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OK, so remember how a couple of weeks ago, there was that drabble meme? And how I wrote most of them on the weekend I did it, but lack of Quality LJ time prevented me from posting? Well, here's the first lot. Better late than never, I suppose. (In my defence, life has been hectic, yadda yadda yadda... never changes. *sigh*)


Title: Babel
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Wordcount: 100
Notes: For seldear, who wanted "Sam and Daniel being geeky". It turned out more angsty than geeky, sorry. Consider this post-'Threads', if you will.

( Babel )


Title: Charades
Fandom: Star Wars
Word Count: 100
Notes: For _bluebells, who wanted "Han attempting to communicate with R2 without C3-P0 there to translate."

( Charades )


Title: Priorities
Fandom: Supernatural
Word Count: 100
Notes: For deirdre_c, who wanted "Dean geeking out about Star Wars and Sam mocking him". This is sort of two mini-mini fics in one... hope you don't mind.

( Priorities )

More coming soon...

From fialleril and imandra_blue

I will write a drabble for the first TEN commenters to request one. In return, they have to post this in their journal.

Since I have solicited two different drabbles from this meme, I figured I had better make good and fulfill my part of the bargin.

Anyone want a drabble?

I've been tagged a couple of times with the 'random things' meme. Unfortunately, since I am currently failing to think of interesting or indeed random things about myself, I figured we'd play 'random recs' instead.

Yeah, didn't think you'd mind.

Flight, by apathocles.
Fandom: X-men (movieverse).
Characters: Kitty, Piotr, others. Gen.
Length: Approx 10,000 words
What happened to the children who escaped when the soldiers invaded the mansion?

And all but he departed by kellifer_fic
Fandom: Supernatural/Discworld Crossover
Characters: Sam, Dean, Death.
Length: Approx 5000 words
Death investigates the concept of job sharing.

Ghost in the Machine by dotfic
Fandom: Supernatural/Iron Man (movieverse)
Characters: Sam, Dean, Tony, Pepper.
Length: Approx 500 words
When your mechanical superhero suit is haunted, who you gonna call?

This is how the Universe Ends by shewhoguards
Fandom: Torchwood/Discworld
Characters: Captain Jack Harkness, Death
Even the Universe dies. Unfortunately, a certain immutable fact causes a slight snag in the proceedings.

By The Dawn's Early Light by andrastewhite
Fandom: X-Men (movieverse)
Characters: Xavier, Stryker, Jason
Length: Approx 2000 words
Xavier meets his first student.

My Supernatural Smackdown by gekizetsu
Fandom: Supernatural/Scrubs
Characters: Sam, Dean, JD, Dr Cox, Doug
Length: Approx 5000 words
Sam ends up in hospital. A vampire is decapitated in a stairwell with a bone saw.



Despite the recs, I am seriously behind on reading fic. So to those of you on my flist who've been posting recently, it's all bookmarked, I assure you.

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OK, the company that decided to call their safety-and-risk management tool after a greek prophet cursed to never be believed? Not exactly the attitude I'd be looking to encourage, really. Or perhaps that's one of those pesky engineering things, expecting people to actually pay attention to the risk register? On the other hand, the name is depressingly accurate.

On a completely different note, may I remind everyone who hasn't yet voted that the LJ advisory board elections are being held right now? You can vote here, and... I can't find the links to the full list of candidate platforms (too many bloody tabs open - I love tabbed browsing, but sometimes it just enables my multi-page disorganisation!). Anyway, the platforms of the three leading 'fannish' candidates have just been reposted to to fandom_votes, so I'm going to be lazy and link there instead.

GO! VOTE!

And since its just been brought to my attention that the US doesn't use the preferential voting system, I suggest anyone confused takes a quick peak at this explanation.

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DENTIST: Just relax.

ME: Know what helps me to relax? NOT HAVING POWER TOOLS STUCK IN MY MOUTH.



Ah, wisdom teeth. Incontrovertible proof against the 'theory' of Intelligent Design.

No posts for months and now twice in a night? Yep, you can tell I'm procrastinating, but this was too good not to share. From the brilliant Neil Gaiman:
(quoted wholesale)

"I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...

"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?"

(/quote)

I love Neil Gaiman. It makes me regret never being able to get past my mental block on comics, otherwise I would rush out and buy everything he'd ever written, ever.

(P.S Just watched Supernatural finale. GUH. Just... GUH. They expect me to wait 3 months until the next season? But then, given that this show has had longer mid-season hiatuses (hiatusi?), I guess I shouldn't be complaining too much.)

Published author releases free download authorised Firefly novel.

Well, I guess that is one author who doesn't have a problem with fanfic!

200 people freeze in Grand Central Station

Make sure you watch the video (it's also on youtube here, if the other link doesn't load). This is brilliant, and I can't be the only person flashing back to the second X-man movie.

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For those of you following the Anonymous vs Scientology war (and those of you who aren't) , I suggest you check out this account of the protests - apart from anything else, it has the most brilliant macro that ever macro'd.

There are a lot of excellent photo's of the protest floating around the interwebs, but I this may be the best. The poor alien looks so confused... (Linked because I'm not sure of the original photographer's position on re-uploading.)

(Also, 9 ways Star Wars can inspire you to save money. I LOL'd.)

Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi flist ... Do Wookiees' have paws or hands? Neither the Star Wars databanks nor Wookieepedia will give me an answer.

Hmm. Neither really seems right to me, given their combination of manual dexterity and retractable claws.