, RaeKelly: The Apothecary Knows Best [T] [x] Snapegirl: Lily's Valentine [K] [x] afina_shining: The Stone walls of Spinner's End [NC-17] [x] angelauthor14: The Biggest Mistake of Them All? [K] [x] ciraarana: Spoils of War [R] [x] countesszero: The Corset [NC-17] [x] fancypantsdylan: Playing with the Headmaster [NC-17] [x] lemondropseven: In My Dreams [R][Chan] [x] little-sun: Fun [K+] [x] wellyuthink: Sinking Feeling [T] [x] whitecotton: Mistake Number Four [NC-17] Works In Progress [x] SHaria: Eclipse of the Soul is up to chapter 19 [M] [x] lilyseyes: My Son - Part 8 of ? [R] Drabbles And Ficlets [x] alisanne: Gratifying [PG] [x] alisanne: Opposites Attract [PG] [x] alisanne: TMI [PG] [x] alisanne: The Appeal of Books [PG] [x] alisanne: The Benefits of Rank [PG-13] [x] alisanne: Too Good to Hide [PG] [x] andrea_deer: The Paradox [G] [x] anya_elizabeth: Untitled [PG] [x] bertas: Fulfilled Promises [PG] [x] dandru: Staying the Night [PG] [x] faeryqueen: Little Miss Potter [R] [x] fancypantsdylan: A Lucky Fluke [NC-17] [x] fancypantsdylan: Quidditch Predictions [R] [x] fancypantsdylan: San Diego Mariott Hotel [R] [x] joanwilder: Clearing the Clutter [PG] [x] leela_cat: The Signing [PG-13] [x] sillypowers: Author, Author [PG] [x] sillypowers: Staple Island [PG] [x] torina_archelda: Jealousy [G] [x] torina_archleda: Together [PG] [x] torino10154: Recompense [PG-13] Art And Icons [x] andreanna: News and Art [PG] Snarry is second piece of art [x] bielol: a late submission for kink!night [NC-17] [x] jin_fenghuang: Holiday Drawbles Drive - for sra_danvers [PG] [x] andreanna: Sneak Peak [G] [x] tripperfunster: Va-Jay-Jay [R] Miscellaneous [x] accioslash: Ponders The Future of Snarry [x] potionssnitches: Weekend Update November 15 [x] severus_sighs : Author and Artist Interviews 2009 - DementorDelta [x] snarry100: Has posted prompt 190 - Flourish and Blotts [x] snarry_recs: Has a post about Combining LJ and IJ Snarry Recs [x] thisgirl_is: Is Gauging Interest in reviving HDS Beltane This Newsletter [x] Send your Snape/Harry news to sshp.prophet@gmail.com! Current Mood: thoughtful (Comment on this)
amanuensis1	12:52p	Don't eat while reading this. Eeesh. By the way, hearkening back to my earlier post--this doesn't spoil anything, since you can see on the Yuletide list of requested fandoms that no one asked for it--I did not get assigned to write for Richard Adams's The Plague Dogs. I decided, when I accidentally included it in the list, that rather than redo my list I'd just go read the book once and for all, even before the assignments came out, so I got it from the library. I got through Ulysses easier than this. This is...guys, I have written some interesting metaphors myself in my time, some of them admittedly more purple than should be seen outside of crackfic, but this takes them all: ...Rowf's rump slid suddenly forward as smoothly as a turd from a healthy anus... I can't even facepalm. It's too squicky. Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: Treasure Planet DVD (1 Comment |Comment on this)
icarusancalion	12:00a	... with cheesecake. I love sga_storyfinders. And cheesecake. And look, I have both. In fact, every sentence ends better if you add "... with cheesecake." Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
accioslash	12:13a	Thirty Days of Spam...Day 28 - Discovering Fan Fic ( WriSoMiFu Day 28 -Let's talk about your first time ) (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 27th, 2009
accioslash	8:08a	Thirty Days of Spam...Day 27 - Another Srs Question ( WriSoMiFu Day 27 - Aunt Accio really needs a nap ) (22 Comments |Comment on this)
accioslash	3:10a	Not Part of the "Thirty Days of Spam" Series ( But still spam nonetheless ) (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
amanuensis1	10:07p	Also, being by myself, I got to watch anything I wanted on tv, not football. Anime yaoi, ho! I had to work part of the holiday, so I just counted the time I did have off as a good thing, and took it easy rather than make plans with others. I did make time to make a yummy dinner for myself from scratch: Chicken with sun-dried tomatoes in dijon-riesling-cream sauce Sesame noodles Spicy peanut butter soup Tart green salad with proscuitto and asiago and warm balsamic dressing Warm butterscotch-maple pudding I love mixing cuisines. Current Mood: full Current Music: hikaru no go, ep 70 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
icarusancalion	9:39a	Thanksgiving Thanksgiving. I was just informed that mom and her roommate were expecting me to do the Thanksgiving turkey. Along with pumpkin pie (crust from scratch) and my cheesecake. Whut-? This is going to be one of those weeks, isn't it? Good thing it's 9am. (Comment on this)
icarusancalion	9:26a	And the computer goes *boom* ... the fic vanishes Here's a fanfiction heart attack. Midway through my sga_santa fic, the borrowed laptop suddenly freezes. Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
accioslash	1:07a	Thirty Days of Spam...Day 26 - Giving Thanks ( WriSoMiFu Day 26 - Everything I Needed to Know About Life, I Learned from Harry Potter ) (20 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
nakedbee	6:05p	Masterpiece photoshoot, part 2 My housemates and I host a masquerade every year and I took advantage of all the snazzily dressed people to do some more photos in the "Masterpiece" series. We didn't get fancy with costumes and props like last time, but there's something to be said for just going with things as-is (and it certainly didn't hurt that everyone was dolled up in fancy clothes to start with!). On to the gallery! This entry was originally posted at http://nakedbee.dreamwidth.org/3742.html. (Comment on this)
accioslash	1:19a	Thirty Days of Spam...Day 25 - The Holidays Begin ( WriSoMiFu Day 25 - I need a vacation from my husband's vacation ) (25 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
icarusancalion	2:58a	500,000 animals being slaughtered right now. My mom has been talking about this for weeks: 500,000 animals to be ritually slaughtered? On Tuesday, November 24th the Gadimai animal sacrifice festival will take place in southern Nepal. It is said that 500,000 animals including buffaloes, chickens, goats, pigs, rats, and birds will be tortured and slaughtered during this Hindu festival. Write to the Nepalese Embassy: info@nepalembassyusa.org In India, the ritual slaughter of animals in such rites as the Agnicayana has long been replaced with effigies. There is no religious reason for this throwback. Despite the detailed instructions in Leviticus, Judaism no longer sacrifices the fatted calf. Like that. Current Mood: blah (Comment on this)
icarusancalion	12:42a	What no one will tell you about college. I'm tutoring high school students, prepping them for the SAT. I think what they need as much as good SAT scores are some good college strategies. Share yours here. So here it is: What no one will tell you about college (until you get there). 1 - Want to increase your scores 5% without doing anything? ( Sit in the same seat every day ) 2 - Talk to your professor outside of class. ( Disagree with your prof? Good! Take it to her/him at the end of class. ) 3 - Bored? Ask a question. ( Every time I found myself zoning out during a class I would raise my hand ) 4 - Avoid clock-watching. ( Avoid the clock-watching tick by sitting where you can't see the clock. ) 5 - High school is for taking the classes you hate. College is for taking the classes you love. ( Don't be a masochist -- if you can avoid that hated math class by taking a much more interesting astronomy class, do it.  ) 6 - Know thyself. Work with your habits rather than against them. ( If you suck at mornings, don't take that 8:30am Japanese class. ) 7 - Avoid schizophrenia and be efficient: Take related classes at the same time. ( You can use your readings from Indian history as sources for your Indian lit class and vice versa. ) 8 - If the class you want is booked, show up anyway, books in hand, and participate vigorously. ( The professor would rather have you as an extra student than the disinterested slackers in the back. ) 9 - Give yourself flexibility: Plan, plan, plan. ( When you're not sure of your major, take classes that apply to all three of your most likely majors first. ) 10 - The one I learned too late: Build a relationship with professors who are top in their field by taking more than one class with them. ( If they're a bit of a name, their opinion carries weight. ) Current Mood: happy Current Music: Skid Row (1 Comment |Comment on this)
accioslash	12:54a	Thirty Days of Spam...Day 24 - Choosing What to Read ( WriSoMiFu Day 24 - Whatcha readin'? ) (33 Comments |Comment on this)
icarusancalion	12:17a	Reason number 211 why I love these high school students. Reason number 211 why I love my high school tutoring students: A student wrote his SAT essay. He detailed how, scientifically speaking, the planet doesn't need humans. <3 (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
accioslash	11:49p	Thirty Days of Spam...Day 23 - The Future of Snarry ( WriSoMiFu Day 23 - Seeking answers to important questions ) (18 Comments |Comment on this)
duskpeterson	9:36p	Reply to comments: The Lammies again ( Reply to lemursexbot - i.e., my apprentice - about critiques of my Prison City manuscript ) ( Reply to dharma_slut about the LLF thread ) ( Brief reply to yonmei ) (Comment on this)
duskpeterson	9:33p	Daily life: Counting my past wordage "My biggest writing mistake is that I can't leave well enough alone. Even after the manuscript has come back from the various proof-readers I use, inevitably, the urge to pick a scab overrules all logical sensibility." --C. Anne Gardner. Because, um, yeah. ( Background to my entries ) ( Writing: Wordage and my Internet addiction (a look at the past) ) ( Writing: My ability to write descriptions ) ( Simplicity: And the computer file purge continues ) ( Writing: More schoolboy fiction ) ( Writing: The advantages of being blind, word-count-wise ) ( Writing: Switching over to editing The Three Lands; plus, W. Somerset Maugham ) ( Home: Fall leaves and gardening ) ( Writing: Switching over to writing The Eternal Dungeon; plus, The Beta Reader Problem ) (Comment on this)
duskpeterson	8:20p	Daily life: Trying to figure out ways to improve my wordage "Look, I do know this: stories matter. "Sometimes they come to me in the middle of the night, I wake up and I know there was once a person with a name, a history, a life -- and sometimes they died a hundred years ago and sometimes they haven't been born yet, but they're so real, they're right there, like I can touch them. I write them, when I can, and grieve them often, in ways I've learned to be smart enough not to talk about. "At times that bothers me, the silence I feel obligated to that comes with storytelling. It bothers me when I write, which is one manner of inhabiting a character, and it bothers me when I act, which is another. But I've learned to live with it because stories, and the people they are about, are, in the telling, more important than me. "I'm just a translator, a medium, a canvass and a liar. Their stories matter so much that in the telling of them, all I can wish is to disappear. "And I love them so much, the people I tell into being. "Which means that when it comes to the business of awards my gut says, honor them. Not me. Not writers. Characters. Stories. Honor them." --RM ( Background to my entries ) ( Writing: Man, oh, man, I'm offline for a month, and the entire e-publishing world changes ) ( Simplicity and Writing: My time online; plus, the Prison City stuff I found ) ( Writing: For your amusement, the Nautical Telegraph Code ) ( Writing: The Lambda Literary Awards discussions in the blogosphere ) ( Simplicity: Getting back on track ) ( Writing: Squee! My name was mentioned at Yule Treasure! ) ( Home: What happens in today's society when you aren't geek central ) ( REVIEW: Recommendation of Rudyard Kipling's 'Stalky & Co.' ) ( Writing: Monthly totals ) ( Writing: My Muse moveth ) ( Writing: My Muse really moveth; plus, Rosemary Sutcliff and P. G. Wodehouse ) ( Writing: My Muse slows down a bit; plus, turn-of-the-century romantic friendship fiction ) ( Writing: Triumph! The Turn-of-the-Century Toughs world is now the Mid-Atlantic ) ( Home: Reasons why I often feel I'm a conservative ) ( Writing: Not-quite-good-enough writing ) ( Writing: My unfocussed Muse ) ( Writing and Mentoring: I've decided to make my winter schedule my year-round schedule ) (Comment on this)
icarusancalion	8:22p	Women ninjas. The music awards: Shakira has women ninjas! (Comment on this)
duskpeterson	8:13p	Home life: TMJ, tennis elbow, and dry eye - the unholy trio "In the midst of winter, I finally realized that deep within me there lay an invincible summer." --Albert Camus. I'm posting separately this entry some medical problems I've been having recently. (Don't worry, they aren't life-threatening, just painful and annoying.) I figure that people who are interested in reading my Daily Life entries may not want to wade through tons of medical stuff, and vice versa. ( Background to my entries ) ( My doctor and my wallet ) ( Well, whadya know. I have a stress-related illness. ) ( Pillows. ) ( Tiny food. ) ( Less talking, more progress ) ( Sleeping and posture ) ( Desk posture ) ( Now my glasses have decided to misbehave (but wow, once they behave, life'll be great) ) ( Yet another bodily complaint ) (Comment on this)

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