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Jasika Nicole on Scandal tonight. Loving Huck's storyline this season.

Catch it if you can.

Filed under "I think I saw that in an animated movied once": Cat caught smuggling saws and drills into Brazil prison - The cat has not divulged which of the prison's 263 inmates it was attempting to break out.


With the death of free website hosting and mailing lists, there's been a noticeable shift in the way people consume fic. There's also been a change in the way people comment and feedback said fic, as well as in understanding what concrit actually means. My Thoughts on Concrit by anonypants sums up some of the issues with leaving constructive criticism, and why a lot of people just don't do it much anymore. I wonder too, if using beta readers has become more of a fandom standard over the years? Fewer hard feelings hashing a piece out with somebody you trust before letting it loose.



Most imortantly, a rec!

For the fringe_exchange samjohnsson wrote me this fantastic Season 1 Astrid what-if piece that hints at a larger puzzle:

Written in Sand (1399 words) by samjohnsson
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fringe
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Astrid Farnsworth
Summary: Zip gave me open season on hir fill for this, with suggestions of AUs, and timeline tweaks, and five things, and found families.
As with all things s01 Fringe, I love when stories ask more questions than they answer. I got this little idea, this little seed of "what if". I may end up running with it farther, eventually.

Got my Fringe Exchange recipient and breathed a huge sigh of relief - pretty much carte blanche with whatever I want to write within the bounds of the request. Because sometimes the 'Ohgodwhatiftheydon'tlikeit?!' can be pretty intimidating.

Speaking of... I think I'm one maybe three people who loves where Fringe is going this season...
( Fringe 5.05 )

In other news... just finished reading Connie Willis' Blackout/All Clear. Highly recommend if you like stories about time travel and causality with a little bit of mystery and drama and humor thrown in. I may leave a better review later, once I'm recovered from it. This was one of those book universes I was sad to put down.

Thanksgiving long weekend, followed by a short week wherein there is just as much to do as in a regular week is not as much of a holiday as it seems. However, there was, and still is pie.

Things have been too busy around here lately to have an opinion on anything, so here you go all at once. *g*

( So, Fringe )

( Books )

Seems I haven't made a post here in ages without spamming y'all with pictures. Wouldn't want to break that trend. ;)

I managed to find some cheap graduated neutral density filters and filter mount online a while back, and by cheap, I mean inexpensive - not brandname, but good enough for my level of photography that I can play with them and decide if this is something worth splurging on more expensive glass or resin filters. Basically, what a graduated ND filter allows you to do is use a slower shutter speed or a wider aperture than you normally would be able to use in bright conditions in order to allow more light (and hence, brighter colors, or that misty look to waterfalls and oceans) through the lens. You can also use them to even out the ground and the sky in a landscape shot without the need to over- or under-expose one or the other.

So, even though it was snowing/raining out the day they arrived, there I was sinking into the not-yet-frozen river bank to try them out:


( Photography )

Does anybody know if Agent Tim has a last name?

Every so often, I purge my WIP folder. Mostly because if there's no appreciable shape to the story and I haven't touched it in six weeks, I've probably long forgotten what it's about. Most of the time it doesn't bother me that I've forgotten. If the idea is decent enough, it'll bubble up later somewhere else. Less guilt that way.

However, this one, I'd really like to know how it would have turned out:

( Peter Bishop has two basic tenets: pay your own debts, and take care of the women in your life. Not that either of the woman in his life at the moment need taking care of, but he figures he does owe them both. Big time. )
Takers?

Fring, Welcome to Westfield - I'm pretty sure i read that book once. The name on the cover said "King".

That is all.

Haven't reviewed in a while and I'm out of practice. Let's try bullet points:

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