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December 15th, 2009
ratcreature
 | 08:13 am - it would probably be intrusive...
...but sometimes I think it would be cool if journalling sites had a function to "suggest me a new journal to read" not a random one, but a suggestion based on your current subscriptions, interests, maybe on some kind of other fuzzy, internal data-mining (the aforementioned "intrusive" part). I'm not sure how these things work, but like what Amazon does when it suggests books to you (sometimes they even suggest me interesting things, though that one is hit and miss, even though I actually tried to refine it manually) or that online music thing, Pandora?, that tries to guess what your tastes music are (that wasn't bad, though I couldn't use it for long, because eventually these location blocks happened). Anyway, something more advanced than the "popular among your friends" feature that LJ offered (offers? I can never really find that on the site anymore), and you could refine its suggestions.
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December 14th, 2009
rivkat
 | 08:57 pm - Eight Crazy Nights: Four
Nobody wants to give me a warning label! It can't be the case that I don't require a warning, can it?
![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) thefourthvine: BtVS: Ten Years after Sunnydale: Encounters with the Survivors of the Nation's Biggest Natural Disaster.
( Look on my works, ye mighty )
libgirl: M/S: "It's not what it looks like”
( early XF )
elliemurasaki: SPN: The angels are obviously not above using unethical means to persuade Dean...well, Ben Braeden isn't the only person out there who's probably Dean's kid. (Just the only one Dean knows about so far.) And judging by Claire Novak, whatever makes Dean and Sam suitable angelic vessels has even odds (if not a guarantee) of being passed on to Dean's kids...
( angels are dicks. )
eclectic: girl!Dean, surprise visit to Sam, Stanford era.
( Came out angsty, sorry. )
niangao: SV + Kon from DC canon
( This *actually happened* in DCU canon. I don't even know! )
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December 13th, 2009
rivkat
| 07:01 pm - Eight Crazy Nights: Three (part 3)
lapillus: SPN, Winchester Gospels, midrash. Bonus points for working in Hanukkah. Or Bobby.
Gen. Not quite midrash, but I hope I got the spirit of the thing.
( The chronology of the Gospel presents many difficulties. )
****
amalthia: Chuck is kidnapped, raped/tortured and Sarah and Casey have to rescue him before he breaks and reveals any government secrets. Note: Chuck is usually my happy place, so this is weird. Nonexplicit/aftermath.
( Cleaning up )
END
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rivkat
| 06:57 pm - Eight Crazy Nights: Three (part 2)
thefourthvine: SV (Clark/Lex). Prompt: Craigslist. NC-17!
( m4m )
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rivkat
| 06:41 pm - Eight Crazy Nights: Three (part 1)
svmadelyn: I'd love to see some Sam/Dean, or, ah, Sam/Lucifer on the theme of an Indecent Proposal. NC-17. Came out as Lucifer + Sam/Dean.
It is permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. – Bulgarian proverb
( Crossing the Bridge )
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December 12th, 2009
December 11th, 2009
rivkat
| 07:19 pm - Eight Crazy Nights: One
lomedet: BtVS: Giles, Xander, abracadabra
( You can do magic )
![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) ruby_jelly: what happened next, in Finders Keepers (Sam/Dean), after Az discovered Dean's mutiny? And was Sammy as squeaky sweet as Dean wanted him to be? And did Sammy really think possession or partners? (Note 1: I think what came out is closer to this prompt than to thuviaptarth’s “FindersKeepers!Sam finds Dean more than he bargained for,” though I could see where one might disagree. Note 2: I’ve borrowed the name I used for “Meg” in Captured by the Game.)
( The fire in earnest )
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ratcreature
 | 08:57 pm - I got my Yuletart gift!
The yuletart gift for me was just posted, and it is a very cute Spock/Uhura piece with a tribble. So check it out.
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zing_och
 | 01:28 pm - es ist so schön, wenn der Schmerz nachlässt
Oh, Chrome möchte, dass ich diesen Eintrag auf Deutsch schreibe! Sorry, Chrome!
I've been home sick since Tuesday (fever, sore throat, the works), and today's the first time I feel better. Earlier today I wrote a long post about all the suckiness of the last three days and decided to make it private. I hope you're thankful! *g*
The high point was yesterday, anyway, when I went to the doctor, got a recipe for antibiotics ("There's a lot of strep around these days"), went home and developed an eye infection half an hour later. Seriously. What the hell?
I asked the pharmacist when I had to go out again to pick up my meds, and she told me to get back to the doctor, so I called them and went back in the afternoon. I saw the other doctor (the first one only does half-days) who was a little puzzled - "Weren't you already here today?" *sigh*
Did I mention that it was raining cats and dogs on every one of those trips? Or that there's construction in my back yard this week? I could go on, but I won't. *g*
I actually got up this morning! I had coffee for the first time! I may even eat! My eye is less swollen! The fever is almost gone! Life is good again.
So. How are you?
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December 10th, 2009
rivkat
| 08:10 am - Thanks and reviews
catdancerz , sol_se , realpestilence , rejeneration , laceymcbain , bexless ,ingridmatthews, ciian , flesh , sprat , grlnamedlucifer , suzvoy , pinkfinity (Cthuluclaus!), gblvr (another Cthuluclaus!), and anonymous givers: thanks so much for the virtual gifts! You are sweet and I feel terribly guilty about being out of the loop right now. I go through feast and famine with stories; hopefully more feasts are on the way, with my Eight Crazy Nights about to start.
( hip-hop and intellectual property; art and law; luxury brands; and sex for pay )
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December 9th, 2009
ratcreature
 | 07:30 pm - drawble offer
I'm in the mood to doodle and haven't offered drawbles in some time, so prompt me in a comment?
As usual, I'll do my best for any fandom I'm familiar with, or random stuff (monsters, steampunk machines, animals...) or I can just pick prompts from your interests. I don't draw porn though, and I'm not good at portrait likeness. Also keep in mind that these are quick doodles, so for a prompt that is a description of some epic scene you've always wanted to see realized in fanart the results aren't going to very satisfying for you (or much fun for me).
If you want to see the quality (or lack thereof) you can expect, look at the drawble tag. I don't make any promises for results or a timely delivery, but the past I've usually managed to draw something for everyone who prompted me for these non-demanding, open drawble offers. So this isn't limited to something like "the first X comments get a drawble" or anything like that, which is impractical with the crossposting in three places anyway. (However considering the broken state of the LJ comment notification right now, I'm more likely to notice your prompt quickly if you comment on DW or IJ. ETA: Except that IJ seems to be down completely just now. *argh*)
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December 8th, 2009
ratcreature
| 12:35 am - what is this with LJ lately?
If I'm not responding to something, that is likely because notifications are apparently currently broken on LJ, though earlier I was still getting some at least for comments albeit with much delay (I haven't gotten any tracking notifications recently, but of course now I don't know whether that is because the journals/tags don't have new posts or because they vanished into some virtual bermuda triangle). This follows their Scrapbook and userpic problems earlier. Not to mention that the site is timing out on me more than usual still, though that has gotten better today.
On the brighter side of their technical difficulties, their glitch of making the snowflake v-gifts free (apparently that wasn't an intentional holiday spirit thing and they also managed to fix *that* of all their glitches) led to snowflake flurries across my f-list, and I also got some (thanks anon and devildoll!). Those are nice.
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December 7th, 2009
ratcreature
 | 12:10 am - help for the clueless?
This probably is a totally embarrassing n00b question, but is there some sort of trick or method to avoid your palette becoming a total mess when you color something or paint? Something that people who are not self-taught via trial and error are shown when they learn?
I struggled with this once again recently when I finished my yuletart assignment (btw Yuletart has started posting this weekend so remember to check it to not miss the cool art that is being posted). I can't seem to handle color mixing in an efficient way.
My method when mixing acrylics to color my lineart looks something like this: I usually use two palettes, one for thicker colors (which is not so much a real palette as a largish cookie tin lid onto which I put a layer of very wet paper towel covered by a piece of sandwich paper so that the paint remains wet) and a palette with several depressions for mixing in a more watery way. I also have two containers with water, one that remains clear for making the paint thinner for glazes without dipping the brush in (usually I use eyedroppers for that) and one to use with the brushes.
I put small dollops of the colors I plan to use for mixing on the first palette and start to mix colors and put them on paper. Because for the most part I use acrylic paint in thinner layers I tend to either mix on the first palette until I get the shade I want, put a bit on the second palette, and add clean water until it has the translucency I need, or I add layers of more basic colors over each other on the paper. Sometimes for gradients I also start with less water and then do a wash on the paper. But inevitably after a relatively short while this arrangement becomes a mess, i.e. I run out of spaces to mix or to dilute the paint or both. Am I missing some technique that will make this whole thing more go more smoothly and efficiently?
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December 6th, 2009
ratcreature
 | 12:50 pm - name smooshes: endlessly amusing, also less than clear for threesomes
I have just seen a Kirk/Spock/McCoy fic tagged as "Mckick". Granted, on the story itself rather than the journal's tags it was written out, so don't know whether this was just for tag brevity or is really used as pairing name proper somewhere, but even with knowing the pairing it took me a bit to decipher what this tag on the post meant. Smooshes just get the more confusing the more people are involved.
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December 5th, 2009
caia_comica
 | 07:22 pm - Fun with Powermasters and Pretenders
I just started a Landmine/Cloudburst fic. I guess I still like 'em obscure?
(Cloudburst is the one known for turning down the giant alien lady. Landmine is his traveling companion. OTP, clearly! Or something.)
In other 1988 Transformer news, there is a Powermaster partner named Lube. (Yes, really.)1
So I've been reading through Marvel UK Transformers comics lately, and the other night I was reading the 1988 (according to the filename) or 1989 (according to the TFWiki) annual. Which has a text story featuring the Autobot Powermasters.
Lube's Powermaster partner is Slapdash, who is, well, slapdash. A ditz, as his wiki profile calls him. Lube, on the other hand, has a stick up his ass. Not that you can tell from this story.
Because Slapdash forgot Lube.
With their Nebulan engine partners in place, he and Joyride transformed to robot mode. Slapdash stayed in vehicle form, however.
"Oh no," sighed Rev, Getaway's Nebulan companion--also now in robot mode. "He's done it again!"
"Er, guys," began Slapdash apologetically, "I must have left Lube, my partner, behind. Guess I'm stuck in, you know, vehicle mode again. Er, like, sorry...you know..."
"We know!" groaned Getaway.
Later:
"And even without Lube, you've still got great speed, Slapdash."
"Well, you know..." began Slapdash, "....let's, like, try it..."
And that's about all there is to it. But in this fandom, what more do you need?
1 Powermasters were Transformers partnered with cyborg humans--well, alien humans from the Planet Nebulos, although Earthlings work too--who transformed into the engines for the Transformers. Yes, really.
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