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It's so hot here in Portland that I think my brain has turned to mush. Seriously, it now takes me like 15 minutes to write a sensible comment or comment response and uh...almost that long to come up with coherent AIM messages. So if I am behind on comments/slow to IM it's not you, it's me ♥

In other news, I'll be bringing my laptop my next trip.

OH, AND HAWAII WAS AWESOME. And relaxing. All I could ask for in a vacation, really.

Here is something that I liked from Savage Love:

Could you tell me what the fuck is the deal with those "Jonas" Brothers? I mean, really: They look like three SHRIMPS!

What's The Appeal?

I don't know what the deal is with the Jonas Brothers either, WTA, but I'm not an 11-year-old girl, so I don't think I'm supposed to see the appeal of the Jonas Brothers.

I don't think it's legal for me to see their appeal.

And this probably wouldn't be legal, but they would sell a lot of DVDs: I think the Jonas Brothers should lose their hyped-and-pimped virginities to the Hanson Brothers. It's not just the perverse symmetry of it all that appeals—two boy-bands-of-brothers coming together—but that the Jonas Brothers are now what the Hanson Brothers were then, and the Hanson Brothers are now what the Jonas Brothers are destined to become. They were made—manufactured—for each other.

+ I just watched Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist again. For the second time in a month. I am ridiculously fond of that movie. It's also terribly quotable, though the line that I love most is still: "You guys don't know what it's like being straight. It's awful." Also I kind of love Caroline a lot. Most convincing drunk bitch I've seen in a movie!

+ On that note, After Hours by We Are Scientists is an amazing song.

+ Flying to Hawaii tomorrow to chill on the beach with the boyfriend's family :D It will be my first real Hawaii trip so I am super excited. And I'm opting not to bring my laptop, so I will be incommunicado until the 28th or so. Then I'll be back for a couple of days...and then MORE TRAVELING. With my family this time!

+ I am planning on getting some writing done on the trip though :) Just...long-hand, cause that's how to do it on the beach.

+ BYE FOR NOW, GUYS ♥

Current Music: after hours - we are the scientists

The dictionary.com word of the day is "Shibboleth" and I'm having West Wing flashbacks. Except that I actually can't remember what that word was testing in the episode now that I think of it. I know they were using it as a password, but I don't think they were testing the refugees ability to say the "sh" sound.

Kind of got hit with the realization today that I need to stop being a twit and get serious about revising my novel. I'm going to try to have that done by the end of summer. This goal will probably produce a lot of whining/being a baby from me so I apologize for that in advance. My brain is just doing a lot of "IF NOT NOW, WHEN, YOU COOZE?"

And speaking of putting things off...I don't think I'm going to apply to the counseling masters program yet. I'll still be taking classes--this'll increase my chance of getting in next cycle anyway. But I'm sure this will elicit a lot of disappointment from my family nonetheless!

I sort of want to start watching Gossip Girl. I keep waiting for this desire to subside and...it hasn't.

[warning: frank sex-talk in this entry]

All right, so I am guilty of wasting a fair amount of time on

fanficrants.

And if not ever day, then every other day, a rant about words used in smut scenes comes up. Just today, somebody didn't like the word "impaled." And somebody didn't like the word "cunt."

No comment on the former, but as I was reading through the comments on the latter, I ran across:

Reading all the comments I just realized why I LOVE writing yaoi - no need to struggle with stupid names for the female [genitals].

And I've got nothing against the poster for saying that. In fact, I get it. Maybe there is not a word for my genitals that I like as well as "cock."

But here's the thing—that fact really bothers me.

Why don't we have names for female genitalia that we like as much as "cock"? Why don't we like the names we do have?? The reason they sound "stupid"/make us uncomfortable must have more to do with our cultural conditioning than the words themselves. It's not like "cunt" is a less pleasing sound than "cock," right? Why do words like "pussy" and "snatch" feel awkward or derogatory to us?

Maybe because we never hear them in contexts that please us. But couldn't we, you know...make an effort to use them in those contexts? It's not like the word-fairy is going to descend on us and give us brand new words that we will like better. For the most part, we gotta work with what we have.

I am glad to say I do feel like I am slowly seeing more and more "specific" terms for female genitalia in, say, fanfiction by female authors than I have in the past. So I do think we're headed in the right direction to reclaim some of this terminology. The more we see these words in contexts we like, the more comfortable we'll become with them.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying we shouldn't have word preferences! We all have preferences. I like those anglo-saxon words for both genders' genitalia, after all (okay, truth: I like anglo-saxon words for everything better). Some people prefer the latinate. And some people prefer to refer to both sexes' genitals without any names attached. That's all cool. I still, however, think we should be making a little bit of an effort to get over our internalized "rules" of what words are and are not okay. They're all just words. I might never find the word "penis" that sexy but it doesn't need to be off-limits and it shouldn't make me squirmy (in the bad way) either. I should at least grant the words that describe my genitals the same tolerance.

Unless they are really flowery euphemisms like, idk, "tunnel of love." Or really silly euphemisms—like "smoosh mitten."

In that case, I'm just going to laugh.

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writing

So what I thought was eye strain was actually...allergies! +1 for going to the doctor to figure this out. Go me! Now I am taking Claritin and using eye drops and I can look at the computer screen again without wanting to cry!

Eye drops are way easier to use if you don't try to point them directly at your pupil, I have discovered. Anyway, some stuff:

1) I don't know what to say about this, really. This is really weird.

3) Still loving tumblr, which allowed me to find that bit of WTF-ery.

2) From

motionesque : I don't usually post quiz results, but this one was a) funny and kind of..accurate. LOL. And b) green porno is super fantastic and everyone should watch it! My favorite video is the S&M snail from season one XD
( I am the Praying Mantis...the male one D: )

Current Music: gimme sympathy - metric

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meme

I'm enjoying Tumblr far too much. It lets me compile all the great pictures and quotes I find surfing around the internet without cluttering up my Pictures file. Also makes it easy Looking at other people's is too much fun too :D If you have one, tell me so I can watch it! Here is mine, which is not that interesting yet XD: http://keepingup.tumblr.com

also:
+ I marched in the Portland Pride parade on Sunday with my UCC group :)
+ I cleaned my house
+ I want to write something that is not 100 words...hm...

I was reorganizing some of my files and I found quite a few of unfinished fanfics. It's kind of a shame that I didn't finish these because some were cool ideas. But they were for House and Supernatural mostly and I kind of stopped keeping up with the shows and fandoms both.

So I'm posting them here even though they are incomplete and unpolished!

Here's one where Foreman and Chase started carpooling together after Foreman gets re-hired by House. A little over 1000 words, pre-slashish, with some Chase/Cameron thrown in. (House)
( whatever, I still love Foreman )

Here's a snip of something about the Winchesters and women. 2nd person Dean's POV, Some Dean/Cassie. 300 words. (Supernatural)
( this almost works as meta )

And here's something about Sam getting cold feet about leaving for college. Almost 400 words. (Supernatural)
( he bails out at a truck stop just over the Utah border )

Evidently I was also going to write some Alexis/Daniel (TRANSEXUAL BROTHER SLASH FTW??) for Ugly Betty a while ago, but I didn't really stick with that show and promptly forgot where the story was going. This is the only real writing in that file so yeah, it's anyone's guess:

"Here's to the new year."

Your twin fists around the necks of champagne bottles, you and Daniel bang them together. A quaint scene: two rich kids, getting drunk, all alone in that big empty house.

You should be stumbling home from some blow-out bash, kissing drunk girls behind the curtains.

It was apparently going to contain the line "How much you have to drink before you forget Daniel Meade is your brother?" :D :D :D Oh, I'm sick. You don't have to tell me. Though as far as terrible incest pairings go, I still might like them better than Sam/Dean. I AM 100% SERIOUS ABOUT THIS. Aren't you glad I stopped watching this show??

I also found some original stuff that didn't blow too bad, but this post is long enough already and I'm probably going to regret it later as is ;)

Sometimes it's okay to pimp yourself out.
Post a list of your ten favorites you've written,
regardless of fandom or the reason you love them.
This isn't about the BEST things you've written,
but what you LOVE most.

~~Then tag five other people to do the same.~~
I always feel bad tagging people but if you're on my
flist and you write, chances are I want to see your picks :)

( + 4 fanfiction )
( + 6 original )

Tags:

meme,
writing

I sat down and tried to draw for a couple of hours today and it was awful. I scanned the only non-hideous thing, which I am still rolling eyes pretty hard at lol.

( lyrics from parentheses )

I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I was listening to Paper Television the whole time I was sitting there glaring at my sketchbook. The Blow gets in my brain really easily.

Er, the real point of this post was to say I made my art dump here @ hi_scribbler! No fanart up yet...still need to make thumbs for those. This is the craziest most time consuming way I could have chosen to archive my art, I realize.

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I finally got around to taking all the SPN and House comms off my watch list. I realized I was missing stuff in the comms I actually care about by just reading my "people" filter. Whoops. So that's taken care of.

Also I saw the new Star Trek movie and thought it as great. TOS is one Star Trek I've never watched though, so take that as you will. I think I finally get the Zachary Quinto thing though.

AND OH HEY MORE ORIGINAL CHARACTER ART. I left this drawing open and half-finished in Painter yesterday, so I had to finish it when I got home today. It relates to Teeny's dare to me, which I've been working on sporadically. Fucked up perspective, per usual.

I'm working on making an art dump on hi_scribbler because my photobucket has a bunch of OC doodles and fanart for RATs folks I haven't posted here. I just need to get off my lazy butt and make some thumbnails first :P

ETA CHIBI SIMON SAYS HI:

Current Music: get back : ludacris

Question...

While I think Dreamwidth is totally rad, I'm still more or less married to LJ because it's home to the (non-fannish) comm I'm most active in.

SO HERE IS MY QUESTION : Should I be cross-posting to here when I post to LJ? Would that make reading my entries easier for those of you switching over?

FULL DISCLOSURE: Assuming I can figure out how—I know ignaz was doing it for a while—I will probably disable DW comments for the sake of simplicity. Which is not a snub to DW, just me trying to make my life easier. So keeping that in mind...should I bother with the cross-posting? Scratch that, leaving comments on my dreamwidth entries will be A-okay.

* * *

In case anyone is wondering "then why bother with dreamwidth anyway?":

IF/WHEN I ever get back into fandom,
it will definitely be on here and not LJ.
♥

It's Dreamwidth :D

such a mixed-up mind

I MAY MELT

no one has the guts to shut us out

you spin me right round

on writing smut and terminology

talk like an open book

I warned some of you I was going to pimp this.

blast from the past fanfic dump!

teeny tagged me!

through the sliding doors, why would I lie?

just a post

question for you DW folks

oh hey!

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