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The Basilisks in this story I'm planning to write are THE most unpleasant dragon species in all the Lyriaverse. Nasty pieces of work, even other dragon species find them difficult. I'm very much looking forward to writing this story.

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kaberett

Approx my current mental state.

Two important realisations:
1. I don't have the foggiest what an operating curve is supposed to be in this context. BETTER FIX THAT.
2. The reason I was wiped today is that I forgot my psych meds last night, so took them this morning rather than risking withdrawal, having, um, forgotten that there's a reason I take my citalopram and amitriptyline at night...

Good things:
1. Thank you all, so much, for helpful suggestions about various bits and bobs, especially the gifts for counsellors etc.

2. For the first time in my undergraduate career, I have come home for the weekend in order to be looked after and concentrate better. This... is something I'm going to want to unpack a LOT with my counsellor, but is fundamentally probably a Really Good Sign.

3. Wove in the ends of project #1, got properly going with project #2.

4. Fannish conversation with

randomling ♥

5. ALL the people are dating. :-)

6. Three lectures to go on this wretched course, and then I can call it good (enough).

7. My lovely mum, for just saying "yes sure when would you like to be picked up what would you like me to cook you for dinner" when I phoned her up at 10pm and pathetically asked if I could come home for the weekend.

8. And also for buying me an AMAZING COMFORTABLE MATTRESS last year, when I was really ill, on the grounds that if I was going to be spending a lot of time in bed I might as well be comfortable there. ♥ (And also my lovely goose-down quilt, which was a... Christmas present? When I was quite small.)

9. Ran lots of errands, including collecting nice post and paying in cheques and lunch with lovely director of studies and all the other geologists from my college.

10. Boything came to see me last night and we got to spend time together and I was reasonably sane and. Boything! Hurrah compatible neurodiversities. Hurrah people who recognise that curling up on each other and then Lying Very Still with occasional squeezes counts as snuggling. Hurrah all round, basically.

hurrah also being more-or-less in one piece. ♥

kaberett

liv is hosting a discussion on mental health/illness, how SSRIs work, appropriate behaviour on the part of healthcare professionals, etc, and I am having WORDS all over the comments.

sophie

I've been meaning to post this for a while. I made another mashup! I already posted this one on Twitter a while ago when I released it, but didn't post it here. Oops.

This one is called (You Drive Me) Crazier Than Life (direct download link) and is a mashup of these two songs:

Larger Than Life, by the Backstreet Boys
(You Drive Me) Crazy, by Britney Spears

Thanks to a friend of mine for the suggestion to make this mashup and for the ideas for what to do with the mashup while I was making it!

As always, feedback is very much appreciated. :D

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brownbetty

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vass

I finished Kate Bornstein's memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, today.

It was definitely good and worth reading (although to be honest I liked My Gender Workbook and Hello Cruel World way better) but there is a BUT.

Things that Kate warns for:

- BDSM. (Not for BDSM in general, but for a chapter where there's a detailed description of a scene involving permanent marking and breathplay, both without prior negotiation. Note that she doesn't say that in the warning, just that the passage really disturbed the editor, and if BDSM disturbs you too, here's where to skip to.)

Things that Kate does not warn for:

- eating disorder triggers, in particular anorexia. All through the book, either Kate is actively starving herself or is hating her size. There is unexamined stuff about obesity that made me feel, well, not good. There is stuff about how to starve oneself.

- self-injury triggers, in particular cutting. Again: detailed, almost a how-to.

- child abuse (physical), suicide attempts, cults, drug and alcohol addiction. In all three cases, less HOLY FUCK than the things I listed above, and in the case of the suicide and the cult probably something you'd expect going in if you knew who Kate is when you picked up the book, but since I'm listing trigger warnings, well, those are major triggers to list.

- rape. Described in detail, and the reader doesn't get any more warning than Kate did.

None of these are deal-breakers for me in a book I'm reading. I still would have read A Queer and Pleasant Danger if I'd known in advance. But I'd have gone in prepared, and I think that would have made my reading experience better (it was still a good book.) So I'm posting this, in the hope that it'll make someone else's reading experience better.

Current Mood: awake

azurelunatic

So it turns out that I do know "Do You Hear The People Sing" well enough to sing along with the chorus, thanks to Summer Fine Arts Camp and my general time spent around various musical theatre types. (And I have a difficult time not singing along to "I Dreamed a Dream" because while I was not in the actual musicals, I spent the better part of my youth in various choirs.) I discovered this on the phone with

zarhooie the other night, where by "the other night" I am pretty sure it was around the end of April, because hilarity directly began to ensue.

And then the bottom fell out of my schedule because conference and also conference.

But the conference is now over.

Do you hear the bloggers sing
Singing a song of angry fen
Heave-ho, hoist up the colors
We'll not be struck-through again
When the posting of your gif
Reveals they all reload as one
There is a site about to start
When tomorrow comes!

(Musical note: you either have to sing "heave" on two notes or skip a note to make it work, and go fast-and-light on "we'll not" and really hammer "be" to make it scan right.)

youngsoulrebel

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stonebender

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Current Mood: anxious
Current Location: My study

azurelunatic

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

Thursday, 0010: I'm watching MythBusters (307 are watching) http://getglue.com/tv_shows/mythbusters?s=tch&ref=azurelunatic #GetGlue @MythBusters
Thursday, 0010: I unlocked the I Can't Stop Watching sticker on #GetGlue! #comedyweek @youtube http://getglue.com/stickers/youtube/i_cant_stop_watching?s=ts&ref=azurelunatic
Thursday, 0011: RT @nadyne: I've never seen air sitar before.
Thursday, 0101: My fitbit #Fitstats for 5/22/2013: 3,495 steps and 1.5 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/23LLYD
Thursday, 0431: (finding my bff's attempts to friend like an adult inexplicably adorable. he's lucky I like him. <3)

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fayanora

If anyone has some recommendations for fanfic for me in any of the following fandoms, let me know. Especially novel length fics.

Fandoms:

* Harry Potter
* LazyTown
* Supernatural
* Buffyverse
* Addams Family
* Firefly
I especially like:

* incest pairings
* lesbian pairings
* crossovers
* transgender pairings
* well done original characters/plots (like the Alexandra Quick series of HP fanfic novels)
* I especially like non-porn fanfics.

Crossposts: http://fayanora.insanejournal.com/385836.html http://fayanora.livejournal.com/1223254.html

zvi

I have 167 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 167 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

meme gakked from

sohotrightnow However, if I can't think of three things,I may tell you something that happened before, something that happened during, and something that happened after.

Ps. Have not had time to work on five things not!fic, but I have but forgotten.

laguera25

I finally caved and requested an Ao3 invite. I'll still post my non-RPF content to FF.Net, but if I'm going to revisit LOTR and stick my toe into AOS!Trek fandom, then I'd like to explore new fannish territory as well.

With Sprache XXII finished, I pounded out one thousand and forty-three words of AOS!Trek fic. Yes, I started it, God help me. This one is going to be drawerfic until it's done, I think. I want to write without worrying about audience expectations or disgruntled Trekkies bombarding my inbox with paroxysms of rage because I clearly haven't watched every episode and read every tie-in novel, and how can I sully the fandom with my gross ignorance and disrespect for canon? I find that while negative comments and concrit can be effective for me in the long run, they also make me self-conscious. I second-guess everything, and I'm so busy fretting over reader reaction and reception that the story stalls. And once a story stalls, it's almost impossible to revive it. So readers can crit it all they like. After it's finished.

I found this picture of Richard during my daily trawl a few days ago:

Nggh. Between him and Karl Urban, I'mma drool myself to death.

fayanora

Well, I was a bit worried, because the rent is going up again in July, to more than I can afford. But two things may take care of that for a bit longer. First, I may be getting my Medicare premium paid for me, I forget whether by the state or at the federal level. That means an extra $100 a month for me, once it kicks in. This also means I will be able to get Medicare part D as well, get my prescriptions paid for.

Secondly, I met someone who needs a place to stay and can pay $300 or more to stay with me. I've scanned her with my Mutant Power, and she's a good person. Homeless currently, but with a steady income. After explaining what happened the last time I let a homeless person stay at my place, she even offered to pay the $25 for a background check, which I didn't know was something I, as an individual, could have done. (Hell, if I find that the remainder after expenses is enough, I could even possibly get Internet at home again.)

Anyway, neither of these things is for certain yet, but it's looking hopeful. I think my prayers to Shao'Kehn and Kusahnjijahn are finally paying off. An extra $300 to $400 a month income would give me plenty for both rent and utilities, with extra remaining. Which is good, because looking for a new place and moving are even more difficult for me than looking for a job used to be, and I currently can barely afford toilet paper.

Current Mood: hopeful
Crossposts: http://fayanora.insanejournal.com/385733.html http://fayanora.livejournal.com/1223053.html

aximili

1. Local foundation took my futon, my fold-up table, my fold-up chair, and my bookcase.
2. Dad's taking the printer and giving it to my grandmother.
3. If the person interested in my computer doesn't offer a good price on it (or changes their mind), I'm giving it to my sister.
4. Someone's taking the loft bed Monday, theoretically. If not I suppose I can have that donated as well.
5. I have lots of donation things packed and ready to go, and when it's closer to moving day I'll do that with the rest of the stuff. (Right now, I kinda still need things for cooking.)

So things I still need to get rid of:

1. The shredder (T might want it IDK she hasn't responded yet.)
2. The microwave oven.
3. The balcony chairs.
4. The bike.
5. The plastic storage containers.
6. The wooden cubbies, which I need to throw away but am not sure how because I don't think, even disassembled, it can go into the compactor. In retrospect, I wish I had just gone with plastic because then I could have taken it to the recycling center.

I guess this experience has been useful because I'm at least learning how to deal with stuff when you want to move out and have stuff you need to get rid of? And also that my dad's obsession with aesthetic should be ignored when living in a temporary situation (even if that situation is almost three years.) Because at some point you're gonna have to get rid of shit. If I ever got stuff again along those lines it would mean I thought I was never going to move and it'd be permanent cabinetry installations and shit.

Too bad I don't see 'broke' coming off of the list of things I am any time soon.

liviapenn

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vass

1. The GP I saw today (who isn't my usual but is from my regular clinic) says what I have right now is probably an adenovirus, and I should probably be much better in a week, but my eyes might potentially take another fortnight after that.

2. In the fanfic I'm reading right now, Character A surprised his husband, Character B, by buying a new apartment, because the one they're living in now is too small for them. (Money is not an issue for these characters.) This is supposed to be a romantic surprise, inspired by B's admission that he now considers their city his hometown.

It would not be romantic for me. My response would be something to the tune of WHAT THE FUCK? I WANT A SAY IN WHERE WE LIVE TOO, ASSHOLE. YOU DO NOT GET TO MAKE UNILATERAL DECISIONS ON WHERE AND HOW WE LIVE AND CALL THAT ROMANTIC.

This is also how I feel about pets as gifts.

3. On the Naming of Politicians (it isn't just one of your holiday games.)

I've been thinking about Australian prime ministers, and how the general public tends to refer to them - given name, surname, nickname, etc - and how that correlates to party and popularity. I haven't managed to draw any conclusions.

Any other Australians want to jump in on this one?

youngsoulrebel

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peoppenheimer

I just created the Reflections list, and made my first post to it. If you asked to be on my reflections list, and did not see a post, please let me know; under the current system, I'll have to grant you access before I can add you to that filter. Thanks!

azurelunatic

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

Wednesday, 0003: RT @anildash: Thanks to @bradfitz @lisaphillips @dormando & so many others for memcached, without which the modern social web wouldn't run.
Wednesday, 0831: @semanticist Indeed so. The light is useful to me as a driver to know the state of the other light.
Wednesday, 0834: @semanticist Some of them trip on legal right on red turns.
Wednesday, 1238: RT @oakandsage: A poorwill is arguing with a rooster.
Wednesday, 1251: RT @ajaromano: Basically currently all fics are transformative until proven derivative in a court of law (which has only happened once ever…

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