I bet Heidi Klum never has this problem

skip=80!!

serialkarma — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:58:11 GMT

Liverjournal, I just got to skip=80 while backreading! I don't think that's happened since, like, 2010! You make me so happy!

Also, this thing of everybody posting once a day, or at least more often, is making ME want to post once a day or at least more often. I have been unexpectedly BUSY lately, though, so I'm not sure how likely that is to happen.

I DO want to tell you all about my lovely, relaxing, perfect (except for the minor travel snafu at that beginning) trip to New England to see misspamela and her family with linaerys last weekend, but I am still trying to get my photos from the trip off my phone. This apparently requires a device driver which my computer can't seem to find and which I don't have the wherewithal to track down on the Internet at this time of the evening.

(It might also have to do with the fact that today I have had lengua tacos, a Caesar salad involving anchovies and smoked quail eggs, and toast points with both chicken and duck liver and a fruit compote and MAYBE I should cut back on the rich food to, like, one of those at a time. Per week.)

Also, it would be GREAT if my period would get here already--see above, re: ridiculous amounts of rich fatty foods and also that I was re-reading Resonant's Transfigurations after eleanor_lavish reminded me of its existence the other day and I started getting teary over the fact that in this fic Bill Weasley (spoiler alert?) died fighting Voldemort IN THE BACKSTORY.

Okay, I am going to go chug some Pepto-Bismol and go to bed, I think.

Hello, livejournal! I've missed you!

In which I am domestic!

serialkarma — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:11:31 GMT

In the last three and-a-half hours I have:

--picked up my first CSA share
--washed, packed, and otherwise put all the vegetables (kale! lettuce! radishes! zucchini! spinach! peas! onions! scapes! cilantro! oregano! mint!) and eggs (1 dozen a week, this could get...eggy) away
--made dinner consisting almost entirely of CSA veggies
--made these for dessert/snacks
--put down a new rug (pictures later)
--did (most of) the dishes
--taken out ALLLLL the trash
--washed my kitchen floor

I seem to be channeling brooklinegirl and mrsronweasley.

Aaaand now there is nothing on TV. ...I suppose I could watch X-Men: First Class for the third time this week.

How are all of YOU anyway?

Hmmm.

serialkarma — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:34:45 GMT

I seem to be living in a mirror universe, since I am apparently the only person in fandom who like Star Trek Into Darkness a LOT and was terribly disappointed by Iron Man 3.

It's weird over here, trust me.

serialkarma — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:02:43 GMT

If the Internet is so great and everything, why is there not a Lizzie Bennet Diaries-style AU of Captive Prince?

Explain to me that.

Vikings!

serialkarma — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:18:55 GMT

And they are all so hot.

I think I need lots more modern-day AUs, right now.

Teen Wolf

serialkarma — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 02:20:07 GMT

So I was home sick today and took that as the universe's way of telling me to finish watching S2 of Teen Wolf. And like I said, I'm sick, so this is probably less filtered than it otherwise would be, so please understand, but I have to say: Derek/Stiles? Where did THAT come from? I do not see it at all, I think all you people are smoking something, seriously.

Jackson, on the other hand. Jackson clearly needs, well, a master. Why are there not a zillion fics about THAT out there? Are there? There must be some, I mean come on. Please point me to them if you know of any.

okay, fine

serialkarma — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:31:19 GMT

Tony/Bruce recs anyone? Anyone? I am interested. Finally.

ARGH

serialkarma — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 04:53:20 GMT

OMG, Avengers fic writers: Steve Rogers is NOT a PACIFIST.

Even if all you know about Captain America is from movie canon, I think it's PRETTY CLEAR that he is not a conscientious objector who was drafted, conscripted, press-ganged, or otherwise forced into joining the military and then experimented on through no choice of his own.

He BROKE THE LAW in order to try and enlist in the army. He is NOT A PACIFIST.

Test, test, this is only a test

serialkarma — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:02:34 GMT

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New York/Northeast people!

serialkarma — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:03:25 GMT

Are you all okay? How did you weather the storm?

It's still incredibly windy here in Brooklyn, and there were apparently two deaths in my neighborhood from a falling tree this morning, but we never lost power or Internet--never have I been so grateful to live in a neighborhood with buried power lines.

Argh

serialkarma — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:11:57 GMT

OMG, people writing Avengers fic, PLEASE do an American-pick. Nobody from the United States calls it petrol, NOBODY. And Tony Stark is pretty indisputably American.

Okay, Supernatural

serialkarma — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 03:00:40 GMT

I am in for another season. For one thing, Benny getting up to in purgatory besides slaughter? I mean, seriously. That's not just me, right?

Also Sam and a dog! I'm happier for him about the dog than about him finding a girl.

WOW

serialkarma — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:17:57 GMT

You know those words that will pull you out of a perfectly good sex scene like the cane that yanks Bugs Bunny off-screen? I just discovered the mother of all buzzkill words:

lubriciously

Yes, exactly. Use that in a sentence, TRY and see if you can remain in the moment. JUST TRY IT. I bet you can't.

LUBRICIOUSLY. OMG. Excuse me, I have to go weep for my mother tongue now. Lubriciously, even.

Suits finale

serialkarma — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:51:01 GMT

Wait, wait, I think I read this fic. And then Harvey and Mike make out, right?

MULDER WHAT?

serialkarma — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:38:57 GMT

Okay, wait. Can we all please go back to 1996 for just a minute and talk about how MULDER AND SCULLY ARE SHACKING UP PLEASE?

I don't even know what to do with this news. I am so long out of X-Files fandom it's not even a dust cloud in my rearview mirror, but SERIOUSLY. WHAT IS THIS. I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

Suits. Again.

serialkarma — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:03:41 GMT

Suits might be the first show I've watched where I just want everybody to have sex together all at once, while wearing their, you know, suits. Damn.

Also, hi, I got stuck in the elevator in my building tonight for 20 minutes. With the inner door halfway open so I could see the outer door TWO FEET ABOVE MY HEAD. Let's just say I have seen "It's a Terrible Life" one too many times for that to be in ANY WAY OKAY.

SUITS

serialkarma — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 05:33:15 GMT

Okay, seriously, that was one of the stronger season premieres I have seen in a looong time. Suits, how so awesome?

I don't think it's too spoilery to say my reactions pretty much boil down to "Omg, Harvey loves Mike SO MUCH! Jessica and Donna and Rachel are AMAZING. Omg, Harvey loves Mike SO MUCH no really, and can I please have all the fic with them and their particular awesome power dynamic that is hitting my buttons so hard now now now plz?"

WHAT

serialkarma — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 03:45:04 GMT

Universe, why am I not psychic? Why? Because if I was, I would have known that BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WAS AT CONEY ISLAND TODAY. While I was there. While I was there ALL DAY.

In a bikini, by the way, that makes me look like Wonder Woman. Or possibly She-Ra. WHATEVER IT WAS A HOT BIKINI AND I LOOKED AWESOME IN IT.

WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED OF THIS UNTIL TEN HOURS TOO LATE???

Huh

serialkarma — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:58:24 GMT

Okay, the trailer for Kripke's new series Revolution looks awesome and I will be all over it like white on rice.

BUT, does anyone else think the concept seems exactly like S.M. Stirling's the Change series?

Avengers

serialkarma — Sun, 06 May 2012 03:48:22 GMT

I saw it! I was not going to bother dealing with the crowds on opening weekend, but lyra_sena and her man were going so I ended up tagging along.

Non-spoilery thoughts: It was tons of fun, but my initial impressions from months ago were pretty much borne out. I think I am just not wired correctly to get all crazy excited about this movie.

Come July 20 and The Dark Knight Rises, and you will see a completely different reaction.

On the other hand, fine, everybody is right and Tom Hiddleston is a revelation. Loki was more interesting than pretty much all the Avengers combined except for the relationship/back story between Clint and Natasha. I would pay money to watch Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johansson beat each other up again. And fine fine fine, I will now watch Thor, fine.

Success!

serialkarma — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:11:02 GMT

So last night I made a bargain with myself that if I cleaned off my coffee table (which looked like this) that I could paint my nails with this nifty glittery nail polish I just bought.

So I did, and they looked

Then today I...

vaccuumed
mopped the floor in the kitchen
scrubbed the floor in the kitchen and dressing area on my hands and knees (I wore gloves for that part)
cleaned the stove
changed the sheets
did two loads of laundry
cleaned the bathroom sink

And my nails still look like this:

I don't know what the heck they put in this glittery polish, but I am a fan.

In other news, I cannot keep track of what's going on on Mad Men tonight. Did it flashback about a quarter of the way through? I should probably rewind and watch from the beginning without trying to write an LJ entry at the same time, huh?

Vampire Diaries

serialkarma — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:31:02 GMT

FINALLY!!

Elena/Damon is pretty much Joey/Pacey at this point, isn't it? Why did it take me so long to figure this out? Granted, I am still about 85% positive the show is going to end up Dawson--er, Stefan/Elena, but whatever.

I could probably stop watching now and be happy, but, of course, I'm not going to.

CISPA is the new SOPA

serialkarma — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 05:26:01 GMT

Originally posted by missmollyetc at CISPA is the new SOPA

Originally posted by doitninetimes at CISPA is the new SOPA

Originally posted by zillahseye at CISPA is the new SOPA

Originally posted by mickeym at CISPA is the new SOPA

Originally posted by arliss at CISPA is the new SOPA

Originally posted by nrrrdy_grrrl at CISPA is the new SOPA

Originally posted by lk737 at CISPA is the new SOPA

Originally posted by aimmyarrowshigh at CISPA is the new SOPA

Here's their next move: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, would obliterate any semblance of online privacy in the United States.

And CISPA would provide a victory for content owners who were shell-shocked by the unprecedented outpouring of activism in opposition to SOPA and Internet censorship.

The House of Representatives is planning to take up CISPA later this month. Click here to ask your lawmakers to oppose it.

SOPA was pushed as a remedy to the supposed economic threat of online piracy -- but economic fear-mongering didn't quite do the trick.

So those concerned about copyright are engaging in sleight of hand, appending their legislation to a bill that most Americans will assume is about keeping them safe from bad guys.

This so-called cyber security bill aims to prevent theft of "government information" and "intellectual property" and could let ISPs block your access to websites -- or the whole Internet.

Don't let them push this back-door SOPA. Click here to demand that your lawmakers oppose CISPA.

CISPA also encourages companies to share information about you with the government and other corporations.

That data could then be used for just about anything -- from prosecuting crimes to ad placements.

And perhaps worst of all, CISPA supercedes all other online privacy protections.

Please click here to urge your lawmakers to oppose CISPA when it comes up for a vote this month.

Thanks for fighting for the Internet.

-Demand Progress

From zillahseye:

"CISPA would obliterate privacy protections online and let ISPs block Americans' access to websites -- like SOPA in a more insidious and subtle form. This nation was founded on the will of the people, and its first Constitutional Amendment includes measures preserving our right to free speech and peaceful public assembly. It is impossible to ignore the fact that many Americans, including those in high political office, "assemble" and "speak" on the internet as impactfully as they do in other forums.

"Please vote against CISPA. You'll not only be upholding the will of your constituents, who were among the US majority who protested against SOPA, but protecting the freedoms of voters to come. If you truly feel forces are organized against your candidacy and that they question your motives in office, then you must defend the ability of your supporters to discuss those issues in public without third-party editing. Thank you for your time and attention."

Okay, fine

serialkarma — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:38:29 GMT

I totally cried at the finale of One Tree Hill, okay?

Avengers

serialkarma — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:46:42 GMT

Unpopular fannish opinion: I think I would still rather just see Iron Man 3.

Also, needs more Jeremy Renner, stat.