Below are the most recent 16 friends' journal entries.

Monday, December 7th, 2009
firefly124	5:49a	Ooh, the Moste Potente Passions Awards have been announced! Huge congratulations to all the winners! Some really amazing fic there, all of you! And big thanks to sshg316, mollyssister, losille2000, and deemichelle for developing and modding these awards. Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
asylum_promo [ plagued_mods ]	5:35p	Post-war Harry Potter RPG ( PLAGUED RPG - What would you do if you lost your magic? ) (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
nehalenia	5:16p	HP/Snupin Santa Rec: "Terrific Two's Summer of Mystery" Why oh why, my friends, has no one rec'd this yet? This was the first Snupin Santa offering and it's bloody brilliant! I love a fic that can blend humor and hot boy-sex and this delivers beautifully. Honestly, just thinking about the fic brings a grin to my face. The prompt was for an Enid Blyton type story -- if you're from the US, think Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew --but with pron. It's an utterly delightful AU romp with cameos by several other HP characters, such as Remus' eccentric Uncle Albus (who apparently leaves 'dubious literature' lying about to give young Remus naughty ideas), a "rusted death-trap – affectionately known as 'Minnie', the housekeeper Mrs. Sprout, and others. If the idea of fresh-faced wholesome boys in shorts, long socks and sandals biking around Cornwall, having advetures by day and becoming 'very special chums' by night all while usig phrases like 'corking', 'cracking good time' and "I'm going to, you know… fellatio>..." doesn't appeal, well, then I can't help you. If it does, though, then crack open a bottle of ginger beer, go here http://snupinsanta.annex-files.com/viewstory.php?sid=379&chapter=1 and have yourself a jolly good read. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
eeyore9990	12:01p	A fest.... Just for me?? and Various Fest Recs I have decided that daily_deviant's Kinky Kristmas fest is really secretly a Make Eey Happy fest. Hello, my kinks. I would rec specific fic and art from this fest, but seriously, it's ALL so damn delicious that I can't pick just one. I urge you all to go to Kinky Kristmas and roll around in the kinky dirty gorgeousness that's been posted. As for the other fests I'm participating in/reading, have some fic and art!! A Holiday With Old Friends on snapelyholidays. Snupin art with a bit of backstory ficlet. Lovely and awesome. I love this person's Snape. A Haunting Past on snapelyholidays. Severus/Lily/Remus with some delicious potion's accident smut. God, I love it! Rock and a Hard Place on snarry_holidays. Lovely dirty wall-sexxin' Snarry art. I love this "mystery" artist to pieces, and this is just one example of why! Of Hope Restored on snarry_holidays. This one's long (20k+), but with forced bonding, deaged Snape Snarry, can you really turn it down? Can you? I didn't think so. :D It's an awesome fic. The Storm and After on harry_holidays is some dark and gritty and perfectly dystopian Drarry with some incredibly ingenious and imaginative magical effects. I'd be reccing this up and down even if it wasn't for me. The fact that it's my gift? Is just the icing on the cake! Cultivating Trust on harry_holidays is a lovely, sweet Draco/Neville with a perfect blend of Narcissa and Scorpius. It's beautifully written and Neville really shines in this fic, which I love to see. :D The Song of Surrender on bestmates_xmas is a gorgeous, long bit of Harry/Ron fic in which Ron goes above and beyond for Harry. Harry has special needs in this fic (rope bondage kink) and it's just perfectly written. I loved how the author handled the relationship here. It was believable and perfect. Ego Boosting on bestmates_xmas is a really wonderful fic in its own right, but it OWNS MY HEART for the fact that there are TABLES full of NUMBERS in this fic! NUMBERS! TABLES OF THEM! *loves* *loves so much* Y'all have to go read this one. It's fun and awesome and so much a perfect example of why I secretly love this pairing to death. The Distraction of Attraction on bestmates_xmas is another lovely, fun, bromancey fic. I know, I'm reccing a lot from this fest, but everything's been so awesome and great and really, they've posted a LOT of fic there, so. Heh. A Little Sideways on smutty_claus was a lovely and almost heartbreaking Cedric/Luna. I think I might have held my chest through most of it. Very awwwww and sniffle. LOL. AND! Last but not least, happy_trekmas began posting today, and they started off with a bang! Double-Ridged is Kirk/Spock art of deliciousness, exploring one of my favorite tropes from that fandom. Whee! Spock-cock at its finest! Gah, I've read a ton of excellent fic this season, and it's only the first week! How will I ever keep it up? Hehehehe. "Keep it up." Heh. Oh, and just in case you just wandered in and have never met me before, all the art linked from here is NWS! Because I'm a perv like that. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 4th, 2009
eeyore9990	6:47p	Fic Rec, hot hot hot! Go read it now! OMG, you guys. I totally scored in the gift fic department today. Have you ever read something and just thought, "You know, I should stop writing completely because I will never ever be able to write like this"? That totally happened to me. My major downfall when it comes to writing is being descriptive. I just can't do it. I don't have that skill set. But the brilliantly imaginative author who wrote my gift at harry_holidays has more ability in the tip of his/her pinky toe than I'll have, ever. God, y'all, it is just AMAZING. My only quibble is that I wanted more. More, more, more. I want to read more in this universe. I want a 500,000 word epic. I want... everything. LOL! I am so damn greedy. But seriously, how can you read something like this: It had been raining in London. Harry could smell it. It was in the unique city-scent of damp concrete and the tang of scorched steel and ozone lingering in the air. It was in the cautious eyes that stared at the sky from broken and curtained windows, and in the silence of the streets and alleys, and the lone unmoving hubcap balanced edgewise on the rim of an open manhole. ...and not just immediately be sucked into the story. I wanted to weep with the beauty of the details, and then again with the element that drives the fic (which I won't give away here; you'll have to read it yourselves). You guys, if you've never trusted me before, trust me now. Run and read The Storm and After, just as fast as you can. It's 3600 brilliant NC-17 words of Harry/Draco relationship, but that's really only the very tip of the iceberg here. I mean. OMG, just go read it. (Comment on this)
firefly124	1:55p	Excellent article on the whole "stand up for Christmas" business I have a lot of conflicting feelings about Christmas. More so this year for some reason. But that's a rambly post for another day when I'm not actively procrastinating writing up med sheets. The thing is, the Focus on the Family annual campaign to "stand up for Christmas" has always struck me as logically inconsistent on a number of levels. It was very nice, then, to be pointed to this article by a Christian author that addresses some of those very things. He even touches on the Pagan roots of some of the traditions (not to mention the timing) of the holiday, while keeping a fairly balanced look at the end result. (I have about as much patience for "the Christians stole Saturnalia" hysteria as I do for "retailers who don't say 'Merry Christmas' are evil.") Well worth a read. Current Mood: busy (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
asylum_promo [ i_want_2 ]	11:09p	All Fanfiction Welcome! Been looking for a place to post your fanfic? Got an idea for a story you want to see written? Know of that one fic that just begs you to tell about it to others? Then look no further: multi_fiction Here is a place for all your fanfiction needs. We offer fanfic, challenges, and recs in every fandom you can post about. Come share the fanfiction with us, whether it be yours, ours, or rec some complete strangers. There are very few rules, but all are there for your benefit. We have a friendly atmosphere with a welcoming friends list. Give us a try. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 4th, 2009
asylum_promo [ mugetsu ]	3:19a	Octopon, Gotham Gazette, Commedia, Vagrant Story octopon - Pirates of DarkWater fandom asylum. gotham_gazette - Batman fandom asylum for all batfans. vagrant_story - Vagrant Story fandom asylum. Pending/WIP. Please keep in mind that I will be retiring Vagrant Story and Gotham Gazette if no further interest is shown. And, Please feel free to join commedia; a personal project of mine, aiming to review and analyze comics (and other selected media) that feature DC Comics' The Joker. It is currently a WIP because I am still going through my 500+ hardcopy!issues collection. I do not download torrents/scans. Two important polls need to be voted on, as seen here explaining two routes the asylum's project can take. IE: spoiler free reviews, spoilerific reviews, etc. This asylum will continue to be WIP until further interest is shown. I am also open to affiliating with other comic book and/or Batman related asylums, except for RPGs. Current Mood: hopeful (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
firefly124	8:32a	Happy December Birthdays! According to LJ, IJ, and DW, the following people have birthdays coming up this month: erickajo*, pyjamapants, snarkywench_64, liz_marcs, seti_apollonius, pendamuse, gypsy_morph, jackiejlh, theturningworld, saracen77**, savine_snape, lady_rhian, sc010f, keladry_lupin, ayerf, slyth_wolf, wonderfulwrites, and mollyssister. Happy birthdays to you all! If you would like an original or fannish drabble (story of 100 words) or ficlet (less precisely worded but still very short story) as a birthday gift, please comment with the fandom and character(s) or pairing you'd like it to be about (obviously not quite applicable for original fic) and some sort of prompt, and I'll do my best to get it written before your next birthday! (A lot sooner if I can help it. Yes, I realize I still owe fics back to August, but now that clinical's done with class soon to follow, maybe I can finally write more than just TFTWSD.) If you're wanting a rundown of what I will/won't write, I've got a post covering the basics here on LJ and here on IJ, though I should add that just because I haven't written a fandom or pairing before doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy a challenge. And if you're wondering how to prompt for something non-fannish, there are some suggestions here on LJ and here on IJ. *Has anyone seen or heard from erickajo in the past, oh, 11 months or so? **I think I still owe you last year's birthday fic, saracen_77. *cringes* Sorry! Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
foudebassan	9:27p	L'ombre du minaret I'll start with how I'm fully aware of my own Christian bias, and I do speak as someone who fell in love with Switzerland some time ago. But honestly, this anti-Swiss pathetic drivel is getting on my nerves. First, it is bad, baaad, baaaaaad manners to criticise democracy. And dangerous too. If you start talking of "the people" in that high-handed, butter won't melt in my mouth, poseur-intellectual way, and yes, I'm thinking of you, Quatremer, you had better have the blond hair and impeccable physique that goes with it. Otherwise we'll just have to conclude you're playing right in the hands of the populists you so affect to despise. Sovereignty of the people means that idiots vote too. Get over it. Or do you believe it makes me a demagogue to point out that you share this distaste for our political system with a good many bludge marks on our history books. You know, I wish we had direct democracy everywhere. I know, not practical, not in a large circumscription, not in places where it is not in our political culture to do so. But there is something so inherently beautiful in this shared communion with fellow-citizens of varied creeds, backgrounds, educational levels, and more recently, genders, that even voicing your objections makes me froth in the mouth with bilious anger. If thinking that one ballot per person, one vote per issue, is not the Right way to decide how a community should manage itself, there is really nothing more I can say or do. Now, minarets in specific. Calling to prayer is already forbidden in Switzerland, so forbidding minarets is something else - coming from an ideological POV rather than from a practical one. It means that islam shouldn't be allowed into public space. It is not an attempt against freedom of religion - no one banned the belonging to, nor the practising of, islam. It means, if you're muslim, keep it outside of the public sphere. Now that is anathema to our liberal little multicultural minds. Surely different communities should be allowed equal space in the public arena, don't we all think. Sure, xenophobes (westerners or otherwise) think the exact opposite - that the public sphere should be reserved to their own more or less mainstream culture and that expressions of difference, especially when foreign, should be limited or banned. I have no doubt the Swiss vote was in good part UDC-led too. But just because your enemy thinks something, you shouldn't automatically adopt the opposite stance. Blocher was not alone on this either. Not so long ago, Europe was under a strict moral codex imposed by various Christian religious authorities. Even now there are victims of the Catholic church's various abuses who are struggling to obtain justice as secular authorities do not yet possess the strength to oppose it fully when it errs. The current semi-secularist status quo is not sufficiently well-established into our culture that we can let it get threatened by a religion no better than Christianity when it comes to imposing itself into the public sphere to the detriment of laicity. The difference between the two being that Christianity is thought to be saying its last prayers while Islam is perceived (rightly or not) to be gaining followers - while the threat posed by the former is therefore known and limited, the perceived threat from the latter is higher. Now the Swiss also don't think like us, in that, as a result of our watered-down, indirect democracy, we're very much stop and go. An issue is brought up by spin doctors when elections come along, thoroughly muddled with a great many other issues at hand, and then promptly forgotten post-elections. If we were to discuss minarets, at the favour of, perhaps, a slow news day during election time, all parties would pledge Something. The elected party would then implement it, and we would all move on swiftly - another issue would then dominate the next election, something as important as, perhaps, should bad dogs be put down, or should old people really be ignored when they get cancer, or, why do pregnant teenagers get free houses when they should really be sectioneed? The Swiss, on the other hand, debate things all the time. They don't have electoral agendas or deadlines, because each issue gets its own vote. Don't give a damn? Don't vote. Feel strongly about something? Gather all your friends, and if there are enough of you, there will be a vote. And equally, you strongly disagree about something (like, no doubt, the Muslim community currently does)? Well, it won't do any good to get all excited, because those people who just voted against your pet idea? Well, they might well be your allies in the next vote, or perhaps the one after that. You don't have political enemies in Switzerland, you have discussion partners you debate with all the fucking time. Swiss children aren't taught to go back home do their homework. They're taught to stay at school in a study group and do group homework assignments. The first thing about being Swiss is that you don't get hot in the head, you don't disrespect you fellow citizens, and you argue and argue and argue your case until everyone agrees. Because in a nation that is so strongly decentralised, with long-standing mistrust between the four different language communities, between Catholics and Protestants, between people from your canton and people from all the other cantons, between people of Swiss descent and people whose Swiss-ness was more recently acquired*, the one value that holds everything else together is consensus. There are no moves forward until everything has been discussed to the point where saliva gets scarce, until everyone agrees to change. That's why women didn't get to vote until as late as 1975 is some cantons. That's why it's taken them bloody ages to join the UN. That's why they're still not in the EU despite being a perfect miniature, Alpine replica of the Union. That's why minarets aren't allowed in their public sphere. Because those ideas are not (yet) part of the consensus. And you know what? If we EU citizens had stopped for a minute and learned from the Swiss, we might not have landed ourselves in the mess we're currently in. (BTW - Welcome to the world, Lisbon. May the birthing pains have been worth it.) * oh yeah, Switzerland has one of the highest proportion (20%) of non-national residents in the world. So if you're thinking insular, narrow-minded and xenophobic... think again. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
eeyore9990	10:10a	FEST SEASON YAY!!!! OMG OMG OMG!! FEST SEASON HAS BEGUN! MY EXCITEMENT CANNOT BE CONTAINED! Kinky Kristmas started with GORGEOUS art and an AMAZING fic. Go here to see them both! And snapelyholidays kicked off with a bang this morning, as well. A lovely smutty bang. Lots of banging, if you ask me. :D A Haunting Past is a scorching hot Remus/Lily/Severus potions accident made them do it fic. So awesome. *waits impatiently for harry_holidays, happy_trekmas, and severus_lucius to start posting* WHEEEEE! FEST SEASON!!! (Comment on this)
Monday, November 30th, 2009
asylum_promo [ advertisemyrp ]	8:05p	Mod Cooperative & Old School RP ( Mod Cooperative - a place where players and mods come together to help each other out! ) ( Old School RP - a place to advertise games that follow old school rules of RP. ) (Comment on this)
firefly124	2:26p	And I made it! I successfully met the 5_for_five challenge: write at least 500 words at least 5 times out of the week for 12 weeks. Ta-da! </div> Shiny! The fic o'doom, aka The Fic That Wouldn't Stay Dead, is now over 66,500 words. Meep! But I think it's keeping me relatively sane this semester, and the motivation of this challenge has helped me keep at it. It's rabid enough that it'd probably have kept eating my brain anyway, but there's this thing that happens when you let a rabid story do that without ever writing any of it out. It just sort of spins itself out and dies. Now, that might actually be a good thing in some cases. There are times I think that might be the best fate for this fic. BUT the writing of it continues to take the weight of the semester off my mind at key times, so having the motivation to sit down and churn out at least 500 words (and often as not, it's after passing that point that a scene takes off) has been a very good thing. Huge thanks to lady_rhian who thought up this challenge in the first place and mega thanks to sshg316 for opening the challenge up to the rest of us and helping keep us motivated to just keep writing! Also? Tomorrow's the last day of clinical for this semester. Whee! Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)
eeyore9990	9:50a	Wheee! I just submitted the last of my official fest fics for the holiday season. One day early, whoot! I still have a few pinch hits due throughout December, but it feels good to have the "official" stuff out of the way. And one of the pinch hits is at about 75% complete, so yay! Today is going to be jam-packed with RL-ness, though, so hopefully I can carve out time tonight to finish THAT fic and then get started on the next one. I can't believe everything starts posting tomorrow! It seems like I've been waiting forever (and/or praying for deadlines to not approach so quickly). Okay, so if you want to catch my fics, they will be posted throughout December on the following communities/asylums: • harry_holidays • daily_deviant's Kinky Kristmas • snapelyholidays • snarry_swap • severus_lucius's Romance Fest • happy_trekmas And... I think that's it? There'll also be a couple of my fics in the Severus Shorts Birthday Celebration. Anyway YAY! Holiday fest season, whooooooooot!! What will y'all be following? (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
melusin	1:34p	back on line - sort of have been computerless for several days - took pc to a nice chap who basically did a few checks and told me he could find nothing wrong with it - it started for him and behaved like a good little computer. Naturally, when I get it back, it freezes on the first attempt, but with a few kicks and a lot of swearing, it does at least start. After being told by one boffin that the motherboard on my laptop was dead, I asked same chap to recover the data from it - which he did, only guess what? Laptop worked fine for him too. Unfortunately, the mains cable is rather dodgy and needs replacing - but that shouldn't be too much of a problem. So I'm 85 Euros down and not that much better off as yet. Apologies to anyone whose birthday I may have missed, and to those who are poorly, best wishes for a speedy recovery. (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
firefly124	6:11a	Fic rec: The Guardian (Torchwood, PG, Jack/Ianto) Helluva day to post a rec, at least for folks this side of the pond, but here it is nonetheless. Title: The Guardian Author: madambackslash Fandom: Torchwood Rating: PG Characters: Jack Harkness, John Hart, Gray, Ianto Jones, Rhiannon Davies, Mica Davies, OCs Spoilers: Through CoE Summary: The Jones family has lived in Cardiff for a very long time... Why you should read it: This tale starts in 27 CE with a very young witness to a horrific event, a witness who proceeds to give that event a meaning that grows through time and then persists well beyond. To say more would spoil it, but it's beautiful and sad and touching and I expect it's a story I'll revisit more than once. Have Kleenex handy when you read. Current Mood: sniffly (Comment on this)