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Well, okay. Really it's just part of my drabble, but this is not the point.

It's almost real poetry, though. So I refreshed and:

This isn't really a haiku, but I'm still not sure I like what it implies about my mental state.

( I'll stop when I hit a bad one. )

Well, it failed when it tried to turn my Family Guy fic into poetry. I think it might be giving me a hint, there. (The first one in the cut is really pretty, though. The other is just good advice.)

Also, I was bored today, so I made another icon. I have two now. I feel accomplished.

Just so I don't feel like a spammer I'll do a rec here. I'll probably break down sooner or later and post things of no interest to anyone including me, but it doesn't have to be sooner.

Okay, a Xena rec. It's not a show I followed, but any universe where mythology is real gets me slightly, erm, excited. Rule of Chaos by P.L. Nunn is a great, fast-paced novel about gods, and power, and things hidden in the depths, and the humans caught in the middle. Karen drags out her "And you'll enjoy it even if you're not a fan!" banner. (There's a sequel somewhere too, um, Betrothal, which is shorter and about different things and some of the same things.)

Actually, now that I think of it, I wonder if non-fans might not enjoy the novels I keep pointing at more - because then they're not reading any personal fandom interpretations into the novel, only the words. Hmm...

Current Mood: nervous
Current Music: confetti out looking for a saviour. Finding it hard to break

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I had fully intended to spend the last few days making a nuisance of myself online, but I was distracted but something in RL, so there you go.

I had a couple of hours to myself today, so I tried to write something that turned into a Good Omens piece that quickly became 1) not funny at all and 2) the most depressing fic ever.

And I realized suddenly that everything I write is dark, or at least has dark elements. This bothers me. I have an urge to pull out the English nonsense from an obscure corner of my mind and analyse stuff I wrote. You know: the author is fixated on the colour green which signifies… But there’s a reason I’m a science major.

Maybe I’ll finish the most depressing fic ever, but not today.

In the meantime

Part of the reason I got this journal was so that I could transpose my favourites folder into a more legible form. That’s where today’s recs come from.

They’re all Stargate: SG1, a show in which the Americans find an alien device that lets them travel to other planets and get involved in a war.

Cool concept, but it wouldn’t be too much of an exaggeration to put that as all I knew about the series before reading these. I figured them out enough to enjoy them immensely… but I’m a scifi addict, so maybe I had a head start.

Totality, by Rheanna, is an excellent novel with Real British Spelling, which as it turns out isn’t all that different from real Canadian spelling. It’s funny and sad at the proper places, and it keeps you interested the entire way. There’s a first half and a second half; I suggest reading them in order.

The Hidden One by Gracie is also a pretty great novel. And then, for after the serious stuff, the relatively short Leftovers by Achaea. Now, this is technically a serious story, I suppose, but the way it’s written transforms it into something beyond hilarious. I was giggling all the way through.

I’m just about to kneel over and fall asleep on the keyboard, so I think three’s enough.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: find out there was nothing between you and me, cause I don't

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Is livejournal usually like this? (she demands angrily.) I was all excited at the prospect of wasting today figuring it out, but it's all server not found, journal read only, journal not readable at all, journal on some other plane of existance... Sigh.

Okay, better now. Um. I've decided I need to create my own emotion pictures, so I made this great plan of how I would find ONE emotion for each character... the challenge was is coming up with enough characters, you see. It's not working out, however, because *some* characters aren't satisfied with just one. damn 3D people Ah well. A girl could do worse than two Methos pics. I'll find some really unflattering ones.

More Importantly,

I read a really great fic today, by accident, while LJ was down:

All Hearts, Which I By Lacking
By Ellen Fremedon

This is a Sandman fic, and it is exquisite. If you enjoyed Book of Dreams, this far outshines the best in that collection, IMHO.

I am normally wary of such things to the point of paranoia, (which made writing A Song Stolen somewhat painful for me) and there has only been one other Sandman story I've ever come across that I think worthy of, well, existence might be too harsh, but worthy of reading, anyway:

The boy who gave away his birthday
By Mary

Which is very different from the other, but still good.

Both of these could quite legally be classified as slash fic under the usual definition, and I'd even reluctantly agree for the last one. I'm not sure if I mean that as a warning or an advertisement or an attempt to be vague and difficult.

Mary, while I'm at it, also wrote Forgotten Girl, a poignant Neverwhere/Buffy Crossover, and a Dogma Fic that, to be honest, I'm not overly fond of, but contained a passage that followed me around in my head.

( Here )

And that concludes the random fic recs for today. So, now, the random friending I intended to accomplish earlier. I feel so alo-one...

Current Mood: aggravated

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