Because Fic research isn't complete without random facts.

Does anyone know anything about car parts? Specifically, I'd like to know if there are any parts that can be salvaged from a Mustang and put into say...an ice cream truck. Like, you know, the engine block or radiator or shocks maybe?

I'm so clueless. It doesn't have to be realistic, just remotely plausible. I mean the guys doing the salvaging are used to making do with whatever they find.

Just saying.

Because the Generation Kill fandom couldn't possibly get any more awesome, shoshannagold is hosting a Get Some: A Generation Kill Porn Skirmish over the summer. There's a post for prompts here and an awesome website provided by oxoniensis here. *bounces around*

I even made a banner... (Screen caps by peopleareshapes, textures and brushes by oxoniensis) and icons based on the banner.






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Ok, so I'm sure you all remember the Porn Battle, right? And how trolleys did this amazing picture (light bondange between two consenting adults) of Brad and Nate using the prompt: restraint? If you haven't, you should check it out right away. Gosh, I still have no words to describe how awesome it is. Needless to say, it consumed my brain until I finally wrote this.

Title: Six Hours
Word Count: 3450
Rating: NC17
Summary: “I need you to do something,” Nate said finally. Light bondage.

A/N: Many, many, many thanks to shoshannagold for her beta. I made her read it twice and then still harassed her for more. She deserves to be sainted for this. Any errant commas or other mistakes are, of course, all mine.


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I have 3 2 1 more sorry no more Dreamwidth invites. But if anyone would like, just let me know and I'll email you when I get more.

Eric, oh Eric! :)

Spoilers for 2.01 and Living Dead in Dallas...

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Ok, so seriously, it took me most of the evening last week to figure out why no one on my flist had mentioned The Listener at all. I mean, not even a peep, oh wise, friends list?

It's a show about a telepathic paramedic, which apparently should have been the give away right there (no, not because of the absurd premise--Canadian TV isn't always that bad. Mostly) but rather because of the paramedic thing and then I remembered that it's slightly different in the US right? Our paramedics are not ambulance attendants, but all our ambulances have paramedics. Does that make sense? Paramedics for us, have to go to college for two years (not a US college, that's like our university. College for us is about learning trades or other practical skills usually) and then they can do a lot of stuff at the scene and en route. Anyways, I digress.

So then I realize, it's a CANADIAN show. And it's not bad. Ok, some parts are so fantastical it's funny, but it's entertaining and well, hey. It's kinda cool seeing the TTC get so much air time.

So any other Listener fans out there?

*listens to the crickets*

I come bearing porn! Yay!!!

Title: Evolution
Fandom: Generation Kill
Rating: NC-17
Summary: So many minutes spent standing wordlessly, staring out into the distance. It was the only thing Nate could remember about how their relationship had started.

A/N Written for Porn Battle VIII


Many, many thanks to shoshannagold and wrennette their awesome betas.

Evolution

Anyone want to beta an entry for the porn-battle? It's Generation Kill.

(Not the ice cream truck fic--a different one *facepalm*)

I can't believe I'm researching Ice Cream Trucks for a fic... murmur I'm looking at you. *g*

No, not the Merlin Big-Bang Fic that is sitting at 16k words and needs another 20k by June 20th. No, not that one.

No, not the SGA Big-Bang Fic I signed up for (Since anything goes this year, I'm going to use this excuse to finish my other SGA Big-Bang fic that I never finished, oh, like 2 years ago).

No, it's for the Generation Kill Fic that's eaten my brain like a banana split (or soft-serve ice cream dipped in chocolate).


It's Sunday evening and I've got a cold. Humour me. :) What's the weirdest (or most current) thing you've found yourself researching for a fic?

I have to say, I never thought that it would be the little stuff that would trip me up. I have continguency plans for all the big talks: death - hubbie's in charge of that one. Sex, that's me. In fact, Jr already started asking questions with the birth of CB, and I am down with the discovery health videos.

So what issues have I been tackling instead?

Inappropriate Music?

Is it a problem that my four year old likes Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson? Now, can't say I complain, I like the song too. It's got an angry, rocking beat. Jr--he thinks it's a song about zombies. (During the screeching part, he holds his hands to his cheeks in a perfect imitation of The Scream.) So questions is, am I bad mother for playing the song on the cd when he asks? I mean, if he starts to listen to the lyrics, I'm sure I'm going to be accused of ruining his childhood by someone. But I figure I weathered the Sexyback phase, and all I had was the uncensored version and he never asked me what a motherfucker was. He's never sworn and in fact, I have to say Jr is incredibly polite. If someone cuts me off while driving and he hears me swear under my breath he asks, "Mommy, was that guy being a buddy?"

So cd is staying in the car for now. Because I have to be honest, if I have to listen to Raffi one more time, it will drive me into a suicidal rage. (CB - he likes to listen to the Hampton the Hamster dance song. One's a rocker the other a clubber).


Gender Roles

I've found it so funny watching how much typical boy behaviour is apparently instilled in their genes: Love of balls, cars, mud, utter hate for shoe shopping. Jr's at that stage now where he thinks girls are yucky (except for his mommy!) and has decided he's going to marry me when he grows up (I know, I know, momma's boy. But I am SO making him do his own laundry as soon as he can reach the controls). So it was with great amusement that when I picked him up from school yesterday, he gave his friend a hug. And I though, awww, that's sweet. Ok, so boys don't usually hug, but he's four. Plenty of time to master the manly back-slap.

Then he blew his friend a kiss.

I laughed. I mean, he's four. It was very cute. But the question is, do I tell him boys don't usually blow other boys a kiss? He's all about doing boy stuff, so maybe he'd want to know? Also, kids are mean and I know if children don't tow the line with "average" behaviour, then they get teased. Mercilessly, sometimes.

Eh. Maybe I'll just have to teach him how to be witty instead. A good comeback usually takes care of any teasing because you know what? Maybe the world would be a better place if we all blew more kisses at people. (You know, in a non-stalking kind of way).

I did tell him that boys don't usually wear lipstick though because he kept asking to put it on and my hubby was starting to give me The Look. I gave him chapstick instead and told him it was very manly to have soft lips instead.

I have a feeling though, no matter how I do this, I'm likely going to screw it up. How do I say it's okay to be different, if you want to, and it's okay to be the same as other people too, if you want to, when he's only four? All I know is this wasn't covered in the instruction manual. (ha!)

Ok, how excited am I about this? Being able to save drafts, export your journal as a pdf, exanding all comment threads at once? The bookmarks? I can't wait. Another reason for me to love Dreamwidth.

Ok, onto Supernatural. It's eaten my brain! Look, I'm a zombie! (I hope Dean and Sam come and get me *g*)

Random comments on Ep 2x16 and 2x17
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Yes, so...um. I should be working on my Merlin Big Bang fic. I'm at 15,000 words which is about the usual stall point. I haven't been able to get past 20k on a fic without it stalling out. So what writing have I done lately on it?

1. I changed my present tense to past tense. On 15,000 words with of fic. *facepalm*. Now I have to keep rereading it to try and get all the verbs.

2. I inserted a chapter in the middle which now means I have to revamp the 7k words that come after it.

3. I've started watching Supernatural. I've watched S1 and I'm halfway through S2 in the space of a week. (I can't help it. I didn't know they were so pretty!)

4. I went out searching for Supernatural fic. And what's the first thing I looked for? Dean/Sam. (What? I wanted to see what the fuss is about? *g*) But now...whenever I watch, I can't help myself. I'm all--what do you mean they don't kiss?

I fear there may be no hope for me or the Merlin fic.

Anyone want Dreamwidth invite codes? I got two. Gone! Just comment with your email (comments screened). :)

I'll edit this post as I give them away so the count will be accurate to how many I still have.

Did it, done it!

http://lunasky.dreamwidth.org/

Now to go find everyone! :)

Reason #453167 Why fandom rocks.

Ass Off 2009 where we get to vote on who ass has the best ass. (I was getting a little ahead of myself there *g*)

From what I've gathered from my flist, there are a lot of mixed reactions. Some people are giddy with anticipation over the opening of Dreamwidth, others are sick of hearing about it.

I will be purchasing an account on April 30. I will be cross-posting my entries (I hear DW will make that relatively easy), and I'm excited and very much looking forward to it for a variety of reasons.

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So, I'm excited. The only thing left to do is figure out if I should keep this username or go for a different one. See, I like Luna. It's me. I only came up with lunasky because when I was applying for a hotmail email all those years ago, luna was obviously taken. So I did a little word association: luna...sky and stuck them together. Silly, huh?

So what to you think? Keep lunasky, or go for something different? Any suggestions? I seriously suck at naming things which is why I picked lunasky in the first place. :)

So as I'm sure most of you have heard by now, Amazon Rank fail exploded yesterday with tons of links <here if anyone needs to get caught up.

Last night before bed, I saw a link claiming It was a glitch!!! and of course, I thought, Oh really. A glitch? Yeah right.

Now, I'm not so sure it wasn't...

Someone with a theory of how the trolling was done

Someone claiming how they did it

It would be good if Amazon actually spoke up sometime soon...

ETA: Debunking the guy who claims he did it

So when my friendslist says "Jump!", I say "How high?"

A few days ago I saw a bunch of posts about NBC's Kings and I saw some squeeing so I promptly went to the NBC site and tried to watch the first episode. And lo and behold, since I'm Canadian, NBC didn't want my eyes watching it but since my flist said it was awesome, I had to resort to other means. And NOW? I can't find any squeeing posts whatsoever! I tried skip like 1000 but then my computer (or LJ) crapped out.

I want to squee--and I'm jumping up and down all by myself :(

(And in case you too missed the first ep and you happen to live in the US, I guess it's on the NBC site. Not that I know for sure because IT WOULDN'T LET ME WATCH IT!!!) But you know, you could watch it and then we could squee together. Just saying, that's all.

So computer's still on the floor--hence me not being around so much. It's murder on my back to type. But I just had to stop in and say a huge thank you to argosy for the b-day gift. Thanks so much sweetie!! *hugs*

Life's good. Family coming over tomorrow for b-day party, and even better, my mom's cooking so I don't have to try and whip something up. Though, I do remember a few birthdays ago they made me go out and by my own cake. They gave me money, but still, I had to go and pick it up. So while at the store, I made them write, "Happy Birthday to Me!" on it :)

Also, figured out what the weird icon switcheroo thing is. My flist is so smart :) I just have to submit a thing to LJ support. Will do that once the computer desk is up, I think. *hugs flist*

This is not my Arthur/Merlin icon! This is some girl. It's supposed to be a pretty Merlin icon but she's neither a pretty Merlin, or a pretty Arthur! What happened to my icon?

Who fed the LJ Gremlins after midnight????

PS. Seriously, what's up with this? Anyone know?

PPS. Move is complete! New house! Internet up! Computer desk, not up. Working on it. But computer is up, I'm just using it on the floor and killing my back.