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[Dec. 7th, 2009|04:45 pm] |
Is it Snowflake Cookie Day and nobody told me? Thank you guys, I love you too.
It is my mum's birthday the day after tomorrow, I know this because my sister said to me at breakfast "you do know it's mum's birthday on Wednesday, don't you?"
Yes, yes. Of course I know that. What sort of terrible unappreciative daughter do you think I am? Shitshitshitshit. Must get a present. What does mum like? Apart from gin, obviously.
And the shops were packed with people doing x-mas shopping. X-mas shopping? Already?
When I come to power people more organised than me will be banned.
So that'll be pretty much everybody, then. |
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| Pimp! |
[Dec. 4th, 2009|11:23 pm] |
Blimey, is it December already? Doesn't time fly when you're... I want to say having fun, but, this year? Not so much.
On a cheerful note, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) fandom_stocking is running again. I did it last year and thought it was brilliant. What you do is put your name down along with a list of your fannish interests, and brilliant people leave you stuff (drabbles, icons, recs, general good wishes) and you do the same for other people. And we all feel all warm and fuzzy about each other. It's nice.
My stocking is here should whimsy grab you.
Like last year, I shall try and write ficlets for any of ye olde f-list that have stockings. Like last year, when I fail it's not that I don't love you. |
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| Final wrisomifu ficlet |
[Dec. 1st, 2009|01:48 am] |
Okay, technically it's December now, but most of this was written yesterday, so it still counts. Written for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) shaggydogstail most excellent prompt: Morgana and Gwen save Arthur from being eaten by bears. As you can see had something of a failure of imagination in regards to the title.
The One Where Morgana and Gwen (and Merlin) Save Arthur From Being Eaten By Bears
Merlin; Arthur, Merlin, Gwen, Morgana; 998 words
( Kindly allow me to distract you with this baby rabbit ) |
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[Nov. 28th, 2009|11:49 pm] |
Fuck, Edinburgh wasn't a city today, it was a segment of a wildlife documentary about the Arctic, voiced by David Attenborough. Plus, Scotland managed to lose 9-6 to Argentina. Stop trying to do cross-field kicks, team, you're no good at them.
So I came home to the warm and watched Merlin on iplayer.
( Sweet Dreams ) |
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| Shiny New Thing |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|02:26 am] |
Have now watched the first two episodes of Legend of the Seeker. It's like if Merlin was slightly cheesier and had an awesome girl in a swishy white dress who fought with knives, it's fantabulous.
Speaking of girls with pretty hair and awesome knife fighting skills, knowing as you do my taste in female characters, exactly how big, on a scale from one to fucking epic, do you think my crush on Kahlan is already.
Hint: the words fucking epic were a clue.
I sort of want to ship her with Morgana from Merlin, is that wrong? |
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| It's not too late to tell me I'm adopted |
[Nov. 25th, 2009|07:50 pm] |
So, this morning my father was walking up the garden path with his head down trying to keep his hair dry and he walked smack-bam into our glass back door and split his head open.
This is what is known as a moment of supreme genius.
Which made first job of the day taking him to the hospital. It took me fifteen minutes to drive there and in that time I learned that I don't keep the interior of my car clean enough, that if I used the more expensive petrol like my dad told me the engine wouldn't be making that strange noise, and that if I got a proper job I could afford to change that squeaky windscreen wiper.
Seriously, if a bleeding head wound doesn't stop your parents from criticising you, then what will?
On the plus side it did give me a chance to see the (exceptionally cute) casualty doctor, who I last saw when my sister broke her arm and didn't tell anyone for two days and when my mum sneezed and crashed her car. I wonder what it says about me that I've developed a crush on someone I only see when me or members of my family are bleeding.
Oh, my dad's fine.
On a more fannish note: has everyone seen the Merlin episode 12 promo shots? Taxi for one to the special hell! |
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| Important Lesson Learned |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|03:18 pm] |
If you're temping at, say, the Scottish Football Association, and you fake an emergency in order to go and watch a rugby game, then it's perhaps an idea to avoid being seen in a BBC panning crowd shot, drinking and singing Flower of Scotland.
Eh, they probably didn't see me. After all, they were supposed to be working.
Also, bloody brilliant game.
Also also, Ouchie, my hangover. |
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| Beta? |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|12:33 am] |
Hello, would any of you lovely people be up for beta reading a 4000 word Merlin fic? It's very silly Merlin/Morgana with magical misadventures and people being ravished in wardrobes.
Mainly for typos and inexcusable grammar errors.
You'd be a friend for life. Also, I'd give you a cookie.
Two cookies? |
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| Procrastination, yay! |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|03:39 am] |
Because I can't sleep and this fic is refusing to write itself:
Leave me a comment saying, "Resistance is futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
elliptic_eye asked me:
( 1. What do you want to be when you grow up? )
( 2. What's your second-worst fear? )
( 3. If you were going to say fuck it and go in for a life of crime... )
( 4. Marry, shag, or cliff: slinkies, Mount Everest, those fruity drinks with the little umbrellas in them. )
( 5. If you could keep three things about yourself unchanged through all your life, what would they be? )
And stolen from everywhere
Name a fandom, and I'll tell you three ships I love, two ships I'd consider shipping and one ship I hate. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|10:11 pm] |
The latest excuse for why I haven't been paid yet:
"The timesheets aren't reaching us on time because of the postal strike."
Okay. But I e-mailed mine in. Gee, this mail strike must be more comprehensive than any of us ever suspected.
Money, please. |
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| Where I waffle about things, most of them Merlin |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|03:35 am] |
1. Is LJ playing silly buggers with anyone else's comment notifications? Cause I'm getting replies to comments I've posted, but not posts I've made. How odd.
2. My latest temp gig is only half a week: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings. Well, okay, but don't expect me to be any more efficient just because I'm only there half the time.
3. I have got an AO3 account because that's what everyone else was doing. I have to say I'm quite liking it, I haven't really been keeping up with the OTW stuff, but the interface for uploading fic beats the pants off any other archive I've used. Plus, I quite liked the idea of having everything I've written all in one place. So far all that's there is Merlin fic, because I know where that is, and it's recent enough not to be mortifying.
4. So this week's Merlin was the best of series 2 so far, I think ( Sins of the Father ) |
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| Yuletide |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|01:00 am] |
Yuletide assignment arrived and is surprisingly non-petrifying. It's... different, and certainly not what I'd write if left to my own devices, but do-able. I predict minimal weeping and very little rending, and even then only of garments I'm not that keen on.
And, yes, by all means point me back at this post in a month when the nervous collapse is in full swing. |
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| Recs 'n stuff |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|05:45 pm] |
Am having a lovely weekend so far, helped by the fact that Scotland won their first rugby match in bloody ages today, 23-10 against Fiji, who are a proper team and everything. Yay!
Spent most of yesterday reading some of the dw_femslash stories, that ficathon always throws up some cracking fic, but of the ones I read yesterday two that were absolutely outstanding:
And Explode Into Space by biichan (Donna/Ace) Which was written for me, and has a time travelling motorbike, Ace in a tux and Big Fucking Dinosaurs. It's like all my favourite things were smushed together into one totally fabulous fic.
Show Me More of This Traken Thing Called Kissing by doyle_sb4 (Tegan/Nyssa) Which is a lovely hilarious cuddly toy of a fic, that I just want to hug forever. It makes me all nostalgic for Five era's dysfunctional time travelling family.
While I'm here I shall also rec this Morgana/Gwen/Arthur heartbreaking vid of heartbreakiness
Yes, so Merlin's on a bit, and it's Waters of Mars tomorrow. Plus, I have to see if I know any Fijians that I could call and gloat. |
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| Dear Yuletide Author, |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|10:44 pm] |
Hello! This is my first year doing yuletide - so if you're nervous please be assured that I almost certainly feel worse - and my first attempt at doing one of these letters.
First, the good news, you have volunteered to write in one of these fandoms which means you rock. Go you! Also, I am ridiculously easy to please and I will like almost anything. I would also vastly prefer that you write something that you enjoy rather than tie yourself in knots trying to please me.
That said, my only absolute bulletproof squick is non-con, so, please, no.
Things that make me especially happy: Female characters kicking ass, gen, humour.
( In which I bibble amount my requests - Christopher Brookmyre, Megan Whalen Turner, Being Human )
Of course you should feel free to ignore any of that. But if you want more information here are a couple of links: Things I have written and Things other people have written that I love |
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| Wibble |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|01:23 pm] |
I would like to make one thing clear from the get go: I don't do Yuletide. Ever. I sit and giggle manically at you lot weeping and rending your garments and then I enjoy all the lovely fic at the end. This is what is known as a win-win situation.
Except. This year, apparently, I do do Yuletide.
I blame all of you for this, for making it sound so wonderful. And I expect sympathy when the weeping and general rending starts. |
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