tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978Off the prompt "cuddles." Warnings for character death.jmtorres2014-03-29T09:34:24Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1727568i posted this to tumblr bc i post everythung to tumblr now but all my vorkosigan friends are here2014-03-29T09:34:24Z2014-03-29T09:34:24Zpublic16<p>so a few years ago niq and i had this plotbunny about the hilarious rom-com of Alys and Padma, because they were totally a fairytale romance, the prince's grandson and the beautiful young vor maiden. I mean, we headcanon it as a fairly modern fairytale romance where she was actually low vor and worked for a living instead of being like, a count's daughter or something. I mean, her job was a countess's social secretary but<br /><br /><p>part of the story of their romance included this barrayaran engagement tradition i invented and am routinely saddened does not occur in any of the canon weddings: the reading of the faults. it's kind of an outmoded tradition? but so like the idea is: the best man will tell the bride to be all of the groom's faults, in theory so that she could throw him over in the best man's favor. Oh wait i just found my old post on it, let me quote what Ivan told me about: "a Time of Isolation tradition that has almost entirely died out in which a friend of the groom will slander him most vilely--to scare his bride off, or legitimately warn her what she's getting into, or possibly just troll everyone for the lulz, depending on what fairy tales you heard as a child." Aral read Padma's faults for him, because, ridiculous modern fairy tale; Padma attended, though he was not supposed to, so he could add his own commentary on how he was really much worse than Aral was painting him. Ivan drags Ekaterin off to read her Miles's faults, because he's been writing the list since he was sixteen years old and he realized how desperately Miles wanted to find his Lady Vorkosigan, and he WILL NOT BE DENIED THIS OPPORTUNITY<br /><br /><p>today i started cracking up at the notion of Selda (we named her, whatever) and Ezar's wartime engagement and you know, things are shitty as hell and there's not time for a lot of niceties but in a moment of black humor Selda demands of this camp of ragged soldiers that someone tell her Ezar's faults, and no one really wants to? he's their leader? it feels inappropriate? but eventually Piotr's like HE EATS HIS GROATS WITH BUTTER. SALTED BUTTER. and eventually half the camp chimes in with stuff about that silly or "he put me on latrine duty!" or whatever (eventually Selda cuts them off and says perhaps someone had better tell Ezar HER faults instead. Negri--we made Negri hers before Ezar's, he was her bodyguard and also her messenger when she outmaneuvered Yuri and sent them an invitation to come take the palace--SO much backstory we've decided on for this lady okay--anyway, Negri agrees to read her faults to Ezar but says perhaps they better do it in private. "Oh, are we going to pretend I am unsullied?" asks Selda; "Yes, my lady, I think we should pretend," says Negri.)<br /><br /><p>so like, pffffff ridiculous fast forward 85 odd years, Duv is comfortable enough about his extended in-laws to go off on historical rants about people they knew, and Aral drops, contextless, into a thesis on Emperor Ezar, that among his many faults, he ate his groats with salted butter<br /><br /><p>and Duv, taken aback, asks how one is <em>meant</em> to eat groats?<br /><br /><p>and Aral replies, with maple syrup, as any good Vorkosigan will tell you.</p></p></p></p></p></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1727568" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1676434GIP (I finally got around to making a Steve icon)2011-11-15T22:57:04Z2011-11-15T22:58:17Zpleasedpublic9So the other day Steve tweaked me about something, and I said, whoa, wait, <em>what?</em><br /><br />For the longest time, Ivan Vorpatril has been the only character in my head who's had enough independence to have his own opinions, and notice and respond to me, and it was largely a function of what his personality is--he's a slinker, so what I noticed was he kept trying to slink off and hide from me. That and the intelligence.<br /><br />The Steve in my head has apparently woken up enough to have... similar independence. And I didn't notice for the longest time because he didn't try to slink off--but that's not who <em>he</em> is. He's nice! He's a sweetie. Unlike Ivan, he doesn't hate me. So I didn't notice that his compliance wasn't the moldable plasticity of the ordinary kind of character I shape until he got comfortable enough to drop his sense of humor on me. It's subtle! Kind of wry. Usually self-deprecating. Except if he knows you well enough he'll nudge you the way he'd nudge himself. (See also: "Don't do anything stupid until I get back" "How can I? You're taking all the stupid with you.") <br /><br />Seriously, most of my characters <em>don't talk back!</em> And Steve doesn't really do <em>backtalk</em>, but, he's decided he's hung out in my head long enough to start teasing me for my foibles. So that's apparently a thing now.<br /><br />*laugh* I was talking to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/'><b>niqaeli</b></a></span> about it and the differences between how the Steve in my head and the Ivan in my head behave towards me, and we rapidly concluded that <em>no shit</em> Ivan runs for the hills when he can and Steve doesn't feel the need--we do hilariously awful things to Ivan because we delight in watching him squirm, whereas we do cute, fun things to Steve because he grins like a loon and it's fantastic. This icon, this icon is TOTALLY the world I keep writing for Steve. The future is awesome! I keep introducing him to interesting people. Some of them are robots! Or centaurs! Or his soulmate! Why exactly would he run away? <br /><br />Somewhere in my head Ivan is sulking, because there's a new chewtoy as independent as he is, who has somehow drawn a better lot in plot bunnies and has no interest in coming to hide in a corner with him.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1676434" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1671148Off last night's prompts post2011-10-14T20:16:42Z2011-10-14T20:32:09Zcalmpublic0It hit yuletide length, so I figured I was morally obligated to post it to the archive.<br /><br />Title: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/264836">The Secret Lives of Muses</a><br />Author: <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://jmtorres.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://jmtorres.dreamwidth.org/'><b>jmtorres</b></a></span><br />Fandom: Vorkosigan, Dresden Files by allusion, and Meta, meta as hell. <br />Summary: In which Gregor wants to hear all about Ivan's adventures in the author's head.<br />Word Count: 1056<br /><br />I may have mentioned in the past about Ivan being the only muse who hides from me. In the back of my own head. <em>In other fandoms.</em> Where he gets his just desserts. (Hiding from your writer, honestly.) <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/'><b>azurelunatic</b></a></span> asked if he could be convinced to talk about that time in Chicago, and the answer was--I definitely could not convince him, but he won't lie to Gregor. And I'm not above using that against him.<br /><br />Gregor, at least, forgives me.<br /><br /><a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/264836">Fic on AO3.</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1671148" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1665733It's official; Ivan hates me.2011-10-01T14:34:33Z2011-10-14T19:49:32Zpublic18So I've been dealing with an ongoing sense of TONY STARK HOW SO DAMAGED from both other people's fic and how he behaves in my head in fic I might be writing (note to tony: no steve is not pissed off about you maybe banging lady gaga because he is jealous; I promise you that is not it, tony). Both <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/'><b>niqaeli</b></a></span> and I keep retreating to the Losers for sanity because THOSE guys are so much less damaged. I am not kidding and wow what.<br /><br />I have been poking around in the back of my head for Ivan, who went to ground months ago and keeps jumping fandoms to avoid me. After the time I found him in New York, I decided not to ask at all when I tagged him in Chicago. Ivan Vorpatril is the most active, independent character in my head, and pretty much the only one who recognizes my presence as a writer and to be slunk away from. <br /><br />Anyway, I hunted him up and begged him to come back because omg less damaged than Tony fucking Stark and he looked around at my crop of plotbunnies and got pissed off at me because we have a plotbunny called the goddamn lunar base whose sole purpose is a Tony without damage for me to use to block regular Tony out. All the things I've done to Ivan but Tony gets a happyverse? And I said we'd sort of done that for, well, not for Ivan specifically, but for Vorkosiganverse, we have a massive AU where we fixed the Escobar war and stuff and Padma is alive and Ivan had both parents growing up (and no need to mention That Time He Was Emperor for 5 minutes) and is a diplomat and engaged to René Vorbretten!<br /><br />And Ivan looked right at me and said, "You're not nice."<br /><br />Muses.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1665733" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1659378Things I do to keep sane2011-08-29T10:17:32Z2011-08-31T07:30:41Zawakepublic15You may or may not have noticed, I've been posting to dw a lot less lately. I'm probably <em>not</em> going to go back to posting daily grumbles and random thoughts to dw, and if that was something you were interested in, or if we're friends enough that you'd want to keep up with me day-to-day, a lot of that kind of stuff is getting dumped into <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://twitter.com/decontextual'><img src='https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico' alt='[twitter.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='16' height='16'/></a><a href='http://twitter.com/decontextual'><b>decontextual</b></a></span> now. At first it was just going to be a "random shit people say" amusement ground, which is why it got named Out of Context Theatre, but then I started following some fannish accounts and I got weirdly social what the hell ever: I'm <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://twitter.com/decontextual'><img src='https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico' alt='[twitter.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='16' height='16'/></a><a href='http://twitter.com/decontextual'><b>decontextual</b></a></span> on twitter. Over here on dreamwidth I will probably be posting more essay-like content, things that have been percolating a while, as well as fanfiction and vids. If I ever finish any ever again.<br /><br />Right, so that was online housekeeping. Moving on. Disjointed thoughts to follow.<br /><br />Working was fucking nuts (redacted) <br /><br />On Thursday I am flying out for the long weekend to see <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>echan</b></a></span> and <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://jetpack-monkey.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://jetpack-monkey.dreamwidth.org/'><b>jetpack_monkey</b></a></span> (and <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://diannelamerc.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://diannelamerc.livejournal.com/'><b>diannelamerc</b></a></span> and <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://lizbetann.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://lizbetann.livejournal.com/'><b>lizbetann</b></a></span>). If there is anyone in the LA area who would like to meet up with me and/or them while I'm visiting, HOLLA. <br /><br />I have this I don't even know, it might actually <em>be</em> a disorder, but apparently I am more likely to feel things are right with the world if I move all my crap around every year or so (if I'm not actually moving from one house to another). At present I'm considering essentially switching the TV/guest room and my bedroom--because my bedroom is bigger, and I want to turn the TV room into the VIDDING ROOM, and have my desk and vidding computer in there as well as the fiendishly clever ikea sofa bed the TV. While it would make it difficult to vid from bed, it would make vidding a) potentially more social, as covidders could hang out and clip from DVD or betas could hang out and watch random crap until needed but, like, in the same room and b) more likely to happen from some members of the House of Torres who don't like climbing over my endless piles of laundry to get to my vidding computer. <br /><br />I measured everything and found a decent free designer online, floorplanner.com, and then took some screenshots:<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br />Current layout of the rooms in question:<br /><br /><img src="http://jmtorres.dreamhosters.com/images/rearrange/myroomcurrent.jpg" width="391" height="534" alt="floorplan of a 12' by 11.5' room, closet door upper left, hall door upper mid, dresser upper right, single bed lower left, L-shaped desk lower mid, bookcase lower right, centrally featuring text 'endless piles of laundry' and 'boxtopia'"><br /><br /><img src="http://jmtorres.dreamhosters.com/images/rearrange/tvroomcurrent.jpg" width="349" height="329" alt="floorplan of a 9' by 11' room, hall door lower left, closet door lower mid, entertainment system on left wall, enormous L-shaped fiendishly clever ikea sofa bed on right wall"><br /><br />I figure there's not many ways I'd choose to lay things out with the TV room as my new bedroom--the bed would HAVE to go against the interior wall of the house, for reasons of OMG THE SUMMER IN VALLEY OF HELL:<br /><br /><img src="http://jmtorres.dreamhosters.com/images/rearrange/sleepingdownthehall.jpg" width="376" height="411" alt="floorplan of a 9' by 11' room, hall door lower left, closet door lower mid, single bed on the left wall, bookcase upper mid by the head of the bed, dresser lower right, centrally featuring text 'endless piles of laundry' and 'boxtopia'"><br /><br />(I have high hopes that in moving everything around I will <em>also</em> magically unpack everything, but I am trying to be realistic here a little.) I was also considering buying a <del>Narnia</del>wardrobe at IKEA to stick oh, probably, upper right, to maybe alleviate the endless piles of laundry and because the closet in that room is smaller, but for reasons I'll touch on later it may not be in my best interest to acquire <em>more</em> furniture.<br /><br />I've come up with a few different ways to put together the new VIDDING ROOM. My favorite is this one:<br /><br /><img src="http://jmtorres.dreamhosters.com/images/rearrange/redesignflipdesk.jpg" width="364" height="503" alt="floorplan of a 12' by 11.5' room, closet door upper left, hall door upper mid, L-shaped desk upper right with L extending into middle of room, entertainment system on lower right, enormous L-shaped fiendishly clever ikea sofa bed on left wall with outline of full sofa bed extension and a mark of 1 foot, 8 inches between outline and L-shaped desk in center of room"><br /><br />However, it would require taking my desk apart a LOT and reassembling it backwards. I could, with less sturm und drang, do it this way:<br /><br /><img src="http://jmtorres.dreamhosters.com/images/rearrange/redesignnobreakdesk.jpg" width="343" height="484" alt="floorplan of a 12' by 11.5' room, closet door upper left, hall door upper mid, entertainment system on upper right, L-shaped desk lower right with L extending into middle of room, enormous L-shaped fiendishly clever ikea sofa bed on left wall with outline of full sofa bed extension and a mark of 1 foot, 8 inches between outline and L-shaped desk in center of room"><br /><br />This would also put spectators more over the vidder's shoulder. Social yay, don't bug me when I'm working woe? It shouldn't interfere for sightlines to the main TV, but it might for the VHS unit I keep around just in case.<br /><br />Okay, but then there's another issue. It's possible we'll be getting a third person moving in, in like, six months, in which case I would have to give up one of these rooms (the smaller one, obvs, first come first serve?). I figure if I put the VHS unit and my bed in storage (the fiendishly clever ikea sofa bed is perfectly comfortable and larger than my bed, which means I could more easily have company) I could fit everything else in my bed/vidding room like so:<br /><br /><img src="http://jmtorres.dreamhosters.com/images/rearrange/allmycraplessbed.jpg" width="358" height="469" alt="floorplan of a 12' by 11.5' room, closet door upper left with nearby text 'boxtopia', hall door upper mid, L-shaped desk upper right with L extending into middle of room, entertainment system on left wall, dresser on lower left, enormous L-shaped fiendishly clever ikea sofa bed on bottom with outline of full sofa bed extension and a mark of 1 foot, 6 inches between it and the dresser, bookcase crammed in on right wall between foot of sofa and L of desk, centrally located text 'endless piles of laundry'"><br /><br />in preparation for which I might set up the intermediate vidding room like so:<br /><br /><img src="http://jmtorres.dreamhosters.com/images/rearrange/lessmovingif3.jpg" width="359" height="501" alt="floorplan of a 12' by 11.5' room, closet door upper left with nearby text 'boxtopia', hall door upper mid, L-shaped desk upper right with L extending into middle of room, entertainment system on left wall, enormous L-shaped fiendishly clever ikea sofa bed on bottom with outline of full sofa bed extension"><br /><br />There are other options I could do with the L-shaped desk actually pointed into a corner that would open up more central space, but I actually want it out, so you can get to shelves on both sides. I'm not <em>too</em> fussed about taking the desk all the way apart to flip which side its L is on, since I'm going to have to take it halfway apart to move it at all, so I think the main question is--can I do it my favorite layout, or should I be working in preparation for the guest room becoming a third resident's room? So I should probably nail down <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://jecook.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://jecook.dreamwidth.org/'><b>jecook</b></a></span> about that before I start hauling crap around.<br /><br />Thoughts, House of Torres?<br /><br /><br /><br />My to-do list is full of boring, grown-up things like endless piles of laundry and car maintenance and shoes. My plotbunny list lately is all:<br /><br />--Harry Dresden is Not a Lesbian (Harry always-a-woman AU, <a name="cutid2"></a> and no, she's not a lesbian, she's functionally bi but so in denial that she keeps yelling at people she's NOT A LESBIAN, despite the thing with Elaine and the thing with Lea and the thing with Murphy--meanwhile, trufax, Susan turned out to be straight, go figure--and then Molly tries to make everyone's head explode by announcing she's decided she's a lesbian like Harry: Charity is all "lesbian whatever COULD YOU CHOOSE A WORSE ROLE MODEL JFC" and Harry is all "but... I'm... not a lesbian! WTF!")<br />--WHERE ARE ALL MY PEPPERBOT NOTES, DAMN IT THIS NEEDS MORE PLOT, hahaha Steve is all "cool! the future is awesome! who else is a robot?"<br />--These Mistress Pepper notes are surprisingly complete, hahaha Steve is SO confused by them switching between Mr. Stark and Miss Potts and Tony and Pepper, because it's a scene/not scene thing that they're not copping to<br />--somewhere in the corner, Ivan is hiding from me all smug. I'll get you, my pretty.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1659378" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1657641Ways to make Simon Illyan facepalm2011-08-13T03:47:34Z2011-08-13T03:48:04Zamusedpublic7The other day <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/'><b>azurelunatic</b></a></span> and I were discussing the possibility of tattooing Impsec eyes on various parts of our anatomies, and how wise/unwise that might be with workplace dress codes. And somehow arrived at the notion of Impsec nipple shield jewelry (I think it might have been my fault). <br /><br />Anyway, drawing in pastels after the cut because NSFW, what with showing boobs adorned only with jewelry. Figure has no navel, I assume because she is a CLONE. And not because I am lazy. <a name="cutid1"></a> <br /><br /><center><img src="http://jmtorres.dreamhosters.com/images/impsecnipshields.JPG" height="1024" width="768" alt="drawing in pastels of a woman's torso, with horus eye nipple shield jewelry"></center><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1657641" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1653404My muses, people2011-07-08T23:37:51Z2011-07-08T23:37:51Zpublic0Bel is gaping at Miles, going, "You are SO damaged."<br /><br />(He really, really is.)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1653404" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1638175sigh.2011-06-09T11:04:14Z2011-06-09T11:04:14Zpublic12SIMON ILLYAN WANTS ME TO LEARN GREEK.<br /><br />CLASSICAL GREEK.<br /><br />AND THEN ALSO MODERN GREEK PLUS ABOUT A MILLENNIUM OF <em>INTERSTELLAR</em> DRIFT.<br /><br />Asshat.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1638175" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1633245The current contents of my brain include2011-05-31T09:21:30Z2011-05-31T09:36:21Zamusedpublic6--FTM vampire Nikola Tesla; very George Sand except never known/revealed to the general public and, confident of having a great deal of time, gradually trying out medical procedures and treatments as they become less stupidly awful. In my head, Helen is snarking about the caterpillar he used to wear on his upper lip to pass. Also, Will's "what" face is very what. Somehow "the guy who invented the radio just dissed Jack the Ripper" fits into his worldview okay. And vampires. And other Abnormals. And stuff. But he is going "wait, what?" at the idea that Nikola is trans. Maybe partially because he's just so ordinarily trans. He is not "my Abnormal power is changing sex at will" trans or "the Source blood made me into a dude" trans or anything. Will might find the whole thing easier to grasp if he were. Will's sense of reality is so skewed. But mostly: Tesla! and Helen! And Tesla snarking about how if he'd given up and worn the damn petticoats he'd've had a much better chance with Helen back at Oxford, because Helen really wished she had another woman around. <br /><br />--that time when Gregor was 17 and very nearly had an assignation with a girl whose family Alys felt was not at all proper and what was Gregor THINKING, nearly giving them a political hold on him, they're Conservatives for heaven's sake, only things are poorly articulated all around and what Gregor gets out of it is: he is not allowed to have sex EVER with ANYONE (presumably until Alys marries him off appropriately) and he has NO CONTROL of his own life and his security watches him ALL THE TIME and NEVER LEAVES HIM ALONE and obeys ALYS AND ARAL and NOT HIM DAMN IT. His sulk is epic as only teenage sulks can be, though frankly far more true than most over the top teenager complaints, and he has been tossed down to Vorkosigan Surleau to calm down and 12 year old Miles and Ivan um. help? try to help? by showing Gregor this hole in the security they found and they all go exploring in the mountains until ImpSec shows up about an hour later going OH MY GOD THE EMPEROR WE LOST YOU WE WERE AFRAID YOU MIGHT BE DEAD NEVER LEAVE US AGAIN WHAT IS THIS SCRATCH ARE YOU HURT DID SOMEONE HURT YOU DID THESE BOYS TRY TO ASSASSINATE YOU WE CAN FIX THAT LET US AT THEM. Everyone is sort of failing at the calming down thing. It's hilarious and terrible and also where Illyan pokes at wee Ivan and goes, "I see you have a brain. I will not allow you to waste it," and appropriates him to be a secret agent on the spot. After scaring him half to death, because what Illyan was meant to be doing was playing Simon Illyan, Bogey-Man, as Alys-approved punishment for gross stupidity (he offered because Alys was wringing her hands going I DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT DO I DO WITH MY SON FOR THIS, whereas Cordelia and Aral were just planning to have a long and very serious talk with Miles about recklessness and people trying to protect them and consequences, and ask Miles what he thought an appropriate punishment would be, because by that age Miles was very good at declaring his own penances far more strictly than certainly Cordelia would have handed out). <br /><br />Er.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1633245" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1632624deep Vorkosigan thought of the day2011-05-31T01:10:46Z2011-05-31T01:10:46Zpublic7ImpSec had to essentially regard Bothari as an extension of their own protection of Miles, or surely they would have come after Miles at Tau Verde much sooner. Because he slipped ImpSec but good on Beta Colony in Warrior's Apprentice.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1632624" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1632135SLEEP WHAT IS THAT2011-05-30T10:33:22Z2011-05-30T10:57:42Zpublic2I really thought I would be asleep right now. Or at least fallen over contemplating my various aches (the elbows kicked in about an hour ago: driving-related, I assume). Instead I am... cursing that I cannot access my online class early and contemplating rereading <em>Warrior's Apprentice</em> in aid of wee Secret Agent Ivan fic.<br /><br />ETA: can anyone recommend/disrecommend/share? Vorkosigan audiobooks?<br /><br />ETA2: Novel-length podfic, I can find. Audiobooks, I am failing.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1632135" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1631910How I spent my holiday, by little Ivan Vorpatril, age twenty-two2011-05-30T07:51:54Z2011-05-30T07:56:56Zpublic3A fun-filled weekend of fun has been had! And it's still a holiday tomorrow!<br /><br />On Thursday night after <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/'><b>niqaeli</b></a></span> got off work, we drove out to LA to visit <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>echan</b></a></span> and <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://jetpack-monkey.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://jetpack-monkey.dreamwidth.org/'><b>jetpack_monkey</b></a></span>. An all-night trip; we hoped to get there before the morning rush so I left 21 minutes from the end of the first episode of BBC's Sherlock, which <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://traykor.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://traykor.dreamwidth.org/'><b>traykor</b></a></span> had put on while niq was still at work. Because those 21 minutes might actually matter to whether the freeways were totally clogged or just impenetrably labeled. Never mind spoilers, imagine being 3/4 of the way into <em>any</em> iteration of any Sherlock Holmes story and having to walk away. We arrived on <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>echan</b></a></span>'s doorstep and despite being dead tired, I asked if we could put it on (I figured we'd watch it from Netflix, turns out they own the DVD). So we did. I have now seen Sherlock. Whoo.<br /><br />On Friday, <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/'><b>niqaeli</b></a></span> and I slept in weird bits on and off but not at the same time as one another mostly, and <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>echan</b></a></span> came out as genderqueer on the internet, which I had known about for some time and <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/'><b>niqaeli</b></a></span> hadn't and wow, it was a relief to be on the same page as my braintwin finally. (<span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://jetpack-monkey.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://jetpack-monkey.dreamwidth.org/'><b>jetpack_monkey</b></a></span>'s reaction, which <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>echan</b></a></span> IMed me about a couple weeks ago, was an adorable sleepy "Not that surprised. Still my <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>echan</b></a></span>." *heart* He is a sweet husband.) Also on Friday, we went out for sushi! At some point, we watched the Tik Tok vid for vampire Nikola Tesla from last year's Club Vivid and I explained in detail what was going on for <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>echan</b></a></span>, who has seen about five Sanctuary episodes, out of order. There was dinner from their favorite 24-hour delivery service because apparently most things in downtown LA close at like, six (including Starbucks! I've never known a Starbucks that closed that early!). Then the household (which also includes <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://diannelamerc.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://diannelamerc.livejournal.com/'><b>diannelamerc</b></a></span> and <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://lizbetann.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://lizbetann.livejournal.com/'><b>lizbetann</b></a></span>) decided to watch Being Human UK while niq and I variously went to sleep and passed out. Naturally, having fallen over before midnight, I woke up at about one in the morning and put some Dresden Files on (I watched three episodes! I remember what happened in some of them! I laughed at Netflix's description of Harry as ethics-challenged, because he seems to have a fairly strong personal ethical code to me! but maybe he fails it up later? who even knows). <br /><br />On Saturday I did not wake at six in the morning like niq, who had fallen down and stayed down instead of Netflixing in the middle of the night, but I did manage to pull myself out of couch for trip to Little Tokyo with her and <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>echan</b></a></span>. I had a honeydew melon smoothie, then we went to bookstore and niq got lots of origami paper, then we had enormous bowls of noodles and niq forgot that my tolerance for alcohol is significantly lower than hers, so yes, half a bottle of sake will get me tipsy. <br /><br />After that we went to Santa Monica: I had expressed interest in beach (any beach) and niq wanted to go to British import shops/a restaurant for tea in the area. Both beach and tea were lovely. Like, half an hour on the freeway + forty minutes finding parking + a good ten minutes of walking across the deepest beach on the coast to dunk myself in the ocean for fifteen minutes (priceless). Neither niq nor echan came in more than knee-high with me (though I full-body hugged echan when soaked to hear zir squawk), both feeling that the water was much too cold for my shenanigans, and it was cold? but I'd been expecting it to be cold and had sort of over-anticipated it so it wasn't as cold as I actually thought it would be? So for me it was pleasant. And wave-diving is fun. Mostly if you dive under waves right it rolls over you and you come back up behind it a few seconds later. Once I hit my dive wrong and got tossed around in the turbulence of the breaker a bit more and came up laughing in glee, so much so that I startled a woman nearby that I hadn't known I'd washed up next to into laughing with me. I, I sometimes forget other people are there when I'm staring out at the wild, wide ocean. On a wading beach, no one much comes out as far as me (you have to be waist-to-chest deep to get waves big enough to dive under), and also I have sort of um. Great transcendental fierce pagan joy that possibly puts me in an altered state with the ocean? Although part of that is wave-diving related endorphins. Even when you do the dive right, you end up with sore shoulders, and when you're standing there letting the little ones hit you waiting for the big ones, you end up with sore thighs. The ocean's like, big. It's all-encompassing and humans are so tiny and you get a bit battered. Endorphins: apparently I was kind of stoned for tea. <br /><br />(For the record: it is possible I am not a traditionally sane person. Don't try this at home?)<br /><br />I have always thought I would like to live by the sea. I think I must be part selkie. And I currently live in a desert and my families of blood and choice both live here so I don't know if I'll ever leave, really. But we fantasized about everywhere we would have residences if we won the lottery during tea and I think having a villa on the Mediterranean would be nice.<br /><br />After that, we went to see My Chemical Romance. Apparently people had been standing in line since like, noon, and so we got there after the line had gone in, around eight, resigned to standing nowhere near the stage but frankly okay with with having done other things besides camp out for the show. <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>echan</b></a></span> noted that the mass of people in front of the stage was very tightly packed and not moving at all, no one leaving for drinks or food or bathroom or anything, fairly completely impermeable. Then during the opening number Gerard Way went crowd-surfing and I yelled in zir ear, "Now you know why." They'd been waiting for their opportunity to touch him. <br /><br />Since I am apparently incapable of not snarking to the internet, I tweeted a fair amount during the show. Er, so I have a twitter account? It is <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://twitter.com/decontextual'><img src='https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico' alt='[twitter.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='16' height='16'/></a><a href='http://twitter.com/decontextual'><b>decontextual</b></a></span>, I um. Never mind. Here:<br /><br />[Re the opening act] "Get that girl up onstage, I'm gonna eat her!" "Performance would probably be improved by onstage cunnilingus."<br />Friendly fans. At top of stair letting people coming up pass before I go down. A dude hugs me and says I smell nice. Seems stoned not scary.<br />The song "the only hope for me is you" sounds slightly less creepily psychotic when sung in concert to fans.<br />As per your request: you're a bad bad bad bad man, G-way. #mcr [I actually like House of Wolves a lot, but hahahaha I just. Watching him crawling all over the mic stand...]<br />"you ready *mumble*" is part of the song permanently in performance??? #mcr [re "Vampire Money"]<br />E says re Destroya: they burned the dictionaries first? #mcr<br />Okay sometimes I enjoy them unironically. #mcr [Re Teenagers]<br /><br />Lost my bet on what their encore would be; they went back to Black Parade to close out the show rather than pulling out Sing. <br /><br />We tried to go to a bar with food after the show, but that didn't work out well. We ended up getting food from Famima!! which I wish we could have in Valley of Hell, but wiki says they closed like half their test sites and now exist solely in downtown LA. Then we fell down. <br /><br />Come Sunday morning, brunch was delivery, much hugging was hugged, and niq and I got on the road about 1:30. We plotted many terrible things to do to Ivan on the way, which also involved doing terrible things to Gregor. Having Illyan in my head is oh, my God, a trip and a half. *flail* I cannot even describe. Eventually there will be fic. I hope. The shortish snippet I was going to try for wants to be about 8-12K because Ilyan's going to cross-reference everything. Cry. Yay. Something. <br /><br />My calves, my thighs, and my shoulders are all sore and tired. When I lay down I can feel my legs vibrating. When I get up it hurts. Muscle aches everywhere. I mean, I was expecting this? Walking, walking in sand, swimming, more walking in sand, more walking, standing at a concert for two and a half hours, then driving several hours will do that to you. (Interestingly my legs didn't hurt while I was driving, only when I stopped. Yet I kept stopping to stretch them out, because I was afraid they would like, calcify in driving stance.) Also that whole paragraph up there about endorphins is pretty hilarious to me now. But I've almost entirely gotten my hearing back after only a day! (Concerts. Concerts are loud.) <br /><br />Plotting for future trips in both directions proceeds apace. OCEAN. In related news: I am interested in becoming a touring fangirl and driving to visit people I have met on the internet. Contemplate this entry and imagine all the fun you could have with me!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1631910" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1631592I would just like to inform you all2011-05-28T10:12:30Z2011-05-28T10:12:30Zawakepublic3that I have an Illyan; of all the muses to get wandering around my brain, I've got to say, WTF why. I figured out a POV problem I have that Illyan is the answer to, and I've <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/28062">done Illyan's point of view before</a> and it's interesting but it's a bastard and a half to write. HE IS CONSTANTLY CROSS-CONNECTING THINGS. Rewind, replay. And not linear at all. Ever.<br /><br />And he's being smug at me. Because he does ever so slightly enjoy being a bastard.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1631592" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1624796Hi. Hi there, everyone.2011-05-08T19:29:28Z2011-05-10T08:02:54Zamusedpublic0I, I think my fannish brain is back online? My finals are all over except the waiting (the only class that hasn't graded stuff yet is the only one where there was any question what my grade was, DAMN IT). But I am out from under stress mountain in terms of needing to do stuff and not feeling guilty for sleeping for the first time in like, two months.<br /><br />In the interest of getting some fannish (& house) stuff done, I am making myself the following daily to-do list for the summer. I will spend a minimum of one hour a day on the following, in this order of priority: <br /><br />--homework, unless I'm absolutely completely caught up on homework, nothing available to get ahead on<br />--housework (cleaning, sorting, unpacking)<br />--plotting the music video (writing, storyboarding, budgeting, scouting, building the land sail)<br />--writing fanfiction (an hour or 300 words)<br />--vidding<br /><br />In other news, fannish things in my brain lately:<br /><br /><strong>Vorkosigan</strong>. I probably won't be writing the White Collar/Vorkosigan time travel story, but there's a chance reference to it may fall into Secret Agent Ivan 'verse, because Illyan turned The Vanishing Man into a psych test problem. In the fast-penta interrogation Neal said he was a time traveler, by which the interrogators concluded he was delusional, but fairly high functioning, since he hadn't tried to claim it without fast-penta. Then he vanished out of a cell without a trace. The psych test is to ask the testee how he did it, hand them any data they want, and see how long it takes them to get to, "Well, maybe time travel is possible?" Too fast, and they're too credulous for ImpSec work. Too slow, and they're too inflexible. Miles is the only one who came up with data to ask for that ImpSec had not actually collected. Ivan got handed the problem unofficially when he was fifteen or so, and later on when he was tested for Service aptitudes officially at the Academy he blew threw it a little fast. Later Illyan asked him if he'd forgotten how the test worked or was just trying to fake incompetence. And this is Ivan. It was totally to fake incompetence.<br /><br />Ivan-muse is annoyed with me for brainstorming about wee-him, it's harder for him to weasel out of. *grin*<br /><br />Today the "Diplomatic Relations" bunny woke up in my head, which is the one where Serg's mother survives childbirth but sadly her mothering doesn't actually make Serg saner since her life has made her kind of shit at connecting, so thirty years later she kills Serg personally, thus bypassing the necessity whole Escobaran War fiasco. So when Aral meets Cordelia, under similar circumstances to Cordelia's Honor, the War Party is still banging the gong for war but without really having the most influential member they did and not having the emperor handing the rope to hang themselves, so Aral feels free to say "fuck it" and just open diplomatic relations with Escobar. My brain was running around "what would be marginally different about Aral and Cordelia's meeting" and the answer is, he's afraid this is a succession thing. With Serg no longer in the picture, an attempt on Aral's life is much more likely to be related to Imperial Succession. He's also kind of terrified that when they get back to civilization there'll be news that the boy Gregor has been killed and he needs to go wrest power back from whoever was trying to kill enough people close to the throne to get in. So he's actually laughing his ass of in relief when it turns out to be a War Party thing. <br /><br /><strong>Sanctuary</strong>. I have an active Sanctuary plotbunny and an active Sanctury vid. The plotbunny is *facepalm* terrifyingly idfic, wherein <a name="cutid1"></a>after Ashley *cough* survives bouncing out the EM shield, eventually Johnny and Nikola's hunt for all things Cabal means they run into her. Or more specifically, Nikola runs into her, and when she attacks, tells her to stop or something, and she does, and he's like, "Huh. Was really not expecting that to work. Well, now we have options." Vampire thing--he can make her obey. Which means he can override the Cabal's mind-programming on her. He doesn't tell Druitt, doesn't tell Helen, because he's afraid no one will be rational about keeping the brainwashed killing machine locked up until they're sure they've deprogrammed her. So he takes her home and starts trying to figure out what the fuck the Cabal did to her and undo it. The mental control stuff, not the powers stuff, because who cares if she has powers? Everyone has powers. Powers are awesome. He's trying to be ethical about the obedience thing, trying to mainly give he orders that function as blocks on the Cabal's orders but also trying very hard not to order to think or feel things, because that would seem to be antithetical to deprogramming. But even so, there's like, an experimental process to figuring out what he can say to her that can be neutral at all, what she won't automatically take in as an order. And I. Just.<br /><br />Okay, everyone raise you hand if your get why this is idfic. <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://grey-bard.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://grey-bard.dreamwidth.org/'><b>grey_bard</b></a></span> didn't, because he's not using his power for evil, right? Hilariously, <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/'><b>niqaeli</b></a></span> is so telepathic with me that not only did she get it right away, she started telling me his stance on powers before I had gotten to it. <br /><br /><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=6922">View Poll: Sanctuary plot bunny</a></div><br /><br />I'm also working on a vid about Helen's exes/stalkers. It's to a JoCo song, and last night I became concerned that the visuals were not over the top enough for the song. On close review, it would appear Nikola is totally over the top enough, but I may need to hunt for more Johnny. <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://echan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>echan</b></a></span> told me he comes off looking <em>reasonable aside from the murders</em>, which makes Helen look judgmental for rejecting him. Ha. Haha. Oh my god. Fannish logic, you guys.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1624796" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1622566My brain people are too smart for their own good2011-05-03T01:11:19Z2011-05-03T05:52:45Zamusedpublic11I've been hunting for Ivan in my head because most of the plot bunnies I have for him are less horrifying than other stuff I've been carrying around lately. But Ivan in his best Ivanish fashion has been slippery as an eel; <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/'><b>niqaeli</b></a></span> thinks he's wisely hiding from my idfic while I think he just hasn't forgiven me for that unfortunate edge case blending of a couple of AUs where he ended up publically compared to Ges Vorrutyer and the drunken breakdown was only partly an act.<br /><br />Anyway, I finally figured out where he's been hiding: with Neal Caffrey, in modern-day New York. He's very smug about it. For all that Agent Burke is stumped by the Russian spaceman from the future crashing on Neal's couch, he's not doing anything about him. He comes off less weird than Mozzie, despite everything, so Peter's just at, "Okay, I don't get your friends. Tell him not to do anything illegal in front of me." So Ivan is smugly certain that plot cannot touch him here.<br /><br />I am so very tempted to prove him wrong.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1622566" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1611116Huh2011-04-04T08:16:08Z2011-04-04T08:16:08Zaccomplishedpublic6So I put all the bits of V60 I've written in one doc and outlined the scenes in between that still need wrote and came up with a current total of ~8300 words. I think that means I still have a long way to go, but it feels less terrifying now that I can identify all the scenes. On the other hand it feels more terrifying that I identified places where I was like "if Matt knows X AND Y, why has he not pennydropped on the whole grand scheme yet?" and also: I can't figure out the order their fates get decided in (Matt, Danny, Harriet, Harriet's baby, Harriet's husband...probably reverse order, except Matt still comes before Danny). <br /><br />At some point I guessed the whole thing would be about 30,000 words, and I think I'm still right, based on the ratio of what I've written to what I still need to write.<br /><br />I realized that only one scene I've written is from Danny's POV, and I'm trying to figure out if I want to correct that by swapping over some other scenes or by dropping that scene and having Danny tell Matt about it later. The second sounds easier except for how there's one more scene later that's Danny off doing stuff that Matt doesn't know about, that I don't know how I'll deal with. Maybe he knows Danny went to see Count Vorkosigan but not what came of the meeting, because he's too involved with the Appalling Secrets eating his brain? <br /><br />I feel like the ending needs some kind of bow tied on top. I don't know what that could be yet. <br /><br />All of the stuff with Count and Countess Vorkosigan is yet to write. In case you were wondering, Cordelia continues to inflict total awesomitude on Barrayar despite its pleas for mercy. She has a plan to sneakily slip past the Council a bill that would essentially provide a way for any woman on Barrayar to get access to a uterine replicator on the Imperium's dime. Matt is quite impressed when he figures that one out. Also it's probably going to result in marriage law reform. *cough* <br /><br />Then there's foodness and cluebat to write, and I never did find a place to fit in the detail about Byerly, but it may not be relevant. Also I have to find a way for some detail of Danny's family backstory to tie into the thing Matt is solving as an inspiration, like a "right, Barrayarans are fucking backwards! got it" moment or something, so I can have an excuse to insert that backstory. Maybe what constitutes a mutant at different classes--Danny's family kept his sister, whereas Harriet's mother-in-law killed her daughter.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1611116" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1608580my current fannish brain2011-03-30T08:25:45Z2011-03-30T08:30:35Zawakepublic18On the vidding front, I seem to be making a Tron vid. It will apparently contain <a href="http://jmtorres.dreamwidth.org/1608239.html">feminist metaphors</a> (if I manage coherency, which is a toss-up at this point) and possibly surprise femslash. Okay, probably not. Hey, if you see it, I'm taking credit.<br /><br />On the fanfiction front, I currently have two main stories vying for attention.<br /><br />The first is a Vorkosigan story which I'm currently calling Ivan Vorpatril: Drama Queen, Or, The Hilarious Rom-Com of Padma and Alys. Ivan's previously unknown dramatic streak comes out when his mother sends him to deliver to Ekaterin a welcome-to-the-family gift and he tells her how his father courted his mother, and various other tidbits designed to make Ekaterin feel less as if High Vor society will eat her whole for the scandals she apparently found herself in the middle of. I thought that was a complete, if dual-track, story all its own, but then Ivan whipped out an invitation for Ekaterin to attend the Reading of Faults. He tells me this is a Time of Isolation tradition that has almost entirely died out in which a friend of the groom will slander him most vilely--to scare his bride off, or legitimately warn her what she's getting into, or possibly just troll everyone for the lulz, depending on what fairy tales you heard as a child. Ivan admits that this is not really practiced anymore and in any case may not be relevant when SHE asked HIM to marry her, but he's been collecting this list since he was sixteen years old and he WILL NOT BE DENIED THIS OPPORTUNITY. Alys and Cordelia invited themselves along as "chaperons"--Alys is reminiscing about how Aral read Padma's faults, which was apparently in the trolling for lulz category, and Cordelia complains that no one told her Aral's faults. Alys replies that with everything she'd been through by the time they met her, they decided that if Aral had faults she hadn't seen already, they didn't know to know. Anyway, it feels like there should be a third story on the theme of "Ivan butts in to commentate Ekaterin and Miles's engagement, and also Padma and Alys were adorable thirty-five years ago, FYI," just to round things out, but I don't know what it is yet.<br /><br />The other story rattling around my head is fic for the Supernatural episode "The French Mistake," which is the only episode I've seen all season, so I don't feel qualified to write the fic. I'm thinking that after semester's over if this is still something I care about I'll ask someone whose opinion I trust if I will be able to laugh at season 6, and if yes will mainline for Beltane and then write it. It would be um, meta-y and rpf-y and feature twitter and tin hats and script pages and *cough* a very special recasting. <br /><br />And now, to bed with me! *flop*<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1608580" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1605155*cracks knuckles, but metaphorically, because cracking joints actually freaks me out a lot*2011-03-18T03:08:08Z2011-03-18T03:08:08Zbouncypublic0Okay, after I get the fifteen minute scene out of the way, I'm going to write fic. That will be my reward for being like... halfway done. <br /><br />In theory I was going to write White Collar (and maybe Vorkosigan) quickfic to try to qualify for Remix but um, my brain is producing non-qualifying plotbunnies. LIKE IVAN MEETS NEAL FOR NO FUCKING APPARENT REASON, DEAR MUSE, REALLY? But in the interest of writing being my reward, I will damn well write whatever makes me happy.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1605155" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1603021oh dear god2011-03-13T16:48:29Z2011-03-13T16:48:29Zpublic0When Gregor got captured in Vor Game he was totally operating on the "What Would Ivan Do?" plan.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1603021" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1602353Right, I'm just gonna... own my fruitcake?2011-03-13T09:42:29Z2011-03-13T10:19:55Zcalmpublic8E's Otherwise<br />07-Ghost<br />Galaxy Railways (2?)<br />Gintama<br />Darker than Black?<br />Sakura Wars?<br />Planetes<br /><br />So I'm um. Constructing vid source for a book series out of anime. At present I am actually mostly shopping uniforms; I have a sufficient number of soldier characters to cast that you know, I really ought to get them matching? Later I'll look for other things. <a href="http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com">Anime Characters Database</a> unexpected boon--you can search by like, hair and eye color. <br /><br />I seem to be gravitating towards the pointy chin, tiny nose, ENORMOUS EYES anime style. Galaxy Railways looks like it might be too realistic to match other footage, but it has SPACE, so I'm hanging onto it for now.<br /><br />I am trying to walk the line between "so rare it's impossible to find copies" and "so popular even <em>I've</em> heard of it and viewers will recognize it and get thrown out of constructed reality."<br /><br />Um. Yes.<br /><br />ETA: okay, going nowhere in vid, but I am totally adopting <a href="http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/character.php?id=23304">this lady</a> as the illustration to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/'><b>philomytha</b></a></span>'s story <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/131402">Grey</a>. And then Ivan's head exploding a lot.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1602353" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1599615the list of things i am NOT writing at present2011-03-08T07:21:31Z2011-03-08T07:21:31Zcreativepublic21<ul><br /><li>the FTM!Party Poison story involving misappropriation of BLI drugs, self-inflicted top surgery, and other moves of desperation</li><br /><li>Stab the Cat lyrics and script</li><br /><li>blueprints for the Land Sail</li><br /><li>Stab the Cat budget sheet</li><br /><li>the Echo Bazaar plot bunny that doesn't even have a named protagonist, DAMN YOU SECOND PERSON</li><br /><li>Ivan Vorpatril's very pointed commentary on <em>things ongoing in my real life, wtf</em></li><br /></ul><br /><br />/me curls up in a ball and cries<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1599615" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1594895So I watched Supernatural: The Meta Episode, No, The Other One, No, Not That One, Last Night's2011-02-26T21:21:21Z2011-02-26T21:21:21Zamusedpublic1I have no compulsion to be prosaic and coherent about it. Have a chat log. <br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br />juls: ok I am watching supernatural for like the first time this season. <br />Viridian5: Tonight's episode is not a good place to start!<br />juls: but it's ridorkulous! I don't care if it's awful, I just want to see. <br />Viridian5: It's not that. It's a meta episode. If you're not really familiar with the show and some of its fandom, a lot of it will fly over your head. <br />juls: I know it's a meta episode. that's why I want to see it. I haven't been watching this season but that's because I've been watching my droll moan about it in a way that makes it sound boring. <br />Viridian5: heh. It's been all right. Nothing great, and nothing that makes me go incendiary. I'm annoyed that the arc is "There's something wrong and off with Sam *again*". <br />juls: ok i'ma cop to this. the main reason I want to see this is misha collins playing himself. <br />Viridian5: In tonight's episode I was really amused by Misha Collins playing Misha Collins. Hint: He tweets a lot. <br />juls: daw, really?. is there any reference to a bathtub full of cranberries?<br />Viridian5: At one point he types in "Mishamigos". Nope. Also, he snivels when threatened with physical violence. *g*. <br />juls: well. gosh. <br />Viridian5: I'm always amused hearing his actual voice. <br />juls: OH OH OH IS RUBY ACTRESS IN THIS?<br />Viridian5: He's said that if he knew Cas would have a longterm presence on the show he wouldn't have spoken the way he does. Yes. Yes she is. <br />juls: I WILL DIE IF YAY OMG *EXPIRES*. it's like getting ruby back! except not evil!<br />Viridian5: She's concerned about endangered wildlife. And she and Jared have an alpaca outside his mansion or whatever. <br />juls: cracks up. <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://mishacollins.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://mishacollins.dreamwidth.org/'><b>mishacollins</b></a></span> mirrored the tweets. <br />Viridian5: I was wondering how he'd approach it in his Twitter.<br />juls: Most recent tweet: My phone was stolen and apparently cast into a parallel universe devoid of magic. I've retrieved it. I promise it won't happen again. <br />Viridian5: heh. The magicless world wasn't kind to him at all. <br />juls: yeah i heard. wow the previously ons make this look like it's gonna be major mytharc. that's HILARIOUS. "cassie" daww. I had heard of cas's ex. <br />Viridian5: I was trying to explain this episode to someone unfamiliar with the series and she was all o.O so they probably thought the Previouslys might help. I was happy to see Balthazar again. He was fun. <br />juls: they tailslated! daww. haahahah the rubber glass. <br />Viridian5: Can't let their well-paid babies get injured. <br />juls: hahahhahahahahhaahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaahah the interview. oh my god this is freaking hilarious. OH THE IMPALAS. <br />Viridian5: Poor Dean. That's no way to treat his baby-- babies. <br />juls: I I I clearly I will be capslocking a lot. <br />Viridian5: Understandable. You'll be capslocking even more later. <br />juls: oh dear god misha's not castiel. oh boys. practicing lines OH MAN REAL VOICE HAPPINESS. <br />Viridian5: I told you. <br />juls: hahahaah "that's fake!me. this must be fake!mine.". <br />Viridian5: I guess you haven't seen Misha's Misha outfit yet. <br />juls: god i think it would have been more hilarious if they'd found jensen's dawson's creek stuff on youtube. <br />Viridian5: Dean really shouldn't be able to sneer since he watched [strike]Grey's Anatomy[/strike] Dr. Sexy's hospital drama. <br />juls: "wow, I must be the star of this thing". <br />Viridian5: Some targets that get major zinging in this ep are Bob Singer, Sera Gamble, and [SPOILER]. <br />juls: GENEVIEVE HEART HEART HEART HEART OMG HEART. <br />Viridian5: hee. She looks good!<br />juls: "You married fake!Ruby?" mwaaaaah i hope there's more of her. HAHAHAHAHAHA OMG. wow. just totally got more footage for things. <br />Viridian5: She'll show up again. <br />juls: zomg. <br />Viridian5: What now?. Have you seen Jared's cowboy picture yet?. <br />juls: yes. just, happy. hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahah failure at acting. and misha's little "what the hell". and his hair needs a touch-up. <br />Viridian5: Dean: "I'm a painted whore!"<br />juls: hahahahaahahahah calling in Kripke because Sera is *neeeew*. this is ridic. hahahaahahahha the real robert singer. <br />Viridian5: Their own Uncle Bob. <br />juls: I really wanna know if that's actually the robert singer or if it's an actor playing. <br />Viridian5: I'm not sure. <br />juls: i'll poke imdb later. and there goes misha. sorry misha!. oh GOD. is it wrong to be cracking up at the maple leaves on the caution tape. <br />Viridian5: heh. <br />juls: "the scary man killed the attractive man"<br />Viridian5: The *crying* attractive man. <br />juls: Yes. <a href="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI5NzAwODU4MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODA3NTgzNA@@._V1._SY317_CR1,0,214,317_.jpg">http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI5NzAwODU4MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODA3NTgzNA@@._V1._SY317_CR1,0,214,317_.jpg</a> wow seriously? this is the promo img these days? <br />Viridian5: Uhm. hee. <br />juls: not actual robert singer. nor actual eric kripke. god good match on kripke though. zomg they have some issues with kripke. <br />Viridian5: I'm wondering if Kripke sold his idea to Syfy. It sounds like their kinda thang. <br />juls: oh my god the hilarious hotel room set. okay the failure of the crash effect in episode is KILLING ME. <br />Viridian5: *g*<br />juls: i was halfway expecting that last scene with cas to go into "experimental" we technically have them saying all the words mode. <br />Viridian5: This season has had some weird filming and editing choices ihmo. Like how sometimes the camera spends a long time looking at something for no real reason. Or how some episodes seem to just stop instead of conclude at the end. <br />juls: clearly what they were cracking wise about. <br />Viridian5: I was annoyed by the gendered insults thrown at Raphael, but this show is infamous for that. <br />juls: huh that slid by me. I'm reading fic that handles bigendered angels rather well so it's like the show got a free pass off it? I should watch out for that. or maybe i am just not at a place where i'm treating it like canon and getting as pissed off as i ought to about abusing broadcast media to perpetuate hate. <br />Viridian5: I've gotten to a place with this series where I enjoy the little things I enjoy but sigh over the disappointments. <br />juls: in the fic I'm reading gabriel's attempting to court sam, sort of, without changing his behavior much so you know, it's hard to tell. and spends some time as a woman because Sam you know, notices the female form more. And when called on this Sam is like "...yes, okay, I'm straight, when you're a woman I want to kiss you more. however how much I *like* you has to do with how much of an asshole you're being, not which gender you're being."<br />Viridian5: Interesting. That's our Sam. <br />juls: ok people on my droll feel like that was more injokes from set and not *handwave* sufficiently transparent to fans. I felt like i got everything? <br />Viridian5: I feel like I got 95% of it. I've been reading some long fic so I haven't seen my f'list's reaction.<br /><br /><br /><br />In other news, the Bel in my head, the one who was foolish enough to marry Miles, has gotten stuck explaining to Nikki that one-night-stand with Ivan and differing sexual mores of Barrayar and Beta whilst avoiding Ekaterin's hairy eyeball. To my amusement and Miles's, the point at which Bel is like, "Okay, we're wandering out of kid-appropriate territory" is regarding, um, motivations. Miles is like, "huh?" and Bel snaps back, "Would you explain to a kid about your black moods?" Miles is sort of shocked to find that anyone else ever has black moods. Ekaterin and Nikki are mostly just confused. Somehow (I'm thinking Nikki) Ivan hears just enough about this conversation to confront Bel about "wait, just what kind of self-flagellation was I functioning as for you?" And then Bel facepalms a lot.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1594895" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1592700...huh2011-02-18T07:56:06Z2011-02-18T07:57:00Zpublic1Now I am wondering how much Mirror Dance was inspired by Star Trek III.<br /><br />He died due to an unexpected battle with an old enemy. No, wait, he's still alive but we lost the pod. WE HAVE TO GET HIM BACK. WE'LL FIGHT YOU FOR THAT POD. HE CAN'T REMEMBER WHO HE IS. And also we may need to provide therapeutic sex.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1592700" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1592401Anyone here participate in Remix?2011-02-18T07:12:12Z2011-02-18T07:14:10Zhopefulpublic0Remix Redux, the challenge wherein we sign up to have our stories remixed/are assigned a writer to remix a story of, is currently deciding <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/remixers_lounge/83356.html">qualifying fandoms</a>--fandoms for which participants can sign up if they've written enough stories for them. If you're thinking about participating and want Vorkosigan to be a fandom you can sign up for, go comment on <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/remixers_lounge/83356.html">this entry</a> to say so. The more people who comment, the more likely they'll add Vorkosigan to the list.<br /><br />(x-posted to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://vorkosigan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://vorkosigan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>vorkosigan</b></a></span>, where I thought it might be rather relevant.)<br /><br />I currently only have three completed Vorkosigan stories but I really want to sign up for Vorkosigan and if the fandom gets made a qualifying fandom, I will be HIGHLY motivated to finish another couple of pieces quickly.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1592401" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:15978:1589535Meme time2011-02-15T09:00:05Z2011-02-15T11:07:00Zpublic2<em>Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.</em> With the variant from torch: Upon request, I will quote a random line from any of these files.<br /><br />Roughly in order of most recently touched to hasn't been touched since 2003 with a small amount of by fandom (my WIP folder is actually sorted by fandom, so you know, the ones that only list one fandom and say 'crossover' are not meaningless in context. But also when I sorted by my recent date it was imperfect because I've had overlapping/longterm fandoms).<br /><br />ivan and gregor<br />lady bel vorkosigan<br />secret agent ivan<br />V60 <br />the john and ruby show <br />The surfer dudes came up to the house... <br />Kurt's Dad Dies AU <br />studio60/trust me xover <br />Kryptonian Neal <br />Archer and T'Pol <br />rubyverse snippets <br />Ruby decides to set Dean up with the ... <br />Once, in the middle of a fight about ... <br />The Other 179 Steps <br />five AUs <br />The beginning was easy, mostly becaus... <br />superhero neal <br />beautifulthings <br />"Man, I could go for some pie right a... <br />rubyverse outline <br />clairefic <br />kitty MerlinShared <br />Untitled <br />the once and future king<br />Chuck epic AU outline<br />wrongwrongOMGwrong<br />epic AU sequel B<br />Chuck vs the Intersect, Once more with Feeling<br />Uther's ghost<br />Zoe A<br />otherdisasters<br />misshornblower<br />ghostsoup<br />OatTyule<br />joeled<br />trashyvulcanromance<br />danielhauntsjack--revisions-8-13-08<br />AmitaAtlantis<br />michael<br />housesga<br />lightsout<br />magicathosians<br />simonnarim<br />AP<br />teylaliz<br />lesbiansperm<br />meridanfix<br />klausG<br />eroicaimmortal<br />poly60sketch<br />vanityfair<br />mistresspepper<br />tonysmorningafterfreakout<br />ironmaiden<br />electricsheep<br />owensgoon<br />clone<br />martharose<br />marthasarahjane<br />dextorch<br />pwjack<br />fuckingbipolarthreesome<br />danielrose<br />postroseten<br />jackremembers<br />diefdeaf<br />ghostvictoria<br />dsfranniekids<br />arrayfic<br />hugheshome<br />royhugheslies<br />salamander<br />gracieis<br />winryroy<br />4fingers<br />carnivale<br />3impossibletasks<br />kierastory<br />delivery<br />loioshpern<br />cawti<br />oat-xover<br />book1<br />book2<br />book3<br />book4<br />lomyw<br />ladiesaux<br />Ghinfidelity<br />GHfamilyrelations<br />topaya<br />toaster<br />ayaaya<br />ghmx<br />dreamau<br />wb-laby<br />wb-hl<br />kenneth-joan<br />jackivan<br />theboys<br />piotrAU<br />fishing<br />kml3<br />allgay<br />au<br />qlb5<br />circuit<br />memory<br />mpregdon<br />agentramunjan<br />randompr0n<br />threetwo<br />riverxover<br />wingwilson<br />wilsoncooks<br />efcxover<br />amandabday<br />prize<br />hlbtvssnippetybippet<br />ats-hl<br />OUaTiM-hl<br />deathamanda<br />marryjoe<br />kingsransom<br />joeknows<br />notmethos<br />bastardmethos<br />mythseeker<br />salzer<br />neitherservenorreign<br />GGslash<br />gilmoreslayers<br />storyofbanandginji<br />twinloss<br />fcwk<br />malriver<br />auofdoom<br />wkff<br />sixthport<br />lgmalt<br />universe-hop<br />7dayscross<br />green<br />7u<br />lettersfromtelemachus<br />DRverse<br />lenivan<br />santaclauseAU<br />valentomb<br />lomsopadoom<br />fragments<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jmtorres&ditemid=1589535" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments