Korilians Death-Ray

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:42:21 GMT

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.

Queerie?

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:07:21 GMT

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.

Armgard

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:29:03 GMT

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?

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:39:18 GMT

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!

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:33:59 GMT

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.

WIP Meme swiped from anyanka_eg

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:36:09 GMT

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.

“Rodney.” John warned because Christ, they’d just dipped under the thirty second scale. Mckay wasn’t paying attention to him though, his eyes on the conduit on the right wall, his mouth forming a perfect O.

“Please.” He repeated helplessly and tried to project what his programming wouldn’t let him say. Don’t.

Mckay made an impressive sight. Broad shouldered and chock full of angry energy. The bright stage lights and his thinning hair made it easy to spot the white scar on his temple, where the bullet had grazed him six years ago.

“Then you’ll die.” Rodney’s voice broke on the last word. “If you’d just... This isn’t how it’s supposed to go!” He sounded upset. “We were all going to be safe. You were going to be safe and I… I can’t be the one who killed you.”

There’s was a man sitting in the tree on King Sooper’s parking lot when John exited the store.

She even pulls off the weird copper hair. It's impressive. In his darkest moments John doubts that he could do copper.

Athur looked blank for a moment. Then a smile crossed his face that could only be described as indulgent. “Well I’m sure the court wouldn’t deny their Lord his small pleasures. Even if it is with a mere servant.”

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:12:17 GMT

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.

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:04:17 GMT

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.

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:28:56 GMT

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.

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:20:12 GMT

A wee poll;

Going out of your way to replace the elastic on a single piece of elderly panties is:

a) Pathetic
b) way to be enviromentally concious. Go you!

With of course the understanding that these are glow in the dark panties with a pink skull and bones pattern OMG!

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:50:01 GMT

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!

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:15:05 GMT

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)

FAIL M. Shyamalan!

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:04:26 GMT

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!

Sat, 23 May 2009 11:04:26 GMT

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.

Wed, 20 May 2009 18:46:06 GMT

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?!?

Sun, 17 May 2009 09:29:47 GMT

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.

Fri, 15 May 2009 09:38:07 GMT

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.

Thu, 07 May 2009 21:07:02 GMT

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.

Thu, 07 May 2009 11:46:38 GMT

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

Rec meme: top 5 fics you can call from the top of your head

Tue, 05 May 2009 23:14:49 GMT

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.

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:03:38 GMT

SGU will have gay characters!

And looking at the reactions to that on Gateworld, I'd say it's needed desperately.

“I don’t hate gays, just their practice and way of life.”
“If you want lesbians they have plenty of websites that you can go to”
“if i wanted to watch lesbians i would watch porn simple”
“What it the sole purpose of sex? To have a baby”

And of course:

Why the Hell do people insist on talking about gays, bringing it up and shoving in our faces. This little article does just that. I find it insulting it is taking up space and in my face. Is there some need for it to be pushed on us?

Dude you are the epitome of people who need to have it shoved in their face, so maybe you'll get a clue.

Mood: Elated yet sad.

Edit: Also; This dreamwith thing... What's the deal with that? You have to pay for it? (I realize a lot of people pay for LJ as well, but I like my internetz to come free of charge)

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:47:16 GMT

Driver kills four in attack on Dutch royal family at public parade

God. I don't have words.At least it looks like the royal family didn't have the kids with them, (but there must have been countless of children in the crowd).

Edit: Three of the injured are children.

So I'm probably doing this all wrong

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:03:08 GMT

Hmmm. It's come to my attention that I'm not following LJ etiquette. Which is fitting since I pretty much fail in RL etiquette as well.

1) Apparently it's rude not to friend someone back if they friend you.
      Okay here's the thing. I'll friend you if they say something interesting or post good fic. Since I don't really do either of those things I'm always amazed to see that I've been friended back. Just so you know I won't hold it against anyone if they don't friend me back. (That's not to say I'm not delighted to have you guy's in my Flist :).

2) Comment on fic.
     I try to do that pretty consistently, but if I'm finishing up at 2 in the morning, you're shit out of luck. But I love you for writing anyway.

3) Read your Friends list.
     Confession; I rarely do this. I check in with my regular coms and I haunt my myriad of delicious networks. That gets me a bunch of fic recs a day and from there I'll spread out and work my way back through your journal. Or I'll do the same when I reread your fic from my Delicious account (which I do more often then you might think). So if I'm leaving comments on all the charming things you've written weeks ago... it's cuz I'm using the internetzz wrong. (okay fine, it's because I've managed to turn my Flist in to community spam box and like my previous email inboxes, I'll do anything to avoid cleaning it up)

4) SGA kicks MERLIN's BUTT!
   There I've said it.

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:51:57 GMT

Good deed of the day; Allerting the Dutch Abortion information site that the website of one of their listed abortion clinics (and they do mean abortion clinics), had been replaced with a link page to; a pro-life organisation, baby yoga, pregnancy gifts and pretty much everthing else to do with babies except abortion! Curious for a site called; Abortusinfo.nl, to say the least.

Not in my fucking country, you bastards.

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:53:10 GMT

I am so sick of those people who are preaching on one hand the evils of Muslims, who force their wives and daughters to cover up, and then turn around to defile muslim women for wearing a Burkini instead of a Western bathing suit (and calling on pools to ban them).

Someone please explain to me why a Muslim women who isn't allowed outside by her husband unless she wears a headscarf is repressed, while a Muslim women who's not allowed into a pool unless she's wearing a Western Bikini is freed.

How about we give those women the choice to dress however they want and actually mean it for a change?