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Away... and without Email!
[info]seawasp
June 1st, 16:22
I'm heading out tomorrow for a conference in Washington, DC (well, actually, Crystal City, but same area). I won't be back until late Wednesday.

And today my Precioussss, my computer, decides it no longer has need of a recharging board.

So it's in the shop, and won't be done until I'm  gone, so for the first time in a long time I will be several days without any access to my Email, and only sporadic access to LJ or the web in general.

Just so everyone knows.
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[info]brashley46
June 1st, 12:01
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Baby's first LARP...
[info]oloriel
June 1st, 13:30
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busy busy


... well, LARPie as it's only a two-day thing. Sort of a test run for the big events in July - to see how he likes camping and grown-ups behaving even weirder than usual...
Of course, it's the weekend where the rain clouds return after two exceedingly sunny weeks. Wish us luck!
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[info]seawasp
June 1st, 6:46

... I talk about what has probably been the single greatest influence in my writing life: E. E. "Doc" Smith.
Morrowind, Skyrim and Online
[info]kannaophelia
June 1st, 14:41


( Really only of interest to my fellow Elder Scrolls fanatics )

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[info]brashley46
May 31st, 12:04
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Romance Novel Series: To Finish or not to Finish?
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May 31st, 11:36
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Pinboard tags 31-05-2012
[info]lazulisong
May 31st, 5:00
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a trip, buyu, tv shows I've watched, kdrama
[info]deralte
May 31st, 1:23
Current Mood:
okay okay
I'm off on a long, boring drive to Wisconsin tomorrow. Oh northern Ohio, why must you be so dull? Got a lot of things done I really needed too like getting my car inspected, catching up on important tv shows, and renewing my driver's license. It's a pity that I have to miss out on [info]havenward's wedding this weekend since I have to be in Minnesota by Sunday (my first class is on Monday). My life has been hijacked by my phd it seems.

I was sad that I only could make to Bujinkan for one night of this trip, but Memorial day got in my way. Training tonight was a little weird since Jack was in a very philosophical mood and talked for half the class. But then he asked me what I wanted to do since I was only there for that one class so I asked for something advanced and complicated since I've been mostly doing basics back in Wisc. He focused on kaname which is the hinge part of a fan in Japanese, the idea being that you cause the person's body or sword to follow a gradually tightening spiral, thus restricting their movement until they collapse or their sword goes very far away from you. It's very counter intuitive because you yourself don't move. I had to literally force myself to lock my feet together and stand up straight - since in buyu you're almost always moving and have your legs bent. Instead you caught their punch/arm then tilted them back a bit to start the arc of a wide circle, turned your legs away from them, followed by your body while holding their wrist (not using your arms except to hold the wrist steady). Their arm follows the spiral/corkscrew down into the ground and they collapse. Another variation was catching the other arm, going under it and turning around (which puts it in a natural lock) and in the process doing another version of the corkscrew which ends with you bringing their hand straight to the ground, forcing them to do a forward roll. Sword was the corkscrew again but using the tip of the sword and lots of movement to get it to work. The key was to take a step in the direction you wanted their sword to tilt away from you.

Has anybody read any good White Collar fic set after the last season ended? I finally got to watch it and now I want fic. Also managed to see the rest of Leverage and season 2 of Lost Girl. Leverage was good as always. Lost Girl was rather disappointing in the second half of the season. I largely attribute this to the fact that there was an episode without Kenzi. Castle had a satisfying season ender for once. Like many, I've been enjoying this season of Game of Thrones, though possibly because I like ranting about how many things I dislike about the books (I've been trying to reread the books for months now but I've largely given up. Meanwhile, my little bro took several months to just read the first book (and he's nearly as fast a reader as I am), and he seems to have read the entirety of cracked.com rather than deal with GRRM's prose. I have since hooked him on Ready Player One.)

In order to immerse myself in my Korean course, I've located several Korean dramas for me to watch where I will hopefully pick up weird phrases and an accent to weird out my teachers. All of them except for the Korean Boys over Flowers involve cross dressing girls pretending to be boys since this is apparently the go to plot for comedy/dramas which will hopefully not make me cry (I'm not holding my breath since the Japanese Boys over Flowers got me to tears (though some were tears of frustration - amnesia? really?!)).
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[info]usomitai
May 30th, 19:05
I love libraries. I love love love libraries. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LIBRARIES EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO LIBRARIES THEY RULE HELL YEAH

...*coughs!*

Okay, now that I've gotten that out of my system, time to talk about what I've actually been borrowing from the library lately. :) ( Reactions to One Piece up to around vol. 17 of the US release )

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[info]lazulisong
May 30th, 17:59
1. Finishing up this special brothers fic thing ahahaha orz.

2. So K/S Big Bang, I remember planning to write something for that?

3. OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I FOUND OUT ABOUT NOON TODAY I DON’T HAVE TO WORK TOMORROW IT WAS BASICALLY MAGICAL SPARKLES EVERYWHERE EVEN WHEN I WAS EXPLAINING TO AN EIGHTY FIVE YEAR OLD MAN THAT HE COULD REMOVE HIS HAND FROM MY WAIST OR I COULD REMOVE IT FOR HIM AT THE WRIST.

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Fic Rec
[info]unlovablehands
May 30th, 19:42
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the hip and the dead by holli
(The Avengers, Steve Rogers, gen)

I entirely blame this fic for my current interest in Steve Rogers: accidental hipster. Also it is simultaneously hilarious and full of punching me in the feelings, so. You know. It's good. Go read it.



I need to start posting in my journal again sometimes, I think. Dang.

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[info]petronia
May 30th, 13:36
Subdee came up to Montreal for a few days! Sunday evening through Wednesday morning. We went to see The Avengers again on Monday night. XD;

Was woken up at 5AM on Tuesday morning by extremely loud thunder and lightning. Got up, checked the windows, went back to bed and dreamt fuzzily of Thor getting angry and bashing things. It looked over by the time I got up properly, but then there was the mother of all summer thunderstorms between 5pm and 6pm - through 5th floor sheet-glass windows it resembled the inside of a waterfall turned 90 degrees sideways, light refracting so that the air was blue. Environment Canada issued a tornado(!) warning. There were extensive flash floods in southwest and downtown Montreal, because our infrastructure is designed to handle snowmelt, not this tropical storm shit. XD; (The store under my apartment had basement flooding, but my place was OK.)

The alarm system in the Bell Campus got knocked out and started screeching, fire trucks were called, the elevators stopped working so one had to take the fire escape down. There was an inch of water between the stairs and the door on the ground floor. To cap it off that damnable red-winged blackbird headbutted me again as I was running from the door to the bus shelter. For the third time!! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Oh well. MUTEK starts today (there was interesting conference talk stuff earlier on that I didn't get a chance to go to).

I have figured out how to add the footer on a crosspost! Go me! /rollsalot (Original post is here: http://petronia.dreamwidth.org/41832.html)
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End of May Observations.
[info]sauce1977 wrote in [info]baseball
May 30th, 13:00
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135 million dollar disappointment land
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Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man
What a difference a month makes.

1. Angels getting better.

At the beginning of May, people were wringing hands and getting frantic when talking about the Angels. And then Jered Weaver threw a no-hitter on the 2nd, and Pujols started hitting, and they're finishing out the month with beatdowns on Oakland and Seattle and the Yankees. Not a bad turnaround for a team that was a basket case 30 days ago. Weaver just went on the DL for a back injury, but hopefully that won't be too severe. He's one of the better pitchers in the league.

2. AL East is crazy competitive.

The last place team is Boston, and they have a 25-24 record. That's not very good, but when Baltimore and Tampa Bay have been killing it (tied, 29-21 records), and your last place team has a record above .500, well, damn. Too bad the bottom two teams didn't play their games in the Central or West. Personally, I don't think Baltimore's run will last. With what pitching? They can definitely thank Adam Jones for his hot start. 16 HRs already, he's a caged rage at the plate this year. Here's to the 12 O's fans left, hoping that they can keep up the assault. Seriously, congrats so far to the Orioles. Nobody predicted this.

3. Detroit Tigers, a 135 million dollar disappointment.

Their fielding stinks the worst. For a team with the least amount of fielding chances (thanks to a very high team pitching strikeout total), they sure shouldn't be wallowing at .980. It's to be expected that your hot corners aren't so hot when you got Cabrera at 3rd and Fielder at 1st, but because you have those guys, you absolutely need dynamite gloves in the middle of the infield. Peralta, Santiago, and Raburn blow. They're not even average fielders at SS and 2B, their range isn't great, and they can't even turn a double play when they need to do it. Raburn just got demoted (.146, doing his best Brandon Inge impersonation). You really need to buy some complete infielders, and good luck with that.

But that's not nearly as bad as their pitching, in my opinion. 4.01 ERA in a pitcher's park, and a 4.17 ERA overall. Teams are hitting a good .263 against them. And this team employs Justin Verlander. Culprits? Max Scherzer and Rick Porcello flat out cannot pitch. There's no point in putting them out there every 5th game. Of both these guys, I've seen enough. And Jose Valverde has been awful. 2 blown saves isn't the problem. His fastball isn't fooling very many batters. And his physique is awful. He's having back troubles. I can see why. Fat and predictable is no way to close games, Jose.

4. Three predictions.

I'm terrible at these, and even more so, baseball is very unpredictable, but here goes.

* Nationals will keep it up. Their hitting is pretty bad, but they're in the NL. Barring the injury bug, the Nats have 5 solid starting pitchers, which is 3 more than most teams have. DC would do well to trade for an extra bat and better relief come the trade deadline. I really shouldn't have doubted Bryce Harper, but that kid sucked more than I have ever seen a phenom suck, in person, back when I saw him play on a cold April day for Syracuse, DC's AAA team. So, mea culpa baseball gods, but is it too much to ask that a guy is consistent, even when they force him to duff it for a week or two in AAA?

* Dodgers are for real. Sorry, Giants haters. Rub on Brian Wilson's elbow and empty the cusses and slurs. It's not like you aren't doing so bad yourself, it's just, LA is better. Kershaw and Capuano are having solid seasons, Kemp's back, and the Dodgers are 32-17. They've got a semi-tough June ahead of them, facing off against San Fran, the uncommonly good Mets, desperate Philly, streaking White Sox, and the Angels. At least they can beat up on Seattle and Oakland in the process. If LA is still on top by the 4th of July, then I think it's safe to say that they'll be a 2nd season contender. Who would have predicted such rosy skies for this team? Maybe all it took was getting out from under Frank McCourt's awful grip.

* Yankees are in trouble. No, losing Mariano isn't really the problem. Ivan Nova isn't so hot. Neither is Phil HugeHughes. They went out and bought Kuroda, but will he last the year? He's 37. Ditto Pettitte, who is 39. Pineda was a total wash. The Yankees pitching won't be enough to last, unless they're the ones power broking at the deadline. It's a shame too, because their fielding is great, and their hitting is pretty solid, too. Jeter is killing it. 338 average won't last, but still. The biggest problem is the previously-mentioned solid East ... they added a playoff spot, but all 5 teams in the East aren't making the post season.

June's just about here. Time for fighting in the streets, baseball teams. It's hot, that ball's going to travel, and you're inching toward the halfway mark. Flukes are going to end. Shit is about to get real.
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May 30th, 12:02
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[info]seawasp
May 30th, 6:48

... is on Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber.
Reasonably happy
[info]skyring
May 30th, 16:39
The not drinking thing is going fine. It's been a few weeks now and I've been drinking fruit juice and ginger ale in social situations. Not a big thing to give up, really, I wouldn't normally drink much anyway. Half a bottle of wine and a couple of bottles of beer or cider over a week.

The house painting is done, complete to windows and flyscreens. The gutters need replacing, but they'll be another week or two. The cottage now looks fantastic, with the new roof and all. I feel like the chunky guy in the advert, picking up his morning paper, turning around and looking with satisfaction at his new roof.

I'll put up some photographs when they put up the gutters.

The weekend was wonderful, and that's not because Kerri was away with her sewer group at a weekend retreat near the water treatment plant out at Cotter. It was OzFest #9 - a gathering of the FlyerTalk forum of which I'm an infrequent member. OMG. There were people there whose passports must look like stamp albums. The lady across from me was up to seventy plus and the guy beside me had fifty more. They swapped tales of borders and bribes, weird meals and frantic taxi rides. I'll have to write a better blog post to capture the flavour.

Saturday morning was an Eckhardt Tolle session run by the philosophy school. It was fun and instructive. About twenty people showed up from all classes in the school and we just had a grand time. People are nice.

I mowed the lawn in the afternoon. I was hoping that my son would do it before Kerri showed, but she got an early mark and the front was still all leaves on the lawn. So I hauled out the mower and created an amazing amount of mulch which will rot down over the winter, ready for spring. Spread it out over the barked areas of the garden - no use trying for mulch out of a huge pile of leaves turning black and slimey.

Broke the drought on the novel. Six weeks and I've been thinking hard after reading some writing blogs about plot structure and stuff. Wrote a new first chapter from the point of view of the main character, as opposed to a secondary one. Wrote a blog post to explain it. Dunno why. Nobody is reading the thing according to the stats. Even before I took a long break. Sign that I've got work to do, I guess.

Getting cold. Frost on the car windows is a regular thing now. I generally realise that Kerri needs her car defrosted about two minutes before she leaves and I jump out, start up the Golf and set to work hacking sheets of ice off the windows.

I've got a stack of DVDs beside me about a kilometre high. Been borrowing them from the library. Currently grazing my way through the first series of The Wire. Great show!
Detroit @ Boston 5th inning OGP
[info]volare wrote in [info]redsox
May 29th, 20:38
NAVA!


(and hope it doesn't turn into a rainout....)


(also JFC Bard get it together willya?)
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May 29th, 12:03
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[info]oloriel
May 29th, 15:11



Unfortunately, tulips are no longer in season, but virtual tulips never fade ;)

Yup, now I'm doing the image thing, too. Let's see if I'll keep that up...
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[info]chrkya_ler wrote in [info]romancenovels
May 29th, 8:32
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Fight your liar!
[info]oloriel
May 29th, 14:00
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Hurray! It's Eurovision time again! (Yes, a bit late, because the day before yesterday we were BBQing with my parents and afterwards it was too late to watch the ESC and then on Sunday I only typed up half and yesterday the weather was too nice and -- anyway, belated. So I shall watch it now, bit by bit, as if it only got broadcast now. Pretend along, or not, as you desire!)

So, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the
Eurovision Song Contest 2012!
Fog machines! Fireworks! Light effects! Skimpily clad women! Europop! Disco! Drama! Botox! Make-up! Uncalled-for political commentary! Cliché! Neighbour favouritism! WE'VE GOT IT ALL!
*dun dun dun*
LIGHT YOUR FIRE!

Commentary consists of my own snarky thoughts and opinions: You need not agree. I do not speak the gospel truth. (Of course I do, from my subjective perspective, but that is, obviously, subjective.)
Commentary on commentary is based on the German broadcast, i.e. the commentary by Peter Urban.

( Preliminaries )

OKAY LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS NOW. LET THERE BE MUSIC!

( The ESC proper. All the countries! All the snark! )

That's it!

( Now we get to the voting... )
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gunnerkrigg court
[info]usomitai
May 28th, 20:42
I ask you: why isn't there more Gunnerkrigg Court out?? Why did I decide to catch up, even knowing it wasn't even near the end? Also, why do I love this series so much?!

*pouts!*

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[info]gramarie
May 28th, 21:16

http://gramarie.net/log/?p=3038

The song from 0:35 onwards? The end credits of Sukiyaki Western Django.

Which are in turn a cover version of the original, but yeah.

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[info]blackestfaery wrote in [info]romancenovels
May 28th, 21:54
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[info]lazulisong
May 28th, 19:19
We had a big thunder storm Saturday night and it gently sauteed our poor modem into oblivion. Like, Comcast can see its but fucked if we can see them.

Probably unrelated, but this was about the time I had settled down for a nice talk with Becky about the thunderfrost special brothers. So that had nothing to do with it, I'm sure, but if so, joke's on Loki, I have Swype and a bad head cold, and work STARTED with an exciting round of "Just...stop dying on me, okay?" this week. if he thinks killing internet is going to stop me, well that's cute of him.

Anyway! New phone, complete with exciting discovery that win7 fucking hates talking to Android things. It has Swype as aforesaid, which I love without irony or restraint, or will as soon as I bend autocorrect to my will. So exciting.

Dawn and I went to Dog mountain on Friday except we accidentally another trail that added two miles to an already hilariously long hike, so that made Saturday super special. Dog mountain is like 2800 feet, and when we got to the summit I looked shudderingly down and found a nice bit of ground under a nice low growing pine to hide under. Dawn did not fail to tell me that was the most me-like thing she had ever seen me do. I really hate heights, okay.

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May 28th, 12:01
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[info]seawasp
May 28th, 8:12

... features the Golden Age author A.E. Van Vogt.

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May 27th, 12:01
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[info]gramarie
May 26th, 20:18

http://gramarie.net/log/?p=3031

…I at last took some time to watch “The Reichenbach Fall.” I’m still undecided on the confirmation that CSI is a real show in the Sherlockverse (because now I don’t know if House MD is also a real show too and MY HEAD HURTS), and there was a strange undercurrent of references to The Silence of the Lambs (Sherlock’s, erm, Sherlock Scan of Kitty Riley was too similar to Lecter’s reading of Clarice Starling during their first meeting, Jim’s willingness to trade information for chilhood stories too). But when I saw this

I went WELL OF COURSE. IDEAS ARE BULLETPROOF.

And then,

I admit, I had V for Vendetta in my head since way earlier. The statue of Justice on top of the Old Bailey is so distinctive.

Well, damn. Which only goes to show that if you want a vaguely camp gay anarchist madman and criminal mastermind who’s bent on mocking and destroying all the symbols of British political might via terrorist actions for the lulz, V did it with more style and panache. And less creep.

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May 26th, 12:01
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[info]beck_liz
May 25th, 19:54
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Watched half of the 1st season of Teen Wolf last weekend, considering watching the rest this weekend, but I've got to ask you all: does the lead get any less boring and stupid? Because I usually like the lead of a show, even when others don't, but this kid? The only thing that slightly redeems him are his abs, and I'm sorry, but they only go so far. I'm fast-forwarding a lot, is what I'm saying, so... is it worth watching the rest for Stiles, Derek and the rest of them?

The other thing I'm planning to marathon on this long weekend is the 1st series of Chuck. Never got into it to begin with, something right at the start of it set off my humiliation squick big time and I never went back. (I can't remember what, though.) But some people have been spamming the hell out of my Tumblr dashboard with Chuck, and well. I'm easily led. And it's a little easier since the show is over and done with and I know I can just keep marathoning the whole thing if I enjoy it.

The other things I'm planning to see this weekend for the first time are Alien and Aliens. No, I've never seen them; I'm not really much of a true horror fan, and what little I've seen of them hasn't interested me that much, despite Sigourney Weaver. But I decided to give it a shot anyway, especially since Prometheus looks quite interesting and it's (maybe?) a prequel?

Saw The Avengers for the sixth time last night, and it was awesome yet again. So awesome that I was considering seeing Battleship and/or Men In Black 3 this weekend and decided against it - they just can't match up.

In not so good news, I'm having trouble with my a/c drainage again. Where the drain lets out of the house has a tendency to get clogged up by mulch, so it backs up and then leaks water all over my living room carpet. So I've been 4 days without a/c, and it's been particularly humid this week. Was able to get my handymen to come out and clear the drain today, which they did, and I went off for lunch and grocery shopping. However, I came back 2 hours later ... to find more water in the same spot. So they came back, and it looks like there's a leak in one of the pipes. Since the situation looked more involved and it was getting late in the day and it's the long weekend, I now have a bucket under my a/c that I have to dump outside periodically until they can come back next week and figure out what to do. /o\ Argh. Old buildings, man. Mine's not that old, really, probably built in the 70s, but you can really tell because some things are just not up to modern code.

Still, at least my a/c is running now. I'd rather dump a bucket than have no a/c, especially given how hot & humid it's supposed to be this weekend.

So that's what's going on with me - what's up with you all?

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crossover time!
[info]usomitai
May 25th, 16:33
( Spoilers for House finale and another series )

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May 25th, 12:03
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[info]seawasp
May 25th, 8:23
... and this one is for The Wizard of Oz himself, L. Frank Baum.
Modern X-Men books, Part 1
[info]mura_arkaine
May 25th, 0:19
Mainly for [info]makou, as a reference on where's a good place to start in modern day X-Men. List of noteworthy/important books IN THIS ORDER:

X-Men: Messiah Complex (ISBN 0-7851-2320-2)
(MAJOR EVENT) - The first mutant in years is born. Both friends & foes of the X-Men race to rescue/kill the baby. The baby's name is Hope Summers. Cable and Hope are sent to the future to stay safe. Xavier's school is in ruins, and the X-Men move to San Francisco as their new base of operations.

X-Force Book 1: Angels and Demons (ISBN 0-7851-2976-6)
X-Force Book 2: Old Ghosts (ISBN 0-7851-2977-4)
(MINOR, IMPORTANT EVENT) - Cyclops assembles X-Force: Wolverine, X-23, Archangel, Domino, and Warpath. This is Cyclops' personal hit squad. They take out any major threat to mutant kind. Even if it means they must do what X-Men are not supposed to do - Kill.

X-Force Book 3: Not Forgotten (ISBN 0-7851-3540-5)
X-Force/Cable: Messiah War (ISBN 0-7851-3173-6)
(MAJOR EVENT) - X-Force is sent to the future to find Cable and Hope, as they are lost in the time stream.

Uncanny X-Men: Sisterhood (ISBN 0-7851-4105-7)
(MINOR EVENT) - Psylocke returns and rejoins the X-Men.

Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia (ISBN 0-7851-4234-7)
(MAJOR EVENT) - During the events of Norman Osborne's rule over SHIELD, he assembles both his Dark Avengers and his Dark X-Men. Seeing Cyclops as a threat, Norman takes a break from his Avengers troubles in New York and decides to take out Cyclops and his X-Men in San Francisco, California. The X-Men create their own island off the coast of San Francisco. Their newly created island becomes the main base of operations for the X-Men and all remaining (200) mutants in the world. The island is UTOPIA.

X-Men: Psylocke (ISBN 978-0-7851-4439-7)
(MINOR EVENT) - Aftermath of Psylocke's return - She goes on a solo mission to revisit her past.

(To Be Continued)
Birthdayitude
[info]brashley46
May 25th, 1:51
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Happy birthday to [info]norilana , [info]docbrite , [info]ksumnersmith , and [info]thecrazyfinn too! May the coming year be prosperous for each of you, and yours.
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[info]green_wing wrote in [info]romancenovels
May 25th, 17:25
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Steph's Crappy Eurovision Analysis: Semifinal 2
[info]1863_project
May 24th, 17:46
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Part 1 of this crappy analysis is here.

Now that we've got a full field of finalists, we have to wait until Saturday, when everybody goes head-to-head one more time for European pop domination.

( Cut for music videos of crappy Europop... )

Alrighty, just one more round on Saturday - the finals - and then we have to wait another year for crappy music. Or we could just listen to the radio and hear a lot of it. That, too.
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May 24th, 12:02
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[info]deralte
May 24th, 10:58
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Yesterday finished a marathon drive. Went from Wisconsin to New York on Tues. to pick up my little bro from college, then a six hour run down from there after tons of packing and lifting to reach NJ yesterday. My muscles in my shoulders pretty much seized up, I got a blister from sitting too long, and my injured toe is still not healing and periodically lets me know (though at least it isn't filled with blood any more - I speculate I've either cracked the bone, or I just keep regularly reinjuring it. Not sure.).

Will be here only for the next week which kinda cuts into the amount of time I have free. I'm not sure if I'll even get to see my parents, much less friends. Cause I have to be in Minnesota by the Sunday after next for my Korean classes. I might even only get to train once while I'm here which is pissing me off. I lead a busy life. *sigh*
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[info]piratelicker
May 24th, 12:40
the BroCon tumblr kindly scanned up the character designs for Season 2 (*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)ワクワク

I'm gonna ramble about the designs so if you're not interested JUST IGNORE THIS POST lol

Hikaru; now in MAN mode. Aaawwww, I must say I actually miss his trap look LOLWHUT I haven't done his route yet in the game but I enjoyed his okama personality pffftt But I understand why Hikaru is in MAN mode since it's a better way to attract Ema lololol

Tsubaki; MEH. I'm sorry he is still my least fave character. BUT. Maybe this will change when I do his route? idk he will be the last character to play for

Masaomi; how did he went from MEH to HELLO NURSE in one year? lololol I think it's the tie... he looks a lot more attractive to me now ide

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So... what about the game? LOL my feelings might be biased since I love the plot/story. But yeah the system is a tad borked. I noticed too many weird things i.e bad transitions, talking animation not active when the character is talking, unable to quick save at choices... it sorta decreases your play experience.
I am thankful for the ROUTE system since u can monitor your progress, so u can see if you're missing any key events as u play.
So far the routes I completed are Yuusuke, Kaname and Fuuto. lol I went from PURE to ERO
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[info]seawasp
May 23rd, 23:02

The meme:

Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."

• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

Answers below for [info]xjenavivex


1. Do you have a favorite piece of your own writing; and if you do, why and does it change?
  I suppose that depends on what one means by "piece of writing" -- scenes, or complete stories. Scenes I have a LOT of favorites and it would be very hard to pick just one. For entire stories... of the published or to-be-published stuff, Phoenix Rising would be my favorite, I think, though it's a close contest between that and Grand Central Arena.

It does change over time because I'm getting more chances to write and publish stories and (I like to think) they're gettting overall better with time. Some SCENES remain favorites -- for instance, I still love the scene in Digital Knight which ends "... Verne Domingo had come calling." 

  Heck, there's still some scenes from my fanfic that I think are really good.


2. How do you feel about the aspects of writing that are not putting/editing words on the page?
  Depends on WHICH aspects. Hard SF sometimes is a pain in the butt because I have to do lots of research on some topic which, by itself, may not interest me that much but that's vital to the story, and I know SOMEONE will be reading it and telling me where I am going badly wrong. I don't MIND being wrong, but I want to know ahead of time WHEN I'm ignoring the laws of physics, and that takes work. Other stuff, like working out the world for GCA, is mostly fun, because I don't have to worry about some twit telling me that the Arena doesn't really work that way.


3. What is the significance of your username and your default icon? I've always wondered about both.
  Back in the Ancient Days of the Internet -- 1977 -- I was one of the best programmer/hackers on the local network I was a part of. At the time I had a number of handles but they were all story-derived, as were most other people's. I wanted a new handle, one that would denote the concept that I didn't generally attack people, but it was a terrible idea to actually BOTHER me because it would end badly for you.

Eventually, I chose the name "Sea Wasp", the common name of the cubomedusa or box jellyfish Chironex Fleckeri. The main icon is a picture of that particular creature, taken from one of the color plates in the magnificent 3-volume work Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals by Bruce Halstead.


4. Has there been a writing project that you wanted to finish but for some reason had to trunk? What happened? Will you come back to it?
  Several, actually. One of them I picked up some time later and the first part of it is coming out this year as Phoenix Rising. Another, Demons of the Past, I've written and rewritten something like five times. I've finally written the first two of three volumes of Demons and I hope to find a publisher for it so I can justify working on the third and last.

I started work on a book set fairly far in the future of the Jason Wood universe, but realized I couldn't really write it unless and until I finished certain other stories, so that one will probably stay untouched until all those stories are finished or nearly finished.

5. How goes the Podcast adventure?
  Haven't finished one. I'm still trying to figure out how to actually record and edit the sound properly so that it will sound good, and then I have to figure out how to package and send it out, so to speak.

Free book
[info]vierran45
May 24th, 2:29
Vera Nazarian's Lords of the Rainbow is currently FREE on Amazon's Kindle store. Go grab it!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005WZZGUM/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk

Read my original thoughts of the book here:
http://vierran45.livejournal.com/301506.html#cutid1
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The Avengers structural exercise (pt.4)
[info]petronia
May 23rd, 2:12
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

( The rest of the second act... okay, no, the first third of the second act. Goes up to Bruce and Tony which is all ppl care about. )

I have figured out how to add the footer on a crosspost! Go me! /rollsalot (Original post is here: http://petronia.dreamwidth.org/41562.html)
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Warning: I'm complaining about myself in here.
[info]1863_project
May 23rd, 18:03
Current Location:
The place where I live
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frustrated frustrated
Current Music:
Nothing, strangely enough
This is one of those things that's aimed at nobody in particular, just at my life. I've become super-frustrated with one aspect of my life lately and I'm working on changing it, so here is a rant about myself.

( Cut for therapeutic wank... )

Again, this is aimed at nobody but myself. I'm just frustrated with myself for doing too much for other people and not enough for myself again. It's a bad habit that I need to stop because I'm not very good at taking care of myself because I'm so focused on taking care of the rest of the world.
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[info]brashley46
May 23rd, 12:00
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[info]silveraspen
May 23rd, 9:38
Current Mood:
creative creative
Today's links all have a theme - SCIENCE!

  • SpaceX's Falcon 9 blasts off for the ISS. Welcome to the final frontier, by way of commercial spaceflight. Seriously, I'm excited about this - I've been keeping an eye on SpaceX news since 2002, and they've gone from proof-of-concept to success in practice. They also have a NASA contract to develop commercial space transport to bring people to the ISS, not just supplies, and they have plans for a Mars exploration program. Somehow, somewhere, Delos D. Harriman is delighted by this.


  • Skin cells turned into healthy heart muscle. Although it's at a very early stage, this bit of medical research news interests me because it involves cellular transformation from older patients's own skin cells into cardiac muscle cells. If it can be developed, it has the potential to not only provide a way to repair cardiac damage through new grown, but also to solve the problem of tissue rejection in transplant scenarios. In any case, it's something to keep track of.


  • Tony Stark and Bruce Banner: bonding through science. Spoilers for Avengers, obviously - but what I can say here is that this is a very interesting look and meta-discussion at the dynamic between Banner and Stark, and at some of the things underlying it.

On that note, I better get back to my own scientific work. Feel free to leave other links in comments!

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New "Under the Influence" post on my site...
[info]seawasp
May 23rd, 8:13

This one on d'Aulaire's Mythologies...
Pinboard tags 23-05-2012
[info]lazulisong
May 23rd, 5:00
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