We are starting this years InsaneJournal holiday sale. From now until the end of the day Friday, November 27 we are going to be holding a sale on Self-Committed[paid] accounts and Extra Userpics.

The prices are be as follows

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Then on Friday November 27th from 8am until 4pm (Eastern US time) we will be running a very special sale on Permanently Insane accounts.

For anyone importing fic to Archive of Our Own:

I'm still fiddling with the uploader, namely because I haven't decided if I want to upload via LJ html - with all my icons - or not. The icons that came with comments on the original posts seem cluttered to me (on the archive) when I preview.

What do you all think?

Eta: I think, and this is the opinion of a luddite, that I'm getting all comments and icons attached because some of my url's come with cut tags, i.e. the #cutid tag. Weird.

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Yes, I'm talking about White Collar, again. I LOVED this episode. I keep thinking I wish they'd get the writers from Burn Notice to work on this. That show is always smart. ( short spoilers ) Much Love!!

In other news, I have de-modded myself from whitecollarfic. I let peja know. Now I'm just a subscriber.

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* So, who in the UK actually read last week's Doctor Who article in the Radio Times? And if you did, do you think that their nod to The Deadly Assassin is purposefully there to foreshadow the Christmas Special this year?

If the dieu ex machina is a computation matrix I shall be most pissed off! And no, I haven't seen the entire episode but feel free to get yourself over to YT and search via the title. Also, I take it the premise was the inspiration behind The Matrix films?

* Talking sci-fi I will undoubtedly tune into the BBC's Paradox which starts Tuesday. I am convinced that this is where Torchwood's Series 4 budget really went - regardless of what RTD tells the US press. What I will say from the preview (on YT) is that Dr. Christian King seems to have John Sheppard's haircut and the blond copper, Rebecca Flint, seems to be just tad Gwen Cooper with a hint of Scully - though blonde and looking as if she's bitten into a lemon, while she totters in impossible heels. Yes, Tamsin Outhwaite does set my teeth on edge.

Hopefully this will be more Children of Earth and less Bonekickers. That said I actually think they'll go the way of Five Days. The preview has me betting I won't tune in for the whole five weeks.

* Did my f-list notice that the author of Belle du Jour was unmasked - or rather unmasked herself? I don't know if I believe her at all when she says it hasn't affected her professional life - she's a research scientist - or rather that it might not do so at a later date. What's mildly interesting is that a fellow blogger twigged six years ago and set up a Googlewhack tripwire for the mainstream press. Oh and what's also interesting in a financially salacious sense - yes, money not sex - is a comment left on a newspaper blog which reads:

[...if she’s continued to publish stuff and be paid for it after being employed on an academic contract, she may well be breaching it. My own contract (I work at a similar university to Bristol) states that any extra wage-earning activity besides academic publishing and external examining must be disclosed to and approved by the university in advance.

If there is a similar provision in Dr. Magnanti’s contract, she has earned money from non-academic publishing since and the University of Bristol doesn’t take disciplinary action against her as a result, then it will effectively render itself unable to take action against any other member of staff who ignores the ‘no outside earning without our permission’ clause, as they would have a defence in employment law that this provision is not being enforced consistently across the university’s workforce...]

A tad gossipy, I know, but interesting I found.

* I'm not going to read the reviews for the N.T's The Habit of Art as I have tickets for January, but am delighted to see the same paper give it 5*'s. Richard Griffiths I will forever adore after his role as Hector in the History Boys.

* I could also mention I have tickets to see Ben Whishaw in Cock at the Royal Court, but then you'd really, really hate me - wouldn't you?

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Singing Old Time Rock and Roll:



Though slightly out of sync.
Enjoy!

ETA: _

Icons:Please C&C if interested.

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I have no idea why the Doctor Who Special from this years Children in Need isn't being linked to all over my flist, so here:


Also on the BBC's YT

I adore the second half of this - when the Doctor joins the circle - but found the opening really sad. There's such over-compensation in the Doctor's behaviour; fear, loneliness and a stubborn arrogance that is oddly adolescent. All of which worked quite well for me, while simultaneously grating on my nerves - the point of that part of the scene I imagine.
He really is diminished by solitude.

In other CiN news, John Barrowman covered Bob's Seger's Old Time Rock & Roll in white socks, boxers and a blue shirt - a la Tom Cruise (who I think wore a white shirt in the dance sequence in Risky Business) but it hasn't hit the interwebs yet folks. I'd have linked/embedded if I'd have found it.

More on that when I do.

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::fake sigh:: (fake, because I'm actually delighted my brain is churning out fic ideas lately, even if some of them come out like this)

What is with this? I'm working on two simultaneous WC fics, and I suddenly find a metaphor I like for Neal and Peter's relationship. Prospero and Ariel. Cute. Is there a way I can use it? Oh, probably not without getting obnoxiously heavy-handed and trite. Still, just a nice idea, I'll keep it in mind for ... something.( I can't stop thinking about it )

Stop me before I write again!! Arrgh.

ETA: (My use of the "I signed up to write what?" icon is not any hint that I'm writing White Collar for Yuletide. It just had the right feel of horror to it at the ideas my brain was "signing me up" for.)

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Dear my fellow WC fans,

When you are writing the nickname of Peter's wife, would you mind spelling it Elle, like the character in Legally Blonde, not El like El Mariachi from Once Upon A Time in Mexico? For me? It does things to my brain.

Much Love,
XOXOXOXOX

Me

Oh, and also (I'm tacking another WC post onto this one because I'm starting to fear my new fandom obsession is making me spam my circle) I have to rec this commentfic at collarkink. What amazing writing, in a little package. Not that there aren't tons of hawt prompt responses there that I could rec, but this one (not porny, actually) is so beautiful, it shouldn't stay buried in with 100 other commentfics. If I had written that, I wouldn't stay anonymous, either. I hope she claims it, because I want to read other things written by her.

Portrait of a Woman

The prompt is that Elizabeth wants to show Neal he can put his talents to legally profitable uses, and she poses nude for him to paint while Peter watches.

Honestly, this is so lovely.

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I came across this nice rat-packy vid:

http://le-mousquetaire.livejournal.com/179133.html

And now I seriously want to learn how to make a vid. Yes, I said this about a year ago, and some of you offered helpful suggestions and recced software for me. But it was an intellectual thing for me then, not fueled by fannish impulses.

I so want lots of WC moments put to cool music. ::ponders::

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Write us some White Collar kink! The mod of Collar Kink will donate a dollar for the AO3 project for every kink prompt that gets filled by this Friday.

C'mon, you barely have to have seen this show to write kink for it. *g* You can do it! They've got 65 unfilled prompts, and there's no limit on how many "fills" can be written for a single prompt, so even the filled prompts are fair game.

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Disclaimer: I have no right or rights to be writing White Collar. No profit is made with this, if that helps.

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( 'Time to go, Neal,' Peter said, producing his handcuffs. )

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No, I wasn't here gloating about last week because last week's game was so bad as to be existentially demoralizing. The Packer nation was in shock and looking at each other going, "You mean they actually suck? We thought they -- you know -- didn't suck."

Burying the Cowboys today was downright unexpected and SO satisfying. *g* It wasn't so much to the offense's credit, I must say, but the defense, which showed lots of early potential, really brought it today.

In other news -- my uncle's wife was diagnosed Friday with breast cancer. We're going there for Thanksgiving. I don't know what her plans are. *sigh*

Today we sang the Hungarian National Anthem for the minister of our partner church and his wife. I heard a funny story about how our two churches partnered up. Apparently it was after the Iron Curtain fell. Before then we had been unable to communicate with any Unitarian congregation in Transylvania (which used to be in Hungary but is now in Romania), and which, believe it or not, is considered one of the birthplaces of my denomination. We wrote letters looking for a church to partner with, and this one in Nagyjata wrote back to say they'd love to, and they included a mystery gift. *g* It was a handcarved wooden ... thing. It looked kind of like a breadboard with a long handle. A year or so later some people from our church were able to go for a visit and they took a gift of an embroidered artwork of our church building and the parable FL Wright chose to paint above our sanctuary.

While there, our little delegation learned that the mystery gift was a laundry paddle. There is a tradition that shepherds would carve a laundry paddle and present it to the woman they wanted to marry. If she accepted the proposal, she would return him a gift of an embroidery.

We had unknowingly accepted their marriage proposal. *bg* I love that story. I was oddly self-conscious about singing their National Anthem, because we had struggled so much with the pronunciation, and I knew we were still off. A woman singing with me calmed me down by asking how I'd feel if I visited somewhere and they tried to sing my National Anthem in a language not their own. I relaxed. Of course I'd love it even if it was terrible. (and ours has a tough tune, I will say)

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House:
The Curious Incident of the Doc in the Night-time

The Curious Incident of the Doc in the Night-time:Part 2-Physician, Heel!

Blood Ties/Highlander:
The Nourice Fee

Blood Ties
The Secret of His Success

Invisible Man:
Coito, Ergo Sum

I congratulate the boys at SG PTB as Time is probably the first episode that worked as a sci-fi adventure. In part it's because it was the closest thing to a working ensemble episode we've seen. In part it was - and I never thought I'd use this term again - basically noromo. Yes, I am ignoring Eli's confession.

Light on soap and heavy on monsters.

Mind you, if SG:U were to become the dark and adult show they proclaim themselves to be they could have done without the... ( Do people need a spoiler cut? )

The two conversations Rush had also work for me in some small way, though I really question one thing: Wikipedia claims that at the close of Sg-1 Season 10 (and I wasn't watching by then) Daniel Jackson is alive and working at the mountain with Doctor Nicholas Rush. ( Spoilery question behind the cut )

On and if you're watching and you missed RC's pose, when he stands hands on hips in jeans, in the middle of the jungle set - have yourself another eyeful. Omg, tis thudworthy. Also worth noting is how the jungle set seems to be used by him as a stage in terms of stillness and commanding of the space when he's in an ensemble scene.

Such a frigging shame about the handwave that ties up the plot! The show might have made itself worth watching if they hadn't done that.

X-posted to stargate_schadenfreude, because hey - conversation!

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Blink is still the scariest episode of Doctor Who, no matter what the press on Waters of Mars boasts. In truth I'd say that this episode is closer to a 1970's disaster film than anything else or - in New Whovian terms - closer to The Impossible Planet/Satan's Pit than episodes that scared us back in Series 4.

And here I'm thinking of the shattering moment when we see Donna Noble saved by the library. That? Scared the pants off me, thank you very much Stephen Moffat. This? I barely felt a frisson of fear. But then Waters of Mars isn't about fear as it is about consequences. Small actions leading to great consequences. Good intentions and that road to...

Well you know how it goes.

( Spoiler cut for the one person who might still not have seen this )

I admit I had higher hopes for Waters of Mars. I'd expected it to be a far superior peace to the Easter Special with it's Lady thief and Chitty, Chitty Bang, Bang bus. It pains me to say that's not the case. That, for all it's special effects and a damn fine guest star, Waters of Mars isn't strongly paced, or tightly plotted. Scenes between Tennant and Duncan stand out a mile whereas the rest is negligible. But what performances they bring to the screen!

( More spoilers )

As a stand-alone episode this was weak. Too reliant on comedic moments - Go Go Gadget - and running gags. But this is still my show. When the Doctor first comes out of the TARDIS into the Martian atmosphere, he smiles.

And I?
I smiled back.

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I've just posted the first 4 Chapters of Boar Hunt With Deity.

The two finished Troy Stories:
Odysseus
(Ares/Odysseus)

The Shell Game
(Methos/Odysseus)

Ten Hercules:the Legendary Journeys -- among these are the earliest Tazwerks evah! Your milage may vary as to quality.

Lost To Truth And Love

God Of The Hunted?

Strange Moon

Love’s Secret Sauce

Eclogue

Picture This

Dark And Deep

What Thunder Says To Lightning

The Letter Of The Law

The Thief’s Tale


If anyone checks these out and finds a typo -- I would be delighted to have it brought to my attention.

Yuletide squeee!

Wowowowowow. My recipient wants ... well, she's pretty specific about it, and it made me raise my eyebrows. Really? Reasonable, but unexpected. Totally doable, though.

Wheee!

ETA: She has a nonstandard OTP that, according to the numerous posts in her journal is absolutely eating her brain. And there is NO fanfic for it. I could give her such a gift if I could do this right!

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This is just a post of my musings about things that are popping up in the show.
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In case you hadn't heard, it's now easy to add your name to the invite queue at the Archive Of Our Own, aka AOOO, aka AO3.

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