MSilverstar - Lotripper

GIP+

2009-07-01T20:13:26Z

I needed a skeptical icon and I wanted a Donna/Catherine icon, so thanks to LJ user future_love_art, I got both :-)

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FIC: "It feels like..." (Dom/Billy/Rachel Weisz) NC-17

2009-06-10T06:08:52Z

Title: It feels like...
Authors: msilverstar and unstealthy
Pairing: Dom Monaghan/Billy Boyd/Rachel Weisz
Rating: NC-17
Warning: D/s, bondage
Disclaimer: It's all made up, fiction, lies.
Summary: London, mid-2006. Dom's got nefarious plans, as usual. Pretty much all smut. 5,060 words
Note: For all fics in this AU in chronological order, please see the Push/Pull/Push Master List

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GIP+

2009-06-09T05:41:59Z

This icon is Viggo and Sean Bean, looking tousled and happy, from the Empire Awards back in March, and it just makes me happy. Thank you so much for the icon, qthelights!

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California Prop 8 Fail

2009-05-26T18:25:35Z

The fail was back in November when a small majority of voters went against equal marriage rights. The state supreme court just upheld the proposition, because they are bound to decide on the law rather than principle. At least they also confirmed the legal marriages during the interim. But it's not the court's fault, it's the voters' fault, so that's where we have to fight it next.

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photogenic Viggo

2009-05-25T07:09:47Z

From the Italian-language magazine Sport Week, via the wonderous viggo-works

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last chance for Lotrips Remix...

2009-05-21T06:21:41Z

It's the very end of sign-ups, so if you've been wavering, go quick and join in, please! lotrips_remix

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WTF, F/SF? Learn to listen, k?

2009-05-18T23:29:22Z

I've been quiet about Mammothgate (Racefail 09 part deux), partly because it's so easy for me to understand the blindness going on there. I doubt I would have even noticed the assumptions, much less thought of speaking out against them. I just didn't see it either, completely missed the wrongness of handwavingly undoing the existence of all Native Americans for the sake of an interesting story.

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April 2009 - LOTR RPS fic listing (first 51)

2009-05-03T17:55:38Z

I'm trying to do this in manageable chunks this month, so here's the first batch. Obviously there will be many more coming, but if you want to make sure I list a fic, you are welcome to drop me a link as a comment here.

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trying this again

2009-05-02T01:10:14Z

Dreamwidth invites - ~~I have a couple left~~ ETA none left evening of May 1st, but I should get more eventually. So, if you want them, please comment and I'll do what I can. There are already nifty new features (like comment preview, whee!) and bugs fixed daily: it's pretty exciting to be around.

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Swine Flu is not gonna kill you

2009-04-29T06:22:28Z

a) "pandemic" just means it's everywhere, not that it's killing everyone. don't panic

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fandom is my happy place

2009-04-24T05:38:44Z

New icon, gorgeous Viggo, from this year, I think, made by the lovely and talented stormatdusk

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journaling and stuff

2009-04-23T02:42:56Z

thefourthvine says: Sometimes you may say to yourself: all these people have me friended. And yet I posted a story (or a link, or four extremely compelling pictures of my cat, including one where she almost had a ribbon on her head) and many of them have not commented! You may wonder why. You may even be downcast in your wonderment and confusion.

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I am wilted

2009-04-22T04:31:04Z

It's been really hot here. Way beyond my normal tolerance, as the temperatures are usually in the 70s F/ 20s C. Yesterday it was 91 F / 32.8 C! Today 89/ 31.6. I know that's normal summer for lots of people (even 10 miles inland or south), but we're wusses. Berkeley has eight to twelve really hot days a year, so we don't have air conditioning, even a swamp cooler, and our house just gets hot and stays hot. So please forgive me when I sound a bit addled and/or do not comment on something.

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Amazon semi-apology

2009-04-14T04:26:14Z

Monday night: columnist has an Inside look at amazon during the fail

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4 more things about amazonfail

2009-04-13T17:28:57Z

1) Amazon hasn't said a thing, WTF?

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three more things about amazonfail

2009-04-13T03:59:38Z

Please don't call Amazon customer support, today, at least. It's Easter Sunday, (as the BBC puts it, "the most important festival of the Christian religion). The poor schmucks stuck on the phones KNOW about amazonfail and they can't do a damn thing about it.

Googlebombing is fun: enough bloggers and such link to a certain page with the same text, and it shows up in the Google (Yahoo/Live/whatever) search for that term. Link to the smartbitches redefinition of Amazon Rank, and it ~~will be~~ is first in the search results. We've done it as of 3 AM GMT April 12th:-)

Colossally stupid technical/editorial mistakes do happen, and this may well be one. I don't think that Amazon did this on purpose, exactly. I am sure that their sales ranking rules are convoluted, and change hourly, because people try to game the system and get their books higher in the lists. So. Someone somewhere equated "gay and lesbian" with "adult", it could have been an exec, it could have been an overworked coder -- we'll probably never know. What a mess. Intent may not matter, they've ended up disrespecting a whole raft of people and not acknowledging and fixing it fast enough.

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amazonfail

2009-04-12T21:24:32Z

Amazon has just re-defined pretty much every book in their Gay and Lesbian section as "adult" and removed their "sales rank" and listings in the bestseller lists. As though their existence is too scary for children. I'm a mom, gay is just a word for some of our relatives: how dare Amazon try to make them disappear?

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Alan Cumming, being Scottish again ;-)

2009-04-05T21:35:07Z

from The Scotsman, April 5, 2009
Cumming wows New York at head of Tartan Day Parade

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happy-making vids

2009-04-01T06:01:08Z

dashery rocks! I so needed something cheerful this week :-)

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Yet More Viggo/Sean Lurve from Tonight

2009-03-30T05:34:00Z

So Viggo won the "Empire Icon Award": (this part completely lifted from the Empire Online Blog)

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Viggo & Sean at the Empire Awards, now!

2009-03-29T18:12:15Z

HAPPY FANGIRL!

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fabulous fandom fund-raising auctions

2009-03-23T01:26:27Z

The Sweet Charity fandom auction has raised big donations to RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network [for survivors]). It has a "hooker with a heart of gold" theme. Auction items include hand-made crafts, food, fanvids, artwork and fanart, and fanfiction. This is the final SC auction, for the mod's personal reasons.

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the other kind of female internet porn

2009-03-22T06:28:06Z

Walrus Magazine article: The Other Porn Addiction: Why are ordinary women exposing themselves online? and The Porn Identity: Stacey May Fowles in conversation with Hal Niedzviecki on privacy and internet pornography. (Link via Andrew Sullivan blog)

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lotrips fandom squee! dombillijah and viggo!

2009-03-13T18:11:04Z

Billy, Dom, and Elijah together again, at a surfing movie premiere in LA on the 10th! Much thanks to karin_woywod for finding this. :-D

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GIP

2009-03-12T05:50:35Z

I love these pictures so much, not just the cast leaving Wellington all together and obviously giddy. But this in particular: I can't find the pictures, but a bunch of girls stood at the terminal window with their shirts partway up, showing the O R L A N D O written on their bellies. So Orlando did it back (of course), so Billy poked him in the belly button (of course). And it just makes me a happy fangirl.

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