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Big Bang submitted. Done and Done. The site was acting up and not letting me update for some extra last minute anxiety (though I bet it was a thousand times worse for the mods), but I actually ended up finishing an extra piece that I'd given up on. I think I might like it best of all, even if that one wonky line is already starting to give me heart burn.

So uhm... what's an abstract? In the fanart sense?

SGA big bang is driving me to despair. I've got one scene art piece done and I'm fairly happy about it (today at any rate). But it only touches on like 1% percent of the story (seriously so much going on!). I want to do something coverish for my second piece. I've got several ideas in wip stage and I want to run with one of them, but time is running out and I need to decide which one I can do in the (OMG so) little time that is left.

Reading the Meek, I started wondering about the full names and titles of our Queen Beatrix.  As it turns out one of her names, is the unfortunately chosen Armgard (Isn't that a part of Arthur's battle armour?), named after her even more unfortunately named grandmother:

Armgard Kunigunde Alharda Agnes Oda von Cram.

Isn't genealogy fun?

There's been a lot of discussion on Brain storm, and how much better it would have been if only John had gone instead of Jennifer...

But just picture for a moment: What if Ronon had gone instead?

Comedy Gold!

I finally found a good picture that lets you see Jason's Mamoa's face after getting bottle slashed. 
He's got a scar, but it doesn't look that bad. Nothing make-up can't cover. I was a little worried about his career since I couldn't really tell from IMDB if his latest acting jobs were before or after the attack.

Mood: relieved.

Christ my whole life is a WIP. But I've got a folder full of half written stories and scenes and some of these could be so very, very good, if I could put on paper what I see in my head. Here are the ones I'm most dedicated to finishing at some nebulous point in time.

( WIP lines )

I think... I'm done with my Merlin Big Bang art piece.
Now all that's left to do is to decide on the final size, figure out where to put the title and maybe agonize over adding more shading a couple more days.

Yay.

Is there anything more embarrassing then rearranging your Music collection and being confronted with the utter dregs?

Dido? The Cors? Really? (I recall buying the last one because I didn't realize Dreams was a cover. I can't decide if that makes it better or worse).

Also Fuck you Gwen Stefani with your lame Eurovision pop. Putting the same hideous song on a CD twice doesn't a bonus track make.

God what is it with me and underwear lately.

I'm working on a full frontal Merlin nudity art piece.
Should I go for bush or a little roman style pair of undies (with the understanding that I'm a prude). I like the Roman angle, since I now firmly hold that Gwen is a descendant of a Roman centurion.

Dude, stop calling me! I've been screening your calls for the last two weeks! (Yes I'm an asshole) But I'm careening with school related stress. I can't deal with anything right now. I don't want to deal with you. So show some self respect and LEAVE ME ALONE!

The Beeb actually managed to turn something out that's even gayer then Merlin. I just haven't quite decided yet if it's as charming as Merlin.

We've got the tough soldier that turned into a metro-sexual the instant someone started sucking his neck (vampire peer pressure is killer)
The geeky werewolf that wanders around naked, throwing longing glances at him and crying when he finds out his buddy tapped some girl.
And of course the pretty young girl that lives with them. But to make sure we're getting the message loud and clear, they can't actually touch her, cuz she's a ghost.

I hear you Beeb.

BBC's five gayest couples:
Jack/Ianto
Mitchell/George
Merlin/Arthur
Robin Hood/Mulch (I firmly believe they were doing it in the holy lands. Poor Mulch knew such happiness until that harlot Marion came betwixt them)
Doctor/Tardis (although.... I kind of think the Tardis is female. We're gonna need a vote on that one)

 

Maybe it's because I was reading this just yesterday, but the Avatar: Airbender movie pisses me off.

Meet Katara
And Sokka

You could argue about the ethnicity of some of the characters (Aang with his wide blue eyes looks white to me), but I remember Katara and Sokka having a bit more color then these actors are going to get out of a tanning booth.
And hey, it's only a story about characters who come from all corners of an ENTIRE WORLD!

I had two birth marks removed this week, by a charming process called shaving. Right now it looks like someone doused a cigarette on my boob. If anyone ever asks, that's totally the story I'll be sticking with (this story will also involve spy shennanigans and a ruggedly handsome Brit, incidentally).

Also: 15 year old who cries over being horribly disfigured by a little birthmark. GET A LIFE! I still have a scar the size of a babies fist on my ass, from the last melanoma scare. Do you see me crying about it? No! Because no one cares as much about your body, as you do.

I thought Dollhouse would be the next big thing for me after SGA, but I was wrong. It's GLEE! I'm filled with GLEE!
Someone quick. Where can I find Glee icons?!?

Congratulations Norway! I didn't watch out of general aggressive feelings towards Russia and their gay bashing government, but it's a cute song.

EDIT: Wow, this song really does stick in an incredible way.

I've been suffering from a nasty bitter taste in my mouth, that makes even the most delicious of foods seem gross, for a week now. Naturally my first thought was: CANCER. But as it turns out this is a well known phenomenon that is caused by eating Chinese pine nuts... which I kept doing until yesterday. And the messed up taste thing can last up to 2 weeks. Thank you China. Feel free to stop sending us crap products now. 

But seriously; We castrate little piglets en masse without tranquilizers, because some of them might smell bad, but this shit makes the shelves of my supermarket? No wonder PETA is so pissed all the time.

It's interesting, lately whenever I go googling for stuff like gayness, feminism or whatnot I end up on this Dutch/Maroccan forum.
While a lot (but not all of them) tend to be awfully conservative from my point of view I find it interesting to see how they try to fit Dutch society with Islam. We talk so much about muslims, but we rarely listen, unless it's the extremists talking.

I was reading about parents that don't realize their 12 year old is chatting with pedophiles and I wondered if our generation would be better prepared to keep our children safe. At the very least we're far more Internet savvy then our own parents. I know how to check the browser history at any rate. I know about passwords. Hell I even know about keystroke logging (although that might be crossing the line between protection and privacy).

It also got me wondering about my own experiences. Did I see stuff I wasn't ready to see? Probably not, but those were different times. I didn't really get into the interwebz until I was 16 and I mostly used it to look up Buffy stuff (although there was one incident in a sex chatroom a couple of years before that, which was terribly exiting. Not unlike making prank calls to sex lines. I wonder if they warned parents about that :)

My first forays into Fandom was Buffy. It took me a while longer to discover this thing called fanfiction and some time longer I'm sure, to discover slash. I didn't start reading Xanderfic (which is mostly porn or worse; mysogonic crap) until season 4, which made me about ninteen anyhow.
My sister was a neo hippy with gay friends and my parents are wonderfully liberal, so all that had been part of my accepted World view since I was thirteen. It looks like I reached adulthood, innocence firmly intact (and quite probably a lot more innocent then most kids that age).

Did fanfiction skew my views on sexuality? I think it did, but mostly it made me more open minded about sex and relationships (especially Glt), without actually making me want to try out all of it for myself. (I won't be doing no sado scenes, unless I'm the one holding the whip ;)

Did fanfiction make me bi? Well, if it did, thats alright. I suspect my underlying distrust of men has more to do with the extremely volitile relationship I had with my brother growing up though.

Hmmm

I don't know what I was thinking limiting this to 5, but here's the rulez:

Pick the top 5 fics that have made a deep, unending impact on you. It can be something that made you cry, angry or happy. Just so long as it's something that really stuck!

1) Retrograde by Martha Wilson.
The fic that got me into SGA fandom. She might have quite unreasonably stopped after ONLY 16 installments, but in my head this verse never stopped.

2) A dish served cold by Kevin H. Robnet
I used to be in trek fandom and I used to be in Highlander and above all I used to be into crossovers. And dish served cold is the best of both Worlds. A clan denial story where Richie Ryan has a falling out with his mentor after he decides that instead of cutting of people's heads, he'd rather found starfleet. It's the kind of premise that can only transcend it's sillyness if you take it really, really seriously. And Robnet does.
I still consider this one of the most beloved stories even though I've kissed both fandoms goodby.

3) Break the day by Ecolea
This fic isn't going to be for everybody. After 9/11 there was a Spiderman issue that featured Marvel heroes pulling people out of the rubble. This story is a little like that. Using Methos as a trope to describe what happened. I figure the author just had to give it a place even if that place happened to be in a piece of highlander fanfic.Whatever she was thinking, for me it always instantly recalls that feeling when I turned on my tv and watched the planes fly into the towers. 

4) Stuck by Kolyaaa!
Stuck just works for me. It pulls on my heartstrings in all the right ways. Reading it is like riding a roller-coaster. Some of Astolats stories do that for me as well, but this is deliciously long and perfect for when I want to kick back and get some instant emotional gratification in small doses. I love me some cliches and Kidfic where Rodney is the kid; WIN!

5)  Logical solutions to inlogical situations by Sardonicsmiley
Yes, despite the major flounce this is still one of my all time favorites. Cuz the truth is, like Atlantis in this story, I also think Rodney Mckay is like a maltreated fluffy kitten and I just want to tuck him to my bosom and make it all better.


I could keep going. I want to keep going and share all the stories I love. Picking a top 5 was agonizing and there are stories that should have gotten a shared ranking, but thems the rules and I decided to stick with them.

If you read this Meme; Copy and share your own recs.