this is a post about fic and comics. oops.
Jan. 3rd, 2012 11:52 pmFirst up! There were some beautiful things written for me recently.
( written for me + two vid recs + comic rec )
( stuff I've written recently )
And while I don't feel like tracking down all the stuff I wrote this year, I figure I might as well answer the end-of-year writing questions meme because why not?
( talking about fic )
Um, I'm also going to declare this free-for-all on asking me anything about anything I've written. I kind of doubt there are questions, but if there are feel free to ask, or tell me that I got something wrong, or other stuff.
Happy New Year, everyone!
( written for me + two vid recs + comic rec )
( stuff I've written recently )
And while I don't feel like tracking down all the stuff I wrote this year, I figure I might as well answer the end-of-year writing questions meme because why not?
( talking about fic )
Um, I'm also going to declare this free-for-all on asking me anything about anything I've written. I kind of doubt there are questions, but if there are feel free to ask, or tell me that I got something wrong, or other stuff.
Happy New Year, everyone!
assorted stuff
Sep. 21st, 2011 09:38 amSo NFE reveals went up a while ago and I - neglected to mention mine here. Or stick it on A03. This is now rectified!
a cloud tangled in the tale of a kite
Narnia. Liliandil. Liliandil/Caspian.
On LJ. On A03.
Her heart is beating very fast indeed, and where she can feel the pulse at the corner of his wrist his is as well.
This is actually more or less a sequel to last year's NFE, your least gesture beckoned a constellation. (I even titled them from the same poem. I know, I know.) At first I was kind of worried as to whether I could write another fic about Liliandil, but as it turns out I quite like her and writing her - I should do it more often, but then again her and Caspian's lives just make me really, really sad. I hope I did justice to her. There was more I wish I could have figured out how to put in, on her tangled loyalties and maybe some meta on how stars work, but I got stuck too many times when I tried and I didn't have enough time to make it work. (I think it would have taken a long time.)
I've been working on the last thing for the We Love The Women That Fandom Hates fest, but it keeps being too big and taking too long. It will show up someday, I promise. :P
( real life stuff )
So there's a couple of icon memes going around! First round is from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fallingtowers . :D
( icon meme responses! )
Also have watched 2x01 of Downton Abbey and have a LOT of feelings about it. Feel free to ask me about them!
a cloud tangled in the tale of a kite
Narnia. Liliandil. Liliandil/Caspian.
On LJ. On A03.
Her heart is beating very fast indeed, and where she can feel the pulse at the corner of his wrist his is as well.
This is actually more or less a sequel to last year's NFE, your least gesture beckoned a constellation. (I even titled them from the same poem. I know, I know.) At first I was kind of worried as to whether I could write another fic about Liliandil, but as it turns out I quite like her and writing her - I should do it more often, but then again her and Caspian's lives just make me really, really sad. I hope I did justice to her. There was more I wish I could have figured out how to put in, on her tangled loyalties and maybe some meta on how stars work, but I got stuck too many times when I tried and I didn't have enough time to make it work. (I think it would have taken a long time.)
I've been working on the last thing for the We Love The Women That Fandom Hates fest, but it keeps being too big and taking too long. It will show up someday, I promise. :P
( real life stuff )
So there's a couple of icon memes going around! First round is from
fallingtowers . :D( icon meme responses! )
Also have watched 2x01 of Downton Abbey and have a LOT of feelings about it. Feel free to ask me about them!
Day 4 of Ladies Fest
Sep. 13th, 2011 09:36 amToday: assorted everythings. (Technically it is the morning of Day 5. It's still night time for you guys so there! :P Day 5 post will come later.)
Susan!
( recs and link to vid. )
Cassandra Cain
( friendship! )
Artemis Crock
( clip and comic panels )
Martha Jones (who was technically my Day 3 additional lady but I forgot halfway through that I needed to do two extra ladies because I was doing two days)
( some recs! )
Ginny Weasley
( a little bit of talking. )
MORE COMING TONIGHT. :D
Susan!
( recs and link to vid. )
Cassandra Cain
( friendship! )
Artemis Crock
( clip and comic panels )
Martha Jones (who was technically my Day 3 additional lady but I forgot halfway through that I needed to do two extra ladies because I was doing two days)
( some recs! )
Ginny Weasley
( a little bit of talking. )
MORE COMING TONIGHT. :D
We Love The Women That Fandom Hates, Day 1
Sep. 9th, 2011 03:20 pm So it's day 1 of the lady love fest! I've got three ladies
- Susan Pevensie (Narnia)
- Cassandra Cain (DC)
- Artemis Crock (Young Justice)
I figured Day 1 I would just talk a little bit about each of these amazing ladies and why I love them so much. I also have a plan to each day have a fourth segment where I do one little thing about a lady I didn't claim but who tends to be treated poorly in fandom.
Also, I'm open to requests/suggestions/prompts for picspams, short (VERY short) fics, questions you'd like me to answer about those three ladies, etc.
That having been said, on to Day 1!
Susan Pevensie
( it's Narnia guys spoilers for that I guess? )
Cassandra Cain
( spoilers for Cass' series )
Artemis Crock
( spoilers for tie-in comic and show )
DAY 1 BONUS
KARA THRACE .GIF SPAM
( .GIFS )
and that concludes Day 1 for me! GUYS I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE YOURS.
- Susan Pevensie (Narnia)
- Cassandra Cain (DC)
- Artemis Crock (Young Justice)
I figured Day 1 I would just talk a little bit about each of these amazing ladies and why I love them so much. I also have a plan to each day have a fourth segment where I do one little thing about a lady I didn't claim but who tends to be treated poorly in fandom.
Also, I'm open to requests/suggestions/prompts for picspams, short (VERY short) fics, questions you'd like me to answer about those three ladies, etc.
That having been said, on to Day 1!
Susan Pevensie
( it's Narnia guys spoilers for that I guess? )
Cassandra Cain
( spoilers for Cass' series )
Artemis Crock
( spoilers for tie-in comic and show )
DAY 1 BONUS
KARA THRACE .GIF SPAM
( .GIFS )
and that concludes Day 1 for me! GUYS I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE YOURS.
First, some recs!
Vialethe wrote some gorgeous Last Battle AU Susan/Edmund travelling the world.
Beccatoria did a lovely DCAU Wonder Woman vid, "I'm Holding Out For A Hero."
settiai did a fantastic Doctor Who Rory/Amy vid, "You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate". THEY HAVE PERFECT FACES.
Someone wrote me a lovely Ramandu's Island fic for the Narnia Fic Exchange, This is not an ending. I've been bad and neglectful and am only now commenting on it, but I really enjoyed it.
Stuff by me that I never mentioned here! My Remix fic.
Secret Virtues (the Blackmail and Bars Remix)
Highlander: The Series. Amanda, Methos. Pretty much gen. 1,003 words.
Amanda and Methos are definitely my favorite two characters from Highlander, and I love their interactions in canon, so this was quite fun to write. It's a little bit silly. :P
I'm currently speeding through reading the Alex Rider series. (The school library has all of them but the second.) You guys, the level of psychological damage this kid is carrying after just four books is INSANE. I shudder to think of how totally broken he's going to be after 8.
Communication levels here where I work: MINIMAL. We had a meeting three weeks after I got here where we were finally given a list of specific instructions for our jobs. Yeah. Before that we'd just been doing whatever we'd been told to do and not really knowing what we were supposed to do. I know. There was something on the list of specific duties about "checking the dorms every 30 minutes". I asked about it because I'd never been told to do that or seen anyone do that (including the two people telling me to do it), and they both looked at me and were like "Oh, nobody's told you that?" ... NO, okay, no, because nobody tells anybody anything in this hostel!
But mostly work is going okay. I may be coming down with chicken pox? Aidan had shingles and I've been feeling kind of bad the past few days. Tomorrow I have all day off so I'm going to sleep a lot and drink a lot of water and hopefully feel better. (It probably hasn't helped that my stomach has once again hit the "oh dear god this food is awful" spot and can't take most of it. I'll have to go to the grocery store today after lunch and see if I can find something decent to eat.)
Downloading takes so long on this connection.
I sort of love being pretty independent. :D And having money regularly. (Though I am trying to avoid spending most of it. My pay goes straight through to my card, and I try to only use the cash I get from vacuuming a lady's house on Friday's. :D)
I'm writing! I feel really happy about that. I think I'm going to do a "works in progress" meme sometime soon, because I keep fluttering between them and I could use the incentive to finish them. (It's kind of a bizarre list.)
Vialethe wrote some gorgeous Last Battle AU Susan/Edmund travelling the world.
Beccatoria did a lovely DCAU Wonder Woman vid, "I'm Holding Out For A Hero."
settiai did a fantastic Doctor Who Rory/Amy vid, "You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate". THEY HAVE PERFECT FACES.Someone wrote me a lovely Ramandu's Island fic for the Narnia Fic Exchange, This is not an ending. I've been bad and neglectful and am only now commenting on it, but I really enjoyed it.
Stuff by me that I never mentioned here! My Remix fic.
Secret Virtues (the Blackmail and Bars Remix)
Highlander: The Series. Amanda, Methos. Pretty much gen. 1,003 words.
Amanda and Methos are definitely my favorite two characters from Highlander, and I love their interactions in canon, so this was quite fun to write. It's a little bit silly. :P
I'm currently speeding through reading the Alex Rider series. (The school library has all of them but the second.) You guys, the level of psychological damage this kid is carrying after just four books is INSANE. I shudder to think of how totally broken he's going to be after 8.
Communication levels here where I work: MINIMAL. We had a meeting three weeks after I got here where we were finally given a list of specific instructions for our jobs. Yeah. Before that we'd just been doing whatever we'd been told to do and not really knowing what we were supposed to do. I know. There was something on the list of specific duties about "checking the dorms every 30 minutes". I asked about it because I'd never been told to do that or seen anyone do that (including the two people telling me to do it), and they both looked at me and were like "Oh, nobody's told you that?" ... NO, okay, no, because nobody tells anybody anything in this hostel!
But mostly work is going okay. I may be coming down with chicken pox? Aidan had shingles and I've been feeling kind of bad the past few days. Tomorrow I have all day off so I'm going to sleep a lot and drink a lot of water and hopefully feel better. (It probably hasn't helped that my stomach has once again hit the "oh dear god this food is awful" spot and can't take most of it. I'll have to go to the grocery store today after lunch and see if I can find something decent to eat.)
Downloading takes so long on this connection.
I sort of love being pretty independent. :D And having money regularly. (Though I am trying to avoid spending most of it. My pay goes straight through to my card, and I try to only use the cash I get from vacuuming a lady's house on Friday's. :D)
I'm writing! I feel really happy about that. I think I'm going to do a "works in progress" meme sometime soon, because I keep fluttering between them and I could use the incentive to finish them. (It's kind of a bizarre list.)
(no subject)
Jul. 16th, 2011 12:25 am So I'm trying desperately to finish, edit and submit my fic for the Narnia Fic Exchange this weekend, before Mary and Aidan get here. (OMG SO EXCITED)
Could I get some beta volunteers? The only bit you'd need to know is Voyage of the Dawn Treader, primarily bookverse. It's about 1,400 words right now, and it'll probably wind up around 2,000, maybe a little bit over. I'm not sure right now. It's trying to overshoot the limits I have. *eyes it* I don't have much time, so I doubt it'll get much longer than 2,000 words.
I was rewatching Half Blood Prince, which always gives me an urge to write an epic post-DH fic about Malfoy and his family recovering and moving on. I just have a lot of Feelings about Narcissa and Malfoy, okay! A LOT OF FEELINGS. (Lucius I don't have much sympathy for, really.) I'm just pretty sure someone has done it better, so the few sentences I wrote before I was like "Betsy shut up and write NFE" are stuck in limbo with the Prentiss-in-hiding fic and Hardy-Boys-in-trouble fic.
I want to get those done, hmmm. I think next year for Yuletide I'll see if I can sign up with the Hardy Boys.
cannot wait to see Deathly Hallow Part II. They were never as huge a part of my childhood as they were of so many people's, but everything I hear says it's a fantastic movie, and I think I'd definitely regret it if I didn't see it in theaters.
Could I get some beta volunteers? The only bit you'd need to know is Voyage of the Dawn Treader, primarily bookverse. It's about 1,400 words right now, and it'll probably wind up around 2,000, maybe a little bit over. I'm not sure right now. It's trying to overshoot the limits I have. *eyes it* I don't have much time, so I doubt it'll get much longer than 2,000 words.
I was rewatching Half Blood Prince, which always gives me an urge to write an epic post-DH fic about Malfoy and his family recovering and moving on. I just have a lot of Feelings about Narcissa and Malfoy, okay! A LOT OF FEELINGS. (Lucius I don't have much sympathy for, really.) I'm just pretty sure someone has done it better, so the few sentences I wrote before I was like "Betsy shut up and write NFE" are stuck in limbo with the Prentiss-in-hiding fic and Hardy-Boys-in-trouble fic.
I want to get those done, hmmm. I think next year for Yuletide I'll see if I can sign up with the Hardy Boys.
cannot wait to see Deathly Hallow Part II. They were never as huge a part of my childhood as they were of so many people's, but everything I hear says it's a fantastic movie, and I think I'd definitely regret it if I didn't see it in theaters.
okay I have been a whiny twerp most of today. this is partially because I am cramping before my period (lol body thanks for stooping to new lows of putting me in pain) and I am still feeling restless and I am tired of cleaning house even though I have done very little of it this summer. any house cleaning feels like too much right now. (I literally spent a large portion of my junior year cleaning house for my mom. and a lot of that summer. and a lot of last fall.)
I'm also having a lot of trouble concentrating. and still utterly failing at crushes.
BUT NEVERTHELESS. between yesterday and today, I have managed to write almost 3K of X-Men fic (ANON ALL ANON SO ANON). it is on two different fics. so far only the first one is embarrassing, but the second one is fast approaching embarrassing too.
and I also suddenly feel a desire to work on that Edmund/Ianto sequel. It's set in the gap between Torchwood S1&2. Edmund takes a temporary job at Torchwood while he's on the run from something. There is Time Agent shenanigans and memory loss and I think Susan might come into it! It... will likely never get finished because there is a LOT of story to it.
which reminds me that I think Charles Xavier and Lucy Pevensie would get along SMASHINGLY. (he reminds her of Tumnus. something in his smile, bright and open. or maybe it's the blue of his eyes, or the tilt of his head. she's a regenerative mutant former queen of a fantasy country, he's a paralyzed telepath mutant professor. together with her sister they fight crime/prejudice/fear/hatred!)
also that I want all the icons.
and my new shiny laptop, even though I haven't ordered it yet. (tomorrow, I hope.)
oh snap dishes time.
this has been Betsy being utterly ridiculous. signing off for the next - uh, half hour? then I'll be back and writing again probably, because i am incorrigible and apparently can't go to sleep before like 1 in the morning and only then because that's when my mom goes to sleep and therefore checks on me.
I FEEL LIKE COMMENTFICCING WHO WANTS TO COMMENTFIC
I'm also having a lot of trouble concentrating. and still utterly failing at crushes.
BUT NEVERTHELESS. between yesterday and today, I have managed to write almost 3K of X-Men fic (ANON ALL ANON SO ANON). it is on two different fics. so far only the first one is embarrassing, but the second one is fast approaching embarrassing too.
and I also suddenly feel a desire to work on that Edmund/Ianto sequel. It's set in the gap between Torchwood S1&2. Edmund takes a temporary job at Torchwood while he's on the run from something. There is Time Agent shenanigans and memory loss and I think Susan might come into it! It... will likely never get finished because there is a LOT of story to it.
which reminds me that I think Charles Xavier and Lucy Pevensie would get along SMASHINGLY. (he reminds her of Tumnus. something in his smile, bright and open. or maybe it's the blue of his eyes, or the tilt of his head. she's a regenerative mutant former queen of a fantasy country, he's a paralyzed telepath mutant professor. together with her sister they fight crime/prejudice/fear/hatred!)
also that I want all the icons.
and my new shiny laptop, even though I haven't ordered it yet. (tomorrow, I hope.)
oh snap dishes time.
this has been Betsy being utterly ridiculous. signing off for the next - uh, half hour? then I'll be back and writing again probably, because i am incorrigible and apparently can't go to sleep before like 1 in the morning and only then because that's when my mom goes to sleep and therefore checks on me.
I FEEL LIKE COMMENTFICCING WHO WANTS TO COMMENTFIC
Narnia rewatch!
May. 22nd, 2011 02:48 pm From about 3-10 EST today, I'll be rewatching all the Narnia movies and chatting with friends HERE. come join in! any time that works for you.
It's going to be loads of fun. :D
It's going to be loads of fun. :D
three super-important things! \o/
May. 18th, 2011 07:24 pmfirstly, happiest of happy birthdays to Lass! I was going to post that, y'know, yesterday, but I didn't want to until the fic went up. <333333333333334569101 YOU ARE MY SUNSHIIIIIIINE, YOU MAKE ME HAPPYYYYYY WHEN SKIES ARE BLUUUUUE.
secondly, and this is kind of RL important - I need advice on buying a laptop. I don't like Macs, for starters. (I don't like working on them or their set-up style, and would need a really convincing argument to buy one.) I need a laptop that's good for graphics, is very sturdy, and as lightweight as I can get it. I want a pretty large screen, but I also need to be able to travel with it easily. I guess a 13" or 15"? And it needs to either have a lot of space on the harddrive or there needs to be an easy way for me to get more room to put stuff on. So - advice? What laptops have you found are really good? Which ones fail all the time? Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!
LASTLY AND ALSO TOTALLY IMPORTANT. This Sunday (EST) afternoon, probably starting around 2 but maybe later, I'm going to be rewatching all the Narnia movies. Timing depends somewhat on who else can be there when. I should definitely be around all afternoon anyways. I'll be on Skype and the NFFR chat rooms and Tumblr and Twitter and pretty much everywhere and would love company.
This brought on by me having a really bad headache Monday night and rewatching bits and pieces of all three movies, and continuing to do so today. (oh my god, how come the last bit of LWW always makes me cry? SO BEAUTIFUL, SO HAPPY, SO IN CONTROL and then it is all just STRIPPED AWAY FROM THEM LEWIS I HATE YOU FOREVER.) like - I don't even want to fic, there are too many feelings to fic them. TOO MANY FEELINGS. ALL I KNOW IS FLAIL AND SQUEE.
as reference, here are the Tumblr posts I made:
( ALL THE FEELINGS FOR NARNIA )
BUT YOU LOVE ME ANYWAY. AND I LOVE YOU.
(rewatching VotDT again: nnnnnnnngh boys in chains why is this cast so pretty.)
Also Doctor Who this week was spectacular. Oh, Gaiman. Thank you. I do not like all your stuff, but you did well.
secondly, and this is kind of RL important - I need advice on buying a laptop. I don't like Macs, for starters. (I don't like working on them or their set-up style, and would need a really convincing argument to buy one.) I need a laptop that's good for graphics, is very sturdy, and as lightweight as I can get it. I want a pretty large screen, but I also need to be able to travel with it easily. I guess a 13" or 15"? And it needs to either have a lot of space on the harddrive or there needs to be an easy way for me to get more room to put stuff on. So - advice? What laptops have you found are really good? Which ones fail all the time? Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!
LASTLY AND ALSO TOTALLY IMPORTANT. This Sunday (EST) afternoon, probably starting around 2 but maybe later, I'm going to be rewatching all the Narnia movies. Timing depends somewhat on who else can be there when. I should definitely be around all afternoon anyways. I'll be on Skype and the NFFR chat rooms and Tumblr and Twitter and pretty much everywhere and would love company.
This brought on by me having a really bad headache Monday night and rewatching bits and pieces of all three movies, and continuing to do so today. (oh my god, how come the last bit of LWW always makes me cry? SO BEAUTIFUL, SO HAPPY, SO IN CONTROL and then it is all just STRIPPED AWAY FROM THEM LEWIS I HATE YOU FOREVER.) like - I don't even want to fic, there are too many feelings to fic them. TOO MANY FEELINGS. ALL I KNOW IS FLAIL AND SQUEE.
as reference, here are the Tumblr posts I made:
( ALL THE FEELINGS FOR NARNIA )
BUT YOU LOVE ME ANYWAY. AND I LOVE YOU.
(rewatching VotDT again: nnnnnnnngh boys in chains why is this cast so pretty.)
Also Doctor Who this week was spectacular. Oh, Gaiman. Thank you. I do not like all your stuff, but you did well.
meme responses!
Feb. 16th, 2011 04:14 pmFirst genderswap meme response up here: Golden Age Pevensies & Queen Cassia, picspam & accompanying fic. Yes, that is a new community. I wanted someplace to dump things that wasn't my personal journal. More genderswap replies coming later for: Supernatural, Merlin, Downton Abbey & White Collar.
and now for the Awesome Ladies meme!
the list:
1. Susan Pevensie (Narnia)
2. Keladry of Mindelan (Protector of the Small)
3. Jesse Flores (T:SCC)
4. Amy Pond (Doctor Who)
5. Nikita (Nikita)
6. Lady Mary Crawley (Downton Abbey)
7. Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Battlestar Galactica)
8. Emily Prentiss (Criminal Minds)
9. Anna Milton (Supernatural)
10. Diana Barrigan (White Collar)
11. Kono Kalakaua (Hawaii Five-0)
12. Holland Donaghue (OC)
13. River Song (Doctor Who)
14. Jenny Lewis (Primeval)
15. Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)
(do you know how hard this was to narrow down? I wanted to put EVERYONE on there. I switched names in and out for probably half an hour before settling on this. SO MANY LADIES.)
and responses!
( 11 responses. )
and that one meme with your WIP titles. I don't really have a WIP folder, just a writing one, but let's see what I've got in there.
( I have got to finish some of this stuff. )
and now for the Awesome Ladies meme!
the list:
1. Susan Pevensie (Narnia)
2. Keladry of Mindelan (Protector of the Small)
3. Jesse Flores (T:SCC)
4. Amy Pond (Doctor Who)
5. Nikita (Nikita)
6. Lady Mary Crawley (Downton Abbey)
7. Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Battlestar Galactica)
8. Emily Prentiss (Criminal Minds)
9. Anna Milton (Supernatural)
10. Diana Barrigan (White Collar)
11. Kono Kalakaua (Hawaii Five-0)
12. Holland Donaghue (OC)
13. River Song (Doctor Who)
14. Jenny Lewis (Primeval)
15. Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)
(do you know how hard this was to narrow down? I wanted to put EVERYONE on there. I switched names in and out for probably half an hour before settling on this. SO MANY LADIES.)
and responses!
( 11 responses. )
and that one meme with your WIP titles. I don't really have a WIP folder, just a writing one, but let's see what I've got in there.
( I have got to finish some of this stuff. )
(no subject)
Dec. 17th, 2010 02:33 pmI have seen Dawn Treader, and I loved it. Bit of a hurry, so I'll just copy-paste what I wrote over on NFFR.
Loved loved loved it.
( Spoilers. )
In other news, my dad is apparently going to have "minor surgery" to clear up an infection? I don't know! Nobody tells me anything around here. FML. Off to park, perhaps running around and throwing things will help.
Loved loved loved it.
( Spoilers. )
In other news, my dad is apparently going to have "minor surgery" to clear up an infection? I don't know! Nobody tells me anything around here. FML. Off to park, perhaps running around and throwing things will help.
(no subject)
Aug. 26th, 2010 10:07 pm Hey guys! My NFE fic should be done tomorrow (Saturday at the latest). Obviously I can't give anything away, but could I get some offers for beta-ing? I'd like to have two different names to submit so if I can't do one of them I don't have to run around searching for a second one, since I'm going to be just scraping deadline as is. (How do I always end up doing this? Don't answer that. Rhetorical.)
In other news, DIANAAAA. NEAAAAL. JONES & PETER & EL and date night! White Collar frequently just makes me SO HAPPY. *flails*
I want to vid ALL THE THIIIINGS. White Collar's camera work is absolutely GORGEOUS. I've been getting episodes all day yesterday and today, and soon I will be ready to vid it up! Although it'll have to go on hold once help_pakistan bidding finishes. (It ends Saturday night, guys! You are missing out if you have not checked out what is being offered! It's pretty epic. :D)
ALSO rock climbing is epic and makes me so HAPPYYYYYYY.
In other news, DIANAAAA. NEAAAAL. JONES & PETER & EL and date night! White Collar frequently just makes me SO HAPPY. *flails*
I want to vid ALL THE THIIIINGS. White Collar's camera work is absolutely GORGEOUS. I've been getting episodes all day yesterday and today, and soon I will be ready to vid it up! Although it'll have to go on hold once help_pakistan bidding finishes. (It ends Saturday night, guys! You are missing out if you have not checked out what is being offered! It's pretty epic. :D)
ALSO rock climbing is epic and makes me so HAPPYYYYYYY.
the birds and the bees (Narnia drabble)
Aug. 4th, 2010 02:58 pm random mini fic!
the birds and the bees
Narnia. Edmund, Eustace. PG-13. 271 words.
( Edmund has a frank talk with Eustace )
the birds and the bees
Narnia. Edmund, Eustace. PG-13. 271 words.
( Edmund has a frank talk with Eustace )
(no subject)
Jul. 11th, 2010 02:41 pm + I, uh, may or may not have revamped all my icons. Again. (Note: the one icon that has remained constant since more or less the beginning is Susan-being-kickass. The icon might change, but it's the one type of icon I think I've always had. SUSAN.)
+ it's not my fault! it's just, there was Jo, and I LOVE Jo, and plus it was a wanderlust icon! and things just kept spiraling completely out of control from there. (also WANDERLUST. I have it so badly.)
+ People have been wonderfully awesome today! flist, carry on being awesome! <333
+ One thing that was not particularly awesome - in the lesson at Sunday school today, the teacher spent a good five-ten minutes talking about how it's your fault (and only yours) if you're upset, or sad. Which - okay, I think I'm a mindset where I can actually talk intelligently about this for a moment. ( rambling for a moment. )
+ Huh! I still feel happy. This is good.
+ You guys, the "gotcha" moment from the Doctor Who finale is now guaranteed to make me start crying. Actual tears! OH SEASON FIVE, how so AWESOME?
+ I have writing mojo back! Interestingly enough, not for fanfic at all (oops! uh. I will get those things I need to write done! I will! Just not today. Or this week.). In fact, it is all for original fic, Harborverse and then I've got some 2K of character outlining and scene bits for something to put in the WIP folder and come back to later. Or possibly I'll just write today, whatever I want to, because I have inspiration and I have been missing this so much, so MUCH. The joy of writing is a beautiful thing, and I really needed that yesterday, and I love the feeling and the joy of visualizing things and writing them down and I just love it so so much. <3333 I'm off to write now!
ETA: I almost forgot! I wanted to link you to all to this fantastic anti-rape ad - apparently it is being run in Scotland? It is really well-done.
+ it's not my fault! it's just, there was Jo, and I LOVE Jo, and plus it was a wanderlust icon! and things just kept spiraling completely out of control from there. (also WANDERLUST. I have it so badly.)
+ People have been wonderfully awesome today! flist, carry on being awesome! <333
+ One thing that was not particularly awesome - in the lesson at Sunday school today, the teacher spent a good five-ten minutes talking about how it's your fault (and only yours) if you're upset, or sad. Which - okay, I think I'm a mindset where I can actually talk intelligently about this for a moment. ( rambling for a moment. )
+ Huh! I still feel happy. This is good.
+ You guys, the "gotcha" moment from the Doctor Who finale is now guaranteed to make me start crying. Actual tears! OH SEASON FIVE, how so AWESOME?
+ I have writing mojo back! Interestingly enough, not for fanfic at all (oops! uh. I will get those things I need to write done! I will! Just not today. Or this week.). In fact, it is all for original fic, Harborverse and then I've got some 2K of character outlining and scene bits for something to put in the WIP folder and come back to later. Or possibly I'll just write today, whatever I want to, because I have inspiration and I have been missing this so much, so MUCH. The joy of writing is a beautiful thing, and I really needed that yesterday, and I love the feeling and the joy of visualizing things and writing them down and I just love it so so much. <3333 I'm off to write now!
ETA: I almost forgot! I wanted to link you to all to this fantastic anti-rape ad - apparently it is being run in Scotland? It is really well-done.
In Some Dreaming State (Narnia, fanvid)
Jun. 8th, 2010 08:38 pmTitle: In Some Dreaming State
Vidder:be_themoon
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia (
Music: "Blinding" by Florence + The Machine
Spoilers: For both movies.
Summary: No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love with the wrong world. Susan, and the wrongs done to her.
Streaming/Download: Streaming at Vimeo and download at FileFront.
Notes: I'm annoyed at some timing issues that won't go right, and definitely annoyed that I wasn't able to get copies of the movies that were both full-screen or wide-screen, rather than one of each. But in the end, this is the Susan vid that I really wanted to make. I wish I could do a full-length version of the song - maybe someday I'll be able to, if I use outside sources as well. In short - oh, Susan. This is my version of meta on the many, many ways she got screwed over by the narrative.
( Seems that I have been held, in some dreaming state. )
Vidder:
be_themoonFandom: Chronicles of Narnia (
Music: "Blinding" by Florence + The Machine
Spoilers: For both movies.
Summary: No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love with the wrong world. Susan, and the wrongs done to her.
Streaming/Download: Streaming at Vimeo and download at FileFront.
Notes: I'm annoyed at some timing issues that won't go right, and definitely annoyed that I wasn't able to get copies of the movies that were both full-screen or wide-screen, rather than one of each. But in the end, this is the Susan vid that I really wanted to make. I wish I could do a full-length version of the song - maybe someday I'll be able to, if I use outside sources as well. In short - oh, Susan. This is my version of meta on the many, many ways she got screwed over by the narrative.
( Seems that I have been held, in some dreaming state. )
a pile of good and bad things.
Jun. 8th, 2010 10:29 amFirst off, I would like to take a moment to pimp the Narnia Fic Exchange. (OMG YAY.)
Go! Sign up! Enjoy! Sign-ups are open until June 19th. *claps hands excitedly* I am looking forward to this SO MUCH, you have no idea.
Doctor Who last Saturday! Guys, SO GOOD.
( Spoilers for Doctor Who 5x10, )
( Stuff from next week's blurb/preview. )
HEY DW FANDOM, while I'm on Doctor Who. Stop it with the slut-shaming and other absurdity! Feminism: you're getting it wrong. If you dislike Amy, try to dislike her in a rational manner. I know it can be done! I know people who are doing it in a rational manner! You can do it too. (Well, I'd prefer you just convert to thinking she is the awesomest, but I'll settle for disliking her for rational reasons that don't involve saying she dresses like a slut, which is especially insulting to me because - well, does that mean you think I'm a slut for having legs like hers and wanting to wear her clothes?) I encourage you to engage in reasonable discussions, thoughtfulness, and a deep deep look at internalized misogyny. Thanks!
no love until you stop the hypocrisy and vileness,
Betsy.
Go! Sign up! Enjoy! Sign-ups are open until June 19th. *claps hands excitedly* I am looking forward to this SO MUCH, you have no idea.
Doctor Who last Saturday! Guys, SO GOOD.
( Spoilers for Doctor Who 5x10, )
( Stuff from next week's blurb/preview. )
HEY DW FANDOM, while I'm on Doctor Who. Stop it with the slut-shaming and other absurdity! Feminism: you're getting it wrong. If you dislike Amy, try to dislike her in a rational manner. I know it can be done! I know people who are doing it in a rational manner! You can do it too. (Well, I'd prefer you just convert to thinking she is the awesomest, but I'll settle for disliking her for rational reasons that don't involve saying she dresses like a slut, which is especially insulting to me because - well, does that mean you think I'm a slut for having legs like hers and wanting to wear her clothes?) I encourage you to engage in reasonable discussions, thoughtfulness, and a deep deep look at internalized misogyny. Thanks!
no love until you stop the hypocrisy and vileness,
Betsy.
"Ray, stop telling me how to pitch."
May. 7th, 2010 02:26 pmI'm off! Be back Sunday.
Things I may or may not have done before I left - compiled a primer for myself on Major League Baseball rules, just to make sure I've got things right, and a list of all GK characters.
oh my god, you guys, and this is on top of the 2K of Edmund/Ianto sequel I've been poking at ever since I wrote the first one, and then Remix (which I should really get started on, obviously).
I'll have a lot of time in the car?
Things I may or may not have done before I left - compiled a primer for myself on Major League Baseball rules, just to make sure I've got things right, and a list of all GK characters.
oh my god, you guys, and this is on top of the 2K of Edmund/Ianto sequel I've been poking at ever since I wrote the first one, and then Remix (which I should really get started on, obviously).
I'll have a lot of time in the car?
this weekend (and this week), I went on a Matt Damon kick, which means I watched all three Bourne movies and then Ocean's 11, 12 and 13. but it is The Bourne Trilogy that I want to squee about, because JASON and MARIE and all of them and eee! For spy movies, they're surprisingly character-oriented. It's all about Jason's journey to figure himself out. I went back to Identity yesterday to watch it with my sister, and it's a bit of a shock after Supremacy and Ultimatum to see him looking so innocent and young. Oh, Jason. (Not that he does not always look almost absurdly young. I swear, in that scene in Ocean's 11 where he's got his backpack and baseball hat, he looks like he is fourteen. Maybe.) anyways, I'm busily being ridiculously thrilled by how competent he is, and how wonderful, and how Landy is pretty much made of hard boiled awesome from the moment she steps on screen, and how Marie adjusts and learns and is fabulous, and how Nicky helps him even though looking at a man she may once have loved who doesn't even recognize her now must hurt like hell. (I was so pleased they didn't go the Nicky/Jason route, by the way. I think it would have been a cop-out, and I loved that paralleling of the disguise scene, when he looks at her and you know he's remembering Marie. oh Jason!)
I cannot eveeeen. when he smiles! kahglsdhskhhsld
oh! for those of you who are Narnia fans, this is revisionist fake history for Narnia at it's collaborative best. it is HILARIOUS. Jadis; a victim of British Imperialism? Lucy the Bloody Crusader? Jadis' Always-Winter-Never-Christmas Policy explained? READ.
and now a short poem, and bed! I do not want to wake up early tomorrow. I am feeling lazy and unmotivated and I haven't done anything I was supposed to today. I shouldn't go to that baseball game tomorrow. I probably won't. argh.
Delayed Reactions by Sherman Pearl
After the hammer slams down on your thumb
or the hurtful word penetrates,
a stunned moment follows.
You're like a soldier who feels no pain until he sees the wound.
Happiness, too, is sometimes slow to register.
It was years after the rain had sent
me and the girl huddled close to me dashing for cover
that I suddenly felt the drops.
I cannot eveeeen. when he smiles! kahglsdhskhhsld
oh! for those of you who are Narnia fans, this is revisionist fake history for Narnia at it's collaborative best. it is HILARIOUS. Jadis; a victim of British Imperialism? Lucy the Bloody Crusader? Jadis' Always-Winter-Never-Christmas Policy explained? READ.
and now a short poem, and bed! I do not want to wake up early tomorrow. I am feeling lazy and unmotivated and I haven't done anything I was supposed to today. I shouldn't go to that baseball game tomorrow. I probably won't. argh.
Delayed Reactions by Sherman Pearl
After the hammer slams down on your thumb
or the hurtful word penetrates,
a stunned moment follows.
You're like a soldier who feels no pain until he sees the wound.
Happiness, too, is sometimes slow to register.
It was years after the rain had sent
me and the girl huddled close to me dashing for cover
that I suddenly felt the drops.
oh, internets, I am tired and weary, for I have spent over a week worrying about whether my dad will freak out today or not, and being in charge of the house, and trying to make Kat and Sam do what they are supposed to do, but they will never listen. And today was not really that good, because there were People and my dad dragged us to his church at the last minute, and though I wore heels (in point of fact, my most fabulous purple shiny heels) to intimidate People, the music still shook my bones. And Papa was very irritable, and my sister got married yesterday in New Zealand and she was beautiful and I love her and I am very, very tired. Also there were People.
religion wearies me right now, especially after I was accidentally linked to the Narnia forums on ff.net. Internets, I was horrified. Together with Unsavory Business in the newspapers, my faith in humanity has been dealt a serious blow, though Doctor Who yesterday did much to help restore it. <333 ("There is an escaped fish in the area." also, "Gotcha.")
have poetry! it makes me happy.
Manifesto by Margot Schilpp
( To love something / you must have considered what it means / to do without. )
religion wearies me right now, especially after I was accidentally linked to the Narnia forums on ff.net. Internets, I was horrified. Together with Unsavory Business in the newspapers, my faith in humanity has been dealt a serious blow, though Doctor Who yesterday did much to help restore it. <333 ("There is an escaped fish in the area." also, "Gotcha.")
have poetry! it makes me happy.
Manifesto by Margot Schilpp
( To love something / you must have considered what it means / to do without. )
