Another scattered post written at various times over the previous week.

( That painting thing )


Hmm, what happened to sanyin? I loved her fanfic. It's a shame it's gone.

Which also reminds me, roundtable recs.


( Work )

( My dad )


tl;dr version: Wow, my life is boring even me.

I kinda want this job.

Anyone up for a trip to Calabasas next weekend to see Jim Beaver?

So, you people curious about the Kindle and ebook readers, there's a good overview of the different formats here and what device they work on. I think until there's one dominant format (like mp3s in music) everyone's going to be stuck converting formats.

Ahaha! I kinda want fanfic where Metallicar is starting to get irritated with all these other people who have started riding around with her boys. She just wants the open road and the boys in her front seat and that's all she needs. She refuses to open her doors to let these strangers in. *facepalm* Project much, Storm?

Roundtable recs. I've read a couple of really good stories this weekend/week. I kinda want to rec them, but then I think I should save them for Roundtable instead.

Sometimes I feel like I need a spreadsheet for all my friends' fandom likes and dislikes: this person hates Wincest/RPS/J2/Bobby/JDM, this person loves Castiel/Ruby/Danneel/Gen so don't say anything bad about them... I honestly can't keep it straight and am always a little worried about using the wrong icon or accidentally saying something that will offend one of y'all.


So deirdre_c just broke my heart all over again with her newest vid. I counter her with this: Have a Little Faith, Joe Cocker. ( lyrics )

Well...

well well...

I have just spent most of my weekend reading fanfic. Now I know you're saying "What's new about that?" but this was just one fanfic. One single wonderful story. (It was quite long). You have two weeks till show comes back. Run, don't walk to read this. You don't have to do what I did and spend an entire weekend reading it. You can take it in chunks (if you can manage to walk away and stop reading it.)

The Fetters of Fenrir by leonidaslion. NC17, Sam/Dean, nongraphic non-con (There's also a series of gen prequels that are linked in the forward which you should read first.)

It is epic.

What I really love about this story is that it read like an episode-- hell, like a whole season, with mysteries being figured out, fighting and wonderful Norse mythology and a monster at the heart of it all, blending canon in so seamlessly yet so twisted, then a sense of tension running through the whole thing as the clock ticks down. It's full of hurt/comfort and then more h/c and even more h/c with all kinds of competence kink thrown in. It's complex and well-written. I devoured it. Don't let the word "berserker" fool you. I'm not a fan of berserker stories. This goes so far beyond that.

It's what I want from a Supernatural movie (Unfortunately 'tho it's a little too AU for that.)


I'll probably rec this at spnroundtable when my turn comes around again, so consider this a preview, a practice run.

(Also art recs.)

I think I have fallen a little bit in love with Neil Patrick Harris over the past month. I was surprised that he's such a great singer.

Wow, just a few weeks ago, Disney was supposed to buy it, but now it looks like Fanlib is shutting down.

*snickers* I have confirmation that I actually work with fanbois. Work has been slow lately so I stuck some videos and such on my flash drive to watch at work. One of which was Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog. Of the four guys I work with, two of them recognized it and one of them asked for a copy. Hee!

Supernatural Meets the Muppets. Your childhood will never be the same. ^___^ (I wanna know where the porn pictures came from.) (Um, technically NSFW)


Very bestest of birthdays to one of my favorite subversive suburbanites deirdre_c. You are a gift to us, m'dear.


Roundtable recs.

without_me, emailing you now!

I need that xkcd icon that says "Someone is wrong on the internet." Ha. Oh, PMS, I love how combative you make me. (Also mostly unrelated and pretty cryptic, my my, but someone in my fandom has stepped up her "love me, I am wonderful" PR efforts in her community after a recent kerfluffle.)

Guilty secret: I want someone to make me custom Sam and Dean My Little Ponies to keep on my desk at work. Dean with a short little brush-cut mane and Sam with a forelock constantly falling in his eyes.*^_^* I'd even pay for them. Leather Jacket and hoodie optional.

Can someone tell me if this SPN spoiler is true or not? Katie Cassidy won't be back, but Ruby will be? Seriously, I don't want to know more than that, please.

Did I mention that our ycon panel got approved? ponderosa121, ara_chan, we're approved. (note to self: episode reaction posts.)

I miss going to Hawaii every other year now that my sister is living in Texas.

Hmm, no food in the house. I should go shopping.

I feel very behind on things. >.> Yet, logically, I don't think I am.

Okay, off to get food.

I defeated the evol dimmers! Fear me and my awesome lightening and darkening ability. (Only took two days and two trips to Home Depot. Who knew my living room and bedroom lights were WIRED TOGETHER on the same hot line that had to be linked directly together, not through the bedroom switch? Not me. But I do now.) And it only cost me $35 and a broken fingernail. I mourn the nail.

Also this weekend I took my car in for some maintenance. Dear John the Mechanic, I adore you, but please don't be doing things I didn't ask for. Yes, in the overall scheme of things, an extra $50 on a $300+ bill may not seem like much for things that eventually need to be done anyway, but it also went over your estimate and over my budget for things that could have been put off another month and it means I'm going to have to put the next important maintenance off that much longer. Besides I like Jiffy Lube better for my oil changes, since they do what I tell them. Although you did rotate the tires without charging me, so that was appreciated.

On the upside, I did sneak off to watch Indiana Jones while they worked on the car, so it wasn't as tedious as it could have been. I kinda forgot how cheesy these movies are. A fun popcorn flick though. ( spoilers )

3.16 coda recs.

Things I have to remember to do this week:
- Call eye doc to reorder contacts
- Call other doc to get referral that he was supposed to call me back about last week and didn't, the bastige.
- Make vet appt for Chase and Spooks
- mail bpal swap stuff
- Father's day present-- Kane album?


Mmm, my jsquared porn pic got deleted from photobucket. Wonder if someone reported it. Just a reminder, if you don't like what I post here, it's always friending/defriending amnesty. No drama.

I keep getting these surveys from the DNC asking for my opinion and telling me that it's important for me to give feedback to the party "to direct the course of the election" blah blah blah. I don't know how serious to take them because they're also asking for money. Is the survey an excuse to ask for money and not worth the paper it's printed on? Or are they conserving resources? I'd be much more inclined to fill out the survey if they didn't have their hand out at the same time.

Speaking of-- don't forget the LJ elections. It's important for fandom to get out and vote since one of the candidates seems to be waging quite the dirty campaign. More info here.

They've finally started the construction on our new offices that was supposed to be finished in two weeks. (It's been about a month already.) Rumor has it that we're all getting new computers and flat-screen monitors when we move back in. It's one of those I'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it things, as most of my job-related things are.

The shady tree/shrub that they chopped up last year has grown back nicely and it's shading my kitchen window beautifully this year. Hopefully they won't chop it up again. I don't -think- they will because they did all their chopping a couple months ago, but you never know.

And that's all the news that's fit to print.

Man, I really do love living in California.

(Also, art and vid recs at spnroundtable.)