Friends

R came over this evening. I give you your nightly quote:

R: Oh, so, you gotta see these shoes I bought from this guy.
Sam: Fancy shoes?
R: So fancy.
Sam: Wait, who is 'this guy'? Like, a guy at a department store? Or, ahahaha, some guy on the street?
R: YOU LAUGH BUT HE SOLD ME SOME GREAT SHOES.
Sam: You bought shoes from a random dude on the street?
R: And they are the finest footwear I have ever acquired. So, it was two in the morning, right --
Sam: You bought shoes from a random dude on a street at two in the morning.
R: HE WAS A SHOE-SHINE!

Apparently they're really nice shoes.

http://community.livejournal.com/hp_britglish/491884.html

What sort of bar/pub/drinking games do you play?

I'm thinking something like Beer Pong, Quarters, Up and Down the River, High-Low, etc.

I need something for girls to play at a Hen Party that's already had strippers and a game of "I've Never."

Thanks in advance!

Sherri from the amazing and awe-inspiring film C Me Dance, which everyone knows I have been obsessed over since first seeing the trailer. I will probably end up friends-locking this post after a few days because I am terrified of Greg Robbins.

Preview:



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Title: Too Good to Hide
Author: alisanne
Rating: PG
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Word Count: 100
Genre: Humor
Warnings: None that I am aware of.
A/N: Written for centaury_squill, who correctly guessed which fic I wrote for the snarry_ldws. Her request was Snarry, prompt: Kilt.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

( Too Good to Hide )

Comment below and I will tell you which of your characters that I've played against are my favorites and why I love them. Then repost this in your own journal.

We need a pinch hitter! We're looking for someone who can write fluff and AUs/ARs. No dark!fic, sorry. The deadline for the pinch hit will be December 14.

If you're interested, email the Snupin Santa mods at snupin_santa @ yahoo.com. Thanks!

Finished the pathfinder, both paper and web versions, and submitted 4 hours before deadline. *does happy dance* Only one more major assignment, plus a final exam, for the two LIS classes, if I remember correctly. Will double-check tomorrow. Possibly a minor thing or two as well, not sure.

Also today took SO out to lunch, went to four stores for grocery and other shopping, and made a white-bean-and-greens dish that turned out pretty well (which is good since there's like 3 or 4 more meals' worth!). Watched part of ST:XI during dinner, SO's choice.

Tomorrow: walk Juno (hopefully) and/or do some yard work, work on resume and job apps, cook for the first half of the week, talk to maternal unit, and do some reading for classes.

Other things to do over the next week: start writing holiday letter/cards, make a lot of cranberry bread, possibly bake regular bread, write/edit some fic, work on last big LIS assignment, go to the art museum, cook a lot, clean the house, and do the last course preps for the term. I was really really clever and managed to schedule things so that I don't have any grading of substance to do over Thanksgiving, go me!

So, I've been working on Directions today.... it's so good to feel the fic flowing again. :)

I am going to try to finish it this weekend and send it for beta, although I may need next weekend to get it done. I should probably wait until after the Thanksgiving weekend to post it, shouldn't I?

In other news, I have bunnies for a Xena/Gabrielle fic, a Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer fic, and a Michael/Ben fic, and NO ONE but me really wants to read any of those things. It makes me sad, yo.

Although I also have a Drew/Emmett bunny and I know at least Travis likes to read those!

Set: Gaspard Ulliel : 47
Details: male : white : brown : blue : 10s/20s
Character Suggestions: HP: Theodore Nott
Link: LINK

Happy birthday, Jamie Campbell Bower (Gellert Grindelwald)!

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Happy Birthday today to

mom2enk!

and



phoenixsong71!

Many happy returns! ♥

Title: Protective Heart
Author: lilyseyes
Characters: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Challenge: severus_sighs: canon!Severus – the one that lives in my (and Harry's) heart
Rating: PG
Length: 338
Warnings: *AU, EWE, Mpreg, and fluff*
Summary: Severus is protective of those he cares for.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.
Beta: The wonderful the_minx_17 ~ Thanks, darling!

( Protective Heart )

Title: Sweet Kisses
Rating : R
Author: lilyseyes
Word Count: 100
For:angela_snape who guessed which fall_fantasia story I'd written! The word prompt was 'bond' ~
Warnings: * Implied forced-bonding*
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.
Summary: The morning after At Last, A Kiss.
Thanks to alisanne for the once over! *smishes you*

( Sweet Kisses )

Title: Malfoy Mistletoe
Author: alisanne
Rating: PG
Pairing: Lucius Malfoy/Hermione Granger, Severus Snape/Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy
Summary: A Malfoy always has a plan.
Word Count: 520
Genre: Humor, romance
Warnings: Potential threesome.
A/N: Written for for, who correctly guessed which snarry_ldws story was mine. Her request was for Lumione, prompt: Mistletoe.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

( Malfoy Mistletoe )

Either my flex spending account thinks I'm trying to rip them off, or they're trying to rip me off.

Maybe they think no one person can sustain this much injury in a year. It's baffling sometimes, truly.

For those of you outside the States -- health insurance, which I pay for every month, pays 80% of all my doctor bills. I have to pay the other 20%. To make up the difference, my company offers a "flex card" which is a credit card where a fixed amount is taken out of your paycheck pre-taxes and put on the card to pay for medical expenses. You tell them yearly how much money you want on the card, and they take a little each month to make up that amount, even though you get all that money on the card immediately.

Yes. Welcome to the reason we long for socialised medicine.

Anyway, I carry $600 on my flex spending account, which I've been using to pay for medical treatment for a broken leg, chiropractic adjustments, a sinus infection, and various over-the-counter painkillers and band-aids and such.

Every month, now, my flex card kicks a letter out to me saying JUSTIFY YOUR EXPENDITURES, SEND US RECIEPTS. It's not supposed to do this; the only time this is supposed to happen is if it's something hinkey, like you bought a Nintendo on your flex account or something.

Instead, my letter has WHAT ABOUT THIS BILL FROM NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER printed on the request. What the fuck do they think I'm buying at a MEDICAL CENTER if not MEDICAL TREATMENT? Prostitutes? Can I get those at a hospital? Maybe they think my theraputic massages for the left arm I CAN'T MOVE have a happy ending or something.

Relatedly, I decided to go for a walk today and now I can't put any weight on my left leg. I've had it elevated and I'm applying ice on and off, but if it's still nonfunctional tomorrow it's back to the Immediate Care centre for me tomorrow.

Argh.

Urf. I am in writing lockdown until smutty_claus is done, because *draws hearts around story* but also *stabs it with a fork* a;slkjdfs.

But! Had to reappear for a moment to point out that the first-ever Harry/Scorpius Last Drabble Writer Standing competition at harryscorp100 just started. Yes, I have a soft spot for Harry/Scorpius, although no, I'm not in this competition. Just an interested observer. I only recently figured out a.) what LDWS things are, and b.) how they work, so now I want everyone to do them. :)

So, there are 15 writers in it, and each week they get a prompt, and then they write a drabble (defined here as under 500 words or so, I think or, in any case, not 100 on the dot), send it in, and they are all posted anonymously mid-week. Then readers vote for their favourite, reveals happen on Sunday, and a new weekly round begins, with one less person. Fifteen weeks later, we have a winner. Fun, yes?

Maybe I'm just addicted to reality TV shows wherein voting for favourites occurs? Hm.

Anyway, I point out this week's Week One drabbles because they are all super good. The first prompt was 'Age Disparity,' so all entries have something to do with the age difference. Scorpius is underage in some but not in others, so read the warnings and go with whatever floats your boat. I had a great time over coffee the other day reading through them and trying to decide on a favourite. No, I'm not always in favour of competitive stuff in fandom, and yeah, it sucks that someone has to be eliminated every week, but hopefully all the participants are okay with that and know not to take it personally. Anyway, if it appeals to you, go have a read through over there and vote!

In other news, I just read through a super awesome story for snupin_santa this morning that made me fall in love with Snupin all over again. Swoon!

*runs back to smutty_claus* Hope all your holiday fest stuff is in and you lot are having a relaxing weekend!

:yawn:

Set: Sarah Polley : 34
Details: female : white : blonde : blue : 10s/20s
Link: LINK

It's me, doing things and having culture and stuff!
that is the entrance to Jones Hall from the underground parking garage that spans the underbelly of the entire Theater District. Cool art, for an underground lair. :D

Brahms was excellent. Mahler was odd. It was a great night.

the_minx_17 wrote a wonderful post yesterday about bdsm. Her post inspired irana to write a post on consent.

I'd like to add a few thoughts on Polyamory.

My name is sg. I play in an organization that expects its members to behave in a chivalrous manner and show respect to all who attend their events no matter their orientation. As a result of this, I have met folks who practice Polyamory.

( rough draft, subject to change with discussion )

Are there any new Sandra Oh icons? Its been about a year since the last post.

I've spent today trying to balance getting some much-needed rest with getting things done, although admittedly, I'm leaning more to the "getting some rest" side with the justification that I'll feel more capable of getting things done if I'm not exhausted. I'm doing laundry and washing dishes, though, and I'm planning to do a little housework before grading a few papers.

Meanwhile, tomorrow is the deadline for extensions in Snupin Santa, so there's a flood of incoming gifts this weekend. After tomorrow, I have to check the spreadsheet and see who'll be getting poked.

There really should be a drinking game for fandom fest mods. Something like...

Take one drink every time a fest participant asks for an extension.

Take one drink every time a fest participant assures you that they only need a couple of days to finish, but then you don't hear from them for a week.

Take a drink every time a fest participant disappears without warning and isn't updating their journal.

Take two drinks every time a fest participant disappears from the fest without warning but is updating their journal and is blatantly ignoring your emails and comments.

Take a drink every time you email a fest participant to remind them that they've missed the deadline and they tell you, "Oh, I can't do it. Sorry."

Take a drink every time a fest participant turns in their gift with a note reading, "I didn't have time to get it beta-read/my beta was too busy".

Take a drink every time a fest participant turns in their gift with a note reading, "It sucks, but I hope X likes it anyway!" Variation: they manage to slip in a passive insult of X's prompt and/or blame the suckiness of your matching skills for the quality of their gift.

Take a drink every time a fest participant turns in a .jpg with their name in the file name.

Take a drink every time a fest participant asks you a question that is answered in their assignment email (and in the rules post, which you linked to in their assignment email).

Drink the whole damned bottle every time a fest participant threatens to leave fandom forever because of you.

This entry was originally posted at http://scribbulus-ink.dreamwidth.org/515741.html. It's cross-posted to LJ and IJ, and comments are enabled at all three journals.

This is a completely Gluten free recipe, but don’t let that stop you, I’ve yet to find a single person who didn’t love this cake!

Title: Standing Outside the Fire

Author: azurerosa

( Flourless Chocolate Cake )

Submitted by: azurerosa

One Shots:
torina_archelda: Tribbles and Trilobites - (Severus/Harry, PG-13)
joanwilder: Dreams of Home - (Harry/Severus, PG)
katiebell_0408: A Rough Day - (Harry/Severus, R)

Drabbles:
shoeboxes4all: Ouch - (Severus/Harry, PG)
lemondropseven: Wind - (Severus/Harry, PG-13) *warnings*
lilyseyes: Breathing Sweetly - (Harry/Severus, NC-17) *warnings*
lilyseyes: Bleak and Cold - (Harry/Severus, NC-17) *warnings*

Art:
doveypoo: Traditional Wear - (Harry, Ron, and Hermione, R)

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Title: Reminder
Author: alisanne
Character(s): Severus Snape, Harry Potter
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Warning(s): Innuendo
Challenge(s): Written for slytherins100's prompt #97: Fluke
Word count: 100
Author's notes: Yay for fluff week!
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

( Reminder )

Mostly greens this time: collards, something that's either chard or beet greens, some greens that I can't identify but are clearly for cooking, green cabbage, a small head of broccoli, and cherry tomatoes. Still have last week's collards and beets, too. So - I found a recipe for beans and greens, cooked white beans w/ the greens then cooked in them, with garlic and olive oil. Should be okay and seems easy, which is a plus. Also going to make herb-baked chicken breasts and Russian potato soup, along with cooked radishes (SO is dubious, but willing to try) and cooked beets for me.

We're having Thanksgiving at our neighbors' (J & C), so I'm not responsible for the turkey, yay! SO is supposed to go over later today and find out what they'd like us to bring; he's already volunteered to bring the butternut squash and apple dish, but probably I'll make at least a couple of other things also. Thus I will not do the grocery shopping until after that's been determined. Sometime this week or maybe next weekend, I plan to make cranberry-nut bread for local gift-giving, too.

In the meantime, back to work on the pathfinder. The library catalog was being uncooperative last night; here's hoping it's working right this morning.

Set: Angelina Jolie in Sky Captain : 54
Details: female : caucasian : brown : blue : 20s, 30s
Link: +54

So, today Trina wanted me to share with her some of my favourite music videos from when I was a kid. The first one I thought of was Too Funky by George Michael.

I played it for her and she asked me, then, why it was a favourite. I sat there awkwardly for a while, not quite able to explain it. My favourite was the model in the metal bikini suit thing. Embedding was disallowed. I still love this vid. After, I showed her Jeremy and Black Hole Sun. Then I showed her Schism, which she thought was cool, and Thunderkiss '65, which led to a very short viewing of Beavis and Butthead so she could understand the context in which I first saw the video.

Listening to Too Funky also makes me want to write porn again.



What are your favourite music vids?


Also, I snuck over to fanficrants today for one reason and another and was struck but the plethora of crap. I mean...most of my rants consist of "use the right word, plz" and "get a beta before I spork my eyes" and stuff like that. Though, I don't usually make posts about it. I just think it. REALLY HARD. I get rants about subtle bigotry/misogyny/etc within fics, but for other things, sometimes I just want to say stfu and read something else. I mean...isn't this what google chat is for? Bitching to your friends about stupid shit you've read but are too polite to comment on, and in that fashion, in public?

You know what?
I love Galaxy Quest. I love it so much that I got the Blue Ray and I just spent an hour watching it dubbed in Thurmian. O.o
*g*
I think it's time to go to bed.

/random

( 75 icons of Becky )

Set: Scarlett Johansson in The Spirit : 72
Details: female : caucasian : blonde : blue : 20s
Link: +72

Any icons of Charles Carver or his twin brother Max out there? Thanks so much!

( WriSoMiFu Day 21 - Icons and Name Recognition )

Title: Traditional Wear
Artist: doveypoo
Media:photoshop and painter
Characters:Harry, Ron, and Hermione
Rating: R
Warnings: ridiculously long flaccid peen
Themes/kinks chosen: Costume
Artist's notes: At a costume party after a few drinks, Harry gets curious
Art preview:



( What an unexpected gust of wind! )

Title Rug Burns
Word Count 100
Rating R
A/N written for alisanne, who correctly guessed my entry into fall_fantasia

( Rug Burns )

Or in my case, working on the weekend. We didn't have our usual Friday "date" tonight, i.e. going out for dinner, partly b/c we both have work to do tonight, partly b/c we had to eat out so much last weekend while traveling.

I graded quizzes and reading responses and wrote up the last paper assignment for one class this afternoon; also finished/submitted an LIS assignment, and spent 1+ hour in the library looking up stuff for the other one (due tomorrow). Dictated some drabbles and posted one (link at end).

Juno was not good tonight; our neighbor-across-the-street J. was over talking with SO and brought his dog Luna, and the two dogs were playing pretty well in the back yard. I fed Juno when it was her dinner time, and then gave each dog a biscuit. Juno ate hers immediately, and when Luna didn't and dropped it in some leaves, Juno went after Luna's and there was a brief brawl. SO and J. managed to separate them quickly, but clearly they cannot both be given food in proximity, or else there will have to be very close supervision.

Okay, I have to work on this assignment. It's not conceptually difficult or anything, but substantial. Sigh. Not due till midnight tomorrow, but it would be good to get most of the content worked out tonight and then all the formatting etc. tomorrow - it has to be presented as both a paper flyer and a web page/site.

Have I said lately how glad I will be when this semester is over? All right, here's the drabble:

• Luck [Kirk/McCoy, general]: Kirk's in sick bay, again. Here at LJ.

Set: Michael Legge : 47
Details: male : white : black : blue : 10s/20s
Link: LINK

Set: Evan Rachel Wood : 30
Details: female : white : brown : blue : 10s
Character Suggestions: HP: Daphne Greengrass, HP: Tracey Davis
Link: LINK

Set: Natalie Portman : 30
Details: female : white : brown : brown : 10s
Link: LINK

Set: Diane Kruger: 90
Details: female: white: blond_ blue: 20s
Character Suggestions: hp: veela, litterature: greek goddess, twilight: rosalie
Link: here

Title: Breathing Sweetly
Rating : NC-17
Author: lilyseyes
Word Count: 100x5
Challenge:snarry100 #188: Hearth and Home and #187: Means of Communications
Warnings: * Mpreg, fluff*
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.
Summary: Glimpses life with the Potter-Snape family. Another in the Breathe Series
Thanks to the_minx_17 for the once over! *smishes you*

( Breathing Sweetly )

So I have a completely silly question that is probably hypothetical for most of you since you're married. Say you went out to lunch with co-worker and sat at a table next to two men, like I did today. One of these men has an honest-to-god mullet like I haven't seen since high school. Seriously, all you have to do is type 'John Stamos mullet' into google images and 5/6 returns were the same pic.

Now this man wasn't bad looking; I'm 5'7" and he was several inches taller than me, medium to thick build, and a nice, average face. Except for the hair. He's polite and seems nice and doesn't give off any creepy vibes at all. I've seen him in the restaurant before - of course the last time was the week of Halloween and I honestly thought he was in costume. Apparently not.

Now. What would you do if said man asked you out? My co-worker and I had the best conversation about this and I'm curious what others would say.

Poll #4611 Mullet Man
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Would you say yes?

Set: Christian Bale in Equilibrium : 150
Details: male : caucasian : brown : hazel : 20s, 30s
Link: +150

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After months and months of not touching the keyboard, thanks to mini_nanowrimo, I'm back to writing daily. Each day in November (so far), I've managed to write at least 100 words. Go me!

But that's not the object of this post.

I've been thinking about what to do when Mini Nano is over. How to kick my butt and stay with the writing daily? And I've come up with an idea:

Is there anyone who'd like to open up a writer's group, so to speak (via email or whatever), where we can report our word counts, keep each other on track, and squee about our writing? I was thinking maybe we could give out prompts if someone fails their target or some such. What do you think, anybody for it? *puppy eyes*

Set: Dianna Agron : 106
Details: Female : White : Blonde : Green : 20s
Link: LINK

Title: Bleak and Cold
Author: lilyseyes
Characters: Harry Potter/Severus Snape
Challenge: harry100 #58: Chamber of Secrets
Rating: R
Length: 100x3
Warnings: *AU, chan – Harry is 14, set during GOF*
Summary: Harry just wants to escape to somewhere that no one can find him.
The Erastes Series.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.
Thanks to the_minx_17 for the once over! *muchas smoochas*

( Bleak and Cold )

!!!EIREE si tihs isht esuaceB ?SIHT gniod si ertupmoc ym yhw nialpxe ydobyna naC

You stay classy Harlequin! You stay classy!

What gets me, is that they've the nerve to be upset that the RWA's taken away thier princess points for that stunt. Did they somehow think that authors would APPROVE of Harlequin pimping (and yes, I mean that 'pimping' in the most denigrating way possible, by the way,) a brand new vanity press at its slushpile? Of COURSE the RWA's disgusted!

Harlequin's spin doctoring attemtp is even worse, given that it's more or less like Huggy Bear trying to deny the existence of his stable of whores to his wife when she busts him at work. It's a plain sign of disrespect, and I look forward with schadenfreude to Harlequin's authors jumping ship in hordes over it. (Not that that'll actually happen, of course. Authors are too desperate, generally, to continue seeing their works in print once they've got a taste of it. Still, chance would be a fine thing.)

In other news.

I lost yesterday to being eaten by a grue. I lost today to a migraine. I got more or less nothing done on either, and am therefore a Very Bad Girl. Now who's going to write my spanking? (Leers at Certain Demographic of my Flist.)

This weekend will involve a drive to Boston, during which I expect I shall write some. We're going to see Enter the Haggis, and that'll be a good pick up to wash the dirt off the shovel with which I'm burying the dismembered corpse of this past week. (And how's THAT for a metaphor? Cause I mean every word, thanks.)