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Begin? Wtf do you mean 'begin'? I started my shopping for this December back in January. Forethought and planning, folks. Of course my sisters' lists of DVDs what they want more than anything shifted sometime between then and now, but they haven't developed a sudden hatred for any of the ones I bought and none of them have appeared in the house, so I'm still good. Also, LJ? Please to not be messing with my tags. |
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Depends how we're defining interruption. At one point this week I watched six Supernatural episodes in a row (the eps with the yellow-eyed demon look so different this side of "In the Beginning") and followed that with Rachel Maddow, Countdown, and Stewart and Colbert, so seven hours at least, unless pausing the marathon to microwave food to eat in front of the TV counts as interrupting. |
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Who needs superstition to be worried about bad luck from breaking a mirror? MIRRORS ARE GLASS. No matter how thoroughly one cleans the area after breaking anything made of glass or ceramic, there will be little bits left over, and I like to walk around barefoot. Is under a ladder the quickest way to wherever I'm going? Yes? Then there's no need to dare me, unless there's some reason for me to worry about knocking the ladder over. No? Then I might or I might not. Probably not. Whether I'm dared to probably wouldn't matter. Spend enough time with people who own black cats and you're sure to cross one's path sooner or later. I'm sure I've done it more than once. Um. Is animism superstition this week? Because I swear the other computer's modem is demon-infested. |
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Heather Alexander's "March of Cambreadth". Follow orders as you're told Make their yellow blood run cold Fight until you die or drop A force like ours is hard to stop Close your mind to stress and pain Fight till you're no longer sane Let not one damn cur pass by How many of them can we make die! I'm just trying to figure out how plausible it is for any of the Winchesters to know this song. |
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Ah what the hell. From callistahogan and bedlamsbard:Rules 1. You can ONLY answer 'Yes' or 'No'. 2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages or comments you and asks—and, believe me, the temptation to explain some of these will be overwhelming. Nothing is exactly as it seems. |
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For y'all's entertainment, my crazy brother's commencement speech: Congratulations to the Class of 2009. I am very proud to be here before you today. We have had so many experiences together over the last few years that it took me a while to decide what to say, but I finally realized: our high school experiences are in many ways similar to those of someone with whom I am sure you are all familiar: Harry Potter. [Pause for laughter from audience.] |
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amazon rank Function: verb Inflected Form(s): amazon ranked 1. To censor and exclude on the basis of adult content in literature (except for Playboy, Penthouse, dogfighting and graphic novels depicting incest orgies). 2. To make changes based on inconsistent applications of standards, logic and common sense. Etymology: from 12 April 2009 removal of sales rank figures from books on Amazon.com containing sexual, erotic, romantic, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or queer content, rendering them impossible to find through basic search functions at the top of Amazon.com's website. Titles stripped of their sales rankings include "Bastard Out of Carolina," "Lady Chatterly's Lover," prominent romance novels, GLBTQ fiction novels, YA books, and narratives about gay people. Example of usage: "I tried to do a report on Lady Chatterly's Lover for English Lit, but my teacher amazon ranked me and I got an F on grounds that it was obscene." Alternate usage: "My girlfriend wanted to preserve her virginity, and I was happy to respect that, then she amazon ranked and decided anal sex was okay." note to self: look up non-Greek LGBTQ deities
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Hey, anybody wanna Dreamwidth invite? 'Cause I've got one. First to comment saying you want it wins. |
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Removing to Dreamwidth. Will be hanging around a while longer, there's too much fun stuff going on on LJ that isn't moving (at least not yet), but nevertheless: ta-ta!
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To Gather Stones Together is one of the stories at the Right Behind blog, which is to say, it starts with the same premise as the Left Behind series (all the world's children and quite a few Christian adults have abruptly vanished, poof gone Raptured) but with the characters reacting like, y'know, actual people would. The premise of my particular story is that the plausible reactions to such an event include anger and, because it wouldn't really be hard to figure out that it was the Rapture, asking for help from gods who not only aren't the one who took the kids away forever but who might be able to defeat that particular god's butt. I'm quite proud of this one.
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Association Meme: Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given. From myaibou:1. Yu-gi-oh I don't remember how I got into Yu-Gi-Oh!. I think it was my brother's fault. I'm pretty sure the reason I stayed is it's a quest fantasy with a nontraditional setting and with character development driving and being driven by plot development, and that's exactly the kind of story I'm a sucker for. (Incidentally, if anyone other than MyAibou who's reading this is a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan, look her up on fanfiction.net, she writes stories that make you go "canon makes much more sense now".) 2. Harry Potter I don't remember how I got into Harry Potter either. I know I've been in the fandom at least four and a half years, I've been on the Unbroken_Universe YahooGroup nearly that long. Of all my fandoms, this is the only one that I have enough confidence in my understanding of the characters to write. Rowling was wrong wrong wrong to say that the blood bit from Voldemort's resurrection ceremony had any relevance to anything not directly connected to Lily's blood protections. Certainly it didn't have any relevance to the Harry-Voldemort bond resulting from Harry having a bit of Voldemort's soul stuck to his own. That particular bit, being as much Harry's as Voldemort's, made Voldemort as much a Horcrux of Harry's as Harry was of Voldemort's. I will stand by these statements till my dying day. 3. Narnia Anna Popplewell is cute, what can I say... 4. Writing I find that I have the least trouble communicating something when I'm typing words than by any other method. Mom's always on me to speak more slowly and loudly and clearly and to e-nun-ci-ate, and my handwriting is only legible if I've taken such time over each letter that my train of thought speeds off into the distance. 5. Liberal Nobody ever seems to believe me when I say I used to be as staunch a member of the religious right as you'd find. 'Course then I went off to college and started actually thinking about why I believed what I believed, and somewhere in the midst of that I discovered I believed different things, because what I had believed didn't make sense to me anymore.
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SlytherclawYou scored 53% Order/Chaos, and 26% Moral/Rational
Rationality with an orderly/chaotic split. What you strongly know is that you try to be rational, objective, and like to consider things as shades of gray. On order, you see the value of rules and organization but equally can become impatient and advocate a rather loose system. Your strengths arise from your ability to consider both radicals and straightlaced authority objectively; however, it can turn on you when others feel betrayed by the fact that there are few you support unconditionally and consistently. The 4-grid I used to determine this is as follows:
See me not surprised in the slightest. I have to say I love their method of dividing the Houses. |
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And it's one more day up in the canyons, and it's one more night in Hollywood; If you think that I could be forgiven, I wish you would. Happy New Year.
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From fashion_piranha: What books did you get for Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Yule/(Insert Forgotten Holiday here)?Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization, which I highly recommend. Couple Mercedes Lackey books, already own them, trading them in. Mercedes Lackey's Fiddler Fair, which I did not already own (well, it's on Baen Free Library, but that doesn't count) and also recommend. ("Why, Ma'am, what made you think Okies was stupid?" Also the Christmas story.) Christopher Paolini's Brisingr, blah. An IOU from my sister. A cookbook. And I don't dare cash in that IOU for weeks yet, because I don't know what anybody's getting me for my birthday. |
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From callistahogan: BeliefNet's What Religion Am I?1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) I am amused but unsurprised. |
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From callistahogan:Go to your LJ calendar. Find the first entry for each month. Copy-paste the first line from the entries next to the corresponding month. That's the year in review, in a nutshell. ( were it not that I have bad dreams )
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I has new journal for purposes of book reviewing. elliemurasaki—one review posted so far but there will be more. (No, really, there will.)Also: This is why I adore 365 Tomorrows. Well, that and the whole 'new sci-fi short story every day' bit. |
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 ( December 2 ) ( November 25 ) ( November 18 ) ( November 11 ) ( November 4 ) ( October 28 ) ( October 21 ) ( October 14 ) ( October 7 ) ( September 30 ) ( September 23 ) ( September 16 ) ( September 9 ) ( September 2 ) ( August 26 ) ( August 19 ) ( August 12 ) ( August 5 ) ( July 29 ) ( July 15 ) ( July 8 ) ( July 1 ) ( June 17 ) ( June 10 ) ( June 3 ) ( May 27 ) Oh look, I'm out of memes.
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