( Battlestar Galactica fiction is as follows: )

Vampire Diaries is pretty much a goldmine of win if you have a secret brothercest vampire kink like I do. Especially if you like men with lean muscle who tend to walk around shirtless or in tight undershirts or teeshirts and brood. Even better if you like it when the male characters spend half the show getting up in each other's faces to argue.

( And some further musings on the show, including screenshots. )

I think I just had a breakthrough and this is the kind of thing that makes me realize I need to like, do stuff more often because it shows a lot of unexpected things.

So my work right now is all text-based. I'm trying to find ways to interest viewers in what's essentially blocks of several sentences at a time, coming from a pair of authors. I had an idea that I liked about hiding subtle, blurred and color-corrected video behind the text (as if the text was clear and the background of the text was black, so its sort of a wavering colored shape that makes up the letters. I had thought about just scrolling the text over the image but now that I see it I think I need to basically edit footage like one would edit fanvids and then position the text over it a little more strategically, with more visual awareness of light and dark, of what highlights the text.

I'm going to illustrate with some pictures:

( Here for some images. )

Also the first person to spot the show and guess the characters wins a ficlet of their choice.

This isn't really fic per se, but I found a roleplay log that I thought was an interesting drabble of life on the Basestar and sort of an interesting attempt at understanding the Cylons. It is kind of too specific for the roleplay-based project I'm working on, because it deals too much with the world of BSG, but I was glad we wrote it. It also reads a little more like fic than some of the other roleplay logs I have, so I figured I'd post it.

Title: Something's Coming (Nothing Irrational About This)
Pairing: Two/Five (referred to as Leoben and Doral, but not those models particularly)
Rating: PG-13 (I guess we stopped before it got any further)
Authors: blue_crow and blaaksable

( I think things are in motion. )

I guess today is some sort of internet holiday about spreading joy.

Because I can't think of anything quite as amazing, I'm going to link to pictures of my cat.

Pictures of my cat!

Also, http://dailyotter.org/ and http://cuteoverload.com/ and http://www.zooborns.com/

I'd like to open a discussion about adorable animals. Lately all of my characters have been demanding animal companions- first it was Lese's iguana, then Gaius's white kitten that no one else could see (because it was shy), Esli's pile of bunnies, then Boone's otter Tiberius, Jeremy's friendship with the grumpy Pallas Cat at the animal preserve, and now Stefan wants a husky puppy.

I'm also convinced that animals really do pick up traits of their owners. When I got my kitten she was sort of imprint-able- she was calm and just wanted to be pet. Now she's a little high-strung because she's knocked over so many things she's learned to be nervous, and she can be a little grumpy, but she's also way friendlier when its just me. She wanders over and demands my attention, which was not how it was when she was little. We also play this great game that I call 'pounce' where one of us is upstairs and the other is on the stairs, and we use whatever 'cover' is on the floor (or the line of sight of the stairs) to hide until she's inevitably bold enough to charge at me and then run away (only to do it again.) It cracks me up every time.

I am kind of seriously considering trying to run an Arkham Horror-based LJ roleplay. The rules would be a little looser I think- I might make some changes to pace things more slowly, write more setup than what the cards say, let characters interact a little more. Its tough to roleplay when everyone is all across town so a small band of people together with people who occasionally split off would be nice. There would be a lot of figuring out because there would be some modifications, but is anyone interested?

This would be a 1920s Massachusetts game, dealing with the Cthulhu mythos, though I'm partial to the particular deity Nyarlathotep. I would probably run it sort of half with and half without a DM, meaning I would play NPCs and write out settings but people will probably be doing their own dice rolling and some other similar tasks (probably their own combat, keeping track of their own resources, that kind of thing.) I found a wiki that has almost all the cards.

I'm thinking... maybe I'd like everyone to use the stock character sheets to start and you can tweak the background around a lot- the genders could flip around, the particular ties to the things shuffled... there's probably someone whose special ability or set of items could support most character concepts. We'll talk. I'm not sure. I would probably need three or four interested people to get off the ground.

I come bearing gifts of over 100 screencaps from the film One Night With The King, starring some people I didn't really care too much about and James Callis. Of course, almost all the caps are just of Callis, and a few have Callis and other people. As usual he makes a dazzling array of awesome facial expressions. They're a little blurry since they're off of the Netflix watch online thing (which I really recommend checking out a lot more often if you have Netflix) but they are kind of awesome.



They are here.

Its strange, I want so much to talk about how this book has affected me tonight, but I don't want to spoil any of the pleasures of reading it for anyone that still wishes to. If you know you won't read it, or have already, read on, but otherwise ignore this.

( Light is the left hand of darkness... )

Having computer repair drama. I took the thing in a few days ago to get a new battery and a new dvd burner drive, because neither were functioning perfectly- the battery was running out really fast and the drive wasn't burning. I got a new battery and they had to order the drive, but by the time I took it back in yesterday for a new drive, the new battery had caused some problem with the power cord, which is now working intermittently. I tried to tell the girl this yesterday when she replaced the drive, but she ran a diagnostic and was cheerfully telling me that everything was fine when uh my computer is running out of power pretty much constantly while it is on and even sometimes not charging while it is off. I made another appointment for tomorrow and they may need to take it in. I hope the repair isn't systemic because if it is, that will probably be out of my pocket and not covered under the warrantee. Frak.

In other news Christmas was good- I was ill but the food was good and my mom made me tea and I felt better by the time I left. Tonight I just couldn't sleep so that's why I'm up at this weird hour. I guess I slept from like 10 pm to like 2 am. I also saw Sherlock Holmes yesterday and it is ridiculously slashy and there may or may not be pwp fic incoming- it depends on how my computer behaves in the shop today.

Not to brag, but I have the best girlfriend ever.

I mean I've sort of been talking about wanting this in-game item for some time now. I've spent a few hours farming for it (no luck) and drooled over it both on the auction house and on datamining websites. It isn't much, it is a non-combat pet (read: it doesn't really help your game, its a vanity item which helps you customize your character) so I didn't think it was worth 1,000+ gold when that money could be better spent getting some of my other characters things that they really need.



(It glows, the abdomen gives off sort of glowing dust, and it cleans its face with its front little legs and its little mandibles. It also follows me while I'm flying.)

But now I have to come up with something. So not fair.