Concrit on the writing meme, watching Trek for the second time, three day "weekend" that involves a lot of public speaking, darkrooms, Photoshop and code: my favourite brew.

>:D Writing is so happening tonight, even though (especially because) I have to be up at 7 tomorrow morning.

Live long and prosper.

*GLEEFUL*

[edit] Also, hilariously enough, I don't know how I get the dancer to change directions, but once I do I can't change her back, and now I am FIXATED.

[edit] To get her to swing counter I get her to swing out her leg; to get her to swing clockwise I get her to squeeze down on her crotch. OR IS THAT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. HELP.

[edit] AUGH and I can only do it with my laptop tilted 90 degrees clockwise!

[edit] Am now getting her to do some sort of retarded on-the-stop forward facing can-can competition with herself, though I usually default to clockwise. Must... stop... looking... It's all in the back of the calves!

[edit] LAST EDIT I SWEAR. It is sad, but thinking of porn makes her swing clockwise, and thinking of square roots swings her anti. I'm sure that if I was told that clockwise = left brain instead of clockwise = right brain, the opposite would be true. DONE NOW. Tomorrow, Evil Spock/Tseng in action flick style fic... somehow with plot!

Because mostly I am spending this week failing to do anything but getting up and going to work. 8D

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

RIP ME APART LIKE A BODICE, GO! It's on LJ, but there are anonymous commentseses, so you can go suck their server power if you'd so like! 8D

Must... catch... up... with... fandom... this... weekend...

This fic officially took my brain, injected a thousand CCs of politics into it, beat it up and left me staggering about wildly. I haven't written something like this, I think, since Empery.

The last (and crowning) jewel of the Honourable Men triple bill (they're all standalones, though, so no need to read through).

I humbly request that you give this one a try. ♥ Okay going to go expire from exhaustion now.

Year One

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII (BC through CC)
Characters: Lazard-Tseng-Rufus, Veld, Reeve, does the City of Midgar count?
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Spans through Crisis Core and Before Crisis backstory. You don't need to know BC, but it helps, and there's a tiny appendix at the bottom of the fic to help you if you'd like.
Summary: From the journals of Urban Development, filling in the lives and empty spaces in Midgar.

7575 words and Midgar being alive.

( One gets the impression that we shall soon be bringing them brighter futures as well. )

Today I really, really, really loved my country, heart and soul.

Heading down to a "political" "protest" in hope of raising awareness of gay rights existence later today. Um, if anyone knows my country, let's just say that even though there are going to be like a few thousand of us (OR MAYBE ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE A FEW THOUSAND OF US), I'm going to be wearing comfortable shoes and positioning myself in a way that makes running like mad an acceptable mode of retreat should we come to be crushed by --

Okay, okay, maybe not. Context time! Pink Dot is a Singaporean effort to just get together all the LGBT and LGBT-supportive people in this country, put them in a square, and take a photo. No politics, no protest, no action, just reaction: we love each other, and we just want to be acknowledge as human.

Though, um, part of our constitution alleges that groups of MORE THAN ONE that gather for any (pseudo)political purpose must first register their purpose with the government before gathering, otherwise that gathering OF ONE OR MORE PEOPLE is considered illegal, so PUT ON YOUR BOOTS, BABIES.

So, in celebration, memetime!

Ask me anything. 8D About where I'm from, about what I like IRL or in fandom; ask me about what I write, or just any silly thing that crosses your mind. \o\ The unknown and fear of it is what drives so much of the pain that happens in our everyday lives: so go on. Ask a question. 8D

♥ to voksen for being my enabler and beta! First Gundam Wing fic! I'm only, y'know, about a decade late to this fandom, that's all! :D :D :D Second in the Honourable Men triple bill.

The Old Lie

Fandom: Gundam Wing
Characters: Treize, Zechs (13, 6)
Rating: PG
Summary: All men graduate from one history to another.

1984 (ha!) words and past-fic everywhere!

( 'And to your unreasonable expectations, Lord Khushrenada,' Zechs replies with a private smile, as they drink to oxymorons great and small. )

Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

1. Ursula K Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
2. JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
3. Nancy Farmer - A Girl Named Disaster
4. Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
5. Ursula K Le Guin - The Wind's Twelve Quarters
6. Madeleine L'Engel - A Wrinkle in Time
7. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
8. Will Shake - Julius Caesar
9. Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
10. JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit
11. Roald Dahl - Going Solo
12. Terry Pratchett - Thief of Time
13. Terry Pratchett - Small Gods
14. Madeline L'Engel - Many Waters
15. Ursula K Le Guin - A Wave in the Mind

Drabbletimes for these fifteen! Leave any character(s) and a prompt; they can cross on over if they like! \o\

AND TO ANY OF MY FRIENDS WHO ARE UNDER THE WEATHER, OR WHO ARE HELPING ME THROUGH MY TIME OF WEIRD HORMONES, OR WHO WILL EVER BE UNDER THE WEATHER: ♥ You are all and each of you beautiful people, articulate in your own ways, and a gift to this small green planet of ours. ♥

Fandom check: Final Fantasy XII?! Yeah, I don't know either. \o\ Apparently screaming at your laptop for 30 hours makes you go a bit funny in the head.

First in the second triple bill: and they are all, all honourable men.

Make as much of me as gentry

Fandom: Final Fantasy XII (OGC)
Characters: Ffamran, Dr. Cid
Rating: PG
Warnings: Backstory here we come, Ffamran-who?
Summary: The good doctor once spoke to his good son.

1013 words and lots of Cid posturing! \o

( 'You know, when your mother died, I had a thought,' said the good Doctor. )

With the irrational fuel of a human being forced to be pulled, like the tides, by the moon, I shall do this today:

[] Code sister_coyote's layout for LJ/IJ/DW
[] Write a triple bill across VII/Batman Beyond/Gundam Wing, jotting down ideas and random thoughts and Anger At The World on the etherpad, if you want to watch me work and point fingers/laugh.
[] Code up fic and archive it on And More Slow
[x] Read Estraven and quietly rock back and forth in my chair; the local news and the consciousness of the world makes me want to stand up and write and I am so afraid, somedays, of what-will-be-will-be. "Screw this, when I grow up I want to be like Rusty Ryan."

Also, fic writers/readers, what is your favourite font to read in, and what size?

I have recently been overcome with the strangest and most irrational love for Segoe UI, which is, yeah. Thanks, Microsoft.

Strange thought blurb expose times! :D In lieu of fic, because my brain works funny when adjusting to new schedules.

Just came back from work a few hours ago; days go by a lot faster when you've got sleep on your side. But then a thought floated by: why do days at work crawl so much more than days at school did for me?

( Ergo the theory that there obviously needs to be things to be destroyed before anything is interesting )

Learning is huge. It's putting yourself up against the ruler of the brightest minds and seeing how you measure up. It scares the shit out of me: it makes me fight for every idea I don't understand, for every concept that could be more, for something that pushes through the huge bulk of an entire race's collective inquiry, the one thing that allows us the lives we lead. To learn that is to fight for your life, tearing screaming and yelling through the blackness of confusion and to come out the other side better equipped and glad to be alive.

Work isn't the same. Work isn't harder. Work's more tiring, because I don't love it at the moment; I know, in the way that I guess we all know at the bottom of our hearts, that this job isn't in the field that I'd be glad to fall in battle in, wielding Blackberries and a 12-hour day as armour. There's nothing to fight in a "job": nothing but boredom and the thought of the end of the day. No obstacle to tear down en route to something greater, no end goal to surge towards with the intensity of rightness that makes what the greatest and worst men and women of the real and fictional worlds what they were. Which is the stuff that inspires, at the end of the day. How did Schindler save those lives? How were orders given to drop the Plate on a seventh of the city of Midgar? Did Julius Caesar sleep well at night? Or did Marc Antony, before Shakespeare woke from his dream to write the one of the greatest rhetoric speeches in the English language? How many hours did Lucifer spend planning his fall? What went on in the heads of the men writing God? Would Bruce Wayne have had any sense of justice as a policeman?


So I'll always keep looking for the next human being, the next book, the next fic, the next game, the next line, the next song, that makes me feel truly stupid inside. Since -- To burn through and gouge out the logic of the past, or to rebuild and rip up the sky of the future. There's some worth in doing that while a human is alive.


(To this song! Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger

Work it harder make it better
do it faster makes us stronger
more than ever hour after
our work is never over)

AND THAT IS ALL OF YOUR STRANGE AND THOUGHTFUL K FOR THE WEEK. Coming next post: fic once more! With hope. And some effort.

POLLTIME. Because if I code any more, I WILL EXPLODE. Plus I work tomorrow, and polls always make work better. SOMEHOW.

( huge writing poll! )

CODING

[] Debug and troubleshoot the two existing layouts
[x] Code a bug-free headered fluid layout with a good comment system
[x] Code a bug-free fixed version of the fluid layout with a good comment system

[] Use that code to map out sister_coyote's layout

RANDOM AESTHETICS

[x] Test out a few different line-heights and pixel bits for Arial, Verdana, Lucida, Georgia, Helvetica, Times New Roman [note to self: tahoma 12 is huge, tahoma 11 is this default blinding; 14 px is way too high a line height for 11, sits well with 12; arial 11 is the tiny, arial 12 is larger but not blinding]
[x] Test out headers in Palatino, Impact, Times, Arial

WRITING

[] 0TP #1
[] Restorations #4

WORK

[] Pad up the research doc
[x] Email the lady

REPLYING

[x] Finish up memepost
[x] UPDATE Parameter journal!!!! And apologise for Mega Hiatus.

RL

[x] Lunch with the girls
[x] More Starbucks

Things I needed to do today:

[] Consolidate notes for work
[x] Timeline work for the week
[x] Draft up designs
[] Get some sleep

Things I did instead:

- Set up shifgrethor here
- Redesigned and overhauled a new layout for the community
- Ate a lot of cereal

DEATH.

I am home! Do link me up to important posts if you have any, because right now I am going to go be busily SWAMPED BY WORK AND DESIGN.

But pretty new clotheses!

Hi guys, anyone who's writing for 0TP but has sorta-kinda-moved from IJ, I've created a mirror of it on no_true_pair; feel free to crosspost merrily and to pimp it out here on DW!

[edit]

I also super-fast-coded a CSS DW layout that doesn't require the usual bangs and whistles of a paid account; 0TP is the live preview, and the code is below. Warning: very hastily coded! 8D

/* Designed by Karanguni. Feel free to use as you wish! Credit would be nice. --- */ /* BASIC PAGE DEFINITIONS ----------------- */ * { outline: none; } html, p, blockquote { font-family: arial, verdana, san-serif; x-overflow: hidden;} blockquote { padding: 3em 1.5em 3em 1.5em; margin-left: 3em; margin-right: 3em; border-left: 1px solid #000; border-top: 1px solid #000; border-bottom: 1px solid #000; border-right: 3px solid #000; } .entry-content h1, .entry-content h2, .entry-content h3, .entry-content h4, .entry-content h5 { clear: both; } .module-list li, .footer ul li { display: inline; } .entry-content ul { list-style-type: square; } .entry-content ul, .entry-content ol { margin: 0 2.5em 0 1.5em; } /* GENERAL LINK COLOURS ----------------- */ * a { text-decoration: none; color: #E6B71A ; } * a:hover { color: #333332; } /* SIZE OF LAYOUT ----------------- */ #container { width: 90%; margin: auto; font-size: 100%; text-align: center; /* IE fix */ } #content { width: 80%; display: inline; float: right; text-align: left; } .module-section-two { width: 18%; display: inline; float: left; padding-top: 35px; border-top: 1px solid black; text-align: left; } /* JOURNAL TITLES --------- */ #title { text-align: left; font-family: arial; text-transform: lowercase; font-size: 3.1em; border-top: 3px solid black; } #title a { color: #000 !important; } /* NAVIGATION ---------------- */ .module-navlinks { padding: 0px; border-top: 1px solid #666; background: #fff; } .module-navlinks a { padding-right: 1em; paddding-left: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-transform: lowercase; } /* MODULE AND ENTRY TITLES ----------- */ .module-header { margin-top: 0px; border-top: 3px solid #000; padding-top: 0.4em; text-transform: uppercase; } .entry-title { margin-top: 0px; border-top: 3px solid #000; padding-top: 0.4em; text-transform: uppercase; } .entry-title a { text-transform: uppercase; color: #000; } .entry-title a:hover { text-transform: uppercase; color: #E6B71A ; } /* ENTRY DATES AND TIMES --------- */ .datetime { text-align: right; font-size: 0.75em; color: #ccc; text-transform: lowercase; float: right; width: 130px; height: 1em; } .date { display: block; } /* ENTRY USERPIC AND POSTER ----------- */ .userpic { float: right; border: 1px solid #ccc; } .userpic img { border: none; } .poster .ljuser { font-size: 0.9em; text-align: right; display: block; width: 130px; float: right; border-right: 3px solid #000000; padding-right: 5px; position: relative; left: 230px; top: 2em; margin-top: 0.5em;} /* ENTRIES ------------ */ .entry-content { x-overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.2em; font-size: 0.6875em; line-height: 1.2em; } .footer { margin-top: 4em; border-bottom: 1px solid #666; margin-bottom: 3em; } /* ENTRY TAGS --------------- */ .tag-text { font-size: 0px; } .tag { background: url(http://andmoreslow.net/layouts/tinyicons/tag.gif) no-repeat left center; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 0.75em; } .tag ul { position: relative; top: -0.3em; } .tag ul li { padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; } .tag ul li a { background: #000; } .tag ul li a:hover { background: #000; color: #fff; } /* METADATA ---------------------- */ .metadata { margin-top: 3em; font-size: 0.75em; color: #666; } .metadata ul { list-style-type: none; } /* ENTRY LINKS ------------------- */ .entry-management-links, .entry-interaction-links { font-size: 0.75em; text-transform: lowercase; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; height: 20px; } .entry-management-links { background: url(http://andmoreslow.net/layouts/tinyicons/page.gif) no-repeat left center; } .entry-interaction-links { background: url(http://andmoreslow.net/layouts/tinyicons/comment.gif) no-repeat left center; } .entry-management-links a{ color: #E6B71A ; } .entry-interaction-links a { color: #E6B71A ; } .entry-management-links a:hover, .entry-interaction-links a:hover { color: #333332; } .entry-management-links li a, .entry-interaction-links li a { display: block; float:left; width: 120px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.3em; } /* SKIP LINKS ---------- */ .navigation { margin: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; height: 15px; border-top: 1px solid black; } .navigation ul { list-style-type: none; height: 15px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; } .page-back, .page-forward { display: inline; padding-right: 3em; font-weight: bold; text-transform: lowercase; } /* SIDEBAR MODULES -------------- */ .module-section-two .module-content { margin-bottom: 2em; font-size: 0.6875em; } /* PROFILE ------------- */ .userlite-interaction-links { list-style-type: none; } .userlite-interaction-links li { display: inline ; } /* SUMMARY ----------- */ .module-pagesummary ul li { padding-top: 0.5em; text-indent: -2em; display: block; } /* CALENDAR ----------- */ .module-calendar table { width: 90%; } .module-calendar table td { padding: 0px; text-align: center; } .module-calendar .entry-day { width: 20px; height: 20px; border: 1px solid #ccc; } /* TAGS -------------- */ .module-categories .module-list a { display: block; } .module-categories .module-list a:hover { padding-left: 5px; border-left: 3px solid black; } /* DW BRANDING --------- */ #site-branding { margin-left: 10%; font-size: 0.75em; text-transform: lowercase; }

Use Transmogrified as your theme, set Use layout's stylesheet(s) as UNCHECKED, and stick that into your custom CSS.

This is me! But I am still on LJ, though crossposting will come to be!

[edit] Frantically trying to set up communities on a public connection is not a good thing, but hopefully roads_diverged will have a proper port when I am done, and I hope that you do not mind, L! Tell me if you want me to add you to moderatorship? I am all trapped in Paid Internet land, though, so it may be a few days DDD:

[edit2] And nasdack, and shifgrethor; SO MANY THINGS, ONLY SO MANY FINGERS.

[edit3] And this is me creating hainishcycle for Hainish fic and stuff, as I DETERMINEDLY SUCK THIS STUPID $10 WORTH OF INTERNET FOR ALL IT'S WORTH. Take that, Novotel!

In Hong Kong, trapped amidst my nephew/niece, HELP. Internet costs a BOMB, but I may sacrifice money tomorrow again to get myself a DW account. MAY INVITE CODES HOPEFULLY RAIN FROM THE HEAVENS jaklfjals

Argaven in this is Argaven from Winter's King, and not the Argaven in Estraven's timeline. \o/ That note would have made sense to maybe 1 person on this flist.

Fandom crossover madness between Final Fantasy VII, Highlander and The Left Hand of Darkness. Strange, so strange, but so beautiful.

( A kink round! I am so screwed, pun pun pun. )

It is sucking majorly that, from tomorrow on, I will be out of the country WITH MY PARENTS (how to write porn in the same hotel room as them? HOW???) until May 3rd, since 1) I want to set up my DW account, though I am betting no one's going to take "karanguni" unless by freak accident, and 2) I want to try to create mirrors for 0TP and RD over there, whee! WORK, I LIKE IT.

But real work, only half a much, and I have a meeting in two hours. FLAILERY!


laylah man I HOPE WE ARE NOT RAPING YOUR COMMUNITIES; I'm going to try to inject some \o/ into RD after 0TP's done, so many apologies for things going so slow. D: D:

no_true_pair is running again!

K cleans out her closet and tries to do some good in the world. \o

THE CAUSE + CONDITIONS

1. a close friend of mine, viewpoints on LJ, is a freelance photographer just starting out; her current homepage is here if you want to check it out!

2. the world being full of suck, family medical problems + money troubles = epic fail. con season isn't quite in kick yet, and so she's in a bit of a pinch as she tries to start up on her feet

3. in an effort to try and help out, I'm selling off a few thing sitting around my room. :D

4. if you're interested (prices are in USD), please drop a comment and I'll let you know her paypal email - everything goes straight to her.

5. prices are what-you-see-is-what-you-get: I'll cover shipping to anywhere in the world, unless you want to cover it for me. :D

SOME BOOKS

trudi canavan: the novice (softcover) = $5

anthology: outsiders (horror/sortof erotica) = $7

j.k rowling: harry potter and the order of the phoenix (Bloomsbury softcover) = $8

SOME COMICS

batman tpb: no man's land vol. 1 = $8

batman tpb: batman and son = $5

green arrow: quiver = $10

MORE GOODIES (ALL REPEATABLE 8D)

"i'll write you something original" = $3/3000 words

batch of 25 icons = $5

black and white photo postcard (3r from here)! = $2

tea sampler (enough for 5 pots! I've got bunches of tea!) = $5

Tea-qualifier: all my teas are loose leaf, and good! :D I've got green tea from Japan in one or two varieties (genmaicha and sencha, I think), chai, vanilla (black), irish breakfast, a lot of earl greys (some English, some American). Tea-bag wise I have fruit teas!