So, today we have mostly been baking. To add to the two Christmas cakes and three ginger loaves we made two days ago (one of the ginger loaves has since mysteriously disappeared...) we made three more of the latter (it's all going to be gifts for people), 60 lebkuchen and 30 experimental apple, raisin, and cinnamon snickerdoodles (which we WILL be making more of. YUM.).

So yeah. Good day in the kitchen with dad. :)

Merlin DVDs arrived today! \o/ I was so happy when I saw they'd been delivered today already. And then I had to go back to class. Needless to say, I was a bit distracted... ;o)

( Random, and apparently pretty long squee about the commentaries, because why aren't there more posts about this on my flist? D: )

Here's a fun promo that BBC Three is running.

They've made a funny mashup of all the original shows they've launched like Little Britain, Torchwood, and Being Human.



Yeah, but no, but yeah, but find out what Jack Harkness has to say about Vicki Pollard.

I caught this on BBC 3 after the nightly rebroadcast of Doctor Who (tonight's installment: The Sound of Drums), and thought everyone who hadn't seen it might enjoy it.

• 11:34 Killing rime before the 14 hour Belgrade-Thessaloniki train. Looking forward to the land of the € #

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From the TVAM archive, recorded in 1990. Looks to have been uploaded recently.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0x-EUSS_Po

I love old interviews with these two! ;-)


p.s attempted to tag but was denied!

A week from today, posting will begin for Snupin Santa 2009, and there are just a few things I want to go over before we get started.

Posting will begin on December 1, although I can't guarantee I'll stay up until midnight in my time zone (GMT -5) to post the first gift, which means it may be late on December 1 or maybe even December 2 for those of you in earlier time zones. Sorry about that, but Santa has to sleep.

POSTNG:
I will post either one or two gifts per day throughout December with the exception of December 25 and December 31, on which there will be no gifts posted. The big reveal will be on January 7, 2010.

All gifts will be posted in full on the Fest website with announcements containing basic header information and a direct link to the gift on both Livejournal and Insanejournal, but I won't be posting the full text/image of the gift either at IJ or LJ.

So basically, you can receive updates when new gifts have been posted in one of three ways:

Snupin Santa Fest archive
lupin_snape on Insanejournal
lupin_snape on Livejournal

The gifts posted most recently will appear on the main page of the archive (scroll down until you see the red bar reading "Most Recent"), and all gifts posted within the last 14 days will appear on the Recently Added page. All gifts posted for the 2009 fest will appear on the Snupin Santa 2009 category page in alphabetical order by title.

Let me remind anyone who has not used eFiction before, if you don't like the look of the site, you can change it. There are detailed instructions on how to change the appearance of the site temporarily or permanently on the Help page (along with other useful info). There are several other "skins" to choose from, so everyone should be able to find something they like or at least can live with if they don't like the default skin for whatever reason, but if not, they're welcome to find an eFiction 3.0 skin they do like and send me the zip file of it.

Fest-related news will be posted to the News section of the website (scroll down until you see the red bar reading "Site News") as well as on IJ/LJ. The most recent news posts will be on the main page, and all news posts, including older ones, will be in the News archive.


LEAVING FEEDBACK:
Unfortunately, anonymous commenting is not enabled at the Fest site because someone posted a link to a piece of art on the site in an unprotected area (either they didn't have the "limit inclusion in searches" checked on their journal or they posted the link to a site/forum that doesn't block search spiders), which resulted in that piece of art being flooded with 4000 spam comments. The Snupin Santa Fest site itself does block search spiders, and only one particular piece was targeted, which is how I know it came from an unprotected link. At any rate, it forced me to disable anonymous commenting for the site; I didn't want to do it, but I didn't want to leave the site vulnerable to more deluges of spam either.

However, that does not mean you must register for an account at the Snupin Santa site in order to leave feedback for our authors and artists. You have three options for leaving feedback:

1) Sign up for/sign in to your account on the Snupin Santa Fest archive

OR

2) Leave a comment on the individual gift announcement post on Livejournal. All gift announcement posts on LJ will have comments enabled.

OR

3) Leave a comment on the individual gift announcement post on Insanejournal. All gift announcement posts on IJ will have comments enabled.


NOTE TO PARTICIPANTS:
1) Once the gift you created is posted, whether it's a story or art, if there is a major problem that needs to be fixed, you may email snupin_santa @ yahoo.com and one of the elves will fix it. Minor tweaks, such as typos, will need to wait until you can fix them yourself in January when I flip the gifts from the Snupin Santa account to the author/artists' accounts.

2) Writers might also want to check the text of their story to make certain it's all there. I double-checked to make certain there weren't copy/paste errors when uploading long stories, but accidents happen.

3) DO NOT leave any comments on IJ, LJ, or the archive that might reveal who you are! This is an anonymous exchange, and we want to keep everyone guessing until the master list is posted in January. You won't be able to answer feedback comments anonymously on the website, so you'll have to wait until January to reply, but I'm sure in the interest of maintaining the anonymous fun, no one will be offended by the lack of a speedy response.

4) I strongly advise using the comment tracking system at both IJ/LJ, even if you don't normally use one or the other. There are people who will comment only at IJ and people who will comment only at LJ, so if you don't check your gift post at both places, you might miss some feedback. If you have an account at IJ/LJ, all you have to do is click the thumbtack icon at the top of the post. If you don't have an account at both places, you can always bookmark the post and check back.

5) I will NOT accept revisions of gifts that have already been completed and submitted after November 26. If you've already requested that we use a revised version of your story/art or you send in a revised version by the 26th, the revised version will be uploaded to the Snupin Santa fest site. However, I'm setting a deadline for revisions because I've already begun uploading gifts, and I'm busy enough as it is without having to deal with a flurry of last minute changes and having to upload gifts twice. After the 26th, you'll have to wait until January when I flip the accounts to make any major changes/revisions because I need time to get the gifts uploaded and ready to go by December 1.

That's all our preliminary business out of the way, so all that's left now is to wait for the Snupin Santa sleigh to arrive! There will be over 50 new RL/SS stories and graphics posted between December 1-30 - all eras, all ratings, threesomes, long stories, short stories, smutty art, sweet art, romance, dark themes, holiday cheer, tear jerkers, and happy endings. No matter what flavor of Snupin is your favorite, I guarantee there will be something for everyone!

Today is an important day for my new good friend mitjablazic . He was assaulted during Ljubljana Pride in June; 3 men go on trial for assaulting him today.

Slovenia is in many ways carving an unique path among the new EU member states. It continues to wrestle with the tensions between "traditional values" and "modern European values." People like Mitja are pushing things along--dangerous and brave work indeed. In the pursuit of social justice "we make the road by walking" as Paolo Freire and Myles Horton said.

Drop into his blog and offer him your support. I'm sure it'd mean a lot to him.

Probably.

True story. Twitter suddenly refused to post my tweet! And I couldn’t access twitter.com! I figured my internet was down, but then it turned out to be just twitter. I was distraught in my inability to tweet about my inability to tweet in general. Or something. So instead I sent some IMs to sep. Then I realised twitter wasn’t down anymore. The whole thing took roughly three minutes.

[10:28 PM] Self: I R TWITTER ADDICT
[10:28 PM] Self: I DUNNO HOW TO DEAL WITH TWITTERDOWN
[10:28 PM] Self: I CAN’T EVEN TWEET ABOUT IT
[10:28 PM] Self: IT IS NO LONGER DOWN
[10:28 PM] Self: AS YOU WERE
[10:28 PM] sep: >.>

I probably need help.

Mirrored from This Space Blank Comment here or there.

Random repost of a kinkme_merlin fill, in response to the prompt Arthur sucks on Merlin's nipples for comfort when he is sad or upset. I saw it, went 'whut', and then thought '... actually, that's pretty hot. Huh.' I don't know whether to warn for silliness or for me taking the prompt too seriously. I should certainly warn for the fact that it's completely guilty pleasure fic, PWP, and unbetaed to boot.

( Comfort. )

Also, WTF, LJ? All my private messages have suddenly been erased. Which means that I lost several addresses in the fray. D:

On the positive side, I have the week off work! \o/ Which means just classes, then. It was about time, too, I was nearly falling over with exhaustion by the end of last week. I woke up at 3 pm, yesterday. 3 pm! And I'd already slept in on Saturday. Am still on the road to recovery, feeling a bit woozy and feeling by turns unenthusiastic and like I want to laugh at the silliest things, but we're getting there.

I have spent the evening watching The Circus Live DVD, and now I am a happy bouncy little puddle of Moose :D The Arse Groping! The Clowns! The Cat Girls! THE GIANT MECHANICAL ELEPHANT!

*HAPPY*

• 13:39 Me: greetings from Croatia. Dad: watch out for those Serbs! Me: that's tomorrow Dad! #

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Author: Bitterfig
Title: Inconstant Rose
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Morgana/Guinevere (Gwen)
Summary: Morgana and Gwen go to a nearby kingdom to visit Morgana’s dearest childhood friend, Roshannon. Morgana is distressed to discover that their bond is no longer what it once was.
Beta Reader: Fedink
Word Count: 1335
Rating: PG
Warnings: a bit of angst, a bit of sexual content highly romanticized.
Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction. Any illegal acts taking place within that fiction are NOT condoned by the author. Depictions of any questionable, illegal, or potentially illegal activity in said fiction does not mean that I condone, promote, support, participate in, or approve of said activity. I grasp the distinction between fiction and reality and trust that readers will do the same. I do not profit from the fan fiction I write, and all rights to the characters remain firmly in the hands of their creator

Inconstant Rose

Title: Standing Outside the Fire
Pairings: Snape/Lupin (explicit) and Harry/Hermione/Draco (implied only)
Rating: NC-17 this section. Brought to you by Dizilla who convinced me I could write porn, Thanks Diz!
Author: azurerosa
Summary: How does a Gryffindor court a Slytherin until he wants to be part of his life?
( Standing Outside the Fire part seven, final part )

Some links I shared on twitter in the last week.

• Man in coma for 23 years was aware of everything
• Depressed Woman Loses Health Benefits for Happy Pics on Facebook
• Spill.com’s Twilight review is absolutely hilarious.
• EVERYONE is to run everything by Stephen Fry first just to make sure it’s okay, it was confirmed last night
• Life after death on Broadway – about stock and amateur earnings.
• Swine Flu vaccine doesn’t cause death. Shocker.
• Awesome Inspector Gadget T-shirt
• Only Eight of This Decade’s Best Picture Nominees Are Original
• R2-D2’s Star Trek Cameo
• Twilight: Three Moon Wolf trailer (parody)
• Free anti-vax conspiracy theory with every tube journey

Something else:

If you sat through the boring piece of something 2012, cleolinda’s parody recap almost makes it worth the nearly three hours you lost of your life.

The newest episode of Made Of Fail was recorded this weekend and should appear on their community page soon. It’s a great podcast and you should totally subscribe to it in iTunes. P.S. I appear in episode 21.

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