Imaginary Gardens

Okay wow I've had these Links of the Day accumulating since the start of November. Sorry about that.

Also I should give the obligatory "I ATEN'T DED" wave. Hiya.

And let's talk a bit about stuff that's going on in my life and family. ( Read more... )


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


* Veronica Roth

Sickle's Random Points of Random: ( Read more... )

Meme: The 28th GIF in your folder is our new president. How screwed are we? ( Read more... )

Meme: Cross off the things you've done: ( Read more... )

Meme: Bold What's True: ( Read more... )

Meme: Ask some invasive questions: ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: Wikipedia, "Loneliness", here

A person who feels lonely regardless of if she is at a family gathering, with friends, or alone is experiencing chronic loneliness. It does not matter what goes on in the surrounding environment, the experience of loneliness is always there.

Links of the Day:
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Sherlock: ( Read more... )
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Random: ( Read more... )


* Marshall McLuhan

Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge ( Day 10 )

Quote of the Day: Joss Whedon

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

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


* Jane Wagner

So, fandoms are colliding. Case in point:

• Bones having Angel's Angel and Hamilton together in a scene.


• Medium having Firefly's Badger and Niska together in a scene.

I just...thought I'd point that out? Because I kinda want to do art about it but not now?

Speaking of Medium, I watched the third episode with Mark Sheppard (although really, the first one is a lie, because it has Mark saying two lines and then it's nothing but sitting there staring at the screen, consumed by lust, waiting for his character to show up again and he never does, at least not Mark-shaped). It made me rant at the screen.

So I'm going to rant at the screen again, in typed form. Because GRR ARGH. ( In which a woman is in labour and I do not agree with solution - and sentiments. )

GIF Meme: ( Read more... )

Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge ( Day 8 )

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Superwho: Supernatural and Doctor Who ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
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Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Thomas Fuller

I continue to be behind in everything in my life, although I have an excuse for today, because today mom and I went windowshopping, although the intention was to go to the Goethe so I could sign up for a course but the secretary was closed and we didn't so much "go windowshopping" as "go into shops and fail to find anything that wasn't hideous", which is why we got home late and watched Castle (2x01) and then I tried to catch up on the flist and by then I just was too tired to do anything at all and anyway it was too late in the night so here I am.

Also, run on sentences.

I hope to have photos to post tomorrow (they're uploading!) but for now, Imma gonna go and watch The Daily Show's last Thursday episode. For greater justice.


Quote of the Day: greygirlbeast (Caitlin R. Kiernan), here

I'm on manuscript page 162. But, even as I begin this seemingly marvelous progress, the insecurity mounts. The fear that I'm not even half smart enough to write this book, and that there's no audience who wants to read a novel of this sort. I have begun heavily second guessing the reader.

Fuck the so-called wisdom of writing workshops, of instructors, and fuck all that shit about reader/writer contracts. This sort of anxiety is poisonous to good fiction. One does not write for an audience, unless one only wishes to pander. One writes. The worth of a novel is not determined by the opinions of those who read it, collected and averaged to yield an objective rating that may be expressed in stars given and stars withehld. It's all a lonely mess. The book's "worth" lies in the mind of the author, and in the mind of each reader. Each is alone with the book, and everyone who reads it is subject to their own unique experience. Nothing is generally true. That said, I sit and try to just let Imp speak and tell her story, but I begin to hear the complaints to come. The shitty Amazon and blog "reviews" it may receive in 2012. These things shouldn't occur to me, and certainly they shouldn't give me a moment's pause, but they do. "It takes forever before anything actually happens." "It's slow." "It rambles." And so on and on and on and so forth.

Links of the Day:
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Sherlock: ( Read more... )
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Random: ( Read more... )


* Goethe

Chances are I'll finish Nanowrimo this weekend \o/ And I know what scene I'm going to finish it with! (Even though I don't quite know how I'm going to end it.) Basically, there's just some Comfort to balance out all the Hurt and a little dream sequence of a Happy Ending, because they sure as hell ain't getting it in real life. Fictional life. Whatev'.

In other news, there's been no Castle, Grey's Anatomy or, I'm assuming, Supernatural to squee over this week. Damned Thanksgiving Week hiatus!

Also, I was listening to the audio of Misha's panel at the Asylum Convention, and for the first ten minutes I had to fight my brain. It kept telling me I was listening to Patrick Dempsey (i.e McDreamy) instead of Misha (i.e. McSnarky or just plain McAwesome). This was very distracting and strange and it doesn't help that I still think they do sound alike.

This has left me with the strange desire to rewatch Blonde, "the perv edition" (i.e. the heavily edited-down version with only the This Is relevant to My Interests clips left in), with Patrick Dempsey and Jensen Ackles as Marylin Monroe's simultaneous (douchebag) lovers. You can see why fans would want the perv edition ;)


Quote of the Day polikia22u, here

Look at your comment, now back to mine. Now back at your comment. Now back to mine. Sadly it isn't mine, but if you stopped trolling and started posting legitimate comments it could look like mine. Look down, back up. Where are you? You're scrolling through comments, writing the comment your comment could look like. What did you post? Back at mine. It's a reply saying something you want to hear. Look again the reply is now diamonds. Anything is possible when you think before you post. I'm on a horse.

Meme - Very Good Taste's 100 Foods Everyone Should Try ( Read more... )

Meme - Let's Talk About Stories (aka. ask me stuff!) via lienne ( Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 39 - If you were a director who you would like to direct (Jared or Jensen) and what kind of movie? ( Read more... )

( Excerpt )

46749 / 50000 words. 93% done!


Links of the Day:
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Human Target: ( Read more... )
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The Walking Dead: ( Read more... )
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Random: ( Read more... )


* emerald_embers, Livejournal Subtitle

There are some things about DVD bundles that make me wish I had a) money to burn and b) access to ways I could burn that money to get shiny things. Some episodes in Supernatural, for example, make me yearn for a chance to listen to commentaries.

Unfortunately, apart from tracy_loo_who's detailed flailings, I haven't been able to find anything on Kripke, Singer and Edlund's The End commentary. I've googled and tag-haunted until my fingers fell off, and nothing. I'm this close to contacting stir_of_echoes, who was fantastic enough to transcribe the commentary for What is and What Should Never Be but I'm scared of coming off as crazy or demanding or whatnot. So can anyone offer any help on that?

You know what else is bothering me by being all "na na!" non-attainable? (No, it isn't any of the boys of Supernatural, because there has to be at least the illusion of attainability for there to be cause for the "na na!" dance.) It's this podbook and its MP3. I've downloaded both of them, but I can't get them to open. Winzip keeps saying "cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive" and WinRAR says "the archive is either in unknown format or damaged". Now, I've downloaded both files a number of times, so I know they're getting in alright, so I don't know. Is this happening to anyone else? I'd just like to check before I go all "waaah, I cannae get podbook!" to the audiofic archive.

...I'm wondering whether there's any community where I could pimp out my Devour picspam review. Just because it took so much time to put together... Must investigate further.


The Compliement Meme via lienne: ( Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 34 - Favorite hug? ( Read more... )

Video of the Day: Naixoa's The Doctor's Message :D ; Ella Fitzgerald's One-Note Samba - Scat Singing (1969) 0.0 ( Read more... )

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


* Naixoa's The Doctor's Message: Twenty Three Too Tah

Everything still status quo and as such, pointless to describe. Have some links before I drown in them.

The Steampunk Style Test: ( Read more... )

30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 11 – Your Favorite Season (Classic or New) ( Read more... )

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 11 - Your favorite quote ( Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 11 - Favorite motel room? ( Read more... )

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


* The Miranda Warning

Photographs! Because I promised phantmgreeneyes and seschat is all a-squee. And because I've been absolute shite at posting any for months and months, despite having wanted to. (They're just so much work! The choosing! The uploading! The coding! The fixing of code!)

( The Netherlands! Includes Amsterdam, Leiden, The Hague, Scheveningen and the Keukenhof tulip park! )

( Spain! Burgos, Barcelona, Cubelles and Hair! )

( Rome! )

( Risoul! The ski trip! )

Meme - 30 Days - Day 27 → This month, in great detail: ( Read more... )

3 Memes via marika_kailaya:

1. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their Livejournal.
2. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
3. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!

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When you see this, post a snippet from your works-in-progress.

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1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six/seven of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

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Links of the Day:
Lost: ( Read more... )
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Ashes to Ashes: ( Read more... )
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Random: ( Read more... )

* Anon. or uncredited

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:
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Nightmare on Elm Street (2010): ( Read more... )
Ashes to Ashes: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
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* Dan Castellaneta