Imaginary Gardens

Tuesday everyone was buzzing about an imminent earthquake of catastrophic proportions expected for Wednesday, May 11th. ( Read more... )

In other news, my parents have gone off on vacation for a month, so I'm all on my lonesome. ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: sunlitdays, here, as lj-cut text

And you know you're gone when the sound of a song can't soothe you...

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Human Target: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Ralph Waldo

...gnah. Playing catch-up is just down-right cruel. Since I'm all maxed-out and couldn't string together a sentence even if you hamsters on a flying saucer would be wicked cool I'm going to aerodynamic bumblebees don't exist just leave the Links of the Day here along with some there should be a name for the fear of snapping your neck memes and other things of the day.

Oh, and Supernatural's "The French Mistake" was brilliant and hilarious and had second-hand embarrassment and why didn't I like Misha in it?!? That's as coherent as I can be for now.

Also, why didn't anyone tell me that Misfits was all up in the science fiction and fantasy and people with ~*powers*~ zone? That's my cup of tea!

Also also? Brain won't write, but damn will it come up with images I can't bloody draw.

Meme: What colour is your rainbow?: ( Read more... )

Meme: What animal is your Golden Compass daemon? ( Read more... )

Meme: Good Things:
Day 22: Palermo & crostata! & the best candied orange slice I've ever had!
Day 23: Palermo & Manuale d'amore 3!
Day 24: Palermo & cannoli!
Day 25: Supernatural made me LOL for real :D
Day 26: The sister of a friend of my mother's said there was an opening at her company, so I spoke to her and sent her my CV.
Day 27: I sent out 4 CVs!
Day 28: I sent out 10 CVs!

Quote of the Day: emerald_embers, here

Holding a small furry animal close to your chest is the closest to being God you will ever get. I love it.

and here

Today a customer casually chatted to me about his boyfriend while we were fixing his broadband fault. Earlier this week another customer mentioned that her girlfriend's computer was connecting fine though her own wasn't.

As a society we still have a lot of improvements to make, but the fact that there are people who feel safe enough mentioning their same sex relationships in conversation with a complete stranger means that there's no doubt about it, there have been improvements since I was a kid. And that's a good, comforting sign, even if those improvements are taking more time than they should <3.

Video of the Day: Rammstein music video (with cartoons) XD ( Read more... )

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
Heroes: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Kin Hubbard

Sickle's Brief Review of Supernatural 6x07, "Family Matters" ( Read more... )


Nanowrimo progresses, although I'm displeased with some of the style being too - I don't know. I've even quoted poetry by this stage, so I'm facepalming all over it. Anyway, we're a step away from Demon Death then Infected Ahoy then Kezef. I am very excited for Kezef.

( Excerpt )

13376 / 50000 words. 27% done!


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Heroes: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* "Family Matters", Supernatural**
** OMG Sam is Jaws! No fish bowl can hold him!

I has a new profile! With lists of stuff!

TfSB Timeline Questions: This is mainly to remind myself to scour through Nanowrimo 2009 to answer a few questions, but I wouldn't say no to help because ye gods, do I not want to flip through that mess of typos and embarassingly missing words and suchlike. and to think it's been printed and bound like that, and what's worse! downloaded like that! And what's even worse, professionally published like that. *facepalm* Proof read and edit, Sickle, even if you don't want to read the work for a few months; it's embarrassing. ( Read more... )


30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 25 – Favorite Who Actor ( Read more... )

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn't ( Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 25 - Favorite kiss/love/sex scene? ( Read more... )


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Human Target: ( Read more... )
Heroes: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Philip Fry
** Strictly and buddhistically speaking he's not a god so much as the ultimate teacher.

Sickle Has A Request: So I finally read through The Last Wild Angel - that story that in a fit of insanity I've decided to try and send to a magazine - enough to edit it a little and put it in manuscript format. However, I have some editorial questions of the "What should I dooooo?" and "Is this okay? Tell me it's okay!" variety. So does anyone care to beta? Please?

Sickle Writes (And Has Another Sort-Of Request): Day before yesterday - because I've been lax in posting - I finally finished typing out the notes I'd made for Time for Something Biblical, listing all the characters', set and plot details. It's on sickle_stories, but flocked, which y'all know I never do on bending_sickle, because I'm apparently more paranoid about my half-formed creative ideas being open to the world than I am about my life.

I went to sleep quite late because I just can't come up with a title for the sequel. I know it's ridiculous, because I haven't even started writing it and I barely know what's going to happen, but I'm obsessed with finding the right title. Time for Something Biblical was such a perfect title, what with the apocalypse and the angel and all. Now I'm scouring the internet and quotes and books for anything that'll work, preferrably starting of with "Time For", and, if I want to be really picky, a Muse lyric - not because I like Muse, because I don't overmuch, but because I did the same with TFSB and its chapter titles and argh.

The titles I've got listed - where the one I most like is the first one - include: ( Read more... )

Random thought: I do really weird fanmixes. I've never done a proper, actually-related-to-fandom fanmix. The best I could do on that front is making a fanmix of all the songs I want to make into fanvids, but that's a bit odd, even for me. My mixes are all about long-distance relationships and obsessive compulsive disorder and chronic homesickness and gods know I might end up doing a mix on fish one of these days. I've already got two three songs in mind, and I didn't even have to think hard: Dawn of BtVS's "Anchovies" song, Monty Python's "Slapping Fish" song, and "It's a Long Way from Amphioxus". Crazy little Sickle.

Sickle SMASH: *raging flail, see below* ( More on Hispanic and Latin labeling )

Other News: Yestrday was a Bad Day in terms of Mother-Daughter relationships, where Daughter is all, "You don't listen to me! I just want you to say something positive for once! Show you care!" and Mother is all, "Don't talk to me in that tone!" and Daughter's all, "That tone is me begging you to show me you love me!" so you can imagine how wonderful I feel at the moment.

30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 16 – Your Favorite Who-Related FanFic ( Read more... )

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 16 - An episode that scared you ( Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 16 - What's your favorite Supernatural weapon? ( Read more... )

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Russian proverb**
** Except maybe this one ;)

Sickle's "Oh god oh god I've haven't written anything in ages!" Points: ( Read more... )

Sickle's Dreams, Because It's Easier To Remember Them When You Sleep In Fits and Starts Thanks To The Heat: ( Read more... )

Sickle's "Let's Write Down Grey's Anatomy Quotes!": ( Read more... )

Meme: Who Do You Write Like? ( Memes count as actual content, right? )

Quotes of the Day: Kelly Link, Zombie Contingency Plan

Art is for peple who aren't worried about zombies.

Hyperbole and a Half (here

What the hell kind of medical school did you go to?? They didn't even prepare you for a zombie massacre??

readingthedark, here

(I have a new theory: people save lives all the time and just don't realize it. The downside is that lots of people also commit brutal murders without even noticing.)

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Twilight: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Grey's Anatomy

So Intensive Beginners Italian classes are, indeed, intensive. We did nouns and plurals and adjectives and vocabulary and started on some verbs. I didn't get lost on the way despite much map-staring the night previous and general thoughts of fail from mom. (Why yes, I am an incompetent moron who can't do anything at all. For the win, I say.) I made it back okay too. With homework. It's been a year and five months since I've had an actual class in anything. Wow.

In other news, I sent in two applications for jobs - lab tech and sustainability associate - so yay. I have a cover letter to write for lab tech work in Rome, which may go well. This is all just very discouraging because I have no aspirations - or rather, the few I had have been accomplished. "Really, Sickle? Seriously? You've done everything you ever wanted in this life?" y'all may say, incredulously, to which I shrug and say, "I aint' coming up with any other things I want. And that's the problem!" But. Honestly, if I'd known better - or had had a half decent career counselor or hell, a list of careers and what you need to study to get them - I'd have not done what I have. I'd've studied foresty if I wanted to stay in science - it has an applicable industry! - or done hotel management, or translation, or hell, even animal management. Something with obvious skills and options, not, "Coo-ee, I like studying about animals doing things!" Idiot. Ugh.

In further other news, I have too many creative projects and no time or oomf for them. On the other hand, I've started working out - doing those back exercises so I'm not a disfigured old crone, just a crazy spinster with a penchant for cats.

In completely unrelated news, Doctor Who's latest was pretty good, but I was hoping - for bizarre imaginative reasons - that Amy would actually turn to stone for a bit, like flicker between stone and person. Anywho. Also, I was hoping for some joy in the way of Castle but Unexplained Hiatus is Unexplained. And I should so totally make a Nightmare On Elm Street (2010) tag: it's been on the Links of the Day too oft for it not to have one. Yeah, that's right, I said oft.

In sum: feh. And I seem to be having these mad waves of incredible flippin' rage and frustration and anger and submerged wibbles. Adjusting, I am not. Duh.


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Nightmare on Elm Street (2010): ( Read more... )
Ashes to Ashes: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Heroes: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Dan Castellaneta

This is not a post. This is just me saying that I'm not dead from teh ski - I actually had a great time and will provide photgraphic proof - and that I'm off to Rome until the 7th.

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Watchmen: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes: ( Read more... )
Human Target: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Firefly: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random Fandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Russell Baker

Well, I'm back from my brief escapade to Spain. I've got about a week before I run off to southern France to ski with some 400 other international students (pray for me, oh flist, if you're the praying type).

So I say Spain, but I mean ( so much more )

In other news, I'm working on the Links of the Day. I've got a massive list of links stored in a private post, so if you think this batch is long, just think what I've got under Supernatural!

In further other news, I'm coming down with a cold. Yay.


Quote of the Day: Sarah Brightman

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

Links of the Day:

Heroes ( Read more... )
Watchmen ( Read more... )
Jackie Earle Haley (Human Target, Nightmare on Elm Street, Shutter Island) ( Read more... )
Dollhouse ( Read more... )
Life on Mars ( Read more... )
Multi-Fandom ( Read more... )


* Leonardo da Vinci

Lately I've been trying to come up with a way to legitimately put as many crossovers into a single story line as possible. Why? It's cracktastic fun, that's why. It's also surprisingly easy, because every fandom has at least one convenient opening. Especially the supernatural ones.

For example, the easiest points in each fandom that can be used to make a crossover include:

Time-and Space Traveling - You can get there from here or now. ( Read more... )

Medicine - We'll take you there with flashing lights. ( Read more... )

Criminal Activity - You have the right to remain silent. ( Read more... )

Undercover - We're there even if you don't know it. ( Read more... )

The Supernatural - We know weird. ( Read more... )

Fixed Fandom - You'll have to come to us.( Read more... )

Example Crossovers ( Read more... )

Sample MultiFandom Crossover - 11 Fandoms ( Read more... )


Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Dollhouse: ( Read more... )
Random:
Neil Gaiman Interview Transcripts
Nobody Here, Just Me - World's most awesome website ever.


* Neil Gaiman, here