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Ah, life! Is full of things! Things like dog infections, and new phones, and movies, and music, and books, and OBSESSING OVER HIPSTER WHO OMG, and Los Gigantes! And too goddamn many appointments with healthcare professionals! Hence today's schedule which is full of "being lazy." And jumbled multi-everything posts.

- First, here's Where No Woman's new drabblefest for which I did the prompts! (I had to wait five months to post that set, no lie). You should come play! Also maybe take this poll about the ficathon we're doing.

Additionally, I put out a call for AO3 and/or Dreamwidth advisors for future WNW endeavors -- I do dream of someday moving the comm over although that won't happen without lots of planning and consultation with all involved, and I just don't have the energy to figure it all out myself -- and thought I'd mention it here too! I am in fact ALSO looking for possible partners in crime for the radical Star Trek politics comm dedicated to NON-HUMANS, which is currently sitting empty at oldlifeoldcivilizations, in time for 3 Weeks for Dreamwidth, so if you are interested in subverting either Trek ladies or Trek aliens in the world of open-source, please do give me a shout.

- All this reminds me that lodessa got me Star Trek Online for my birfday (joy!!!!!) and I can't play it because my HD won't Boot Camp (DESPAIR). ;__;

- Sandals. Do you wear sandals? I live in a wet-winter climate and my dog is an adventuresome kind of dog, so right when the rains began this winter I had this uncharacteristic flash of practicality and bought some nice rubber wellies that enabled me to keep up with Rue through all the muddy bogs she so loves. NOW it is spring, sun and warmth are starting to be a thing, and the sad Californian truth is, I am offended on a deep personal level when forced to wear socks. But the only sandals I've ever had were Birkenstocks in my crunchier youth (which later became extremely uncomfortable) and these FloJo flipflops I've been rocking for ten years. I am thinking about getting some practical, nice-looking, walk-worthy sandals.

This is difficult because my feet are kinda faily! I need serious arch support, and I have bunions which means individual toe loops tend to... miss my big toe completely. I would also very much prefer any sandals to be ethically sourced and not leather, and I'm prepared to spend a bit because I think good shoes are generally worth it. Where have you found sandals success? I feel not like myself asking this?

- Per wordsatourbacks's request: a zip of 44 Liz Phair rareties!

( brief liz talk )

comments and the original icons!! at Dreamwidth.

IT'S RAWLES'S BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAWLES!!!

( I drew you a picture. )

I also drawed you a picture of Uhura based on this one but I eated it it turned out fucking terrifying so I'm not posting that publicly, haha. AS IT TURNS OUT when you haven't tried to draw a person in five years, your abilities degrade somewhat. But it was really fun to just pick up a pen and try to make a picture. Lol remember the first decade and a half of my life when I wanted to be an artist? Those were the days! So maybe I will take up drawing more! Or not! WE'LL SEE

BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY EITHER WAY MY ONLY POODLE. <3

comments at the original entry. If you don't have a DW account, you can still comment there with your LJ via OpenID.

YOU GUYS YOU GUYS WHERE ARE YOU AT RE: STAR TREK POLITICS?

Tris: there should be a special academy for people who get lol sensitive about racism against aliens on star trek
Rawles: oh?
Tris: yes
Tris: like hogwarts
Rawles: WHAT WOULD WE DO THERE
Tris: RANT ABOUT TREATMENT OF VULCANS AND FERENGI
Tris: BAN THE WORD "HUMANITY"
Rawles: SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN
Tris: or perhaps an lj comm
Tris: that might be a little feasibler than a special acadmey
Rawles: i guesssss
Tris: but it would be fun
Tris: (it would basically be like starfleet but LESS DICKISH)
Rawles: (<33)
Rawles: hahaha
Rawles: man i was totes just sitting here fantasizing about the LESS DICKISH STARFLEET
Tris: I JUST PAUSED DS9 SO I COULD MAKE AN EMERGENCY LJ POST
Rawles: OMG
Rawles: JUST THINK PDL
Rawles: WHERE PEEPS WOULD NEVER TELL BAJORANS TO TAKE OFF THEIR EARRINGS
Tris: NEVERRRRR
Rawles: OR CALL VULCANS HOBGOBLINS
Tris: NEVERRRRR
Rawles: <3333333333
Rawles: *_*
Tris: i am flailing too much to write coherently
Tris: hahah
Tris: I KNOW
Tris: I WILL COPYPASTA THIS BITCH

SO THAT'S WHAT I DID.

[Poll #1496115]

You know how on Star Trek (and sci-fi in general, but I am in too good a mood to contemplate octagonal paper right now) sometimes they do these really unnecessary and hilariously impractical things to illustrate how ~futuristic shit is? Sonic showers, paper-thin mylar blankets, the skant, and for some reason like 90% of all alcohol is blue?



(Star Trek special Target edition DVD case)

( you have to assemble it so as to feel as nerdy as possible from the get go )

Hay guys. On the off chance that you are looking for someone to say nice things about even though she has not really been on lj for like three months but she did that one thing that one time, you can do that! Here! J-just so you know I guess omg these things never get any easier do they.

And while I am crawling out of my hermitage to do this (for lo, nice-things-saying is a two-way-street), I will also take requests for topics of discussion in future hypothetical posts, as maybe that will help me feel like less of a wordless zombie all the time, IDK. Um, optional for those who actually have something in mind, obviously.

[Poll #1470427]


P.S. STAR TREK GAG REEL *_________* WHERE IS MY DVDEEEEee?!

ETA: ( incredibly minor himym spoiler that is not actually a spoiler )

ooh, WIP meme. (All my creative energy has left me, causing great problems ficathon-ward. Possibly it is wrestling bears in the wild or some shit. SO THIS IS AN ENTRY OF GREAT NOSTALGIA FOR A MONTH AND A HALF AGO ;_;)

IF I ever actually finish any Space Boyfriends fic, most of these will probably end up knitted together into one larger story (well, that and Future History of California which is probably a different thing altogether and I am really marketing deceptively here). But currently they are in distressingly discrete pieces, and since the chances of me actually writing the bulk of this story are not awesome anyway, let's do it this way.

( FIVE PIECES OF JIM AND BONES FIC IDEK )

You know what is awesome? Rewatching the geeky 90s television that made you into the late-aughts nerd you are today. I'm halfway through the first season of Xena and have one episode to go on the second disc of DS9. Last night rawles and I watched the episode where Q and Vash showed up and were both missing their boyf Picard and wreaked havoc and were the best. Besssssst. So if in the next week I make it a point to rewatch all Q episodes of TNG, and also write Vash fic, don't say you didn't see it coming.

You know what else is awesome? where_no_woman has 112 members in two days. MERE EMOTICONS CANNOT EXPRESS MY JOY. <3

You know what is NOT awesome? Wrist pains. There is something manifestly wrong with the way I type on Cameron, because I have been getting persistent pains in the side of my left wrist. I know you're supposed to work at a desk, but I dun wanna :( Should I get a lap desk? Some kind of ergonomic wrist rest? Or perhaps a brace? People who have been using laptops and particularly Macbooks for longer than I: what do you recommend?

ETA: I bought a brace! \o/

P.S. Thank you so much to those who rocked the testimonial meme. See above re: beeeeeeeeeest. :D

Interneeeeeeeeeeeeeet

I am dying of starnerd gleeeeeeeeeeeee

FUTURAMA IS COMING BACK. 26 NEW EPISODES COMING BACK. I SHRIEKED, JUMPED ON THE BED, AND DID LAPS AROUND THE HOUSE. FUTURAMAAAAAA.

BRENT SPINER IS YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT, AND OF COURSE, A GQMF.

LIZZEN WROTE AMAZING FUCKING ZACH/ZOE LIES. QUINTANA ROOOO~~~

AND THERE ARE TOO MANY DICKS ON THE DANCE FLOOR

also I think my DS9 discs came today, I have to check the mail

also yuki_onna wrote the best ever review of T4 with 100000% trufax at her back

also here is my computer desktop for that one meme ( thumbnails are too much for my frail state )

now is a time to once again share my robot/sci-fi joy playlist I think, and work more on uploading my increasingly fucking epic icons

also maybe my spboyfriends fic idk

you guys

tell 'em I ain't coming back.

I do not usually announce my ficcings on this journal, but I thought you should all know, for shunning purposes, I have committed fic based on this premise:

Rawles: WHY HASN'T ANYONE WRITTEN THE FIC ABOUT JAMES T AND NYOTA WHISPERING ON THE BRIDGE AND THROWING SPOCK CONSPIRATORIAL LOOKS
Rawles: CAUSING...CONCERN
Rawles: (I FEEL THEY ARE PLANNING HIM A BIRTHDAY PARTY.)
Tris: my head is going in so many directions
Tris: basically james t is the fag to her hag (only not!? OR IS HE) and sometimes they get rly plasticky and he has a date and goes and finds her and is all GET IN LOSER, WE'RE GOING SHOPPING
Rawles: HAHAHAHA
Rawles: AMAZING
Tris: AND THEN THEY GO TO LIKE THE MALL ON BETAZED
Tris: and after they find him THE BEST CUT SHIRT they go out for bubble tea
Tris: and gossip about spock
Tris: and meanwhile he is VULCANING THE ENTERPRISE
Tris: TRYING TO FIGURE OUT OF THIS IS ONE OF THOSE HUMAN THINGS HE DOESN'T GET OR IF HE SHOULD WRITE SOMEBODY A POEM OR SOMETHING
Rawles: HHAHGAJSK
Rawles: A POEM!
Tris: HE PROBABLY ASKS CHEKOV FOR ADVICE
Tris: HE UNDERSTANDS THAT THERE IS A GREAT TRADITION OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE THAT NYOTA HAS MENTIONED ENJOYING ONCE OR TWICE
Tris: no one knows his meter like spockovsky

You know, instead of writing the half dozen serious SCC stories I'd like to produce, or my T4 review, or like being a productive human being in any sense whatsoever. THAT IS WHAT I DID LAST NIGHT. /o\

I have seen your silly Battleship Trek moofie, internet! Which I initially felt extremely cranky-to-ambivalent towards, having spent much of my preteen years as a TNG-focused Trekker. Trailer and Abramsosity rubbed me very much the wrong way but your enthusiasm won out.

HERE IS MY REACTION:



( WHAT YOU WANT MORE? )

P.S. For years now I have been threatening to do some major Trek watching, as I have always felt my teenage distraction gave DS9 short shrift and possibly I missed out on something by shunning TOS. The time, perhaps, draws near!! Stay tuned maybe perhaps idk.