gacked from all over

* Post 10 pictures you currently have on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
* NO CAPTIONS! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
* They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr!
* You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.

( ten pictures in no particular order )

Wiggle -- Speakeasy Vanilla -- This fragrance opens up with a bright, intoxicating bourbon vanilla scent then mellows into a softer, creamy vanilla. To balance the sweetness, Wiggle added sultry amber and smokey frankincense. On the very bottom is a delicately floral white musk, and if you're very sharp you may catch the tiny hint of bay rum lurking in the mix.

Mostly what I get is a nice soft vanilla that doesn't turn into rubber on me the way some vanillas do. There's a hint of amber, just a touch and not enough to go powdery, and a little touch of the frankincense. I don't get musk or bay rum at all. It's a nice perfume, not particularly complex, and not at all foody. I like it quite a bit and at $7.99 for a 5ml roller-ball bottle, it's a steal. It's available at both Scent Addict and The Soap Box Company, but it's popular and tends to sell out quickly.

I've also got a bar of their soap in the same scent. It's a goatsmilk/shea butter/glycerin mix that's really smooth and rich--seriously, if I still shaved my legs, I'd use this. The scent is mostly vanilla with a little amber and it's not real strong; it doesn't linger much afterwards. It's available from The Soap Box Company.

SGA BB -- Make the Devil Feel Surprise

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Former CIGNA executive talks about how the industry blunted the effect of Micheal Moore's movie Sicko and how the industry is far less efficient than government run Medicare and.... Look, just read this, okay?

BILL MOYERS: We obtained a copy of the game plan that was adopted by the industry's trade association, AHIP. And it spells out the industry strategies in gold letters. It says, "Highlight horror stories of government-run systems." What was that about?

WENDELL POTTER: The industry has always tried to make Americans think that government-run systems are the worst thing that could possibly happen to them, that if you even consider that, you're heading down on the slippery slope towards socialism. So they have used scare tactics for years and years and years, to keep that from happening. If there were a broader program like our Medicare program, it could potentially reduce the profits of these big companies. So that is their biggest concern.

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BILL MOYERS: Why is public insurance, a public option, so fiercely opposed by the industry?

WENDELL POTTER: The industry doesn't want to have any competitor. In fact, over the course of the last few years, has been shrinking the number of competitors through a lot of acquisitions and mergers. So first of all, they don't want any more competition period. They certainly don't want it from a government plan that might be operating more efficiently than they are, that they operate. The Medicare program that we have here is a government-run program that has administrative expenses that are like three percent or so.

BILL MOYERS: Compared to the industry's--

WENDELL POTTER: They spend about 20 cents of every premium dollar on overhead, which is administrative expense or profit. So they don't want to compete against a more efficient competitor.

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How can anyone really still think that these people have our best interests at heart?

Looks like I have another five invite codes over at DW. First come, first served.

Remember...kittens and rainbows!

How to Say Pig in Orion
Author: telesilla
Fandom/Characters: ST:Reboot AU, Lenore McCoy & Gaila
Rating: G
Word Count: ~640
Disclaimer: The SGA characters do not belong to me. Duh.
Summary: Gaila wants to take Kirk down a peg or two and Lenore knows just what will do it.

Notes: Not much to say about this one. It's set in the same AU as Four Times Jim Kirk and Lenore McCoy Didn't Fuck (and the One Time They Did). At some point I guess I'll come up with a series name.

( ''He needs someone like me around to knock him down once in a while.'' )

My Bingo, by me, Ruth, let me show you it!


And now? On to the next row/column!

Love Is a Doing Word
Author: telesilla
Fandom/Pairing: SGA, John/Rodney/Ronon/Teyla
Rating: NC-17
Contains: (skip) fisting, rimming, and an off-screen enema
Word Count: ~2,600
Disclaimer: The SGA characters do not belong to me. Duh.
Summary: In which Rodney is the pushiest bottom in two galaxies, Ronon enjoys the view, John has an unexpected kink, and Teyla has the best plan ever.

Notes at the end of the story.

( Teyla got the idea one night when Rodney was in one of his moods. )

I was going to try to explain myself, but no, I'm just going to say this:

I love fandom and I'm so proud and honored to be a part of it.

ETA: I'm acutally not trying to be weird or cryptic here. I'm just having a happy and I wanted to share. <3!

So I went out this morning for coffee--I'm staying up today to get stuff done--and was flipping through my channels on the satellite radio. Yeah, I know, I know...so yuppie of us, but Shep was equipped with it already so it was just a matter of subscribing and it's amazingly cheap; it's the equipment that costs and arm and a leg. The awesome thing is that Nancy sat down with the guide and programmed up six stations for me: 90s on 9, two alt rock stations, something called "lithium," the Dead channel and "chill." It cracks me up because she totally got it dead on even though we don't listen to much of the same music.

Anyway, "Malibu" by Hole came on Lithium and I was all, "duh! Some of the songs off Celebrity Skin would be perfect for my SGA BB writing playlist!" So I got home and I listened to the album and pulled some stuff for the playlist and then moved on to Garbage, because some of the songs on Garbage will work too. And it was only when I was halfway through that album that I remembered why I associate those two albums with each other...Atara loved both of them; we usually had them in the car.

And I paused for a minute, kinda shrugged and just moved on. I don't know that I'm quite ready to do that with, say Achtung, Baby because that's wrapped up in her P/Q fics that led to us meeting, but still, there's this thing like.... It's like pushing at a tooth that was sore after you've been to the dentist and it doesn't hurt any more; all you have left is the phantom/memory of pain.*

Moooooving along, gblvr gave me five words she associated with me and I riffed on them in a totally random and blathery way. If you want words from me comment to this post with "words!" or some such and I'll pick five that I associate with you. If I don't know you all that well--new people I've met on DW, for example--I'll probably cheat and pull from your interests. :)

( kink, Jason Momoa, night owl, Q, and RPS )

Gacked from all over:

Go to http://quotationspage.com/random.php3 and browse the random quotes until you find five that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -- Jack London (1876 - 1916)

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Histoire d'un crime,'

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.-- Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - )

So helens78 and I run star_trek_flashfic over on Dreamwidth and I was wondering....

Would people be interested in a mirror of the comm on LJ? For the most part we follow in the footsteps of the SGA and Due South flashfic comms: we do a new challenge every two weeks for fiction set in any version of Star Trek. Although we encourage shorter works, we don't actually have either maximum or minimum word count requirements, because we really don't want to have to enforce that kind of thing.

If we mirrored the comm on LJ, we'd run the same challenge at the same time on each comm and people could chose to either post on LJ or DW. At the end of the challenge the lists of fic produced for that challenge would be posted on both comms.

Interested? Just drop a comment here. And if you know people who would be interested, please feel free to pimp this post. :)

Also, I had a look around, but I might have missed it; if someone's already running a ST Flashfic comm, let me know, please?

So I was checking out The Hew's imdb page to see if there was anything up about the thing he's writing. (In case you haven't been keeping up, David just signed a contract with MGM for a project that he described on Twitter as Midnight Run only with aliens and not the Mafia. This, combined with JFlan asking if fans would watch something involving him, David and Chris Judge has a lot of us speculating.)

ANYWAY, I was looking at David's credits and looked up Splice which is yet another movie directed by Vincenzo Natali. And I followed a link to someone's article about the movie where they listed the actors and said something like "and also, Natali's muse David Hewlett of Stargate: Atlantis.

Joe Flanigan is a moderately successful actor coming off a long running SF TV show. He decides that he wants to take some time off acting to write, a move that is encouraged by his hot boyfriend, Jason Momoa, who just landed a new role as a cop in a crime drama. So Joe sits down one rainy afternoon with a pad of paper, a pen and his computer and starts working on an idea for a TV pilot, when...suddenly this guy appears. Turns out that David is a Muse and he's been assigned to Joe by whoever it is who assigns individual muses. [Does writing a cop show involving aliens fall under "epic poetry" (Calliope) or "lyric poetry" (Erato) or "choral poetry" (Polyhymnia)? Or maybe because Joe's mostly an actor, he falls under the aegis of either Melpomene (tragic acting) or Thalia (comic acting).]

What follows is a wacky David/Jason/Joe comedy involving...you know, butt sex and antics. Written by SOMEONE WHO IS NOT ME!

Here, have a sort of Trek macro.

( JJ Abrams has a style all his own )

Acquiescence -- TOS Reboot -- Mirror!Kirk/Mirror!Lenore McCoy -- rated R -- Kirk's CMO is also his Captain's Woman, which works out rather well for both of them.

Four Times Jim Kirk and Lenore McCoy Didn't Fuck (and the One Time They Did) -- TOS Reboot -- Kirk/Lenore McCoy -- rated NC-17 -- Like the title says....

Just Like Me -- TOS Reboot/Stargate: Atlantis -- rated NC-17 -- Kirk/John Sheppard -- Two guys walk out of a bar.

Survival Instinct -- TOS Reboot -- rated NC-17 -- Kirk/Sulu -- Celebrating survival the Jim Kirk way.

All I Ever Wanted -- SGA -- John/Rodney -- rated NC-17 -- John and Rodney take advantage of a vacation on Earth to do the kinds of hardcore BDSM scenes they can't do on Atlantis. More a series of stand-alone fics than a WIP.

So Doing It -- SGA Ventura Highway AU -- John/Rodney -- rated R -- "You are so weird. Have I mentioned that lately, because you totally are."

Sunday Traditions-- SGA Ventura Highway AU -- rated G -- A little bit of pancake porn for mcsmooch.

...and Nowhere to Go -- SGA -- John/Rodney/Ronon -- rated NC-17 -- John is pretty sure he's never been this thoroughly tied up in his entire life.

There's more stuff to go, but I need to stop now and write or something.

And yes, there was a post from me that's been disappeared. I normally don't do that, but my facts were wrong and I shouldn't have posted it. Sorry about that.

THIS

Also, queerlygen and THIS.

ETA: And THIS too.


Because when you're a Queer, you're a Queer all the way and not just when you're having queer sex.

Dot. Dot. Dot. (totally work safe, although I urge you NOT to throw heavy objects at your screen as that can be dangerous and costly).


ETA: It's late and I'm spacey. I should have mentioned that I got this link from cesare/almostnever.

ETA2: People! It gets even better. Check out the specifics of how this guy is gonna get rich!! AngleBase!

So yeah, it's 108F/42C out there right now. We went out earlier, thought we could beat the worst of it, but after breakfast and then a quick trip to Cost Plus, we admitted defeat and came home. Even the act of walking the short distance from the air conditioned car to an air conditioned building and back is exhausting when a) it's this hot, b) the air quality is "unhealthy for sensitive groups" which includes Nancy, and c) you're not in real good shape.


So yeah, sammiches for dinner and maybe I'll do the grocery shopping around 3am or so.

Hole in the Wall
Author: telesilla
Fandom/Pairing: Star Trek Reboot, Kirk/Pike
Rating: NC-17
Contains: glory holes
Word Count: ~925
Disclaimer: The Star Trek characters do not belong to me. Duh.
Summary: All Chris Pike wants is some easy anonymous sex.

Notes: For the Anonymous Sex square on my Kink Bingo Card. Thanks to darkrose for the once over. This might possibly be the most unsubtle title I've ever used. *facepalms* Also, BOQ stands for Bachelor Officer's Quarters.

( Christopher Pike is really tired of his right hand. And his left, for that matter. )

Because we felt there was a need for this on DW....

trek_reboot_rpf

For all your ST XI RPF fanworks!