I'm proud to be South African, but there aren't many things that make me proud of my government. This however, is one of them.


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The other day I was scrolling through spnstoryfinders and saw a post by roque_clasique asking if anyone had done an Avatar J2 AU. Well, I liked the idea of that, but I’m no writer. So I had a try at some manipulation instead… roque_clasique, these are for you. And just liked you asked for - Jensen as Jake and Jared as a Na’avi.


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*sigh* It's a Friday afternoon, I should be working, but instead I'm listening to my favourite South African, if not favourite - period - band. The Parlotones ( Read more... )

Well I’m rather chuffed this morning.

In September of last year, for the Supernatural Postcards Project I sent them a postcard I’d made of the fab foursome as cowboys, using a promo shot from Tombstone

Fab Four full size

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Via a link on I can has cheez burger, I came across this lovely little story about Marines in Afghanistan rescuing stray kittens.


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If you’re a fan of Leonidas and her stories at leonidasden, then I’m sure you are familiar with The Beserker Verse. If you’re not familiar then fair warning, it is Wincest, but like all her verses it is quite fabulous. Anyhoo, when the CW released a fabulous one-sheet of the boys that I got hold of via andreas_ri, I thought it would make a great base for some simple ( Read more... )

Read today on Sky that BP have politely declined Cameron's offer, but the US department of Wildlife have not and have invited him to talks. Still holding out that he can help ( Read more... )

It seems both James Cameron and Kevin Costner are getting involved in trying to fix this disaster in the Gulf - James with his underwater experience and technology, Kevin with oil separation machines that he's been developing for years! At his own expense - who knew ( Read more... )

Has anyone been having trouble with LJ recently? This whole weekend, and still today, no matter whose computer I'm using (dad's, work, home) I'm having the same problem. Nine times out of ten, when I click on an LJ link, it says that it can't find the page, or the link is broken or there's no such thing - variations on a theme really. Then I ( Read more... )

So I was lying in bed this morning, still thinking about the finale, and while I didn't hate it and quite enjoyed it overall, I do have questions and so pondered an alternate ending that for me would have had a better kick - if only because I know there is another season... :)

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