Several hours later...

[jmtorres]

I'm changing the way I use this journal. I'm no longer going to publically post unfinished pieces of fic here, only finished things. My logic goes something like this: I know I am a comment slut, and I know that one of the more significant reasons I've posted snippets here in the past was because I wanted to get feedback.

When I get feedback for unfinished things, I then tend not to finish them. So I'm cracking down on myself. The things don't get posted until they're finished, so if I really want feedback, I have to finish them.

I've just spent most of the day privatizing about 99.7% of my old journal entries. The ones remaining public are things I consider finished. I have also passed off maintainership of daily_porn to j_crew_guy, and of epg to blueraccoon.

I'm aware that a few people (cloudtrader? kernezelda? a couple of others?) were having conversations in the comments sections of some of my recent posts. If you would like copies of those conversations, email me. If anyone wants copies of some post I just privatized that is not unfinished fiction or SV-related, email me.

I'm <juliette_torres@yahoo.com>, ckjmt on AIM, and my website (which will be getting some updates soon) is at <jmtorres.populli.net>.

Comments

Just ask for Roger

[thorshammer.livejournal.com]

at Video Bargainvile!:)

~Chris

Re: Just ask for Roger

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Yay for Fruheads :)

[kernezelda]

This is sad. I've just found you, and you're taking the toys away. Oh, well. At least you're still playing in the playground.

I'm considering whether to go to FS Con at Burbank this year. It was fun last year. I'm sorry you can't get to VividCon.

[reblog.livejournal.com]

uh-huh, very sad. especially since i found and memory-ised your entry with the pic of the two johns kissing and the really very wonderful entry that went with it, and now i see i can't access the entry or the amusement within it :(

reason i wanted to see it, not only to remind myself of a) how scarily insightful (the big above the pic), and b) how pissfunny (the bit below the pic) it is, but to post a comment to ... um ... confess that i brutalised your hard work:



i made sure to leave your watermark in the corner. not that i'd do anything with them without your permission, but just so you knew i wasn't evil when i showed them to you *g*

i think you should unlock the self-love entry. it rocked. :D

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[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I'll be posting the picture itself to my site, but the rest of the post was actually speculation for a fic-in-progress, so it stays down.

*squints* Hey, yeah, that is my watermark down there, isn't it?

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

I'll put you on the short list for Farscape beta. (You and ide_cyan. She'll kick my ass, but it needs kicking.)

*is amused by your "sex was confusing enough back home" icon she saw... somewhere...*

[kernezelda]

Yes! I'm sorry, I was thinking about it this morning and meant to offer. If you don't have FS betas yet, I'd be glad to volunteer. I don't know how effective I'd be, but I would probably ask lots of questions about what do you mean/where are you going, etc.

Re:

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about it this morning and meant to offer.

Offer, offer? what is this offer? *laughing* You're lucky I mentioned it first, instead of one day opening your mail and discovering I'd sent you some mammoth thing with the request, "Look at this, please?"

I don't know how effective I'd be, but I would probably ask lots of questions about what do you mean/where are you going, etc.

That's very effective. Also, if you can tell me where to cut my long sentences into little pieces; I know I'm bad about that. *G*

[veritykindle.livejournal.com]

NOOOOO!!!! What will I do without my John/Scorpy fix?!

I know what you mean about a story being harder to write (or maybe easier to drop) after people have already commented on it, though. I look forward to reading the story when it is finished. :)

Oh, and I really liked your website. It's funny -- when I saw what you wrote about that song you chose for that Witchblade vid (" The tune is Elvis Costello's "I Want You," a psycho stalker song if ever there was one"), I immeidately flashed on John/Scorpy. I am blaming you for this! ;)

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

when I saw what you wrote about that song you chose for that Witchblade vid (" The tune is Elvis Costello's "I Want You," a psycho stalker song if ever there was one"), I immeidately flashed on John/Scorpy. I am blaming you for this! ;)

Yes, I clearly have some kind of fixation for creepy pairings.

You weren't here when I was doing SV. You have no idea, really...

NOOOOO!!!! What will I do without my John/Scorpy fix?!

Heeee. Make other people write some? Write some yourself?

[cloudtrader.livejournal.com]

Heh, nah, don't need transcripts. Sorry for spamming your journal, by the way!

I am sorry to loose access to your unfinished stuff, though. ;_; Wah!

[kernezelda]

Is that icon Jeanette MacDonald?

I second the apology about spamming your LJ, but I'd probably do it again, so it's an insincere gesture.

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[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Silly people. Of course you can spam my journal. Just, good luck on finding entries these days to spam. I left 13 public out of a year and a half of schtuff, and while I hope my knew policy will kickstart me into finishing more things, it does mean fewer posts in between finishings.

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[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

P.S. *nudge* FRIEND each other already.

[kernezelda]

*shakes head and backs away rapidly*

Cloudtrader is frightening. Have you seen her LJ - she's sending secret binary code out into the universe.

Plus she has scary dolls and bites people on the ankle.

You're much less intimidating.

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[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Me?! I'm a bear.

[kernezelda]

That may be, but I'm not scared of bears.

I'm going to attempt a FS slash drabble! *worries*

Re:

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

*mutters* Naffs.

[cloudtrader.livejournal.com]

You think I'm frightening? ;_;

You can decode my secrety binary code here.

My Super Dollfie icon isn't scary!! She's just... a very misunderstood doll.

As for the ankle biting... :-P

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[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

You really are 12. Or 5. I forget, which is it?

[cloudtrader.livejournal.com]

Hey!

*blows a raspberry at you*

[kernezelda]

Per your subtle hint, we have befriended each other. But I doubt that will prevent spamming.

What is a naff?

Re:

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Er. Uh. I assure you I meant it affectionately. Or mildly. Or something.

It stands for normal as fuck.

[kernezelda]

*laughs* Well, that's me.

Re:

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Did I mention I also meant it ironically? I mean, you are a scaper, if nothing else.

[kernezelda]

What? You think that persons who enjoy their television characters just a little too much are odd?

Shirley, you jest.
(sorry, too much Naked Gun)

[cloudtrader.livejournal.com]

It is Marion Davies from the movie "Show People." She's one of my favorite actresses, although I like her in silent movies better than in talkies.

[kernezelda]

She looks a bit like Jeanette MacDonald, who had one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard.

[cloudtrader.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, there you go.

I like Marion Davies in silent films better than talkies because she had such a talent in expressing her emotions without saying a word. Her face was so expressive! For instance, can't you just see the emotion in her expression in this icon?

[kernezelda]

She appears rather supercilious - "Who are you to look at me?"

[cloudtrader.livejournal.com]

No no! That's bittersweet regret you see on her face! Sorrow! Longing for her lost love!!!

You obviously can't appreciate the subtle play of her emotions... :-P

[kernezelda]

So sorry. Wait, no, I'm not. So there.

[cloudtrader.livejournal.com]

Humph.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Aw, man. I just found your journal, started reading the bits you'd finished of that completely kick-ass John/Scorpy story, and now I'm not going to get to see any more of it? Pout.

Re:

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Well, you will when I get it *cough* finished.

[cyprinella]

I promise to stalk you for more than fannish reasons. I'm not sure what they are yet, but I'll find out!

Re:

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Because someday I'm going to produce kickass cool slashy-as-all-get-out movies and you'll be able to say you knew me when?

[inarticulate.livejournal.com]

I did something like that once.

*hugs* Hope all goes well. =)

What about random speculation, like all the Nietzschean (<--cannot spell without a reference, sorry) stuff? *curious* Entries like that were fun to read, but didn't seem to be based around a specific fic.

Re:

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Bone blade stuff, Toccata Solada, etc?

Did I ever mention that the Rhadeverse fic is going to have huge appendices?

[inarticulate.livejournal.com]

*lol* At least they'll be fun appendices!

[cimadness.livejournal.com]

Any chance of your unprivatizing the one where you jump 3 feet straight up? I'd like to add that to my memories *g*

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Oh, the one you commented on? And I was like, holy crap, it's you? Hang on. Lemme find it.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Done. Two entries in late Feb 2002; should be easy for you to spot.

[cimadness.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Thanks.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

2003! I lied. You know when it is. Heh.