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| So, I'm getting ready for this talk I'm giving after break on dialect contact in fandom/the application of sociolinguistic techniques to written materials. And I have something hilarifying to show you. ( Totally SFW, but still a little AWESOME ) | |
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| So, I thought, since there are so many stories, you would like to hear what I thought of them? I'm not doing art reviews, because, despite having a truly insane amount of training in iconography (for someone who's not an iconographer), uh, I don't really get how to art or how to talk about it? So, like, if John was a Christ figure and Rodney was dressed in the regalia of the Young Maize God and falling into the maw of the underworld, I'd be all over it.* Otherwise, every review I would write would say either "Ooh, purdy" or "That one dude's face looks weird." Anyway. You should assume all these reviews have spoilers, but I've tried to keep anything really major back. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dreamwaffles - Calling Down the Lightning ( OMG! Wizards! )Bottom line: Lovely characters. And magic! Highly recommended.
forestgreen - No Good DeedI can't really properly review this fic, because I betaed it, and so I read it in pieces/before it was finished. But, I'm mentioning it because you should read it anyway, especially if you like John/Cam, John+Rodney, late SG-1, or thieves. Also check out crysothemis's illustration of John and Raven, which is awesome.
Kat Reitz ( zaganthi) and perryvic - Mercy of the Fallen ( OMG! Demons! )Bottom line: Fighting demons! Going to Hell! Hot sex! Of course I recommend it!
omg_wtf_yeah - The Long Engagement ( OMG! Steampunk! )Bottom line: If you really like steampunk, you might like this story. Otherwise, I don't recommend it. *Anyone who draws that gains my undying affection forever. I'll even give you references. | |
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| ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) sgabigbang: FLAIL WITH ME, YOU GUYS. I NEED TO SQUEE LIKE A SQUEEING THING. What are you reading? What's on your list? What should I read first?! Like, I had a plan, and shit, and I was all set to start with telesilla's story, then, uh, it kinda turned into not the week for me to read that, so my plan is blown! I keep scrolling down the list aimlessly! I've already read No Good Deed, cause I betaed it, and obvs I'm not about to read my story again, but otherwise I have no idea! YOU GUYS, HELP. PS! One of my original artists did finish! So there is another piece of lovely work that will go up later today! And it is very lovely. | |
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| If you want to know what I look like this morning, please see my icon. DUDE YOU GUYS sgabigbang IS UP. I kinda wrote this story? It is called Nice Place To Visit. calcitrix- who is totally my hero and who stepped in at the very last of last minutes- has put together some damn fine art, which I will have to get around to properly squeeing about after class. OMG YOU GUYS. Now I have to put on some pants and go to K'iche, and Maya, and Linguistics, and also a lecture. BUT I WILL BE BACK AFTER THAT. KEEP THE INTERNET WARM FOR ME WHILE I AM GONE. | |
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| This is one of the very first SGA stories I ever started. I'm not sure when it was; definitely before Four Blatant Lies and The House by the Beach, probably when I was still watching S1. I think originally either I was going to call it "Everything Else Is Obsolete" or use that title for a sequel, though I might use it for something else, as I particularly like it. I don't remember why I stopped writing it; I think mostly because I realized it'd been done before, more than once, and more comprehensively than I cared to do it. Also, I ended up cannibalizing the Ancient device and how it worked (which I never actually got around to writing) for The House by the Beach (of all things). ( Everybody Wants To Be A Cat ) | |
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| Dear Joe Mallozzi, Brad Wright, and the rest of you jokers, I was going to write a long rant about how pissing off your fanbase is a bad idea, and if you're going to say, "You just don't get it" to a whole bunch of science fiction fans (read: overeducated sarcastic jerks with too much time on their hands), you better hope like hell that you're right and they're wrong, and how you can all generally just eat me. But then I realized everything I needed to say could be summed up in cat macros. So,  ( Cut for images, snark, etc ) | |
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| Poll #1482273 The best replacement for drama: useless polls!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 32 Do you have a dreamwidth? On dreamwidth, what do the fly honeys and/or gentlefops call you? Would you be into it if I circled you? Silver foxen: which of them would you be unopposed to touching up on? Tell me: Did the inclusion of George Clooney and John Laroquette in this list make you feel as old as it did me? Wny isn't there a positive term for fine-ass older ladies? Anyway, here are some that you may wish to touch (in)appropriately: Also, isn't it distressing that those dudes are all older than those women? Or should I just think about how fine Lauren Holly is some more? Dude, why did nobody tell me Christopher Guest is a British Peer? Why am I just learning this? He was in the House of Lords, FFS! Ticky box? ETA: So, you guys, here's my secret shame. For, like, fourteen years, I lived next door to a whole pack of McDonalds. The mother's name? Mary, obvs. So I am going to fuck up Mary McAwesome's name pretty much until THE END OF DAYS. I hope you find it in your hearts to forgive me. <3 (Also ow I think I traumatized myself a little there.) | |
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| 1. So I finally read Unseen Academicals. ( Spoilers, obvs )1a. Ponder Stibbons and Jimmy Palmer: Separated at birth? Y/ MFY1b. Reading about the Wizards always leaves me STARVING. They just eat so much, and it all sounds so very delicious. I would do unspeakable things for (and to) a bacon sandwich right now. 2. Is it just me, or does anybody else parse sgagenrefinders as "sga-gen-refinders"? As in, people who look for lost gen? I just can't unsee it. 3. OMG! Preview is up for my sgabigbang story! OMG! 4. Now, I think it is time to make a huge breakfast and a pot of tea (GOD PEOPLE, never let me go to the Teavana again, I am so poor yet so happy), do some readings, and try not to feel awkward about asking legitimate yet workshy questions of my DGS. Oh, grad school. ETA 5. Also here is a meme what I stole from everyone: Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from anything I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track. | |
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| 1. If you're an academic or a feminist and you haven't read Donna Haraway, you're so missing the boat. Please, enjoy this PDF of The Promises of Monsters, which fell off the back of a truck. I particularly direct your attention to the section on sci-fi (but then, I would). OMG. So in love with her. Honestly, I'm really considering getting a "I cannot read this story without rewriting it" tattoo. But where to put it? 2. So I don't watch NCIS: LA, but this picspam is kinda making me wanna start, especially because I already <3 both the leads. I believe this is all you need to know about it: ( Cut for language, excessive capslock )2a. Halloween was a success, I feel. Photos are still surfacing, but I think this one is my favorite so far. It is also the only one where I don't look like a giant compared to Jem and the belly dancer (which was possibly because I am a giant compared to them). Though, I feel that it's also important that you truly appreciate our shoes. ETA: Now with corrected link! 3. It may interest you to know that anatsuno is the best. Just sayin'. And if she were to leave me a prompt, perhaps good things would happen? 4. I'm feeling a little better, knock on wood. Perhaps this week will have less fail in it than last week. Fingers crossed? | |
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| So this is a McCoy/Chekov story I started writing for the Star Trek Kink Meme, for this prompt, all the way back in June. I started writing something else- Home Training, I think- and lost interest in finishing it. It's not a bad little fic, it's just that it's really cracky and over-the-top, and I wasn't feeling it. ( incensedpasha.odt ) | |
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