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Hey, livejournal, why did you lose my last two posts? This is not good, LJ. I wonder if they'll come back?

Still watching Jericho. It's regularly okay and intermittently awesome. I watched episodes 1X12 and 1X13 yesterday--I had planned to watch just one, but I wanted to know what happened next. Both episodes fit into the intermittently awesome category, obviously. ;-D

Had a (brief) discussion on another LJ about my religion and politics, so I'll link to this recent article: A Female Episcopal Priest Visits a Mormon Temple. I thought it was an interesting (although brief) perspective on my religion from an outside perspective.

fic for Person of Interest: I'm still planning Carter/Reese post-season one plotty fic. I've managed to come up with some workable ideas about, uh, stuff (plot-related stuff! motivation and character stuff!), so now I'm worried that the finale is going to throw all of my plans into chaos with some sort of difficult-to-work-around cliffhanger.

I never posted a link on LJ (though I did on Tumblr) for a Zoe Morgan/John Reese fic that wasn't written by me (I know!): A kiss can be even deadlier, if you mean it. PG, no real spoilers. It's funny and there's the tango.

fic for Battlestar Galactica: I'll post the author reveals tomorrow afternoon for the BSG remix. In the meantime, in addition to the remix written for me, y'all should read Family Matters (The Things Inside Remix). It's a remix of Nicole's Give You All. (My summary for Nicole's story: it's like Joss Whedon decided to write Kara/Lee fanfic. Everything you wanted in the worst possible way.) The remix still has the same dark premise--Lee has been taken captive on New Caprica by a Six--but now we see not only the Six's POV, but also Dee's. And it's fascinating and heartbreaking and a wee bit hopeful at the end. It's also long--about 30,000 words--but totally worth it.

livejournal stuff: Ugh, apparently they're redoing the scrapbook feature. And reducing how much memory we get, which isn't really an issue at this point (I'm waaaaaaaaaay below their old and new limits), but uploading pictures is currently not so easy. How am I supposed to have more pictures of pulchritudinous Jim Caviezel in my LJ if I'm having trouble uploading more than one picture at a time?

Five years and two months ago I discovered fanfiction. Five years and two weeks ago I woke up with an idea for a story that wouldn't go away until I finished writing it. Then five years ago today I made my own livejournal account so I'd have a way of posting that story somewhere online when I finished it (about two weeks after that).

In other words: happy LJ-versary to me! To celebrate, I'm reviving an old meme:

Comment here with three* of the following options, and I'll respond with the answers of...

a.) Why I have you as a flister
b.) The icon I associate with you
c.) The thing we don't share in fandom that I find fascinating
d.) Why you are so incredibly awesome
e.) The first conversation I remember having with you, if I can remember it
f.) My favorite story of yours, or the thing I love most about your fandom writing/fanfics
g.) One thing about you, non-fandom related, that I want to know more about
h.) a link (or pic or something) I think you'll like

*or whatever number of options you want

Belatedly I'm declaring a livejournal HOLIDAY! Due to work and summer plans, I'm going to do an LJ-lite experience for the next... sometime. I'll be around some--I may even write a post now and then--but I'm not going to worry about reading everything. I'll do a post to ask for links to stuff I missed when my LJ holiday is over.

Fic of DOOOM: over 7500 words now.

I'm procrastinating doing things I don't want to do. Good thing I had the foresight Sunday night to ask for the icon meme as a delaying tactic for now.

1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
( the icons wot Silja gave me )

OH! Speaking of userpics! We need some for bsg_remix. So if any of you who make icons feel like giving it a shot... I'm not sure what to ask for, though. Something with 'remix' written on it?

It finally happened to me! I was looking at my LJ userpics and the one I have labeled 'kara-lee' is now randomly a picture of a woman leaning on a table, clutching a mug. I'll use it for this post... though I'm guessing most of you will just see Kara and Lee.

I don't know why this amuses me so much. Maybe because I've seen so many people complain about this problem, and I felt left out. *g*

I've been rewatching The 10th Kingdom today. I love that silly mini-series. One of the Yuletide fics I bookmarked is for that fandom. Anyone got any other good fics for it?

Um... so. Any advice on writing stuff when you get stuck? I have the following things lingering on my harddrive:

Mathias on the algae planet fic--it's over 1000 words but there's not really anything happening
Leoben (multiple) crossover fic(lets)
something for someone that I won't specify in case I actually get it done as a present
the poor abandoned crackbaby that pataka02 and I are theoretically writing together
a crackpoetry version of 'To His Coy Mistress'
a fic with D'Anna's pov during/after the season 4.0 finale
more stuff that I'm embarrassed to describe
the Racetrack is a werewolf fic that I'M NOT WRITING, so it's not actually on my harddrive but the idea won't go away

Dang, I'm posty this week.

1) The Life season two premiere is up early at http://www.hulu.com/life. 'Find Your Happy Place.' I think it's only there for today. I'm assuming it'll be back again after the show actually airs. Apparently it's there all week. My own assessment of the episode? Mixed. Hm. We'll see how it plays out with the new cast member and Dani's new hair. (Hey, I liked her serious cop hair. Seeing it loose is just disconcerting.)

2) Amazon.com is having a 50% sale on some boxed DVD sets.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=4&docId=1000276231&plpage=1
Hee, they have the old WonderWoman show! With Lynda Carter! Man, I loved that show when I was little. (I'm not buying it, but I feel very nostalgic now.)
Oooh, Red Dwarf too!

3) Yes, I have successfully installed a moodtheme. Actually I installed two, but I'm not sure how you're supposed to get both to work at the same time. So the one currently active is the 'Amélie' moodtheme, which is just gorgeous.

( more about moodthemes )

Almost forgot, it's been one year since I started my LJ account. So here's some stuff about writing fanfic, since that's a big part of why I have an LJ.

After less than a month of reading fanfic I woke up one morning in early December 2006 with an idea of my own. Before then I'd thought that writing something would be fun, but no thanks. This idea wouldn't leave me alone, though. So I started writing. The result was Prophecy, set in the future (fleet's on Earth now), Kara/Leoben.
( writing the story )

It's spring: flowers in bloom, thunderstorms, the ensnaring vines and thorns of crazy parents at work. *sigh* ( very short rant about work )
Luckily there's chocolate in massive quantities. And youtube. Looky! Y'all, this is so fabulous that I have to try embedding it here, just so I can watch it over and over again.

( Um, don't watch if you don't want to think of the Muppets every time you hear 'Clocks' by Coldplay )

I finally became a paying LJ member. It's hard to say what motivated me more, getting some more icons or getting rid of those ads. Anyway, now I need more icons. Like an icon of Kara and Leoben kissing paintily on the floor, with the text "Another fine mess," because Kara/Leoben can only be improved by adding in quotes from Laurel and Hardy. Sadly, I have no icon skills. *points to today's icon as an example* I have no idea how icon-makers get those small white texts to show up clearly. It took me forever to get that very large green text to show up well enough to read.

*Dove, because it's cheapest and their dark chocolate really isn't bad at all.