Ducks: Queen of Frickin' Everything

Ahhhhhh. I finally got off my ass and moved back downstairs into the Pit for the summer. I've just been too lazy to drag all the stuff out of the living room upstairs. Today I just couldn't take my mother anymore -- just suffice to say that she would not shut up about the nitpickiest, most insane stuff, that it was either drag my ass, all my stuff, and the vacuum cleaner downstairs, or kill her.

So, I spent two hours vacuuming and moving and cleaning, and now I'm about ready to pass out but MAN is it worth it. It's cool and quiet, and I have my soft, squishy couch with all my stuff around me. But wait, it's even better than that. You guys would be embarrassed to know me if you could see me right this moment, sprawled out on my couch, laptop desk (sort of like one of those hospital bed tables, only of pretty wood that I keep polished) over me (so I'm lounging and typing) with a bottle of Pepsi Max next to the computer and a bag of hot Cheeto Fries ("$2.00 ONLY!" they declare proudly on the front, which makes me think the packaging was not designed by someone whose first language is English, but whatever.)

I AM THE QUEEN OF SLOTH. If I could be bothered to move at all, I would take a picture. But I'm just too comfortable to move that far. It's got to be at least two or three feet away, and I will have to roll my laptop desk away from myself, and LEAN OVER and OPEN THE BAG, and PULL OUT THE CAMERA. And then there's all that technical stuff like turning it on and opening the lenscap.... you know how it goes.

I lazee 2dy. Nap maybe. Bye.

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Okay, I have to give Stephen Moyer some SERIOUS love for this. I may be an Eric Girl, but I have SUCH an appreciation for Moyer and what he brings to the role of Bill. This just makes me want to fangirl him. Hee.

THE DIET COKE OF VAMPIRES! BWAH!

Of course, I think the "Weak Tea" of vampires, or "the barely-deserves-to-be-called-a-vampire-at-all" of vampires is even more fitting.

Hey, speaking of how completely lame Edward is, why did no one tell me about THE MOST POPULAR BOOK IN THE WHOLE WORLD? Hee.

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Finally, there is not enough love and SQUEE in the world for the Matrithon: The Pan-Fandom Women 40 And Over Ficathon. I just posted 38 prompts (that means 38 awesome canonical characters over 40) from 13 different fandoms. And I tried hard to pick people that hadn't been represented yet -- there are dozens of others! I highly encourage all my wonderful sister fen to give one a try. I WANT TO DO ALL OF MINE. NO SRSLY. I may go insane before August. Probably unsurprisingly, the most of my prompts came from The L Word -- tons of awesome older ladies on there. Not the least of which being Bette Porter herself, the wonderous Jennifer Beals.

Happy Canada day to my (not too terribly) Northern Neighbors!

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You know a random fact about Eric Northman (on the show True Blood) that I adore? He is the tackiest fucking dresser in vampire history. No seriously. I mean, okay, Ricean vampires have velvet and frills or whatever, but dudes... Northman is all primary colored tank tops and shiny track suits. Hee. That it detracts not at all from his power or extreme hotness makes me very very happy in my pants.

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ANYWAY. So much fic fun going on this summer!



Woohoo! Hot girl on girl action, ya'll! Climb on into our handbasket! You know the girls just don't get enough girllove!

I'm still reading the Porn Battle VIII entries. Yowza!

I'm hoping to be able to hole up (heh.) in the basement this weekend and do nothing but write -- including some hot femslash, baby! Also original stuff, and work on my Kradam fic.

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Goinked from the lovely ladyoneill

( Where Do I Fall on the Klein Sexual Orientation Scale? )

That's how I've always identified, isn't it? LOL I think these days I'm a little closer to 4 than I used to be, but a past with exclusively het behavior (outside of childhood) sort of skews it.

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Hm. On one hand, this show looks hot. On the other, it leaves a sort of teen soap taste in my mouth that I'm not sure I'm going to be able to live with. Ah well, we'll see in September!











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Swiped from killerweasel: THE ENGERGIZER BUNNEH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!











HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! My cats have fits like that. We just say they're "spazzing."

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"I'm not homophobic, I just don't like gay people!"

Hey, you know, everybody's entitled to their opinion and to make the rules for their own community, but if its a public, fannish community, you best be prepared for backlash if you're discriminating against a pretty substantial portion of many fandoms! My favorite example is how they shut down ALL submissions from Torchwood because it has teh GHEYS IN ITOMG! I've been told there are HET relationships in that fandom too! So... they're tainted because of their {big announcer voice} DIRECT CONTACT WITH TEH GHEEEEEYYYYYYZ.

I have little or nothing to do with vidding, but I know a lot of people who I like and respect are, and this is just... NOT ON! I mean, really, why is homophobia still so acceptable? Do we need to make up an "ism" in order for it to be a BAD thing? Okay, how about HOMOHATEISM? There, now can we get upset with people for it? Now can it get serious consideration in public discourse right along with other "isms"? I don't know why this made me so angry, but it really, really did. I mean, it's one stupid vid community that I'd never even heard of before the wounderous sockkpuppett pointed it out, but ON TOP of all the other indignities heaped on the LGBTQ community in recent days/weeks/months/years/decades, it just... ARGH!

Anyway, so... I can't do a damn thing about it accept urge my readers and friends NOT to submit to, vote on, or even publicly acknowledge the existence of this community beyond maybe spreading the word about its bigotry. Just because the owner says "No offense, it's just not to my taste," doesn't change the fact that it's HOMOHATEISM.

Feel free to join the boycott, but please, as pointed out in the post that started it all, http://mresundance.livejournal.com/643042.html, don't bother hating on the HOMOHATEIST. SHUN HIR/THEM. Much more effective in fandom. Oh! And for added interest (if you're interested at all) how about some historical context regarding the vidding community and exclusion of certain kinds of vids? http://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/998147.html

Need a cure for that Hate? This video is the funniest, awesomest thing I've seen in a while, and SO APPROPRIATE! Fuck You Very Much! This song also makes me slightly less annoyed with Katy Perry.

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Well, that's it for today, kids. I have to take my dad for his SECOND cataract surgery at HOLY SHIT in the morning, so I'm off to shower and bed. SMOOCHIES!

Wait! I almost forgot to have you click on BJPinky (he's all grown up) and as yet unnamed dragonling!

( Cut for torture and general Angelus-ness )

The prompt was for a Franz Ferdinand Song Title. I'm not really familiar with their work, but who can resist "Evil and a Heathen"? *G*

In a related side note: I REALLY need to rethink my icons over here. I'm having so much trouble with only 75, and I HAVE to have an Angelus icon. I mean... there's probably a law that I wrote for myself somewhere or something. *sigh* If only I had a few extra bucks to get a deluxe account or whatever. Alas, instead I must practice SELF DISCIPLINE AND RESTRAINT. *dies*

I am very sad today. My long time favorite coffee cup got chipped recently, and I couldn't find the piece. So you know what that means... a crack is developing that in another inch or two will render my beautiful, perfectly colored (deep mauve) 24 oz. Mug of Unknown Original Origin unusable. And I will cry, because I've never found one even close to as suitable. Sniff.

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I'm off to puke now, but first I wanted to point out this awesome fucking essay about sizeism in fandom by hederahelix. I'm a fat chick, most of my friends are fat chicks, and I've always felt like fandom was a pretty safe space for us (even though I'm sure our self esteem isn't exactly BOOSTED by the fact that our heroines are all fit and/or skinny chicks, unless, like me, you've fallen deeply in love with Jill Scott on The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency -- see icon). But still, most people I know in fandom stand outside the size 0-6 range considered "beautiful" in western culture. And I adore that about us! Dudes, too! It's easy to forget that we wonderful fat folk have internalized all the hatred in our society, and it seeps out like that icky ectoplasm shit in Supernatural, in our fic, our art, and our conversations. OUR PORN! OUR BEAUTIFUL PORN! No fat chicks. *sigh*

Anyway, before I go to bed, I wanted to share that post with everyone.

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Don't forget to pet my... pink otter? and dragonling!

( Spoilers! Spoilers Bill Robinson! Spoilers! )

( Criticism that I expunged from my SQUEE posts, because that's THE RULES! Involves comparison to the books. )

No really great lines of dialogue this week either, but some set up for an interesting future, FOR SURE.

DON'T FORGET, THE NEXT NEW EP IS IN TWO WEEKS! July 12, that is.

What'd you guys think?

I just realized, probably half the people on my FList don't even know who the BCR are. Hee. I was never a huge fan, but a good friend of mine was. We would put on their records (on her analogue record player that looked like a denim box) and dance around singing and wishing we could wear our roller skates in the house.

I have to say, I'm blessed to have had such a fun, easy childhood. I mean, after the life-threatening disease was taken care of. But I don't even remember that (I was 4 when I had the open heart surgery to fix it) so it doesn't really count. *G*

Boy, I'm all Personal Details Girl today, aren't I?( I get babbly about my sleeping habits under here for some reason... )

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So ANYWAY... ( Speaking of LOLCats... and Naps, coincidentally. )

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Okay, guys, if you like to write drabbles, you SERIOUSLY have to join us over at drabble on DW! crevanfox comes up with the most AWESOME prompts, and turns me on to all kinds of poems, plays and literature that I never would have known about otherwise to boot! Seriously, this weeks prompts involve SPOOFS ON MACBETH. Seriously, go look. I'll be laughing (and thinking and writing drabbles) all day. There's no end date on the prompts, so if more than one come to you, you can keep going (which I do all the time) -- we need more than just the two or three of us to make things REALLY interesting, though. *G*

YOU ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY MUST, AT THE VERY LEAST, READ THE SKINHEAD HAMLET (the Oi! kind, not the Nazi kind). I think I broke something laughing. Here's the last few lines:

FORTINBRAS: No kidding. I see Hamlet's fucked.

HORATIO: Yer.

FORTINBRAS: Fucking shame: fucking good bloke.

HORATIO: Too fucking right.

FORTINBRAS: Fuck this for a lark then. Let's piss off.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Hey, you know what else June is besides Pride? It's Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat-Month!



I adopted my sweetie pies in May, but I celebrate all the time. Believe me, if I had my own home, I'd have two more cats, and two dogs besides. I hear people have been dumping their animals at shelters because they're too expensive to keep in this economy, and it really makes me sad. My family is barely getting by, but we would much rather have our furry friends living with us than have, say, cable TV. Just sayin'.

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Stolen from heather11483

( That Interesting Ship Meme popping up all over the place... )

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Don't forget to say hi to my eggs. Looks like the pink one is hatching! Yeah, I know, I know...

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, which sparked the gay rights movement.

I personally am a pacifist, and I never condone violence as a means to change things. But if I am frustrated with the state of LGBTQ civil rights in this country, I can only dimly imagine how the gays and lesbian of that oppressive day and age must have felt!

Here's a piece from a writer who was there as a young man. It offers a very interesting look at the divisions in the gay community at the time (and still today!) between old-fashioned, closeted fellows and out and flaming sparklers like transvestites and young hustlers. It also busts some myths that have grown up around the riots over the years.

Still -- this is PRIDE MONTH, so it's important for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and OTHER people and their allies to honor the history of our movement.

I've been watching more Queer Film this month, and so I've added a new category to my Movie Watch '09 List if you want to check it out.

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Franklin, Clinton and St. Lawrence counties were designated high-intensity drug trafficking areas Wednesday.

Then how come I can't find any weed?

Heh. That's not true. I know where to get weed. I just can't afford it don't smoke anymore.

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You know, I grew up miles from here -- I used to party in Rhode Island in my teens. I had NO IDEA its legal name was actually "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations"! No, seriously! Now I guess they're trying to change it.

Huh. Did my friends in the rest of New England know about this?

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Ahhhh. I really enjoy some internalized homophobia with my coffee in the morning. Somebody go take this guy's Teh Ghey card away. No more gym or dance club for you, buddy! Although I suspect he's one of those old guys who sits in front of his computer bitching about various things all day and night long.

*realizes she is the pot insulting the kettle* Um...

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Heh. su_herald found a B/A Wedding Cake topper. I want one! Hee.

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Awesome -- The Vampire Report this week has RECIPES! You know, for when you have dinner with a vampire, and you don't want to embarrass them by eating when all they can do is drink. I actually want to try this. It's near the end. (I swear, HBO's viral campaigns for True Blood are frakking brilliant!)



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Please scritch my dragon eggs. I'd feel realy guilty if they died. That's why I never had a Giga Pet, you know.

RIP Farrah Fawcett. Your hair made part of my adolescence a slice of hell because it just. Wouldn't. Feather. But you were a fighter, and seeing Ryan O'Neil crying made me really sad. So... reast easy, angel.

And, uh... Michael Jackson. I didn't see that one coming. What was it Brian Kinney said on Queer As Folk? "If you don't earn respect when you're alive, you don't deserve it when you're dead." Word. I'll... refrain from adding any further comment on this. My momma said if you don't have anything nice to say... come sit next to me. *G*

My condolences to fans, friends and family.

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My only comment on the warnings imbroglio is... why is it so hard to warn against things that are outside the standard vanilla sex (whether het or slash) box? Hell, I warn for foul language, excessive violence, and dark imagery as a matter of habit. To warn that there is torture, rape or abuse seems a given. *shrug* What exactly is the big whoop? Why are people freaking about about warning for hardcore content? If you can't read it in a novel in the erotica section of the bookstore (or hell, if you CAN -- I warn for BDSM, even though it is a perfectly legitimate sexual lifestyle between fully informed and consenting adults -- I warn because it's not necessarily all my readers' cup of smooth, sexy tea!) then you should warn for it. That's not a precise guideline, but... sheesh.

How hard is it to type "CONTENT: RAPE, ABUSE, NON/DUB-CON?" It took me three seconds. People who are whining about not warning don't make any sense to me... I mean... how fucking lazy can you get (and this coming from the Queen of Sloth)? And forget being inconsiderate and rude besides -- A LOT of people are asking for this three seconds of an author's time FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. I don't get triggered by fic, but I still don't have a particular hankering for rape, abuse or dubcon most of the time, so I'd like a warning for that myself.

Really. Just suck it up and warn, people. It won't kill you, I promise. It won't violate your artistic integrity or whatthefuckever. Or your freedom of expression. Or anything else but that THREE FREAKING SECONDS OF YOUR LIFE. Is that really too much to ask if it means even ONE person doesn't get fucking nightmares from your fanfiction? Jesus!

The fanfic world has apparently changed since I was deep in it. *shakes head*

And just a side note: What the fuck is "victim privilege?" That's a frickin oxymoron if ever I read one.

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I haven't seen the new Transformers (all the work Fox has had done on her face freaks me out), but this is interesting for those who have. A big part of thinking about racism is thinking about those small "oh, it's only a joke/robot/cartoon/song/etc." things that we indulge in every day that support making "others" out of those different from ourselves. Disney is probably the most guilty of this, along with a whole lot of other "isms," but it happens all the time and unless you're looking, you might not notice it.

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Holy Hot Vampire Threesome, Batman! Dammit, why does it have to be on opposite Bones? Dammit, Jim, I'm a Doctor, not a network programming executive! I suppose it won't be too much trouble to catch Bones online and watch VD (heh) first run -- a nice lead in for SPN... for me, anyway, I don't know how successful it will be with the tweenies I know the pairing is programmed for. *shrug*

Whatever. I'm just going to stare at the banner for a while, if you'll excuse me.

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Hey, you True Blood perverts! Head on over to tb_kink and get your VAMPIRE KINK ON.

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Hahahaha. Hey, the next time a politician gets caught with his pants down, try Something Positive's "Political Press Confession Bingo!" Stolen directly from the LJ of the delcious thenyxie!

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So... everybody knows I haven't written any fanfic bigger than a drabble in years. I must have been in some Adam Lambert-induced stupor when I signed up for the paintedboys Kradam Fic Challenge! WTF WAS I THINKING? Oh well, I got a pretty specific set of prompts, so I think I can do that.

Oy!

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I got one of those dragon eggs. I couldn't help it! It was shiny and pink, and you know how I am with shiny pink things! Heh. I didn't quite mean it like that, but it's funny anyway.

Please pet my shiny pink thing! :P

RIP Ed McMahon.

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Don't miss this! BUFFY VS. EDWARD!







YAY! That's the ending I've been waiting for. :D

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WTF is up with this? I mean, I know the Internet has pretty much eliminated privacy in the world, but this is ridiculous. Some homophobe can just request the names of members of LGBTQ support groups... because? He feels like it? I mean, come on. Why not just line them up against a wall for him so he can harrass them right then and there? He's one of those "ex-gay" freaks, so you know he doesn't have anything good in mind. If I was one of the members in question, I would sure as hell fight tooth and nail to stop him!

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Round Two of TwoP's Tubey Awards are open for voting! Make sure your favorite shows and characters get their props!

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Dear Alex:

I love you. Please come marry me and make me a Swede.

Love, Ducks.

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Wow, Mr. Obama, thanks so much for that! Sneak a few LGBTQ leaders in the back door for an unpublicised "meeting," while still refusing to change or even acknowledge the offensive language of the DOMA defense brief. The hole just gets deeper and deeper and deeper...

A lot of people are saying, "Oh, just be patient! We can't get everything done at once! We have bigger priorities!" Really? Bigger priorities than basic equality and civil rights? Wow, that's pretty big, then. Like I've said before, I don't expect things to change overnight. I'm not asking for DOMA or DADT to be repealed tomorrow (although the White House's refusal to even consider the latter is absolutely ridiculous considering the state our armed forces are currently in), but only that THE OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE IN THE DOMA DEFENSE BRIEF BE REWRITTEN. If they feel like they have to defend the law, FINE, but stop equating same sex marriage to incest and marrying children! Why is that so hard for people to understand? Why do people think LBGTQ people should NOT be UPSET about that characterization?

Frankly, this very issue is a big reason why I don't belong to the RWA (Romance Writers' Association) anymore, either. The last letters section in the organization's magazine contained a scathing letter to the editor talking about how if we allow gay and lesbian romance in the RWA, pretty soon there'd be bestiality and pedophilia and sex between inanimate objectsOMG! The usual right wing slippery slope BS. Fine -- as long as the other side gets to speak. But there's no letters in the next issue, and when letters come back, there's nary a mention of that right wing shite.

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Speaking of politics, What the Fucking Fuck is going on in my state? It's like professional fucking capture the flag, or king/queen of the mountain, or something EQUALLY RIDICULOUS, MONEY AND TIME WASTING.

Fire the whole fucking lot of them and start from scratch. What is this, junior high? WTF, NY? If I had two friggin dimes to rub together, I'd move to Vermont. If I had a skilled job, I've move to Canada. This shit is for the fucking birds.

This could fulfill either of the prompts, which were:

Weep not poor children
for life is this way
murdering beauty and
Passions.

and/or

Hush now dear children
it must be this way
to weary of life and
Deception

Both lines from "Come Little Children" by Edgar Allen Poe (who seriously needed some anti-depressants, man.)

( Innocence Lost or Stolen )

I wrote this for the drabble community.

The prompt was "Black and/or white and/or gray".

( Cut for graphic slashy/smutty goodness )

Katy, for those who couldn't care less don't know, is American Idol winner Kris Allen's wife. Who is hot.

Also, I'm not entirely sure Adam wears underwear at all (in spite of pictures that imply he does); I'm almost certain he doesn't wear Calvin's, but I thought that was the most iconic sort of underwear descriptor besides briefs or boxers. *G*

( Cut for zee spoilahs, bb, and dey is BEEEG WAHNZ! )

I don't know if my heart can take these cliffhangers every week!

Dudes, that fucking ROCKED. AGAIN.

If you still hang out at LJ and love this freaking crazy ass vampire show, please drop by trueblood_squee and share the GLEE! (But not the Fox show Glee, that doesn't start till fall. Man, that word is just not going to survive that series,is it? *sigh*)

Come play tonight at trueblood_squee a positivity only sanctuary for all things True Blood. We're open for business! Don't forget your pom-poms! \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/




Please read the rules before posting! (Yippees, Wahoos, Yahoos, OMG's, flailing, drooling, fainting with happiness, lusting, and frothing happily at the mouth are all also welcome!)

Okay, is there anybody who hasn't guest starred on the L-word? I mean, anyone not even remotely, tangentially tied to civil rights, feminism, or the LGBT community? Heh, probably not. Anyway, there's Bif Naked, who I LOVE! You just can't miss her.

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I am SO excited about this! The 10th anniversary of the premiere of Angel is coming up this October! In honor of that auspicious occasion, a great new community is getting ready to open in July called a_decade_of_ats (on LJ, I haven't figured out how to do the comm code on DW yet, and that's where I cross post from now). Nothing is happening there yet, but it's never too early to sign up and decide what you're going to post when it DOES open. WOOT!



Wow, TEN YEARS. That just blows me away.

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Speaking of my oh so fickle muse, I've been writing a TON lately... but none of it is for my novel, or for fanfic, or FOR anything else, really. It's a lot of opening veins and bleeding on the page pretentious, whiney emo "literary" garbage that no one else will ever read. But it's what wants to come out of me right now, so I'm just going with it and hoping I can get back to the fun stuff soon. I just don't dare try to force any "structured" writing in fear that that fickle little bitch will just split on me again. So I'm writing a lot of bullshit metaphors and stuff about my childhood and blah. Whatevs, it's writing, anyway.

Okay, you guys, there is SO MUCH naughty, perverted, smutty fun to be had here. Anonymous commenting allowed!


So, I have a friend who, some time ago, started a sort of meme on LiveJournal which became known as the Great LJ Darkroom Orgy. I'm not sure when the first one happened, but the second one can be found here. It's a little over a year since the third took place, and if this year's installment has happened, I've not seen it. I think it'd be a damn shame if one didn't happen, don't you?



I confess, I've mostly been watching so far. I don't know if I want to actually join in. *G*

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I actually had a really fun day today. Or, nice, anyway. I got dressed up, wore makeup and everything -- including a kicky scarf with my blouse and skirt! All to go to the doctor, then to get blood drawn, and then to the pharmacy, but still. And I listened to Joan Armatrading and Tracy Chapman all the way there and home. I bought a cheapo strawberry flavored, glittery lipgloss and had a Pepsi Max, and just enjoyed being alive for a change. I suspect that the CPAP really is starting to work, because even though I'm still tired because I didn't get *enough* sleep last night, somehow I still feel rested. Does that make sense? Well, good days are few and far between, and Goddess knows I'll probably pay for it in the near future, so I intend to enjoy it while it lasts!

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Having a MASSIVE L Word-athon. I'm just finishing the second season, and I've got four more to go. It's so enthralling, you know? A soap opera made out of crack and full of pretty lesbians. Who can say no to that?

Swiped from redbrickrose, some of the weirdest, most disturbing shit I've ever seen in my fandom days. This is seriously NSFW -- in fact, as the site owner who linked to it says, it's NSFWTF (Not Safe For Work/What the Fuck). And yet, I'm so freaking twisted, I laughed my ass off, and then I went, "Hold on, why do dragons have human penises? And why do I have sudden uncomfortable visions of Dean and Metallicar... although I remember that one hilarious/yucky fic when Dean got the Impala Pregnant."

Anyway, here's the link, if you really want to see some weird dragon action. http://thatotherpaper.com/blog/todd_ross_nienkerk/dragons_sex_cars

Speaking of Dean having unsavory affairs with his car, does anybody have a link to that story where Metallicar turns human, and she and Dean have awesome sex in a hotel room, and she's all defensive and stuff? I thought I had it in my delicious, but I can't find it!

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President Obama fails to quell gay uproar

Fails to quell? How about grinds salt and road grime into the wound? I mean, here his is, saying DOMA is discriminatory, RIGHT AFTER HIS DOJ WROTE A BRIEF NOT ONLY DEFENDING IT, BUT EQUATING GAY MARRIAGE WITH INCEST AND MARRIAGE WITH CHILDREN.

WTF, Obama? Now you're offering half benefits, while you're in the middle of "trying to ensure everyone has health care" and you CAN'T OFFER LBGTQ parters health benefits BECAUSE THEY'RE ILLEGAL UNDER DOMA.

Dude, you need to make up your fucking mind. You're just making things worse every time you turn around at this point. If your big time Gay and Lesbian supporters pull out of fundraisers, you and the DMC are in some serious trouble, dude.

There are a lot of apologetics going on right now, saying he has other priorities, it takes time, blah blah blah. I'm not upset that he hasn't repealed DOMA or DADT. That's not the point. I'm not even upset that the DOJ supported DOMA in the recent brief (although there is TONS of precident where the president did NOT support such a law that they wanted to overturn, as Obama kept insisting he did in the campaign). I am upset at the language used, and the fact that that language is not only offensive, it could very well threaten legal gains ALREADY made in our community, and thwart attempts toward future gains as well. He hasn't said a freaking WORD about that brief, which says a whole lot more than a few of the lesser benefits that could be (not necesarily, according to the GOP) allowed under the yoke of DOMA.

Until/Unless he withdraws the brief and acknowledges the offensive language, nothing he does short of completely repealing it is going to appease me. I'm sick of people not being allowed basic civil rights in a country that's supposedly the bastion of such rights.

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So, what are the True Blood cast's "must sees" and who would they bite if they were vampires? And where's Alex? *pout* WARNING: IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE PREMIERE YET THIS VIDEO SPOILS SOMETHING.



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Stolen from my sweetie pie :

( Remember when vampires... )

However, I must add the caveat that ERIC RULES AND DOESN'T SPARKLE, AND HE'S BADASS AND HAS FANGS AND DOESN'T STALK IDIOTIC, WANGSTY, CLUMSY TEENAGERS as far as I know. He is also hot. Even in hairfoils and a salon bib.

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OMG I WANT TO GO TO THIS SO BADLY! I have no desire to live in L.A., but I wish half the good things in the U.S. didn't happen out there! Although... I suppose that's fair, since the other half happens in NY. Not that I could get there either.

But, but... VAMPIRES! *flails*

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Hah! Small TV World again! The sexy Samantha Ferris, who played Ellen on Supernatural, also played a hot "power" lesbian who hits on Jennifer Beals' character in The L Word season two! Seeing her in full makeup is like, WOW! LOL

Tags: fandom: is weird, issues: lgbtq rights, obama?, small tv world, tv: true blood, twilight sucks, vampirecon

Happy birthday to my very good friend and fellow writer (and lover of all things dark and creepy), umbra_elf! I hope you have a great day, hon!

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The dates for this year's International Blog Against Racism Week ibarw are July 27 - August 2. I'm definitely going to have a post for it (at least one) -- this year has been a real struggle for me trying to come to terms with and try to change how I deal with my own privilege, and check my unconscious racism.

I know it's not about me. But you know what? Sometimes, for white people, it IS. It's about you and your place in the world, the way you contribute to or fight against oppression and bigotry. You have to look inside yourself and make changes within as much as without. It's as important for yourself as a whole, healthy, loving human being as it is for the people who ultimately benefit from your changes.

Just mho.

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WOW! True Blood ratings were phenomenal for a cable show! And this doesn't even count people like me who watch it online or download it because they don't or can't get HBO! W00t!

I've seen a few people complaining, but I've long since learned my lesson about that -- I ignore them! *G* Am I an Eric/Sookie fan and a proud member of Team Eric? Yes. Do I therefore think that there's something inherently wrong with Bill/Sookie shippers and Team Bill or Team Sam people? NO. And I'm staying SIX BILLION MILES AWAY from the brewing shipper wars.

I can smell them that far away, you know. It starts with little barely veiled jabs at the male character you don't like as much, or off the cuff negative things abou tthe other pairing. That's when I click "BACK" and RUN!

Ooh! You know what I'm should do? START A SQUEE COMMUNITY like spn_woohoo! No negativity allowed!

Speaking of TV Geekery, Have You Voted in the TwoP Tubey Awards yet?

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An interesting conversation about the Obama administrations OFFENSIVE defense (oxymoron?) of DOMA between two people I really admire:







There are a lot of things going on in the world right now, but Obama needs to say something SOON to distance himself from this anti-LGBTQ garbage, or he's going to lose what little credibility he has left in the gay community.

Sign a petition to demand the brief be repealed and an apology be made for its content: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/doma_brief/?r_by=4580-2019307-_BOm9qx&rc=confemail

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Are they fucking serious with this shit? Megan Fox's body as a model of the American Party System? *looks at calendar* What the hell year is this? Thanks, heather11483 for the head's up.

I just... bleurg.

Speaking of objectifying women and rape culture...

There's a fascinating -- and really, really disturbing -- conversation going on at cereta's site right now about rape, rape culture, and men's responsibility in the matter. It's so weird (and not in the best way) in the years since I've been out of college and the Women's Studies program, I've become much more deeply involved in gay rights than women's rights specifically (even though the two are inexorably intertwined). It's been a while since I thought about this issue. Anyway, I highly recommend this food for thought.

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And just so I don't leave you with such thinky thoughts...



Awwww.

I unequivocally support fair and free democratic elections in Iran, and I think the world should pay attention to what's going on there.

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For more information:
PICTURES:
here and here
NEW INFORMATION:
Here - near constant updates
Here - ONTD_political live post
ON TWITTER:
@StopAhmadi, @ProtesterHelp




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What concerns me, though, is that we don't actually know anything concrete about the opposition. The feeling seems to be that the "reformists" will be completely different than the current regime, and from what I'm reading, that's not necessarily true. I'm concerned especially that the "reformist" leader seems to be just as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel as the current leader. Nor is Mousavi magically anti-nuke:

"Mousavi, for example was not only the initiator of the current nuclear program In Iran but he was among the leading officials as Prime Minister in the 1980s behind the creation of the Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist group and the deployment of thousands of Revolutionary Guards in Southern Lebanon and Baalbek area."

http://www.jewishjournal.com/iranianamericanjews/item/qa_iranian_jewish_expert_nikabkht_sheds_light_on_irans_elections/

I'm still rooting around for more information. So yes, I support fair democratic elections, but I am still hesitant to assume that a new administration would be all that much better for Jews and other minorities in Iran, or for nuclear disarmament and peace around the world.

I have only just begun to look at this matter myself, but here are some great resources I've found so far:

From sohotrightnow:

A couple of good rundowns of the situation in Iran, since the news has been falling down horribly on the job: </a></b></a>quettaser has one here, with an excellent collection of links, and </a></b></a>ladycat777 has one here, with a good collection of background information as well. The Atlantic had an interesting article: Follow The Developments In Iran Like A CIA Analyst. Once you've read those, the Twitter #IranElection hashtag is essential. I can't believe I used the words "Twitter" and "essential" in the same sentence.

If you want to help, there is an excellent list of things you can do here; the most important, to my eye, is to follow the instructions for setting up proxies, as this will help the people in Iran continue to talk, to each other and to the world. Remember: do not retweet to users in Iran; their government knows about Twitter and is following, and there have been a lot of reports of arrests. The second most important thing you can do is to keep talking about this; the more people watching and talking, the greater the possibility that there might be accountability at the end of this. Talk about it: on LJ, at Twitter, in blogs, and in person. Share links and photos. Talk about those links and photos. Wear green. Talk about why you're wearing green. Try to find out if there are demonstrations near you. Contact the news providers and demand more coverage, because what we've got so far is pathetic. Keep listening, keep watching, and keep talking.

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From heather11483:

Iran's Stolen Election - some context for the situation, with analysis.

Andrew Sullivan's blog - he's been speaking a lot of truth and reposting a lot of videos from the protests, and sharing links from all over the blogosphere, which is mostly where the bulk of news can be found.

Pictures from Iran. And also here, via Time.

Twitters I've been watching. Many of the people tweeting from there are my age and younger. Just college students.

@Stop Ahmadi

@Change_For_Iran

@IranRiggedElect

@TehranBureau

@IranElection09

@persiankiwi

Twitter has been invaluable btw, since SMS, internet service, and general cell phone service have been blocked inside Iran. I've even heard that Twitter's being monitored by the government to block the proxy IP addresses that many were posting there over the weekend for Iranians to use. If you want to help and know how, you can set up proxy servers and direct message the IP addresses to @persiankiwi or @StopAhmadi -- but DON'T tweet them publicly or they'll just be jammed.

In many respects, Twitter is all they've got.

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From Me:

Another thing I'm doing to help is running the TOR network software, and acting as a router for censored users. I don't know if this will help in Iran, since their internet is blocked, but I know it's used by students and journalists in other censored countries. If you'd like more information about TOR, check it out here: http://www.torproject.org

It's also handy for your own internet privacy.

The American government is always going on about how we're the beacon and defender of democracy in the world. It's time we put up or freaking shut up. No, I do NOT want a military solution -- I am a pacifist, and I think all war is wrong. But we should damn well be doing something on a diplomatic level, and NOW.

( Har be Squeeing and Spoilers, Matey! For the books, too, if you're trying to avoid those. )

OMG HOW AM I GOING TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK? SQUEEEEE! THAT WAS SO FUCKING AWESOME! *does freaky geeky dance!*

Is it Sunday yet? Or rather, for me, Monday?