Beneath the cut is a list of all of the fanfiction that I have posted in one of several places - sometimes more - on the 'net. Usually Dreamwidth (formerly on my LiveJournal), at my website, or over on the AO3's Archive of Our Own. I've linked to all three of those if a work is posted at all three, otherwise, only to the ones where it lives.

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specifically for foxfirefey - why does the DW expand/collapse/hide script not work if you have a 'sticky' post?

if I knew more about code, I could probably figure it out, but I do not know code, so it is a question. XD

btw - I totally love this script - it's like my fave greasemonkey script ever! *g*

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Or - how I spent my lunch hour+...

So, go to lunch, have food, get ready to leave and 'click' - car won't start. Fail. *sadface* Cue up calls to work - to tell them I'll be late getting back - and to co-worker for jumping the car and making sure car makes it to auto parts place. New battery all in - drive away fine.

Not the worst that could happen. Dead batteries are easy to fix - at least in semi-populated areas.


lunch hour became lunch hour and forty minutes. *sigh* So, I stayed a little late at work to make up for it.


Other things -

So, ye olde conglomerates what controls broadcast programs and things - if you want ppl to not have to do things like download stuff off the interwebs, MAKE THOSE THINGS AVAILABLE VIA THE INTERWEBS.

Example: NHL All-Stars skills competition that aired tonight. Apparently, it was only available via cable TV. This means anyone w/o the means to purchase cable TV wasn't able to watch it. I mean, was there a good reason not to stream it online for people to see?

Now, the All-Star game is on network TV tomorrow, but I don't know if it'll be streamed or not. I'm almost guessing not. To which I say - NBC!Fail. Why not? How do you hope to gain viewership if parts of the viewership can't VIEW the program?


On the All-Star bit... I'm not a fan of the 'changes' they've made. Fans voting for the players, fine. This 'fantasy draft' thing? Not loving it. I liked the old East vs. West. It was simple. It was nice. It was fun. I kinda didn't mind the North America vs. The World set-up, except that the few years they did it, 'North America' was 'Mike Modano + Canada', but whatev. XD

I don't know what the 'skills' are anymore other than 'fastest skater' and 'hardest shot'. They change it periodically. I am glad they got rid of the 'goalie scoring' thing, b/c that was just weird.

Also - I miss ESPN/2 having NHL stuff - b/c it was at least aired. But, anyway - I don't have cable at all anymore, so it's irrelevant in any case.

Can I haz my hockey nao? Plz?

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So, the OTW's most recent link round-up post [http://otw-news.dreamwidth.org/116102.html] was about female sports fans. That's totally cool - except that I kind of have an issue with lumping 'sports fans' and 'people in sport fandom' into the same bucket b/c I don't think they're the same thing (and I'll explain why later).

And what I'm gonna mention here had nothing to do with their links, the links just got me thinking when one of the stories was about buying awesome sports gear. Why why why why WHYTHEEVERLOVINGFUCK do merchandisers think that female fans of sports or a team or a player need to have goddamned PINK jerseys/t-shirts/whatever? WHY? Like a chic-fan can't totally love the, oh, I don't know, ACTUAL COLORS for the team!

Seriously, I do NOT want a fucking PINK Dallas Stars hockey jersey with ANY of the players' names on it. Why? B/c their goddamned colors are GREEN, GOLD and BLACK - with a bit of white sometimes. NO PINK. Not one lick of pink!

There is totally an exception clause for Breast Cancer Awareness, but that is IT!

There should NOT be an all-pink jersey. That's silly. And no, don't make 'em kiddie-sized either. If the little girl in the family likes the team, let her wear the team colors. Don't tell her that b/c she's a girl she has to wear the 'girlie' hockey sweater, b/c none of the players are doing that, plus it's offensive and gender stereotyping and annoying.

Really, was there someone out there who wrote to sports merchandisers and said 'You know what sports needs? Pink stuff for girlz!'? Really? Did someone do that? Somehow, I don't think so. I think some moron marketing asshat said 'Hey, you know how we can get the girlfriends of these guys to come to the games and buy our shit? MAKE IT PINK! ALL GIRLS LOVE PINK!' Which, as 'girls' know, just ain't true. I hate pink. And I sure as hell don't want it on my sports stuff. (Again, Breast Cancer Awareness exception clause (TM)).

Now, maybe I'm a little 'girly' and watch some hockey for the hotness of the hotties, but I also love the game, I know the rules and what the positions are and other such mechanics that 'guys' would know. I can totally explain icing and off-sides. And, even tho I hate it with a passion, I can explain how the shootout works (and why I think it's bullshit). So, I am just as much a 'fan' of hockey as any 'guy' and those marketing assholes can fucking bite me with their goddamned pink shit.



Now, for the whole 'fan' vs. 'fandom' thing - this is all my POV, YMMV:

To me, being a sports fan and being part of sports fandom are 2 very different things. As a 'fan', I follow my fave teams and players and go to games and make pretty wallpapers from the photos I take and stuff. I have posters and hockey pucks and autographs and the like. I'm a fan of hockey and I collect things hockey and generally do 'fan' stuff. (Sometimes obsessively, which is why being 'obsessed' is not a fan vs. fandom distinction word.)

However, to be in 'sports fandom', to me, means going in a little different direction and writing fanfic and getting all into stuff like that, like I would for [H]ouse or MacGyver and stuff. This isn't a bad thing - people can do this type of thing if they want, but I don't.

It's the same for a TV show or a movie - I'm a fan of, say, Glee, but I'm not *in* the Glee 'fandom'. I don't get all up in the message boards and the fic and analyzing the show and chatting with people about the themes and arguing all sorts of things about it, b/c I'm just not that invested. However, I will roll all in the BtVS conversations and argue that Buffy treated Spike (and most of her BF's) like garbage and have all sorts of conversations and write fic and make icons and all that stuff.

* Being a Fan: watching and enjoying the show/program/hockey game/whatev and totally having of opinions about things, but not always uber!invested in discussing with the world
* Being in the Fandom: getting all up in that shit and throwing down with the best of 'em and making sure I'm all over the news and writing the fic and making the graphic things and all that

Maybe it's just me, but this is a pretty important distinction - both IRL and in internet social circle things too - and it kinda bugged me that the two are conflated in the links post. (Actually, they always are, no idea why today it bugged me more than others.) B/c it's like saying 'hey, if you're all uber!into this thing, we totally want your input on our super awesome wiki, but if you're just casually into it, we don't care so much'. And while that may not be what they're saying at all, it kind of came across to me that way when I read it tonight.

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and today's his birthday. So, Happy B-day to Mr. Richard Dean Anderson! =)

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If you wanna know kinda what's going on but don't really want to read through the umpteen pages of leagalese, synecdochic has written up a pretty good 'short version' here at her journal. Pretty much - MU shot themselves in the foot - a lot - by being complete asshats with shit for brains. No, really.

But it boils down to: MU is fucked. Period.

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Sorry, but gotta do this one -

Dear Glee -

Can you please stop choosing songs that make me want to tear my ears off? I mean, I can deal with a lot, but songs that have just nerve-grating irritants - like the one Artie sang for Will's proposal - need to go away. I had to fast-forward that whole part of the show b/c I just cannot deal with that song. The fucking *whistling* gets on my damned nerves like nothing else. So please - no more of these annoying songs. kthnx...


other than that - the episode was pretty typical of Glee.

and i haz to get ready for work nao.....

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almost finished with the book now and something else bugging me...

( in case anyone might consider this a spoiler )

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i hate being sick... i have infected tonsils, infected ears and icky sinus congestion - which leads to coughing and occasional sneezing. my ears are clogged - and some sounds are tinny because of this - for example, the JAG theme song, which i usually rather enjoy, sounded like it was playing through a piece of thin aluminum. so weird and a little painful.

i have drugs for these things, but they are not fast acting *sadface*

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ETA: okay - so, for some reason, images aren't loading inna post... *headscratch* should be good now


So, in my continued quest to have hockey dominate the sporting world (I'd use curling, but I know more about hockey *g*), I invited a co-worker to the local AHL game tonight (yesterday for anyone CST or after). We had really awesome seats - right behind the glass, right behind the bench - thanx to groupon.com! (yes, that's my referral link - feel free to sign-up!) =)

So, we grab a couple carbonated beverages of the non-alcoholic variety (I don't like beer and co-worker didn't like the offered choices) - oh, and we snagged the 'large' size, b/c the $1.00 size was 'just enough to piss you off' as co-worked stated. Seriously, it was like 3 shots worth of soda/beer in that cup. Disappointing as hell. Anyway - we walk down a fucktonne of stairs to our row - right behind the glass - and take up shop in our seats.

Directly in front of us is the home team bench and there stood this lovely pyramid of pucks:



I've got a lovely bunch of hockey pucks...



( a little image heavy, so behind a cut we go... )

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Stephen King's new book - 11.22.63 -( potentially spoilerish for the early parts of the book, I suppose )

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So, I've taken down what will probably be the last House, MD calendar I ever buy - unless the PTB for the show decide to bring Cameron back to a position that would put her back in the main cast (highly unlikely given her current role on OUaT).

Now I have the Dallas Stars as my calendar. XD Steve Ott is January.


Yes, this is the extent of my exciting post.

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Really, LJ, could you fail more?

Forget the part where Mark was stuck making the post of the ill-fated doom and the 9000 comments of screaming and displeasure - except the one 'ILU' person - and move on to the part where all the English-speaking users are being insulted in Russian by the idiots who designed that un-accessible eyesore of a comment page.

Fail moar as a business there, LJ.

Seriously, if the company I worked for tweeted that the customer-based was a bunch of morons who would just have to get used to whatever we gave them, we would for realz lose customers.

See, b/c in business, you can *think* those things all you want 'on the inside', but you don't SAY IT TO YOUR CUSTOMERS! Yes, your customers may be bumbling morons, but they are bumbling morons who GIVE YOU MONEY. And since 'money' is how you keep running as a business, insulting them is probably not the smartest move.


It sucks enough that LJ didn't listen to the comments from BEFORE this launched that no one wanted it, but that they've rolled it out with no regard for accessibility is a bit ridiculous. I don't know how well the old pages worked in that regard, as I am amazingly unfamiliar with the code, but it's surely failing miserably at it now.

imma go to bed now.....

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Dear LJ:

FAIL MOAR.

That is all.

FOADIAF,

H2

This brief missive brought to you by the letters: W. T. & F. As in WTF is up w/ their fucking update page? What *is* that font? And, is there a way to change it? I don't use LJ for much, but the few times that I do, I'd like to be able to, oh, IDK, USE the user interface, rather than type things in Word and paste into the fucked up interface of dooooooooooooom. *sigh*

This on top of their ridiculous 'u no can haz subjekt linez' b/s, is making me hateses them lots.

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#2

Dear Dallas Stars iPhone App:

STOP SUCKING and LOAD ALREADY! u fail!

kthnxbie,
H2

I don't know if it's been smoking the bad crack or if the code is just fucked, but it freezes and crashes A LOT. Which makes it rather useless for, oh, I dunno, following the game? *sigh again*

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On a slightly more positive note, Homestar Runner telling the audience to STFU before a movie, is pretty damned awesome! (Okay, it'd be more awesome if he actually said STFU, rather than 'be qwiet', 'shuts up', 'sewiously', but still... it's Homestar!)

So, yeah, Arthur Christmas - not a bad film. Kinda cute and not overly sappy and sugary. XD Plus - Hugh Laurie voice-acting, which is always awesome... except that one time it kinda wasn't, but I think that was early on in his career and - we won't talk about that one. =)

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what, you may ask? Um, the Boston Strangler having a SpyderCo knife of any kind - though props for using a lock-back rather than a liner lock. Why? may be the next question. Well, the Boston Strangler was strangling in the 1960's and SpyderCo wasn't founded until 1976.

This brought to you by an episode of American Gothic that had the 'ghost'/'spirit' of the Boston Strangler brought in to take out another 'ghost'/'spirit' b/c she was messing with Buck's plans.

hooray for having worked in a knife store... granted, I'm typically only really good at picking out certain brands - SpyderCo being one of the more distinctive brands given the signature 'thumb hole' on the blade for opening the knife. So, yeah, if you're gonna give a character a knife, make sure they'd actually be able to find that knife during the era in which they're from.

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( no idea of spoilers, but cut just in case )


the '+' part - (meaning 'more' in this case)

- the theatre we were was shows much cooler stuff than the commercial theatres before the movie (it also has servers and the like during the first part of the film and the BEST root beer ever)
-- we saw all sorts of Sherlock-related items, including:

• Jude Law reciting the lyrics to "Poker Face"


• The Great Mouse Detective clips


• clips from some bizarre Gene Wilder film


• clips from the BBC's Sherlock - which I told my friend was amazing and she needed to see it


• RDJ's Academy Award speech


• Jude Law on Sesame Street being 'clung to' by muppets (which looked a bit more like plushie-tentacle-pron, but *shrug*)


• clips from ST:TNG of Data and Geordi playing Sherlock and Watson

...so that part was at least fun. =)

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This is directed to the fucker who swiped my debit card #. No, really, U CANNOT HAZ MY MONIES!

( this took about 20 mins to clear up... )




and also... on a less rant-y note, help pick out Spike's carol for this year -> http://highlander-ii.dreamwidth.org/479155.html

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Each holiday season, those pesky carolers come to accost Spike with their songs. And each year, he tears them down. What are they going to sing for him this year?







Here's the list of the one's he's already shredded:

12 Days of Christmas
Winter Wonderland
Presents
The Christmas Song
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
We Wish You A Merry Christmas

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Give me a fandom and I'll reply with:

1. My favorite character.
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
3. My favorite character relationship, and by "relationship" I don't necessarily mean pairing and certainly not OTP, but on the other hand, depending on the fandom MAYBE I DO!
4. The moment/character/THING/WHATEVER that first hooked me on the fandom.
5. One of my favorite moments.
6. A song or track that reminds me of this fandom.
7. One miscellaneous awesome thing about the fandom.
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
9. One fic/essay rec, fanart, or fanvid that depending on the fandom I either had lovingly bookmarked or saved onto my hard drive, or only just now found during a two-minute Google search.

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The high for today (12.06.11) was closer to the 'normal' low. Someone please 'splain to my why the freakin' hell it is COLDER in South Central Texas than in South Western Virginia? (Though today they may have been neck-and-neck.) This is the stupid cold weather I was trying to get away from when I moved. Fuck this.

I read that it's actually *snowed* in El Paso. Seriously, Like - it hasn't even snowed in cold-ass places like Chicago yet. WTF Mother Nature? FAIL. Seriously. Much more of this and you're fired. Ugh!

I hate the freakin' cold. HATE IT. DO. NOT. WANT.

Yes, I will take 110* over 20*. I am so not kidding.



Edit: just b/c LJ's being an asshat and will xpost everything except this entry, here's a link to the only thing those on LJ might have missed: http://highlander-ii.dreamwidth.org/477383.html

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... Alex Zahara. [ imdb link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951912/ ]

No, seriously, I think we're gonna have to change the game from 'Kevin Bacon' to 'Alex Zahara'. B/c seriously, the guy's been on nearly everything filmed in Vancouver.

He was in at least 8 episodes of Stargate SG-1 - as 8 different characters. No, I'm not kidding. He was on Stargate Atlantis at least once (probably more than that - tho apparently uncredited... I'm pretty sure he was one of the wraith), Beggars and Choosers, The Sentinel and now he's on Once Upon a Time.

This isn't a bad thing - I love Alex Zahara. It just amused me. XD

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