Character: Badou Nails (DOGS/DOGS Bullets & Carnage)
Theme set: Alpha
Theme(s): Artist's Choice
# of icons in post: 4
# of icons completed total: 66



( Attack of the Fake Cut )

Artist: godlessmachine
Claim: Blade of the Immortal/Mugen no Jyuunin, General series
Theme set: Delta
Theme(s): 11, 13, 22, 27, 30, 31, 38, 45, 55-60
# of icons in post: 14
# of icons completed total: 028/100



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Series: Untitled

Chapter: 3

Pairing: Zach/Booth, Zach/Booth/Sweets

Warning/s: Slash, Dark fic seriously Dark, I feel the need to make that clear, squicky themes, spoilers for season 2 or 3, I can't remember which.

Rating: NC-17

Part 1: http://community.livejournal.com/bones_slash/43691.html#cutid1

Part 2: http://community.livejournal.com/bones_slash/44135.html#cutid1

Latest chapter: http://sheneya.livejournal.com/39911.html#cutid1

Ib hangs up the phone, having concluded a conversation with George, the only war veteran in the family social circle..

BIG SISTER: "And how is George?"
IB: "He sounded sad, weary, dis-spirited and lonely."
BIG SISTER: "Oh? Why didn't you stay on the phone and cheer him up?"

Ib starts laughing uncontrollably. A moment later, Big Sister starts laughing too.

BIG SISTER: "I see your point. I'll call him later."

So I was thinking about songs you play at your wedding (because my wedding is, holy crap, TOMORROW and we've had a last-minute signing song change because we realised 1:46 was not long enough) and I wondered: do any of you have songs you especially want to play at your wedding? If you are or have been married, did you play them?

Because there are lots of songs which I secretly think are romantic and sweet, but would die before playing at my wedding. In fact, that applies to most of the songs I think are romantic. Which has made choosing wedding music extremely difficult. Every song I think of, I then think "No, wait. It's all emotional. And embarrassing. I couldn't possibly be emotional and embarrassing at my wedding. That would be wrong."

Which may or may not give you some insight into my personality.

(For posterity: the song we are no longer playing is Bic Runga's When I See You Smile. Sorry, Bic, you should write longer songs. Or less depressing ones.)

ICONS! Can I just say, I LOVE you guys for still keeping this fandom alive :D You guys are the best. If I could actually write, I'd contribute some fic too, but here's what I have for now.

examples:



Nine icons here

Oh my god I love this icon so much. Originally I was just going to keep it on dreamwidth b/c lol no room but then I did some shifting around on this end too so yes.

In a change of pace, I am not posting to report some new wedding drama. By this point, everything is pretty much as ready as it's going to be. I've got the dress, we've had our last meeting with the celebrant, we've been to the venue, people are arriving on Thursday...at this point, I mostly just want to get to it so we can do this. In good news, the dress thing and the best woman thing seem to have been resolved successfully (new dress, best woman is scheduled to arrive on Friday sans partner but plus baby) and the celebrant let us vent for half an hour about everything, so we felt much better afterwards.

However, if I ever marry Mike again? We are totally eloping.

I also started my summer studentship today, which I think will be pretty successful; I like the guy who's supervising it, everyone was very nice, and the atmosphere seemed friendly. It's scheduled so I should be done with the lab stuff well before Christmas, which just leaves analysis and write-up. Of course, I'll also be job-hunting through January, and God knows how that's going to go. But I've got to get through summer first...

...and, also, holy crap, I'm getting married on Saturday.

I am SO tempted to offer to write "If on a winter's night a traveller" for Yuletide. Except, well, I haven't finished it yet (well: I have most of the final third to go but I've read the last two chapters: it's just that I keep getting bogged down in the Russian novels he keeps putting in the middle. Then, of course, in order that I over-identify with Reader, he keeps cutting them off just as I get into them, which is very clever and all but heeeeey also kind of mean.) But mostly what's putting me off is: what in the world would someone request? (I thought maybe someone wanted that hot threesome from the one in the middle with the rebellion, two male soldiers, and that woman. But no, the only characters given are You, Reader, and Other Reader, by whom I guess they mean Ludmilla?)

Per my Dreamwidth icon for this post, next year I'm so requesting archy & mehitabel. LJ denizens, my icon is the last five lines of CAPITALS AT LAST.

( dear lovely yuletider )

dear flist: yes, I requested SGU. You wanna make something of it, huh, huh? Also, because apparently this is an Issue this year, I am posting my letter now because that way I can include a link in my sign-up, and since I personally spent hours and hours and HOURS last year scrolling through the Yuletide Letter post last year, I want to encourage behaviour that makes me NOT have to do that. Because: UGH.

Four Times Bruno Walton Failed to Win Boots’ Heart and One Time He Didn’t
Bruno/Boots, PG13ish, 2550 words

Author's Notes: Written for shoshannagold who had the good taste to ask for Bruno and Boots collegefic at the Fandom Free For All. Crossposted to exaltedkarpoozi.

Four Times Bruno Walton Failed to Win Boots’ Heart and One Time He Didn’t
Bruno/Boots, PG13ish, 2550 words

Author's Notes: Written for shoshannagold who had the good taste to ask for Bruno and Boots collegefic at the Fandom Free For All. Crossposted to scrimmettes.

*spoilers for Smallville - Kandor*
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Jor-El came to Smallville and left us far too soon.

One of the more agonizing things about Smallville was how Superman's father, Jor-El (represented after death through disembodied artificial intelligence voiced by Terence Stamp), often served as an antagonist on the series. His first message to Clark informed him that "you are a God among men" and that with humans, his role was to "rule them with strength. This is where your greatness lies." Jor-El viewing Clark as a despotic ruler over the the planet Earth was a corruption of the Superman mythos, where Jor-El is meant to represent the infinite nobility of Superman's lost home. However, as seasons passed, Jor-El's characterization shifted (along with the writing staff). With the creative renaissance of Smallville's eighth season, Jor-El was now simply tutoring Clark in his path to becoming a hero, and all that stuff about ruling the Earth seemed to be set aside or forgotten.

Nevertheless, Jor-El's character had been contradictory -- which left the audience wondering what would come of Julian Sands' younger version of Jor-El, before Superman's birth, appearing on Smallville. How would the troubled continuity of the character be faced? Apparently, very well indeed. From the first frame of Julian Sands' Jor-El, the character exudes compassion, kindness, care, understanding, altruism, principle and warmth. In brief scenes, the script and Sands showed Jor-El's desire to call upon the empathy of his fellow man, but also the quiet tragedy of knowing that he had somehow outlived his planet and that his son had grown up without him. From the moment Sands' Jor-El appears, the audience desperately yearns for Sands to bring coherence and clarity to Jor-El's character, and to allow Clark Kent to finally understand his biological father. And as Clark races across the globe to find his time-displaced father, the audience is treated to a detailed portrait of who Superman's father is, and eagerly awaits the reunion.


While the episode doesn't directly address the Smallville's alien-conquerer-Jor-El, this version of the character is clearly at odds with the idea of Kryptonians ruling humans, suggesting that Jor-El's first message to Clark was a feint designed to test the boy for any power-hungry tendencies. But it doesn't really matter. Kandor finally got Jor-El perfectly; he represents the very best of Superman's alien heritage -- and he is gone.

I'm looking for a stargate SG-1 episode. It's pre-Ben Browder, and I'm pretty sure but not 100% sure that Daniel's in the episode (so not season 6). I read through the summaries on IMDB (which are awful, btw!) and wikipedia and didn't see anything that sounded like what I remembered. SG-1 are captured, or at least Jack and Sam and maybe also Daniel and Teal'c are captured, and kept in an underground or cave prison (but I'm pretty sure it's not "Beneath the Surface.") I *think* the prison is run by Goa'uld. Individual members of the team get dragged off and tortured - I particularly remember Jack being taken (but it's not "Abyss"). He hugs Sam at some point, I think, or they have otherwise affectionate times.

It's really driving me nuts! I've read all the summaries! I just want to rewatch this one episode! Sigh.

TIA!

ETA: well, wtf, I thought I posted this to whatwasthatone. Sigh!

Publishers Weekly has issued its list of the ten best adult books for 2009 (they get ARCs, Advanced Readers Copies, so they have seen the "important" books of the year as judged by the important people of publishing). And o my stars and garters, have they raised themselves up a fuss. You see, if you look at that list, the authors are all men.

WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) is claiming bias, as are quite a few other writers and readers. PW is saying they judged fairly and freely, "without political correctness."

The response is coming now just from WILLA. Britain's Guardian reported it; The New York Times is inviting its readers to post their ideas on which books they think should have made the list. Salon, of course, has an edgier take, including this wonderful quote: Comments on P.W.'s Web site likened the list to "a flier tacked to the wall at a men's club".

I actually like Laura Miller's Salon article very much. It's well thought out, intelligent, and rational. And it's informative.

For my own part, my feeling is, why is anyone surprised? Look at the high school and college required reading lists (unless they are for women's literature or world literature or for alternate schools). They are dominated by White Males (except for Hemingway, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, the rest are dead before the turn of the 20th century). Look at what's considered valuable in literary publications, and who is considered "great" in literary classes. Look at the writers who are given face and page time in journals all over the world, even when it's not about a writing-based issue. The majority are men.

The bias is an old one. Historically women have been relegated to "women's issues" (said Bryon and Shelley, patting Mary Shelley on the head--girls writing "science"!) revolving around relationships, house, church, and community. We don't write about war, the death of the soul, the future of society and the morality of man (yes, it's still said "of man"). We don't write about the Big Issues. We write improving children's books, sweet little books about family, or torrid and hysterical romances. We don't write about war which sweeps over a devastated landscape (take that, Margaret Mitchell!), or the Hero's Journey, or striving for A New Tomorrow. So it has always been in publishing, and so it is in the literary community.

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PW did a children's list which I liked better. I'll post about that on my fan journal later today.

I'm trying to remember if I've ever seen Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Didion, Margeret Atwood, or any of the other highly admired female literary writers referred to as "great."

Here are your winners for the "Old Themes" challenge:

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The Theme:

"Name"

Interpret that however you wish.

300 MINIMUM WORD COUNT. All entries are due Friday, December 4th by midnight central time. You may post to the community, your journal, or link it to an off-site. Make sure your links work.

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My prayers, hopes, and sorrow for you and your losses.

Sometimes it feels like the world is spinning crazy.