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RL is kicking my ass right now. Mostly in good ways (though my uterus can GTFO), but it's frustrating because I have a lot of fannish thoughts happening, and I need to write some fic, and argh, no time, no time. I did, however, sneak off to see the J.J. Abrams movie on Thursday, and since I've had a number of PMs and emails asking me what I thought, I will say this. For the most part, I agree with this review by liviapenn 100%, both good and bad.

The funny thing, though, is that my baseline reaction wasn't related to any of that. It wasn't really about the movie at all. It was about me, and my relationship to Star Trek, and to the Kirk and Spock I fell in love with when I was 12. And it comes down to this.

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I agree with everything that liviapenn says, and yet, for me, it's this simple reversal that's the telling thing. It was the first part (Spock's parents) that got me with the first movie, and it's the second part that got me with this one. For me, it comes down to my inner 12-year-old—what can I say?

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Okay, I had a huge, huge salad from the salad bar for lunch today. Tons of fresh greens, some smoked turkey, a tiny bit of ranch dressing, and hummus. Etc. Man, it was good, snarfed the whole thing down.

So now I am somewhat ill. I have really, really bad diarrhea. Like, yeah, enough that at this point I've got blood going on along with everything else.

Could be the greens, lettuce, etc. Sometimes those steamroller right through me. I confess I have not had this happen nearly to this degree. So I'm growing a little concerned that there was some form of contamination on those greens.

Not sure yet, and it sure would be fast for this to be cross-contamination. I have a feeling it's just that my gut doesn't do so well with raw greens. But I'm a little concerned here. Also feeling really not so great. Drinking a lot of water and hoping for the best here.

But I LIKE salad. Grrr.

Challenges
sga_icontest: Banners - Challenge 339
mcshep_icontest: Banners - Challenge 339
mcshep_icontest: Reminder - Challenge 340
sga_icontest: Reminder - Challenge 340

Fanfic Het
amycat8733: Lightning Strikes - 24 (John/Teyla) [T]
amycat8733 Lightning Strikes - 25 (John/Teyla) [T]

Fanfic Slash (McKay/Sheppard)
aadarshinah: Exsul - 3/? (Ancient!John/Rodney) [PG]

Fanart
ileliberte: Art: SGA, Teyla, Mucha-style redux [G]

Screencaps
daily_mcshep: THE SIEGE PART 3
hewlett_daily: Stargate Atlantis Season Three cont'd
daily_flan: Wet Shep....Rowr!
lizabeth_daily: 4x10 - This Mortal Coil
sparky_daily: 4x10 - This Mortal Coil

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Savory. Oatmeal.

Mind is blown. Cannot wait to try.

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One Shots
[x] Anonymous: Customizing Traditions [NC-17]
[x] Babygray: Love's Umbrella [T] Chan
[x] drarryxlover: I Want To Marry You [NC-17]
[x] emynn: The Consequences of Conferences [R]
[x] pekeleke: May Day Mayday [NC-17]
[x] writcraft: As Time Goes By [PG-13] Unrequited Severus/Lily, non-explicit Severus/Albus Dumbledore, suggestions of future Severus/Harry

Works In Progress
[x] Dinkel: In the Red has posted Chapters 9-11/? [Unrated]
[x] sheankelor: A Snowball's Chance Chapter 1 [PG-13]
[x] sheankelor: The Time is Right Chapter 24 [M]
[x] sheankelor: The Time is Right Chapter 25 [M]

Drabbles And Ficlets
[x] alisanne: Conference Agenda [PG-13]
[x] alisanne: Open to Possibilities [PG]
[x] gin_tonic: A different kind of Happiness [PG-13]
[x] lilyseyes: Professional Courtesy [NC-17]
[x] sheankelor: Trading Skills [G]
[x] torino10154: Matchmaking 101 [R]

Art And Icons
[x] Adiholm: Snarry [Unrated] WS
[x] Kunguru: Chibi Harry and Snape [Unrated] WS
[x] Princeusagi: Soul for Two [Unrated] WS

Miscellaneous
[x] laloonay: Is Looking For Starkindler Snarry fics
[x] snarry100: Has Issued Challenge 371 - Atmosphere

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Still a couple of eps behind, but this show is definitely helping to soothe (though not fill) the Fringe-shaped hole in my heart. Clones ("we've got to find a different word for that"), mystery, and mayhem. By the end of this, the lead actress might rival Anna Torv in number of character variations played. Really enjoying it so far!

And it's also a game of spot-the-Canadian-actor: one of the detectives is Bo's mom on Lost Girl.(Considerably less crazy, at least to date.)
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This issue covers May 17th in crossover fandom.

All fan fiction has been listed at least twice, once for each fandom represented in the story. Some links are for stories off Live Journal. As the list is very long, a lj cut has been implemented. Enjoy!

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• Actors and Movies:
  Emma Watson graces the cover of 'W' magazine
  Emma Watson promotes "The Bling Ring" at Cannes Film Festival press events, premiere
  Evanna Lynch talks Harry Potter as Western Washington University guest speaker
  Video: Daniel Radcliffe talks "The Cripple of Inishmaan" on The Graham Norton Show
  Videos: Emma Watson in first clips for "This is the End" & "The Bling Ring"
  
  
• Challenges:
  hp_beholder posted the 2013 Anonymous Master List
  nextgenbigbang has started posting.
  serpentinelion posted a reminder for the 2013 H/D Glomp Fest.
  
  
• Communities:
  daisychain_drab posted a poll.
  hprare_cliche posted a mod announcement.
  
  
• Hot Rec:
  How Auror Potter Finally Solved the Most Important Mystery of His Career by fantasyfiend09 (Harry/Draco, NC-17)
  
  
• News:
  Pottermore is ‘blazing their own trail’ in eBook sales strategies
  
  
• Nifty:
  Throwback: J.K. Rowling’s website reveals handwritten spreadsheet for ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’
  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone early edition shows bear as Hufflepuff sign
  
  

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tl;dr: If you're interested in and able to contribute to a scholarship fund to help worthy undocumented H.S. students attend college, please click on the International Dreamers fund and make a donation!

Longer version: You guys will know that I don't post a lot of personal stuff here, but you see, I have this sister. (I know! I'm full of surprises!) Anyway, I am posting because my sister is a completely awesome person (much better than me in almost every way.) (Those of you who know me, picture my sister as me if I were, like, incredibly laid back and played bass guitar in a surf band. I know, you can't picture it, but I got all the nervous energy and she got all the musical talent.)

Anyway, my sister teaches at the International School, which is currently trying to raise money for college scholarships for undocumented students. The International School is an amazing place that exclusively serves recent immigrants to NYC from, literally, all over the world: my sister has students from Yemen, from Senegal, from Haiti, Gabon, Tibet--they are so amazing that the NYT did an article on them and Angelina Jolie was so moved by the article that she apparently was looking to tell their story in a movie. My fantastic and incredibly chilled out baby sister is always reading thick tomes about the culture and history of all these different parts of the world so she can literally understand who her students are and where they're coming from. It's incredibly incredibly challenging teaching because many of these students have absolutely no education from their own countries and aren't literate in their native languages, but here they are in New York City and they're 14 and so into school they go. These teachers are CRAZY HEROES.

And sometimes teachers and students working together manage to overcome these amazing challenges and these students get into college, sometimes really selective colleges-- but here's something they can't overcome: because of federal restrictions, undocumented students aren't eligible for any financial aid. So after all this work, some of them can get into college but can't pay for it!

So if you're in a place to donate to charity, please consider the International Dreamers fund! It's a worthy cause! End of PSA!

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Hi!
I'm looking for slash stories of mid-to-long length (>10K) with a heavy focus on pining of character A for character B and a happy ending. Long courtship/UST, basically. I'm not particularly big on action-based stories (as in, half or more of the story is describing meetings/firefights/war strategy). Just about anything else goes; AU or not, any kink, etc. = all ok. Any mix of the characters: rodney, John, Radek, ronon welcome.

thanks!

Are there fics with McCoy's ex-wife's reaction after the Reboot movie? So fics where they meet again, and Bones is successfull/happy/dating Jim Kirk.

Maybe it's a long shot, as I haven't found any fics like that yet... if you do, please toss it my way :]

I'm trying to figure out how I generally enjoyed a movie when I intensely disliked most of the major plot.

dammit JJ


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Sometimes, they say, when it's a quiet night and you open hailing frequencies, you can hear the faint echoes of a great fannish civilization lurking somewhere out in the depths of space. They say it's a myth. They're wrong.

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Fandom: NARUTO
Pairing: Sai/Yamato
Length: 3 chapters, 14,181 words
Author on LJ: tj_dragonblade
Author Website: Their LJ profile has a convenient index of all the various sites and what can be found on them.
Why this must be read: This pairing never occurred to me before reading this fic. I must salute the author, because they made me believe it! Sai is very much his direct and unknowingly awkward self as he goes after Yamato, who does his best to be responsible even as he progressively isn't. ^^ This fic could easily have turned squicky or trite, but I quite like how the author handled it, and wrote one of my fave first-time fics ever. Nice! Warning: graphic sex. [set after a fanon ending to the war]

Intentions and Intoxications by TJ_Dragonblade

I hope , he never will loose his weigth again...

The fandom's been dormant for years, they say. Sometimes, they say, when it's a quiet night and you open hailing frequencies, you can hear the faint echoes of a great fannish civilization lurking somewhere out in the depths of space. They say it's a myth. They're wrong.

This week, with an explosion of light and sound and fic, the fandom returned full-force. In the face of this new and daunting era, lone explorers at the fringes of Federation space find themselves drifting, vainly searching out the communities and friendships and crews that'll boldly go with them through this chaos. To help facilitate that transition, we've established a central outpost here for these wanderers to meet and interact for the first time.

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I opened my laptop this morning and kept getting an Internal Server Error 500 when I tried to load Dreamwidth, but downforeveryone kept telling me the site was up! Even though I couldn't get it to work in Firefox or Chrome, and there was nothing on the DW Twitter to indicate the site was actually down. So I closed the laptop and watched the season finale of Elementary instead.

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Now I can go read all the posts I bookmarked yesterday morning and take Elementary out of my Tumblr Savior.

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