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Snug as a Bug

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 7:26 PM


Title: Snug as a Bug
Author Scorch
Email: Miss_Incognito3@hotmail.com
Rating: R
Category: Humour/Smut
Content: Veronica/Lamb, Weidman
Summary: Weidman gets a little too much information. Set during Mars vs Mars.
Dislcaimer: I own nixies.
Distribution: This place, my place. Anyplace else, just ask!
Notes: Also just included my Smallville pairing!
 

Snug as a Bug )

Every witch way but loose...

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 2:09 PM
You know, I was going to have coherent, intelligent meta thoughts about The Vampire Diaries and then [info]transtempts pointed me towards this:

Spoiler-y clip for next week is embedded behind the cut )

And now I'm all "OMG! :::FLAIL::::"

I love this show. Love it. I love that Elena takes no shit from anyone, that Bonnie is fabulous and powerful and beautiful, and while I still think Caroline is a waste of space (AND NOT MEREDITH, DAMMIT), this week's scenes with her and Matt broke my heart. (Where is the FIC, people?)

SIGNUP REOPENED!

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 12:03 PM
The following stuff has been fixed:

- the handful of fandoms with the word "(any)" after them will now show up on the requested/offered list, renamed to "(all)" and LEGION + REBELS (comic) is now LEGION plus REBELS (comic)

You do NOT need to redo if you requested/offered these.

- any wrong/nonworking emails we knew of have been fixed. If you have not gotten a copy of your signup emailed to you, check your spam folders and make sure your email is correct before assignments go out.

- unfortunately I can't fix the handful of fandoms that were incorrectly removed without potentially messing up the matching. sorry, guys. :( hopefully there's enough out there that everyone can still find others they will enjoy.


REMINDER -- if you had a signup window already open, you can go ahead and submit it, just please make sure your offers/requests look right when you get the copy of your signup email and redo if they don't.


Also, to pass along the answer to one question I've seen: if you are super-flexible in what you can offer and want to help make matching easier for us, it doesn't actually help to offer everything under the sun; what is most helpful is offering fandoms off the neediest list, and skipping fandoms that have a ton of offers. Not necessary, though! :)

SIGNUP TEMPORARILY LOCKED

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Doing a little maintenance, will be back open in a few. Sorry!

PLEASE NOTE: if you have a signup window in progress started before I locked signup, you do NOT have to start over from scratch, but *DO CHECK YOUR SIGNUP VERY CAREFULLY AFTER YOU SUBMIT*; if there are things on there you didn't mean to sign up for, you will need to redo. (This shouldn't happen but I am feeling a little paranoid here. :P)
Title: Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot [3/9]
Author: FromtheBrain
Characters: Logan, Veronica, LoVe (eventually), the regular cast will appear.
Characters (in this chapter): Veronica, Duncan, Keith, Lamb
Rating: PG - may go higher in subsequent chapters
Word Count: 1,923
Spoilers: Season 1 & 2.
Disclaimer: I don’t own them. But it would be better if I did
Summary: AU from Ahoy Mateys. What if Logan took Veronica's advice and left Neptune.

Chapter 3 )

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Writer's Block: Here's looking at you

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 11:48 PM
From the LJ writer's block:

What is your all-time favorite, romantic movie scene? What about it speaks to you?


View 950 Answers



This was a doozy! I thought and contemplated. My answer changes with mood, I think. I have a list of favorite movies and scenes that I watch over and over for the butterfly feeling and on a given day, I might tell you a different answer as to what is my all-time favorite. North & South, with its tender moment of reunion and forgiveness? Anne of Green Gables? "All I want is you." Persuasion with its reunion of two separated lovers? I browsed through the archived answers of other LJ users. First choice seems to be Titanic. Second choice was a tie between Notting Hill (I hated that movie), Love Actually (I've never seen it, but I've heard its good) or Casablanca (a very fine choice).

I looked through my own DVD collection. Besides my X-Files box sets, my DVDs are, surprising to no one, mostly period dramas and romantic comedies. Then my eyes alighted on today's answer. Big Fish. Of course. I had to do a (very small) picspam (my first!), which took me all night.

daffodils
SANDRA: Daffodils?
EDWARD: Theyre your favorite flower.
SANDRA: How did you get so many?
EDWARD: I called everywhere in five states and explained this was the only way I could get my wife to marry me.
SANDRA: You dont even know me.
EDWARD: I have the rest of my life to find out.


neverdry
EDWARD: I was drying out.
SANDRA: I see. We need to get you one of those plant misters. We can spray you like a fern.


EDWARD: Come now.
SANDRA: I dont think Ill ever dry out.


I love the surreal, colorful fantasy that he spins when telling the story of how he fell in love with his wife, contrasted to the reality of decades of life together. Not a kiss to be seen, but I honestly can't think of anything more romantic.

What about you? What's your vote for the all-time romantic movie scene?

Still archiving commentfic, please disregard!

Title: he's as damned as he seems
Fandom: Star Trek reboot
Pairing: McCoy/Chapel
Rating: PG-13ish.
Summary: "'Chapel,' he says, his voice remarkably steady for someone who's probably well on his way to drinking himself into a coma." 900 words, originally written as commentfic for [info]silverlining_99 (posted here). Title is taken from "Beautiful Disaster" by Kelly Clarkson.

and more heaven than a heart could hold )
Ignore me, I'm just archiving some commentfic.

Title: boys will be boys oh yes they will
Fandom: Star Trek reboot
Pairing: Kirk/Chapel/McCoy
Rating: PG-13ish?
Summary: "A rap on the door reminds her where they are and that half the crew is out on the floor, not thirty feet away. If she didn't love them both so damn much, this situation might be downright seedy." 371 words, originally written as commentfic for [info]loveflyfree (posted here). Title is taken from "I Do Not Hook Up" by Kelly Clarkson.

oh sweetheart put the bottle down 'cause you don't want to miss out )

So. To sum up.

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 9:28 PM
I posted fic this morning: Shakti, The Good Wife, Kalinda/Cary, Kalinda/Alicia, Kalinda/others, R.

I created a fic community last night: [info]purnima_fic. It's for brown people of the South Asian persuasion. Er, characters and actors, that is. Not members. Members can be from wherever and of whatever shade. ;). Please, please pimp it out, join it, and post fic about anybody from Mohinder Suresh to Apu from The Simpsons to characters from The Ramayana. (Speaking of which, I totally have a blasphemous fic idea about the latter. Ack.)

I'm also working on a Being Erica ficbit that has no brown people in it whatsoever.

And because I am a REALLY crazy person...I turned lemming and signed up for [info]yuletide. Cripes.

Too wiped out to stay up for White Collar. I will wallow in Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay's awesomeness via rerun or On Demand.

Silver-Haired Fox

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 4:58 PM
So this is my first posting here.  I'm going to turn 20 at the end of November and only recently got into NCIS.  However, I must say that even before I started watching the show, I would see teasers and even from then, I would ask my friend who DOES watch it if Gibbs and Abby get together, are together, have the tension.  So I knew the whole Gibbs/Abby thing before I started watching it.

Anyways, I don't really write fanfiction (I used to, but now I only write original stuff), but I love writing poems and while watching an episode (I forget which one), I was struck by inspiration and wrote this poem.  I never post my poems because I'm so afraid of plagerism so I'm asking you kindly not to steal it - this poem does belong to me.

Just some background - no spoilers or anything like that, but it's from Abby's perspective - she's in her own thoughts, I think.  Anyways, any feedback would be lovely.  Thank you!  :)

Silver-Haired Fox

Untouchable, the way you cut diamonds with your eyes

You shoot them my way and you leave me paralyzed

But loving me is like falling in the sky

Untouchable, and I’m making my own path

I’m counting down the days you decide to do the math

 

You’re my silver-haired fox

You’re the only one I want

When you lean over my shoulder

I want to beg you please don’t stop

You do this on purpose

And I revel in your touch

You’re my silver-haired fox

And I think I love you too much

 

Untouchable, like a shadow on the wall

I’m losing my grip and I think I just might fall

I’m reaching for my phone and it’s you I want to call

But you’re untouchable

Except when you kiss my cheek

It’s moments like that I swear we’re meant to be

 

You’re my silver-haired fox

And I’m dreaming away

That you’ll hold me close to your heart

And we’ll dance in May

When you smile that hidden smile

Your finger is on my soul

But I swear you can see through me

I am simply exposed

 

Untouchable, and I’m caught up in your touch

Your breath on my neck and I’m coming undone


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Getting a Copy of Your Assignment

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 2:41 PM
1106! \o/


  • Be sure to add the "yuletide@yuletidetreasure.org" email address to your contacts for the email you sign up with, and/or "whitelist" it. Check your spam folder to see if it got flagged as spam. Your assignments will be coming from this email, so it's important that you know email from us can get through!

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Post edited to remove my own confusion!

RPG love

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Okay, wait. Bioware came out with a new RPG and I'm just now finding out about it??? How the heck did I miss this? I've played all the Baldur's Gate games, both Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect...seriously, how did I not know about this?

Dragonage Origins looks pretty freaking spectacular. Anyone played it yet?

Random

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Well, what do you know! I'm running Semagic off my thumb drive, and Mobipocket Creator and portable Mozilla. :D All that remains is Photoshop. (Which I found and am attempting to install on my thumb drive even now.)

Of course, all of this makes my thumb drive exponentially more important than it used to be. I will have to invest in a backup version.

I have to admit, it's pretty amazing that these days, you can run software off those little things. It just goes to show - protections people try to put in place never seem to outpace the evolving ability of new technology/software. Companies remove all ability for people to install software on their machines, but they can still run it off ultra small, portable devices, so what are they reall gaining?

I don't care, so long as I get to keep all my bookmarks, and use the software I've become very comfortable with. What's funny - I actually use Photoshop for my job, but they're too stingy to buy it for me.

"We've got a couple of old copies floating around, but you'd have to fight to get them to buy a license for you."

"Okay," I say, "so what alternate software do you have for me to use?"

"Paint"

...

"Paint? Are you serious?"

I mean, really? Paint? It's like the most crap graphic editing program out there.

(Oh, damn. Unfortunately, while PS seems to have installed just fine, I can't get it to run? It starts and then nothing happens, nothing opens. IDK. I'll have to do some more work with it.)

I am only wokring a half day today, which means I'm in a really excellent mood despite still being horribly sick. Come on, stupid cold - I'm tired of having you now! Go away.

Note to Christmas shoppers - I'm going to be doing a really radical sale with my Etsy store, in other words, huge discounts on all current stock in a pre-Christmas sale. I'll be setting up the details this weekend, and starting it sometime this month. This will be on all current inventory. I need to move some stuff. Storing it is taking up a lot more room than you might think, and I'm on the verge of setting up a new workstation/re-organzing all my jewelry stuff. The less I have to re-organize, the easier it will be.

I enjoyed The Vampire Diaries last night. I thought last week's ep was better, but last night's was still good. They still aren't pulling any punches with Damon as a bad guy. :D

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Testing...testing...

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 10:18 AM
This post is merely a test. I'm attempting to use Semagic as a portable software from my thumb drive.

ETA: What do you know, it worked! Heeee!
Title: The Humphrey Terms of Endearment
Author: Hope
Pairing/Character(s): Lily/Rufus
Rating: R for the whole series.
Spoilers: None.
Summary: All the little things that say I love you.

You're not my mother, Lily. )

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Fic: Mr & Mrs Gibbs [6/??] Abby/Gibbs

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Title: Mr & Mrs Gibbs [6/??]
Author: Jo. R
Rating: FR-15 unless otherwise stated.
Pairing: Abby/Gibbs
Category: Romance, Drama, Case-file, friendship
Spoilers: 'Forced Entry'
Summary: Two marines are dead, their wives missing. Mr. & Mrs. Gibbs go undercover to catch a killer.


part 6 )

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