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There are, maybe, MAYBE two pictures in this that are okay. The rest are filled with garish colors, ugly clothes, and CUPCAKES.

I don't even.

( The whole set of promo pics. )


PS. Is it just me, or does the Skins 'novel' read like bad fic? Possibly I'm just bitter. ;) ;)

Tomorrow I'll start doing something actually constructive, like writing the rest of the stories I've got due, but today I'm reading DC's 52, in which Batwoman comes out of the closet, and one of my favorite characters from Batman: the Animated Series, is actually of teh gay. Gaayyyyyy.

( I should add this here; I went to go see A Single Man and An Education )

Via skinsbrasil:

( A new Skins promo picture... )

( DL info )

may be one of the slashiest things I've ever come across.

Just finished reading all of Y: The Last Man (I started last night), and I'm both really impressed and disappointed by certain things. Mostly, I'd ( cut for spoilers )

I guess I'll go trawling for fic now.

On to reading Birds of Prey next? About time I got to that. I've been putting it off forever. *rubs hands together*

( DL info )

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you who celebrate. Happy Friday for the rest! I'm going to eat a tamale for breakfast, and go watch A Single Man at around 2. Then I'm going over to my in-laws. Should be fun. *snerk* (I kid; they're quite nice people.)

This weekend I need to settle down and finish up the last two ficathon stories I have left, which are both due before the 31st.

I'm having a lot of trouble getting onto the Yuletide site, but I did manage to read my gift, The Tatty Kitten of the Apocalypse, which is fantastic, and as surreal and funny and sort of sweet as you'd expect to find on The Mighty Boosh. Oh, Howard Moon is ~so manly. LOLL:

Affronted, Howard brought his hands to his hips, giving a sudden gasp of disappointment as he realised he'd ruined the Copydex fingertips he'd been making. "I am not balding, Vince. I'm just too manly for a full head of hair. My testosterone levels are so high that my follicles just open and individual hairs leap out, unable to take the masculinity for a moment longer. I'm so manly I can pound in nails with my finger tips, fix car engines by sneering at them and I've even made women orgasm from eight miles away. I'm a man, Vince. A manly man."

"Whatever, Howard. Just don't go for the comb-over or I won't be able to walk the streets of Putney with you ever again."

Howard gave a sigh and pulled the stringy glue from his fingers with irritation. "What did the note say?" he asked.

"I folded it into a tiny handbag," replied Vince cheerfully. "This catsuit doesn't have any pockets."

♥ ♥

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If anyone can guess which story I wrote--and I only wrote one this year, which sort of bothers me--you get something cool. IDK what yet, but something ~COOL. lolllll

Speaking of cool, B got me two Squeezeboxes for Christmas, which is pretty much the greatest thing ever. I've got Pandora and Sirius and my iTunes library and Last.Fm and and all sorts of stuff streaming through those puppies. Also, also MY GRANDMOTHER BOUGHT ME A HELLO KITTY BATHROBE. I don't know what to do with myself, it's so awesome. Like, what grandma? Hello Kitty? LOLLL

Very few people bother writing about the time before Naomi gave into Emily. This, set around the time of ep. 5, is a brilliant little vignette, wonderfully written and so dead-on Naomi it gave me the good kind of chills.

Green Girls by noclueontheloo. GO. Read. Give love. ENCOURAGE HER TO WRITE MORE.

I'm having a good day today. Except, of course, just now, as I start typing, my head begins to hurt. Random:

+ It's super boring at work, which is fine as the holiday is coming up and I'm taking next week off. My drives home this past week, however, have been horrendous. Bordering on me wanting to get off the freeway and cry. It shouldn't take me two hours to get home. It just shouldn't.

+ Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins broke up apparently? What? No.

+ I got a really, really random tweet today.



I imagine it's one of you, or a lurker, but I'm going to pretend it's the Loveless, hurt because I'm not following her on Twitter. Well, then, update more often, Lily. LOLLL

+ I had two satsumas earlier and I couldn't get that thing Noel Fielding did with satsuma La Roux out of my head.

+ Things you can do with your Dropbox account.

+ I finally figured out what I'm writing for skins_holiday. Or, rather, how to fix what I have. Success!

+ I'm thinking of building my own desktop PC, but I've never really done it. Have any of you?

+ Searching random LJ communities (that's how bored I am), ( I found this cap from Legend of the Seeker. )

IDK what's going on with their hair, but Lily always makes the best faces.


( Now that I think of it... )

Monday.

I finally finished and uploaded my yuletide story. This is the first time in forever that I haven't picked up a pinch hit. I just have too much to do. I've already spread myself too thin. I've got two ficathon stories left to write by the end of the year, and one will be--well, not long, but it'll have to have a bit of meat on its bones, so I need to get to work asap.

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Huge thanks to issuegirls for the virtual gift. Babe, that really cheered me up! :)

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Also, pirateygoodness wrote me a sweet, cute, insert your own superlative here Princess Protection Program ficlet, Like Tegan and Sara Meets Mia Thermopolis Ugh, someone needs to go harass her about writing some long, plotty PPP future fic wherein Carter and Rosie are off having gay adventures together while, you know, rescuing princess or whatever.

While you're at it, tell fivewhatfive that she owes it to the world to finish her viking Bleighton story. (NO PRESSURE THOUGH.)

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Finally, I'm stealing this from likecharity, because, what. Okay, I don't watch X-Factor, and I only know about John and Edward (or their portmanteu, Jedward) through osmosis. Now, this, this... ( This is really milking the twin thing. )

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( BIG LOVE IS COMING BACK SOON. )


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PPS MEXICO CITY LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. WHY CAN'T WE?


PPPS This made me laugh really hard. That poor dog. First the sweater vest, then the Roomba-riding cat.

I'm in the process of cleaning up a lot of old files, and moving stories into my Dropbox folder when I saw they had a referral system, wherein you invite friends to join Dropbox and they give you extra storage? Anyway, if you were thinking of getting Dropbox anyway (it's free, and really, really convenient if you work on multiple computers), consider using this referral link to sign up.

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Working on Yuletide, but I'm in that weird haze where you've just heard something really shocking and it's hard to concentrate? Meh. All I can think of is how horrible it is, when people die at an age when they think they have their entire lives ahead of them. Jesus, what a tragedy. (I know stuff like this happens every day, but it's different when you grow up knowing about someone's existence. You don't know them, but they're still there, somehow, part of your landscape.)

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Weekend's been far too short. I thought I'd have so much time to write, but I've barely managed anything and it's already one o'clock. Time to knuckle down.

At least I got all of my holiday shopping down. Yay?

Brittany Murphy died. I'm so sad, you guys.

It's official, Bitch Slap has eaten my brain.

From Comic Con back in 2008:

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Erin is just made of awesome and Julia is <3. I have no idea what America was trying to say half the time though but it was fun to see E&J reacting to it.

( A bang for your buck, twenty more and she'll fuck. )

- Credit is nice.
- Comments are love.

So, I made myself a compilation of my top 20 favorite songs of 2009. It was very difficult, and I'll probably be scratching my head at myself and wondering why I didn't add such and such song, or take out this one, but in general I'm very happy with my choices. I'm mostly a lover of indie music, but there are two notable exceptions on this mixtape. They stick out but I really, really enjoyed listening to them, so I can't leave them out of an honest 2009 compilation of my faves.

( 2009 in Songs )

Just a heads-up, bloodyknuckles is hosting a Skins Re-Watch-Along at her LJ. It looks like a lot of fun, and it's good ~preparation for the new series coming... oh, VERY SOON. *excited*


PS IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH LEGEND OF THE SEEKER, thrace_ has a very convincing picspam. Oh, Cara, the anti-woobie woobie! Richard, the woobie woobie! Kahlan, "command me, mother confessor"!

So, I just realized that I have to get the ball rolling, quickly, on my apocabigbang project and, as always, I wanted to put together a mix for it, because it's how I like to work when I have longer projects, with music.

For those interested, I share:

( Kingdom of Doom )