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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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4:58 pm - spank the proofreader
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Because some things just shouldn't make it into print. But they do.
Culprit: Boyd, Roddy. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide. Wiley, 2011, p. 247. (page image from Google Books)
I can't recall seeing this particular screw-up before. Made me blink for a moment... Ohh, he means something like further in this vein or further in the same vein. Now I'm wondering about the imagery in this confused writer's head: how exactly do you further a vein?
Crossposted from McTabby@DW.
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| Sunday, January 15th, 2012
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10:19 pm - Two Minutes of Cat-Petting
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| Saturday, January 14th, 2012
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10:01 am - the p. 45 meme
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Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.
*picks up book*
*turns to page 45*Michaelmas (autumn) term. Crockery rattled below and cooking smells drifted up to his rooms, though sometimes that meant a pleasant aroma of anchovy toast and honey buns. *is baffled* Does that mean I don't get any sex until Michaelmas, but then I get food-smut? [Sentence from Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne.]
Crossposted from McTabby@DW. Happy New Year!
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| Thursday, January 5th, 2012
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10:34 pm - watching DH movies, second post
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8:34 pm - watching Deathly Hallows movies: today's the day! :D
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Here I sit in unspoiled wonder...
(you ask: what rock have I been hiding under?)
Tea in hand and cat on feet...
*pause to hand out kitty treat*
Poised to savour on the screen
What all my flist has long since seen.
*flails in sudden fit of dreading*
Do I have to watch a Weasley wedding?
Will Ron save Harry from the pond?
Will they edit out the Elder Wand?
Will Remus utter "It is I..."?
Will Snape really truly die?
(And will he leave a Snape-shaped hole?)
*clutches the remote control*
Be still my heart. Be brave my bum.
Last bit of canon, here I come.
*click*
Crossposted from McTabby@DW. Happy New Year!
current mood:  recumbent
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10:49 am - 1811 women's fashions: a few examples
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| Monday, January 2nd, 2012
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10:16 am - 2012 and all that
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Happy 2012, everyone! *waves, offers tea and chocolate*
State of the journaling: now posting at DW, crossposting to LJ, given up on IJ. Temporarily turned off anonymous commenting at LJ because I got sick of the spam; anonymity still on at DW. Polls will be at DW because my free LJ account doesn't do them - and I don't want to give LJ any money at all, or turn mctabby into that ad-saturated travesty called a Plus account.
Content likely to be less HP-focused than in the past, though I think references to Snape and the Dark Lord will persist. I've yet to watch either of the two Deathly Hallows movies; will post comments when I do. I'd like to do some retrospective reviews of HP fics that have really stuck in my memory since 2001. I want to learn to make fanvids. Since I've been on an intense early-19th-century binge in recent months, I may babble about Jane Austen, etc. (If the mere mention of Mansfield Park makes you heave, defriend now with no hard feelings.) I'll probably continue bitching about the Lie/Lay Hex and mentioning Bestia the Sorting Cat, who's sleeping on my legs right now. Occasionally, I will rhyme.
Oh brave new cross-journal cross-fandom world of 2012... o.O
As a friendly gesture or guide for the perplexed, here are some fandoms McTabby is familiar with: HP (duh), Star Trek, Star Wars, Lost, Buffy & AtS, Discworld, Good Omens, movies!LotR, Hitchhiker's Guide, Xena.
And some fandoms McTabby is not familiar with: Merlin, SGA, SPN, CSI, Doctor Who, Sherlock.
Crossposted from McTabby@DW. Happy New Year!
current mood: recumbent
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| Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
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1:22 pm - spank the proofreader
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Because some typos just shouldn't make it into print. But they do.
Culprit: Judith Harris, Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery. I.B. Tauris, 2007, p. 131 (page image from Google Books)
This entry was originally posted at http://mctabby.dreamwidth.org/440451.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
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| Monday, December 26th, 2011
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10:45 am - DW Poll: Misc. Rapid Random Recs
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So I've bought myself six months' worth of paid account at Dreamwidth. Hereby posting a poll, just because I can. :) *absurdly pleased with self* (And hey, more icons!)
This entry was originally posted at http://mctabby.dreamwidth.org/440265.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
current mood: rejuvenated
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| Sunday, December 25th, 2011
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8:13 am - ...not a Kreacher was stirring...
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| Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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3:05 am - thank you
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Dear Fandom - everyone who's left sympathy messages on my last posts at LJ and Dreamwidth - just want to let you know that each and every word is much appreciated, and I'm sorry I can't reply to all comments now, but I'm really grateful for your kind thoughts.
Imperio was a fandom cat, born between OotP and HBP. It's good to know that so many fandom people remember her.
Thank you all!
current mood:  sad
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| Thursday, December 16th, 2010
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4:30 pm - Imperio's gone
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| Friday, November 19th, 2010
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7:50 pm - Dear Yuletide Writer...
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| Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
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10:25 am - seeking Russian-->English translated HP fics
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If you know of any HP fics translated from Russian into English, please share the links. Any genre/pairing/etc.
I've started this masterlist and a list of translations in progress. Just a handful of links so far. Surely there are more, somewhere out there? (Haven't been able to find any SS/HG translations, for example; and only found one for H/D.)
First step to encouraging more R->E fic-translating: let's see a list of what's already been done.
current mood:  curious
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| Saturday, October 16th, 2010
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11:26 pm - GIP + fest plug
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Thanks for the inspiration, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) bethbethbeth. :D Haven't HP-iconed for ages.
There's a thoroughly multi-fandom fest happening in the journal of pocky_slash this weekend. All welcome to join in. Eclectic comment-fics, yay! Not My Fandom Fest
We all joke about "fannish osmosis," and this comment ficathon is going to put that to the test. The object is to write a ficlet for a fandom you're not a part of, based solely on what you've learned from your friends list and fandom at large. Silly, serious, the tone and approach are up to you. The only rule is that you can't write for a fandom that you have actually seen the source material for. I followed ladyofthelog's link to this thing. Left a little rhyme in the Supernatural thread. Browsed a bunch of amusing/intriguing responses for other fandoms.
And this is what happened when I fed Snape into the Automatic Song Lyrics Generator and clicked the Simon and Garfunkel option.
And here's to you, Professor Snape,
Merlin loves you more than you will know.
Oh bless you, please Professor Snape.
Heaven holds a place for those who fly.
Hey, hey, hey.
Fly on immortal Severus, fly on immortal Severus.
What're we gonna tell our friends when they say ooh la la?
Fly on immortal Severus, fly on immortal Severus!
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| Friday, October 15th, 2010
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2:13 am - HP fics translated from Russian to English
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| Thursday, October 14th, 2010
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12:59 pm - Yuletide 2010 open for fandom-suggesting
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Fandom Nominations for Yuletide 2010 - open for the next week. Here's what I've just thrown into the vast bubbling cauldron of potential delights.
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
Devil Went Down to Georgia (song)
Edge of Darkness (tv)
George MacDonald - The Princess and the Goblin series
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Very glad there's still some time to ponder actual requests/offers for sign-ups. Not remotely ready! *dithers*
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| Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
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7:30 pm - Yes, I'm nine years old and playing with dolls.
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| Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
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9:35 pm - with assistance from the Semi-Automatic LiveJournal Updater
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Today was really quiet.
I got out of bed on autopilot, only to find a large freshly-vomited hairball in the corridor, and both cats were like, "Hey, it wasn't me, you can't prove anything!"
I feel a bit strange because we've just moved to Idaho and there's a weird smell in the house.
I'm so lying about Idaho (that was a ticky-box option in this journal-updater thing).
Last night I had to shave my entire body. Apparently, the lice that I caught from Amanda's friend are really hard to get rid of. I look quite strange with no hair and eyebrows. I'd post pictures, but my webcam is broken.
I want to tell the world that I love you all! You're all so special to me!
I am very probably lying about the lice too, but not about the cats or the love. You knew that, right?
I want to say thanks to the academy for giving me this award.
I went to the doctor yesterday, and he said there is no physical reason why I can't get through a journal post without mentioning Snape at least once, so I guess I can't blame it on a virus after all.
You should all do this quiz! It's amazingly accurate. You just put in your name and birthday, and it will tell you you're a moron.
I spent the first three months of 2010 reading various fantasy novels (Connie Willis, Diana Wynne Jones, Robin McKinley, Ellen Kushner, Juliet Marillier, et al.) and the next two months reading lots of assorted non-fiction and then three months reading fics in another fandom. Yay, words.
That's enough for now. But I'll leave you with this thought - sharing your life with strangers on the Internet is the cheapest form of therapy available. Leave a comment and tell me I'm beautiful.
Created with the Gregor's Semi-Automatic LiveJournal Updater™. Update your journal today!
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| Monday, October 11th, 2010
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2:32 pm - random academia of the day
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Source: p. 405, Chapter 26: Irony (by Don L.F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen); in Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide, edited by Maurice Charney (Greenwood, 2005). Monty Python's The Life of Brian (1979) features such characters as Nautius Maximus, Biggus Dickus, and Incontinentia Buttocks. It takes place in Bethlehem on a Saturday afternoon at teatime during the time of Christ. When Brian of Nazareth is asked if he is the Messiah, he says, "No," and the villagers respond "Only the true Messiah denies his divinity." When the Christians stone the Romans for blasphemy, asking what the Romans had ever done for them, the rhetorical question is answered with a list: aquaducts [sic], sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, public baths, and peace. Playful language ironies include allusions to the Israelites as the "Red Sea pedestrians" and questions over whether myrrh is a balm or a bomb. When the Christians write graffiti on a palace wall in the form of "Romans eunt Domus" ("Romans go Home"), the Romans ignore the meaning and set about correcting the grammar. The song "You don't need to be followers. Yes, we're all individuals," is ironically sung by a large chorus, while the movie ends with Brian and several others hung on crosses, but happily singing, "Always look on the bright side of life." Way to take the funny out of the awesome, authors. You make it sound dismal.
And have you actually watched this movie at all? Where are these "Christians" of whom you speak? Where's the followers/individuals song? Where's the The in the title? What about... Oh, gaahhh. Get a beta! Now, take the Life of Brian script and write it out a hundred times. By sunrise.
( Free bonus paragraph: same authors on irony in the HP books... )
Now off to watch part three of Downton Abbey. Still keep wanting to say Donwell Abbey. Will the pretty-dresses-melodrama of 1912 scrape the Austen out of my brain? Perhaps. Not yet.
current mood:  irritated
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| Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
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1:04 pm - watching HBP movie, 6
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11:55 am - watching HBP movie, 5
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10:25 am - watching HBP movie, 4
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8:55 am - watching HBP movie, 3
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7:36 am - watching HBP movie, 2
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6:41 am - watching HBP movie, 1
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5:44 am - fandom confession: watching HBP movie (finally)
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OK, so I haven't seen the HBP movie yet.
What? Never got around to it, somehow. Time but no money, money but no time, never quite in the right mood, distracted by other shiny objects or RL, saving the experience for a rainy Tuesday.
But. Anyway. Today's the day! (Better get on with it, right? Before the DH movies arrive.) Relatively unspoiled for HBP movie, though I remember hearing that somebody destroys the Burrow (raising faint hopes that they'd leave the wedding out of the DH movies - but no, couldn't be so lucky).
Downside: got a cold - hence slightly grumpy, but not quite the full Statler-and-Waldorf. (Not yet, anyway. Let's see how this movie does Riddle.) Need to take it easy and drink hot tea.
Got tea. Got couch, got notebook with movie on it, got Internet connection. Will have at least one cat on my legs within five minutes.
Let's roll.
current mood: recumbent
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| Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
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2:05 am - Yuletide fic, outed!
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| Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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4:32 pm - two Yuletide recs
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Yuletide reading glee continues! So remiss with the reccing, this year - otherwise occupied, seriously - but can't resist pointing to these two gems. Go look! :D
A Candlelight Supper to Remember [Keeping Up Appearances/Harry Potter crossover]
PG-13, gen with misc. het&slash references - 3,600 words
Okay, so Harry has to spend the winter holidays with Aunt Hyacinth... (Lily, Petunia, Daisy, Rose, etc. - full marks to author for using the floral names as a crossover point, hee!) - and things go a bit pear-shaped from there, inevitably. Other HP characters in this fic: Ron, Arthur, and Snape. Yes, Snape in the Bouquet residence - yes, you've gotta see this! - OMG, Hyacinth and all the others are most perfectly themselves, and the results made me giggle uncontrollably.
Somewhat Akin to a Limpet [Blackadder II]
PG, gen with a touch of het - 6,700 words
The second Blackadder's my favorite, and yay mystery-Yuletider for producing a delightful backstory: Edmund and Percy as teenagers - how they meet, how Percy's determined to be Edmund's friend, and how Edmund tries to get rid of him... All in Edmund's first-person PoV, and it works so well - written in fluent crack-Tudor, just like the show; Edmund, Percy, and Baldrick are facepalmingly fabulous younger versions. Much fun, this fic.
Still browsing through about 1,400 Yuletide fandoms...
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| Sunday, December 27th, 2009
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2:16 pm - Yuletide: the Gift-Hugging Post
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Happy That-Time-of-Year, everyone! *waves, throws links and biscuits*
And the Yuletidery has been exceptionally generous to me this time round. A gift for each of my three prompts - eeeee, it's like a conspiracy of awesome! - I'm reeling. Must share!
On the first day of Yuletide, the Archive gave to me.... a Really Rare Fandom!
El Desdichado by Anonymous No. 1: this was the rarest of my requests - for Julian May's Galactic Milieu series and Saga of the Exiles (Pliocene) series [a two-series ouroboros with psychic powers, aliens, time-travel, family dramas, evil beings, spaceships, French-Canadians and Scots!] - and existing fics for this fandom can be counted on one hand, so imagine my glee at getting a shiny new one! And it's all in Atoning Unifex flashbacks; oh, the Unifex-nostalgia-angstiness! Plus, it's got Marc Remillard/Aiken Drum slash - and if that pairing's ever been written before, I'll eat my best hat (which is broad-brimmed leopard-print velour, so you know I'm serious). Anyone out there know/enjoy these books? Go read this fic - it's just delightful!
On the second day of Yuletide, the Archive gave to me.... a Jane Austen Crossover Feast!
The Dancing Monkeys by Anonymous No. 2: found this while Yuletide-browsing, saw my name on it as recipient, and outraged the cats with my shrieking. Ooo, LOOK! Unique fic alert! Mansfield Park/Persuasion crossover! 11,000+ words - all Henry Crawford's PoV - he's gone abroad after breaking up with Maria ex-Rushworth, and he ends up as a visitor on board the Laconia... Ooo, sailors! William Price and Sam Price! Wentworth, Benwick, Dick Musgrove! Age of Sail fans, read it and squee: shipboard life, lots of period details and naval-speak, and a cannon-firing clash with a French ship. Plus lots of Henry-reflections on MP events, the Henry/Maria and Henry/Fanny relationships; and woven between the lines, the Persuasion moments that Henry misses but the reader gets. (Bonus for lucky-recipient-me: allusions to the Mary/Maria MP fic I wrote last year, though you don't need any familiarity with that fic to enjoy the crossover.) Austen-fic readers, don't miss this story - it's very fine indeed.
On the third day of Yuletide, the Archive gave to me.... a Meg March Moment!
Flight From Vanity Fair by Anonymous No. 3: with Yuletide Madness now unlocked, the ficlets are pouring forth today... and I've scored one for Little Women! Meg's thoughts before her wedding - and a touch of Meg-Jo dialogue - all kinds of choices and changes and possibilities hovering here. Satisfies my whim to know if Meg ever looked back on the "Vanity Fair" chapter events, and when and how. Take a look, if you fancy a behind-the-scenes-of-canon bit of Alcottness.
And the Yuletidery continues...
I've been keeping a Yuletide Diary since mid-November - will unlock that post, eventually. Meanwhile, here's this year's guess-McTabby's-story offer. :D Point to the Yuletide fic I wrote, before the January 1 reveal, and I'll gladly rhyme on a topic of your choice! Hints: movie fandom, gen fic, typo-free summary. (aegflota ineligible as guesser, but much appreciated as gentle beta.)
current mood: grateful
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quixotic
Cause: kidney failure. 
nostalgic
accomplished