What's Going On
Apologies for being gone from the long-form fan networks for so long! I've been sporadically on Twitter but that's all until this week.
I was out of town for a week for Thanksgiving, including 4 days mostly without cell phone service, and I didn't bring my computer. The day after I got back, thanks to a billing issue that was probably totally my fault, our Internet service at home went down. The day after that, my computer went to sleep and wouldn't wake up.
Also, last week I started a new job! As you may or may not know, I'd been taking an extended vacation for over a year and I was just starting to think about going back to work. Someone I knew from my former job got in touch with me and before I knew it he was offering me a position. It's at a small but funded startup and the office is only 2 miles away from where I live instead of on the other side of a large lake. So that's pretty cool.
After a completely ridiculous saga about the Internet connection in which we had to sign up for a new contract, cancelled that when they wouldn't even tell us when it could be activated, then switched to a different ISP and waited for it to be activated and bought two different modems and waited another few days for a technician when the automatic activation didn't work, we FINALLY have it back. And after a moderately but not ridiculously expensive trip to Apple, my 4.5-year-old laptop is back with a new motherboard.
So now I'm going to work every day and have no time, but soon I will have income again, which is nice, and now I have structure, which is also nice, because it was getting pretty depressing having tons of time but never accomplishing anything.
Thanksgiving-ish
The rain is raining all around/it rains on field and tree... (photo)
Me: "...that book I found in the basement with all the happy gay incest." Mom: "nothing wrong with incest if you can't reproduce"
Turkey emergency /o\ (store was out of ~20lb turkeys)
All food for the weekend successfully purchased. And no one asked us if we were a soup kitchen! Which happens when you shop for 70 ppl.
Up all night talking to family friend who grew a mustache so looks exactly like Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon. Which is weirdly hot.
Also this is where I am. I have the best Thanksgiving in the world. (photo)
The Internet-less wastes...
Dear my own bed, oh how I missed you
Other people get leftover turkey. We ate all 100lbs over the wknd so all I have is three loaves of bread and raw Brussels sprouts.
anatsuno: but yr thanksgiving was awesome, y? i hope!
Me: it was awesome! Though there is a new rule of no drinking games before dinner. For next year.
You know you picked the right comics collection when you open it up and the introduction is by Rachel Maddow. (Batwoman: Elegy)
Tonight: having friends over to drink mulled wine and read The Hobbit out loud. Best use of non-Internet winter nights.
Things done at my house while Internet out: watching movies on VHS, playing GTA 3, reading, drawing... mb I'll take a bath...
Locked user: Could AO3 perhaps create a banner telling everyone that cutesie tags actually fuck with the tag filtering system?
Me: they actually don't. They're marked "not to be wrangled" so they aren't synonymed with any real tags.
the tech challenge is letting ppl use w/e tag form they want (Derek/Stiles vs Sterek) & that's not changing
RT @sirona_gs this Avengers thing is THE AWESOMEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.
There is a grouchy fantasy genre hipster in me that always wants to say "you think asoiaf is brutal? Read Prince of Nothing & tell me again"
Srsly tho, I rec First Law by Ambercrombie for gritty war/politics and complex chars, Malazan Book of the Fallen for sweeping epic, and Prince of Nothing by Bakker for horror elements if you can handle extreme brutality against women. This for fans of asoiaf/GoT.
I have an unfair dislike of Die Hard bc the only time I've been threatened with relationship violence was the day I first watched it. #TMI
Locked user: UGH YES going to try to write angsty clothed Stannis/Davos frottage for this person kfskfksdf
Me: I did nor know I wanted this til you said it
@ladderax_1 still many feels about dom!Arthur/houseboy!Eames ;___;
Today I stopped at a new direct trade employee owned co-op coffee shop. #Cascadia (Cascadia is kind of like Portlandia, but bigger)
I think I met my braintwin tonight. We reminisced over exact same YA fantasy books and when I mentioned Teen Wolf immed. said "Sterek"
Working person week
New job starts tomorrow. Nervous.
New job report: good Pho for lunch. Lots of Russians yelling "Fucker!" by which I mean one Russian yelling a lot.
Woman on the bus explaining to small child that she's drawing girl!Loki because sometimes Loki is a boy and sometimes a girl. #Fandom (this appeared to be a conversation between strangers)
and then the little girl's mother said, "oh, that's fine. Like at pride!" Lol.
@Amuly21: So where's the rentboy Clint/Coulson AU? Or rather, CANON Clint/Coulson rentboy story? B/c SERIOUSLY COME ON FANDOM. #andidontmeanKINDA
Me: well there's the one where Clint is an escort? But I don't think that counts because the h/c is in an atypical direction (Professions by gqgqqt)
@Amuly21: But not enough flat out, CLINT IS A RENTBOY and Phil is an UPSTANDING MEMBER OF SOCIETY and PRETTY WOMAN and ahaha #ihaveaproblem
Me: I can't really like the Pretty Woman thing because I know too many escorts IRL. But there should be a hooker!Clint/madam!Phil AU.
Today in "reasons all I thought about during Premium Rush was the flatness of NYC:" new route home from work is 2mi. With ascent of 426' /o\
@bottledminx: redick. seriously. WHY SO MANY HILLS
Me: to give me strong thighs, obviously!
@bottledminx: but you need strong arms #possiblyforsexreasons
Me: I need strong arms to be #Batwoman for Halloween next year :D
@bottledminx: like I said- sex reasons.
I want to go as Hark, A Vagrant's "Strong Female Characters," but that's a 3-woman costume
"I'm taking a bath upstairs. Use the other bathroom if you need to." "I'll just come in, we've seen each other naked." "The peace&sanctity of my bath depends on not-your-penis being there."
Guyyys, does Marvel movieverse tell us where Stark Industries HQ is before the new tower in Avengers? (according to a locked user, Malibu, CA)
@Karnythia: Also can I ask about the fascination in BDSM lit with Doms who don't listen? What's sexy about Stranger Dom Knows Best?
Me: the sub's fantasy of not having to ask(verbalize/admit) what they want?
1 thing we do at work is auto-classify websites based on text. "Here's 20,000 links I scraped from random tweets" WHAT COULD POSS. GO WRONG?
J has been watching #CriminalMinds without me while he procrastinates writing papers & I'm at work ;___; (one of my housemates, the one with the man-crush on Shemar Moore)
I have a BS in Computer Science. I correct at least two straight-up grammatical errors per page on my English student roommate's papers.
Why did I schedule buy/dec Christmas tree, 4-hour meetup, host large party, host brunch, and host Hobbit reading all this wknd? /o\
We're past the stereotype of slashers as white middle-class suburban housewives, so how about the idea gay men have to educate us about sex?
@nightreveals: yus. always found it slightly ridiculous anyway. assholes are the common human denominator....
me: they are! And plenty of people write unrealistic sex accidentally or on purpose but m/m is not a magical separate sex category
@nightreveals: yeah it....probably harkens back to the patriarchy at least a little bit. ~lets ask the menz for wizdom~ etcetc
@lezzer_lee: I do think that uninformed women's understanding of what having a prostate is like, can be the barrier of accuracy. But all you have to do is ask a male (of any orientation, really). Also, anatomy seems to be some writer's downfall
@nightreveals: dude when i took my dad in for a colonoscopy and he was off his head i really missed out on Q/A time ehh?
@lezzer_lee: hahaahhaha. At the very least, though most men have had the finger up the butt at the doctors.
@nightreveals: ...can't believe i just said that god someone shoot em
Me: & the mystique of m/m frndship is a classic motivation for slashers. Can lead to reifying m/m sex's "specialness"
@lezzer_lee: One of the best convos I've had is w/an all boys' school teacher who said m/m friendships are touchy feely w/o the weird stigma that coed schools seem to impress upon males. Like boys are not all that different from girls when safe
Me: I've asked guys about the prostate but I end up just treating it like g-spot stim feels for me /o\ (not magic)
I go to my gay male friends to ask about the experience of being them. People of any gender and orientation can have & understand anal sex.
Just saw a protester outside local Planned Parenthood D: Never seen one there before
It's cold out. Just passed a toddler in a stroller w/ big mittens on. The look on her face: "WHAT IS THIS FUCKERY?! WHERE R MAI FINGERS?"
Someone just borrowed my sharpie to write "this end up" with an arrow pointing towards her ass (the party I was hosting)
I want to dress up as Hark, A Vagrant's "Strong Female Characters" but I guess I need 2 others willing to be near-nude and appropriate event
This entry was originally posted at http://krytella.dreamwidth.org/23213.html. Comment wherever.
I was out of town for a week for Thanksgiving, including 4 days mostly without cell phone service, and I didn't bring my computer. The day after I got back, thanks to a billing issue that was probably totally my fault, our Internet service at home went down. The day after that, my computer went to sleep and wouldn't wake up.
Also, last week I started a new job! As you may or may not know, I'd been taking an extended vacation for over a year and I was just starting to think about going back to work. Someone I knew from my former job got in touch with me and before I knew it he was offering me a position. It's at a small but funded startup and the office is only 2 miles away from where I live instead of on the other side of a large lake. So that's pretty cool.
After a completely ridiculous saga about the Internet connection in which we had to sign up for a new contract, cancelled that when they wouldn't even tell us when it could be activated, then switched to a different ISP and waited for it to be activated and bought two different modems and waited another few days for a technician when the automatic activation didn't work, we FINALLY have it back. And after a moderately but not ridiculously expensive trip to Apple, my 4.5-year-old laptop is back with a new motherboard.
So now I'm going to work every day and have no time, but soon I will have income again, which is nice, and now I have structure, which is also nice, because it was getting pretty depressing having tons of time but never accomplishing anything.
Thanksgiving-ish
The rain is raining all around/it rains on field and tree... (photo)
Me: "...that book I found in the basement with all the happy gay incest." Mom: "nothing wrong with incest if you can't reproduce"
Turkey emergency /o\ (store was out of ~20lb turkeys)
All food for the weekend successfully purchased. And no one asked us if we were a soup kitchen! Which happens when you shop for 70 ppl.
Up all night talking to family friend who grew a mustache so looks exactly like Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon. Which is weirdly hot.
Also this is where I am. I have the best Thanksgiving in the world. (photo)
The Internet-less wastes...
Dear my own bed, oh how I missed you
Other people get leftover turkey. We ate all 100lbs over the wknd so all I have is three loaves of bread and raw Brussels sprouts.
anatsuno: but yr thanksgiving was awesome, y? i hope!
Me: it was awesome! Though there is a new rule of no drinking games before dinner. For next year.
You know you picked the right comics collection when you open it up and the introduction is by Rachel Maddow. (Batwoman: Elegy)
Tonight: having friends over to drink mulled wine and read The Hobbit out loud. Best use of non-Internet winter nights.
Things done at my house while Internet out: watching movies on VHS, playing GTA 3, reading, drawing... mb I'll take a bath...
Locked user: Could AO3 perhaps create a banner telling everyone that cutesie tags actually fuck with the tag filtering system?
Me: they actually don't. They're marked "not to be wrangled" so they aren't synonymed with any real tags.
the tech challenge is letting ppl use w/e tag form they want (Derek/Stiles vs Sterek) & that's not changing
RT @sirona_gs this Avengers thing is THE AWESOMEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.
There is a grouchy fantasy genre hipster in me that always wants to say "you think asoiaf is brutal? Read Prince of Nothing & tell me again"
Srsly tho, I rec First Law by Ambercrombie for gritty war/politics and complex chars, Malazan Book of the Fallen for sweeping epic, and Prince of Nothing by Bakker for horror elements if you can handle extreme brutality against women. This for fans of asoiaf/GoT.
I have an unfair dislike of Die Hard bc the only time I've been threatened with relationship violence was the day I first watched it. #TMI
Locked user: UGH YES going to try to write angsty clothed Stannis/Davos frottage for this person kfskfksdf
Me: I did nor know I wanted this til you said it
@ladderax_1 still many feels about dom!Arthur/houseboy!Eames ;___;
Today I stopped at a new direct trade employee owned co-op coffee shop. #Cascadia (Cascadia is kind of like Portlandia, but bigger)
I think I met my braintwin tonight. We reminisced over exact same YA fantasy books and when I mentioned Teen Wolf immed. said "Sterek"
Working person week
New job starts tomorrow. Nervous.
New job report: good Pho for lunch. Lots of Russians yelling "Fucker!" by which I mean one Russian yelling a lot.
Woman on the bus explaining to small child that she's drawing girl!Loki because sometimes Loki is a boy and sometimes a girl. #Fandom (this appeared to be a conversation between strangers)
and then the little girl's mother said, "oh, that's fine. Like at pride!" Lol.
@Amuly21: So where's the rentboy Clint/Coulson AU? Or rather, CANON Clint/Coulson rentboy story? B/c SERIOUSLY COME ON FANDOM. #andidontmeanKINDA
Me: well there's the one where Clint is an escort? But I don't think that counts because the h/c is in an atypical direction (Professions by gqgqqt)
@Amuly21: But not enough flat out, CLINT IS A RENTBOY and Phil is an UPSTANDING MEMBER OF SOCIETY and PRETTY WOMAN and ahaha #ihaveaproblem
Me: I can't really like the Pretty Woman thing because I know too many escorts IRL. But there should be a hooker!Clint/madam!Phil AU.
Today in "reasons all I thought about during Premium Rush was the flatness of NYC:" new route home from work is 2mi. With ascent of 426' /o\
@bottledminx: redick. seriously. WHY SO MANY HILLS
Me: to give me strong thighs, obviously!
@bottledminx: but you need strong arms #possiblyforsexreasons
Me: I need strong arms to be #Batwoman for Halloween next year :D
@bottledminx: like I said- sex reasons.
I want to go as Hark, A Vagrant's "Strong Female Characters," but that's a 3-woman costume
"I'm taking a bath upstairs. Use the other bathroom if you need to." "I'll just come in, we've seen each other naked." "The peace&sanctity of my bath depends on not-your-penis being there."
Guyyys, does Marvel movieverse tell us where Stark Industries HQ is before the new tower in Avengers? (according to a locked user, Malibu, CA)
@Karnythia: Also can I ask about the fascination in BDSM lit with Doms who don't listen? What's sexy about Stranger Dom Knows Best?
Me: the sub's fantasy of not having to ask(verbalize/admit) what they want?
1 thing we do at work is auto-classify websites based on text. "Here's 20,000 links I scraped from random tweets" WHAT COULD POSS. GO WRONG?
J has been watching #CriminalMinds without me while he procrastinates writing papers & I'm at work ;___; (one of my housemates, the one with the man-crush on Shemar Moore)
I have a BS in Computer Science. I correct at least two straight-up grammatical errors per page on my English student roommate's papers.
Why did I schedule buy/dec Christmas tree, 4-hour meetup, host large party, host brunch, and host Hobbit reading all this wknd? /o\
We're past the stereotype of slashers as white middle-class suburban housewives, so how about the idea gay men have to educate us about sex?
@nightreveals: yus. always found it slightly ridiculous anyway. assholes are the common human denominator....
me: they are! And plenty of people write unrealistic sex accidentally or on purpose but m/m is not a magical separate sex category
@nightreveals: yeah it....probably harkens back to the patriarchy at least a little bit. ~lets ask the menz for wizdom~ etcetc
@lezzer_lee: I do think that uninformed women's understanding of what having a prostate is like, can be the barrier of accuracy. But all you have to do is ask a male (of any orientation, really). Also, anatomy seems to be some writer's downfall
@nightreveals: dude when i took my dad in for a colonoscopy and he was off his head i really missed out on Q/A time ehh?
@lezzer_lee: hahaahhaha. At the very least, though most men have had the finger up the butt at the doctors.
@nightreveals: ...can't believe i just said that god someone shoot em
Me: & the mystique of m/m frndship is a classic motivation for slashers. Can lead to reifying m/m sex's "specialness"
@lezzer_lee: One of the best convos I've had is w/an all boys' school teacher who said m/m friendships are touchy feely w/o the weird stigma that coed schools seem to impress upon males. Like boys are not all that different from girls when safe
Me: I've asked guys about the prostate but I end up just treating it like g-spot stim feels for me /o\ (not magic)
I go to my gay male friends to ask about the experience of being them. People of any gender and orientation can have & understand anal sex.
Just saw a protester outside local Planned Parenthood D: Never seen one there before
It's cold out. Just passed a toddler in a stroller w/ big mittens on. The look on her face: "WHAT IS THIS FUCKERY?! WHERE R MAI FINGERS?"
Someone just borrowed my sharpie to write "this end up" with an arrow pointing towards her ass (the party I was hosting)
I want to dress up as Hark, A Vagrant's "Strong Female Characters" but I guess I need 2 others willing to be near-nude and appropriate event
This entry was originally posted at http://krytella.dreamwidth.org/23213.html. Comment wherever.