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| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | |
| 1:38 pm | Sign-Ups! I've been working on my Yuletide sign-up for the last hour and a half and I'm still only up to "F." This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/309935.ht |
| 11:16 am | A Recipe for Stroganoffy Mac/Cheese So I threw something together for dinner last night which came out somewhat differently than I expected. Pasta from 1 (small) box Mac&Cheese 1/2 box different pasta Cheese sauce from Mac&Cheese (either mix the powder with butter/milk as directed or use the goopy kind, which is what I did because we were all out of the powdery stuff) 3-6 strips pig bacon 2 chicken breasts, cubed Frozen veggies (I used corn & brocolli) Caesar dressing Tobasco Sauce Seasoned Salt Grated Parmesan Tomato Spaghetti Sauce Boil the pasta. Put the cheese sauce in a 13x9x2 glass casserole dish. Cut the bacon strips into 1 inch squares, then sautee in Caesar dressing over high heat, turning constantly and using the spatula to scrape up the carmelized sauce from the bottom of the pan. When the bacon is done cooking, more or less, add the chicken and some more dressing, continue turning and scraping. When the chicken is done cooking, more or less, add the veggies, and keep on turning and scraping. (You can turn down the heat at this point if necessary.) When the veggies are done, put the mixture over the cheese sauce. Add some tobasco sauce, some seasoned salt, a bit of spaghetti sauce, and some more dressing. Mix thoroughly so the cheese sauce mixes with the meat and veggies. Strain the pasta in a collander, then add to the cheese/meat/veggies mix. Mix so the sauce covers the pasta completely. Serve with grated permasan cheese. The bacon/chicken grease in the sauce made the whole thing end up tasting a lot more stroganoffy than I had expected (which is odd, since there's no beef in the dish), but that's not bad, exactly. It was quite tasty, which is nice as I was cooking for one and have plenty of leftovers. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/309664.ht |
| 8:19 am | BtVS: "Fever" (Buffy/Faith) Title: Fever Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Pairing: Buffy/Faith Rating: Worksafe Summary: Faith turns to Buffy for help as she struggles with a demonic fever. ( Fever ) This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/309252.ht |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | |
| 10:56 am | BtVS: "The Watcher's Diary of Lydia Chalmers" (1/1, Gen) Title: The Watcher's Diary of Lydia Chalmers Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel Characters: Lydia, Spike, Quentin Travers, the First Evil, Lorne, Angel Summary: Lydia learns the world isn't quite as simple as Quentin taught her it was. A/N: None of this text is new. It appeared first as part of my WIP Windows of My Soul, and then as individual ficlets. I think it makes the most sense in this form, however. (For reference--mostly my own--the ficlets can be found. ( The Watcher's Diary of Lydia Chalmers ) |
| 10:36 am | Feast Days Feast of All Saints ficlet Feast of All Souls ficlet This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/308843.ht |
| 2:10 am | Kripke'd! I just noticed this passage from Questionnaire for High Council Peer Review: D. Summers, written in late 2005: 55. HAVE YOU EVER STOLEN MONEY? This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/308591.ht |
| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | |
| 5:01 pm | Dear 3_ships Sailor Dear ![[info - community]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} 3_ships Sailor:If you check out my userinfo, you'll find a 'thon policy which implores that you be true first and foremost to the prompt and your muse, and to consider whether I'd like a story as, at most, a secondary concern. I relax that a bit for yuletide, in that I recognize there is a sense that a story for it is explicitly a gift in a way which most 'thon fics aren't, but I don't really think about 3_ships like that; I approach it more like a regular ficathon, where the writer is required to craft her story to my prompt but I don't assume I'm even going to like it.That said, if you want, you can certainly feel free to surf through this journal to get a feel for me, and here's a little bit more, if you are interested, to help you understands how I relate to the specific texts and characters in the fandoms I've requested and what I might like. I'll ramble a little more, because if I'm going to write this letter at all than I might as well. My particular kinks are those historically disenfranchised, especially children and women, and so in particular young women, being awesome and pwning the universe. Looking over my requests, though, if there's a theme to them this year over and above "young women pwning the universe" (which is my eternal bulletproof kink) then it's "delicious amorality." Don't confuse amorality with simple unprincipledness, however; every woman (well, maybe not Madison) I've requested has her own code of conduct, whether it be the hacker code or simply complete egoistic narcissism, which she will not be made to compromise easily, if at all. They simply refuse to let anyone else define what those principles will be for them. Lilly Kane would no more sleep with a boy not up to her (unorthodox set of) standards than Adelle would willingly sacrifice a Doll or Nimueh would turn away from her religion. I'd like a fic which is affirming of these strong women rather than siding with the world (and in some cases, canon) against them. I like both hate and love as the basis of sexual relationship, and my ideal threesome would have each leg of the triangle contain a different mixture of the two emotions than the other two. My requests are already pretty much set up for that, as most already include a pairing where one he character canonically hates the other (Veronica/Mac, Topher/Claire, Merlin/Nimueh). It was only just now looking over them that I realized in all three cases the hate isn't reciprocal--Topher doesn't hate Claire (how could he?), Nimueh doesn't hate Merlin, and while Madison doesn't seem to like Veronica very much, I don't think she cares nearly as much one way or the other about Veronica as Veronica does about her. Feel free to go AU (as long you don't erase the dynamics which make the pairing interesting; a Veronica who doesn't hate Madisn just isn't Veronica); indeed, you'd probably have to in order to write Lilly/Mac/Cassidy or Nimueh/Morgana/Merlin, unless you want to write Lilly or Nimueh as ghosts, which would be fine too since there's canonical basis in both cases. (Writing them as ghosts might make porn hard, though.) Both AUs in which Lilly/Nimueh don't die and ones that rewrite canon so the threesome happens prior to their deaths are fine. Beyond that, I like to think I'm easy to write for. I have few squicks; I'm fine with character death, BDSM, mpreg, dubcon, noncon, chan, infidelity, incest (I can't believe I got through the entire request form without requesting it, although I guess Mac/Madison sort of comes close), you name it, I'm probably okay with it. Just please no bashing of the women. Happy, uplifting fics are good, but so are soul-crushingly depressing ones so long as the moral isn't that being a strong woman is bad. Ambivalent fics where we're not sure whether we should cheer or cry are probably best of all. If I didn't like existentialism and pseudo-nihilism in my fic, I wouldn't be a Joss Whedon fan. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/308350.ht |
| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | |
| 12:23 pm | GIP So, thanks to Hulu, I've watched most of Seasons 1-8 of Stargate SG-1. (I skipped those episodes which sounded particularly standalonish.) I now made an icon of my OTP for the 'verse to fill one of my open icon slots on Dreamwidth. For those of you reading this on LiveJournal, here's the icon:  I don't think any of you who know me will be surprised. Oh, and while I'm here, here's a link to my Eve of All Hallows ficlet. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/308127.ht |
| Friday, October 30th, 2009 | |
| 12:39 am | 8/ I haven't managed to fill all 75 icon slots on Dreamwidth--I only have 70 icons uploaded. So what am I going to do with 100? ETA: I've uploaded some Doctor Who/SJA icons, trying to focus on characters of color (2 Maria Jackson, 2 Rani Chandra, 2 Tish Jones, and 1 very-much-not-a-CoC Reinette; maybe I should get another Suzie icon, too), but I still have 22 slots left. I'm thinking of maybe breaking into my Yuletide fandoms, but I already have a NeverEnding story icon (my OTW one, and the one which'll be displaying on this post on LJ as its currently my default there, in honor of Yuletide) and while I could easily put together a Carmen Sandiego icon (indeed, I've already done so), I'm not sure what I'd use it for or even what the keyword should be (I like those two things to be linked so that when I rotate the icon out, I can assign the keyword to another icon and have it make sense). I already have a Wittgenstein icon put together, but I feel like I should give it text or something. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/307814.ht |
| Monday, October 26th, 2009 | |
| 3:08 pm | Rambling Incoherence It seems to me that fantastic texts, through the always-already present reification of the deus ex machina, allow for a type of meta move--although in a limited, constrained way (which arguably ultimately undermines the meta-ness of the move). Buffy can talk to the camera if there's a demon making her hallucinate she's on TV, but not otherwise. My understanding, through fannish osmosis, is that in Supernatural that's done through the device of God and the angels, which--not having watched the show--seems a reasonable in-universe device. So when I wrote ![[info - livejournal.com]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) wisdomeagle into my remix of her story, I used the device of the White Room--also a deliberate homage to ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small} annakovsky writing herself into "Critique of Pure Reason" (is that long enough to deserve italicization?) the same way.There is a generic difference between "Once More With Feeling" and "Seeing Red"--but so too is there a generic difference between "The Trouble with Tribbles" and (say) "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky." (And there are some quite meta episodes in Voyager seasons 6 and 7, arguably beginning with "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy," which is hilarious, but now I'm rambling.) I'm just not sure what the difference is; it seems a different kind of difference than between characters who talk to the camera and characters who don't. (And I'm so used to the way that annakovsky undermined the meta-ness of Jim and Pam talking to the camera in her Office fic that I can't help but let that influence the way I view canon.)I think I would be quite disturbed if a Devil Wears Prada fic I was reading suddenly got all meta-y. (Of course, RPF seems to me as the natural place for meta and wall-breaking, and presumably there's less in-text foundation for that than in any fictional canon, so.) This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/307695.ht |
| Sunday, October 25th, 2009 | |
| 1:19 am | *is contrary* Okay, if I had to make a top 10 list of the top problems with LiveJournal, I don't think "we don't know each other well enough" would really be on it. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/307299.ht |
| Saturday, October 24th, 2009 | |
| 8:52 pm | Gakked from cleo Take any fic I have ever written, link me to it, and ask "What if you had changed this moment?" I'll either explain, or maybe even write the "what if?" My Fiction Index This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/306985.ht |
| 4:26 pm | Episode Reactions in Brief Dollhouse 2x04 Between this and "Epitaph One," I'm really falling in love with Adelle. Sarah Jane Adventures 3x04 So, has anyone written K-9/Mr. Smith yet? This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/306776.ht |
| Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 | |
| 10:49 pm | No Words Via ![[info - syndicated]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small} feliciadaytweets_feed: Felicia Day dressed up as Zac Efron. I have no words.This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/306246.ht |
| 2:41 pm | Holiday 'Thon Updates The prettylightsfic poll for primary-choice fandoms. This ficathon along with yuletide and 3_ships make up the three ficathons I've done ever year since 2007, so I'm glad the third 'thon of the trifecta is gearing up as well.Speaking of Yuletide, I'm still trying to decide what I want my fourth request to be (if I even want a fourth request). The three fandoms I've nominated that I haven't already firmly decided I'll be requesting are Robert A. Heinlein's World-as-Myth multiverse (to request Laz/Lor), Michael Ende's NeverEnding Story bookverse (to request Childlike Empress/Xayide), and Firefly RPF (Joss/Summer, obviously). Although part of the reason I haven't firmly decided is I still want to wait and see which comic book fandoms were deemed elligible--I think some of you remember how disappointed I was when I couldn't get Jessica/MJ/Peter/Kitty in Ult!Marvel or MJ/Liz/Gwen/Felicia in Spider-Man <3s Mary Jane last year (even though those fandoms ended up staying elligible? I still don't get what happened). Other nominated fandoms (only not by me) that I'd been thinking this past year of making requests in include Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little PrincessI was considering offering a ficlet to whoever could guess what pairings I'd be requesting in each fandom, but the fact that the answers are easily found in a sticky post at the top of my journal kind of takes the sport out of the endeavor. The list of fandoms I was thinking of but which didn't get nominated this year is sort of interesting, too. Some of them surprise me (I would have expected them to get nominated even though I didn't do it); some don't. George Bernard Shaw - Man and SupermanETA: And I just added The Black Adder to my possible requests, because I really want some Princess Leia of Hungary fic. Surprised? However, also unsurprisingly, she's not on the list of characters for Blackadder, so that'll have to wait for next year. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/306134.ht |
| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | |
| 12:40 pm | Antici . . . pation! (Of the Yule Variety) Am working on my yuletide letter, because I am caught up in nervous Yuletide anticipation and need an outlet, as there hasn't been a yuletide_admin post since last night's "nominations are about to close" post.My Yuletide letters often spend a lot of time cannibalizing the previous years' letters, but I'm thinking this might be less of the case this year since so many of my requests are new--The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy and The NeverEnding Story III alongside my perennial Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? request and I haven't decided on my fourth yet--but perhaps not because the underlying motivations driving what I want haven't really changed. I still want will-to-powery teen girls pwning the universe, even if which teen girls may have changed from last year. (Previous years' girls have included Valentine Wiggin, Rebecca Thatcher, Mary Lennox, Laz and Lor Long, and Hallie Parker and Annie James.) My requests don't seem to be as incest-heavy as years past, though (although the TBD fandom could always end up being one in which I suggest a 'cest pairing). I'm not sure what to make of that. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/305681.ht |
| Monday, October 19th, 2009 | |
| 11:42 pm | BtVS: "A Night to Remember" (6/?) ( tonight is a night for excess ) |
| Friday, October 16th, 2009 | |
| 7:40 pm | What should I watch? I have some media which I have not yet consumed (in the sense of "watched once"), and I'm not sure which to watch first. So I thought I'd throw the question onto the wisdom of the flist. ETA: And I just realized that Stargate SG-1 Season 8 is up on Hulu finally, so that's in the running too now. Which is a good thing, because I think it's been over a year since I saw "The Lost City, Parts 1 and 2" for the first time. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/305381.ht |
| Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | |
| 7:13 pm | BtVS: "A Night to Remember" (5/?) Title: A Night to Remember Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Pairings: Various. Summary: Madelyn goes to prom--and takes some friends. First Part ( A Night to Remember, 5/? ) |
| Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | |
| 2:27 pm | Yuletide is Love So Yuletide nominations are here. Just like I did two years ago, I want to encourage those of you on my flist who don't typically write fic to participate. This began as an attempt to encourage futuransky in particular to sign up, but it grew beyond that as I wrote it and so I've made it a top-level post in my own journal instead of a comment in hers.Before I start pimping, a note about process for those of you who don't know what Yuletide is: Yuletide is a ficathon, or a fanfiction exchange, which means that a participant writes a story for person A based on some beloved book, movie, play, TV show, or whatever, and has a story written for them (in a different fandom, in all probability) by person B. The process starts with the nominations, where books/movies/plays/TV/webcomics/epic poems/lyric poems/songs/albums/history/mythology/&c. get nominated in order to allow people to request and/or offer them later, which happens in the sign-ups. Then the matching algorithm does its work and you'll be emailed an assignment to write a story based on something you said you could. The stories get written and on Christmas day the archive goes live, and you'll have a story written just for you! Okay, now on to the pimping: First and foremost, Yuletide is love. It has a fun and appeal that other ficathons can't match, and is all but undescribable. I want to say "Call it the magic of the season" but I'm afraid that's too laden with Christian privilege even if I don't want to mean it that way. I encourage my flisters who don't usually write fic to participate because I feel Yuletide is more accessible--because one is often writing for fandoms that don't really exist otherwise, one doesn't really need to grok fannish subcultures to write a well-received fic. Even for those of you who are just lurkers, readers, and/or participants in fandom in ways other than fic-writing, the fact remains that I think participants go into the archive with less defined expectations as to the types of stories they'll find. (The fact that in years past the architecture was set up so that one couldn't easily identify 'ship fic from gen fic probably helped that along. It'll be interesting to see what effect if any the move to the AoOO has on that.) Or as I wrote in 2007: Because the exchange focuses on "obscure" fandoms--from Homer to Shakespeare to Austen, from Orson Welles to Stanley Kubrick, from lyric poems to webcomics--it tends to have a more "literary" feel. The stories don't always "read like fanfic" (whatever that would mean), so if there's something about fan culture or the typical tropes of fanfiction that keeps you away, that needn't be a problem. And plenty of the fandoms are in the public domain, if that's been worrying you.Yuletide allows you to be just as adventurous as you want to be. There are the brave souls who offer to write anything, with the understanding that they'll probably need to procure and then mainline a whole new source before beginning to write. There are people who offer everything they've ever read or seen. There are people like me, who will offer almost everything but be very specific which characters they can write. (I usually offer mainly female characters, with the result that I get assigned requests with ask for "any" characters.) There are people who only feel comfortable offering a handful of fandoms. I think the minimum is something incredibly low, like three. Because of the way the process is set up, you don't have to worry about not getting matched--the stats are shown as the sign-ups happen, and as long as at least one person has offered to write in at least one of the fandoms you requested, you will be matched. And with over 1600 people participating last year (and almost certainly more this year), and a deliberate push towards the end of sign-ups to ensure that all requests have offers in true Yuletide spirit, the chances of being stranded out in the cold are pretty much nil. And if you do choose to be a little bit adventurous, you won't be the only one. Most of us who've done it at least once before know the shocked feeling one gets when one sees one's assignment and wonders, "Why did I say I could write that?" (And then we settle down and write it, and it turns out great.) Every year, massive amounts of panic and squee, in equal parts, overtake my flist, because we're all in this together. And that's the best part of Yuletide, it's media fandom's normal fannishness pushed up to 11, in a huge outpouring of fannish love which needs to be experienced to described. Love for each other, for reading and writing, for all our obscure movies and books and plays and TV shows that don't get enough love the rest of the year, for being fans. Yuletide is love. And of course, on Christmas day you get a story in a fandom you love written just for you. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/304759.ht |