I'm really bad at remembering acronyms and stuff, so this is mostly for my own reference. May be updated as I come across things.

( bandom terminology )

I said yes. /o\

So I signed up to do a fanmix for bandombigbang for story #52 and I finished reading it yesterday. I don't know if I'm supposed to say this but OMG IT IS AMAZING! I can't believe I got so lucky! This fic is like all my bandom dreams come true. I just want to hug whoever wrote!

...Except for the end! MY HEART, IT IS BROKEN!!! Hey author of #52, what gives? Is there going to be a sequel? Please, please tell me there's going to be a sequel? Or are you planning to add more and just DIDN'T TELL ME??

Okay, I'm totally just kidding, it ends realistically, not tied up all neat, and I like that. It really is an amazing story, in no small part because of how true to the characters it stays. I hope my fanmix can... well, it's never going to do it justice, but I hope it will show in some small way how much I love this story.

P.S. Claiming for fanmixes is still open.

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In other news, I've trying to find some of my beloved stories on Nifty that I read a long time ago. I think I'm going to do a post about them over on my sadly neglected community at some point. I love how reliable Nifty is in terms of stuff not disappearing even years later. Though it's not the easiest archive to navigate. Every story is a crapshoot over whether it's going to be any good or not. Probably one of the main reasons I switched to slash. ;-)

Oh yeah, that subject line doesn't sound dirty now or anything does it?

The NYT has an article about Steampunk! This is the cover photo:
( pretty )

SO sweet. Here's their myspace: The James Gang.

So, gigantic did an amazing picspam of Disashi (of Gym Class Heroes.) Go see the slashiness and the hotness (new beard!!!) and utter cuteness of him and his girlfriend. Yay! I love when bandom gives me stuff I've been wishing for.

( Disashi interview transcript )

I really don't have anything today that's not going to be a rant. And probably an incoherent one at that. Here, have an xkcd instead.

ETA: This gives some good context for the response to the "Open Source Boob Project" and lots of links.

Okay this thread is just making me mad all over again. Goddamnit. When the shit-storm descends on your post, don't try to respond defensively to ever fucking comment, okay. Because you're just going to say MORE fucked-up shit and heaping shit upon shit is going to make people lose even more respect for you. Seriously, I'm noting this for if I ever make a post that people get really upset over. PLEASE WAIT UNTIL HEAD HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM ASS.

ETA2: Open Source Swift Kick to the Balls ICON!. :-)

apple_pi linked to this Random Proverb Generator. Now... I can't stop making new proverbs.

A rolling stone gathers a price.
A bad workman blames the eye of the beholder. (so true!)
Don't put all your eggs in the man. (*nods* That's how you get mpreg.)
Don't cry over love and war.
Brain is better than words. (zombie motto! if zombies had mottos...)
Love is a good ending.
Cut your coat according to a dangerous thing. (wise fashion advice?)
Home is where you hang waste.
A cat may look at the cat. (...meta)
Among the blind a one-eyed man is half a dozen of the other.
Don't cry over the worm. (Unless it's into your tequila.)

I'm leaving in half an hour for L.A. and we're staying overnight. Hopefully I will have internet tonight but if not I'll be back Sunday night with betaing done and possibly some fic. *crosses fingers*

Yo, what's that community for posting fandom quotations? Not metafandom discussion stuff, just interesting quotes?

From http://www.addconsults.com/articles/full.php3?id=1105

It is no accident that binge food is usually high in sugars and carbohydrates, especially when you take into consideration how the ADD brain is slow to absorb glucose. One of the Zametkin PET scan studies, results indicated that "Global cerebral glucose metabolism was 8.1 percent lower in the adults with hyperactivity than in the normal controls..." [1] Other research has also confirmed slower glucose metabolism in ADD adults with and without hyperactivity. This suggests that the binge eater is using these foods to change his or her neurochemistry.

Article goes on to talk about self-medicating ADD with food and mentions that it's not that sugar causes hyperactivity in people with ADD, but that people with ADD crave sugar (to calm themselves down, in fact.) I've been having a lot of scary-feeling, low-sugar moments lately, so I found this interesting.

FANDOM, PLZ EMBRACE THIS NOW: I has an invisibul knapsak. U NO U WANT 2.

Here's the essay, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack, in case the link over there isn't working still. It's interesting, I've seen the privileges list excerpted quite a bit (usually with some changes) as "privileges that white people have." But (re?)reading this, I realized that McIntosh actually was identifying "some of the daily effects of white privilege in my life" and it was meant to be specific to her circumstances. I don't think there's anything wrong with generalizing them, but trying to compile our own empirical (by which I mean observed in real life, not scientifically proven :-P) lists of advantages we have might be powerful/helpful. In general, that essay addresses a lot of the issues that I've have had with regard to "white privilege" - such as how not all privileges are things you actually want to have. Which really shows that when people bring those things up as protests of the idea of white privilege, they're hardly adding new input.

By the by. Writing anything seems to be a huge struggle right now. So, uh, sorry if I sound stiff or abrupt in comments or don't comment at all. It's not you, it's me, really.

And now for sleepytimes. They were the best of times, they were the worst of times...

Go here ( http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1984.htm ) and change the number in the URL to reflect the year you were born to get the top 100 songs of that year. Strike through the songs you hate(d). Bold the songs you love(d). Italics the songs you like(d). Leave blank those you don't care about or don't recognize.

( such a classy year I was born in )

So, I asked about knowledge of Greek Mythology and a BUNCH of you guys volunteered so I'm just going to throw this out there and hope someone has time tonight or tomorrow. ♥

( the story of Philoctetes )

Sorry about spamming, but there's a bunch of things I want to pimp:

contrelamontre - IT'S RUNNING AGAIN! You don't even know how excited that makes me. I thought I had killed it because I posted the last fic back in October and then it was *dead silent* for three months! But somehow I missed that it was running again even though I swore I'd checked in the last month or two. BUT. It's been going since January and things are all organized and timely! Yay!

Um, in case you don't know, contrelamontre is a multifandom slash improv comm where a timed prompt is offered each week. You write from the prompt for the given amount of time (usually around 60 minutes) and then post what you got. It's a fun way to keep yourself writing and feedback is encouraged. There's also a sister community ame_soeur for gen and het fic, and they're now posting the same prompts over there.

dooooooom - I'd never heard of this before, but it's a ficathon for porn with taboo elements. The idea is that you sign up and then they email you a prompt and you write some taboo porn. Multifandom, RPF-friendly, you write in whatever fandom you want, sign-ups close April 30th and fics are due August 1st.

There also is/was a Too Drunk to Fuck Pornomeme going on. Multifandom but bandom-heavy thus far. Also, peterickfics is having a bottom!Pete and/or all-kinds-of-fucked-up!Pete ficathon, if that's up your alley.

And now to bed.

Two more shorties for the IJ porn battle. Again, I failed at porn. But I'm strangely okay with that. Mostly posting this here for my own archiving.

Divine Move
Fandom: Hikaru no Go, Akira/Hikaru
Prompt: finding the hand of god for realz
Wordcount: 272 words
Disclaimer: This is fanfiction and I do not own the source.
( Divine Move )

Untitled
Fandom: contemporary classical music RPF, Esa-Pekka Salonen/Gustavo Dudamel
Prompt: passing the torch (my own prompt)
Wordcount: 263 words
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction and does not purport to describe actual lives or relationships.
( Untitled )

( I love this one a lot a lot! )

ETA: More fic here, in an attempt to save your flist. Hikaru no Go and non-bandom music RPF, so limited appeal.

Title: CPR Is Easy
Author: kaizoku
Wordcount: 448
Rating: PG if that (for sexual innuendo... and violence?)
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction and does not purport to describe actual lives or relationships.
Notes: Written for the IJ Porn Battle. It's not actually porny AT ALL. It's also short like hot pants. (And my first posted bandslash. Oh no!)

( CPR Is Easy )

I downloaded like... 20 cds worth of music tonight. *music hangover* And then I went and saw La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) which is lovely and heartbreaking and bilingual and you should all go see it at the theater if you can.

*Looking at bandom picspam* I'm really glad that people like and are interested in the girlfriends of the bandboys. But it bothers me when the justification for not hating one of them is "she makes him happy." I see this ALL OVER. I get where it's coming from, because yeah, of course your first allegiance was to the person in the band. But I don't like the implication that she's just there to make the boy happy, that that is her function. And it raises the question -- if they break up and she's not making him happy anymore, are you going to go back to hating her? I don't think most (sane) people would actually do that, but that's what we're setting ourselves up for here.

I have a longer rant about how white boy fandom feels like it's all-pervasive and how frustrated I'm getting with that but I'll spare you all for now.

Ah guys I just started reading adellyna's new Patrick/Nick Scimeca fic and decided I needed visuals of Nick Scimeca (all these associated people, they confuse me.) Anwyay, on his blog (which has a pic of him, yay) he has a post about how he April Fooled Travis. He IMed me all sad and mad and that I was serious about kicking him out of the band and I was like ”dude…April Fools” Haha. Poor Travis.

News: Pregnant Man on Oprah. Yes, he is trans. Easy on the eyes too. The coverage is not too bad but wow, this could get big. I mean, this could draw a lot of attention to FTMs that we don't usually get. Whee.

Their doctor: "Thomas has been off testosterone for two years before even trying to conceive. His testosterone levels are normal. Some physical changes are permanent, but his hormone levels are normal. People ask 'is the baby going to be normal?' The baby is totally healthy."

OMG, I love the neighbor: "I was under the impression that Nancy was pregnant. I often see Thomas out and about cutting grass. Thomas told us it was he that was pregnant. I was surprised. It's not Nancy? It's Thomas. I have to get my head around this."

Dude, the kid is going to be fine. She'll have a mom and a dad* and people will assume that the mother gave birth to her, it's a total non-issue as far as I can see. *Not that having two moms or two dads is bad, obviously.

Edit: Thomas Beatie's story in The Advocate

Anyone want to help me with my Travis/Patrick porn? Specifically the *getting* to the porn part. Dialogue hates me. Is a back massage too, um, cliche?

All my prompts made it into the porn battle! I'm so excited. There's a LOT of anime-based fic so far though, WE MUST FIGHT BACK. No offense to anime fans. :-)

I just missed the cut-off for porn battle prompts with my last set by ten minutes. I had all my OT4 prompts in there so I'm really hoping... *crosses fingers* We'll see tomorrow morning.

There's so much SGA OT4 love going on right now. team_sga is having a month-long AU ficathon. Already, there's a really awesome story by briar_pipe with the team as kids. And (unconnected to the ficathon) there's ladycat777's wonderful OT4 story with a pregnant Teyla and an uncertain John. ♥

Get yer prompts now for bandomfest and the Burn Notice challenge. I claimed "Fall Out Boy, touring by van, ZOMBIES!" for the former. And I'm claiming "Sam and Fiona - bickering that ends with an explosion, possibly even gun fire" for the latter.

Ugh, first day back to work. I am not enthused. I will probably think about writing porn all day. Mm, happy place.

Btw, I do kind of agree with this person who says there's too many fests (though they're mostly talking about HP fandom.) I would like to be writing more just to write. But I seem to need the kicks in the pants otherwise I never get anything done. *stares warily at languishing fics that were started in hopes of distracting self from other languishing fics*