when ears grow deaf from empty words

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• 18:42 Back on crutches for a few days thanks to my knee popping out this morning. #

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• 12:42 @belllareow good effort =D #
• 13:27 Google wave ? Lamee. #
• 13:47 SUSHI MACHINEEE <3 #
• 16:20 Totes wrote Tuesday on everything today haha #
• 16:21 @aliasensquared I wants it. Sooo bad. And can't have it. So I was lashing out =p #
• 16:24 @aleishaSTACK hokayy =] #
• 16:35 @Bekei87 ooh do u likey? Heaps of people are into it hey! #
• 16:54 @Bekei87 whaat that's alot of gossip girl haha! I've been meaning to watch it but gots no time =[ #
• 16:55 @aliasensquared I'm allowed to angst every now and then ! #
• 17:22 @aliasensquared nope, just being mopey =] #
• 17:58 I miss @kezzer_ the love of my lifeee #
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• 19:38 @belllareow ouch, that sucks =[ #
• 19:40 Can't wait to see @joshthomas87 as baby jesus. Mad lolz #
• 19:42 @Bekei87 nov 20 I think on talking bout my generation =] saw him on friday and he was amazing #
• 19:51 @Bekei87 ahh how cute is he live? I'm really considering buying a bike so I can stalk him =D #
• 20:12 Wish I could hook icy poles to my vein #
• 21:55 Is tweetie 2 decent ? #
• 21:56 @alexisnotfunny with no clothes on? #
• 22:38 I don't want your number, I just want to dance; #
• 07:18 Please fix the facebook app =[ #
• 07:47 Yehhh! RT @_kezzer: Hey hey facebook... FUCK YOUUUUU! #
• 07:48 @_kezzer ahh everytime I think of sushi I yell SUSHI MACHINEE in my head lolz #
• 08:59 @_kezzer ITS BEEN TOO LONG <3 #

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Dear Yuletide Author...

Let me show you how happy I am that you're going to write in one of my requested fandoms:

*opens arms wide and says 'THIS MUCH*

Because see, here's the thing: two of my choices (Carny and Here Come the Brides) I've been requesting for years, and I'd almost given up hope of anybody loving them as much as I do - and I'm still in the honeymoon phase of love with the other two (Temeraire and The Graveyard Book), so really? Whatever you end up writing, is going to be much adored.

( Three pieces of possibly-useful information! )

Apologies for being a tad bit late~

The happiest of birthdays, winteraconite! Much love to you ♥

Please enjoy the 4-koma that the two of us collaborated on (it's certainly been a while!). Concept and storyboard by Harmony and art by Silver.

( Comic: Where Kira is a contortionist and Hisagi is ... somewhat naked. )

Also see it on deviantArt here!

Have a wonderful day, pumpkin! ♥

~ Silver & Harmony

Posted to shuukira.

I've been doing a lot of thinking, and have decided that National Novel Writing Month is a wonderful thing. Like many wonderful things it isn't for everyone, but here are a few reasons why I think it is often a wonderful experience.

• It teaches you to ditch perfectionism. I don't think it's possible to write a good novel in a month for moat people. I know one person who just might be able to, but she's a writing prodigy and somewhat insane.
  
• It gives you a goal. Sometimes people need a meaningful acheivement in order to boost their mood and self confidence. For most people 50 000 words in one month is a doable challenge. Reachable, but only with effort. This was the greatest gift an event has ever given me.
  
• It gets you writing, it may be something you never want to think about again after November, but you still sat down and wrote it!
  
• Spew writing can be cathartic. When you're busy trying to get as many words on the page as possible you don't have the time to judge each thought before writing. You need to allow your unconscious mind a certain amount of leeway. (How much depends on your writing style) It's also fiction. This combination lets you express things you would otherwise keep bottled up.
  

I'm sure there are more, but just let me leave you with this exerpt from the official F.A.Q:

If I'm just writing 50,000 words of crap, why bother? Why not just write a real novel later, when I have more time?

There are three reasons.

1) If you don't do it now, you probably never will. Novel writing is mostly a "one day" event. As in "One day, I'd like to write a novel." Here's the truth: 99% of us, if left to our own devices, would never make the time to write a novel. It's just so far outside our normal lives that it constantly slips down to the bottom of our to-do lists. The structure of NaNoWriMo forces you to put away all those self-defeating worries and START. Once you have the first five chapters under your belt, the rest will come easily. Or painfully. But it will come. And you'll have friends to help you see it through to 50k.

2) Aiming low is the best way to succeed. With entry-level novel writing, shooting for the moon is the surest way to get nowhere. With high expectations, everything you write will sound cheesy and awkward. Once you start evaluating your story in terms of word count, you take that pressure off yourself. And you'll start surprising yourself with a great bit of dialogue here and a ingenious plot twist there. Characters will start doing things you never expected, taking the story places you'd never imagined. There will be much execrable prose, yes. But amidst the crap, there will be beauty. A lot of it.

3) Art for art's sake does wonderful things to you. It makes you laugh. It makes you cry. It makes you want to take naps and go places wearing funny pants. Doing something just for the hell of it is a wonderful antidote to all the chores and "must-dos" of daily life. Writing a novel in a month is both exhilarating and stupid, and we would all do well to invite a little more spontaneous stupidity into our lives.

I'm a lurker here and have never posted anything to this community before but felt compelled to do so after I got really excited to see that a clip from last week's episode was featured in a montage on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. (Oprah, Regis and Kelly and Family Guy are also shown among others.)

( Clip here. )

Supernatural is nominated for an award in the category Favorite SciFi-Fantasy show along with True Blood, Vampire Diaries, Heroes and Lost.

People from the USA only can vote and have to send a text message.

( Screencap under cut )

For most of the other categories you can go vote here: http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/vote/

Every Tuesday & Friday is Name That Cap day! Join the fun. :D



Cap Challenge Hiatus announcement @ my LJ

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News

Updated: Ratings for Episode 5x08 reported by agt_spooky
Preliminary information for the 4th annual winchestmidwest at winchestmidwest

Challenges

Song Title Challenge Extension at ruby_stills

Fanfic: Sam/Dean

A Thousand Touches 2/5 by masterlist415 (Sam/Dean, NC-17)

Fanfic: Other Slash

Uh-oh! by shadowbyrd (Dean/Castiel, G)
Lights Out 2/? by ru_salki (Dean/Castiel, NC-17)

Fanfic: Gen

Christmas Greetings by immortal_jedi (PG)
crowns and thrones by unholygrace (PG-13)
Lullaby by susannaheanes (G)
Being by one_letter (G)

Fanfic: Other

When Tara Met Jason 4/4 by shadowglove88 (Gen [crossover with Supernatural, Smallville, Friday the 13th], PG-13)
Syndicated Sci-Fi Show by claudiapriscus (Gen [crossover with SG-1], PG)
New Worlds 2/? by sarah_jones (Gen [crossover with Doctor Who, Torchwood, Buffy, and True Blood], Mature)

Fanfic: RPF

Sound Effects by eviltwin (Jensen/Danneel, G)
Not to Mention the First Son by dev_earl (Jared/Jensen, NC-17)
Days in Our Lives: For Everything You Have Missed by titheniel & splashpink (Jared/Jensen, NC-17)
Leap of Faith 4/? by something_rare (Jared/Jensen, NC-17)
Pass it On 2/9 by hay1ock (Jared/Jensen, R)
Pass it On 3/9 by hay1ock (Jared/Jensen, R)
Let Him Go by mysticwaters (Jared/Jensen, PG)
Crocodile Tears by mini_moue (Jared/Jensen, R)
If you lead, I might follow 5/19 by ellydee27 (Jared/Jensen, PG-13)
That Middle Road 12/? by nilchance (Misha/Jeremy Sisto, Adult)
TKO 1/8 by vamphile (Jared/Jensen, PG-13)
The Way We Are 5/? by moodwriter (Jared/Jensen, R)
Animal Crackers 4/? by annie46 (Jared/Jensen, R)
Lock the Doors, We'll Leave the World Outside by i_o_r_h_a_e_l (Jared/Jensen, PG)

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J2 Fic Recs by ou_peachus
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Jared Padalecki icons (multi-fandom post) by breannaa
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Happy Together (digital art) by yumezaka (Spoilers for 5x08)
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Story Art: Do You Love the Shattered Pieces Left of Me? by secretlytodream
Chibi!Dean & Chibi!Castiel art by ran_cl
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When You Say Nothing at All: A Jensen/Danneel picspam by deanscookie

Multimedia

Dean/Castiel Fanmix: I Found God and All of his devils Inside Him by janie_tangerine

Vids

Party On, Castiel by devilyouwere
Sanctuary by still404ing
Just a Little Late by still404ing
When You Fly too Close to the Ground by still404ing

Meta

Meta/Review for Episode 5x08 by sylvia_bond

Fiction - One Shots
~ enchanted_jae wrote A Date With Draco Malfoy. [PG]

Fiction - WIP
~ auselysium updated In Search of What Comes Easy with Part 28. [NC-17, HPQaF crossover]
~ radowan started Kindred: Dawn of Day with Part 1. [NC-17, warnings]
~ enchanted_jae updated the Consort Arc with Edges. [NC-17]
~ lomonaaeren updated Soldier's Welcome with Part 31. [R]

Resources
~ kluminia is asking for five stories that show why you think Harry and Draco are perfect for each other.
~ Reveals and Masterlist have been posted for ownficfest.
~ harry_holidays posted a beta sign-up post for their upcoming fest.


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!!!SCANS FROM KARL'S NEW MOVIE, AND SOON THE DARKNESS!


( +2 GIANT MAGAZINE SCANS )

(Source)
Snagged this from ♥cate_mmds!


OH MY GOD. SO HOOOOOT.

ETA:

WHOOPS. There may be some mildy spoilery plot speculation in the comments based upon the 1970's version of the movie, but it could also be totally wrong because there haven't been any actual spoilers for the remake yet.

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• 10:45 Omg my tummy is trying to kill mee =[ #
• 10:56 Ihy boys. mw2? I don't caaaaare #
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• 16:32 @hollymadison123 can we keep him? He's cute as pie #
• 18:01 @benjaminmadden you should totally stay here =] #
• 18:04 @joshthomas87 i think it's masculine, the basket is at the back. clearly if it was prissy it'd be on the handle bars #
• 18:30 @brypie apparently they've been awful from the city this week! #
• 18:59 Sooo love Donna on neighbours <3 #
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• 21:01 Love finding out bout drama via abusive call. Then get to play rl cluedo =D #
• 21:13 Could so be a mermaid with this hair ! #
• 21:56 @Bekei87 naww that sucks =[ #
• 07:24 Craving cheap champers mmhmm #
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Because I'm just too lazy to try to find out on my own...is there anybody who's an expert on the Archive of Our Own who could tell me what the situation is with translations? A number of my stories have been translated into other languages (yay!), and one of the translators wrote to say she's going to be adding the [Czech version of my] stories to the archive, but doesn't know what name to put them under. I mean, clearly, she'll only have access to her own account(s), but she doesn't want it to seem as if she was the original author.

Does anybody know for *certain* what the procedure is?

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IDK IF ANYONE IS IN THE HOUSE FANDOM, BUT I AM LOOKING FOR SOME HOUSE RECS.

HOUSE/WILSON WOULD BE AWESOME, BUT I AM SORT OF OPEN TO EVERYTHING. WILL GIVE COOKIES!

(Cross-posted from kcmo_gqmf .)

Here's the idea:  I'd like to have at least one meetup before Thanksgiving.  I want it to be relaxed, low-key, simple, and fun.  I want to make sure that as many people as possible can attend, and that the venue will be conducive to everyone.  We've got folks in Lawrence, folks in Kansas City, and even someone out in Topeka.  I think I'd like to do this meetup in Kansas City, and the next one in Lawrence. 

Here's the plan:  Either this Saturday (the 14th) OR next Saturday (the 21st), we'll get together for food, drinks, movie/episode watching, and general geekery.

We'd start at McCoy's in Westport around 2:00 PM.  Food, drinks, breaking the ice, general silliness.  For anyone who hasn't been there, McCoy's is a restaurant and brewery.  They have a fantastic selection of their own beers, and their food is just damned good.  You DO NOT have to be 21+ to go in - it's a restaurant, not a bar.  Even though it's a Saturday, 2:00 PM shouldn't be too crowded, and we'll probably be able to geek out to our hearts' content without distracting the mundane folks.

After food and beer and socializing, I personally invite everyone to join me at my house, which is less than two miles from McCoy's, and within very easy access of I-35 and other major roads.  (I'm near KU Med.)  The party continues until folks get tired and need to leave.

More details HERE.

"I am Miss BlahBlah calling for the ShuShu Cooperation. I would like to ask you a few questions about your company's preference in colours."

"We like black and white."

"Uhm, ye-yes, ahm, well..."

"That's all? Great, BYE!"


*headdesk* This one of these moments where I could really use a big, fluffy cushion to scream into. I don't want to scare the neighbours, you know.

*pokes phone and glares at it*