Hils's journal

Cor blimey, I taste like Tea. I am a subtle flavour, quiet and polite, gentle, almost ambient. My presence in crowds will often go unnoticed. Best not to spill me on your clothes though, I can leave a nasty stain. What Flavour Are You?

A-Age: 22
B-Book: Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Berniers or Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
C-Choice of Meat: Chicken
D-Dream Date: Rupert Everett (if he wasn't gay)
E-Exciting Adventure: Anything which involves travelling abroad
F-Favorite Food: Italian
G-Greatest Achievement: Getting to University and passing
H-Happiest Day of Your Life: My degree ceremony
I-Interests: Writing, computer games, reading,
J-Jewelry: I have a gold claddagh ring and a silver cross necklace
K-Kool-Aid: This is the UK. We don't have such things.
L-Love: I love my friends and my family. I owe them all a lot
M-Most valued possession: My stuffed dog, Algy
N-Name: Hilary
O-Outfit You Love: My tan trousers and black zip-up jumper
P-Pizza Toppings: Chicken and sweetcorn or tuna and sweetcorn
Q-Question Asked To You the Most: Is your hair naturally curly
R-Radio Station: Radio 1
S-Sport: Not if I can avoid it.
T-Television Show: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
U-Umbrella in the rain?: Nope
V-Video: My Buffy vids, although they are slowly being replaced by DVDs
W-Winter: Too cold, but does have Christmas and New Year
X-X-rays recently?: When I was about 10 I had my teeth X-Rayed
Y-Year Born: 1979
Z-Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Feeling particularly depressed at the moment. Yesterday I was all excited about the prospect of starting this novel but now I've come to it I'm not sure I can do it.
Went into town with Dad this morning and decided to tell him about it, after all he's been going on about writing my own stuff ever since I started writing fanfic. Anyway, he asked me what it was about and when I told him all I got was an unenthusiastic 'oh'. Then he said 'so you're just writing Buffy with different character names?'. I tried to tell him that it wasn't like that but he didn't seem impressed.
I tried not to let it get to me but when I opened up Word and stared at the blank page I realised I'm not kidding anyone. As long as I write vampire fiction there's going to be nothing original about it. Why the hell am I bothering?

Friday Five

1. Where do you currently work?
As a Civil Servant on an Army Base here in York

2. How many other jobs have you had and where?
I've worked in 3 B&Q stores (Weekends while I was at school/college), and a local deli while I was at school.

3. What do you like best about your job?
I've met a lot of interesting people and offive bitca aside it's the leasy stressful job I've had.

4. What do you like least about your job?
The office bitca. That and it's VERY boring

5. What is your dream job?
Doing nothing at all. That or writing...just a pity I'm not very good. I also quite fancy getting into publishing/editing but alas I'm not qualified :(

Hmm....neighbours carried on with the hammering and drilling this morning. Thankfully they didn't start until 10am so I got a bit of a lie in.

Nicked from pale_n_morbid

Recommend to me:

1. A movie.
2. A book.
3. A musical recording. (Preferably one song not an album)
4. An LJ user not on my friends list.
5. A website.
6. Something to do in the next two months.

Just watched my latest Angel tape

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Nicked this one from irisangel

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Yesterday I got a belated Christmas prezzie from my friend Erin which included two home made CDs. One of the songs is BRILLIANT. I can't believe I've never come across it before

Buffy by Velvet Chain

Where forces of darkness abound
The demons and vamps always come around
To satisfy lust for the kill
To feed on the living, and love evil
But when they rise up into the night
The slayer will come, the slayer will fight
With powers reserved - the Chosen One
In each generation, there's only one...

Buffy... she's the slayer, oh yeah
Buffy... the vampire slayer...

The danger is real, oh Chosen One
You probably won't see even 21
You're missing your life to defend
The world again...

Buffy... she's the slayer, oh yeah
Buffy... the vampire slayer...
-- Oooohaaa... she's the slayer
-- Ohhhhhhh yeah ... the vampire slayer

Nothing else you can do - So much riding on you
Every time you make plans - Hell's mouth opens again

Waiting by a grave - Wait for them to rise
You want nothing more - Than a social life
Then you fall in love - With a vampire guy
Cause he has a soul - Looks too good to die
Wants to help you fight - Cause now he feels all guilty
Could we - Have more irony

You're the Chosen One - Your boyfriend is a demon
Who wants to be a saint - But gets all rearranged
Cause on your 17th - When you two hit the sheets
The magic spell goes wrong - And Angel's soul is gone...

Buffy, she's the slayer
-- Ohhhhhhh yeah·
The vampire slayer

Where forces of darkness abound
The demons and vamps always come around
But when they rise up in the night
The slayer will come, the slayer will fight

Buffy....Buffy....Buffy... she's the slayer, oh yeah
Buffy... the vampire slayer...
Ohhhaaaa, she's the slayer
Ohhhhhhh yeah... the vampire slayer

She's the slayer

Got this from nautibitz who in turn got it from cousinjean


My personality is rated 39.What is yours?

I'm guessing this is bad....


Which Annoying Buffy Fandom LJ Cliche are YOU?
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You are "The Socializer / Name Dropper" LJ!!! You're mostly on LJ to hang out with your buds, both on and off line. You've formed a tight knit, insider group of other fans that is difficult to penetrate. You swap stories, CDs, books, tapes and icons. You even plan ca-razy road trips then write about the aforementioned in smug detail. But sometimes... you make your LJ passages mysteriously "Private."

I'm pretty sure a while back someone said they'd set up a community specifically for blank Buffy icons. Does anyone know what it's called?

I figure since I'm crap at doing text and using pretty brushes I may as well just make blanks that other people can make pretty instead

Rain

On a Monday

Meh!

Mentioned to Tom that Alias Season 2 was out in the US and he immediately demanded I buy it and offered to pay me the money to buy him a copy. Shall get one for him and then borrow it, meaning I can stick to my not buying DVDs policy

Also casually started to tell a story about how Busted got me all wet (in an innocent way) and he looked disgusted and demanded I not finish the story. If he'd let me I'd have told him that they were showing a Busted music video on a boat on the Thames. They were projecting the video onto this big stream of water and the boat went under a bridge I was standing on, soaking me. Hehe. Funny to wind him up though

Oh, and on a totally unrelated note can anyone recommend me a good album by The Cure?

jazz_police has posted what he thought of this film so I guess I should chip in my thoughts too.

I liked it. I was kind of just coasting along for most of the time until it got to this great scene where Charlotte and Bob are lying on the bed just talking. She asks him if life gets any easier and talks about how she has no idea what she wants to do. She's tried writing and photography (apparently every girl goes through a photography phase) but she's not happy with what she's done. All of a sudden I sit up and start paying attention. THAT'S ME. The film seemed so much more to me after that. I find I enjoy a film more if I can relate to the characters in some way and that one small scene did it for me.

Also, Tokyo looks scary. I never want to go there

Alias is mine...er...Tom's...MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

If he can watch my Babylon 5, I can watch his Alias

MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

flickums and jazz_police insisted I do this. This is for next months CD and I'll post a reminder a little closer to when I'm going to make it

Wow, my actual starsign is way down the list

What sign of the Zodiac am I? Taurus 73 % Pisces 66 % Capricorn 46 % Scorpio 46 % Virgo 46 % Sagittarius 46 % Cancer 40 % Aquarius 33 % Libra 33 % Gemini 26 % Leo 26 % Aries 20 % Take the Zodiac test here!

Are there any websites out there that give you the history of words and tells you when they were first introduced to the english language?

The word 'pervert' was first introduced in 1661 which means I *should* get away with using it in PotC fics. Right?

Thanks to bogwitch for the link

You scored as Verbal/Linguistic. You have highly developed auditory skills, enjoy reading and writing and telling stories, and are good at getting your point across. You learn best by saying and hearing words. People like you include poets, authors, speakers, attorneys, politicians, lecturers and teachers. </td> Verbal/Linguistic 57% Intrapersonal 54% Interpersonal 46% Visual/Spatial 43% Musical/Rhythmic 39% Bodily/Kinesthetic 32% Logical/Mathematical 32% The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligences created with QuizFarm.com

For pellmelody and anyone else who wants it

http://www.4dw.net/dmarkedlove

Title: Twice Cursed
Author: Hils
Summery: Dialogue exchange inspired by the comments in this post. Norrington gets a bit of a surprise

Thanks to drbillbongo for the beta

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It's Lost day *bounce*

I struggled to find a torrent for a bit but I eventually found one. I'm a bit paranoid because it's from a site I've never used before (seedler.org) and from the looks of it I'm the first person to download it

*crosses fingers*

Right, I'd better go to work. The sooner I leave the sooner I can come home and watch it

I had a dream last night that Matthew Fox was giving me photography lessons. Now I'm having dreams about people I don't even read fic about!

I read another chapter of Lost Souls last night and I think a lot of the reason I'm not enjoying it so much this time is simply that I've gotten older. The whole Nothing plotline is very much about teenage angst and trying to find your place in the world. The first time I read the book I was 21 and whilst not a teenager I could still remember what it was like. I'm going to be 27 this year and my teenage years seem a lifetime ago now.

I'm going to stick with the book but I can see why it's not hitting me so much as it did last time

I think I need to read Poppy's more recent books Prime and Liquor

Is it bedtime yet?

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Medium
Wrath:	Medium
Sloth:	High
Envy:	Medium
Lust:	Very Low
Pride:	Medium

Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz

Anthony Head is going to be on Radio 2 with Steve Wright some time in the next couple of hours

Going home to watch Lost now *squees*

I'm strangely looking forward to seeing Jack

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We just got back from seeing Barebloke Mountain

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Attn liars_dance and anyone else who cares. I just signed up for 50passages

I'm weak!

An interesting theory from shivedheart about yesterday's Lost

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Welcome miche_connor!

(Guys, this is the person who wrote the brilliant death to Lana fic I posted about yesterday)

Suppose I was to use this sentence in a fic 'He reached into the pocket of his trousers and pulled out his phone'

Does that make it obvious that the author is a Brit? Should I instead say 'He reached into the pocket of his pants and pulled out his cell'?

Because to me pants will always be underwear. LOL

This is probably one of Smallville's many gaping plot holes but at what point does Clark realise that Lex has been split in two by black kryptonite? As I recall, Lex explains to Clark what his experiment involved and then all of a sudden at the end of the episode Clark is telling his parents it was black kryptonite. Am I forgetting something?

I just accidentally read a spoiler for episode 100 of Smallville

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I've gone from having an ok day to not having a good day in the time it took me to walk home from work. I have a headache, my Smallville fic appears to be going nowhere and I'm just feeling generally blah

I've decided to take a Smallville break after Season 4. I can't face seeing my fandom die right now. So we're going to watch Season 2 of Grey's Anatomy. Then Season 5 of Smallville.

I just read a Clex fic which turned into a Lex/Brue fic and ended as a Clark/Bruce fic. Even the fanfic is against me tonight *sigh*

Is BSG on in the US tonight?

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I'm a moron. I know exactly what to do with my Smallville fic now. YAY!

More sleep? LOL

You Sometimes Don't Get Enough Sleep

You're often more tired than you'd like, and you're probably not getting enough quality sleep. Sleeping a little more could make you a lot more energetic and happy. Try having a bedtime, keep your bedroom cool, and only eat fruit before bed.

I've officially withdrawn from CLFF and left the yahoogroup. Hopefully when I get back to work next week, and am free from distractions like books, TV, icon making and Sims, I'll feel like writing again.

The problem with randomly surfing at 1am is discovering something and wanting to play. I just registered with Shelfari after lilachigh mentioned it, and my bookshelf is right next to me

*sigh*

*starts uploading*

Well, that didn't take as long as I thought. Because I don't have a whole lot of space I tend to clear out my bookshelf when it starts to get full and take all the stuff that didn't blow me away down to the charity shop. It's very rare I read a book more than once anyway, too much new stuff out there for me to devour *g*

My Shelfari

Title: The Letter
Author: hils
Rating: G
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Uther/Gaius
Words: 1017
Summary: Gaius has been expecting this conversation, but he’s not sure he’s ready for it even as he follows. Takes place just after 1x13
For takadainmate with extra thanks for the beta. I wouldn't have written this without you ;)

( Fake LJ cut to my fiction journal )

1. What Might Be - 4022
2. The Letter - 1017

5,039 / 100,000 (5.0%)

My Uther/Gaius fic already has more comments than my last Merlin/Arthur fic

*is puzzled but also pleased*

Look what voldything made for me and lou_angel



OMG! SO AWESOME! *FLAILS*

I promised myself I wouldn't let myself get stressed by work again but things are pretty bad at the moment. We're insanely busy and there's just too much work for the two of us to cope with at the moment. I know we'll manage but it's just so frustrating that a couple of weeks ago we were on top of things and now it's worse than it's ever been. Everything that could possibly have gone wrong today went wrong. I am not looking forward to going in tomorrow.

Tomorrow night Greg and I are supposed to be going out for a fancy meal that work is paying for to thank us for working 24 hours a day over a weekend back in August. Only no one seems to know whether it's actually been paid for or not. If it hasn't been we'll have to cancel.

Googlemail weather says it is snowing in York. I see no snow.

Is it too late to add to my new years resolutions? I've realised that I need to make a conscious choice to try and comment more in other peoples journals. I do try. Sometimes. But I'm sure I'm neglecting a lot of you and that's wrong. You're all so awesome so I will try harder to comment to your posts :)

RTD is at it again

Does anyone know if the full interview is available online anywhere? Just in case I feel like rolling in more douchebaggery.

I didn't really get mad until he mentioned Merlin btw. Grr!

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Snagged from pretty much my entire flist

What's surprised you the most about me (if anything) since beginning to read my LJ (or when you met me IRL, for those who have)? Has anything about me been completely unexpected or have I always fit the picture of me you had in your head?

I don't normally post a review of Castle because it's pretty straightfoward. This episode was plotty though

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I can't believe I've never seen this picture of Jared before. It looks like a pretty old one

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I've been hearing rumours about SPN wank for about a week but couldn't work out what was actually going on.

Apparently some 'fan' hacked Jared and Gen's wedding site and left nasty comments.

I actually feel kind of sick. What the hell is wrong with these people? It makes me feel almost ashamed to be a part of this fandom. I know the crazies are small in number but why do they have to ruin the whole experience for the rest of us by acting like asshats.

Coupled with that the nutcase who believes she's married to Jensen has been abusing Danneel on Twitter again.

At least the people who hate Misha aren't this bad (well, apart from that person who despises him for the UNICEF page)

Just going to go and curl up in a corner somewhere

So someone sent me a PM off the back of super_law and asked if I knew of any comms which were dedicated solely to Eternal Law where they could post screencaps they'd made.

So, I checked and there wasn't one so I created eternal_law *facepalm*

I'm supposed to be stepping back from fandom not getting more involved.

It needed a comm though *g* Now I just need to encourage people to write ALL THE FIC!

Gen (MCU)
The Rehabilitation of Bucky Barnes in Six (not so) Easy Steps by The Avengers by seratonation
There's a lot to get used to now that Bucky is back in the world, it's a good thing the Avengers are here to help.
SO CUTE!

Sam/Bucky (MCU)
Like A Prayer For Which No Words Exist by thorinoakenshield
When Steve is summoned to New York by Tony Stark for an important meeting of the Avengers Sam wants nothing more than to be able to go with him, but, he's got his own mission to complete and it currently involves blueberry pancakes at three in the morning.
Aww, this one is so sweet

Steve/Bucky (MCU)
Fake Dating Fic by soshhy
Steve’s friends set him up on a surprise blind date with some guy named Bucky. Neither of them are pleased. They plan their revenge.
I can't even remember how this came about but I provided the prompt and this delightful fic was the end result

Challenge #10
In your own space, rec a fanwork (fic, art, vid, playlist, anything!) you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Ooh, this is a tough one. There are some great fics in my current little fandom and some I re-read often but I'm going to go with this one, which I've only read once, but still think of often.

Brigid is an incredible writer. Parts of this fic read like poetry, and made me feel seen. It takes a lot to make me cry when reading a fic but this one did it. Killing me softly with this fic.

I Wish That You Would Love Me
Author: Slutspeare
Fandom: 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei, 盗墓笔记重启 | The Lost Tomb Reboot (TV)
Pairings/Characters: Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling/Wang Pangzi/Liu Sang
Summary: He's in love with all three of them.
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 7,311 words
Tags: Iron Threesome, Plus Liu Sang, we're exploring sexualities tonight bois, Asexual Character, Asexual Liu Sang, Asexual Wang Pangzi, Liu Sang Needs A Hug (DMBJ Series), Angst and Hurt/Comfort

This entry was originally posted at https://hils.dreamwidth.org/880700….

1. Tokyo Godfathers - I knew nothing about this before we watched it for tonight's movie night. I didn't even realise it was animated until it started. I loved it! Nice to see a trans character who not only lives but also saves the day.
2. Ghostbusters Afterlife - I absolutely loved this! It managed to capture all the joy and nostalgia of the first two movies while feeling fresh at the same time. You can tell a lot of love for the franchise went into this. This entry was originally posted at https://hils.dreamwidth.org/880734….