Musical ADD

Fic: The Boys of Summer
Authors: s0ckpupp3t & dapatty
Artist: wilde_stallyn
Fandom: Bandom
Characters: Ray Toro, James Dewees, Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Brendon Urie, Pete Wentz
Notes: Fanmix for s0ckpupp3t & dapatty's polybigbang fic, The Boys of Summer.

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Tracklist:
1. Down - Lit
2. My Guitar - Jump Little Children
3. Music Again - Adam Lambert
4. Regular Guy - Bif Naked
5. Up Periscope - Drake Bell
6. Growing Into You - Soul Asylum
7. So I Need You - 3 Doors Down
8. I Got You - Nick Carter
9. I Have Mapped the Curves of Your Body - Places and Numbers
10. If I Had You - Adam Lambert
11. Kiwi - Maroon 5
12. Get Gotten - Ben Lee
13. Funtime - Boy George
14. Love Like a Bomb - Oasis

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?1qnb19uk…

Fic: Judgement
Author: canaana
Artist: wilde_stallyn
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing(s)/Characters: Nine/Jack/Rose + Mickey
Rating: G
Artist's Notes: Art for canaana's wonderful polybigbang fic, Judgement. I chose to illustrate this scene because it is just such a lovely, warm moment of happy poly!family-ness, and I think they deserve some time to just be together, in between all the running from things.


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-I'm in Winnipeg visiting for a few days, and I'm an idiot and forgot to pack the half of my laptop cord that actually plugs into the wall, so I am posting this and doing all other internet related things from my phone. This makes putting together the poster I'm supposed to be making this weekend for choir kind of problematic.

-Anyone want to see The Social Network with me while I'm here? For some reason I only really end up going to movies when I'm in Winnipeg.

-Choir concert! January 22! If you are in Vancouver, you should come and see if I actually manage to pull off the a flat in my solo/duet thing!

-My roommate has decided that our house has become decrepit enough that it's time to leave, so I'm going to be moving again March 1st. A friend of ours is taking over our house, which I think is nuts, but apparently she's going to try and fix it, so I wish her luck.

-I'm talking to a couple of friends about getting a place together. R is being typically noncommittal about moving, but S and I have convinced it to look and see if we can find an apartment we all like. They live in the West End and want to stay there, which will be a bit of a pain in the ass commuting to school in Coquitlam, but I'm only there 2-3 days a week and I'm otherwise super excited about the possibility of living with them because they are two of my absolute favorite people.

-School is going pretty well, but the pace is super slow. Why are people so dumb?

-I've been reading a lot of Glee fic, lately. Mostly Puck/Kurt. I have such a love/hate relationship with that show. I wish it would stop trying to be a drama and a comedy at the same time and let all the characters be actual people all the time and not just when they're the main focus of the story arc.

-I got a lovely fic for Make the Yuletide Gay this year. It seems to have been a good year for poly/ethical non-monogamy fic at MTYG, which makes me super happy. I'm thinking I'll put together some recs once I've read everything and have an actual computer.

I know it's probably a long shot, but does anyone have time to do a quick, last-minute beta for me for my MTYG story in the next few hours? Mostly just checking for any remaining typos and the like. I would be super grateful. *tries to smile winningly*

ETA: I haven't been on lj for, like, a month, obsessive reading of Glee fic not withstanding. If there's anything you think I should have see, link it in the comment. I promise I will post a real entry this week.

1. I LOVE YOU, KEVIN RICHARDSON. I don't even know what to do with this. Why won't the internet tell me when/how I can see this shit?

(This is the only popslash icon I have atm, and now I'm thinking about this!Lance/Kevin. *__*)

2. SING! I am super excited for more Killjoys video!

I like the song, except for what they've done to Gerard's voice in the verses. Can we just outlaw vocal effects full-stop, please? Nothing is ever improved by them that should even exist in the first place.

Also, is anyone else strangely reminded of Everlasting Love?

So I guess it’s been, like, a year since I made an actual Life Update-type post. Umm, oops? I took some extended breaks from the internet, but I’m pretty much back now, which I suppose means, it’s time for some Year in Review bullet points:

- I started T last June, and a year in I’m generally really happy with the changes, though I’m really ready for the back acne part of this second puberty thing to be over, thanks. I’m still trying to get a handle on proper facial hair management; this shit is harder than it looks. Do most guys actually learn this stuff from their dads? Because if everyone has to pick it up through osmosis and trial and error, I’m actually really surprised with the overall competence of the male population.

- I’m going back to school in September for my Optician’s certificate. I can’t say it’s something I’m super excited and passionate about, but it seems like an okay day job. I was on a mat leave contract at work and now that my coworker is back they can’t keep me on full time so I’m working part time this summer and will be able to continue while I’m at school.

- I’m not totally giving up on jewelry design, though. I took a basic metal smithing class through continuing ed at VCC this winter, so there’s a bunch of projects I could actually do now, if I had access to the right equipment. Unfortunately, the one place in Vancouver that was renting studio time to the public isn’t in business anymore, and I can’t see the landlady being open to me using even a small torch in our house. I was thinking about trying to find someone with a private studio who wants to rent it out once or twice a month, but I have no idea how to go about tracking someone like that down. Anyway, once I’m done my two years of optician school and put in a year or two in the industry, I’ll see where I am in terms of having enough work for a portfolio to apply to the full time jewelry program at VCC.

- I was sick for most of both February and May, and spent most of the intervening four months avoiding people, both on the internet and in real life. Mostly, what I did was catch up on all the TV I hadn’t watched for two years. I’m pretty much caught up on everything now, except for the second half of this season of Supernatural.

- I’m really ridiculously in love with Doctor Who and Burn Notice, though not in a fic-reading kind of way. I’m honestly a little scared that the fandoms can’t possibly compare to the awesomeness of the canons. If anyone’s got a really phenomenal rec, I’m willing to be proven wrong, though.

- I must admit that I’m not as fond of Matt Smith’s Doctor as I was of David Tennant’s quite yet, but Amy totally makes up for it. I love her so much, OMG.

- Fandom-wise, I’ve been cycling between popslash, Adam Lambert and figure skating. Currently, I’m mostly really obsessed with skating. I just really love this fandom so much in all its complete sparkly ridiculousness. <3 Because you can't take yourself too seriously and like Evan Lysacek at the same time!

- THAT SAID I would be very happy if we could move away from the kinkmeme format now, please. It defeats all the advantages of doing fandom on a lj-type platform and makes it really hard to keep track of everything.

- Also, I would like to state for the record that I really, really hate the word “stan”. (And yet, I’ve been spending so much time reading _skating recently that I keep using it in my head. Please kill me now.)

- The fact that this whole fandom has decided that Evan has pain and humiliation kinks (and keeps actually writing it well) makes me really incredibly happy, guys. Anyone who like boys with issues who don't know what they're doing trying to do BDSM (and I know some of you do) needs to read neery's Rituals right now. THIS IS THE SWANGOOSE DYNAMIC OF MY HEAAARRRRTT. I WANT TO READ THEM LIKE THIS FOREVER AND EVER.

- I have Backstreet Boys tickets for August! \o/

- One of the things I have learned this year is that I am willing to spend a lot more money to see BSB than Adam Lambert. I feel it's good to know these things about yourself.

So, that's me. How are all of you?
I'm going to be in Winnipeg July 6-19th for Folk Fest and the week after, so people there should tell me what you're schedules are like/if anything interesting is happening!

I can't wait to see the whole video.



Can has Chipmunk!JC furry!letterboys now, please?

I promise that I will post a personal update type entry sometime soon, but at the moment I'm too pissed not to say something about this.

I went to see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus with a friend this afternoon. I didn't really know much about the film going in, other than that Heath Ledger was working on it when he died and Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Collin Farrel stepped in to finish it in his memory. It was an interesting film and visually stunning, but I really wish I hadn't spent money on it because there were some jaw-droppingly racist moments. I will definitely be taking a pass on anything Terry Gilliam directs in the future.

The most fucked up instance was the scene where Verne Troyer's character was RANDOMLY IN BLACKFACE. There was not even an attempt at a bullshit excuse for it. It's only purpose was so a wealthy older white woman could mistake him for a child and scream, "OMG, save the poor black child! Someone call social services!" only to be quickly charmed into forgetting all about it by Heath Ledger's character.

Somewhat less surprising, but still damn skeevy was the Asian cultural appropriation surrounding the main character. When I came home I started googling to see if I could find any mention of the movie's race!fail in any of the reviews or discussion. I couldn't, but I did find an interview with the script's co-writer where he described Doctor Parnassus as "a semi-eastern medicine man". Surely you can see where this is headed.

When the old white guy started his origin story with "Thousands of year ago I was a young monk," I expected he meant a European, Friar Tuck-style monk, but then the flashback happened and there he was in a mountain top monastery full of what appeared to be a mishmash of Buddhist, Taoist and other Asian imagery that followed him for the rest of the film (unfortunately I am not familiar enough with the cultures in question to properly place everything). Doctor Parnassus sat on a dais presiding over a group of Asian monks on magic carpets, who were the ONLY people of colour in the whole film. [ETA: Oh, wait, I forgot the presumed world leaders near the end who, unlike the president, were not important enough to actually get introduced.]

The film doesn't do too well on the sexism front either, what with the shallow, insipid, hysterical and strictly female audience members who are the Doctor's converts and Ledger's character's dupes, and the female lead whose biggest dream is a normal life with a picket fence and two point five children. She is repeatedly described as "the prize" and though it briefly seems like she is going to decide the fate of the plot by making a choice, ultimately her agency is rendered meaningless because, of course, "she's just the prize, she wasn't actually supposed to get to choose".

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-MOVING, OMG. Am moving Saturday. Am about 1/4 packed. Anyone who wants to spend a bit of Saturday lifting things with me in exchange for food and my eternal gratitude should drop me a line.

-I've had a couple of really good conversations in the past week that totally rewired things in my brain, which is always an interesting feeling. One about love and friendship and one about D/s and independence. I may write more about them when I have more time.

-I have downloaded 5 out of 6 existing Backstreet Boys albums this week. \o? This is mostly because I've been reading a lot of old popslash the past couple of months. I'm really quite sad that I missed the boat when the fandom was really active. I am trying to keep from annoying the people around me to the point of homicide with pop music and Nick Carter squee, somewhat less than successfully. I don't know if I have any former popslashers on my flist, but I'd love any recs you might have if I do.

-I found the most awesome Ryan Ross tie at Daiso on Saturday. Sam described it as "drunken paisley".

-Anyone want to beta my Patrick/Dirty sounding fic for sosodirty towards the end of next week?