Fetlife is having a sweet-ass giveaway for Christmas! Some of the corsets on there are GORGEOUS. Don't even get me started on the collars. Go sit on Santa's lap!

Thank the gods for internet girlfriends.

OMG U GUISE. I'm actually writing. Do you have any idea how long it's been since this happened?

This picture makes me want dark chocolate and strong coffee.



And other delicious things.

See my icon? Just replace "power" with "fic prompts." I don't know why, but I had this crazy epiphany while I was doing the 4 o'clock numbers yesterday at work, and now I am just replete with inspiration. One for original fic, even.

But anywhoozle! Howdy to new friends from the friending meme! And to all my friends from Wincon, ZOMG I AM SO SORRY I HAVEN'T BEEN KEEPING UP WITH YOU. I just checked my friends filters when I did the meme, and I realized never added you guys to the right filter so I haven't been seeing your updates! I almost never look at my flist unfiltered because my filters are purely organizational: I have one for individuals and one for communities. So I'm terribly sorry for appearing to ignore you! I've got you all sorted out now, so you will have lots of attention from now on!

When she bites her arm, it undoes me.

Right so, I'm on the internets, and I have several tabs of fic from assorted fandoms open, when I realize 'Hey, I haven't checked io9 today!' So I head on over there and I open up four or so tabs of articles. I read a couple and then I get to this one, and the first line gets me totally confused about which tabs are my fic tabs and which are my article tabs. For a minute I was like, 'Pfft! This author is terrible!' And then I was like, 'Maybe it's just the flimsy set up for some very PWP stuff.' And of course that prompted me to keep reading and then I was like ':OOOOOOOh. *facepalm*'

I didn't get much sleep last night, ok?

At work, very bored. Perhaps now is a good time to start reading Star Trek RPS.

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Payday, and then a looooooooooong dinner with some of my wonderful homies, and then I come home to new SPN and Atlas updated, omg. *swoons*

Holy shit, emily-posts is an available sn on livejournal. Why don't I have that sn?

Can anyone instruct me on the generally accepted etiquette re: sequels in an anonymous comment fic meme? Like, if someone wrote something awesome in the meme, and someone else wants to request a sequel to it in the meme with a new request that said something like, "Hey, this over here was awesome, and I'd love to see where some of the other amazing writers here would take it. Please include boa constrictors" - is that ok? Or if someone wants to write their own full-length fic, posted inside or outside the meme, using something from the meme as a base or as inspiration, what then? I would say that in a normal, non-anonymous setting, good manners dictate that permission should be acquired from the original writer before the second writer creates a sequel. And obviously, the original fic should be linked and credited in the notes, and in this case, the meme as a whole and the thread containing the specific piece would be linked and credited. But what to you do about getting permission when it's an anonymous meme? I'm assuming that either the normal courtesy of asking permission is excused, or writing sequels is simply Not Done, since there is no real was to get permission. I have no idea which of those is considered normal or polite, and as far as I've seen the host/moderator of the meme in question has not posted any rules or preferences about this.

Thoughts, flist?

I do not have to energy to make a Wincon post that will do this weekend any kind of justice yet, but I needed to pass on this rec as soon as humanly possible:

Go read The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan right fucking now. It is awesome. It is Cerberus' litter of adorable, killer, three-headed, half-poodle puppies. It's the baby that would be conceived by Firefly's self-hating, scorching hot sex with V for Vendetta. And if that's not enough: it's paced almost flawlessly, and it laughs at itself subtly and beautifully.

Read. This. Book.

Flora Pecosa was pregnant. It was gonna be a boy. He died sometime between Monday and today, at 20 weeks and three days.

It's hard to know how I feel. Since Miles died, none of us have responded to pregnancy by expecting a baby, because in my family's experience that isn't a guarantee. It's not conscious or anything, but I realized when Abby was born that I hadn't been anticipating her. I hadn't been anticipating my nephew either, but... I'm still sad. It's hard to describe.

I need to learn Niño Precioso before Dia de los Muertos.

I got free tickets to the Scream Awards for looking awesomely nerdy, and in celebration I treated myself to these, which I couldn't really afford, but which are also awesomely nerdy.

The instapaper app is the best thing ever. Now does anyone have any loooooooong juicy fics to rec me? Because I can read them later. XD (Speaking of long juicy fics, anyone who has even the slightest tolerance for NuTrek stuff should be reading the Atlas series by Angel Baby 1. It is delicious.)

For the life of me, I can't find anywhere to purchase The Fabulous Yard Dogs Road Show CD. Does anybody have it and if so would you be willing to share?

My dad bought me an ipod touch for my birthday, and I have to say, I don't know where the fuck all this Apple brand loyalty comes from. The device itself is very nice, but I don't think I've ever dealt with a shadier company. The only one that comes close to Apple's level of dishonesty is HP, and at least HP had the grace to play their treachery as ineptitude.

OMG people, I am just bursting with creativity right now. I am going to make myself a utility belt that can hold all my stuff and have detachable tassels so that I can dance @ SCA events and be fashionable w/o leaving everything in my tent or on the ground around the fire. I am also going to make the most awesome Star Trek sweater in the history of ever: it will be classy and subtle, but all the GQMFs shall know it when they see it and marvel at my knitting and Trekkie prowess. Also, I am writing like three fics right now, I finally found a pattern for the yarn Flora Pecosa and Calodaemon bought me when I performed their wedding, and I'm gonna make some awesome yoga pants. Go me.