Cutest kitty ever.

Exhibit A: I have the mouse on the couch next to me. Kitty has sat down next to me (after frustrated attempts to sit on my and my keyboard). He is now scootching closer and closer to the mouse, soft as a cloud, stifling said mouse usage.

When called on this, "Monte...." he looks up at me with luminous eyes. He reaches with a paw and touches my arm.

Petting must ensue. I don't care if I'm rewarding feline distraction.

(The mouse has been knocked off the mousepad.)

So I'm mostly done with alisanne's holiday Snarry, and I was wondering if someone would please look it over for me and help me get it smooth and pretty? It's a nice little ficlet, but I think it needs a bit of work. It's only missing two scenes, but I could make it longer. The thing is, I haven't spent a lot of time on it, but I think it's got potential. The bones are there. I'm just so much better at sitting down and pounding out a story than I am at editing and moving stuff around and figuring out what needs to be elaborated on and what needs to be cut.

So if anyone would care to look over what I've got, I could forward it to you today. It's got a bit of Master/Pet and some various silliness and Harry flirting with many people, just in case any of that squicks you.

And if no one's interested, I'd like a grammar/spelling beta for when it's done, please.

Yeah, it's unlocked. What's it to ya? (Help me, NCIS is destroying my life.) Not my characters, unauthorized duplication and distribution prohibited.

( Mary Sue part the first )

Blah. Stomach bug, eating soup, want pizza. Busy with work. Behind on flist. Behind on writing. Need clone.

Somehow found the time to post all my fic up on the new German soaps fic archive, NoLimits. Need to write more fic. Hard when I can't think in complete sentences.

And some memes. First, just how non-committal could I possibly be? :)



And now, that photo meme that's going 'round:
01. Answer each of the questions below the cut using the Flickr search engine.
02. Choose a photo from the first three pages.
03. Copy the URL of your favorite photos here.
04. Then share with the world! Wee!

Question for the f-list; I have Word at home, but only and Abiword at work, and of course I can use googledocs. My problem is with quotation marks; I usually use Times New Roman and get the lovely curved quotation marks in Word, but if I bring up the document in any of these other applications, it leaves the curvy quotation marks as they are--but all the new ones are straight! I have a loathing of straight quotation marks, but I can't figure out how to change them. :( Abiword and googledocs don't seem to have a formatting option for it.

It's just that I'd really like to work on alisanne's fic some more today (Boss is out!) but replacing all the quotation marks would be such a pain--and ugly. I want my pretty, curvy ones.

Does anyone know how to fix this? ETA: I can't use WordPerfect either, unfortunately.

alisanne's holiday fic is practically writing itself! I'm enjoying it a lot, even though it somehow seems very 'old school' Snarry--and somehow kind of cheesy, in a bad-fic plot kind of way. I only worry there's a lot of exposition, but . . . I like it that way. Again, old school. It feels like something that could--and should--have been written several years ago. It's not flawless, it's not elegant, but it's fun.

Picked up from sage_theory:

The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it: Stargate Atlantis

The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets: Harry Potter

The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy Christian: Lord of the Rings (book fandom)

The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved he doesn't actually live in town: Supernatural

The steady: Stargate Atlantis

The one you repeatedly cheat on your steady with: Merlin

The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with: Ironman

The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't: Supernatural

The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere: (I don't really have a good answer for this one)

The one you slept with on the rebound who still smiles at you, yet you have no interest in any more: Stargate SG-1 (so I made up my own)

The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "Him? How the hell did he land all these cool babes?": Dr. Who

The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly: Supernatural

I am ... so blitzed right now. Ok, attempting to string words together. Basically, do you want a postcard? Comments are screened! Also please let me know how to address you (pseud/name/etc). Yes, I may in fact send a postcard to Amazon Queen of Fabulous, just let me know.

If you want to send me one -- er, actually I am swamped with stuff, so smaller mail would be appreciated :) Anyway, if you don't have my address, leave your e-mail address and I'll get back to you.

Happy Holidays!

Does anyone know where to find or how to make an icon of the Grinch as that evil grin spreads across his face? There's a video with it here (at the very end) and all I can think is how awesome it would be to use that for my holiday chan fics.

I tired to do the photo mosaic meme, but every single picture I chose--and I made sure to choose ones that weren't protected--came up blank. Every single one. :( So I did this meme instead.

The "Be Pete Wentz" Poetry Meme

01. Put your music player on shuffle
02. The first lines of twenty songs = a poem; the first line of the twenty-first song is the title

It was interesting and not as Vogon as I expected. :)

( Have I Lost You? )

A question came up on my f-list about the end of canon in Stargate Atlantis.

I'm not sure whether the imminent end of the series has any significant effect on readership

In the Harry Potter fandom it certainly didn't. I can't imagine the end of the series would have a significant impact right away. Quite the opposite. There's a spike in interest as people mourn, fret over what's not neatly tied up, are annoyed at the author's/PTB's ships, or just miss it and want more, darn it. In time I think it will taper off as people find other active canons and drift to new fandoms, but no boom is going to be lowered late December, no, not at all.

How active the fandom remains depends on the fandom:

- Do the main archives, challenges, communities, still have people to run them? (Most Important Factor.)
- Is the fandom old enough to have a solid body of work, and fandom tropes, to sustain it?
- Are there lots of Swiss cheese-like holes remaining to play in?
- How dependent on canon is the fandom (are the majority of fics episode tags, or have the fic writers embraced AUs and crossovers)?
- How committed are the fans to keeping their fandom alive? Have fans declared that nothing will stop their ship? Or have they been ho-hum about the end of their series?
- Are there other factors to keep the fandom alive? Spin-offs, movies, conventions.

Run, do not walk, to the Merlin kink meme.

Forget to get me something for my birthday? Feel a need to make the world a better place write more Merlin fic? I know just the thing. Although really, any of these requests would be lovely.

(Note the music.)

First and foremost: How I'm spending all my days (and nights): WE HAZ A PLAYLIST! Granted, it's only got two videos now, but we're rolling along now, full steam ahead! And we're the #61 most subscribed-to channel on YouTube, for what that's worth!

I'm sort of having a RL too, which is quite the enjoyable change. Last night I took paraka to my favourite restaurant in Chinatown, where we entertained the guy at the next table by talking loudly and freely about slash and squicks and AWZ (she's hooked!). After dinner we wanted to talk more, so we stumbled down to the cutest little bubble tea café -- don't care for the bubbles myself, but I had a yummy pineapple slushy. The café was just adorable tho, all Asia modern -- the kind of place you'd find in Toronto or Seattle or somewhere that's not Ottawa!

Now paraka and I are making plans to hijack the Ottawa Slashers. See, we always goes to the same Irish pub for our monthly brunches, which frankly is nothing special -- just your standard eggs/bacon/toast fare. One month the cook surprised us with a French toast option, and we went into paroxysms of delight, but the next time it was back to the basics. So we're thinking it's time to spring dim sum on the group, or bubble tea...anything different!

(I really shouldn't complain when I have a pack of intelligent, engaged, slash-friendly women to hang out with, should I? I do feel awfully lucky to have found them (or to have them find me, as was the case). And I have a whole new audience to lure into the AWZ love.)

But plans are for later -- I'm so looking forward to this weekend. I've got lots of things to catch up to, work and reading and even TV, but no deadlines, thank goodness. And I want to try to write something, anything. I don't feel like I've been writing very much this week at all, but my WriSo round-up says differently. I've topped 2200 words! Not too shabby!

Making Out (Deniz, 350 words)
All the Sweeter (Angel/Nene, Plata Quemada, 600 words)
Something Old, Something New (Deniz/Roman, 1000 words)
...and my latest, Empty Glasses (Roman, 275 words)

Since I've been vidding a lot this week, I'm letting my computer churn away while I write in longhand. I haven't done that in ages, and it's showing me that I write in chunks of images rather than in stories. When I'm in Word, that's okay -- I can cut/paste, move stuff around, and almost construct the story like I'm using Lego blocks. But when I try that on paper, I end up surrounded by scraps covered with words and arrows pointing in every direction. It's awfully chaotic, perhaps best for little character studies like the one I popped out tonight, but pretty unworkable for anything longer or more involved.

This weekend, though, I write. I don't know what... but I'm writing. I'm making these last two days of November count!

Lastly, I want to share the colours of my rainbow cuz it's pretty. ( Wanna see? )

How crazy is it at the grocery story on Black Friday? Even the library seems to be hopping. I'd like to pick up some water and a couple of other things, but I have major social anxiety.

Also, any movie recommendations? You know I like funny old movies, classics, and I wouldn't mind more current faves or recent kid's movies.

Or, me, Dad, Steve and Mr. Fantastic (twice!) as disco elves.

Dinner is over and the dishes are washed! Go me! *does victory dance*

( food talk )

This hasn't exactly been the greatest year for us. Never the less, I'm grateful for my wonderful friends, my great family and my lovely wife. I'm grateful that this country elected a President we can be proud of and I'm grateful that, even though it took a defeat to do it, my people and our allies are energized and ready to fight for our rights.

I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving or an enjoyable Thursday!

♥!!

Whether or not you celebrate the Holiday, you should still be able to appreciate this post...that's the idea, anyway.  It's heavier on the men and gay side than on the women, but there are a few fun pics featuring women inside.  In case you missed last year's Thanksgiving posts, the theme was Food Porn...and the links at the bottom of the page here will point you in the right direction to check them out. 

The NC17 rated version will be up in just a bit!

Enjoy!

Filthy Food - this post links to a really nasty/nice video of food porn.  R rated.

Fetish Fridays Celebrates Food - Yes, that's right.  Four posts of food porn.  Umm...if you only see two, that's because two of them are locked due to NC17 rated material.  You can become a member if you want to see them.

Enjoy!

~

The Festival of Giving Thanks
Author: telesilla
Fandom/Pairing: SGA, John Rodney
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~700
Disclaimer: The SGA characters do not belong to me. Duh.
Summary: "Why, on this night, do we give thanks together and not alone?"

Notes: Just a little Thanksgivingish piece that was written for mcsmooch. I hope everyone who celebrates had/is having a wonderful holiday!


( ''Tomorrow, it will be twenty years to the day since we stepped through the gate and into Atlantis.'' )