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| Saturday, May 18th, 2013 |
petzipellepingo
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beccaelizabeth
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7:42a |
science fiction clothing
sometimes I get bored and try and find clothes for my characters. this sometimes involves using the dollmaker sites, but other times I'll browse catalogues. I have a whole folder full of things from goth websites that'll do for my dystopic futures, including some very sharp pseudo militaria that'll suit for uniforms for starfleets. it'd be fun to do this sort of thing as a collaborative challenge, but DW isn't really the platform for pictures. I don't know where is because I'm rarely in a picture mood. it's weird thinking about how much detail we can get out of small changes in costume. like today I'm looking at workwear websites, checking out tunics. The distinctions between a chef's tunic and a dentist's are small yet easily read. http://www.matrixuniforms.co.uk/index.php was where I was looking. they've got some tunics in the Beauty section that'll do lovely for SF uniforms. http://www.matrixuniforms.co.uk/Beauty.51/Ladies_Beauty_Tunics.146/ , particularly http://www.matrixuniforms.co.uk/Beauty.51/Ladies_Beauty_Tunics.146/Jasmine_Long_Sleeve_Tunic__BZ35_.1129.html . The Gents versions don't have half the variety though, and you can't make them match. *sulks* Other clothes it's more fun to wonder who exactly would wear those. Voluntarily. I do have a character who'd love the Unisex Harlequin pants but ze also wears a patchwork tale coat and makes a living out of being the centre of attention. There's matching hats and neckerchiefs. I have visions of rooms full of chefs wearing these things and just wonder what they'd be cooking. I reckon I can make my post apocalyptic people wear this stuff because if it's polyester then it'll be around forever. Non-biodegradable. They'd have to grow their own cotton or wool or whatever, but some of these synthetics they could dig out of landfills in later centuries and just scrub up a bit. If it was a sudden apocalypse there'd be warehouses full of such things. Future people wearing a lot of cheap supermarket uniforms because those things will never rot isn't a vision I've read elsewhere, but really, it makes sense. Really, what is it that makes a bold trim healthcare tunic visually distinct from the tunics of other disciplines? Or the other sorts that are less scifi on account of having collars. I don't understand collars. I mean, why? I know some of them are for ties, but we're back to why very swiftly. If they function as slings or garottes then that at least makes some sense but mostly they just sit there or possibly flash and sing christmas tunes. How many futures still wear ties? But if they don't wear ties, that's a whole source of subtle coding gone. Humans. We make signals out of all sorts. Considering it's all basically variations on being the monkey with the brightest backside it's ridiculously complex. The fun with the sci fi challenge is to retain as much of the complexity we've already learned to read as possible, whilst making it recognisably SF. Doing fancy design stuff that you'd have to get a costume department to sew up is one way to do that, but having to buy all the parts from high street stores would be another. I keep seeing stuff that strikes me as perfect for B7 cosplay without technically being something ever seen on B7. So the trick to SF costuming would be to take the easily available but combine it in a way you get a coherent look that is just unfamiliar enough. And then preferably do it in a mix and match way that works for multiple extras, in a slightly more nuanced way for guest characters, and in ways with depth and range for the core characters. Costume design is hard, and I don't think I'd get the hang of it even if I studied more. Is fun though. xposted from Dreamwidth here.  comments. Reply there |
tamingthemuse
[ tekia ]
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1:32a |
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beccaelizabeth
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6:06a |
*blinks*
am seeing Agents of SHIELD references / fic summaries already including references to Agent May who on first glance I read as Aunt May. ... as you can imagine, the resulting images are confusing. in other SHIELD news, whenever I see that lovely shiny red car, I just remember Giles trying to drive his mid life crisis mobile. ( Real Me) GILES: Blast!
BUFFY: You put it in neutral again, huh?
GILES: I'm just not used to this automatic transmission. I-I loathe this sitting here, not contributing. No, i-it's not working out.
BUFFY: Giles, are you breaking up with your car?
GILES: Well, it did seduce me, all red and sporty!
BUFFY: Little two-door tramp. xposted from Dreamwidth here.  comments. Reply there |
| Friday, May 17th, 2013 |
tamingthemuse
[ darklingdawns ]
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9:37p |
Prompt #356 - Drusy Quartz - Siren Song - Part 15 - Morgana - Supernatural/BtVS
Title: Siren Song Fandom: Supernatural/BtVS Prompt: Drusy quartz Warnings: Major character death, bloodplay, angst (for the whole story) Rating: NC-17 Summary: Picks up after Twihard, but there’s a reason Dean was throwing up after he took the cure - it didn’t take. He’s left a vampire, and while he tries to ignore it, that turns out to be a very bad idea. At the end of his rope, Sam calls on an old contact of their father’s, who promises to send them help in the form of a vampire expert. Problem is, they didn’t expect the vampire expert to be a vampire himself! Dean is forced to spend some time with his new mentor, learning about what it means to be a vampire, from blood (which he doesn’t want to drink) to sires (which he doesn’t have) and more All posts hereIt's all in the blood |
su_herald
[ audela ]
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11:50p |
Friday May 17, 2013
DOYLE: So there was never any contract on detective Lockley?
ANGEL: No, Little Tony was planning all along just to kill her himself. *Poor* guy.
CORDY: Poor guy?
ANGEL: Well, he's got issues.
DOYLE: Angel, man, you've got to snap out of this!
CORDY: Right now. It's time for you to get all vampy - grr! - Kate needs you.
ANGEL: (shakes his head) I don't want to. You both withdraw when I go vamp. I feel you judge me.
~~Sense and Sensitivity~~
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tamingthemuse
[ avamclean ]
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11:32p |
#356 - drusy quartz - we were wealth - avamclean - btvs, walking dead
Title: we were wealth Series: We Find OurselvesWord Count: 2415 Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Walking Dead Prompt: #356 drusy quartz Warning: none Rating: FR13 Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and all related characters are copyright of Joss Whedon and ME. The Walking Dead and all related characters are copyright of Robert Kirkman, Image Comics and AMC. No infringement intended. Synopsis: If Lora’s mother had taught her anything it was to take pride in ones work. we were wealth |
tamingthemuse
[ valyssia ]
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11:16p |
Prompt 356 Drusy Quartz - Vanishing: Chapter 20 (part 2) - Valyssia - BtVS
Title: Vanishing, Chapter 20 (part 2).
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Summary: Some silly sot makes a wish when he should’ve called a cab.
Rating: FRAO: Adult Content: Sexual Situations and/ or Explicit Violence.
Warnings: (select to view) contains irreverence, potty mouth, Buffy vamp, brutal death (a few main characters may even snuff it), senseless violence, naughty sex, self mutilation or ‘body modification’ depending on how you view it, and other disturbing images. You’d think this was like a theme with me or something.
Pairing: Buffy/Willow.
Word Count: 118,351 at Chapter 20 (part 2).
Comma Guy: Howard Russell with Tamoline serving as a second set of eyes.
Disclaimer: Another day, another…they don’t pay me anything at all. I just do this to amuse myself and you. That’s what allows me and mine to slip under the radar while playing with characters created by those more fortunate than us.
Feedback: That’d be peachy. |
tamingthemuse
[ slashluv18 ]
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10:07p |
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| Saturday, May 18th, 2013 |
open_on_sunday
[ comlodge ]
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9:57a |
The things he'll do for his Bit...
Title: Sex Education Part 2
Author: comlodge
Charachters: Spike & Dawn
Genre: Drabble Humour, History lessons
Rating: PG
Prompt:  open_on_sunday - Birth
Disclaimer: Charachters belong to someone cleverer than I. Just having a free for all play with them. The sandbox is big enough for all of us.
"How long do I have to keep doin' this?" "Didn't you ever have to look after your sister, when she was a baby?" "In my day, babies were mysterious little bundles the wet nurse brought out once a day." "Really? What's a wet nurse?" "Um, er, they looked after the baby, after the birth." "What and they got wet doing it?" "Yeah. ...Come on. Your turn to rock the little sod." "Not finished. Is Spikie's arms getting tired?" "Just finish your homework. This thing'll need feedin' again soon an' I aint doin' it!" "Don't call our baby, a thing." "Dawn!" |
| Friday, May 17th, 2013 |
slaymesoftly
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6:31p |
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quinara
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10:01p |
Do I want this?
So, I think this is exactly the same as a parka I bought a couple of months ago in navy blue (because everyone seems to own khaki now and getting a new khaki parka seemed like an insult to my old, beloved, knackered one)... Only it's got peacocks on it? http://tinyurl.com/ce82atk(Bearing in mind that the reviews are silly and I thought I didn't like my blue parka because it was unlined and a bit basic, but now spend most of my time walking around in it looking in shop window reflections and thinking how well it goes with skinny jeans and DMs.) (Really, I think I want it. I just feel poor because I finally got around to dumping most of my savings in an ISA rather than having them floating around my current account. You like it too, right?) ETA: Wellll... I hope I don't regret that in the morning. To be fair, I haven't been drinking recently. So that makes it OK.[There are  comments on Dreamwidth! Add one?] |
debris4spike
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10:02p |
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tamingthemuse
[ skargasm ]
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9:45p |
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crackers4jenn
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3:17p |
I had a (slightly spoilery for New Girl) thought.
Someone write me a Jess/Schmidt tale that rips off that Community episode Pascal's Triangle Revisited. JUST HEAR ME OUT. ~ Girl breaks things off with guy she was previously romantically involved with. (Insert Jess here.) ~ Second guy has two women demanding he chooses one of them to be with. (Insert Schmidt here.) ~ Second guy bails and winds up running into that girl outside. (Insert Jess and Schmidt here.) SERIOUSLY, IT WAS THE PERFECT SETUP. HOW DID WE ALL MISS IT? I mean, I'm sorry Nick has to be Vaughn in this scenario, but he would do good as hackey sack royalty. You know he would. And, fine, okay, Jess and Schmidt would probably not make out in a public area like Jeff and Annie did, but ROAD TRIP, ANYONE? LEADING TO INEVITABLE MAKEOUTS? So, uh, deliver this to me, universe. Come on. Pleeeeaaaase. Current Mood:  good |
ladyoneill
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1:13p |
well, seems to be working again
LJ was quite annoying yesterday (for everyone, I'm sure)--I'm not on either of those clusters but some communities must have been because I couldn't post even to my own LJ. Not that I had anything interesting to say. I'm just glad it's back because I have ficlets to post tonight--not that I've written either one. I am getting close to wrapping the Perverse BB at around 30K probably (currently at 24K). I expanded one sex scene, am nearly done with another, and have half the final part done, just need the sex. I think there's enough sex (plus noncon, sex pollen, underage, age disparity, whipping, forced mating) to make it perverse enough despite all the angst and talking and plot crap. Stiles is definitely my Buffy except snarkier. I just love to break him down, make him miserable and then make him stronger again. Just substitute werewolves for vampires. I'm still dizzy. BP was back to normal this morning so I'm totally blaming it on allergies and sinus pressure. With no baseball last night, I caught up on a bit of tv--watched the last two Grimms, TBBT, Warehouse, CM. Still way behind. Nothing tonight since I'm at my parents and the Royals are on late since they're on the West Coast. Tomorrow is market at 7:00, then a bit of tv, then working on the big bang, then memorial service at 2:00, then finishing the big bang, then baseball. The BB doesn't have to be polished so I'm just spellchecking and sending it that way once it's complete. Other attorney's last day is today so I stopped at the grocery and bought cupcakes. The only ones they had were for KU graduation this Sunday so they're red and blue with mortar boards and Jayhawk flags on them. lol Of course I can't eat any of them. My office is so cold I've had to turn the heater on. It's like 85 outside or something. It just takes several weeks to warm up this stone basement. Okay, I'm outtie. Current Mood:  tired |
tamingthemuse
[ severina2001 ]
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yourlibrarian
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12:14p |
Collusion
1) Our mourning dove babies have arrived! Mama is really hunkering down so there probably won't be photos for a while. 2) Supernatural finale. ( Read more...Collapse )3) Kind of a spoiler re: the new Trek movie (though if I could guess it from listening to 2 movie reviews, I don't know how big a reveal it can be), but basically an argument that this spoiler cloak is a disingenuous marketing move. ( Read more...Collapse )4) The feminist take-over of a sexist Facebook site. 5) Perhaps relatedly, some men discover what childbirth can feel like.  Comments at Dreamwidth  . |
beccaelizabeth
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2:57p |
tumblr
I tried reading stuff on tumblr, but it was blinky and weird and I gave up again. So then I put a feed from someone's tumblr on my DW. I think I'm figuring out why there seems to be so much more talkings on tumblr. There's no comments thread. So when someone wants to reply they do it and everyone who reads them can read all the replies ever. Every comment thread at once is happening on your reading list. Who thought that was a good idea? Why does anyone use this thing? but even accounting for that amplifying effect, there's still more talkings there than here, unless there's a lot of talking here I haven't found yet. I need to find a fandom full of talking. or possibly just start saying interesting stuff. xposted from Dreamwidth here.  comments. Reply there |
beccaelizabeth
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1:34p |
UK subtitles
an article on subtitles today reckons "Viewers are able to switch on a subtitles option for most TV programmes across 70 channels, with about 7.6 million UK adults saying they have used this service. Of these about 1.4 million people have hearing impairments and rely on the service." http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/17/ofcom-crack-down-poor-subtitlesThat is a lot of people. The article is mostly about how rubbish subs frequently are. "Ofcom said on Friday that it continues to receive numerous complaints that there are problems with the speed, synchronisation, accuracy and presentation of live TV subtitling" Accuracy is the easiest to mock but synchronisation drives me spare, really, timing is everything and reading a moment before the even they're reacting to or the scene after is just, ugh, no, wrong. But it's not just live TV. I don't bother watching live, the subs make it pretty useless, so having noticed these problems I'm noticing them in pre recorded fantasy and science fiction. Some shows subs are completely absent (Alphas, some Game of Thrones), others they're just clearly not done by an SF fan, which is understandable but ridiculous/frustrating in effects. "Ofcom says that 70 channels provide subtitling across 80% or more of their programming." I'll grant them that's 'most' but that's still one in five things that you can't hear/read. I can manage without subs, though I've found there's entire characters I don't understand that way, and I drop bits, usually teh really emotional bits, ie the important stuff. Apparently I share my subtitling habits with a lot of people. 7.6 million people, 1.4 million requiring them, and there's still stuff with no subs on. It's like they don't want an audience. ... er, like they don't want viewers. the audio implications of audience being inappropriate to current topic. xposted from Dreamwidth here.  comments. Reply there |
stormwreath
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10:38a |
The history of Middle-Earth (chibi version): Part 32: Why the stars are mostly silvery-coloured
Apologies for not posting yesterday, but LJ wouldn't let me.
A couple of characters introduced here who'll become famous later. You can tell they're Maiar, not Valar, by their smaller wings. Also, the two big vats are called Kulullin and Silindrin, which is perhaps the most obscure piece of Tolkien canon I've posted yet. :)
Part 32: Why the stars are mostly silvery-coloured Next time: Part 33: Gonna make you a star
Chibis by tektek.org
Original story by and copyright to J R R Tolkien, ed. C Tolkien: Primarily based on the Silmarillion, but incorporating ideas from the 12-volume History of Middle Earth series.Questions and comments welcome! |
petzipellepingo
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3:46a |
More Links Than A Bag Of Sausages
Chapter Six of All Roads Lead to You by ![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) forsaken2003. desoto_hia873 gives us her Masterlist . EW includes Chosen in their "20 Best TV Series Finales Ever". "Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) ended seven seasons of butt-kicking joy with Sunnydale sunken into a crater, Spike (James Marsters) paying for redemption with his life, and Angel (David Boreanaz) just a fond memory. Buffy and her core Scoobies lived to fight another day — just somewhere else. —Abby West". HuffingtonPost talks to SMG about her new series. |
beccaelizabeth
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7:54a |
Working with
I have thought of a solution to the problem that, for any grand plan of group activity I can come up with, the optimal group would not include me. It is: work with other disabled people. It's the paralympics solution applied to movie making or whatever. But now it is applying to things I actually do I do not like it. It feels like making all of us smaller? I don't know why I react that way though. I need to think on it. The other solution is obvious though: no group is ever optimal. Things happen made of groups of people who turned up. It's like the difference between SG1 (theoretically the best trained special forces people the USA can provide) and Torchwood (whoever Jack pulled recruited based on presence in Cardiff). Most of the world is not hand picked best of the best, but we get by anyways. The trouble remains that there are many, many, many people doing any of the things I am interested in, and probably there are many, many, many scripts about things I would like that are better than ones I would write, and really I should just be trying to get those shared. Except then I still have no solution to the what to do next problem. xposted from Dreamwidth here.  comments. Reply there |
su_herald
[ lynnylou ]
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1:26a |
Thursday May 16
BUFFY: Wow. That was boring.
XANDER: I don't feel that boring covers it.
BUFFY: No, boring falls short.
WILLOW: Even I was bored. And I'm a science nerd.
BUFFY: Don't say that.
WILLOW: I'm not ashamed. It's the computer age. Nerds are in. They're still in, right?
~~Prophecy Girl ~~
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beccaelizabeth
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6:26a |
Places to live and things to do
I am still trying to solve my rest of my life. Or indeed my rest of my day. I started by looking at commercial properties on rightmove. ( Read more...Collapse )I'm not expecting the internet to actually solve these thoughts, I'm just having thoughts, because at some point I might have one that tells me what to do with the rest of the day. The rest of my life might be nice, but the rest of the day is the immediate difficulty. Probably I should write. I keep thinking that though and writing does not results. well, except like this. which is a kind of writing. just not the kind one can publish and/or make a movie of. xposted from Dreamwidth here.  comments. Reply there |
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