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via Hoyden about town, a real life Mary Sue Draco in leather pants AU music video (nominally het, but you could read it as Draco/Dr Doom if you had enough imagination)

Seriously, it's amazingly fantastically terrible, if you have any interest at all in watching a skinny blonde guy with a bad moustache fight dragons while playing pop music on a sparkling green guitar :D

A while ago distantcam and I did a joint amazon order, consisting largely of graphic novels and programming texts. Amazon just sent me an email about books that "people with my tastes" might like, and as might be expected I have no idea what the titles actually mean but find them amusing regardless.

I wonder if buying this would put us on a CIA watch list? :D

(From little_details)

Question: My character has suffered repeated blood loss from vampire bites. What non-supernatural diagnosis will doctors give for his symptoms?
Answer: Occult bloodloss

So, several years ago one of Swancon's guests was the Doctor Who author Kate Orman. I didn't pay that much attention because you know, I don't like Dr Who *cough*, but she seemed pretty cool and I think we may have had a nice conversation at some point (it was a long time ago, and my brain leaks)

Now a year or so ago I joined the anti-racist community debunkingwhite. A little while ago I decided to start posting a bit about racism in australia since I couldn't find anywhere else better to do so(*), and another australian, seeingred, was very enthusiastic and posted some stuff as well. I've seen her here and there on the internet with her "redheads against racism" icon (which somewhat inspired one of mine), and we've had a few pleasant conversations, and she seems pretty cool.

A month or so ago I discovered the Dr Who macro community icanhastardis. I've gotten a lot of enjoyment from it, but have noticed a bit of friction over the rather strict spoiler policy, cheerfully but firmly enforced by the mod, who I decided was a bit odd but to be commended for running such a large and worthwhile community, and overall..pretty cool.

So (and I think you can see where this is going), today I killing time on the internet and came across a post(**) about this lj user who was involved in a bit of a kerfuffle in Dr Who fandom, and it mentioned some of the drama around the way she mods icanhastardis.

Her name? kateorman, aka seeingred.

How I managed to not recognise her name on all the mod posts (and in great shiny letters on her other lj) I do not know.

Anyway, I just had to share :) I am otherwise taking a day off thinking for I have a very busy day tomorrow, I intend to answer my piles of email some time after I gather the energy to wrap my brothers birthday present.

EDIT: checks out her userinfo and discovers she's been friended by nine of you guys, all of who are I'm sure laughing at me right now :P

(*)A well meaning gesture which has somewhat fallen to the wayside, because I am lazy and have a short attention span
(**)Which I won't link to, but I'm sure you can find if you really want. It's not very exciting, but I guess it is proof that no publicity os bad publicity :) I wouldn't have mentioned it at all but it was such a weird way to find out!

Oxymoron though it may seem to be, an amusing blond joke (via maharetr)

So I stopped watching "House" early last season, and all I've encountered since then has been via fandom, ie bits of fanfic etc here and there, and some comments about how the writers are quite clearly pandering to fans and slashers etc. I was pretty sure it was still pretty understated (if not entirely in people's imaginations) though.

And then I randomly flipped channels to commercial tv for a change, and hit a trailer for the upcoming episode (8:30 on ten, if you care), which basically implied that House becomes obsessed with a male soap opera star and kidnaps him for his own nefarious purposes, a la Love and Death on Long Island. I sat there incredulous.. and then of course looked it up online.

Alas, the real plot, as exhibited by the american ad, is much less interesting :)

On the ohtr hand, how awesome is it that I can watch an ad and immediately find a synopsis of the episode and a similar ad for the same episode. I love the internet.

So I'm googling "entrance ancient city" to figure out how to draw the next page of ACOS (I think I'm going to have to figure out a map of the whole city soon. Guh. My poor hard sciences brain is hurting!) and come across this link.

Which..huh. There's a plot point I hadn't considered :D

So, yeah, anything I missed please let me know (I'm aware of the scifi channel thing, pity it's not the real scifi channel) Anyone who wants our new address desperately please email me, I'll probably propagate it at some point but just spent the day cleaning and can't find anyones email addresses (and most of the ones I thought I had turn out to be wrong) and am very sleepy.

And now...a rest, and then dinner in a box, and then some of the finest tv shows the internet has to offer.

Part of the process of moving means....no phone! And...NO INTERNET!!! For ages!!! (Like, a week, maybe more) From tomorrow.

God, I can feel the withdrawal already. Thankfully I have internet at work, though I don't get much chance to use it unless I come in early on purpose. So...yeah. Try not to forget I exist :( And our email may bounce, and our website will be down until it's all set up, so really all I'll have is lj. SIGHHHHH.

Anyway, house is ok. Bigger, except for the almost non existent dining room. Further from train, but hopefully walkable. Will have to have a housewarming at some point.

*tries to motivate self to answer email while I still can*