...and here they all are.

( many pretty pictures )

Meme stolen from brutti_ma_buoni:
Post a paragraph from all the WIPs you can find, no further comments.

I don't have any "WIPs" in the "already posted half of it" sense, but I do have quite a few unfinished fics floating around on my hard drive. So here goes...

( some snippets )

I realised something unexpected this morning.

It was because stormwreath posted a list of all his fanfic, arranged by season. And I decided to look at mine, and see what seasons had the most stories, and so forth. (For the record: season 6 has the most. I seem to like it a lot.)

But the thing is, stormwreath had said this:
“The challenging part, of course, is that some of these fics are mutually contradictory. I’ve written Buffy’s final death scene three times, twice in glorious battle and once of old age, peacefully in bed: they can’t all be right! So I decided which one would be my own fanon, and marked the others ‘AU’.”

…and I thought, “Oh, well that probably won’t happen much with mine. Maybe once, but all the rest of my post-series stuff seems to be pretty consistent.”

*facepalm*

( I am surprisingly bad at predicting stuff )

Happy birthday, ms_scarletibis!

Have a fantastic day!

Here's a vid, for lavastar's birthday. Have a great day, hon!

( Willow/Xander vidness )

Four day weekend!


Today was Melbourne Cup Day - known hereabouts as "The Race That Stops A Nation".

And it really, really does.


I got in my car at 3:04 this afternoon, and the radio was playing talking instead of music, so I changed the channel. And... then checked that, yes, I really had changed the channel.

All six channels in my car were playing EXACTLY the same thing. Because the RACE was on.


Why on earth a horse race should be so exciting that the entire country stops doing everything just to watch/listen, I'm not quite sure. But apparently it's awesome.

I, on the other hand, spent Cup Day resolutely ignoring the horse races, and having fun relaxing and being non-sporty and Proud Of It. Just like I always do on Cup Day.

So, back in April, I took some time to tell the world about Tempus from Lois&Clark, and how wonderful he is.

And now I'm back, to tell you all about another brilliant TV villain: Harvey, from Farscape.

( spoilery, screencap-heavy post inside )

...and we've hit 30 degrees.

(That's 86 degrees, for you Fahrenheity folks.)


I am suddenly wearing summer clothes, carrying round a parasol (yes, a parasol), letting the breeze flow through my house's open windows, staying in the shade, and wanting ice-cream.


If this was the height of summer, I'd be fine. But it's only mid-spring. I'm not going to survive February.



ETA: now 32 degrees...

...just because I was curious.


Poll #1477434 Spike bites
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 69

In season 6, in your opinion, did Spike ever drink Buffy's blood?

Why? Or why not?

Illusion won an award at Absence of Light!



(With the comment: "The lyrical poetry of this piece is absolutely stunning. I love how William's thoughts flow right from one thing to the next, making all these crazy connections so that there's no stop between one thought and the next. The different versions of the First mentally torturing him are heartbreaking, and utterly accurate.")


Congrats to all the other winners, especially snowpuppies, slaymesoftly, stormwreath, ubiquirk, lily_lovely, eowyn_315, shapinglight, beer_good_foamy, brutti_ma_buoni, clawofcat, and spuffyduds!

I am facing a dilemma of EPIC PROPORTIONS.

...well, not really.

But my jacket, which I have had for over a decade and wear every single day, is on the verge of collapse from old age, and I need to buy a new one.


My current jacket looks kind of like this.
(Note the handy pockets, and the shoulder-bit for extra rain protection.)

Now I have to make my Next Jacket decision - and figure out whether I want to buy something exactly like that one... or whether I want to get the ultra-cool double-layer jacket with the inner warm fleecy jacket and the outer light rain-protection jacket (but without the big big pockets or the shoulder thingy).

*angsts*

I just spent half an hour on the phone, trying desperately to get one sentence's worth of information out of my uni.

Here, for your amusement, is the gripping tale of my phonecall, as summarised in who-I-was-talking-to headings...

( so very sick of phones )

Here's some drabbles written for still_grrr.

( Inspiration )

( In Costume )

Commenters on this post seemed very split on whether they sympathised with Kate or Justine (no-one really seemed to sympathise with both).

So I started wondering…


Here's a poll - about the background characters on AtS (or the female ones, anyway) and what people's reactions to them are.

( poll under cut )

It just occurred to me:

- Kate finds out that her buddy, Angel, who's helped her out several times, used to be all evil and soulless, and promptly decides he's horrible and couldn't possibly have changed.

- Justine finds out about this vampire, Angel, who's apparently good now, even though he used to be all evil and soulless, and promptly decides he's horrible and couldn't possibly have changed.


...and for some reason, I'm cheering Kate on, and think that Justine needs to grow up and stop deluding herself.

It's a weird contradiction.


Does anyone else do that?

You know all those beepy noises a computer makes when it's giving you an error message?

On the way home tonight, I was listening to the radio, and halfway through a song it suddenly dissolved into lots of Error Beeping.


Then, after a few seconds of embarrassed silence, the announcer came on and said, "Err... sorry about that. We switched to Windows 7 this morning... Uh... sorry..."

*grins*



*huggles my new Mac*

Happy Birthday elisi!

Have a fantastic day!

My boss just handed me a 16 page scoping document, and asked me to edit it down by taking out several pages.

...let's try that again, shall we?

My boss just handed me a 16 page scoping document someone else's badly written, overly verbose rambling, and asked me to edit it down figure out how to make it better by taking out several pages all the bits I don't like.

Or, to put it another way...

My boss just handed me someone else's badly written, overly verbose rambling something that makes me wince at the badness and yearn to rewrite it, and asked me to figure out how to make it better by taking out all the bits I don't like go nuts.

Or maybe...

My boss just handed me something that makes me wince at the badness and yearn to rewrite it, and asked me to go nuts fulfilled my every dream.

*is suddenly having a wonderful day*

I won two awards for drabbles!

From the Running With Scissors Awards, for Ciao:




And from the Fang Fetish Awards, for An evil name should be like Lex, or Voldemort, or…:




Congrats to all the winners, especially gabrielleabelle, brutti_ma_buoni, lily_lovely, nwhepcat, obiwahn, shapinglight, rebcake, liz_marcs, snowpuppies, moscow_watcher, and penny_lane_42!

...when there's a news report in which they mention someone doing a breathalyser test, and the Big Important Newscaster says in her Big Important Announcer Voice that this particular person was "breatho'd".



Had dinner this evening at a restaurant with a brick wall - and across the bricks, people had written comments in texta about how much they loved the restaurant, and what their favourite dishes were, and so forth. It was quite fun.