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Oct. 13th, 2008


[info]cluegirl

Veterans of the Mortgage Wars -- aren't we all?

Attack of Banktron! Tatsuya's got a point there, y'know.

And on that note, so does my friend [info]whyy:
814,000,000,000,000 = 814 trillion payout to the businesses /  303,824,640 = 303 million July 2008 population Estimate per cia.gov / 2,679,177.04 = Per person in the USA. Trickle-UP would have worked better.

And from another friend, [info]jim000037,
For in a republic, who is "the Country"? Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. Who, then, is "the Country"? Is it the newspaper? is it the pulpit? Is it the school superintendent? Why, these are mere parts of the country, not the whole of it; they have not command, they have only their little share in the command. They are but one in a thousand; it is in the thousand that command is lodged; they must determine what is right and what is wrong; they must decide who is a patriot and who isn't.
Who are the thousand--that is to say, who are "the Country"? In a monarchy, the king and his family are the country; in a republic it is the common voice of the people. Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catch-phrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide on way, and that way be the right way accordng to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country--hold up your head. You have nothing to be ashamed of.

- "Papers of the Adam Family", Mark Twain

And more Food For Thought on the Finance Meltdown, from [info]indigotea.

I'm not wordspinning on this topic myself, because it makes me froth at the mouth, and go all capslocky, and then the cats start hiding under the furniture. It's bad for me, that kind of constant infuriation, so composing my own prose on it is something I avoid, on the sure knowledge that, as with my outrage over the criminal bungling of the disaster relief after Katrina, if I begin to talk about it, I'll never quite be able to stop ranting. I am just as outraged here -- moreso, seeing as how I'm one of the millions who, despite GOOD credit, and the ability to pay what I borrow, still can't get a loan to stop my house falling down before the winter hits. If they'd fucking given ME two million dollars, I'd have turned right back around and sunk that straight into the construction and mortgage industries, stat.

See? That's what I mean. Best not to get me started.

I'm gonna go listen to some smashy-screamy-stompy music now.
Y'all have fun, and don't get none on ya.

[info]slashpervert in [info]hpslash

FIC: To Give Everything (Harry/Draco, complete)

Title: To Give Everything
Authors: [info]slashpervert and [info]aveeno_baby
Betas: [info]brknhalo241, Mini Mouse, [info]asm614 and Indie.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: ADULT
Genre: Smut, Romance
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Length: 50,000 words (13 Chapters)
Warnings (Mark to Read): DH Spoilers. BDSM and Explicit M/M sex – oral, anal, rimming, felching, fisting, bondage, different kinds of spanking/whipping, D/s (top!Draco, bottom!Harry). (Characters in this fiction are adults.)
Summary: Draco finds The Room, a torture chamber in the Hogwarts dungeons and longs for someone to submit to him. Harry finds he needs that and more.
Notes: Post-DH, No Epilogue. Written for [info]azamir’s prompt and posted as part of the [info]hd_inspired “Back to School” Fest. Icon is based on THIS by [info]questofdreams.
Disclaimer: This is a non-commercial work of fan fiction intended for adult audiences only. No copyright infringement intended. (Full Disclaimer!)

On Livejournal:

To Give Everything

Author’s Notes on To Give Everything

On Insanejournal:

To Give Everything

Author’s Notes on To Give Everything

[info]cluegirl

In Just Seven Days, I Can Make You a Man...

Since several folks have asked about it, I'm posting pictures of our Wicker Man, along with a treatise on the symbolism that went into him, under the cut.

For those who have no interest, or no patience with Teh Witchy stuff, Just keep scrolling... )

[info]ragdoll

Another day, another dragon...or seven

Yeah, I know, I should post something more substantial, but there isn't much to say. So here I got spamming you with draconic goodness again...including an elusive silver egg.

Adopt one today! ***** Adopt one today! ***** Adopt one today!

and these guys all hatched!

clickety click for hatchlings )

Happy Canadian Thanksgibbon and/or Columbus Day to everyone. (And please don't give me grief about the politically incorrectness of Columbus Day -- I know, I know, but as a New Yorker, it's mostly a day off for Italian Pride and a big parade and good sales!)

[info]sweetmelodykiss

The brood

Thanks for all the clicks yesterday. I think a few of the babies are almost ready to mature. I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Please click my babies )

[info]tekoki in [info]addme

NAME: Katie
AGE: 18
INTERESTS; music, films, being random, japanese, graphics, photo's...
HOBBIES; Singing, dancing, taking photo's, being with my girls, updating my journal
LOOKING FOR; I am looking for people with the same interests as me (obvisously), people who will read my journal and I don't expect everyone to comment to every entry, as long as they seem interested in my entries then that's fine with me...I always comment if I have something to say.
ANYTHING ELSE; Comment to my FO page please, also to see everything that I like then lookat the info.
Click the cut to see a picture of me! )

[info]andwhenwespeak in [info]tv_100

prompt #61

Prompt #61 is metamorphosis .

Stories must be between 100 and 250 words and should be focused on a TV fandom. Happy drabbling!

Oct. 12th, 2008


[info]alwaysasnapefan

The Consequences of Bursting In

NC-17 Becky goes down to the lair to tell Merton something, but is stopped by the sight of Tommy and Merton together.
Warnings: Underage self-rubbing.


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[info]snarklyboojum in [info]lupin_snape

Snupin soundtrack update

I told myself I wasn't going to do this. I said I was done, finished. But I'll be damned if a trip to the library and five months later I haven't done it again.

Just a brief note to let everyone know I've uploaded a lot of new songs to the Snupin Soundtrack and Music Exchange on gmail. There's no particular order to the uploads and, looking back, I think I may have gone a bit overboard. Again. Twenty-four songs, in fact, making my contribution a total of 57 tracks...out of 106 in the account. Yikes.

Cut for download information, tracklist, and random chatter. )

If you have any thoughts about the songs or want to add your own to the mix, please, don't hesitate to comment. :)

[info]bethbethbeth in [info]snape100

Challenge #251: Snape Laughs

(Remember: drabble prompt posts now appear on livejournal and insanejournal)

Challenge #251: Snape Laughs What does it take to get Snape to laugh? Not just smile or grin or smirk, but really laugh? Your challenge this week is to write a drabble in which Snape, for whatever reason, actually laughs.

[info]elwing_alcyone in [info]death_note

FIC: Destiny

Title: Destiny
Rating: G
Fandom: Death Note
Warnings: Spoilers past chapter 84, or episode 32
Character / Pairing: Kiyomi Takada; mentions of Light/Kiyomi
Word count: 622
Summary: Kiyomi did not believe in destiny.

Link to my IJ
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[info]alwaysasnapefan

3 Tommy/Merton icons


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[info]bronze_ribbons

very belated terminus picspam; squidderifficness; rec; randomness

Now that I've finished bleeding words through my forehead my deathmatch with the most recent albatross, I can finally deal with some photos that've been sitting on my hard drive since mid-August(click images to view larger versions). Dodgy quality (they're from my cellphone) but good memories...

Chicago - so full of yay! )

squids! )


The rec:
Trubbleclef's A Simple Misunderstanding. Neville/Harry, NC-17, 3187 words, discussion of watersports, Luna being awesome, funny.



The randomness (because I have got to stash this somewhere, because I am going to want to look this up again, but heaven knows why): there was an article in the New York Times this morning about people whose relatives' ashes are in Yankee and Shea Stadiums,... Read more... )

[info]cluegirl

Things Overheard at the Wicker Man Build...

*[info]cluegirl: "Honey, we're going to the graveyard to get some brains. Be back soon!"
[info]aquila_dominus: "Okay, see ya when you get back!"

*[info]cluegirl: "Oh dear... all my wicker man bits are under the lumber pile. I hate when that happens!"

*[info]dodging_fate: "Yeah, tie that off. It'll hold better with rope."
[info]aquila_dominus: "Everything's better with rope."

*[info]dodging_fate: "What a happy face those clippers have!"

*[info]cluegirl: "It's not his fault he's awkward; he's got a stick up his arse!"
[info]aquila_dominus: "He's got a stick FOR his arse!"
[info]cluegirl: "Okay, he is a bit anal retentive..."
[info]dodging_fate: "Or anal resentive..."

*[info]dodging_fate: "Hey, Dominus, will you hand me the intestines? I've got a good spot to dangle them from."
[info]aquila_dominus, with a bow: "Your dangling intestines."

*[info]cluegirl: "This is the heart. It's full of wormwood, rue, and rosebriar twigs... don't squish it."

*[info]botia: "Do you have any sage? If I'm going to wrap the government around this penis, I'll need to smudge my hands afterward."

*[info]cluegirl: "We can too give him an arsehole -- we've got corncobs!"

* [info]cluegirl: "Yeah, that's me; the rebel without a clue."
[info]aquila_dominus: "No dear, you're the rebel with the clue-by-four."

*[info]dodging_fate: "I gave him a perfectly adequate schlong, put down those clippers!"

*[info]cluegirl: "Hey guys, look! I think I just found his head -- I'd forgotten that was even IN there!"

*[info]dodging_fate: "Are you shoving it in his arse?"
[info]cluegirl: "No, I'm shoving it in his ...side!"

*[info]cluegirl: "Dodging_fate>, could you provide some upward thrust here? I don't quite have the leverage..."
[info]dodging_fate: "I got your upward thrust right here, baby!"
[info]aquila_dominus: "I've got the twine!"

*[info]cluegirl, upon being offered the scissors by Botia's husband: "S'ok, I like to use my teeth. It's a thing with me..."

*[info]cluegirl: "Hey Dominus, could you find me something nice and whippy in there please?"
[info]aquila_dominus: "I can do whippy!"

*[info]cluegirl: "Okay, I think he's done. Get the picture."
[info]dodging_fate: "Wait, turn him around, that's his backside. I can tell from the prolapsed rectum."
[info]cluegirl: "Oh, it's all about the prolapsed rectum with you, isn't it?"

And on that note...

Goodnight, boys and girls!
*MMMMWAH!*

Oct. 11th, 2008


[info]alwaysasnapefan

My Babies -- Thanks for all the clicks, my sexy flist!

Adopt one today!
Adopt one today! Peppermint Pat
Adopt one today! CSnap Dragon (typo lol! ah well)
Adopt one today!
Adopt one today!
Adopt one today!
Adopt one today!

[info]veleda_k

Snagged from [info]dancing_serpent

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now (even if we don't speak often or ever), please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your IJ and see what your friends come up with. (Or don't, if you'd rather not. No skin lost, either way.)
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[info]doomslay in [info]addme

NAME: nicole
AGE: 15
INTERESTS; music, photography. i like a lot of stuff..i just can't name all of them off the top of my head right now. favorite bands if it matters are from first to last (before during and after sonny so no sonny hating), the pink spiders, 3oh!3, my american heart, the dresden dolls and bring me the horizon.
HOBBIES; photography, going to shows, cosmetology, anything to do with music really.
LOOKING FOR; i could care less just don't be a complete dumbass and it would be great if you didn't rag on the bands i like because that's one way to for sure get on my bad side.
ANYTHING ELSE; i'm generally a nice person i just come off as a bitch but in general i can get along with anyone, no doubt.

[info]sweetmelodykiss

Help! Abandoned Egg needs Clicks!

It hatched! Woot!

Read more... )

[info]cluegirl

Recruitment Officer for the USS Make Shit Up...

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now,(even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with. (*Or don't, if you'd rather not. No skin lost, either way.*)

In other news, I am wasted today! Stayed up way too gdmf late last night, reading passable fanfic. I hate when that happens -- you know, when a story is really flawed, and in many ways, and it's like 44 bloody chapters long, and the writing is so self-indulgent and draggy that you find yourself scanning whole chapters at a time, because once the author's set up her ships, she just hits the same note with them over and over and over, in only slightly different phrasing, but there's still at least a decent plot buried under it all, but to keep hold of the thread of it, you have to wade through proseflab up to the chest, and it's late, and you haven't done anything but read all day long, and it's REALLY late, and you've given yourself a headache from all the reading, and you really want to go to sleep and stop doing this to yourself, but you keep reading even though you KNOW the author is only yanking your chain, isn't really going to kill the character she's given the horrid physical trauma, emotional torture, psychological breakdown, and incurable disease and put into a gloriously angsty coma, because it has all the hallmarks of a Star Trek godbox ending, which you can see from a mile off, but goddamn it, you've been reading this thing all fucking DAY, and you'll be blowed if you'll stop two fucking chapters shy of the end, even though you could probably quote the end already without reading it because the writing's so fucking predictable it makes you roll your eyes right out of your head, and anyway you probably couldn't sleep with your neck cramping like that, and oh great, the GodBox ending happened just as you were expecting, but OFFSCREEN, goddamnit, and what kind of literary sadist drags readers through that much just to fix everything offscreen, like she's bored of the whole thing and just wants it over with, because if that's the case, then just bloody KILL HIM! DUDE! Richenbach Falls ring a bell?

Erm. Sorry.
Did I mention I'm really really tired today?
Went to bed sometime after 2 and before 3. Not used to that anymore. I was so wasted I slept all night with a heating pad under my neck, and it's still sore and ricketty today, so I'm not feeling the least bit charitable toward what was clearly a learning experience for the author. Her errors are all 'beginner's' errors, and having made most of those myself at one time or another, I should be kinder... but godDAMN, my neck hurts. And I really want to knock gently against the wall the head of the reccer on who's page I found the link. (Not one of my regulars, I remember that, but I can't for the life of me recall beyond that.)

The worst problem was that the plot really did have such potential, and if cleaned up, tuned up, and tightened with an experienced hand, the story really could have been good... but the Mary Sue factor ran really deep, and the level of H/C was so constant that it became a bit farcical at times. Some characters were given complete personality transplants, while others were viewed through funhouse mirrors that accentuated either their best, or worst aspects to clownish proportions. But even with all that, I could still see the potential -- I knew I'd need to see where the plot wound up, despite having to wade through odd-looking characters and dragging prose. Only the writing was bad enough that if I'd walked away from it and slept, I'd have realized the depth of my distaste the following morning, and just closed the window down, and then... well, then I'd have to wonder, wouldn't I? I'd have to wonder whether the author's instinctive but untrained feel for the plot actually pulled her nose up at the last minute, or did she crash headlong into the lower end of mediocrity? And if I stayed up and just READ the damned thing, then I'd not spend the time on wondering.

*Sigh.*
I know; there are drug treatments for OCD behavior like this, and I really should look into them.

One good thing's come of all this now though; I feel ever so much better about my own skills at characterization, plotcrafting, and storytelling. I mean I write long, yeah, but not flabby. And for some reason the hours I wasted yesterday have inspired me to sit down today and just Do Better!
So it's off to Tempus Fugitive for the day -- at least once I've got my WickerMan's heart and brain and stomach sewn up and ready for when the others come this afternoon. (It isn't Oz, but you can call me the Witch so long as you don't want me to give you a ride home or anything.)
Peace out, all!

P.S. About the aforementioned fic? Don't ask me the author or title, okay? Because it would really be harsh to point fingers like that, and I know how hurtful it is to stumble across your fic being trashed by someone you consider an inspiration. A BNF did that to me, my first year in fandom, and it really hurt, because I totally looked up to her, and so I don't want to do that to anybody else now. And anyway, to tell the truth, I've overwritten the memory cells that had recorded the title and author, so I couldn't tell you now without going and looking it up. Which I can't do, because I deleted the bookmark when I finished scanning through the final chapter last night. (No, I didn't actually read it, just scanned to verify that I really had known where it was going and how it would get there. Alas.)

And anyway; life's too short to read bad fiction! Go read something great instead.

[info]ozma914

The Innocense Test

Your result for The Innocence Test...

Tarnished

Your score was ### out of a possible 56.

You have a bad side. Oh yes. You just don't like to show it all that often. Saving your naughty streak for special occasions is often the best thing to do, but be warned - while a lot of people will be pleasantly surprised (aroused, even) to discover your hidden talents, some might be shocked and think they've been misled. Losers.



You've got a great balance of good and bad. You won't be labelled a troublemaker by anybody (teachers, parents, bouncers, police officers) but you know how - and when - to let rip and have fun. Nice one.

Take The Innocence Test at HelloQuizzy

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