Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

May the Fourth, guys. *sobs a little*

- Via spikedluv: Glitter for Carrie Day (I'm wearing a glittery pendant in the shape of a butterfly wing.)

I should be finishing up a fic for beta, but instead I'm procrastinating by clearing my inbox and answering comments. And also doing my job, to be fair. It's not the best environment for writing, a busy store.

New (or new to me) Comms
- fanifesto - similar to ship_manifesto. A community for fannish manifestos, or why this thing you love is the most amazing thing ever. (I should write a thing for this. I don't know what I should write about, though?)

- memekink - a masterlist of kinkmemes on Dreamwidth! This is a damn good idea.

- rocinante - for The Expanse fandom. They're currently doing a S1 rewatch, which is good timing for me and lilacsigil, because we're watching it right now

- weekly_food_challenge - Every Wednesday a moderator will post an ingredient or a cuisine; over the following week members will cook something with that ingredient or in that cuisine and post pictures and recipes.
I keep trying to cook something in time for this, and failing. But this week is chickpeas, so maybe I can have a go at some FODMAP-friendly hummus.

beautifulmechanical - This is a place to share the music that you love. Please do join the conversation and share any kind of music that you like.
Lots of eclectic stuff posted here.

- yurionicefans - a community for all fans of Yuri!!! on Ice.
I'm not in this fandom, but I originally read it as Yuri O Nice Fans, and thought it was cute. Also it's a megafandom, so some of you are bound to be in it. You are nice fans, I am sure.

Craft Links:
- Random Stripe Generator
For knitters and crocheters who need to generate a random stripe pattern, because faking random with your own eye is really hard.

- Crochet Water Balloons
Reusable water balloons that don't leave rubber debris all over the lawn. Made with Bernat Blanket yarn, then soaked in water until they are squodgy. Apparently they don't hurt as much when they hit you, either.

- My Stash Explained (Art)
This is for knitters but I have some of these things: "Really nice yarns I'm afraid to use", "The stuff I bought before I knew what was good" and "I don't feel like winding these."

- Lake Town Socks
I really hope stirrup socks aren't the newest crochet fad.

Actually, I think the newest crochet fad is going to be rag doll style amigurumi, like this:
Rag Doll Unicorn.
All the legs are on the same side! It's kind of adorable. I've seen giraffes, zebras, donkeys and unicorns in the last week.

Random links for the joy of it
- Poll Says Best-Ever Trek Episode Is...
This is a lovely nostalgic trip. I was somewhat surprised at how many TNG episodes made it in here. I was not surprised that no Enterprise episodes made it on here, because there is so much (UNJUST) hate for Enterprise. I do not hate Enterprise.

- How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained
I found this really interesting, because American Italian names sound so odd to my ear - we've obviously all come from different parts of Italy, but it's cool to see how that ancestral difference has played out linguistically.

- 10 Podcasts You Need in Your Life After S-Town
I did not know Jermaine Clement had a podcast. (Note: I need to talk about Jermaine Clement and Legion. LEGION, omg.)

I have a complicated relationship with S-Town, after runpunkrun linked me to an article talking about S-Town and consent: S-Town is a stunning podcast. It probably shouldn't have been made.

- Via kass, Meta: Swift musings on the Moffat era.
This made a few things a bit clearer for me about Moffat, about whom I do not always feel happy. (But I am so enjoying this season! Three great episodes so far, and Bill Potts is a treasure.)

- Speaking of Bill, Doctor Who hid secret clues to the new series in plain sight
The mysteries of Bill's jacket!

- The X-Files is back again – sort of – as new spin-off reveals what happened BEFORE the revival series
AUDIO PLAYS OMG. I am so here for this. I have pre-ordered. I am ready to crochet and listen to Gillian Anderson in my ear. (I am considerably more excited about this than another season of TV, to be honest, though I'll watch that season and like it, damn it.)

- Cookie Butter Choco Cookie
Sesame Street (Japan) takes on PPAP. Because Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen will never die, it will just be memed and re-memed. Incidentally, I am so weirded out by Cookie speaking Japanese. I think it's a primal, child-brain reaction. I am less disturbed by Elmo doing it, because I am way too old for Elmo, but Cookie? So weird...

( Music Meme: A song that reminds you of summer )

I'm still trying to catch up on posting fic to my Dreamwidth. As I go, I'm trying to post to a comm or two as well, because that's where DW falls down a bit, I think - there aren't as many active comms as there were on LJ. Some really, really active ones! But not as many.

Speaking of which, is there a place I could post my Black Tapes genfic? A general fandom genfic comm? I couldn't find a specific Black Tapes comm, but in searching, I did find that there's an option for DW to add that topic to your interests. (Which is awesome.) And then through that, I found addme_fandom, which is like addme, but fannish.



Meme with me? (as seen everywhere, probably because it's a good meme!)
Ask me:
1. the character I least understand
2. interactions I enjoyed the most
3. the character who scares me the most
4. the character who is mostly like me
5. hottest looks character
6. one thing I dislike about my fave character
7. one thing I like about my hated character
8. a quote or scene that haunts me
9. a character I wish died but didn’t
10. my ship that never sailed



Also, from yohijideranged, a music meme!

1. A song you like with a colour in the title.
I have three, because how do you choose these things?
( Under this cut: Birdy, Lorde, David Bowie )

Youtube, why do you do that massive gap thing with your embeds? Why?

( The rest of the topics )

1. Today started off with staggering, and I really wondered how I was going to get through work, but my pain levels went down and down as the day progressed. I don't know it if was the healing process, or if it was the little short bursts of walking that I do at work (desk to dispensary, dispensary to retail floor, retail floor to desk, rinse and repeat) or that my period finally started and all the inflammatory hormone stuff is easing back, but my knee has ended up okay. I know I'll be sore again tomorrow morning, but I have a bit more hope that I will heal, and I will get back to my former level of activity. (Every time I injure myself, I go through this mental process, but I think this time it's a bit less awful?)

2. I downloaded some episodes of Most Haunted to watch while I crochet - it's a British show like Ghost Hunters International, but I like this one better because they scream and run around more. It's like every stupid seance or haunted house dare you did as a teenager, only with night vision cameras. And their psychic tells a good story, and it's generally good spooky fun. I love it.

3. We watched the Hannibal finale last night. lilacsigil's face! Very DDDD: And now she wants to do a rewatch, so that's awesome. I saw so many things the second time around.

4. This video rolled around my tumblr dash: Radioactive - Lindsey Stirling and Pentatonix, I think via cleolinda? Anyway, beat-boxing cellist. Something awesome I never knew was missing in my life.

5. Speaking of which, A selection of incredible portraits from photographer Charles Fréger’s collection and book Wilder Mann, documenting the ancient pagan rites still being practiced throughout Europe today.

Reminds me of this urban legend (Does it count as an urban legend if there's photographic evidence? Really fucking scary photographic evidence): The Horned Man & The Luna Park Ghost Train Fire. (Trigger warning for IRL accidental death of a child on an amusement park ride.)

Erhmagerd, see you in my dreams.

I'm thinking of starting to use my tumblr again a bit - since instead of turning my screen to show things to lilacsigil, I could just reblog them so they show up on her dash, right? So if I pop up there, that's what's going on.

Compiled for Je vois ma vie en rose, by lilacsigil:

"Je vois la vie en rose" is a full-cast gender change. Canon male characters become female, and canon female characters become male or genderqueer. The only exceptions are real people and background military/government characters.

The CIA's Marcus MacTaggert attempts to recruit Doctor Charlotte Xavier and her sibling Raven to assist in the capture of suspected Communist Sabrina Shaw and her unusual associates. Thrilled at the thought finding of more mutants, Charlotte and Raven agree, but are soon put off by the CIA's misogynist attitude and decide to track down these other mutants by themselves. They do find more mutants, but not the ones they were expecting.

Charlotte starts to build a community of mutants but Raven finds that many of them can't even accept themselves, let alone someone who doesn't belong within familiar definitions of gender. Erika's determination to kill Shaw, Shaw's quest to recruit more mutants, and world-threatening political brinkmanship collide with deadly consequences: Charlotte, Raven and Erika must decide what kind of world it is that they want to create.


On Dreamwidth or on Livejournal.


( Tracklist and zip under the cut )

(A mini-soundtrack for the fic Iterations, written for ion_bond for the 2011 xmmficathon.)


( Listening From a Safe Distance )

Just sharing some music that I uploaded for a music comm for a female artist theme. I've uploaded these before, but it never hurts to share again.

Garbage tracks (because Shirley Manson is awesome)
The World is Not Enough
Queer
I Think I'm Paranoid
#1 Crush

Other random things, with an increasing Antipodean lean as the list goes on:

Don't Get Me Wrong - Lily Allen covering The Pretenders.

Glory Box//Portishead - probably everyone has this, but if you don't, you need it. Classic Bristol sound, gorgeous trip hop.

Release//george (Katie Noonan's voice is divine.)

What Else Is There/Röyksopp, with vocals by Karin Dreijer Andersson (This is awesome, one of my favourite songs to get me writing.)

Say It Again//Scribe - New Zealand hip-hop, featuring Tyra Hammond, about whom I know nothing other than she is Scribe's cousin and she's gorgeous with a great voice.

Ray of Light - Natasha Bedingfield covering Madonna.

Rattling Bones//Kasey Chambers - creepy alt-country

For ion_bond and for anyone else who has an interest, here's some Faithless, Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead. Pretty much the sound track of the late nineties for me, from the day that lilacsigil came back from her year in Japan with the first Portishead album. (This is why that slow unsteady trip-hop beat always makes me unspeakably happy.)

( A little taste of the Bristol sound )

Tomorrow is going to be the first of a series of horrible hot days, in which my only consolation is that I don't live in Melbourne where it's going to be even hotter. *sighs* Think of me, winter people, in your coats and hats and gloves. I will be thinking of you. Possibly thinking of licking your snow-covered bodies.

At least it will make the eggplants grow. And I have the all new, revamped pilot for Being Human to watch tomorrow night. And we're going to make spring rolls with bean shoots. There are good things about summer.

Today was Australia Day, also known as Invasion Day, also known as the day of Triple J's Hottest 100 on the radio. And this year, their webcast even worked! and the James Bond theme song made it into the countdown, which makes me feel less of a dorktastic lame-o for liking it.

Here are some fruits of my listening today:


I'll Never Love You More//Soko
("I will never love you more than the drummer of The Flaming Lips")

Guess Who Batman (Fuck You Very Much)//Lily Allen
(A deeply satisfying song, with many, many f-bombs.)

Jungle Drum//Emiliana Torrini
(I love her voice so much!)

Cry Me a River//Lisa Li-Lund
(I know, another Justin Timberlake cover. File under semi-ironic covers of mega-hits.)

Answers to yesterday's lyrics quiz. Thank you to everyone who played!

( Behind the cut )

And in honour of our new Russian overlords:

21. There lived a certain man in Russia long ago, he was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Rasputin // Boney M

22. To Russia I flew but there and then, I suddenly knew you'd care again
From Russia With Love // Matt Monro - lonelywalker

23. Oh I saw you by the wall, ten of your tin soldiers in a row
Nikita // Elton John

24. Mr. Krushchev says "We will bury you," I don't subscribe to this point of view
Russians // Sting, or if you prefer: the LJ version

25. Being with you has opened my eyes, could I ever believe such a perfect surprise?
All the Things She Said // tATu

The interest meme, from handyhunter

This is a meme where you ask about people's Interests (from their el jay profile). Comment on this post, and I'll pick seven of yours, and you explain them on a post you make. Then you post this on your journal and it becomes a never ending spiral... and good fun.

( Baby Cheeses, The Cat Empire, Cyclops Lives!, Iron Man, Scott/Emma, The Ultimates, Wombats )