Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge ( Day 12 )


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Dylan Moran

There is no content. You need no content. Not with picspams galore. *hand wave*



Dharma and Greg: Vanity Cards (Season 2)


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Dharma and Greg: House, furniture and clothes (Seasons 1 and 2) ( Read more... )


Meme: 30-Day Fandom vs. Personal Meme:

Day 11. What character is your closest hair twin? ( Read more... )

Day 12: Which character would you want to help plan your wedding? ( Read more... )


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Kitty, Dharma and Greg

Supernatural: Whilst looking for screencaps of what Dean's camp in The End looked like - particularly the gate and fence around it - I came across something which left me flailing. I have no idea how I missed this in my first viewing - and my second, and third, and fourth... ( Imaaaaage and CAPSLOCK )


Life: In other news, you know what's pretty cool? Having your mother Google until she drops looking for a novel by the name Les juifs and being unable to find it, followed by her telling me about it in the vaguest terms possible ("It was about Jewish traditions! And they got married at the end!") and then me taking not even five minutes to find it for her. I win.


Nanowrimo: I do believe that tomorrow we will properly meet Kezef and seen Dean do something badass. (Useless, but still badass.) I still don't quite know what Kezef wants with Icarus - it has something to do with his purpose and the locking up of Heaven, but I don't know exactly or even how. It's going to involve blood, though, because apparently "Angel of Punishment = Vampire" is teh trufax in my brain.

( Excerpt )

30016 / 50000 words. 60% done!


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


* "Dead in the Water", David Gray

I haven't been sleeping well for ages, by which I mean I roll around the bed being all physically uncomfortable, not that I lie awake for ages. I've also recently been having really bad anxiety-filled dreams, which are just swell. (By which I mean, "DIE, SUBCONSCIOUS! DIE!") Also, Yay Nedroid Comic! ( Read more... )


Quote of the Day: snowcoma, here

I sleep with a (sheathed) machete under my pillow. Paranoid? Maybe. Overkill? Almost certainly. Do I feel safe at night? Fuck yes.

Video of the Day: Fanvid: Tennant!Hamlet Soliloquy + Doctor Who's The End of Ten - I cried, guys! I cried! ( Embedded )


Links of the Day:

Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Watchmen: ( Read more... )
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Heroes: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Autism, duck peneses, odes to tea, choreography, omgcupcakes! )


* Dream, Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Masterlist of Sickle's "Omg, I'm So Obsessed" Crushes:

This is a list of actors, writers and fictional characters whom my brain's latched onto at some point or other. This isn't a list of people I find hot (that list is way longer and does, of course, include some of those listed here). Rather, it's the people I've developed an unhealthy obsession for at some point in my life, who've fascinated me for some reason, who's work I've tracked down like a bloodhound or took over my POV-analysis lobe. In other words, uber-crushes without, necessarily, the sexin'. I'm undoubtably forgetting some.

Below, then, is the list with photos and a brief reason as to the why of the obsession and the person's main features.

WARNING: Will eat your dial-up alive.

Early Youth: ( Read more... )

The Early Teen Years ( Read more... )

The Late Teen Years ( Read more... )

The Early Twenties ( Read more... )

The Late Twenties ( Read more... )


Is there a pattern? A type? ( Read more... )


Video of the Day Merlin Children in Need Special - Bwuahahaha! ( Embedded )

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Misha Collins: ( Read more... )


* Mae West

Packing for New York right now. We've got a hotel reserved until Monday, so we'll be there that long at least.

On a totally unrelated note, ( the heart is a bitchy thing that will cut you dead )


Links of the Day: ( Read more... )

My Geektastic Life
Today I went to a public lecture by Richard Leakey.

Who?

Born Dec. 19, 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya, Leakey is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey. ( Read more... )

Why?

I've grown up knowing a smattering of the Leakeys. So long as I remember, I known about them as paleoanthropologists and have kept up on them whenever they made the news. ( Read more... )

What Was It Like?

Fantastic. Leakey is an extraordinary lecturer, mixing in humour with earnestness, political commentary and personal history. Everyone clapped their hearts out when he finished, and after each question.

The first question, posed by a Tanzanian PhD student (and good gods do I love the accent) was how to change the mind-set in Africa encouraged by evangelical christians who say, "God told us to multiply and fill the earth. Our country is not yet full, so why should we not have as many children as we can?" Leakey responded wonderfully, ( Read more... )

What Was It About?

Broad Implications of Climate Change in East Africa in Terms of Human and Animal Futures, a public lecture under the auspices of the LEAD Program of the Natural Herbarium, Faculty of Science, Leiden University. Introduction by Dr. L Jan Slikkerveer

( Yes, I Took Notes (Scribbled Notes May Not Be Entirely Word-For-Word Accurate) )


Fandom Owns My Soul
After months of scrolling past fanfic posts in my flist, barely even scanning the newletters, I'm back in the Itching For Fic Couch. And, of course, it's SPN. Oh, show, how I love you: you make me laugh hysterically (for that, a thousand thanks) and give me a delicious side-order of angsty fucked-up characters. How could I say no?

Oh, and because apparently it has to be said: I'm fine with Wincest**. (But then, I'm fine with CSI*** in Firefly, so no surprise there.) There's some amazingly good fics out there. *updates Fanfic List of Looove*

ETA: A word on the 'cest: I like reading it, not watching it. I don't see it on screen, not even with super-charged slash goggles. But reading well-written fics that just happen to be 'cest? I'm game. (Mainly because of the mindfuck, angst, and the all-around incredibly strong emotions involved.)

I've been YouTubeing Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki interviews and convention appearances. They're adorable!

Also? I'm developing a major back fetish. ( Lookit and drool! )

Music Video of the Day: David Usher, "The Music" - Amazing cinematography! Followed directly by "Ugly is Beautiful" ( Embedded )

Quotes of the Day:

Last night is sort of a blur. I couldn't stay awake, until I tried to fall asleep.

- greygirlbeast

Nothing I've ever found has contradicted the Bible. It's people with their finite minds who misread the Bible.

— Louis Leakey

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Heroes: ( Read more... )
Neil Gaiman: ( Read more... )
Random: (Includes Multifandom Icons)( Read more... )
wtf_nature: ( Read more... )


* RLeakey, Nov. 25, 2008
** If that's not your cup of tea, there's some lovely coffee over there. No need to hit me with the kettle. Play nice.
*** Crazy Space Incest

Work, work, work.*

Taking a mini-break from staring hopelessly at Technology Transfer Assignment after having fixed huge stupid mistakes due to huge stupid oversights of helpful equations.

My brother's not only awesome for coaching me through some crazy rambles by yours truly about calculations, but he's declared that he's going to give me a few lessons in driving when I go visit him next. *squee*

Speaking of, yo! People in the T-dot! Y'all will be snuggled for real by me starting Dec. 7 until Dec.12 and then more snuggles Dec. 22 to Jan. 7. (The time in between is reseved for snuggles in Chicago.) Folks living in the Canada who're in prettier places can expect snuggles and squee via telephone. Whoot!

And now, because I'm achey, sleepy and omgwtfing at this assignment still, here's a little something that'll make things all better. ( Read more... )


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Life on Mars: USA: ( Read more... )
Politics: ( Read more... )


* Zoe and Wash, Firefly

Hey gnomes! Sorry for letting Twitter post for me so oft, but I'm being worked to the bone and thus have either a) no time or b) no energy to post. Also, I have a Links List as long as a gibbon's arm and then some, so that might take a while.

That said, I've been watching Supernatural 4x00. Apart from a mangled-handful of dubbed episodes from unknown seasons, this is my first time with SPN. I likes. I'm a bit wary, what with all the hate on fandomsecrets, thinking maybe the show's going to bitchslap me when I'm not looking, but I have high hopes. It's better than Charmed on its bad days, and I've suffered through a few of those. (You take what you can when you get access to TV during the summer.)

Also, Dean's distracting me with the pretty. (And his acting's nice, too, though I'm a sucktastic judge of that.)

PS: I've been trying to make a cover for the Globo Sapiens fanmix I've finally finished listing, but Paint** sucks and Gimp is kicking my ass. I just want to crop and size, damn it!


Quote of the Day: superduperkc, see LotD

Sex =/= Love. I need you. I want you. I want to want you. I need to want you. I want to need you. I'm just curious. I'm just mean. I'm just bored. I'm lonely. I'm drunk. I'm awake and you're breathing. I always wondered what it was like. I need this. I thought I needed this. I am empty and this is my desperation in action. I hate you, you bitch.

Links of the Day:
NYTimes: The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama by Frank Rich
If the World Could Vote - Let's see who would be the next president of the United States of America - if the world could vote.
SupernaturalWiki
JensenAcklesFans: gallery, screencaps, downloads.
superduperkc's I don't love you...seriously.
elliotsmellio's Lost Fanfic: Now I See You Everywhere (Desmond/Penny)
ana_jo's TSCC Fanvid: Goodbye, Apathy (John/Cameron)
atomicapples's Icon Battle between ack_attack and prettybutt


* Dean Winchester, Supernatural
** I first typed this out as "Pain".

My internship presentation (The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) decline: The importance of pack size for its survival) is tomorrow at 11 am. I've been feeling a bit weird all day. This afternoon in particular, the most ridiculous things made me all miserable.

( Sickle gets introspective, talks about memory and loss, and shows off the crazy. )

ETA: Things Sickle Never Learns: Do not call Mother when cracking, as Mother is the Sledgehammer to Sickle's Emotional Shaky Rubble. (Translation: I'm a fucking idiot and now feel like shite. But it's 11:35 pm and I needs to work loads.)

The Crab Revolution by Arthur des Pins (subtitled)


( Moar shorts )

( Meme! Behold! My future! )

( Meme! My life with the Doctor. )

( One-word Meme )

Links of the Day: ( Doctor Who )


* "Fog", Wintersleep (Music video - adoreable and depressing)