One day, I'd like to post about these things:

1) The lecture I heard once on how Emma is a maturation of Sense and Sensibility.
2) The Gwenyth Paltrow Emma versus the Kate Beckinsale one (*waves flag for latter*)
3) How girls in period costume with modern accoutrement make me feel funny (a la here:
)
4) Whether Romola Garai looks like Katee Sackhoff, a la the great Connor // Jackson Browne debate.
5) How I miss good old days at Republic of Pemberley.
6) Me and Jane Austen! In particular: Emma
7) My hopes for the new BBC Emma, inspired via this picspam!

Tags: fandom: jane austen
feelin': period dress makes me lustful

So, I tried to crosspost, and it didn't work :o( Who knows what new, stupid thing I'm doing wrong. I hate learning new stuff (change is bad; cavemen rock), and sorry for the spam.

ETA: at least this one worked. Okay, DW is very nice and everything; I'm sure it's very user friendly. But people should keep in mind when developing ANYTHING that they should imagine the stupidest person ever. Got it? Stupidest person EVAR? Got 'im there in ur hed? Now imagine someone stupider, and develop for them. It's just--gah, spell everything out; I won't begrudge you for baby-talking me; seriously, I won't. /rant

ETA2: Oh! And what my first testing post said was: I am now username "joy" on DW, thanks redbrickrose. There were detailed plans for how I'd be using DW, which basically were: it shouldn't affect you at all! I hope to use it as my primary service, but I only will if there's a way to subscribe to LJ people on DW without the LJ people having to set up openids or me having to set up feeds of everyone I want to read, and I'll be crossposting for the forseeable future, so no worries.

Tags: admin
feelin': rantypants

First, thanks so much for y'all's help on my Dreamwidth questions.

I just finished watching the final ep of Battlestar Galactica, and was wondering what you all thought of it (of the ep, the show itself, and especially the last chunk that most recently aired, AKA the second half of season 4, AKA the last 10 eps). I'd love to hear your random thoughts and/or be linked to your reactions.

I'll be rooting among your journals myself, so if you're suddenly getting comments on older BSG posts, this is why!

I have Thoughts I Have Thinked, but I don't even know where to begin, so mostly I'm just sitting back a bit.

Tags: bagelstar with creamcheese, request: links
feelin': sore

I was hoping to spend my weekend researching this more, but today's the last day of my weekend and I know I won't get to it. So here are my dumb questions.

1) Those of you who do have Dreamwidth accounts already--it's because you were randomly selected in a drawing, right?
2) Do [those of you who have accounts] have invite codes?
3) What do I have to do to get an invite code from one of you?
4) Do any of you have the $200 "seed account"s?
5) Is a seed account the only way you can get an account that you never have to renew?
6) Can you get a seed account yet? Where? How?
7) What do you guys think about the seed account thing? Is it worth it?
8) If I get a paid account once the beta is over, will I get invite codes I can distribute to people?
9) On Dreamwidth, you can subscribe to people on lj and have their entries pop up on your viewing list, right? Do you have to create a subscription? For people to subscribe to my DW account, do they have to create a subscription? (The way I had to create a subscription for my ij on lj, so lj people could read my ij?)
10) If I got a different name on Dreamwidth, would you all hate me?

11) What do you guys think?

I'm still going to try to look into some of this stuff. Mostly I'm wondering what you guys think about your Dreamwidth account, and how to go about getting one myself.

ETA: if you're already over there, what's your username?

Tags: request: help
feelin': intimidated

I'm thinking again about applying to grad school, but there are several things I need to do first. One of them is figure out who the hell I can get to write recommendation letters. Most of my profs from undergrad won't remember me. The one prof I was very to died. I have another prof who could write a letter, and I my bosses at work could do one too. But I know it's good to have letters from school experience rather than work experience.

One thing I've thought about doing is taking a couple night courses. I could take a course in writing, which I'd like to work on anyway. At the same time I could try to cultivate a relationship with the professor, if that is possible at all, and maybe they will turn out to be someone who can write me a letter. But again, that's not the only reason I want to do the night course; I want to do something that will get me writing (more precisely, something that will get me finishing writing) anyway. If I did a night course in English it would be nice to get some essays written, too.

Anyway, my very stupid question is: . . . uh, what IS night school, anyway? I don't want to enroll at a school yet. But aren't there courses you can take at community colleges and universities in which you don't actually haven't to be a student? Aren't there some classes you can just sign up to take? And if so, how do you find them? Are they what is called "continuing education"? Can't you sign up for just one course without enrolling? And will you be with other people who ARE enrolled, or will you be with a bunch of other people just signed up to take that one course? And if the latter is true, will the course be crappy? Will it still be taught by a professor? Can you take a course in English or Creative Writing that isn't taught at a university or community college? Are those courses reliable? Does it depend on the course and the program, whether it's reliable or not? Why am I so clueless?

Tags: request: help
feelin': ditzy

Part 1

( Part 2. This is way longer and took way longer than fifteen minutes and I still have no idea how long it will be. And this was just supposed to be the idea for the fic. No, I don't know what's wrong with me. )

Tags: fic: angel/spike human au, fic: buffyverse, fic: crack
feelin': busy

Yay I was tagged! That's so exciting. Thanks, ladycat777.

Tagging: cordelianne, minim_calibre, jgracio, lillianmorgan, and gaudynight

If you've been tagged, you can (if you want) write your answers in your own LJ and replace any questions that you dislike with a new, original question.

( Questions about me meme )

Tags: david copperfield kind of crap, meme

( Angel/Spike All Human Crackfic Idea Part 1. I wrote some of this fic, but then my laptop got stolen, back in 2007. I realized I'm never going to write it now, but I thought the idea was interesting, so I started writing down the idea. But that took longer than 15 minutes. So, um, here is part of the idea. Maybe someone will find it entertaining? It's like reading super condensed fic! Maybe. )

Tags: fic: angel/spike human au, fic: buffyverse, fic: crack
feelin': embarrassed

( How I read = how I write . . . on books. And now thinky includes fun poll hijinks! )

If you want, I'd love to read about how you read, what books you mark up, how you mark them up, and why you desecrate your reading material so. (Sacrilige! Besmircher and betrayor!)

Tags: me: reflection
feelin': sick

Last night my_daroga, friends and I went to see an Alice and Wonderland burlesque.

( Inside: not so sexy times, sorry. This is mostly just about what we saw and what it could have been. )

Anyway, besides thoughts on how the show could've been better, now I have Alice meta, re: versions of Alice, Lewis Caroll, sex and the rabbit hole, and male agency in Wonderland, but my 15 minutes was actually over five minutes ago. So, I'll save it for another time, and instead turn it over to you.

What would you do, in an Alice burlesque show? ETA: I meant to ask with an Alice burlesque show. As in: how would you marry the idea of sexy times to this story? What would the songs be, the costumes, the sets, the dances? How would you tell the story? What would you think about it--would it ruin your Disney-laced or innocent childhood? Who would you cast if you could cast anyone?

But if you want to be *in* an Alice burlesque show, you can tell me what you'd do, too :o)

Tags: david copperfield kind of crap, fandom: alice
feelin': frustrated

( Ideas/recipes/advice/single serving friends requested. )

Tags: rl: cooking
feelin': hurty in my face

( Tales of My Youthful Writing Attempts: How I Came To Love the Cliché. AKA, Who Knows Why Anyone Cares? Either one. )

Tags: me: writing
feelin': pessimistic

( Neurosis regarding personal reading and writing processes. )

Tags: me: reflection, me: writing
feelin': moody

( Spoilers )

Tags: fandom: dollhouse
feelin': cranky

1. I think someone on lj just spoiled me for BSG. It was about my favorite character. I'm going to kill someone.
( I don't frown because I have a list. Lists make me happy. )

Tags: me: neurosis
feelin': stressed

I finished this book some time ago, which means I probably remember it just well enough to talk for 15 minutes :o) Oh, it's Warrior's Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold.

This is a science fiction novel about a boy named Miles. The plot in this book doesn't matter that much to me, because it's the characters who shine forth. Wait, actually, the characters don't really matter that much to me either, because it's Miles who shines forth. Miles is the disabled son of some kind of lord, and he wants to go to space school like all the other kids. With that simple premise, Bujold follows through to fill out numerous kinks of mine:

1. Daddy issues. Mommy issues! Family issues.
2. The difficulty and pressures of living up to an image (and Miles's image, like my own personal one, is more his own than his family's, and thus far harder to live up to. Although he does have family issues, and his family putting pressure on him, the pressure he puts on himself is far worse, I think).
3. Making the best out of who you are (without waiting for it to come to you).

1+2+3 = fucked up, crazy sad funny sweet amazing shenanigans. In other words, I really loved this book; I really love Miles; and I really, really love space pirates.

( More about this book, part 2. )

Tags: books, fandom: bujold
feelin': anxious

So this post isn't from my list. Because my_daroga told me about this, and I had to Google.

Jane Austen on Wii. - Basically, someone wrote up what playing Pride and Prejudice on a Wii might be like.

( Not so wee thoughts on Austen game idea! )

Other Period Themed Links:

-Wuthering Heights Role-Playing [Paper and Pencil] Game Rules (linked in comments to Wii idea). For fun Victorian times. When creating your character, you roll for the amount of Rage and Despair, and then calculate the number of Problems your character has. It obviously must be awesome.

-Regency Era Dress Up: heroine and hero. I spent nearly half an hour with the hero one night, because after I dressed him I decided he needed an invisible male partner, because he was gay and also having issues with his magic. He accidentally made his husband invisible, see. But his husband was a good sport about it, and got dressed to go out with him anyway, and they posed. They held hands. Invisibile hands.

Suffice it to say: I love people.

Tags: fandom: jane austen, link(s)
feelin': aggravated

So . . . I don't think my 15 minute project will work, as I don't have enough time to answer comments for a post a day. *tinkers* Now it is every other day, except Sundays. Because that is the Lord's day, which means I work until 6, get home at 7, then because Sunday's The Lord's Movie Night, overload on cookies and movies about cannibals. Or something.

But I am posting today, because I keep thinking, "Oh! I should do a post about that!" and I do not have a List. Lists make me feel very cozy, like Linus's blanket. I like to think of things to cross off on them and then write them down and then not cross them off. Anyway, this list probably won't make that much sense to anyone but me. I plan to add to it and cross things off. But who knows.

( Move along, nothing to see here. . . except my underwear! )

Tags: lj: ideas
feelin': cold

Whenever I think of first lines I think of Melanie in the Gone With The Wind movie. At one point she starts reading David Copperfield, and it goes something like this: "To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I am born."

That's actually the second line. The actual first line of David Copperfield is this: "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

I bring this up because one of my actual favorite first lines is: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probablywant to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." Which is from Catcher In The Rye. I quite like Catcher, but it is not my favorite book. But I do love this line, and remember very distinctly picking up the book in the bookstore and reading this line. This was my reaction:

1. I did not know you were allowed to start a book in that way!
2. He said crap!
3. Geez I really want to read this now.
4. Geez, I also really want to read David Copperfield.

. . . I was a conflicted child.

Anyway, here are some questions I thought up, because I'm interested in first lines, and want to know what first lines people think of when they think of first lines, and what first lines people like!

What are some first lines to novels/stories/fanfic that you like?
What are some first lines to novels/stories/fanfic that you remember off the top of your head?
What's your favorite first line you've written?
What's the first line you've spent the most time on?
What's your least favorite first line you've written?

Also, here is a first lines of English "classics" quiz!

There are more similar quizzes for other genres here. Which ones did you pick? How did you do?

Here's text to put in comments so you can answer more quickly:
<b>What are some first lines to novels/stories/fanfic that you like?</b> <b>What are some first lines to novels/stories/fanfic that you remember off the top of your head?</b> <b>What's your favorite first line you've written?</b> <b>What's the first line you've spent the most time on?</b> <b>What's your least favorite first line you've written?</b>

Tags: discussion: writing, writing: beginnings

I run a comm called marmalade_fish. It's for fans of Sarah Rees Brennan, known as sarahtales on Livejournal. I know of her from fanfic she used to write, back when she was mistful. You might have seen me talking about it; I confess to a bit of passion.

( This is the part where I explain. )

The reason I started this post (which has taken me way, way longer than 15 minutes, because I keep trying to stop myself from babbling), is because my comm marmalade_fish, is giving away Advanced Reader Copies of Sarah's book, The Demon's Lexicon. The guidelines for entering are here. It seemed wrong to be having a free book give-away, especially of a book by an author I admire so much, without giving my flist a heads up.

So, there you go!

Tags: fandom: sarah rees brennan, pimping
feelin': disappointed