time and relative dimension in space

Oh my God if you haven't yet checked out today's XKCD, do it now. I've been playing with it off and on all day and I think I still haven't seen the whole thing. Wow. Randall Munroe, dude, you have my admiration and bewilderment. (My favorite part is either the pirate ship or the dude selling lemonade.)



Unrelated, have a meme stolen from othercat:



Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic (ie: somebody is intoxicated)
4. cooperate or die
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin(because who cares) secretly a parent
7. amnesia
8. daemons
9. forced to share a bed
10. matriarchy
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. Star Trek AU

I promise to do my best with whatever you give me, but you'll get a better outcome if you ask for something I'm at least passingly familiar with ...

This thread makes me want to see a Darths & Droids or DM Of The Rings -style webcomic based on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic so badly. I am being completely serious here, I think it would be amaaaazing.

There's also this thread, which works on the same principle but uses a different RPG system.



17. With the best music.

I am not a good judge of this, okay? I have minimal music training. But I'll offer up "You Could Drive A Person Crazy", Company. I love the music here.

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A list of unrelated awesome things:

♦ Being Human has been picked up for a fourth series! I don't know what's going to happen but I am so excited I can't even you guys. I can't even. Also, curse you Peter Jackson and your casting decisions. CURSE YOU.

♦ I have a new mouse! This is probably not exciting to other people, but my old mouse was driving me crazy; it would double-click when I wanted to single-click, or sometimes it wouldn't single-click at all, and I gave up successfully drag-and-dropping some time ago because it just wouldn't. But my new mouse does all that on the first try and it's so nice to have a working mouse again! Also it is wireless. I've never had a wireless mouse before. It's nifty.

♦ Today's mail brought me a shipment of two Sandman volumes (specifically, A Game Of You and Fables And Reflections). OMG YAY. My dead-tree Sandman collection is coming along nicely. ;) Amazon gift cards were the best invention ever.

♦ Speaking of Sandman (I know, I said it was a list of unrelated things), BUT ANYWAY, Sandman crossovers started eating my brain awhile ago, and in my various quests to actually write one of them I have stumbled upon a Sandman/Andromeda crossover that actually seems to be working. OMG YAY. I miss finishing fic. ...of course, now that I've said that, I won't be able to finish it. Or I'll finish it and discover it sucks and vow never to let anyone else see it. But right now I'm quite liking it.

♦ Animorphs: The Radio Drama (Uncensored!) has gotten their site back up (and redesigned!) and added a couple old shows. Old to them, new to me, I mean. ILU, ARDU guys! You make me smile. :D

♦ Miss nikiness has returned to LiveJournal fandom! Admittedly it's Supernatural fandom which I am not in, but I'm just bouncy and glad that she's returning to LJ at all. YAY. :D

♦ I'm looking in to renting a local hotel room for a night. If I can manage it, that would be ~24 hours I could have totally to myself and omg it would be so welcome. The problem is finances, as the problem so frequently is, but I'm hopeful that I'll be able to manage it.

♦ Kagerou, which everyone should be reading if they are not already, has just started a new plot arc that looks like it's going to be, frankly, AMAZING. And game-changing. And awesome.

♦ I switched the e-mail associated with this account to my GMail address, so now I'm getting my LJ notifs again. I hate not getting notifications in a timely manner.

What little, probably-insignificant-to-most-everyone-else stuff going on in your life do you think is awesome? SHARE THE AWESOME.

Clips from the upcoming episode of Doctor Who. AMY. She's fab. ♥

First-Person Tetris. It is really hard but also fantastic. Thank you, xkcd rss feed, you always share awesome things with me.

Lostpedia theorizes about this week's episode. Lostpedia, y'all are awesome.

Related: Here is my possibly-spoilery-but-not-really prediction: ( not really spoilery, but what the hell )

Also related: Look, I has a shiny new LOST icon!

Finally, this week's Daisy Owl is possibly too adorable for words.

YOU GUYS IT SNOWED.

Like legit snow, like four inches, not like usual North Carolina ~snow. I know four inches is not objectively a lot, but this is coastal North Carolina.

My mom was supposed to fly up to New York today to visit the older sister for a week but her flight was postponed 'til tomorrow because of the snow.

So yeah.


Er, in other news...

- I am doubtful about the validity of the LOST 'leaked first four minutes of 5x01'. Mostly based on the fact that virtually none of it is new footage.

- I have unexpectedly scored a $15 iTunes gift card. I have so far spent ~$5 of it (I got Raul Esparza singing O Holy Night and I am attempting to rent The Great Muppet Caper because I am a geek but it's having some difficulty downloading). Any recommendations on what to spend the remaining $10 on?

- bwaydaily's general consensus on Corbin Bleu appears to be that he's surprisingly good as Usnavi. I am so curious about his performance, negl.

- There is webcomic wank at fandom_wank, omg. It's hilarious. But someone in the comments linked to Darths & Droids and I spent last night archive-binging. Tragic, really. I'm now caught up and subscribed to the RSS feed. Are there any other webcomics I should be reading but am not? Because I should really just get all the archive-binging out of the way at once.

...I need to stop spending money.

(Today I bought two Discworld books plus the Doctor Who "The Beginning" DVD set. All excellent purchases, but still, I need to stop spending money.)

(In related news, I am still waiting for my signed copy of the xkcd book. Or even a shipping notice, I would take a shipping notice happily. COME ON, RANDALL. Please? I realized when I ordered it that I would probably regret ordering a signed copy, but I thought that would be because of the price hike not the interminable wait. *sadfaces a bit*)

(Also in related news, omg how much do I want this shirt? SO MUCH.)


...um.

So is everybody reading this week's xkcd series? Because if not you should be. Because it's AWESOME.

More to the point, does anybody know if Nathan Fillion is reading it? I know somebody on the RSS feed claimed to have tweeted him a link, but I don't know if he actually saw said link or is reading it. If not he should be.

Also, "no, that's the opposite of true" and "things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously" are awesome lines and I'm going to be stealing borrowing at least the first for my Better Than It Sounds 'verse because it's exactly the sort of thing Liam would say to Kyle.

Speaking of.

( cut 'cause it's long and probably not of interest; rambling about worldbuilding and original fiction and why I rarely have any actual writing to show for the hours I spend on it )

> Teh Niki's definitely out of the Boston trip. :( I'm gonna call the airline and cry at them and see if they'll transfer one of the plane tickets to a different name, since I already know I can't get a refund. If I can, I'll transfer her ticket to my dad's name. No go - tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. Blah. Going to try to get my dad to scrape up the cash for his own ticket. Tickets bought! Managed to get him on the same flights. :) Going to Boston with my dad won't be the same, but dammit, I'm going to Boston and I'm going to see my Shane if there's any possible way I can make this trip work.

> Today I logged into and updated my fic journal for the first time since...November, and miniNaNo. Uhm. Yay, me? At least I finally did something.

> My W-2s finally arrived today! So maybe I can get some money back! Yay!

> Awesome thing: lgbtfest. Go, join, prompt, wait to claim, whatever. It's got some awesome prompts already.

> ARD is still pretty much the highlight of my day. Almost done with book #5 right now. I love these guys to a ridiculous degree.

> Westley's a dick.

Snippets from a crossover that I will probably never write in its full form.

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...you know what I would like to see? A Doctor Who/xkcd crossover. With Black Hat Guy and Black Hair Girl as the Doctor's companions. He would be TOTALLY APPALLED by them and their methods, but they would accidentally save the universe through the liberal use of explosives and hacking! And velociraptors. And crossbows and lightsabers. And they would reverse-engineer the TARDIS and then start growing their own. Without the Doctor's permission. And they would critique the scientific holes in the Doctor's technobabble! And epic hat wars! AND IT COULD BE AWESOME.

This complete randomness at least partially inspired by the fact that there now exists in the world Black Hat Guy/Black Hat Girl fic! And it is good.