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January 8th, 2009
twistedchick
 | 08:57 pm
[Yes, the icon is appropriate.]
Supporters of the homophobic Proposition 8 in California want to change state law that requires name, address, and employer's name of anyone contributing to a political campaign.
Also in California, a database that will tell you who is laying off workers. And something on just what those laid-off workers feel about Gov. Ahnold.
Eyewitnesses speak of the slaughter of innocent civilians by the Israelis in Gaza.
The case for prosecuting war crimes in the Bush Administration (video.) And Congressman John Conyers wants to investigate the legitimacy of Bush policies. Perhaps that will include something of his abuse of military veterans.
How the US Army Field Manual still codifies torture -- what can be done and how acceptable it is. ( more )
The Army mistakenly sends out 7,000 condolence letters addressed to "Dear John Doe".
I have written before about the Family, the ultrafarright Dominionist group that has its talons deep into the Republican Party. What I did not have information on before was this: Hillary Clinton has been involved with The Family, aka The Fellowship, for some years now. Not just with them at the National Prayer Breakfast, but as a member of a "cell church". Read these links. You need to know this. I freely admit that I like Hillary, but I do not at all like The Family, what they do or what they stand for, and I'm extremely concerned at this connection. Each of the links in this section has many other links within it; please read at least some of them. It's best to be well informed when dealing with such an organized and methodical political antagonist -- and do not mistake this: the Family are homophobic, anti-union (or any other bottom-up organized group), triumphalist and intent on taking over the US government (among others) for their version of God.
10 movie endings spoiled by history. 11 movies saved by historical inaccuracy.
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elke_tanzer
 | 08:39 am - So about this Merlin and Arthur thing...
Ahahaha. I so do not need a new fandom right now, but I've been seeing rumblings on my flists for months, including this post on ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dragojustine's LJ that sums up the series:
In short, Merlin is the gay lovechild of Smallville and Torchwood, christened and glitter-sprinkled by Xena.
Uh-huh, I thought. Riiiiiight. Can't be for real.
So today I finally caved because I'm sick and feeling crummy, and I'm wishing for summer sunshine and Renfaire food and sparkly pretty boys in costume, and I've always loved Merlin ever since I read the Mary Stewart books and the Mists of Avalon when I was wee, so this morning by way of a rec from frogspace here I read this fic, because I don't mind being spoiled for this show and the description included the hotbutton genre 'bodyswap'...
Woke Up New By Zee
Summary: Merlin and Arthur switch bodies; complications ensue. Merlin/Arthur, NC-17. 22,083 words.
Notes: Spoilery for the series in general.
*glee*
Ahahaha ahahaha ahahaha... OK, now I'm utterly hooked on the fandom, even though I've already read that although the show is sparkly and slashy and very, very pretty, the show isn't particularly good (that doesn't bother me about Smallville) and also has bad gender and race issues (which will likely bother me but I have faith that fandom will fix everything in fic), aaaaaaand I haven't even figured out how to watch the actual show yet (pish, details).
Hit me with more fannish links, people. :-D
I've already found the FanLore page at http://fanlore.org/wiki/Merlin_(BBC) which is chock full of useful links, and I've found the crack_van overview here and all of the crack_van recs here although I haven't read them yet. I've also found frogspace's recslist here and I am sooo happy to have studied enough German to understand that page. :-) Is there a fic comm here on IJ for this fandom yet?
Whee! New fandom!
(In other news, my dark green dragon Thunbergia Sedge has matured into a healthy male adult, and I have snitched a new egg, dusted in sparkly snow:  )
ETA: I've seen the first ep now, and I'm enjoying the show. And as far as the Issues go, I'm not the person you want to be reading about that stuff. I'm really, really not thinky right now (Am I usually thinky about this stuff, relative to the rest of Fandom At Large? I have no idea). But today I am sick and medicated and in my admittedly only-slightly-informed-from-skimming-flists-while-travelling-and-rather-groggy-today opinion, the gender and race Issues in Supernatural and/or Atlantis are likely as significant or more so than whatever Issues exist in this enjoyable romp.
ETA some more: And yes, it is rather much the gay lovechild of Smallville and Torchwood, christened by Xena. I haven't seen any actual glitter yet, though. *pouts* I would dearly love to see the Merlin characters at their version of QaF's Babylon, though. And now I can't get the image of the Hercules eps with the Widow Twanky out of my head. What the hell is in this cough syrup??
Current Location: at home, hacking up a lung or two
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/laugh.gif) amused
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twistedchick
 | 08:41 am
So. You live in the DC area and you're not going to the Inaugural stuff downtown but you think you might want to get a bite to eat at that little place in Northwest, or maybe you want to just cross the Potomac into Georgetown to pick up that thing you had on order at that shop in Georgetown Park, and you want to do this on Jan. 20.
Think again. The bridges will be closed, many highways will be blocked off, and you ain't goin' nowhere. Well, you might be able to walk from Roslyn across the Key Bridge if you don't have acrophobia, and if they let you through on foot, maybe. ( details )
That was the Washington Post's version. In addition, a little more from ABC News: ( how many cops? )
Still think you want to come to the inaugural? If you do decide to walk across the Key Bridge, it's a good three miles to the Mall on foot. Better wear good walking shoes and leave the jackknife at home so you can get through security. It's farther from Chain Bridge, but if you cross Chain Bridge and don't mind acting like a mountain goat you could walk up to MacArthur Boulevard and get pizza at Listrani's, the pizzaria that serves the White House (and for good reason -- it's excellent). Now, if you happen to be going to one of the inaugural balls being held downtown, and you're walking across the bridge at 8 a.m. (or whatever time), are you bringing your dress on a coathanger? And where are you going to park it during the parade? It better be at your office downtown, because you know that coathanger isn't going to be allowed on the Mall.
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January 7th, 2009
elke_tanzer
 | 07:11 pm - Another friend in need
In addition to the two fannish friends I mentioned in this post who are selling off their belongings to try to pay bills and rent (and who find it comforting during what is obviously a difficult time to sell their fannish items to fellow fans who are friends of friends and such), I've just discovered another fannish friend in need, and she linked to still another situation...
Again, if your finances are stable such that you can be in shopping mode, please check these out.
Cloudwatcher on LJ fell in December, and thanks to this sucky economy, needs serious help with her medical bills since her job benefits vanished. She's selling some musical instruments on eBay, and looking for job leads. Info is in her LJ:
http://cloudwatcher.livejournal.com/
http://cloudwatcher.livejournal.com/260067.html (plea for help of any kind)
http://cloudwatcher.livejournal.com/260119.html (list of instruments)
Also, Cloudwatcher has linked to http://community.livejournal.com/saveours00j/ which is a community of the friends of LJ user s00j, who are trying to raise money to help pay for incredibly daunting medical bills... I don't know s00j myself, but I'm passing along what information I have:
"SJ Tucker, s00j, a touring musician with no health insurance, recently ended up in the hospital for nearly a week, and was released on Christmas Eve to await test results and more tests."
"We've established this community because many of [info]s00j's friends can't afford to donate a lot of money, but can make things, or write things, or build things, and very much want to help. This part is very much a work in progress - as we sort out whether we're posting auctions or raffles or printing chapbooks or juggling geese, we'll update here."
Please check out the community for updates. Thank you.
If you know of other fannish friends in need, please link 'em here.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/alien.gif) indescribable
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twistedchick
 | 10:27 am
What does Obama owe Congressional Republicans? Not a damn thing.
Bob Barr, who wrote the Defense of Marriage Act, now thinks it should go. That doesn't mean his politics have changed. Don't read the wrong thing into this article; I very much doubt that he's waving a rainbow flag.
Roland Burris, appointed by the corrupt Illinois Gov. Blagojevich, was not seated as the junior Illinois senator yesterday because of that appointment. There are all sorts of technical and legal issues involved, especially considering that Blagojevich is under investigation for attempting to sell the Senate seat that was Obama's.
13,847 recommendations that Bush ignored.
Escaping from the Inaugural. If I had money and somewhere to go, I'd be very tempted.
Sales of hybrid cars were down 42% in December -- no surprise, considering the economy and the declining price of gas. But my guess is that it's mostly the economy. Interesting graph at this link.
In Michigan, is there something like Stonehenge under the lake? And is that a mastodon carved on that rock?
In Britain, not really used to negative numbers in terms of weather. Trafalgar Square fountains are icy. People are eating hot curry pasties. But the temperatures they're dealing with are the everyday ones I grew up with in the winter between Rochester and Buffalo, NY. When I went to college in the Adirondacks, it went to -40 for all of January each year. That's -40 F. (We spent a lot of time walking in steam tunnels, and I lived in long underwear under everything. But that was the 1970s; not all love beads and lace.) Also, there are photos here of the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in China.
In Nigeria, pumpkins =/= bike helmets.
In Iran, a sexual revolution is taking place, and it may not be what you think.
Will fertilizing the ocean with iron help with global warming?
A new kind of batter improves MacBook Pro battery life by 60%, according to Treehugger.
Minimalist animation.
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January 6th, 2009
elke_tanzer
 | 10:32 pm - OTF thoughts from a polyfannish omnivore
I have friends who are into TPM, TPM and more TPM. Qui/Obi is their One True Pairing and they will be writing and reading Qui/Obi until the heat death of every star system in every fictional and nonfictional universe, you know? :-)
Every now and then, some of them dabble into other fandoms or other pairings, but they think of themselves as TPM fans in their heart of hearts.
Some fandoms tend to have a really high proportion of fans for whom it is an OTF. It's their comfort food, their splurge, their indulgence, their haven, their playground, their garden, their home turf, their creative center. TPM is the one that first comes to mind, but Highlander and Mag7 are not far behind.
And it's not just that they have an OTP... TPM Qui/Obi OTPers may very well read Obi/Ani or Qui/Xan or Obi/Xan if it crosses their path... but... just as importantly as their relationship of choice being so close to their heart, it's that the fandom itself is their One True Fandom.
I'm far too much of an omnivore to ever think that I'll ever be able to say that about myself. But ever so rarely, I think I've found an echo of that sort of OTP or OTF feeling, and I hear the resonant thrum of it enough in my bones to know some measure of what the OTPers and the OTFers experience.
And tonight, I want to thank paian for reminding me what it feels like, because the following appeared, as if by magic, on my flist, and it encompasses and encapsulates so much of why I tumbled so hard for slash fandom, and why I tumbled so hard for SG1, and why I will always, always, always have a special place in my heart for Daniel and Jack, and for the kinky aliens who make them do it... and for every author who so skillfully offers their fresh, new take on every fabulous, familiar plot. I lack the words to convey how much I adore fandom right now.
Stargate SG1 fic by Paian: follow through (daniel/jack, ADULT)
Daniel/Jack, S5-ish, adult/explicit, ~6880 words
Aliens make them do it
*glee*
Just, *utter glee*.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/smile.gif) grateful
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twistedchick
 | 08:26 pm
It took four hours to move my LJ to IJ: 6282 entries. I used LJ Migrate, for which the info is here: http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/alter_writes/53118.html. No comments appear to have made it, and no, I did not move the Free Speech Zone community, which is no longer mine anyway. I realize there are legal/technical/ethical/privacy/whatever issues about the comments, but I'm a little surprised that they weren't moved when LJ Migrate said it moved some 25,000 of them.
Actually, moving the LJ was not that big an issue for me for one reason: most of the entries I wrote were newsblogging, and the ephemeral nature of online news coverage means that many of the links either won't work now or aren't available for free. I'm glad to have the commentary, but anyone wanting to go back to chase the original stories more than a couple of years may have their work cut out for them.
We have more sleet and rain coming through right now, which is a good thing for the water table.
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twistedchick
 | 07:01 pm - further news coverage of the current LJ situation
These are all that I could find anywhere online, other than the one item from earlier.
Washington Post: LJ lays off SF staff, will operate from Moscow.
Mashable.com: LJ on life support. Linked because of graph.
Adotas: LJ layoffs.
c-net news: LJ deletes 'about a dozen' jobs.
Webpronews.com: LJ makes deep personnel cuts.
Custompc.co.uk: LJ announces mass layoffs. Note: when a company's staff changes so that the director of finance is in charge, this is not generally a good thing.
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twistedchick
 | 11:44 am
I'm twistedchick here at IJ, and at several other places that I don't keep up with any more (GreatestJournal ::cough::, Vox, Journalfen, Blurty). When Dreamwidth is available, I hope to move there with all possible speed, or as my Latin teacher used to say, magna cum celeritate. (Which did not make me think of celery much after the first few times.)
Yes, it's possible to read everything in Google's newsreader, but I want a friendslist that I can use to follow what is happening with people, with news, and with rss feeds. I'm picky that way. I like the community aspects of a friendspage, and the ability to move conveniently around through chronology rather than tracking down one single feed and then another, and another... argh.
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elke_tanzer
 | 07:56 am - In 2009, I resolve to get caught up with my life.
If you get emails out of the blue from me regarding ancient obligations and gifties, it's because I'm making a serious effort to get caught up. This week, that'll include treewishes (email sent), wyomingnot (comment sent and answered), dragovianknight (I will email tonight), and vimeslady (who I've had trouble getting in touch with multiple times, but I will be trying again to email tonight).
If I have some obligation to you, and I have not emailed you by this coming weekend to make good, please email me and remind me of whatever it is that I've forgotten or that my old email crashes and/or overzealous spam filters ate.
And I will also be finally finishing backing up and transitioning content from my LJ this month.
It's feeling more urgent now that there are rumblings that the owners of LJ just laid off much of their LJ-related staff (possibly without severance). Some details about that are here:
http://twistedchick.insanejournal.com/79159.html?style=mine
ETA: http://twistedchick.insanejournal.com/1683461.html?style=mine
How to back up your journal:
http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/284083.html (for Windows)
http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/413098.html (yes, right now LJBook is completely overloaded because many many people on LJ are panicked and trying to use it all at once, but there are other options... and no, LJ will not be vanishing overnight)
http://antennapedia.livejournal.com/238132.html (for Mac)
http://antennapedia.livejournal.com/266462.html (for Mac)
http://zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com/480601.html?style=mine
and my posts at http://elke-tanzer.insanejournal.com/tag/lj+transition
ETA: and http://morgandawn.insanejournal.com/221445.html?style=mine and http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/tag/ljtools
ETA: also http://karma-apple.insanejournal.com/8073.html
A note from synecdochic about the progress on Dreamwidth (for journaling):
http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/302379.html
Pages from the Organization for Transformative Works about the Archive Of Our Own project (for archiving fanfiction):
http://transformativeworks.org/node/96
http://transformativeworks.org/projects
ETA: Also a note from the OTW about Fanlore, a great place to put your contact information so that people can find you if your LJ or IJ or JF or whatever goes away unexpectedly: http://transformativeworks.org/news/our-friends-lj
And a note from squeaky about the stability of IJ right now:
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/announcements/61339.html
Additional perspective:
http://zarq.livejournal.com/846503.html?style=mine
And now I am headed to work, where I have similar organizey catchy-uppitty things to do, but for workstuff I am more like a month behind, rather than like... a year behind or more, which is the status of my fannish, extended-family and extended-RL-social obligations.
Over January and February, I'm also hoping to finish the work I began two years ago on my fannish and RL websites, as well. Being halfway between things feels rather like being uncomfortably splinched.
I will be traveling to my parents in Indiana again in February. March will be professional development class and PMI's PMP certification exam (my class will be in Los Angeles in March rather than San Jose in January because of my employer's travel expenses freeze) and a fannish weekend at the beach (yay Escapade!). If I haven't started going on Sierra Club dayhikes, volunteering with Habitat for Humanity or some other local Burbank community cause, and/or signed up for eHarmony by the end of February, I will be doing so in April.
Re: my interconnectedness with people: 2009 Will Be Better, Dammit.
In other news: I adore my wee baby dragons! :-D I am brainstorming names for these three:   
My Mom likes the little tiny dragons that don't grow very big even when they're mature, so I'm coming up with names with meaning for her that I'll use any time I am able to name one of that breed.
 And I have named this one Thunbergia Sedge, after a flowering vine that is a favorite of my father's garden and a family of plants that look vaguely grasslike which Dad likes to photograph in prairie and marshland preserves. I wonder if when it begins to grow its wings, I will be able to tell if it's male or female, or if I will have to wait until it's fully matured... Either way, this is the first egg I stole, and my first dragon to hatch, and I... I guess I'm just infatuated with the wee little virtual dragons. :-)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/nerd.gif) determined
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twistedchick
 | 09:48 am - I did wonder why they were moving the servers away from the engineers...
SUP, the Russian overlords of LiveJournal, laid off 20 of 28 employees with no notice and no severance this morning. [Correction: according to foxfirefey on no_lj_ads, it's more like "13 let go, 17 kept in total, and 12 let go and 12 kept in SF."]
Ignore the fact that the person writing this article has neither an understanding of LJ or any true journalistic sense of inquiry, and look at the details: ( and they're not pretty )
The author of that article evidently did not take the time to talk to any LJ users about lack of service, bad management and extremely poor top-down public relations under SUP. It's true that LJ has been declining in total numbers, and that those of us who have stayed with it for more than five years are the narrow end of the long tail of a statistical distribution.
[ETA: I realize the news article above isn't very good, but it's the only one I've got right now. The only other things showing up on Google News this morning, even with a full search, are an article posted yesterday on how LJ is still blocked in Kazakhstan, and a December 19 C-net article, LJ users still passionate and shrinking.]
synecdochic, who used to work for LJ before the Russians came, provides a brief update on the Dreamwidth journaling project here -- and some reassurance to LJ users: Nothing's going to happen overnight.
In the meantime, if you have a journal on LJ, best start looking for somewhere to jump if it disappears without notice. It may not happen overnight, but I wouldn't doubt that somewhere along this economic downturn the Russian overlords are going to get tired of running a server farm and cut off the electricity. This is your notice: figure out what you're doing now, and start doing it. ( personal comments behind cut )
ETA: I did a search to find LJ Book, which I used to turn my LJ into a downloaded file. I have found two articles on it here and here, but http://www.ljbook.com/ljbook.html is not working for me. However, LJ Archive -- http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive/ -- is working [but only for Windows?]; check it out.
liz_marcs lists other options and links here.
Karma Apple's long list of links to archiving methods AND explanations of how to get them to work is here: http://karma-apple.insanejournal.com/8073.html
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January 5th, 2009
elke_tanzer
| 10:19 pm - Passing the info along...
A fellow fan is having trouble making her rent this month, and may be kicked out of her home. She is selling a number of books, CDs (including lots of Celtic stuff!), DVDs and tarot decks etc from her personal collection, and she also makes beautiful jewelry and altar dolls. If your finances are stable enough for you to be in shopping mode right now, please check out her posts of items she is selling, and browse her Etsy and Artfire storefronts.
Info is here: http://sixtail.livejournal.com/929401.html?style=mine and here: http://lori.insanejournal.com/3059.html?style=mine updated info is here: http://sixtail.livejournal.com/931535.html?style=mine
I know that there are at least another couple fans in similar situations, but I can't seem to find the links right at the moment... if you know of others, please feel free to link to their sale posts or storefronts in the comments here.
ETA: Cloudwatcher on LJ fell in December, and thanks to this sucky economy, needs serious help with her medical bills since her job benefits vanished. She's selling some musical instruments on eBay, and looking for job leads. Info is in her LJ:
http://cloudwatcher.livejournal.com/
http://cloudwatcher.livejournal.com/260067.html (plea for help of any kind)
http://cloudwatcher.livejournal.com/260119.html (list of instruments)
Also, Cloudwatcher has linked to http://community.livejournal.com/saveours00j/ which is a community of the friends of LJ user s00j, who are trying to raise money to help pay for incredibly daunting medical bills....
"SJ Tucker, s00j, a touring musician with no health insurance, recently ended up in the hospital for nearly a week, and was released on Christmas Eve to await test results and more tests."
"We've established this community because many of [info]s00j's friends can't afford to donate a lot of money, but can make things, or write things, or build things, and very much want to help. This part is very much a work in progress - as we sort out whether we're posting auctions or raffles or printing chapbooks or juggling geese, we'll update here."
Please check out the community for updates.
Which reminds me... I can't remember if I linked to this one before the holidays or not; it's another fellow fan having financial strain and selling items to pay the bills. Again, if your finances allow you to be in shopping mode right now, please check out her posts: http://digitalwave.livejournal.com/tag/sales+stuff
Current Mood: indescribable
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elke_tanzer
 | 08:11 pm - Back to bright lights, big city...
And now I am going to have sushi for dinner, and then crawl into my very own bed so I can hibernate for a little while.
Yay for being back in SoCal! :-D
Current Location: HOME.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/dead.gif) exhausted
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elke_tanzer
 | 07:05 am - Thank you, US Airways...
The Hilton Hotel near the Phoenix airport was OK to stay in last night. I am thankful that US Airways put us up overnight when many of us on the running-late flight from Indianapolis were stranded since our connecting flights had already left... it was much nicer to have a bed rather than an airport bench.
And now I am hoping to board a morning flight to Burbank. *yawn*
So much for getting to work early to catch up on things before the new year's chaos begins with a vengeance, though. Ah, well. I'm just rollin' with it...
Have a bearable Monday, everyone!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/asleep.gif) sleepy
Current Music: overlapping gate announcements
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January 4th, 2009
twistedchick
 | 10:44 pm - between the horizon and the sweet hereafter
Do not believe everything that's foisted on the tube as "history." It ain't.
Here's a legacy of the Bush years that we will be stuck with for decades to come. The neoCons wanted to kill centralized government of any size larger than what existed in the immediate post-colonial era, and as part of that they did their best to bankrupt states. Now, states are considering selling off their parks and roads -- and I have serious doubts that turning your highway into a toll road will put money into American hands. It's just as likely to leach funding for a foreign investor. I believe that infrastructure should belong -- in full title, forever -- to the municipality in which it exists and/or the people who paid for its construction, and no private entity should be involved in profitmaking that was not there from the first. The New York State Thruway was planned to be private from the start; the tolls pay for the repairs and the services and the snowplowing, and the money stays within the state. Not so with some newer privatizations.
In Illinois, silencing freedom of speech at the Waukegan City Council.
In Arizona, it's easier not to enforce the laws.
In Tennessee, the cost of coal is not clean.
In Pakistan, girls attending school after Jan. 15 will be killed.
In the Mideast, murdering civilians in Gaza.
In Britain, businesses at risk.
Best religion writing of 2008 -- a long list of good articles. And -- an excellent example -- The Sexual Threat to Fundamentalism.
Where child porn is concerned, what exactly is a 'written depiction of obscenity' and how does that affect fanfic and manga and similar concerns?
A focus on violence by soldiers returning from the war/occupation -- yes, there is a problem. (NYTimes)
De Re Coquinaria Pegasi, the Pegasus Galaxy cookbook.
Supporting Campbell's Soup as it sides with gay and lesbian couples.
Passively heated houses.
Looking for that unavailable small press or less-known science fiction novel? Check out Basement Full of Books.
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January 2nd, 2009
elke_tanzer
 | 09:31 pm - OK, which of you knows about MySpace?
Some of my younger cousins in another geographic region are on MySpace, and my Mom would like to be able to interact with these nieces of hers, but apparently the only way they "email" is through their MySpace but it's not exactly email. The last I heard, MySpace tended to grab personal information about you and your preferences from your Amazon identity and goodness knows what else, so security-conscious and privacy-valuing folks were staying away from it...
Should I be overly concerned about privacy and security if I sign my Mom up for a MySpace account (and therefore also I will probably have to sign myself up for an account as well, so I can do tech support when she runs into questions)?
Or is there some easy way for us to tell the nieces to add us to their MySpace contacts as plain old ol'fashioned email addresses rather than whatever flavor of contact MySpace uses?
Halp, oh all- knowing flist?
In other news, one of my wee virtual dragon eggs has hatched into a baby dragon!! Please click on it to help the wee little one grow... It's hopefully going to grow up happy and healthy into one of the dark green dragons that disguises itself as a tangle of plants. At first I had my doubts about the breed, but in thinking and brainstorming a bit, they remind me a bit of the Earth Dragon on the walking trail on Sentosa Island in Singapore, and in the garden landscape of my imagination, I would dearly love a set of such dragons guarding the entrance to my fantasy cottage garden of vegetables and berry brambles and fruit trees.
All three of the other eggs are starting to develop cracks, which hopefully means that they will hatch soon, too... a click or two would help them along, if you're so inclined.
ETA the next morning: Eeeeeeeeeee! Look! Two of the others have hatched! Aren't they cute?
ETA the following night: Awww! The fourth one hatched! Adorable!
And now, a New Years Meme snitched from thebratqueen...
Please comment with something you think I should do or try to do in 2009. Big or small, silly or earth-changing.
Current Mood: exhausted
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January 1st, 2009
twistedchick
 | 03:55 pm - the reveal!
Since it's now New Year's Day, I can tell you that I wrote one full-length story and one bonbon stocking stuffer for Yuletide this year. The assigned story was Letter to America,for dogwings, and the bonbon was The Gift, for Morgan37.
I've got some thoughts on writing these, but they'll have to be written on a day when I don't feel like someone is poking a marlin spike through my sinuses.
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elke_tanzer
 | 11:01 am - Yuletide 2008 Revealed...
I greatly enjoyed writing Storm Clouds Clearing in Mulan, for nephthys.
I startled the heck out of myself by not writing pr0n, by the way... somehow Shang was just too angsty about that long ride to the Fa home to even think about taking his pants off! :-)
Huge thanks to JackOfNone for writing the fabulous Captain Blood story Pecca Fortiter for me!
I note with additional glee that the other lovely Captain Blood story, Once A Pirate, was written by marshalmeg, another author I am unfamiliar with...
And this means: YAY for discovering not one but two previously-unknown-to-me fans of Captain Blood! I adore Yuletide...
:-D
Current Music: Winter Wonderland...
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December 31st, 2008
elke_tanzer
 | 11:56 pm - Goodbye 2008, don't let the door hit your ass on your way out...
OK, OK, so 2008 did include some good, and some really good, things for me. But holy crap, 2008 has sucked in so many really big ways. I am grateful for all of the good stuff, really I am. My parents and I are counting our blessings and hugging each other tight a lot. But I am really, really, really hoping 2009 will be better.
*pinches the cheeks of the wee ickle baby new year*
( Introspective stuff, feel free to skim right by... )
I do want to take this time to say: You fabulous folks here really make a difference in my life. I take great comfort knowing that you are here. I rely on your expertise on so many things, and you cheer me up and inform me about so many things in life (fannish, nonfannish and everything in between) and I am so happy that in some small way you gain some value in your life by spending time reading what I write here.
Thank you for being a part of my life.
*group husmish*
I wish that we all may have a happier, healthier, wealthier 2009... a year which allows all of us to hug our loved ones tight, to celebrate our passions and our creativity, and to make fulfilling contributions in the lives of our families, our friends, our communities and our world. Happy New Year, everyone!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/frown.gif) cold
Current Music: Wheel In The Sky/Do You Recall
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