the end of the wits

i know i made an 'awake' icon, and an 'impressed,' and a 'surprised.' so where did it go?

g mood ip

#1. the ones that were reaaaaaaaally hard to find. i have no idea what the finger is really doing by her head, if you were wondering. it's a rossetti.

g mood ip #2

another rossetti. not a particularly inspired one, but i liked the image. her little hand!

g mood ip #3

that face she's making looked geekier from further away, but you couldn't see it well enough when i shrunk it.

g mood ip #4

she looks bouncy enough, but her costume is oddly non-classical.

g mood ip #5

and the last one. isn't that the cutest little girl? i was considering her for 'energetic' too, but then i found that great pose of cupid's legs.

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the problem with this quiz is the questions are poorly written. i bet wherever it's accurate is only by chance.

maybe i'll write tomorrow. k! s! k/s! squee. and all that.

your name is jim

i'm going to re-read rae trail's another country beckons before bed because i'm frustrated by the lack of star trek stuff. i'm telling you, i'm so desperate i'm near the point of betaing the things k'sal is definitely not going to ever finish. well, i suppose i could finish mine too. and hey! i still don't have a title.

edit: thematically it's a very nice piece. towards the end, in making her points about spock's human aspects, she loses his voice. if you're not paying close attention the cause is hard to pinpoint, though.

questions for the ages!

what's the matter with me lately? goddamned moodswings

and where did lillian vanish to?

and why did the temperature drop so fast?

finally... what's that smell?

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i downloaded the castles of dr creep, but it won't run. try another copy? maybe it's an os problem. that wouldn't be too surprising.

brilliant! BRILLIANT!

i'm not certain i've ever heard an idea this brilliant before.

Y'know, a friend of mine is now replying to anything Sarah says in her journal with "Okay." That's it. Just "Okay." -katemonkey (@journalfen)

My brother is an ultra conservative Republican, and my dad is an ultra conservative Republican hating Democrat. My bro used to go off on long political lectures to try to sway my dad over to his side, like sometimes for an hour. (Bro likes the sound of his own voice. A lot.) My dad would just look at him after he was done and say, "I don't think so," then change the subject. To carry on the grand tradition of pissing off supercilious pricks everywhere, I give to you all that same phrase to be used along with "okay". -spicedrum (@journalfen)

DS kerfluffles of doom? o.0

here i thought aukestral was just being slightly overdramatic about a cyber-stalker--annoying but excusable. and actually it's a fandoms-wide epic tangle of, uh, stuff--with legions of followers, and tons of competing stories! AND a password-protected site?

i will make a mood theme for anyone who can tell me what actually happened.

MORE critique-bashing?

many people assume (despite all evidence to the contrary) that people who post their work in extremely public fora are looking for constructive criticism. frankly, this behavior is rather foolish unless they (a) feel a religious duty to point out flaws in other people, or (b) enjoy being despised. that doesn't mean they're in any sense *wrong* to offer criticism. silly, perhaps, but the act of criticizing in and of itself may be insensitive, officious, misguided, or cruel, but is not rude. (of course, it may be delivered in a rude manner, but that's another question entirely.)

this: I don't have to care what she says. Because I know about the factors that put the story together, now if I knew the reviewer, and I knew the review knew the factors that went with the story, then I would take what she says into account, but as I don't, and it's pretty likely she doesn't, then I don't have to care what she says or not. That's what beta readers are for.
...flabbergasts me utterly. and completely. and totally. buh? well, certainly no one is ever *obliged* to care what anyone else says (though they may be forced by practical circumstances to do so). but the idea that there may be 'excusing factors' for a story, as though stories based on x, using scenarios p and q or characters g and f, are held to a lower standard of quality? as though alterations in source material make it impossible to produce writing of high quality? as though one should consider the opinions of beta readers, presumably one's own friends, to the exclusion of issues (of things like grammar and punctuation!) introduced by strangers?

whee.

i've got journal fen codes, if anyone's interested.

rps vs the hypothetical ewan sex tape

rps vs. the hypothetical illicit tape of ewan having sex, a poll here: i know i'm late. shut up.

If a private tape of Ewan having sex with his wife was stolen from his house, and got into circulation, would you watch it?

well, would you?

i propose a modest addition.

if you were a celebrity who didn't want people to watch sex tapes of you, would you make a private tape of sex with your spouse and leave it lying around in your house?

not that i think they would deserve it, but people are scary. i sure wouldn't.

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intriguing thread on rps on journalfen here.

Is that important? How out-of-canon can we go before it doesn't feel like RPS anymore? How out-of-canon does a story have to get before you lose interest? Are there stories that interest you because they're off-canon?

sagralisse: Too on-canon feels creepy to me, as far as digging up information.

syxer7: I like a feeling of a coherent universe, how canon provides interesting jumping-off points and references that resonate between fics.

and here's my take on rps, yawn ( yawn. )

lijaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

i'm going to make a mood icon set of elijah wood only cause syxer7 asked. other than bag-end inn, does anyone have any particular pictures or links they particularly recommend?

anne...?

salon.com book review here: bush is an idiot, but he was right about saddam.

nemoricultrix, could you get me the text? ::pitiful look::

and... what do you (all of you) think?