| Pride re-run |
[Jun. 24th, 2008|03:11 pm] |
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I haven't done anything for Pride this year, so I am re-posting a QaF drabble I wrote last year and posted in some community or other. Anyway, here it is again:
Someday I will finish another chapter of my Molly fic too. |
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| Why I hate IJ and LJ |
[Mar. 14th, 2008|12:20 pm] |
For those who haven't already heard this rant, I hate IJ because I don't like the whole "insane" journal, "patients" , "asylums", etc. concept. I know it's supposed to be funny, but to me it isn't. And it probably won't ever be funny to me. It's disrespectful to the mentally ill, in my opinion.
I also hate IJ for the ads, because you can't seem to make them go away unless you pay for a journal. I'm intense; I admit it. I do my best to avoid purchasing products from environmentally unfriendly corporations, I try really hard to avoid buying products from companies that exploit child laborers. You have read my attempts to Christmas shop without buying anything from China because China poisoned our pets and our kids. I actually try to not buy anything from China, but I have cold feet and I really, really, needed some socks. The bottom line is that I don't want to help advertise a company whose policies I disagree with! (Okay, maybe I'm not just intense, I might even be actively annoying.)
But anyway, LJ had some claim to superiority because they didn't force you to accept advertising to have a free journal. Only now that the 100 Days of Happiness with the new Russian owners is up, you have to accept ads; unless you pay to get rid of them. And LJ didn't even announce that; instead it just sorta slid it in. Earlier this month, LJ DID announce its new policies and guidelines and ask for comments.
OH, I have been commenting, all right! My last one said that companies that exploit child laborers were of more concern to me and more offensive to me than any drawing of Romeo and Juliet making love could ever be and what was LJ going to do to make sure none of their advertisers exploited real children?
So feel free to comment on LJ's latest nonsense, or at least post a sketch of Romeo and Juliet doing the nasty.
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| It's time to wax philosophical. |
[Mar. 8th, 2008|08:29 am] |
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This is an open post.
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| A ficlet from long ago |
[Mar. 1st, 2008|05:23 pm] |
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I have this plan to one day post all of my fiction here, so it is in one place. So this one was originally posted only in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lovebashed's journal in response to a song playlist thingy. Thus, it was originally posted here: http://lovebashed.livejournal.com/81990.html
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| Teeny tiny clip of Gale from 2007 |
[Feb. 18th, 2008|11:25 pm] |
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The camera pans over him. You see Stephen Kijak real clearly when he turns around. And um, that's Gale next to him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhnPZEjFJYQ
I guess this will have to tide us over for now. *weeps* |
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| 21st Century communication |
[Feb. 11th, 2008|01:49 pm] |
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This is another public rant or discussion. This is the text message, Internet shorthand, or whatever you call it, rant. And this is my position:
This is an appropriate way to communicate informally with a friend, or a group of friends, or even an Internet community that is made up of people much like yourself who are as familiar with the lingo as you are. It is NOT an appropriate way to communicate in other forums, including large Internet groups often composed of people from many parts of the world.
If you really want to be understood, you should communicate in the language of your reader or your listener, not in the format that is easiest, or fastest for you. If you don't want to be understood, why are you posting or e-mailing in the first place?
I get that this texting lingo is hip, cool, or hot, or whatever the word is these days. It pisses off the grown-ups. But it's rude, it creates confusion, and misunderstandings. It's not faster for the reader who has to look up abbreviations or guess at what vowel is missing. Perhaps worst of all, it spills over to your writing in other forums. It will screw up your school work, your job search, and just about anything else requiring written communication.
In other words, e-lingo is the death knell of the written word, it is the doom of all mankind, and I am war against it.
I'm not saying everyone needs to proofread and perfect every post, but following basic spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar rules should be the standard, unless you are talking to a group you are SURE will understand you.
What's your position on the matter at hand? |
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| This is a public post in case anyone wants to rant at me. |
[Feb. 9th, 2008|01:10 pm] |
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However, I would preface everything by saying that I don't think I, or my opinions, are worth much--if any--of someone's time. But what do I know about things?
Well, I have learned at least one important thing from my career change from practicing attorney to college instructor:
If you raise your expectations of people, a majority of them will succeed at reaching those expectations.
This concept is talked about a lot at seminars I attend to become a better instructor. Even before that, I accidentally stumbled upon it in one of the first few classes I taught: Legal Research and Writing II. I read the students' first papers for me and went to class the next day and said: "All of you write better than the typical student. However, you are now going to learn to write as well as a paralegal has to write. " Three of the students looked a little scared, but squared their shoulders and told me that was exactly what they wanted to do. Two students looked terrified, but did every bit of the work required and succeeded. One never came back to class. All unknowingly, I had done one of the best things I could do for them as an instructor: I set the bar high and expected them to jump for it, never questioning that they could do it.
So there's this saying: Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I don't think that saying should be applied to human behavior. I think with humans you should: Expect the best and deal with the worst.
Because that is what I have learned: if you expect the best, a surprising amount of people will meet that expectation. But you also have to be prepared to deal with the worst in human behavior. It doesn't matter what the law is, or what the rules say , or what the etiquette of a situation is. People will do wrong things. That's not in question. What is in question is how you deal with it. And maybe, just maybe, expecting the best of yourself is a good way to deal with it.
With all of that said can it really be a surprise to any adult when people act badly, or the worst happens? Since the worst does happen sometimes, should you go through life jumping to the conclusion that there is wrongdoing here?
My answer to both questions is "NO".
But what do I know? |
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| The continuation of my epic piece of bad!fic |
[Jan. 15th, 2008|02:34 pm] |
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| Bad!fic is too much fun! |
[Jan. 8th, 2008|06:47 pm] |
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| More bad!fic |
[Dec. 31st, 2007|09:10 pm] |
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| Oh, no! I read bad!fic again! |
[Dec. 29th, 2007|06:49 pm] |
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| Post of my QAF Christmas fic |
[Dec. 9th, 2007|01:44 pm] |
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I decided to post my Christmas fic, originally written for the ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) qaf_challenges
community, here in my journal. I kind of cringed when I read it just now, but hey, it's Christmas, er, Festiviousness Season.
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| A qaf drabble |
[Oct. 4th, 2007|07:51 pm] |
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Title: Never (close) enough Author: Zortrana Episode: 301 A/N: This was written for brianslave68’s request on IJ’s qaf_bunnies. “Roll over.”
The trick obliged, turning onto his stomach quietly. Brian looked at the back of the trick’s head for a moment, a thousand memories surfacing: his hands moving softly and soothingly through short blond hair; soaping away the glitter, sweat, and smells of Babylon; clenching fistfuls of blond hair while a familiar mouth surrounded his cock.
It’s understandable then that it was his hand that betrayed him, reaching for the blond hair. For a moment his hand froze, then reached out to touch the golden locks in front of him. Knowing it would feel differently and never close enough. |
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| So many vampires, so little originality |
[Sep. 28th, 2007|09:18 pm] |
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I watched my first new show of the season tonight: Moonlight on CBS. I watched it because I had heard the description and thought, "Damn, that's Forever Knight; just not in Toronto and with a PI instead of a police detective."
So I watched it and there was Mick (Nick) riding around in his convertible, talking to his much older and rather creepier friend, and meeting the requisite blond love interest. And I thought, "Damn, this is Forever Knight, just not in Toronto and he's a PI instead of police detective."
Anyway, this show has a lot of work to do if it is going to achieve the quirky strangeness and cult following of FK. I'm thinking it's not going to get a chance.
Then I went to IMDb because I am crazy that way & the message board people were all arguing about whether it was Joss Whedon or FK that was being ripped off here. It was pretty intense. And I thought, "Hmmm, if anyone is being ripped off, try Bram Stoker."
And there was at least one poster who is convinced that he/she really IS a vampire.
So thus concludes what is probably my only review of Moonlight.
I would now like to suggest that someone make a TV series about the posters on the IMDb boards. They are way more interesting than the shows they are discussing. |
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| Really bad!fic (This is a QAF post) |
[Sep. 3rd, 2007|09:33 am] |
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Yesterday, I was ambitiously unpacking CDs, and unearthing my kitchen counters, and trying to do something with the back yard when it got too hot, so I took a shower and lay down for a nap. Only I woke up around 4 hours later in one of those disoriented "what time is it, what day is it?" kind of states. But anyway, I couldn't sleep last night. So I played on the internets and read random QAF fic. You know that this is a VERY bad idea. It did however, inspire me to write this Ode to Brian and Justin.
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| I know I rant about this a lot but |
[Aug. 26th, 2007|09:21 pm] |
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Did you hear that Ang Lee's new film got the NC-17 rating of doom? And why, you may ask? Graphic sexuality, say the rating givers, who don't have to provide any detail. People who have seen the movie say that, among other things, there are "non-traditional sexual positions".
So again, why is it perfectly fine to show rape, torture, psychological torment, dismembering, and violent graphic deaths, even the deaths of children and cute little animals, but extended sex scenes are some horrible thing unfit for people to see? What's going to happen? We'll all go home horny?
If Lust Caution gets shown anywhere near me (not very likely with a NC-17) I will brave the subtitles and go support Ang Lee. Or maybe I just want to see if there are any sexual positions I haven't seen before...
SIGH.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/24/film.lust.reut/ |
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| QAF post: Molly sequel |
[Aug. 22nd, 2007|07:17 pm] |
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