Metal Heart

Yay! I kinda wish he'd chosen Hils as VP, but I don't much care, as long as he wins and gets the goddamn Republicans out of office. Obama for President is definitely my happy for the day.

YES WE CAN.

Stargate Atlantis

The Price That Life Exacts by cathalin (Sheppard/McKay) INSTANT REC!!!! This blew me away. I got tears in my eyes, I loved the character voices, and I couldn't stop reading once I started.


A Clear and Different Light by friendshipper, naye (Sheppard/McKay) INSTANT REC!!! I loved the plot, character voices, the world building and I was hooked from page 1 until the every ending. :) Wonderful storytelling.

They played "Sister Christian" by Night Ranger earlier, and you know I loved this song when it came out. It's only in the past few years that I learned it was apparently written about the guy's sister, and how he didn't want her to have sex. Sketchy sibling dynamics! My love, it is explained!

*dies*

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cleolinda linked to this and I choked on my coffee. Hee!

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I posted a story last night!

Paul Newman and a Ride Home
Supernatural; Dean; g; 2,365 words
Five books Dean Winchester has read more than once.

I jokingly asked amberlynne if I had to warn for spoilers for the books involved (The Runaway Bunny, Little Women, The Outsiders, and To Kill a Mockingbird), but I do think the story works better if you're familiar with the books, because it's more about their individual impact on Dean than it is about just love of books or reading in general, which I don't think is necessarily Dean's thing.

I was a little worried that, like the mixtape story, the story would end up more about me and books than it is about Dean and books, because I love all four of those books madly, but I think it worked out pretty well.

I am going to ramble on extensively now about this. Flee, if that does not interest you. ( otherwise, click the cut tag. )

The story makes me happy, which I guess is the whole point, and it seems to be making other people happy (well, in that way that they tell me they're crying, so, you know, score!). Thank you for the lovely comments, btw. I truly appreciate them and will get to answering them soonish.

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10prompts is a challenge community for fic writers. Right now there are 10 tables (10 prompts each) to pick from. All fandoms as well as slash, het and gen are welcome.
- stories should have a minimum length of 200 words. For further rules check out the rules post
- tables can be viewed here and I hope you find one interesting enough to join in on the fun.
- all questions can be asked in the rules post.

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harry_slash is for stories, art and anything else that features Harry Potter in a slash pairing. It's open for any rating and pairing (as long as it features Harry and is slash of course ;) ). Any questions left? Ask here

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stargate_xover is a place where you can post anything that's a crossover with either of the Stargate series. Any rating and any pairing is welcome.
Questions can be asked here

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dw_threesomes is for any and all threesomes for Doctor Who, Torchwood and the Sara Jane Adventures.
Comment here for questions.

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dw_fest is a challenge community, inspired by slashfest @ LJ with the difference that this fest is limited to Doctor Who, Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures (and any other show/movie/etc related to them)
- For questions, check out this post
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fandom_caps is an asylum where you can post and/or request screencaps for any TV show, movie, you love. We're open to all fandoms!
Go here for the rules, questions and more

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icon_help is a place to share tips about making icons, post tutorials and questions. You're also welcome to share locations(!) of resources such as screencaps, brushes and textures you like to use.

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New! tv_icontest is a multifandom icontest. Every challenge will be centered around a different TV Show.
The first challenge is about the CSI episode "Big Middle" and entries are due on 29 August (Friday)! To enter the first round, go here
So far there are no entries and I'd really love to see some!

A Jon Stewart repeat (for the DNC) wasn't on last night, have yet to figure out what is their schedule this week, so I flipped over to House M.D. Whoa, wth? After I stopped watching (middle S2) it seems to have mutated into fanfic. Crack fanfic.

I'm somewhat amused, but I could not watch the whole episode. Much the same thing that happens when I read crack fic.

(I am still listening to and loving the This Is Ivy League album)

Apparently the week in the life meme started me upon a habit of taking pictures of things? IDEK.

( Fluffy Teddy, peach marvel, cool car )

Stargate Atlantis

Rewind, Reboot, Restore by rheanna27 (Sheppard/McKay) INSTANT REC!!! I got tears in my eyes reading this story. I LOVED the character voices, the plot, and the ending.


The Fall of the House of Sheppard by saffronhouse (Sheppard/McKay) INSTANT REC!!! I really loved the imagery, the character voices, and this worked for me on so many levels.


Doctor Who

Turning by imperfectcircle (Gen) I really like fix it stories and this one worked for me. :)


Supernatural

Ruined For All That Follow by dark_reaction (Sam/Dean) I liked this.


Supernatural Vid Rec

In My Hands by thandie (vid:recs:spn) This really worked for me. I loved the use of effects/colors and the narrative made sense.

Yes, today's happy is something ecologically unsound and economically unwise: air conditioning. It's hot again here, in the upper 90s, and I surely don't do well in heat. But my office has a/c, my car has a/c, and my bedroom has a/c, so I can manage. Better yet is the natural air conditioning of the fog, but it's pushed out to sea for a bit and not expected to move very far inland until the weekend. Till then, I'll go against my better instincts and turn on the air conditioning.

Wikipedia has an interesting little history of air conditioning. I say: bless you, Mr. Carrier!

Right after the vid Climbing Up The Walls we get Gone Again by candle_beck.

I was having this conversation with coffeejunkii last week, of how no matter how much I loved the vid, fic that went the same way, where incest sort of ends them, was not (usually) my thing.

It's taken me 6 tries to start reading Gone Again. I knew it was going to be good, but sheesh, this is not going anywhere near happy fic. It starts sort of 4 months after the morning after, and Dean is so screwed. I kept thinking about the last seconds of Climbing Up The Walls, on how Dean now views himself.

[please insert my sadface here]

deli.cio.us keeps on mentioning it, and sunshineclouds recced it today or last night, so I jumped in (again) and I'm only at part one, but yeah, this is damn good. I'm bracing myself for major well written angst.

Paul Newman and a Ride Home
Supernatural; Dean; g; 2,365 words
Five books Dean Winchester has read more than once.

Thanks to amberlynne for looking it over.

( A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. ~Charles Lamb )

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Feedback is treasured and reread often.

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Fantastic speech, Senator Clinton. Fantastic speech.

I'm supporting Obama/Biden, of course, but if you were to ask me who my heart and head really, really support, the answer is this man here:



God I love Dennis Kucinich.

(Direct link here in case you can't view embedded vids)

I thought I would have fic to post, but I got distracted, so it is not done. Sigh. Instead, links:

1. T-Rex does genderswap. Possibly with off-screen prison sex.

b. devildoll shares adorable scans of l'il Superman and l'il Batman.

iii. Nathan Fillion to star as a novelist who helps police FIGHT CRIME in a midseason replacement show on ABC.

... I thought I had something else, but I guess not.

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If you read synecdochic's Broken Wings series, you might be interested in the icons I've put up for adoption in clanmitchell today (here, here, here). Words, phrases and ideas from the whole series except for Dial Tones and A Howling in the Factory Yard, which I am still rereading. And yes, these are behind cuts but are graphics-heavy posts. Comments welcome.

( Bandom shenanigans galore )
I've been listening to This Is Ivy League this morning. They make me ridiculously blissful.

Two technical questions:

1. Should I be concerned that my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop has taken to blinking an orange light at me? It's the one indicating that the laptop is plugged into a power source, and normally it's a steady green.



2. Why the frell has Word at work decided that I want an arrow () when I hit CTRL+the right arrow key? What I really want is for the cursor to skip over the words to the right. CTRL+left arrow key still skips me back, and it is messing with my mouse-averse typing rhythm! Egads! Forsooth!

Why, LJ? Why won't you load?

(Seriously, am I the only person who's been having trouble with LJ for the past half day?)

• 08:04 Happy birthday, dearest ana! #

playing with LoudTwitter

Iron Man

The Value of Secrets by mayatawi (Tony/Jarvis) This was hot. :)


Supernatural

The Paint That Hides The Crime by dark_reaction (Sam/Dean) This was interesting.


Running to Stand Still by leonidasden (Sam/Dean) OMG this was hot like a burning sun. Wow.


Gather Me in Like a Rainstorm by dreamlittleyo (Sam/Dean) This was nice.


Nobody Told You When to Run by sneaky_sena (Sam/Dean) This was sad and I loved Dean's pov.

Yes, my happy for today is tidiness. I'm a very tidy person and I get cranky when things are in disarray. I love having a place for everything and everything in its place. I'm kind of embarrassed by this aspect of me, but over the years I've given in and just tidy.

My husband, bless his heart, is not nearly as tidy as I am, though he is excellent at cleaning things up. He cleans, I tidy. It works out okay most of the time, but occasionally something will need to sit out for a while -- or so he claims -- and I start to go crazy, slowly and painfully crazy, until I have to hide it or insist he do whatever needs done so it can be put away. And he loves little notebooks; we have little notebooks everywhere. I regularly collect them and then rubberband them into a single pile.

I tidied today, and now I feel very content. How superficial of me, yes? but it's true. Tidiness makes me happy.