I love my Civ IV: love, love, love.

Unrelatedly, I imagined re-casting Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle with women in the lead roles. Yes, Grace Park as Harold. Kumar is harder to choose: I want Amita Dhiri. And if you think Amita is too old, I've got two words for you: Dana Carvey, who was 38 when he played a slacker making cable TV in his basement.

tags: film

Simon & Simon, Rick/A.J., boots & suits It's been ages since I read a Simon & Simon story and this short Porn Battle piece was just lovely.

Think of England: gorgeous, hot Susan/Caspian from Prince Caspian.

tags: recs

By God, Rosa Coldfield is the emoest emo who ever emoed.

Okay, fair cop, she did have reason but, phew: I was fourteen then, fourteen in years if they could have been called years while in that unpaced corridor which I called childhood, which was not living but rather some projection of the lightless womb itself; I gestate and complete, not aged, just overdue because of some caesarean lack, some cold head-nuzzling forceps of the savage time which should have torn me free, I waited not for light but for that doom which we call female victory which is: endure and then endure, without rhyme or reason or hope of reward -- and then endure; I like that blind subterranean fish, that insulated spark whose origin the fish no longer remembers, which pulses and beats at its crepuscuar and lethargic tenement with the old unsleeping itch which has not words and I'm going to stop there because the sentence does go on for another half page.

tags: nobel, reading

I am ever so slightly freaked by how much Ollie looks like a young Cary Elwes.

tags: verbotenliebe

Just announced: Dreamwidth Studios, a technical and social fork of the LiveJournal codebase, brought to you by people who have been working in social networking for the best part of the last decade.

Dreamwidth is currently in active development, and we hope to enter closed beta in late summer and open our doors in Q4.

tags: untagged

It's time to offer up prompts for round four of Porn Battle:

So, here's the schedule for Porn Battle Four:

Prompts post goes up: early Monday morning, 6/9
Prompts post closes: late Wednesday afternoon, 6/11
Writing starts/prompts go up: early Thursday morning, 6/12
Writing closes: late Tuesday afternoon, 6/17

tags: untagged

I know Harry Potter fandom is huge - really, really, really huge. But nothing says huge like the sheer massive wordage turned out for concurrent challenges snarry_games and hds_beltane. Crikey.

There are so many words that snarry_games is over and I still have about 50 stories to read, most of them more than 10k words, at least one up at 70k.

tags: harrypotter

I've been mostly enjoying the snarry_games despite a fair bit of Ginny-bashing (or simply OOC writing) but have only just this minute worked out a warning/genre acronym that had had me stumped.

EWE: Epilogue? What Epilogue?

ROFL!

tags: harry potter

All the huskies are eaten. There is no space
left in the diary, And the beads of quick
words scatter over his spouse's sepia-shaded face
adding the date in question like a mole to her lovely cheek.
Next, the snapshot of this sister. He doesn't spare his kin:
what's been reached is the highest possible latitude!
And, like the silk stocking of a burlesque half-nude
queen, it climbs up his thigh: gangrene.

tags: joseph brodsky, nobel, poetry

Today's xkcd comic is simply made of win.

tags: no-tag

I was that little bit thrilled when I put the words on this icon. If you're not familiar with the scene, it's from a Star Trek mirror universe episode. Evil!Spock is holding a weapon on Good!Kirk. There were many fine aspects to the Trek mirror universe: Evil!Spock's goatee, Evil!Kirk's wardrobe as worn by Good!Kirk but mostly it was how the good universe crew tossed Evil!Kirk in the brig immediately while the evil universe crew were happy to accept Good!Kirk as Evil!Kirk. Heh.

tags: icons, trek

Having undertaken name-squatting in many journal sites (bar journalfen) I've spent some time thinking about how I use them. Early on I decided that IJ would not be a backup copy of my LJ. I wanted to have a new space with other words being spoken. I started posting poetry I like, I comment on my flist here. I don't want a different identity - still me, still Vera - but this is an other space. I very much like it that way.

The other day I was looking at an old hard drive and found a folder full of icons I'd made, icons that startled me with how much I like them. I've felt that I've been a bland icon maker recently but these remind me that sometimes I bring a great loveliness and it pleases me. I made them all around the same time; I think the words on the icons I've uploaded will show I was a little melancholy at the time.

Someday I'll fly away

Empty as a pocket

This is not our fate

Passing by

Undercurrent

Red shirts for a new generation

Crucible

At her most beautiful...

Yes, I was feeling a little sad.

There are also a lot of crops that show the subject moving out of the frame of looking down or away. Hello, psyche!

tags: icons

Ash/Scribbs has a fandom, and stories and icons and banners: two ordinary girl coppers fighting crime and catching bad guys.

tags: joy

I love message centre (http://insanejournal.com/inbox). I love keeping up with your new icons, I love being able to keep track of a conversation without have a tab open in my browser forever, it's just a good thing. However, there's something wrong with mine. I simply can't delete anything. Or mark it as read. Or in any way affect anything at all in the inbox. Manage settings page works fine. Inbox, she does not work.

Is it my browser: Firefox running on OSX? Is it me? Or does message centre just not work?

Edit: memo to me: support request

tags: ij

I can't imagine a single person who will be as breathless at the existence of this too-short story as I am, but here's your chance!

passing the torch, Esa-Pekka Salonen/Gustavo Dudamel (music RPF).

Yes, my friends, the latest porn battle is live.

Go watch the lovely genius Salonen discuss Messiaen and then get a load of the gorgeous Dudamel conducting his orchestra joyfully, brightly.

tags: music, recs, rpf

One of the best and most fun things I've been doing recently is volunteering on OTW's Development and Membership Committee. This past Monday we launched membership. For only US $10 you can be a voting member of the Organization for Transformative Works. Membership is for one year.


Maybe you've had the experience of clicking on a link, wanting to read or reread a favorite story or visit a recs page, and discovering that it has vanished. An archive goes down, a web host decides to purge fannish content, and untold numbers of vids, stories, and communities are lost.

But what if there was an archive that wasn't supported by advertising traffic? An archive supported by a nonprofit organization, itself supported by fans, whose stewardship could be depended on? That's our vision for the Archive Of Our Own, a multi-fandom archive where stories of all kinds will be safe from arbitrary deletions and where you’ll never have to fear that your creations are being used to generate profit for someone else.

You can read more about membership of the OTW here and more about the OTW on the website.

Join us!

tags: otw

Doctor Who fans, Dalek fans, this is almost too good to exist.

tags: doctor who

I have just finished season two of Life on Mars. I watched it all this weekend.

( OMG!! )

tags: lifeonmars

It's silly, but not, how happy I am when I have an icon that it perfect for a comment or a post. Stories about grief in Antarctica deserve Scott.

tags: icons