reinforce my clarity

First reaction:

OMG! OMG!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!

(that is all. off to watch Confidential)

Go to your icons page in Livejournal and look at the first two icons (the one on the right and the one on the left). Pair up the characters in the two icons. Go to the next two and do the same until you have a list of ships. Then...well, write 'em.

( Or, alternatively, marvel at the crack that is the 32 ships below the cut: )

Some are admittedly rather intriguing...

Why am I suddenly seeing my friends page in sets of 10 entries instead of 25 like usual? That is annoying. How do I change it back?

My housemate's nephew was just here and guess what he had in his bag of toys? A Weeping Angels mask! One of the feral faces, brr. And all I could think was - remember that kids game where everyone creeps up on someone whose back is turned and freezes when they turn around? How disturbing would that be if all of the kids were wearing those masks?!

From selenak: Pick 15 of your ships and write down a quote for each of them. Let your f-list guess. Looking them up on IMDb or Google is cheating.

Couldn't quite make 15 romantic ships so there's one or two friendships I really like instead.

( onward to the meme )

If you saw my previous post, you'll know that I'm having AO3 problems. As in I can't get to the AO3 by any route for the life of me. Digging through my emails, I found there is a way to inform them of issues and problems at (you can see where this is going right?) http://archiveofourown.org/support. Which I cannot access. (The irony! *sobs*)

So please, please, pretty please could some kind soul out there who is able to get to the archive let them know I have been shut out in the dark and cold like the little matchgirl?

The details are:
- my username there is the same as my lj
- I use IE8
- I have been unable to see any webpage at the archive for a minimum of 3 days, though I first had this issue on 03/04/10 (I know because I was trying to follow a link to a fic I requested at a finders comm)
- I'm not sure now if I've managed to read anything at AO3 in between then and now
- what happens when I try and go to AO3 is the http changes to the address of whatever AO3 page I'm trying to access, the browser window goes blank and the bottom of the screen says '1 item remaining' etc. And that is all that happens (I have left it up to an hour with no change)
- my browser then goes all a bit weird and stops responding and I have to close it down (usually through task manager)


It is just so frustrating! There is a Fraser/Kowalski crossdressing fic there that I need to read and that is apparently the only place it exists! And a Johnny Weir/Adam Lambert fic! You see where my desperation comes from?!? *tears hair*

HELP ME before the lack of ficcy goodness drives me insane!

ETA the lovely monanotlisa is my saviour. Everyone else can put the lightsabers down and stop practicing their Alec Guinness impression (unless you just want to spend your Saturday being a jedi, in which case carry on)

from thisissirius. Baaaa. (I should get a sheep icon for these.)

SIX NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. janne_d
2. Janne
3. my RL one
4. joolz
5. ...okay, 6? seriously?
6. ...no can do

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. my favourite cardigan
2. purple totes socks
3. my watch

THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT:
1. for my house-buying to go smoothly
2. not to have to get up at 6.40 tomorrow morning, yawn
3. to get inspired to write fic some more

THREE PEOPLE WHOM YOU HOPE WILL DO THE MEME:
1. eh,
2. whoever
3. wants

THREE THINGS YOU DID LAST NIGHT:
1. watched Doctor Who
2. watched Over the Rainbow
3. read Wintersmith

THREE PEOPLE YOU LAST TALKED TO ON THE PHONE:
1. my estate agent
2. my parents
3. my sister

THREE THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO DO TOMORROW:
1. work (bleh)
2. pilates class
3. find out if my nephew received his birthday present

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE DRINKS:
1. long vodka with fresh lime juice
2. hot chocolate from The Chocolate Alchemist
3. apple juice
4. Bottle Green ginger and lemongrass cordial

THREE THINGS THAT MADE YOU SMILE TODAY:
1. the cat impersonating a meerkat to look out the window
2. finding out Florence Welch's mum is an academic researching Renaissance underwear
3. finding the housemate had been forced to decapitate the Henry hoover (poor Henry)

Check out selenak's Merlin Episode Guide. As the writer asserts "every episode description is entirely accurate! From, as Obi-Wan Kenobi would say, a certain point of view". Entirely accurate and totally hilarious, what more could you want?

Inspired by torakowalski: Post a sentence (or two or a paragraph) from as many of your WIPs as you want, with no explanation attached

How anyone can just do a sentence is beyond me though...

( Currently un-named neverending Merlin fic of doom in which Arthur is a DI, Merlin is an intelligence analyst and things are getting weird in the city of Camelot: )

~

( Currently un-named neverending SGA fic of doom (notice a theme?) in which John is temporarily female-shaped: )

by way of thisissirius which I have done before, but while the questions remain the same, the answers change... starring the following fandoms:

Merlin, Star Trek XI, Star Trek TOS, Supernatural, Highlander, due South, Stargate: Atlantis, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pirates of the Caribbean, Smallville and American Idol (at least two of which I don't even watch, ffs).

Six ships you are into right now
01. Merlin/Arthur
02. reboot Kirk/Spock
03. Dean Winchester/Castiel, angel of the Lord
04. Methos/Duncan MacLeod
05. Ray Kowalski/Benton Fraser
06. John Sheppard/Rodney McKay

Three ships you liked but don't like/aren't a rabid fangirl for anymore
07. Buffy/Angel
08. Captain Jack Sparrow/Commodore Norrington
09. Lex Luthor/Clark Kent

Four ships you never liked
10. Ray Vecchio/Benton Fraser (it's safe to say this now, right?)
11. TOS Kirk/Spock
12. Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester
13. Spike/Xander

two ships you're curious about, but don't actually ship
14. Adam Lambert/Kris Allen
15. reboot Kirk/McCoy

( onward to the questions )