Hiya. So, I'm working on cleaning up the place a bit. I've created easy links to the fic in this journal in the sidebar -- right now I only have my Trek fics compiled, but do not despair, Newsies fandom friends. It's gonna take me a while to dig through the backlogs and get the Newsies fic listed, but I promise that is to come. I also have provided links to external archives with plenty more great fic to read, and some fun fandom sites to while away hours on.

This may also be the first step toward going friends only. Heads up.

That said, feel free to friend me. If you'd just like to add me for fic or fandomy things, either Newsies or Star Trek reboot, that's A-okay. I only ask that you let me know so I can keep myself organized.

Meme stolen from ladililn (whose name I finally understand and can pronounce for having read her response!).
Tell the story of your personal experience with fandom: a sort of fandom time line.

( there once was a girl who loved Newsies... )

Wow. So, that all happened kinda fast.

Well, that could have gone better. And helloooo theory, goodbyyyye free time.


Oh Internets, please halp! Is someone out there familiar with "a data base program such as MicroSoft Access, FileMaker Pro, Bento, or the data base program in MicroSoft Works, OpenOffice, AppleWorks or ClarisWorks" and willing to either give me a crash course or be loosely available to offer tips? Because apparently I am enrolled in a class for which this knowledge is a prerequisite (a prerequisite that the department failed to mention). I would really appreciate any assistance.

Title: Because
Characters: Jack/David
Rating: R
Word count: 740 words
Warnings: Boys have sex.
Disclaimer: Believe it or not, this is somehow covered under fair use.
A/N: Because I've been in bed all day.

Summary: Jack gives David some reasons to come back to bed.

( If David got socks on Jack wasn't gonna win this one. )

I swear I'm going to be productive tonight, but this is just too funny . . .



Desktop publishers: funnier than you suspect we are.

Thanks to mattie4 for the link.

That meme everyone else did two weeks ago? Yeah, here are my answers. Work has been devastatingly boring, so today I filled out a meme and wrote movie reviews. A girl can only read so much BBC and NY Times.

( Fandom cliches, hooray! )


Also, I've watched and rewatched a bunch of stuff lately...

( Avatar, District 9, Sherlock Holmes, Terminator and Terminator: Salvation )


And now, to bed! It's rough doing nothing all day for a whole week, let me tell you.

♥

Last night's roommate e-mail exchange.

bekkers77: I kid you not! Star Trek wetsuits
cymbalism219: "We would advise you to avoid the red uniform for obvious safety reasons." LOL
mattie4: That's seriously perfect. I can't decide if it's too dorky to be sexy or not . . . .
bekkers77: I'm voting for far too dorky. ( *attaches picture* )
cymbalism219: I vote too dorky, too. Although, I still might wind up wanting to meet the man who dares try it. Or not? Because if he has $470 to waste on a wetsuit he's probably a douchebag. Or really just that geeky. But then, he can't be that geeky or he wouldn't be surfing? And I do like geeks . . . but not surfers. Oh, this is hard.

And, yes, we were e-mailing each other while we were all at home.
In our defense, we were all in separate rooms . . . this time.

Ohmygoodness! rustie73 sent me a color copy reproduction of the Newsies script, complete with autographs from David Moscow and Christian Bale. It's lovely. And so different from what we now see on screen. I swooned when I opened with it, and am still barely containing my fangirlish glee.

( photos )

You outdid yourself, my friend. Thank you so very, very much.

Also, my icon is newly acquired thanks to the skills of the delightful and talented lielabell, with art from the likewise delightful and talented ldhenson.


HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Fic-writing recap stolen from second_batgirl

( this year's fic )

There will be plenty more in 2010!

Because whatever she can do I can do better, too!

clio21000: how does he look effing hot when he's got blood caked all over his face?
cymbalism219: i do not know
cymbalism219: it's his neck
cymbalism219: and cheekbones
cymbalism219: and jaw
cymbalism219: and eyes
clio21000: and hair
cymbalism219: Chris Pine is pretty

cymbalism219: okay, point of science that bugs me? they would burn up in the atmo!!!
clio21000: YES
clio21000: maybe vulcan has a different type of atmosphere?
cymbalism219: drives me a little crazy, but then I hear Chekov's accent and it makes it kind of ok
clio21000: lol
cymbalism219: yeah, I considered, that, but given how HOT Vulcan is, I imagine it has thicker atmosphere, yeah?
clio21000: idk. or maybe it's just bad science on the filmmakers' parts.
cymbalism219: there's a bit of bad science going on. not like TW bad, but kinda messy

clio21000: why is it so hot how he says "Kirk out"?
cymbalism219: I don't know. but it is
cymbalism219: "either they're going down, or we are" also ends up hot
cymbalism219: even though it's all doomy
clio21000: doom can be really hot sometimes

cymbalism219: Yeah, I'm that scary fangirl now
cymbalism219: the one that obsessively knows everything
cymbalism219: I annoy even myself sometimes

Title: Sundown
Pairing: None (Kirk character study, gen fic)
Rating: PG-13ish (language, reference to violence)
Word Count: 1,150
Warnings: Navel gazing. Gordon Lightfoot. No sex.
Disclaimer: Jim Kirk's not mine, more's the pity. Title from the Gordon Lightfoot song of the same name, some lyrics sampled.

Summary: Jim Kirk watches sunset.

( sometimes I think it's a sin when I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again )

Sooo, Karl Urban's in a documentary about swords. It's called Reclaiming the Sword (not sure who claimed the sword so that it needs to be reclaimed -- we think maybe it's like bringing sexy back). He provides some commentary about work on LOTR. And mattie4 and I definitely just watched it solely to hear his Kiwi accent. And then we maybe turned into thirteen-year-old girls . . .

cymbalism219: teehee, Karl Urban just said "thrusting"!
mattie4: *giggles* yeah he did.

cymbalism219: teehee, Karl Urban just said "stamina"!
mattie4: *giggles* and "leather"!

Turns out Karl Urban's only in it for about the first twenty minutes. So, we maybe watched the first twenty minutes twice . . .

mattie4: dude, he's gonna say "thrusting" again!
Karl Urban: ". . . thrusting . . ."
both: *titter*

Karl Uban, in addition to being hot, is also adorable. He has a geekily great "o rly?" face.


ETA: Okay, and then there was a hunt for Chris Pine pictures. And discussion about how how you can always see his junk.

mattie4: Chris Pine, as much as we love that you never wear underwear, don't you chafe?
cymbalism219: Maybe he could do commercials for Gold Bond Medicated Powder.
mattie4 [in a Chris Pine voice]: "As you all know, I never wear underwear . . ."

Because I'm a procrastination pro and I'm waiting on group members to get back to me in order to finish our assignment that's due tomorrow (friggin' group projects).

MY ICONS

default	oldest	newest
saddest	happiest	angriest
cutest	sexiest	funniest
fave ship	fave fandom	fave animated
best quote	best textless	best stolen idea
use the most	favorite

How many icons do you have? 44
Out of how many available spaces? 110
If you could buy space for more, would you? Once I need it.
Do your icons make a statement? erm, individually, sure. But on the whole they don't express my soul or anything.
What fandom do you have the most icons of? Star Trek XI, sort of surprisingly
And the second most? Newsies
What ship do you have the most icons of? Jack/David, Newsies
Are your icons made mostly by other people? Yes
Do you make icons? Barely.
Are they any good? Rarely.
Animated icons are: Often annoying. I'm particularly choosy about them.

DO THE MEME.
Coding can be found here


Stolen from lielabell and strawberispring.

Title: Seen and Unseen
Characters: McCoy, Kirk
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 1,780 words
Warnings: Masturbation.
Disclaimer: The only part of Trek I own is a Starfleet badge out of a cereal box. Also, the description "walking streak of sex" is borrowed from John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Very sorry, but it was too Jim to pass up. No infringement intended.
A/N: Thanks to mattie4 for the beta and lielabell for the prompt forever ago.

Summary: McCoy attempts to grab some sleep in the academy's on-call room.

( And damn if McCoy didn't recognize that voice. )

x-posted to relevant communities

My president just won the Nobel Peace Prize!

uk mirror

cbc

huffpo

( why this is important )

But, you know, no pressure or anything, man.

Also, he has "sophisticated" taste in art.


♥

You know, I promised myself I'd be all on top of this schoolwork thing this semester and do my work ahead of time, but I definitely just finished my first assignment for library school while sitting in Detroit Metro airport. It's due tomorrow.

Not looking forward to tomorrow -- I'll get home just after midnight, have to be up by just after six, work a full day, then to class immediately after until ten. I have no clothes ironed and nothing for lunch. This is gonna be a close call. I've had a LOT of coffee this weekend; tomorrow will be no different.

Here, have a laugh, or several, over Dan Brown's linguistic ineptitude. I sure did. (Thanks to bekkers77 for the link.)

I find devastating irony in the fact that this man -- who's latest book is duly titled The Lost Symbol -- has made a career of writing about the intricate deciphering of ancient codes and symbols when his own ability with the symbols comprising modern day English is negligible. Somebody needs to take away his thesaurus and teach him about relevant detail.

Last night my course instructor told us there are 958 hold requests in the state for that book already. Okay, it's true, I'm a snob -- because that alone was nearly enough to scare me away from the public librarian profession. I fully support everyone's right to read whatever drecky fiction they can get their hands on, and promise not to judge anyone's personal character for it (hello, I read fanfic), but I'm not so sure I really want it to be my job to read it all, too.

This morning while chopping celery I noticed that the slices were shaped like the Star Trek logo. MLIA