Sharing Is Caring, Part Sept! Lots of Language, Little of Substance!

[strina]

Oh, note: This is culled from several days worth of private entries (private because I also use them to bookmark).

• I am currently listening to a song that uses the word "wastrels". I heart lyrics that show vocab skills. Like, I'd love "Shadowland" just for the line about "gloaming seas".
  
  
• Mmmm, surcease. Good word. As is phantasm. Isn't there a quote about fear being a phantasm of the mind? If I'm right, that's totally what I should name the fear list.
  
  I'm doing a lot of crosswords lately. It's odd. Like, fish eggs = roe. I...didn't know I knew that.
  
  
• STOP IT. Violation =/= volition. In fact, violation pretty much = not of one's own volition. ARRRRGH.
  
  Three different authors. Apparently, this is a trend.
  
  
• Okay, girls and boys, the boy you want to marry is your fiance, and the girl you want to marry is your fiancee. If you talk about the boy and the girl you're going to marry, best bet would be your fiances, unless you want to go whole hog and just call 'em your affianced, as that one's gender-neutral.
  
  
• So. This use of "pudding". Does that just mean "dessert" in England? Because the story'll say pudding and then have people eating chocolate cake and it confuses me.
  
  
• Random bit of Constitutional trivia? The government is still totally empowered to hand out letters of marque and reprisal. That's right, we could have honest-to-god pirates. Okay, privateers; same diff. It won't happen, but the fact that it's even a possiblity is beautiful.
  
  
• If I have to look at the size of a model's knuckles to determine their sex? That's not androgynously hot, that's so androgynous it's freaksome.
  
  
• I miss real food. I mean, for one thing, I'm kind of worried because I'm on a very imbalanced diet and that's bad for the immune system, which I actually should be caring about now, as I no longer have insurance. For another...I love food. I miss steak, and spaghetti, and tacos, and pork chops, and okra, and that chicken noodle stuff you can only make on a stovetop, and broccoli, and chicken breast with melted cheddar on top, and oh, chicken tenders marinated in French dressing, and hey, I could go for that chicken-and-macaroni thing Dad made, and Lori's chicken and rice, which spends all day in a crockpot with a couple cans of mushroom soup and tastes ridiculously good, and Grandma's fried potatos, hell, Grandma's everything, and pancakes, and coffee ice cream, and chicken tortellini, and homemade cheeseburgers, and hot dogs, and pears, and pudding, and jello, and fajitas, and beef stir fry, and that Kraft jambalaya that I can't find anywhere anymore, and bagels slathered in cream cheese, and toaster streudel, and oatmeal with milk and butter and brown sugar, and fries, and popcorn shrimp, and pork sausage, and grilled ham-and-cheeses, and pot roast, and bacon, and chicken fried steak with gravy, and garlic bread, and. God. Food.
  
  
• I keep hearing commercials from the Beef Council and thinking about glad I am that we don't have a Mad Cow epidemic. Because I love beef. One, beef is delicious and awesome. Two, cows are stupid and I enjoy eating them, though at least they are not stupid and vicious, as is the case with chickens. Three, hi, farm family.
  
  
• You know, I'm vaguely afraid of what I'd get if I tried to make a food tag. What with the way food = the weather in my small talk lexicon.
  
  Fuck, I want some pineapple pie. Or coffee ice cream. Something sweet.
  
  
• Finding this clip of Adam Baldwin singing Jayne's Song made my day.
  
  
• Any vid called Ninja Justice automatically gets 20 points of awesome off the bat. I'm pretty sure I'm in love with the concept and the source more than the video, though (NINJA JUSTICE).
  
  This one, though, I do love (Johnny Cash/Naruto = OTP).
  
  
• "Summary: AU. New York, 1923. She's the girl on the street, getting by the hard way in a slum of corruption and crime. He's the cop who wants to save her. Semperance, as always."
  
  Ahahahahahahahahahahaha, RENTGIRL TEMPERANCE.
  
  
• Oh, Simon. You're my hero.
  
  I just watched this River vid and yeah, poor River, but mostly? Simon is the best boy. All brilliant and loyal and devoted beyond reason and snarky and brave and steadfast and y'all, Simon should have a harem. Maybe a boy-harem, what with his incredible lack of skill with the ladies, but some kind of harem.
  
  I. Kind of want to see Simon on Atlantis. Single Simon. Oooh, post-Serenity Simon touches a pseudo-quantum mirror and is thrown alone into the Pegasus Galaxy (post-BDM = less guilt about "abandoning" River). He could land on Atlantis or just be found by them later, after they hear rumors of a strange amnesiac healer (Simon had to find some way of explaining away his ignorance) and maybe expecting some kind of descended Ancient. And you know, I could go for some Simon/Elizabeth or Simon/Teyla or even Simon/Cadman (Simon/Cadman/Carson), but what I really want? Is Simon/Ronon. Smoking hot. Plus! They share the Angst of the Displaced and Hunted. Also, Simon and Miko should be BFF. And Rodney should be regularly and randomly irritated by Simon, because the man is obviously not amnesiac or Ancient and equally obviously not from around here, but refuses to tell anyone anything (because he decided instantly that back home, they already have Reavers and the Alliance; they don't need alien vampires, too).
  
  
• I love how I find mutiny perfectly plausible in SGA. Colony! Also, no viable way to enforce the SGC's authority! Also, Atlantis is where they send the crazy people, the people willing to stay in galaxy filled with psychic alien vampires, so I'll totally buy that they're crazy enough to just tell Earth to fuck off if the SGC tries to do something they dislike too strongly.
  
  
• Fuck it, next table's getting a conduit prompt. That is totally what I would have used for that Sam/Jess/Dean. And the Clark/Lana/Lex. And the John/Elizabeth, Rodney/Elizabeth. And the other J/E, R/E. See! Many stories for that prompt! You could even have applied it to that post-Trinity SGA gen where Zelenka forces Rodney to deal with John again.
  
  
• Wow, I am...incredibly not a fan of infidelity fic. I can take it if it's once, but sustained cheating is one of my buttons. Not the fun kind.
  
  
• "The one where no one appreciates whats-her-name so she tells them all off and leaves!! And they're all "Wow-- we really didn't treat her right," so they grovel, and she is like "I don't know if I can trust you again, here, jump through some hoops," and they do, and she sees that they really do appreciate her and everything is okay. Alternately, the climax of the story is the big explosion when she tells them off, and then everyone just thinks about what big jerks they are, the end." - from liviapenn's tropes post
  
  Dude, in my secret heart, I am always kind of rooting for it to go "...here, jump through some hoops" and then they do and then whats-her-name is all "haha, thanks for the hoops, still think you're assholes! SUCK IT, BITCHES".
  
  
• Isn't the trend in de-aging stories to pair former child/caregiver slightly...creepy? I hadn't thought about it before, but. Yeesh.
  
  
• HP seems so much kinkier than my other fandoms. Crazy sex spells, a rainbow of noncon/dubcon/coercion (come on, canon mind-control), Parselsmut, bestiality with the werewolves and animagi...
  
  
• Thing that makes no sense? Harry-as-spy-for-Voldemort. 1) I believe I've mentioned my objections to Death Eater!Harry before: the prophecy, the decade and a half of seething hatred, you know, the foundation of the books, and 2) Harry is just not that skilled at subterfuge. Harry hiding his allegiance? Maybe, temporarily. Harry as an active spy? Yeah, no.
  
  
• Dude, I kinda want to read Harry/harem. I mean, I've read one, and it was kinda cool, and I thought about reading this other one, but I don't trust the author at all after what he did to me with the H/Hr/L (do not get me to invest and then rewind everything with the guarantee that it will never happen again - BITCH MOVE, H0R). But now I'm all, hmmm. Harry deserves mad amounts of sex and love and tenderness, because he's awesome and his life has been, basically, crap. I like Harry threesomes, don't I? And that one Harry moresome.
  
  So, y'know. Harry/rampant polyamory = OTP.
  
  
• Oh! Know what I hate? That there are pairings/groupings for which I can find no decent novel. I mean, I found a H/R/Hr novel, but it was. Bad. Three people dating around and sometimes dating two people at once. It was all unbalanced and weird and I really didn't like it, because that is not the dynamic that drew me to the 'ship.
  
  It's kind of crap that most threesome fic I've read is short. I'm a size queen! There should be more stories like Alpha Centauri, all long and beautiful and hot and angsty and long and hot.
  
  And, as has been said, the lack of Great Femslash Novels is tragic. I would give a kidney for a Rory/Paris novel. Or a Ginny/Luna. Just, long, plotty girslash.
  
  
• HOMG. Just a couple days ago I was wisting for Harry/harem fics and two just got nommed for the awards thingie and jesus, the second one looks like it'll be transcendentally bad. "HP/BL/NM/NT, HP/OFC", don't even try to say that doesn't raise all kinds of red flags right there. Plus, it's called "Fury of the Hellspawn: the Tale of an Incubus". Any title with "hellspawn" in it bodes cheese. Add the subtitle and it sounds like a SciFi Original Picture sequel. Ahahahaha, I'm am both pre-emptively horrified and incredibly enthusiastic.
  
  
• Yeah, I'm not reading any story where somebody gets raped to death by house elves. That's not cool, yo.
  
  
• I love how many stories have the heroes making horrible mistakes yet have me saying "yeah. they're totally dumb enough to do that." Like, the fic I just read where the Order pre-emptively killed Draco and then Harry found out and became a Darker Lord than Voldemort ever dreamed of being. Because bitches, how is it a good idea to assassinate the lover of a frighteningly powerful and already perilously unstable man? It's just not smart. But oh, the Order would do it "for the greater good".
  
  
• It makes me giggle when Dumbledore/the Order condones something to which Voldemort wouldn't stoop. Sometimes it's something as mundane as the use of Muggle firearms, sometimes it's flagrant toying with free will, don't care, HEE.
  
  
• You know, when I was reading AYLNO, I was totally planning on reccing it; had a prompt picked and everything. And then we hit Chapter 93 and the BIZARRE self-harm and that was the tipping point, y'all. I mean, there is a point where my brain just says "too much!". It happened with this story and it happened with the Vanyel trilogy (in book TWO, jesus christ, what did he ever do to you, Lackey?).
  
  But it was mostly fairly enjoyable, so I'll probably put it on that Caveat Lector list.
  
  
• It strikes me that it'd be interesting to know where JKR stands on the nature vs nurture thing. I mean, Harry + crappy childhood = basically quite good if terribly maladjusted and rather unstable; Tom and Snape + crappy childhoods = giant murdering bastards (even if you believe in Snape = murderer). But then there's the whole thing where Tom's Orphan Angst is what set him off in the first place.
  
  
• Oh, OCs. Somtimes they fail so hard. But sometimes they are awesome, as in Resonance (Vineet!) and the Sacrifices Arc (Indigena! Hawthorn! Charles! many others!).
  
  
• Okay, so I tend to subscribe to the "Harry's Animagus form of course has wings" school of thought. But I'm kind of done with the phoenix/bird of prey thing.
  
  I want to see Harry as just a regular, nonmagical bird. Like, a raven. Or a swallow.
  
  Or, at the other extreme, Harry the winged serpent would rock.
  
  
• HEE. Oh, HP & the Azkaban Parody, I love you. I had forgotten so much. Such as Harry's various attempts to get expelled. For serious, dumbest plan ever, forcing him to attend a school he despises with people he hates, you've absolutely no way to control him. Also, Eppy the House Elf = PURE WIN.
  
  "“Don’t tell me you own that poor creature,” demanded Hermione.
  
  “Yep.”
  
  “You realize that you are enslaving her don’t you?”
  
  “Yep.”
  
  “That’s barbaric!” exclaimed the Head Girl as the house elf popped in with the drink.
  
  “I keep the whips and chains in my trunk for special occasions, like Christmas, my birthday and payday.”
  
  “Oh, yes missy, he is beating Eppy terrible he is. But it is being okay with me. I like it. It makes me feel dirty,” Eppy said as she pointed to her skirt, “down there.”
  
  Harry nearly choked on his drink from trying not to laugh as the elf popped away."
  
  AWESOME.
  
  
• Oh, the single emo tear. WINS as a tool of manipulation.
  
  
• I. These melodramatic titles, they kill me. Because there is a little voice in my head that I cannot turn off, and it keeps reading them in funny ways. Like, it is always "Web of LIES", in a voice accented like Dr. Evil's main henchwoman, and "Flames of BeTRAYAL" gets this weird echo-y thing, and. I feel this is not the author's intention, is all.
  
  
• Speaking of titles, I am a sucker for good ones. I read Hogwarts: A New History, Chapter LXVIII: Contemporary Magical Innovations, by H. Granger with no clue as to the pairing because I hearted the title. I knew Their Worse Than Killing Lust was going to be horrible, but I had to read it anyway. Ginormous weakness for a snappy title.
  
  
• More things about titles:
  
  I see "Liquid Love", I'm not thinking love potion, I'm thinking kinky latex pr0n.
  
  Every time you name your songfic after the song, a musician loses a finger.
  
  If you can't spell your title, you shouldn't use it ("Exhasperation", what the fucking fuck, that one doesn't even make sense).
  
  Stop with the one word titles. Revelations, Redemption, Epiphanies, Discoveries, Aftermath, Betrayals, Genesis, Mine - they have been used too much.
  
  Also? Please tell me that somewhere there is a story called Seven Year Itch where character A develops relationship ennui, cheats, and then gets an itchy STD. Because that needs to exist.
  
  
• Here, have some weirdly incestuous fucked-up threesome fic: The Fluid Form of Sonnets (HP, Bill/Remus/Tonks). And hey why not some actually incestuous fucked-up threesome fic: Transmutation (SPN, Sam/Jess/Dean).