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( In Another Life, 1/7 )

Pyrrhic Losses
Fandom: Boston Legal
Written by Dien for Lyrastar
A mere drabble for Boston Legal about Denny and Alan's friendship.

Q & A
Fandom: Batman Begins
Written by medie for Sinquepida
"The Manor burns, there's a break out at Arkham, and terrorists let loose some kind of toxin in the Narrows, but we're supposed to believe the fire's just an accident?"

Bright Moon, Who Goes Farther Still
Fandom: Richard Adams - Watership Down
Written by hossgal for Sanj
Who is the teller, and who is the one whose tale is told?
The wind twists, turns into what it had once been;
Who is the foundling, and who is the seeker bold?
The rain flows down the hills and becomes the sea again.

Events May Play Out Queer as Cards
Fandom: Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase series
Written by halotolerant for KB
Dido Twite/Sophie Battersea femmeslash, set after 'Dido and Pa'. Love, the etiquette of cutlery and everything in between.

Silent Night
Fandom: Sharpe series (book or movie)
Written by Galadriel for Saklani
The Chosen Men share what cheer they have during a Christmas campaign.

What Lucy Saw
Fandom: Live Free or Die Hard
Written by Lasha for ToraK
Lucy McClane witnesses a private moment between her father and his new love interest.

Inspiration
Fandom: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Written by Gryvon for Isagel
Matt struggles to find last-minute inspiration.

Staras Trankvila
Fandom: Starman (tv)
Written by Estirose for jadelennox

Stories from the most recent Yuletide challenge are posted in order of when they were uploaded. Please comment on the stories if you read and enjoy!

Recipient: Tracy
Request: Live Free or Die Hard (John McClane/Matt Farrell)
Details: I would love a John/Matt story that manages to keep them both in character.which I know seems pretty hard to do with John. Ideally, I'd love something plot driven where they end up having to work together again.

Sandtrout
Fandom: Children of Dune (tv)
Written by Koanju for Saeva in the Yuletide 2004 challenge.
Leto II and Alia, a balance of opposites.

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I thought this was overall the strongest premieres vidshow since the second year of the con, and that continued into the challenge show. So so many good vids, omg.

BTW, a small pre-lj-cut PSA, if you are lucky enough never to have heard the song Handlebars and don't know the lyrics, do yourself a favor and wait to read vid reviews/listen to the song until you have watched flummery's Doctor Who vid to the song. Go, go.

As I haven't had a chance to rewatch vids, I am going to be talking totally haphazardly about random ones that have stuck with me enough I have something to say about them without that -- mentioned here under the cut are Climbing Up The Walls, the Doctor Who Handlebars, and Supersmart from Premieres; I Want You (She's So Heavy), How Much Is That Geisha In The Window, and White America from Challenge; and Rasputin from Club Vivid.

( vids vids vids )

Aside from the awesomeness of the vids, I just had a really great time hanging out both with people I have known for ages and also with many I had either never met or never really gotten to chat more with, in groups large and small. It was not quite enough, because it never is, but it was lovely. ♥ And to put the, um, okay, I was going to go to a sundae place but that would possibly not work right in context here, so er, to crown the weekend, celli sent me her in-progress Cook/Archie story of awesome unlike the MEAN AND HEARTLESS greensilver, who will be getting sadfaces in email from me pretty much nonstop until I am appeased, because it is not fair to taunt. ;__; So I totally don't care how much the rest of my so-called friends mocked me and my David Cook t-shirt, ha. :p

And with that, I am going to have a cup of tea and write a little fanfic and maybe see about hooking up a laptop to the TV here and watching some more vids.

Yay Vividcon!

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vividcon

Man, it took forever to clean my notes up. I think I will watch vids now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Meher_Baba

So ... which fanart piece do I send?

ETA: The intarwebs have spoken! Les Marchands it is! (Feel free to vote and comment as you will, though!)

Poll #1244157
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which fanart picture do I send?

If you want to avoid the extreme delay of grabbing your laptop out of your case, then repacking, you'll have to buy a new laptop bag, and one that won't function very effectively as a dual laptop bag-briefcase. However...

TSA is not approving or endorsing any bag design or manufacturer and will only allow laptops to stay in bags through screening if they provide a clear and unobstructed X-ray image of the laptop.

So. Buy a new laptop bag, but we may hassle you anyway if you guess wrong. See Overarching Guidance.

Current Mood:

tired

I can't believe I don't have any Death Trance icons...

Part of her own style is that she's shopping for her first serious purse as a graduation present. We hit Macy's, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bloomingdales. This year's statement bags are enormous, more hand-baggage than purse. My daughter couldn't find quite the right bag, so we'll keep searching.

Old-coot rant: One of the places we hit was Coach. They had a nice striped purse in that plasticized fabric that is chic nowadays. Not only were the corners unprotected (and indeed the floor model had already begun to wear), but they hadn't bothered to match the stripes on the side. For $300. It's one thing to pay hundreds of dollars for a designer bag, but it used to be that the money bought you quality as well as the name. No more.

Whoever took over and remade Coach decided that the only thing worth salvaging of the look was the signature stamped leather tag. No brass hardware, no thick leather (in any color or shape), and, of course, no durability. God knows the old look had become matronly, so I suppose it was time.

Just for amusement's sake, I pulled one of my two old Coach bags from the charity bin. (I don't work in the banking industry any more, so I don't need them.) After ten years it still looked pretty much the way I bought it; a trip to the cobbler for a polish and it would look new, except for the tarnished brass closure. Out of curiosity I loaded it up with a subset of my normal purse and took it to work. I've been looking for something smaller -- and thus less weighty and better edited, I hope -- and this was quite comfortable. I'm going to give it a whirl for a couple of weeks.

No Mistletoe Necessary
Fandom: Power Rangers Dino Thunder
Written by Sarafu for Joey
Conner's insecurities get the best of him when Kira returns home, putting an obstacle in the way of their new beginning.

The One My Soul Loves
Fandom: Bible - New Testament
Written by mjules for Martha
John comforts his beloved on the darkest night of their lives.

A Party of One, or Two
Fandom: Jeremiah
Written by Lizardbeth for elynross
After the Alliance's victory, Jeremiah goes looking for someone who isn't there.

Reagent
Fandom: Gouhou Drug aka Legal Drug
Written by Jougetsu for paupersribs
Things were supposed to be different after the job at Suiryo.

The Truth of Others
Fandom: George RR Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire series
Written by athousandwinds for prodigy
All people know about Rhaegar and Lyanna is what suits their purposes.

The Colour of Poison Berries
Fandom: Fairy Tales (trad)
Written by fleshghost for Imrihamun
Once upon a time there was a little girl with a hood the colour of poison berries, who did not fear the dark of the woods.

When the Messiah's Away, the Animals Will Play
Fandom: Wonderfalls
Written by trascendenza for ghost lingering
Treat. Brass Monkey and Wax Lion work out their differences.

A hook shop, over a pool hall.
Fandom: Robert A Heinlein - World-as-Myth multiverse
Written by Senji for Alixtii

Stories from the most recent Yuletide challenge are posted in order of when they were uploaded. Please comment on the stories if you read and enjoy!

Recipient: evagalli
Request: CS Friedman - Coldfire Trilogy (Damien Vryce/Gerald Tarrant)
Details:

Tie Me Down
Fandom: Generation X (comic)
Written by MsSolo for thelasteuropean in the Yuletide 2006 challenge.
Set after recent events in New Excalibur. Paige brings Jubilee to London, having heard about Jono's resurrection. Jono finds himself guilted into taking his old friend in, and doesn't regret it. They learn to cope.

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Themes and changes
I felt like this year's theme was women and relationships between women (we easily doubled or tripled the vid possibilities for another relationships between women show) and that made me really happy.

AAARGH. Had much longer comment on this, but erased it in edits. Anyway: improvement in number of vids featuring POC more incremental, but still noticeable. I counted 6 or 7 vids focused on an actor of color or on an ensemble prominantly featuring multiple actors of color plus 2 vids explicitly critiquing the absence of POC from media or fandom, and that's not counting ensemble or single-character or romance vids in which there was a significant presence of actors of color (i.e., there's an SGA vid which is John/Rodney but a really significant emphasis on team as family with real face time for Ronon and Teyla, a bunch of Torchwood vids focused on Jack with a team emphasis, etc.).

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