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11:31 it's really funny how Happy will follow Keena around the house even though he wants nothing to do with her touching him. OH, PETS. #
21:16 @Compasivo109 I see you finally gave in. :P long time no see, man. welcome to Twitter! #

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Thanks to

jerosejr for the paid account extension! Yay!! *smoooooooooooooooooch*

Current Mood: grateful

11:02 FINALLY got another LPFOS page inked. Should hopefully be able to color it tonight. #
11:02 I really do feel awful about how infrequently I am updating that comic. :/ #
11:11 @fesworks Yes, it didn't hurt that that was the page people have been seeing for two weeks. :D #
11:13 @rosalarian In retrospect, that really WAS more meatballs than one person should consume. How do you not have gout? #
11:51 The Christmas season is a lot less awful now that I no longer celebrate it. #
13:11 The most recent episode of Dollhouse reminds me a LOT of YU+ME #
14:16 Everyone who writes fiction will at some point write a vampire story. #
14:17 FACT: Only .03% of vampire stories are ever actually good. #
14:17 I have written a few vampire stories through the years, but I kept them to myself, because they aren't anything special. #
14:18 So the answer to "Do you want to read my vampire story?" is going to be a resounding "no" from me. #
15:01 @ferretthimself Oh, something being good and something being profitable are two different things. :P But good on you getting it published. #
15:40 Congrats @boxbrown for reaching his goal just now! #
16:23 @Yamino: RE: ketchup vampire: That would end up being a biography of me... #
17:19 @Yamino: Oh, you so need to write this now. It's not pathetic if you admit it's a Mary Sue from the beginning! XD #
17:50 twitpic.com/upgmr - @yamino What just happened? THIS just happened. #
22:18 @yamino small boobs are so much fun to draw! :D #

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15:15 a little under the weather today. it's not a full-on cold, but I have sinus pressure and a little stuffiness. stupid winter. stupid stress. #
16:22 happy winter solstice, everyone! #
22:01 WE HAS A KEENA PUPPY IN OUR HOUSE! :D #

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12:56 @erikamoen My guess is tampon cake. #
15:19 "ATTACK HER HAM POCKET MORE!" Oh, spam, you have such colorful words for "vagina". #
19:00 Someone is outside my house, screaming. #

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Nearly instantaneous rec!
LOOK WHAT KATE WROTE FOR ME TODAY IT IS AMAZING.

Once Upon a Time (When Time Was Young) by

celtic_cookie (Doctor Who, gen, G)
Everyone tells stories. Every civilization across the stars. And Martha Jones.

We were discussing how there should be more good Who genfic, the Doctor's ways of relating to humans, and the utter amazingness of Martha Jones. Then I suddenly decided I wanted a fic where Martha tells bedtime stories to her kids about the Doctor, and Kate said, "OH I WILL WRITE THAT." And lo, it was so. ♥♥♥♥♥

Current Mood: pleased

An addendum to "Webcomic Readers' Etiquette":

Don't block the ads.

So you didn't want to/ couldn't donate money to the artist who provided you with hours of free entertainment. That's okay. But when you block the ads, (or worse, use an aggregating site that strips out everything but the comic), you are essentially taking money from the artist.

It's been rare that I've seen a webcomic with crazy noisy seizure-inducing flash ads. You can handle having some ads in your peripheral vision as you look at the day's page. It's not a lot of trouble for you, it doesn't cost you anything, but it helps the artist out a lot.

hockey love

This graphic was for a story about one of these guys replacing the other on the team, but the layout reminds me of a romance novel. #32 longs for #42, who is blissfully unaware of his affections.

Biographies
For the year of 2010, I want to read at least 20 biographies. Not autobiographies. I love those, but they're written completely differently. I want to read the life of a person who did something cool enough that other people took the time to research and write about them.

Any recommendations?

Twittering

10:51 slept in too late to make it to church. :\ however, maybe I can finish my fic today! #
11:15 anyone got a basic/plus LJ account and need a $10 paid coupon? apparently I can give these out for free! #
11:45 @joshua_ sure thing! LJ posted the link in their latest news post. :) what's your name over there? #
14:48 @joshua_ I sent it twice because it didn't look like the first one worked, but it's still showing that I haven't sent any. did you get it? #
18:04 @joshua_ you're welcome! glad it went through after all. :) #
18:05 so frustrated with technology that I'm crying. but you know what frustrates me the most? that I'm too stupid to know how to fix it. #
01:11 so I was going to write for most of today, but then I watched six episodes of #dollhouse. WHOOPS? finished one scene, though. \o/ #
02:43 feeling sort of moody and blah and listless. I'm either getting sick or depressed. need to snap out of this! #
03:35 sleeeeeeeeep. here's hoping my sinus headache goes away. (why doesn't my T9 know "sinus"?) #

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14:20 To make myself do things I don't want to do, I tell myself I can't shower until I do them. I hate not showering. So I do them. #
14:32 @metafrantic I am just now sitting down to check my inbox for the first time in... way too long. #

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Solstice Week
A few months ago, I stopped posting my weekly to-do lists here, and I noticed a decline in my productivity and an increase in forgotten items and tasks. So I'm going to get back to that, behind a cut for those who don't want to keep up with my quotidian activities..... I'm aware I won't get all this done this week, but it helps keep me on track.
( Solstice Week, or No Rest for the Wiccan... )

Current Mood: calm

Absurdistan
Just watched an awesome movie with my sister T. We like to find weird indie movies, usually foreign, that nobody has heard of. (Not because we're indie snobs. We just like making these discoveries!)

Tonight's cinematic feast: Absurdistan.

Think Lysistrata, only instead of the women withholding sex to get the men to end a war, they're withholding sex to get the men to fix the broken irrigation system that has caused their village to be without water for a long, long time.

At the center of this tale is a love story. A boy and a girl, born on the same day, seem destined to be together. They want to express their love in a rather adult way, but they have been told the exact time when they must first consummate their love, within six days of July 11th, four years later. And they must bathe first.

But without water, baths are pretty out of the question.

I won't go into too many details, because the details are what makes this movie awesome. The men are loutish, the women are overworked, under appreciated, and very, very strong. I normally hate "battle of the sexes" stories, because it usually has a way of reducing everyone to their genitals, but in a movie about sex, it becomes appropriate.

This is one of the most original movies I've seen in a long time. Anyone who likes weird, funny, different movies, will love this.

Habananukkah
Most of my friends are not Christians, yet we found ourselves compulsively continuing to follow the traditions. And I actually have come to loathe Christmas. I hate shopping, I hate the songs, I hate how it's edging out Halloween, etc.

So we came up with our own holiday. Our own Festivus, if you will.

Habanaccro (the "cc" is pronounced like a Jewish "ch", all throaty) was the name of a hermit crab that belonged to my friend Liz. He died a while ago, as crabs are wont to do, but his name lives on in Liz's almost Turret's-like repetition of his name.

And so we created Habananukkah, a holiday of crabs. (Not the genital kind.) Yesterday was the first ever. I made crab latkes, and they were delicious. Future traditions may include: a cake with a shell baked somewhere into it, and whoever gets the piece with the shell is King/Queen of Habananukkah; a candle holder with little crab claws holding the candles; I'm thinking there should be some sort of dance.

But there are no presents involved. I am so sick of presents.*

*And the 5 year old in me just began to cry.

Twittering

20:06 @_annella I haven't either! MAYBE WE SHOULD DO THIS. #
21:22 lol stealthy kitten fails at stealth! #
00:28 Who fans! if you are interested, I POSTED TEN/JACK FIC. post-CoE! waterofthemoon.livejournal.com/399970.html #
02:42 plans: wake up and go to church, then make significant progress on and hopefully finish spn_j2_xmas fic. THE SECOND ONE NEEDS TO HAPPEN. #

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Fic: Elevator To The Moon (A Little Out Of Reach) (Ten/Jack, PG)
Title: Elevator To The Moon (A Little Out Of Reach)

Author:

waterofthemoon
Rating: PG
Pairing: Ten/Jack, past Jack/Ianto (Doctor Who/Torchwood)
Summary: They don't talk about the people they've lost. Jack runs away, and the Doctor comes to find him.
Spoilers: TW S3 Children Of Earth, mentions of DW 4x12-13 The Stolen Earth/Journey's End and SJA 3x05-06 The Wedding Of Sarah Jane Smith
Word Count: 1,984
Disclaimer: Not mine. If I owned Doctor Who, I would be a very rich British lady, and I am neither rich nor British.
Notes: Takes place after Children Of Earth but before The Waters Of Mars. Written for, because of, and with the help and inspiration of

celtic_cookie because she's amazing. My first foray into Whoniverse fic! Thanks so much to

sophie_448 for the brilliant beta that made me think.

( Elevator To The Moon (A Little Out Of Reach) )

Current Mood: nervous
Current Music: Guster - Satellite

Paulo Coelho, Alive Beyond His Dreams
Dear LJ,

My father's constant discouragement of television watching has forced me to finally finish a book a friend gave to me after we graduated high school. It is called "Veronika Decides to Die" by Paulo Coelho. After he gave me that book, I started seeing the author's name everywhere. Every book store I turned. Every kid who had a reading assignment. Just every where. I decided to read the book little by little. After 3 years, I've finally finished the book. Tonight. It struck something in me.

That book was about people too afraid to live their dream and people unafraid to alive their dream. In both situations, they went crazy. Ultimately, you need to be crazy enough to pursue your dreams because they are a part of you. And those who did... Einstein, Newton, Picasso, whomever. They're not heros. They were ordinary people. Someone probably said they were crazy and told them to stop their nonsense. (I just found out there is a beautiful, brand new film of this just this year!)

Well, at any rate, I went to pick up my little brother's winter book assignment and behold... yet another Paulo Coelho book. I decided to read more about him. I started reading his most acclaimed book, The Alchemist. I read his introduction. I'm not done, but I'm really inspired by this man. He wrote "How did my book become a success? My honest answer is that I do not know." He seems to be a big... "live your dreams" kind of person. And he describes this need in a more eloquent and touching way than I ever could. But now, I have the sudden urge to write. So I came to you, LJ.

In my times of emotion, I have to write. I like the things I write. In fact, I wish I would have fits of emotion more often so I can write more! I'm typing up a short thing I wrote one night when I was wishing for someone to lay next to me in bed. Its not that I wanted someone to talk to. I wanted someone who wanted to talk to me.

13:37 I'm making crab and potato latkes. It is the opposite of Kosher. #

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Life Rolls with the Punches.
Dear LJ,

I haven't updated in a while. I've been too busy with school and parents. I always seem to have some trouble, but I hope the issue is resolved now. I've spent most of this semester feeling like they were punishing me and not understanding what they wanted from me. I still don't fully understand the dynamics of our relationship, but at least in this moment, I've learned that I have trouble with following through with what I say I'll do. I read somewhere that is called "integrity". Some may call it "reliability". Its really hard for me. Because I hate letting people down. I'd rather disappear and show up when I'm ready... But I need to start making realistic goals for myself, telling people those goals and updating people. Because this problem of mine is effecting everyone I know. From family, friends, work, school, etc...

I've just been feeling too... down to update. Like life just gave me a right upper cut knuckle sandwich and knocked reality right into my head.

In other news, I'm taking a MacroEconomics online winter course! Why am I excited? Because this will help me to graduate on time while I try to take no more than 15 hours per semester. I've also been thinking about getting an internship. I don't know... I'm scared. I just want to graduate and I need to use the summer to do well in my courses. Plus... I applied for that Roadtrip Nation thing. If I got it... that'd be a dream come true!! I don't mind using the summer after I graduate to get an internship if I can't get a full time job.

LOOK I IZ A SRS ARTEEST.

clex_monkie89 and I (later joined by

celtic_cookie) were fucking around in Google Wave yesterday in an attempt to find out what it actually is, and then I discovered we could upload to the wave, so I drew this LOVELY picture of Jared and Jensen at Christmas.

( behind the cut! )

Current Mood: stressed
Current Music: Snow Patrol - Just Say Yes

Twittering

05:29 @caithream whoooooo congratulations! *\o/* here's hoping the floods don't sweep you away. &hearts; #
20:05 fuck you, technology. I JUST WANT TO BURN SOME MUSIC CDS. WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT? also I need sleep. #
22:39 Happy just came over to me with a dollar bill in his mouth and dropped it at my feet. hey, thanks, cat. #

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09:55 Listening to BBC radio shows. #
13:09 @polerin Shoot me an email with the details #
14:06 I swear this jpeg of Betty Ford just winked at me. O_O #
15:52 The more limbs you have, the more square footage that can hurt. Best to be a very thin quadruple amputee. #
23:30 David Tennant dressed like Russell Brand as the Ghost of Christmas Present for Catherine Tate's Xmas show? I cannot WAIT! #

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I'm just trying to entertain people

"I'm just trying to entertain people, make a living and pay my rent, without having to get a job I hate, and hopefully find an audience who will love and accept me and not think I'm a narcissist for wanting to be a performer and find true inner peace and that's it."

Substitute "artist" for "performer" and that's how I feel.

Change your site for me
Comment I see on the internet way too much:

I'm using 17,000 script blockers, which makes it hard to see the content on your page. Could you please rewrite your entire website so that I can use your site properly?

Yes, that is a bit of an exaggeration. But I see comments from people with various forms of adblockers that go haywire and make it so they can't see the content of a particular site. Only instead of them needing to find a script blocker that isn't complete shit, somehow the responsibility rests on website makers to completely change their sites for a few people who hate ads so much, they're willing to deal with not seeing half of the internet just so they won't see one more banner ad for Best Buy.

I guess this is people not realizing exactly what goes into building a website, and what to them seems like a simple solution requires hours (or days, or even weeks or months) of reworking, all for the sake of a few people who could just turn their script blockers off for two minutes.

But let me tell you, internet-at-large, designers have better things to do. So no, we won't change our sites to fit your needs. And frankly, it's a little arrogant to assume your website browsing needs warrant asking someone to do that amount of work. You will just have to deal with the site as-is.

Disclaimer: This is not directed at 99.9999999999999% of my readers. Just internet users in general. So don't get all panicky that I hate you. I don't.
Though I did get a little annoyed when some people with a pretty obscure browser asked me to change the site to work with it. I tried for a couple hours, then gave up and told them to download Firefox already.

Twittering

14:44 omg, this geeky guy across from me on the bus was on the phone w/ his gf or bf, and he just said he missed them quadrillion much. &hearts;! #
16:27 dude, the @starbucks free song this week is a Bob Dylan Christmas song. kickass. #
16:56 it sort of makes me cry inside when I see badfic being recced or tagged on Delicious. (unless it's being recced ironically, of course.) #
18:54 man, what happened to Bob Dylan? his voice is scratchy as hell now and this entire album is a train wreck. #
00:37 OH MERRY. never change, cat. RT @unperfectwolf: bigcat has all the toys: pics.livejournal.com/waterofthemoon/pic/00289fpf #

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