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For persons inexplicably not reading theboathouse or callenhanna, please be advised I have posted NCIS:LA caps to both comms, different caps to each. Well, one duplicate.

Some Callen/Hanna moments from 01x09.

This week the cute was off the charts.

Both are image heavy and contain spoilers for 01x09 Random on Purpose

The Callen/Hanna is giving me old school thrills, my friends. Also have developed crush on @llcoolj. Normally he (or his intern) tweets quotes from an eclectic collection of affirmations. Stuff like "The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee." Do you remember the early nineties when you could sign up to quote of the day emails? It's like that, only more surreal. Tonight LL (or his intern) was having a great Thanksgiving and loved us all. "time to eat peace yall" and "Happy Thanksgiving. If turkeys could talk they'd probably say I'm hating." Bless!

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Let me present to you a quote from an article about Twimom in chief, Lisa Hansen, and non-teen Twilight fans.

Ahem.

Please be sitting firmly on a stable chair. Put down any liquids at a distance of more than an arms length from yourself. Take a few deep, even breaths. Okay? Okay.


Harry Potter never attracted a following of older women who set up websites and blogs spruiking their passion for him.


INNORITE!

I couldn't even type that without stopping to laugh. Isn't it precious?

Here you go, have a link: Guilty Pleasures of a Twilight Mum. Read the whole thing yourself. But you know, beware the usual.

I believe the journalist normally reports on politics. Australians, isn't she the Christine Jackman who wrote Inside Kevin 07?

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SGA Big Bang is out? I haven't finished McShep Match! Oh dear. Honest, I don't think I'v read anything longer than 600 word since Open Beta.

In other news I heard that the main or a key ingredient of bitters is extinct. WTF? Google failed me. Internets, do you know?

Bitters can't be extinct! The Old Fashioned! The Manhattan! The Pink Gin! *omgweeps*

Now, my choices:

NCIS:LA
Tag Wrangling
3 Ships
Eastwick
Sleep

I want to do all those things. Why can't I do all those things at once?

To make up for my sadness, I made about fifty thousand caps of this gorgeous woman in the next to last episode of White Collar:





Find more caps of Natalie Morales with a gun at the link

Go, make icons!

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In reference to my previous post, at this link:

I changed the url for delicious in my delicous bookmarklet from http://delicious.com/save to http://archiveofourown.org/external_works/new

This lets me open the external bookmarks page but I can't work out what I have to replace to get it to put the url in the URL box and the page title in the title box etc. And it's no use without that.

Of course I am not doing this with any ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF WRITING JAVASCRIPT.

No, I am looking closely at View Source and trying to guess which label or id is the right one whilst also hoping that the javascript applies equally to both ideas and doesn't need to be written differently at all.

You can see how I sometimes get into strife, can't you?

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Someone who loved me, who truly loved me, would write me a bookmarklet or whatever it's called that will allow me to add an external bookmark to my AO3 bookmarks from the web page of the story I want to bookmark. Like my 'bookmark on delicious' bookmark.

Brought to you by someone who has just remembered fanfiction.net.

*channels spirit of Kensi*
*girds loins*

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Taking a wee break from the wrangulator, I am testing out another function of AO3: bookmarking by pseud.

I've been thinking about how to set up fiction masterlist for NCIS: Los Angeles and talking about it to the good people at theboathouse.

Here's my test: NCIS LA Fiction Masterlist on AO3.

It's dodgy, due to being set up on a site in beta and not yet wielding its future awesome. I am banking on being able to turn my bookmarks into a 'Collection' when that function is available. And to expanding the bookmarker tags I might use. But I don't want to duplicate the site's functions so there's some thinking to be done.

I haven't finished bookmarking all the stories on the LJ fiction communities, so it's a bit sub-masterful at the moment.

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My friends, the AO3 is but twelve fandoms from a round 1000.

You have accounts, please be uploading in fandoms that do not yet exist on the archive. So close! Wranglers stand by waiting to wrangle your fandom into the count!

You can do it. I know you can.

In fact: fiction challenge! Find a fandom that's not on the AO3. Write something!

A list of fandoms on the archive

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I love the romance, as you know. But there are some part of the traditional romance that - well - that make me think of bloke porn's impregnation fetish. To wit:

He had heard that women were subject to strange emotions when they were breeding. Prudence might very well be pregnant. Pregnant with his babe.

He started to smile in spite of his foul mood. He could see her now, round and ripe with his seed growing inside her. A strange sensation of tenderness swept through him.

This quote from Amanda Quick's Dangerous is not at all atypical. Ripe, seed, babe, pregnant, increasing, his, his, his. Contemplating knocking up the heroine always makes them happy.

I wonder if I would feel different if I'd ever wanted children. But then not everyone who has children likes kidfic or mpreg or fpreg so it can't be directly related to your own desire to have children or not.

Regency authors, by the way, overwhelmingly prefer to use 'babe' to 'baby' pre-birth.

I like Amanda Quick's heroines. Though they do tend to amber or turquoise eyes they're bright and bluestockingy and they get lots of agency. Not so much agency, of course, that they don't end up married and pregnant, but they do actually drive the plot and there's a lot to be said for that. Also the heroine often has friends of both sexes and more than one of each.

One of them though, I was terrifically disappointed in. The heroine had made a bargain with the hero; he was to take her on night-time adventures to men's places. She would be disguised as a man herself. Yay! I thought, on seeing 'brothel' on the list immediately conjuring up a saucy scene of mutual voyeurism between the hero and the heroine as she indulges her curiosity about women (herself and a lady) and what women do with men (him and a lady). It was too good to be true though. Quick is depressingly realistic about brothels. That's not what I call romance, frankly. Imagine giving up the saucy tease opportunity of sexy fun times in a fantasy brothel!

The romance genre is so unremittingly, inevitably monogamous. Even if the heroine was widowed from a happy marriage it will turn out she loves her future second husband more. Honest. In one book I read recently the heroine actually ends up saying that she had always thought her dead husband was her true love and his best friend her best friend but she now realised that the best friend was her true love and the husband had been her best friend. In romance logic she couldn't possibly truly love them both. I hate on this a little bit. It's kind of retrospective infidelity.

On the other hand, I can forgive Ms Quick a lot for an actual canon dyke couple whose relationship is acknowledged at least once by the heroine's POV and in passing, if not openly by other characters. And they are the heroine's chaperones/friends and get reasonable non-main couple screen time. The closest I've come otherwise is a relationship that was used to conveniently get rid of the Wrong Fiancé by having her run off with a lady explorer. The author even foreshadowed it, bless.

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Three hours ago I put down my wrangulator for the day and thought to go to bed. That's when I realised I hadn't read DW or LJ or IJ all day. So if you were wondering why I'd shut up about Open Beta all of a sudden... it's because you all are snarfling up accounts and posting your hundreds and hundreds of stories. I think this would be less shocking to me if I'd ever spent any real time on fanfiction.net. I mean, sure, I've read stories there, recced stories. I've never surfed ffn. And some of you are sucking up your whole ffn account and putting it in AO3.

Wrangulating is what I've been doing with my time. I must have fiddled with thirty or more fandoms today and that is such a speck of the number of fandoms you're uploading. Zvi explains tag wrangling here much better than I could.

If you like the idea of participating in wrangling a curated folksonomy find out more about volunteering here.

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Archive Of Our Own Open Beta launches in twenty-three and one half hours.

GLEE!

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I thought to myself, gosh there's a lot of Remembrance Day posts this year. A lot""

But just in case I was imaging it I ran http://copracat.livejournal.com/friends?date=2008-11-11 and http://copracat.livejournal.com/friends?date=2008-11-12.

There were maybe five last year - two Siegried Sassoon poems and a few others. This year: thirteen.

I wonder why? Fort Hood? Awesome Specialist Shoshana Johnson? Yuletide signups over? (This time last year's posts were Yuletidex100.) Google's 'Hi, 1944 calling' artwork?

The internet's a verb.

Anyway, have the tune that always makes me a bit tearful and mad, because it reminds me that wars have been fought continuously since the war to end wars.



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Archive Of Our Own Open Beta is almost upon us. Read an update at the link but here's the important bit:

We’ll put up a post with exact details one day before we launch so people know when we’re turning the invitation queue on.

* We are conscious the timing may disadvantage some people and we've tried to pick a time that is as fair as possible. I understand we can't possibly meet everyone's needs, and for that I am sorry. I do want to assure you the people who made this decision are from a variety of places in the world and this isn't a decision we take lightly.
* The post will go to all the OTW mirrors at the same time (Web, DW, LJ etc.), so no need to mercilessly refresh the AO3 ;)
* If you are unable to join the queue because of the timing, a friend can add your email address to the queue for you.

\0/


Eastwick has been effectively cancelled. ABC is not ordering any more episodes. They'll broadcast the 13 and that's it. I just wish I could have a show I like with women who do stuff and talk to each other for more than a year.

/0\


Now is not the time to be reading zarahwithaz's post, Missing Mothers (and Sisters): More Thoughts on Female Characters on Merlin. Am thinking, now I've got my fannish engagement/mods two communities/hey this organising stuff is easy hat on, of a fest along the lines of Morgana + Gwen: Warrior Princess + Amazon Queen? Merlin/Legends crossovers that return the chicks to prominence in stories. Would Elaine really have thrown a conniption and died because Lancelot is just that shiny? No. Did Dame Ragnelle really need a bloke to tell her she could be her own woman? No, she did not. Did Morgana and Gwen really have a steamy threesome when they met Gwen's hot doppleganger on the road, having left stodgy, boring Camelot behind? You betcha lavender-embroidered booty they did.

\0/-- (That's Paul Gross Arms with A Sword, in case you were wondering.)

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I've always been a bit fascinated by the idea of crossovers based on name: Wendy Watson meets Wendy Darling, an adventure with ALL the Sams and ALL the Jacks (OMG world will implode) but NCIS:LA has made possible the most delightful thing: G/G! And what's more, it's not that outrageous. NCIS:LA meets HLOTS - it could happen!

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It's a meme baby. If you want words, say "Words!" in comments. I will give you five words that I associate with you and you'll post about them in your journal.

These are words yonmei associates with me.


1. Snape
What I've never quite understood is Potter fans who've spent the almost the whole of seven books thinking that Snape is a bad guy. Rowling just isn't that tricksy a writer; she flags things neatly. Villains are villains, good guys are good guys and Hermione loves Ron.

:D

Anyway, naturally I love Snape because he is the geeky high school loser, because he has just the right amount of manpain, because he is bitter and angry and misunderstood but still does good and because he is played by Alan Rickman

2. smushed-up-slash-tags-like-Snarry

Some of these are so gorgeous, they're sublime and delightful and witty. How adorable are all the smushes that can be made between Chris Kirkpatrick and his bandmates: Trickyfish (Chris/Lance Bass), TrickC (Chris/JC Chasez) and Timbertrick (Chris/Justin Timberlake). The names capture the sense of the relationships as well, particularly TrickC which always sounds like tricksy to me and expresses the trickster nature of Chris and JC. I heart them.

Modern smushers deserve to be shot, however. What were nutrek Kirk/Spock fans thinking, going for Spirk over Kock? Spirk is a nobbled seventies utensil, useless for eating peas. Kock is a brilliant opportunity! I cannot take part in a fandom that refuses that opportunity. Nutrek, you are dead to me. (Well, except for Uhura and Gaila.)

3. cats

Sometime I get kitten envy. I think that is why I follow very few journals of people with cats, and then those journals own older cats, cats that do not woo with their kitten bellies and their kitten paws, but admirable cats just the same. Cats I imagine my fantasy kitten would be when he grew up.

4. books

I used to read a lot. You guys know what reading a lot means; I believe you are nearly all voracious readers. Then came fandom and the pro books on my reading list dwindled because naturally I had to get through 17 years of Pros fanfiction in a month and that doesn't leave a lot of spare time.

Some years later... I wasn't happy with how little I read so I started setting myself reading challenges. Sometimes I achieve the challenge and sometimes I don't, but I am reading more non-fan fiction than four years ago so mischief managed!


5. fred

I stumbled across Fred Pohl's blog by accident. He is old in SF terms, he is great great grandfatherly, he is golden age and silver age and every age. He's like, a hundred and fifty years old -- okay, he's ninety in fifteen days time, on November 26. He had his first published work in Amazing Stories before he turned 18. In a couple of years he was editing Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories. He served in WW2 and returned to the publishing industry. He went on to edit Galaxy and if and write buckets of stories that were clever and sharp and thoughtful, though just as sexist and writing characters as hard to connect with as any grand master of SF.

But most importantly, he's fun. He's got 70 years of being there in SF history to write about in his blog memoir. He knew/knows everybody. He posts pictures of his cat, he's all matter of fact about the issues of being almost ninety. He doesn't condescend and he writes with -- what do they call it? -- disarming honesty.

( blog quote cut for surgery description content )Then, when he gets it well screwed, he closes you up and you’re done. From the blog post Fred the Machine Man.

I like him. I hope he blogs for another seventy years.

Read The Day of the Boomer Dukes, a time travel story, at Project Gutenberg.

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What? No video? Curse you theatre world and your prohibition on mobile phones!

Jackman and Craig lose shirts for charity.

*sniff*

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Some selected caps from Eastwick 01x06 - 01x07 ( this way: )

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Some selected caps from White Collar 01x03 ( this way: )

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( Merlin 02x07 )

White Collar 01x03
Do you think that the backgrounds are designed to highlight M Bomer's ol' blue eyes? No seriously. FBI walls are all blue. New York seems to be nothing but wide blue skies. I have no spoilers for this episode. Blue eyes, baby.

( Eastwick 01x05 - 01x07 )

One thing I would really, really love is that if the text you can auto enter at the bottom of your LJ and IJ cross post could be auto entered at the bottom of DW cross post.

I choose to read journals and feeds at DW. On LJ/IJ I read journals that only post to LJ/IJ, and journals that, because they sometimes/always post locked, I can't use a feed on DW for and femslash_today because it's DW feed is pretty unreliable.

What that means is that if you cross post with comments open on all of your crossposts, I have to find the url of your LJ/IJ post to find out if there's interesting comments there. Finding that other URL is... work I'd rather not do. I wonder if DW is already working on this? *makes note to go look at the listy thing*... *makes prerequisite note to find out where the listy thing is*

Anyway, what I'd really like you all to do is consolidate your comments on one journal or another, doesn't matter which, I keep DW, LJ and IJ so I can keep up with my journally-exclusive buds except for those of you exclusively journalfen, you I ignore. But I realise that's a jolly pipe dream of dreamy dreaminess because some of you don't want to consolidate comments. So the technology should fix it for us!

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