Below are the most recent 12 friends' journal entries.

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
auburnnothenna	10:21p	Holiday Happiness to All And I do mean all, I know Christmas isn't everyone's holiday, it's hardly my holiday since I self-identify as an atheist, but there can't be any harm to wishing good things and happiness to everyone, right? Birthday happiness to my bestest wifey, eretria, too, since I may not get back online until after her natal day. My AO3 dashboard says I have a Mystery Story/Gift for Yuletide! Yays! To my dearest writer, I will do my best to read it the day after Christmas. It will be extra special on Boxing Day. Now, normally, this sort of sappiness gags me, but just for once. Joy to the World. This entry was originally posted at http://auburn.dreamwidth.org/232821.html. where there are comments. Comments are enabled on all cross posted journals. (Comment on this)
Monday, December 21st, 2009
ac1d6urn	8:36p	Looking for a Hermione... Er, would anyone be interested in writing Hermione Granger in Breaking_Point RPG?  Yell, comment here, or contact Titti@LJ or IJ.  The mods are currently looking for one to fill in on short notice. They've got a list of other wanted characters that didn't make it to the cast page yet... (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
auburnnothenna	11:48p	randomly twitching Holidays are engineered to make me feel inadequate, angry, and anxious. It's an awful sort of amorphous anxiety that you can't do anything about, because it's not based on anything real. I do not like this one bit. Oh, yes, and I don't want to go to dinner at my stepsister's on Christmas Eve. I really, really, really do not want to. She's a lovely person and her husband can actually out-do me on the silence front, I like her kids, I have no problem with dogs and cats, and I just don't want to goooooooooooo. I want someone to pay me to be a hermit. Plus, sleep would be nice. Really nice. Then my brain would work again and I would, say, remember that the car won't shift out of park without my foot on the brake. Ten minutes I spent thinking the tranny had quit out of the blue. Good notes in an otherwise crummy week: I got a nice story for SGA Santa and got mine turned in before deadline and I uploaded my Yuletide effort (after fighting with AO3's interface). So I'm caught up except for the Apocabigbang fic I haven't even outlined. Which may be the first thing I ever default on; I don't know. I've got enough GT&T written to post if I can scrounge a beta up. I'll do that after Christmas. It's not really as much as I'd meant to finish for this part, but it's a decent spot to break it and I want to get something up before the end of the year. God, I really want this stupid holiday to be over this year. This entry was originally posted at http://auburn.dreamwidth.org/232599.html. where there are comments. Comments are enabled on all cross posted journals. Current Music: Adam Lambert - Whataya Want From Me (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
sinick	5:57p	Now this is MY idea of xmas music... Here, have a FREE, LEGAL MP3. But hurry, it won't be available too much longer. ( 'A Christmas Duel' by Cyndi Lauper and The Hives ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, December 14th, 2009
ac1d6urn	7:30p	RPGs, the other collaborative fiction sinick, devious RPG-dwelling creature that she is, has introduced me to my current addiction: the RPG called Breaking Point, which has a few interesting twists. It's 2024 in Harry Potter world. Suddenly, wizards from the past are popping up all over the place as if they'd Apparated through time instead of space Resurrected wizards include Tom Riddle, Death Eaters, and Grindelwald. Chaos, and mayhem ensues. Everyone panics1. My previous experience with role-playing games included tossing dice and crunching numbers for stats in table tops, beating Sephiroth, leveling up a horde of Oblivion characters, and avoiding chat transcripts of the 'I put on my wand and my wizard hat' kind. Now, I play Albus Severus Potter. I am not the first player to take him on, and he's had some interesting biography facts handed down: He's a Ravenclaw reporter-wannabe. It was the book canon's fault that he is a thoughtful, quiet second son that is close to his Dad and looks just like him It was my fault alone when in the process of tweaking his bio, I made Al into a list-loving dork, an equal proportion mix of Sherlock Holmes, Sheldon Cooper, and pre-Pon Farr Spocklet. Imagine, if you will, a short Clark Kent, sans the Superman suit3 underneath. Without the slightest possibility of there ever being a Superman suit. What is there instead is curiosity and logic. This RPG is fun! Everything went rather well for Al in his neat information bubble reinforced with books and newspapers, until his brother was cursed and Al witnessed (and helped) Snape save him. After some careful analysis of the situation, he concluded that Snape was a logical and rational creature worthy of interest and interaction. Of course I should mention that Snape only tolerated Al seasoning his cauldrons until he learned what Al does for a crust.   "What is this? A reporter? OMIGODYOUREETASKEETERU!!!!111"   Well, maybe he said it with a bit more character and a bit less emo. Sinick plays him and she watches her exclamation marks, as well as the emo. Then Al suddenly declared to his dad that Severus Snape was the best thing that happened to them since sliced bread and gave his father, the Ever Suffering Boy Who Lived, an intellectual finger and a few new gray hairs in the process. It all went from there.   Soon into playing Al I realized a few things about collaborative writing RPGs: Your character gains depth as they interact with others and they never stop changing as a person In character driven writing, strong plots help, a lot Ask the players involved before sending your character to walk around poking others' characters, most likely they'll laugh and let you There's no beta-readers. Get the words out while the reaction's still fresh in your head and let the others do the same. There will be typos and missed commas. It's good for Practicing to write dialogue driven conversations Discovering the importance of speech patterns (you discover early on that you hear how your character sounds and whether they're tired, happy, or angry when they say it) Rapidly producing a large body of text that would drive any sane beta reader nuts with errors It's bad for Constant POV storytelling. It jumps like a ping-pong ball all over, unless one of the players consciously maintains distance. Strict control over the characters, you never know who'll show up, and where they'll drag you next Procrastination purposes. It'll eat up your spare time, and take a huge chunk out of sleep time too, beware. So, here you go, RPGs for fiction writers, in a nutshell. If you want to join us, there's still plenty of characters left to resurrect, play, and puppeteer, such as Luna, Pansy, Bellatrix, the Lestranges, or whoever else comes to mind up to and including each one of the giant squid's tentacles (he is giant, and multi-limbed, he deserves multiple accounts, I say.) 1. And has hot, meaningless sex2, if you're into that sort of thing 2. Except for Dumbledore, who is just happy that his (boy)friend's back 3. Note, if your mind jumped to Clark Kent in his birthday suit, I am not responsible, it's all your mind's fault. Stop now. Proceed with reading.   (Comment on this)
auburnnothenna	3:25p	Mystery Christmas present or Letter bomb? All right, who sent me something priority mail from Galaxy Media in, um, Georgia? It feels about the right size and weight to be a hardcover book. Whatever it is, curiosity is killing me, but in a good way, so many thanks! Oh, yes, murron, I got your gorgeous postcard. So pretty. I've stuck it up over the desk. Blessed be. This entry was originally posted at http://auburn.dreamwidth.org/232385.html. where there are comments. Comments are enabled on all cross posted journals. (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
auburnnothenna	6:19p	Yip yip yippee! with added rec sga_santa is posting! ::stares:: There's a 33,000 word McKay/Keller story. ::whimpers:: Even though I know it will make me unhappy, you know I'm going to read it. ETA: I did read it and liked it. There's nice science fiction/horror movie premise, enough plot and action to satisfy me, and very well-done treatment of Rodney and Jennifer's canon relationship, Rodney's canon friendship with John, and the consequences of how the team changed over five years. This is probably the first Jennifer Keller with Rodney McKay that I've liked. Can't put my finger on how she's different than other versions, except that -- okay, this Jennifer isn't trying the manage and reshape Rodney. Maybe that isn't so canon-like -- it's better. As for John, well, you're left feeling rather as I imagine Teyla often does: torn between cuddling him and giving him a good thwap to the back of the head. Then going and finding whoever screwed him up so wonderfully and beating them with sticks for a while. I recommend this fic to anyone, even McKay/Sheppard 'shippers, who doesn't have an automatic allergic reaction to the het pairing. I think gen readers would enjoy it as well. Rated for sex, it would be completely PG. Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Also, this: Wordtwist is really, really bad for productivity. And very frustrating because it accepts the weirdest non-words ever and then won't recognize blivet! This entry was originally posted at http://auburn.dreamwidth.org/232055.html. where there are comments. Comments are enabled on all cross posted journals. (Comment on this)
elfflame	12:47p	.... ( Just watched Fires of Idirsholas... (spoilers behind the cut) ) Current Mood: crushed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
elfflame	9:58a	December Recs Possibly will manage this once more before the end of the month, though I'm not going to guarantee it.  Most of the fics in this batch are from before the fests started. All Merlin-fic on the non-adult post, here. Merlin Fic: See You on the Other Side - devilluck Arthur/Merlin.  Merlin helps Arthur prepare for his coronation.  - PG Underneath the Haze, One Thing Still Remains - Thoughts_artist Arthur/Merlin, Arthur/Vivienne.  Spoilers for season 2.  Arthur doesn't understand why it feels as though something is missing.  - PG Visiting Hunith - Rurounihime Arthur/Merlin, Lancelot/Gwen.  Hunith sees them change each time they visit.  - PG13 Current Mood: calm (Comment on this)
Friday, December 11th, 2009
auburnnothenna	5:31p	The calendar says Blessings and happiness to all who are celebrating Hanukkah! This entry was originally posted at http://auburn.dreamwidth.org/231460.html. where there are comments. Comments are enabled on all cross posted journals. (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
elfflame	7:52p	So...I just spent a happy hour or two adding prompts to the prompt post at HP_Kinkfest over at LJ... I knew that I was a pairing whore before now, but...dear god... 27 pairings total out of all the prompts, only four of which repeat, Harry/Draco with 10 and Severus/Remus with 5, and Remus/Regulus and Draco/Scorpius with 2 each. Not to mention five of the others were trios... So much good stuff over there. Even if you don't plan to play...it's great inspiration. :D (Comment on this)
auburnnothenna	3:04p	Oooooh Shiny Judas Doesn't Answer won a McShe p award for Dark fic. Which it is. I always think that story suffers from many people not liking that John is ambiguous in it. Maybe he's really a bad guy, maybe he's the guy we think we know with a few more secrets, stuck between a rock and a hard place. I wanted readers to be free to make up their own minds, but most of them took the end message to mean the former. I still love it though, for the whiptails and finding a reason for War and Peace. Anyway, thank you to everyone who read and voted for it. I'm a happy writer right now, with my sga santa story completed and submitted, my Yuletide off to a beta reader (that I've never worked with before!) after dossier said it was okay.  The plot, that is. I'm trying to find the entry into the next scene on Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves. I know what the scene has to have, but I've run into a problem: Jehan and Vala are far to paranoid not to be expecting an attack, and too good to be overpowered, so how the hell does Kel take over the bridge? Arggh.  Also wondering if atmosphere will vent from a hull breach while the ship is hyperspace. The ship must be in some kind of field that allows it to exist in four dimensions while travelling through the higher ones, so maybe that would also hold in atmosphere? Would atmosphere be drawn out into hyperspace the way it is into vacuum anyway? Not getting more than an hour's unbroken sleep in the last two days is making me cranky and slow-minded. My inner snark monster is rattling the bars of its cage. I got the the PO, though! Packages are off, freaking customs labels and all. Am now broke for Christmas. This entry was originally posted at http://auburn.dreamwidth.org/231359.html. where there are comments. Comments are enabled on all cross posted journals. (Comment on this)