she has an aversion to conviction

Hi to anybody still following me on LiveJournal, and a heads up: I'm about to disable Dreamwidth to LiveJournal cross-posting, so no new posts will appear here. The reason is that I'm mainly being quiet on Tumblr rather than Dreamwidth now, and I don't want to maintain three things any more.

Here's me if you want to follow on DW: julad. And on tumblr: http://julad.tumblr.com

If I had you able to see locked posts here and you don't see the same locked posts there, let me know (and do me a favour and tell me who you are on LJ&DW because I just have no freaking idea what people's names are any more).

Oh god I'm doing it. To be edited once I decide what on earth I'm actually doing.

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OMG, my last DW post was for last new year's day. /o\ And it's not like I posted much to tumblr either, but I did post more than I thought. I was more pissed off at Teen Wolf than I realised, apparently. But I also still find this as funny and awful as I did when I put it together.

Anyway, Happy New Year to all. I've been enjoying your posting even if I've been quiet.

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All the best for your own 2015, whatever you want it to contain!

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I hope everybody has had a good holidays (or a tolerable holidays, if your family is like that), and wish you a happy, productive, exciting, rewarding or other-desired-attribute new year.

It's predicted to be 41C here today (106F) and at 10am it's already 35 (95). And I have so. much. freaking. housework that I have to do today. This is going to be gross.

My New Years Stuff this year is pretty straightforward. All I planned for 2013 was renovating and moving in to my new place, and then relaxing the rest of the year, with no other drama. The renovating and moving was, of course, about five months of stress and bad sleep, but it got done, and I got to take it easy the rest of the year. The only non-relaxing thing I did was change jobs, but that was done for the sake of stress minimisation - there was a project trainwreck coming at the old job, and I elected to mix my metaphors and leave the sinking ship.

This year I also want a low-drama year, and one that includes more fannish interaction! Wouldn't that be a novelty! My resolutions this year are:

- finish and post at least one unfinished story
- get all my stories into A03
- half my plate is always vegetables

That's it. 2014, sorted. (Famous last words, I know. :P)

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I know, I know, I'm the slowest person in the universe to move their stuff to the archive. But I've done two fandoms: The Sentinel and Numb3rs. Up next: Smallville and Due South.

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Many, many years ago, I officially resigned as my parents' tech support. I don't mind doing tech support per se, but I got so fed up with them ignoring my advice and then expecting me to deal with the consequences of ignoring my advice, I kind of snapped. It worked to a small extent - they now listen to me about 10% of the time and say "please" and "thank you" when the other 90% goes wrong.

Four hours this evening was spent on trying to locate my dad's lost iPhone, the day before they go overseas for a month. Two hours was travel, two hours was trying various stuff on their computer, and on mine when theirs didn't work properly. I couldn't locate the phone online, but since I hadn't set up the iPhone-finding-stuff on Dad's iPhone (which I had set up, of course, because it was my old phone), I probably only have myself to blame. I am not to blame for the fact that it took more than an hour to track down all the passwords to all their accounts and unravel the thread of accounts back to their iCloud account in order to finally log in and verify that nope, iCloud did not know anything about the whereabouts of any iPhone.

So then I said to my parents, "how about I set up a thing for you where all your passwords are saved in one place and you just need to remember one master password to unlock it, instead of your current strategy of using the same few passwords for everything and writing them down on scraps of paper that float around your house so that they are both completely insecure and completely unfindable in a crisis." And they're like, "Nooo, that sounds horrid. We don't want anything like that and will refuse to use it."

On the upside, I'm feeling incredibly motivated to have kids of my own, so that they can look after all my technology when I get old. I feel entitled.

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So I should probably post about pretty much the only fannish show I've managed to watch all year, which is Teen Wolf. I've been half hating it and half loving it and mostly not knowing what to think about it and reading a lot of fic. As you do, for 90% of fannish TV shows. I probably didn't need that whole sentence, in fact. It practically goes without saying.

I'll eat most of the shippy meals at the very shippy buffet over there, but it's very fertile OT3 land. Scott/Allison/Isaac - yup. After the last couple of eps of 3A, I also want an OT3 of the parents - Melissa McCall, Chris Argent and Sheriff Stilinski. I think Melissa should get ALL the hot dads. Also, how awesome would it be when they pool their knowledge and put together the whole picture of what's been happening the last few years and then go off at their progeny as one outraged threesome-tastic parental unit. And also how much Scott, Allison and Stiles would not be able to handle it. And how Scott's dad reacts when he finds out. Beautiful.

The other OT3 I would like is Stiles/Derek/Lydia. I think Lydia needs two men to keep up with her, and to entertain each other when she has more important things to do than deal with men. The problem is, I can't see how it happens. I can see the Stiles/Lydia and the Stiles/Derek, but I feel like Derek needs to do several years of levelling up as both a werewolf and a human being before Lydia would consider him worth her time.

But I want a way to get there because I want a scene where Lydia and Derek have been tormenting Stiles for hours, and finally they say to him, "which one of us do you want to blow you?" And Stiles is desperate and incoherent and says "Derek! Derek! Please!"

And Lydia's taken aback - "Oh. I see," she says, very icy. And Stiles is like, "Lydia, you are everything I've ever wanted in a woman but Derek has werewolf strength in his mouth." And Lydia thinks about this for half a second and then waves a hand and says, "True. Continue."

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Aaugh, so I didn't even make it to day two of ten posts in ten days. But I did try! I got home stupidly late last night after going to see the Basics at 7pm, and they were so good that I had to buy a ticket for the 11pm show.

This is The Basics:



So after getting home at 1am I tried to post but there was a Internet Outage! And I started writing a post but couldn't make links which drove me crazy so I belatedly did the sensible thing and went to sleep.

Today's Yesterday's content: what are people using to post to Dreamwidth these days?

I used iJournal for a long time, but it doesn't look like it's been maintained for years. I just downloaded a trial of MarsEdit which has many fine qualities, but apparently not user links and cut text, which sucks because I never remember the code for those.

I used to have an iPhone app but it's disappeared, possibly due to neglect. And there doesn't seem to be a Dreamwidth-specific iPhone app - they all seem LiveJournal-centric, and I find LiveJournal scary and strange these days.

Tips and suggestions would be very nice!

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Hi! I'm a bit late to the conversation renewal party, but I've had a chaotic couple of weeks - helping sister pack up and move interstate, my own birthday, family birthdays, $800 hot water system dramas (*cry*), seemingly endless car problems, and a run of medical appointments.

But that's finally settling down, so I can probably spend some time doing this internet thingy that I used to do.

I have about ten posts backed up in my head, which makes astolat's Ten in Ten challenge a bit timely. It's not stories, but I'll try to do ten posts in ten days, and see where that gets me.

Today's actual content:

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emerging briefly from the The Cave of RL to wish a happy birthday to the birthday-wishing-est of them all, frausorge  This entry was originally posted at dreamwidth ( comments).