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Just went and did a mass friends-lock on everything pre-2009. This is the (sporadic) step two of a long, stretched-out process in cleaning this thing up wrt what's public and making my public fandom posts more navigable (since I'm very set in my LJ flist of people I like to talk to about irl stuff with and LJ is still a good archival tool even if fandom on LJ proper has slowed down quite a bit). That means a lot of my very, VERY old fandom stuff (LOTR, DCU, and House primarily) is locked until I get around to fixing it. If you've got a bookmark that's broken and I haven't yet fixed it please drop me a link/request in the comments and I'll get too it ASAP.
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This is seriously one of the best things I've seen in a long time. Have watched it at least half a dozen times and cannot stop grinning.
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Yesterday at work I stopped a woman from buying Fifty Shades of Grey because she’d told me she was getting books for her son’s AP English course and considering the other title on her list was To Kill a Mockingbird I was pretty sure E.L. James was not a part of the local 9th/10th grade curriculum, advanced placement or no.
Correct book turned out to be Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys.
Dear unknown teenage boy saved from walking into the first day of class with none of the summer reading done and a copy of Twilight-With-Anal-Fisting under his arm: YOU’RE WELCOME.
What if I hadn't been there? What if every time this kid sat down to play video games she just looked at him with that look until he slowly, grudgingly put down the controller and reached for that dreaded, uncomfortable, and horrifically written smut and every time she saw him reading it she would just beam and he would sink further into the couch in shame.
WHAT IF SHE MADE HIM GIVE PROGRESS REPORTS. She looked like the kind of mom who asked for progress reports. At the dinner table, in front of everyone.
And the kid he doesn't know what to do, and the whole time is like:
What is happening.
What is.
Why.
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The second-hand store where I buy a lot of my clothes uses some sort of really good-smelling kind of fruity detergent on the women's clothes, but apparently they use a different, REALLY MANLY SMELLING detergent on the men's. That or somebody took a bottle of cologne to the twenty or so size small long-sleeved shirts/jackets they had in stock, of which I purchased two.
It's strong enough that my pillows still smell like it from when I dropped the shirts there earlier while folding up some other laundry.
It is a good smell, but also very...
frustrating. 8\
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I can see Venus!
My set-up is so half-assed and the little fucker is blurry is shit BUT I CAN SEE IT!
My set-up is so half-assed and the little fucker is blurry is shit BUT I CAN SEE IT!
God I'm such a nerd
My first evening off in a good while and what am I doing?
Sitting with my cat half-underneath my dining room table in a patch of setting sunlight, transit of Venus webcast open in one window*, fanfic in another window, tv tuned to catch the results of the Wisconsin recall election in the background, drinking a beer.
Really, I should dust off the OK Cupid profile and stick that under the “What do you typically do on a Friday night?” question, with the added caveat that anyone interested in doing the same with some feminist banter and gender-norm-subversive sexytimes thrown in afterward to give me a call.
*Technically I could have gone to a few live viewing parties and hey maybe have met an actual live person with similar interests there, but this introvert really, really needed some quite alone battery recharge time after two days of sunup to sundown constant barrage of People Demanding Things.
I am using my cat's water bowl to prop up my mirror that I'm using to bounce a tiny disc image of the sun onto my kitchen cabinet. HIGH TECH.
Sitting with my cat half-underneath my dining room table in a patch of setting sunlight, transit of Venus webcast open in one window*, fanfic in another window, tv tuned to catch the results of the Wisconsin recall election in the background, drinking a beer.
Really, I should dust off the OK Cupid profile and stick that under the “What do you typically do on a Friday night?” question, with the added caveat that anyone interested in doing the same with some feminist banter and gender-norm-subversive sexytimes thrown in afterward to give me a call.
*Technically I could have gone to a few live viewing parties and hey maybe have met an actual live person with similar interests there, but this introvert really, really needed some quite alone battery recharge time after two days of sunup to sundown constant barrage of People Demanding Things.
I am using my cat's water bowl to prop up my mirror that I'm using to bounce a tiny disc image of the sun onto my kitchen cabinet. HIGH TECH.
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The cat woke me up hella early and it isn't storming like the weather promised but it is a bit chilly so I've got on a sweatshirt and my ugly shorts and a multicolored striped tank top that I love but don't have a bra to wear with but whatever. It's 8am and I've finished with my morning internet update so I'm going to Home Depot to buy me some motherfucking PLANTS. And I'm gonna PLANT THOSE PLANTS in my PLANTERS on my PATIO in the rain it's gonna be an AWESOME day off.
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Epic thunderstorm outside and all I want to do is light candles, play jazz, and watch it roll on through, but NO. I have to go to work. :(
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Saw The Cabin in the Woods last night and seriously cannot recommend it enough.
You don’t even have to be a big horror fan or know anything about the movie going into it (I had no idea what the plot was and it was amazing coming into it blind like that and watching it unfold) to have a whole hell of a lot of fun. Even if you’ve only seen an 80s slasher movie or two that’s all the horror background you need (though if you’re a bigger horror fan there’s lots of delicious wink winking thrown your way), and unlike lots of recent stuff what gore or violence there is downplayed, off-screne, or highlighted instead for it’s utter cheesiness (really sensible as the movie is partly Joss Whedon’s “loving hate letter” to the recent trend in torture porn).
Smart writing, great acting, lots of amazing cameos, Tarantino-esque in some of its shots, genre-savve, meta tastic to the max, funny as all hell and a movie the whole audience can really get their cheer on for. What a great way to start the summer.
You don’t even have to be a big horror fan or know anything about the movie going into it (I had no idea what the plot was and it was amazing coming into it blind like that and watching it unfold) to have a whole hell of a lot of fun. Even if you’ve only seen an 80s slasher movie or two that’s all the horror background you need (though if you’re a bigger horror fan there’s lots of delicious wink winking thrown your way), and unlike lots of recent stuff what gore or violence there is downplayed, off-screne, or highlighted instead for it’s utter cheesiness (really sensible as the movie is partly Joss Whedon’s “loving hate letter” to the recent trend in torture porn).
Smart writing, great acting, lots of amazing cameos, Tarantino-esque in some of its shots, genre-savve, meta tastic to the max, funny as all hell and a movie the whole audience can really get their cheer on for. What a great way to start the summer.