I has a computer!! *rejoices* It's very pretty and fast and has a 22" monitor and speakers with a subwoofer (I had no idea how much different 2.1 sound was to crappy laptop speakers until now), and is my precious. MY PRECIOUSSSSSSSS.

I named it Kyouko, because I had just finished reading Skip Beat! vol. 12 (oh, I love that series so damn much ( Read more... )

Oh, motherfuckerFirefox crashed today and took about 83.2% of my bookmarks (read: bookmarked fanfiction) with it. This was probably a good thing, because there was more than I could possibly ever reread, but I'm feeling all pouty right now. *POUT* All the shiny! All gone ( Read more... )

For fanfiction, I seem to be just as fussy as I am with my food. I often say that I'll eat anything, but then I'll have a whole host of exceptions, like corn off the cob, kidney beans, macaroni with other foods in it, peas sans pea pods, omelets, musk melon, lima beans (I swear to God that my parents made Al and I eat them throughout our childhood ( Read more... )

Some lighter stuff before the new Patriot Day. (Am I the only person in the States that didn't know that 9/11 was now a holiday? Okay.) Besides the 9/11 tabs in my browser, here is where my attention is wandering:

Star Trek CribsApparently an ad for a show on G4, Star Trek 2.0. This mixes stop-motion animation with a Twisted ToyFare Theater ( Read more... )

Reading:

The Ms. Scribe Story: An Unauthorized Fandom Biography: A damn good read. There's not much I can say about it that hasn't been said already. The fandom_wank wiki has a good overview of the whole thing. If you can't see the wiki (and I couldn't until I messed with my hosts file), here's a summary yanked from there:In short, using ( Read more... )

"Hello Kitty": Kitty Pryde and her parents are looking for a good high school.

"On the Road": Spiderman and friends take a road trip and accidently land up in Smurf Land.

"Electile Dysfunction": There can only be one mayor.

"My Big Fat Fat Wedding": Aunt May and Doctor Octopus decide to get hitched.

"Blinded by Science: Reed Richards figures ( Read more... )

So. The divine convergence of March Madness starting and St. Patrick's Day? Equals the crazy.

Doing some clean-up of my bookmarks--seriously, I have to scroll and scroll to get anywhere and it's tiresome. On to the recs.

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( In which Our Heroine uses foul language as an introduction to her main post. )

I've cried over John Kerry's concession speech, I've seen the foreign press react to 3.5 million votes of victory, and I've tried to wrap my mind around the fact that George W. Bush is still my president ( Read more... )