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Tags: drabbles
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Alan Jackson - The Angels Cried

Posting a bit late, but my countertop roaster died, so I had to attempt cooking a turkey in the oven 3.5 hours after putting it on. I discovered it was not cooking aprx an hour before I was expecting it to be done. Teach me to think I can stuff a bird, turn it on and just walk away. LOL. It turned out pretty amazing if I do say so myself. but we didn't get to eat until nearly 8:30 tonight.

So here are some cards! For my RL friends whose addresses I have. Please forgive my epic fail, but you will eventually get your gifts and cards. Until then, everyone pick one, or all three, but I hope your new year is blessed.


( Yule Cards! )

Light, Life, and Joy!
Blessed be
LD!

Tags: e-cards, happy yule!, holiday, photos

A random comment by spideywing in IRC made me sit down and calculate up the percentages of UST to death in Kamen Rider shows in the Heisei era. Here's what I came up with:

IF YOU HAVE A SIGNIFICANT OTHER WHO IS A KAMEN RIDER AFTER 2000
- There is a 53% chance you will live.
- There is a 30% chance you will die.
- There is a 17% chance you will live, but your SO will die instead.

Note that if you just have UST with a Kamen Rider, your chances of living pretty much jump up to 100%. It's only if you're at the dating stage or past while your SO is still fighting that you might die.

( Here's my data. I'm not sure I caught all the relationships in Kuuga and Agito though. And of course, we don't know how Double will turn out yet. Obvious spoilers for the last 10 years of Kamen Rider. )

I'm done with the first semester of my junior year. I don't have to take any incompletes, and I only needed a handful of extensions. Moreover, I think I did well in all of my classes. I'm on break, and I can relax. No more forcing myself to write a research paper on three hours of sleep, or last-minute extra-credit assignments. I can relax -- and I haven't been able to do that for about two years.

Anyway, I did end up drawing something for one of my classes, and I liked how it turned out, so I figured I'd share it here.

( Yeah, under the cut )

Tomorrow I am going with stormantia to the short north. She's getting a nose piercing for really neat, symbolic reasons. I'm getting my tragus, and possibly some other ear-bits, pierced because I think they're really freaking cool and I've wanted to since high school. So yes. I am excited!

Now. I am going to go to bed at 11 o'clock like a loser. Thank you.

Tags: art, changes, college, crossing the finish line, i am a pretty awesome lady, i think i'm artistic, win
Current Mood: pretty tired but also happy
Current Music: astronaut: a short history of nearly nothing; amanda palmer

>.< Failed at Christmas cards this year. Got presents out, but need to still write/mail cards to everyone.

Christmas, New Years, Mother's Birthday. Next week is going to be fun.

And classes start back up on Jan 4.

I probably liked Summer Knight best of the Dresden Files books so far, largely for the character development that happens and the sense of a wider plot -- of it being more than just a local problem. I can see what other reviews I've read mean by finding this book weaker because of the latter. Harry spends so much time whimpering about how outclassed he is that it goes from a case of the underdog narrowly winning to holy-crap-it's-impossible-that-he-actually-did-that. And Harry spends so much time thinking he's completely outclassed and yet he always comes through okay, battered but alive. It isn't realistic at all -- and even in a fantasy narrative, you have to have some vestiges of realism, perhaps especially in an urban fantasy where you have real-world detail. Sometimes you can put the rules aside, but mostly you can't -- people still have to act like people, so readers can relate to them. It's good that Harry is relatively normal, but he can't be too normal, either, or the idea of him going up against the supposedly hugely powerful Sidhe becomes ridiculous.

Still, those flaws didn't bother me too much. I was very very glad to start seeing some development from Harry in the direction of trusting his friends -- not just trusting them with personal information or whatever, but with trusting them to look after themselves. It was awesome to see Murphy kicking ass even better than Harry, and to read about him giving her some goddamn credit for being tough, for once.

If I were Jim Butcher, I'd probably have kept the Faerie Court stuff back a little longer and focused more on the war with the vampires -- to escalate the level of power Harry's facing more evenly. At the same time, I really liked having a book where these veiled hints from the earlier books come to fruition, and I'm guessing this isn't the end of that, since Harry has two more requests to fulfil before he's free of his deal, and there are all sorts of hints about Lea and Harry's mother.

Also interesting to see the hinted at Elaine, and I was glad the topic of Susan wasn't just dropped, even though she wasn't in the book. I missed Michael, and I want to know more about Thomas already. A lot of my frustration with the books has dissipated and now I just want to read them all ASAP!

Tags: jim butcher, reviews
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Symphony of Science - A Glorious Dawn (Carl Sagan feat. Stephen Hawking)

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Tags: drabbles, gundam wing, strachey mysteries, tp
Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Eartha Kit - Santa Baby

... There was a time when I'd finished my Yuletide-assignment in October. (Well, okay, that only happened once, but it did happen.) This time around though, my story was posted with oh ten hours to go. Ten hours! Eep.

Anyway.

For reasons I can't quite explain Karmically Close feels like it's the first Harry/Thomas fic I've ever written. It's got more romantic clichés in it than you can shake a stick at (although I have Mr Butcher himself to thank for Plot Device #62: Moving in due to Circumstances Resulting in Living in Close Quarters) and, well, it just feels like a first-time fic to me.

For a bit of time-wasting relaxation, I picked up Fairy Godmother Tycoon - the story starts with:

Once upon a time, in the land of Onceuponia (official motto: "Fairy Tale living at Nursery Rhyme prices!"), there lived a King. He was a nice King. One of those Kings where if, say, you had a dinner party and your jester called in sick, would totally loan you his.

... I think that 'where' should be 'who', but that's what it says. Golly. Is my understanding of English truly this poor, or uh is theirs? Can't be theirs, can it? I mean, people pay money for this game. Surely they've proofread it and stuff.

Tags: games, jim butcher, writing, yuletide
Current Mood: relieved

anon meme.

Figured I'd toss my hat into this one too. Why the hell not.

Tags: meme, meta
Current Location: Rockford, IL
Current Mood: nervous
Current Music: Rise Against - Ready to Fall

Fandom: GetBackers
Main characters: Juubei, Kazuki
Referenced characters: None
Pairings: Juubei/Kazuki
Contains: N/a
Rating: G
Summary: Juubei has re-trained himself now to really notice the things he didn't realise mattered.

( You Learn )

Tags: getbackers, juubei, juubei/kazuki, kazuki, shortfic
Current Mood: calm