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So I try, generally, to accept the idea that once I put things on the internet, they are on the internet and free to be made merry with by one and all. Therefore, it is my opinion that you do not REQUIRE my permission to:

--remix my work
--podfic my work
--make vids of my fanfic
--show my vids in a vidshow
--link my work, to anyone you reasonably think would appreciate it
--write fanfic of my fanfic
--draw fanart for my fanfic
--or any other permutation of fannish inspiration you can think of.

But if you want my permission, you have it. Also, if I've managed to lock something you wanted to share, poke me about it, that's generally accidental, I will usually unlock.

I would like to hear about if you are using or remixing or etcing my work! That is pretty exciting for me. Also, I would like to be credited (except on those rare occasions--I can think of two--where I have posted work with the specific request *not* to be associated with it).

See also: my braintwin's thoughts on this matter.

So anyway: you don't have to ask to play in my sandbox, but the answer's always yes.

Current Mood: hopeful

ETA: For more recent work, see

houseoftorres.

27 October 2008: Industrial Strength Tranquilizer, Eureka vid to the Austin Lounge Lizards. Wedding present for

niqaeli. Premiered at

vidukon 2008. 24.1MB avi.

18 August 2008: Highway Café of the Damned, Stargate SG-1 vid to the Austin Lounge Lizards. Co-vidded with

niqaeli. Premiered at

vividcon 2008. 24.6MB avi.

13 August 2007: Tokyo Sling: Remix, Weiß Kreuz vid to Smashmouth's Waste for

keelieinblack and the

vividcon 2007 Auction. 26.5MB avi.

4 September 2006: Miracle and Wonder, Star Wars original trilogy to Paul Simon's Boy in the Bubble. Blind remaster of baby's first vid. Wedding present for the high school best friend. 27.1MB avi.

16 August 2004: Change, Fight Club to the Getaway People. For

cadetdru. Premiered at

vividcon 2004. 30MB avi. There is also Commentary, 22mb mov, as of Nov 07.

16 August 2004: Shot in the Head, Touching Evil (US) to David Bowie's Seven Years in Tibet. Mostly done because the source was damn pretty. Premiered at

vividcon '04. 13.5MB avi. Or

27 May 2003: Rain, Farscape to Paul McCartney's Mamunia. A serendipitous shift in the weather. For

ysobel. 8.4MB avi.

11 March 2003: American Tune, Andromeda (the downfall of Rhade) to Paul Simon. My least favorite of my own vids, but I know that it works for some people, so. 30.8MB avi.

17 February 2003: I Want You, Witchblade (Irons's obsession with Pez and the blade) to Elvis Costello. For

boniblithe. 54.5MB avi because it is an effing six and a half minute vid, but I have to say, this encode gets the luminosity to viewable levels.

15 November 2002: Kryptonite Andromeda (Dylan/Rhade) to Three Doors Down. First vid that saw web (remastered for the bits that weren't out on DVD yet originally). Premiered at

vividcon '04. 30.5MB avi.

Current Mood: artistic

right okay i'm pretty sure two times is not a pattern but we're now going to officially link insomnia I want to throw pills at and PMS

Does anyone want a graze code

My laptop charger cord has the bullshit thing where it's constantly trying to pull out of its casing right (mac users ja feel me) and I tried to prod it back in as usual and it visibly sparked and is now no longer fuctional

standard oeprating procedure in effect: order replacement from amazon, notify internet, close computer.

so apparently i may have been exceptionally fragile the last few days because i was PMSing?

I have graze.com codes again

I'm not *yet* opening it up as a free for all, there's a couple of people I want to offer, but uh, watch this space?

monday:
--clean the balcony
--clean the bathroom
--talk to mother
--pay bills
--write a rejection my filmmaking colleague will accept

tuesday:
--preproduction meeting. agenda: to-do list

yeah

stated purpose of tab cleaning: make my computer more useable for writing in specified time blocks, less tempting

alias unread
The Twelfth of Never by Yahtzee
Bristow's 11 by Yahtzee

due south unread
Ajax Fassbender's Amateur Guide To Zombie Wrangling by Brigantine

white collar/chuck/fringe unread
Intelligent Designs by auburn

white collar unread
Love as Rich as the Sea by elrhiarhodan

teen wolf/pacific rim unread
we're all together in the same robot (in life) by kellifer_fic

pacific rim unread
i forget the difference between seduction and arson by gyzym

teen wolf/welcome to night vale unread
Welcome to Beacon Hills by HalfFizzbin, otter

teen wolf/white collar unread
My Patience is a Medal by Saucery

teen wolf/gilmore girls unread
bulwark by kellifer_fic

teen wolf unread
Trust In This (Even If You're Scared Stiff) by otter
The Whole Glass Of Water by ladyblahblah
Sourwolf Candy by relenafanel
she's got stickers on her locker by leah k
Completing the Square by clio_jlh
When You're Still Waiting for the Snow to Fall by JenNova
Where we ought to be by clio_jlh
Wild and Reckless Breeze by GotTheSilver
By a String of Blue Lights by Lapin
Coyote Courts the Moon by tzzzz
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it by otter
Bullets and Claws by miya_morana
Still by coppersin
The Skies Above Are Blue by greensilver
Grumpy Old Men by peroxidepest17
glad i didn't die before i met you by deerie
Telescoping Effect by relenafanel
First Date by halffizzbin
Like Calls to Like by Ciircee
AU fluff 'verse by mieraspeller
giving up this whole lie, this whole me by Loz
Dog Days by flaming_muse

teen wolf partially read
tween wolf: season 2 by verity
His Password is Also Derek by teromain
wolf whistle by ashinan
Cry Havoc by ladyblahblah
Aversion Therapy by entanglednow
Rattle this Ghost Town by scoutshonor
A Brief Introduction to Live Action Roleplaying by wldnst
I have a grave to dig by pistol
Trust Fall by Stoney
Show me the way back home baby by stilinskisparkles
Articulation by fleete
Parallels by Survivah
You Saw Me Standing Alone by breenwolf
Not As Described by Febricant
Not Like Bond & Moneypenny by WhoNatural
sterek on a plane by trelkez
The Noble Tie that Binds by minusoneday

teen wolf recs sets
trope: werewolves can turn into wolves
trope: fake boyfriends
fluffy fuzzy recs
accidental marriage; established relationship
knotting and mating

vid things i am still thinking about
wiscon

real life
community solar

knitting
the lace stockings stiles is currently making for his wedding to derek, for magical reasons. that I am currently fixing the pattern to, because why would you knit socks flat, why.
herringbone lace stocking pattern
standard abbreviations
kitchener stitch
the starter socks I made over the summer
mesh stockings

list of oddly specific descriptors that could be applied to two shows I've watched this year

female lead is a US govt agent in a male-dominated profession
main character experimented on as a child in a manner that made some major part of her adult life inevitable
father/figure with morally questionable past estranged from child at start series; relationship grows throughout series
mother/figure of dubious loyalties
memory recovery via mad scientist heavy drug usage shenanigans
fridged boyfriend (might be a double agent of some kind)
treasure hunt quest for pieces of a technologically improbable device scattered around the globe in the distant past
prophecy child
mysterious alternate version of lead character
mysterious alternate version of secondary character given cutsey nickname to alleviate the horror
character replaced by alternate impersonating her for a godawful long segment of a season
brainwashing people to think they are other people
X-Files homages
seasonal ensemble shake-up changes all the character relationship dynamics
season break time jump when show has written self into a corner

I mean I could go on but

is "Going Under" by Evanescence sufficiently cemented as Lord King Bad Vid material that it would still be worth the joke, or is it old enough to have passed out of mind?

motion to excise roman polanski from the film canon

also dw griffith

all in favor say aye

I don't really want to get into it right now but I'm in this weird phase where I'm like, re-evaluating all my life choices and goals because I don't like where I am and I want to get out.

Anyway one of the fantasies about getting out I've had was being a hermit, and I mentioned it to

niqaeli and she says, "....would your hermitage have *wifi*?" and I said I dunno, maybe

I've been trying out a thing of not actually wifi-free life but less wifi life where I turned off email to my phone and I haven't actually been on tumblr for a week, that was super easy to give up actually, and I think what works for this is one hour a day in the evening on the internets? Which I spend sorting through my email to see if there's anything I actually want to read, and talking to people on IM.

(And like, I haven't posted meaningfully on dreamwidth in months and months, but now I do? go figure)

so I think I might stay with this? Like. At the very least I think I'd like to run the experiment a little longer. One thing I was curious about was whether my sleep schedule would be affected at all if I wasn't staying up late to tumbl or whatever. Answer: no, my internet habits developed because my ability to sleep is fucked sideways, not the reverse. But I kind of. I don't know. It's a thing I'm working out still I guess.

But anyway I'm super not keeping up with anything that doesn't land directly in my inbox or say hello to me right now, so if anyone is interested in being my email penpal buddy or IMing in my one hour a night, you should say! (apparently my hermitage of less wifi involves inviting people to contact me...)

Current Mood: tired

*falls over and dies*

nickelmountain made podfic of my Cyteen story, A House in His Head. standard warning: the fandom is the warning. warning that didn't occur to me until I started listening to it: YOU WILL BE LISTENING TO A PERSON READ YOU DEEP-TAPE INSTRUCTIONS, ~~MAYBE DON'T TAKE A CATAPHORIC BEFORE LISTENING TO THIS PODFIC~~ IF THE CONCEPT OF DEEP-TAPE IS MEANINGFUL TO YOU PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THAT? *hands*

dear body are you even being serious right now

i had a root canal yesterday

i am misery

if you made plans with me for NYC, I will still meet you! But for limited amounts of time before i go back to curl up on

grey_bard's couch. Walking around exploring will not be so much a thing.

also right now i am favoring soft foods. and. really hoping my vicodin 'scrip will last the whole trip.

so this may come off vain but what are your favorite stories of mine?

grey_bard wants to make a zine of some my stuff and asked me if i had any i definitely wanted in, and uh, I dunno, my brain is failing me, so

hello period

all present and accounted for

I was thinking about going to LA the weekend of 5/3, but my usual suspects are, gasp, away at a wedding. So. Would anyone else in the CA coastal region be interested in hosting a fangirl for 2-3 days? LA and San Diego are about the same time of drive for me; San Francisco would be about 11 hours for me and thus slightly more than I want to drive after a full day of work, but um, I know I have peeps there, so, ponder?

So I will be in NYC June 12-June 17. The purpose of my journey is: fangirl (verb, intransitive).

I am interested in hanging out with my friends and making new fannish friends! Therefore, if you live somewhere reachable by the subway system, I am willing to come to you. If you live somewhere withing a day trip of the city and there's something you wanna do (like hang out with me! or go to a museum or see a show or something social with me!) you could come to me.

I have this vague idea about rereading So You Want to Be a Wizard and recreating Nita and Kit's Ordeal (hopefully without actually changing universes). This might be a multi-day endeavor, or I could just be overly optimistic, given the amount of time I spent communing with my laptop on

grey_bard's couch when last I visited. Also probably I should just acquire braces for all my joints now and bring them with me pre-emptively.

More realistic and concrete plans include going out to Coney Island to go to the beach, as I live in a landlocked location but am part selkie on my mother's side and cannot resist the call of the sea.

I am interested in (but last time failed to make plans I followed through on regarding) MoMA, the Guggenheim, visiting the New York Public Library on a day when it is open (last time I managed to go by on July 4th, which is, in fact, a national holiday, when libraries are closed), Paley Center, probably many other historical sites or museums I have not heard of. I will probably visit one of these this time (maybe two, I'm pretty sure the library is somewhere on the Ordeal walking tour).

I will almost certainly spend at least part of one day in Central Park.

Also I am interested in food. I like many kinds of food. I like trying new foods. New York is a great place for this and hey yeah. I also like trying new drinks and would not mind getting medium trashed one night of my trip if a few people knew a good place for that and wanted to hang with me for that ("medium trashed" = walking a bit wobbly, I love people, I may be interested in snuggling other interested parties).

I might like to go see some form of live entertainment (theatrical, musical, burlesque, who knows). Maybe!

But: fannish people. I totally want to hang out with you and meet more of you. You should say hi if any of the above sounds like cool stuff to do! And like, look, I kind of fail at keeping in touch with people, so even if it's been years since we've talked, if you wanna meet up I would be excited for it! Even if we've never really talked personally, just been on each other's reading lists, I would be excited for it! Like, don't think this invitation is just for my besties. This is for everyone I have conceivably run across in fandom like, ever. I am totally serious, I want to hang out with you.

Fair warning: I might talk about Teen Wolf.

AO3 link | tumblr link

Person of Interest/Teen Wolf crossover. Harold accidentally takes Bear on a playdate with a werewolf. For

enemyofperfect.

Call it a fit of whimsy. Harold writes the craigslist ad like a personal. Single brown Malinois male seeks playmate for long runs in the park. Like donuts, hot dogs, first edition Asimov. Speaks Dutch.

( Read more... )

hello uterus

we meet again

want a wireless keyboard with integrated mouse for use lounging around in bed viewing projector image on wall.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005DKZTMG/ this seems to be what I want and I know good things of Logitech but I can't shake the impression that it's not a full size keyboard

http://www.ergogeek.com/perixx-periboard-716-wireless-ergonomic-multi-touchpad-keyboard.html this seems like it IS a fullsize keyboard despite being only half an inch different (more images on defunct amazon page). But it's a brand I've never heard of

anyway um, opinions? advice?

is in two weeks, and

echan is coming out to see me and

i was wondering if any AZ peeps would wanna do some kinda meet-up? Somewhere in Phoenix metro, like Friday the 15th or Saturday the 16th, fangathering of geekiness to celebrate my ~~30th~~ 29th birthday?

I gave all my Graze codes out to fandom peeps, so I can't invite her. Anyone got a code to spare?

aha, it's a period

self-loathing, chocolate consumption, crying snotballs, nebulous pain in my abdomen, blood pouring from my vagina

yep.

My roommate wants to visit a friend in Vegas and is trying to con me into driving her. She was thinking we’d take my braintwin so I’d have someone to hang out with while she’s off with her friend. Only niq’s workweek is Thurs-Mon, so she has to take time off work to take a trip on our weekend, so that continues to be unlikely.

So my question is: Do i know any fanpeople in Vegas who’d want to hang out with me for a weekend? Or anyone who’d considering making a trip to meet me there and hang out with me for a weekend?

When I did the test run of this, I got some, uh, disbelief from someone who was interested in one of the books on tumblr. People don't really do the fannish yardsale style post on tumblr, they do giveaway drawings to get a lot of reblogs? I just want to get rid of my stuff, okay *G* So I wrote this whole paragraph about how #Saturday sendings works that I don't know if you guys need on dreamwidth, but here:

So, #saturday sendings is a plan I hatched to unclutter my house by giving away stuff I don't need or have multiple copies of, once a week. It is NOT a drawing, you do not have to like, follow, or reblog (although if you know somebody you think might want something I've listed, reblogging is fine!). It is not just for my followers, it is for anybody who wants. (And I will always use the #saturday sendings tag, you can track that if you want to follow offers without following me!) It is FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. The first person to tell me they want an item and provide me with a valid address to send it to gets to have it. You can contact me by ask, by comment on the this DW crosspost (comments screened), or by email, juliette torres at gmail. If I can ship what you've requested for under 5 bucks (so, small items to the lower 48) I will not ask you for any money! If I calculate the shipping to be more than 5 bucks based on either item bulk or your location, I will ask you to chip in on the cost of shipping. I list mid-week, I send on Saturdays. After Saturday, what's left gets donated locally.

THEM'S THE RULES. And now for this week's offerings!

Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, omnibus trade paperback, movie cover
~~Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff, trade paperback~~ claimed
~~The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust, trade paperback~~ claimed
Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane, paperback, the cover where it looks like they're sinking in the ocean

x-posted from tumblr

My roommate is getting rid of a handful of books and wants a quick answer, because she'll go give these to the local used bookstore if no one wants them.

Dan Brown, The Davinci Code (large print) & Angels and Demons (large print)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (large print)
Arthur Conan Doyla, Eight Great Sherlock Holmes Stories (large print)(the stories are: A Scandla in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, Speckled Band, Engineer's Thumb, Musgrave Ritual, Final Problem, Empty House, Dancing Men) claimed!
~~Lord of the Rings audiobook on 13 CDs, BBC production~~ claimed

If you are in the continental US I will ship any one of these to you at no cost. If you are outside the lower 48 or want more than one, get in touch and I'll figure what I need to ask from you for shipping.

ONE DAY ONLY

x-posted to tumblr

basically every week on some random day i will post a list of things i am looking to get rid of, and on saturday I will send things out

…probably starting in the new year. new year’s resolution!

I am thinking for stuff that ships for under $5 I will just hand out to whoever wants, but if it costs more than that to ship (due to size/weight or you living very far away from me) I will request you cover shipping. So in most cases a dvd, cd, or book you could get for free if you live in the continental US, but if anyone wants this fucking 50lb bag of plaster of paris, I would ask you to pay for the cost of shipping.

~~Seriously though does anyone want a 50lb bag of plaster of paris?~~ IT'S BEEN CLAIMED HALLELUJAH

(I will be using the tag #saturday sendings on tumblr if you would like to track offers.)

I am moving to a new apartment! If you would like to know my new address, please send me your email (comment screening is on) and I will evaluate my knowledge of your trustworthiness/likelihood of serial murder. (My standards require us to have exchanged some direct communication previous to this request. Other than that, pretty low.)

I am not Christian. My family is nominally Christian and celebrates Christmas. I was raised nominally Christian/mostly actually secular humanist-culturally Christian, so sometimes I slip and talk about Christmas when I mean Solstice. And then other times I feel like I am an oppressed minority because pagan Solstice trimmings were assimilated by the Church, because I can't avoid Christmas, because my family won't let me skip Christmas.

Short version: I have complicated feels about Christmas, and about families at Christmas, and my plan is to sleep through Christmas if anyone will let me get away with it, and if you want to talk to me about your Christmas/family problems, you are not going to get a lot of response, because at this point my defense is mostly to shut down. Sorry.

Also noteworthy: my store has entered the month of neverending Christmas music, so I'm playing defense all day every day.

x-posted to tumblr

I am interested in reading stories involving kink negotiation for Teen Wolf. The tag "kink negotiation" produces four Teen Wolf stories on the AO3, one of which is mine, and I'm choosing to assume that a lot more people write it but don't tag it, so fandom, I need your recs to help me find those stories.

Are you serious

something like 3 months without a period* and my body decides to rediscover this function on the DAY I am driving six hours.

Apparently if I want a more regular period I should travel more, since last time was when I was flying back from New York.

*We will not be discussing my body's peculiarities or your concern for my health. Do not even.

crossposted from tumblr

fic I wrote for niqaeli in the WTFJH universe (future fic, Stiles went away and went to college and has a boyfriend and is happy and Derek drops by for a visit and is confused).

Stiles woke up at--he had to look away from the looming Derek to stare blearily at the clock for a minute--seven in the morning. Which was way too early. "Hi?" he said. Maybe he'd found the couch uncomfortable. Or forgotten where the bathroom was. Or maybe, despite all prior evidence, Derek was a morning person. "You need something?"

"The bed smells like more than you," Derek said unhappily.

"Uh," Stiles said. It was way too early for this, and what the hell was that even. "Out of curiosity, when you told me I was too young and needed to go experience life, what kind of life experiences did you think I was going to have?"

"I know," Derek said. He sounded glum, and the weird part was that this was discernable from his normal broodiness. "But. More than just him."

( read more ridiculous cuddlefic )

I appear to have written a brief Teen Wolf fanfic entitled "The Ins and Outs of Werewolf Sex." In it, Stiles and Derek have an important conversation about certain kinks. See also: knotting.

( Let's talk about the fragile truce. )

Current Music: penny for your thoughts but a dollar for your insights

( in which I talk about the Argents )

I am actually writing Teen Wolf fic, fml.

So uh, this is only one part of the longer saga Will thinks he's getting me to tell but I figured I'd go ahead and post it since it's complete as a scene and frankly it's been a few months since I've been able to write on it (it would perhaps help if instead of giving me angst and woe and sturm und drang Will could come up with more porn).

Title: Submission Impossible
Author:

jmtorres
Fandom: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Rating: Mature? I went with Mature. I was torn.

Summary: Ethan's got a sub on his hands who's about to go into shock if he doesn't get dominated. One burning question: who the hell let a sub be chief analyst of the IMF?

Inspired by this prompt on the ghotocol kinkmeme.

the full tag set I posted to AO3 (part informative, part hilarious): Alternate Universe - BDSM, Miswire-verse, I'm really sorry, BDSM pon farr, can I just claim niqaeli made me do it, or at least encouraged me shamelessly, also I'm sorry for the title, I don't think I can blame niqaeli for that one though, inappropriate uses of children's movies, safewords that only make sense if you saw MI:III, also what the fuck is wrong with the IMF, seriously how are there so many moles, if you only watched Ghost Protocol some background: all the other MI films have IMF traitors, some serious internal agency problems is what I'm saying, PS if this hits fuckyeahweirdtags feel free to leave the identifying info attached, I am okay with being known for ridiculous tags, I am at peace with the what the fuck I have written, I mean it only took me four months to get off my ass and post it but what the hell, I am apparently a person who uses ao3 tags like tumblr tags now

eta: It was pointed out to me that these tags may be misleading in terms of suggesting this fic is intended as comedy. It is not intended as comedy. It is a ridiculous concept I mock myself for investing in that I have taken deadly seriously. (I mean, it's not without humor. But a comedy it's not.)/eta

AO3 link

( or you can read it here )

Current Mood: amused

So I have a as-nearly-complete-as-these-things-can-be collection of Classic Doctor Who, and no idea where to start. I would like to hear your favorite episodes and arcs! Also, I am bringing a selection to a couple of lesbian fangirls, so any femslash fodder would be great. Recommendations?

I am interested in starting a kinkmeme in aid of encouraging more fic in a miniscule fandom. I have never done so before. Can anyone point me towards resources (standard practices, rules I can crib, etc)? Also: should I do it on dreamwidth or should I go LJ for the numbers? Opinions?

eta: it's

kinkofages for Rock of Ages (2012).

want to write, trying to figure out what I will even type story into at this point. Ugh. Okay. likelihoods are: tumblr text post, dw post window, email window. Gdocs has slid for me, I like dumping stuff unto a gdoc to keep track off but not writing there. and for some reason I no longer believe in non-browser writing.

yeaaah.

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