I'm not doing anything big or getting dead lost in some crowd at midnight...we've got chicken wings, and are going to count down to 12:00AM exactly, going to watch the ball drop. Rahh.
And that's two little entries where I've mentioned holidays alongside food and so on.


So to add to this...I think I am experiencing for the first time what Skins fandom wank is really like (at its craziest?). As it's coming time for this generation to get the second half of their story told, everyone is going nuts with death hints and ship anticipation like I never anticipated. I mean, it's not just ship wank. It's SHIP RAGE. SHIP RAGE.
I think it's better that, out of all my fandoms, in Skins (gen 3 at least), I ship almost every single ship. It's so far been my one ticket out of shipping-discussion fear/anger. And when the actual episodes air, I have a good chance of liking whatever ships get made canon.
It's the way they might be brought together - or apart - that's a bit scary to me. As well as the rest of the plot. If all these hints we're getting come true, then what?? I don't know what to think.
This fandom is cray-cray.
I love it though.


Back to the subject of the new year! Two-thousand twelve! 2012! God I can barely believe it. It should be March. March 2011. I feel like the whole year rushed out ahead of me. Like if every floor you walked on turned into treadmills, and you had to run to catch up.... Gor.


(— AND IS THAT POLKA MUSIC FROM DOWNSTAIRS??
JABUS!
VHAT IZ ON THAT TELEVISION, THAT IT MAKES SUCH SOUNDS?)


To end a scattered update...goodnight, all. I've got to go. I'll talk to you in the new year!
- SH

Hi. If you use LJ, you know that they sometimes make ridiculous changes that are useless and just plain bad. When they do this, the staff doesn't listen or change a thing, no matter how much the users say that they dislike it, and would like the changes to be undone.

Most recently, they changed comment page design as well as taking out comment subject lines altogether, and this plus earlier changes (hello, profile-page fiasco) made me want to have a backup journal account on another website, so that if I ever left LJ, I'd have an alternative.

I'm not sure I'll ever use this, but it's good to have. So there you have it.

This'll be the only entry for a while, I think.
Thanks for reading. :)

-SH


P.S. The way DW's staff (??) replies to and deals with users is down-to-earth and, well, actually responsive (unlike LJ). I like it.


ETA, Dec. 23rd: All my LJ entries are finished being imported — wow! That took only a day!
Soon I might make a graphics comm-clone here (MAYBE), and import the entries of the original one on LJ (if that is possible????). :)

Dreamwidth so far is awesome.
plus its provided layouts are far prettier than LJ's.

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No, I don't. I think it's terrible and a disgusting abuse of power. Censorship like this is wrong. As so many other people have said, it goes against the value of free speech which the United States were founded on, as well as just basic human rights.

I honestly hope this doesn't come to pass. I haven't heard much IRL about it, but have had my panic and then calmed down some — the internet, predictably, is panicking like hell, and if any of this is solidly true? then with good reason.
But honestly, the government half the time can't get their sh*t together to make far longer-discussed laws than this get through, so by that logic, I cross my fingers and pray some, yeah? Yeah.

So, lately I've been listening to Queen's song Don't Stop Me Now constantly. And over the fast few months I've been just floating on the fringes of Narnia fandom. Then, just now, I ran into this GIF:




GIF source


There was no reason why I should have seen that. It's from some little interview James McAvoy did with Keira Knightley years ago, around the time Atonement came out. She asked him what his favorite song to dance to was, and this was his response.


I searched for the actual video and this is what I got.

Yeah, I get that Queen is known by pretty much everyone with exposure to the world and taste, but still, that particular song? That ONE song?
It's not the most mind-blowing of my ~Narnian premotions~, but it still flips me out, man. After all these months predicting Narnia-fandom-related coincidences, I still flip out every time.


I leave you with this:

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT WORKING WITH SKINS SCREENCAPS TO MAKE ICONS MAKES YOUR EYES BLEED? FFS.





That is all.

This was something likecharity posted, and I thought I'd do it as well.

I posted this fanfiction to the internet in a weird order, so it'll take a bit of work to piece out what order I actually wrote them all in....

( everything is under here. this is a bit long, actually. )

We lost internet access on Saturday and just today got it back. We had to get a new router and everything. Long story short, I was offline and am now online again. Yippee? ...eh.

ALSO, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS TODAY. YES.

I am eating a Hershey's King Size Chocolate bar. You are not.

MUAHAHAHAHA.

I am eating a strawberry frosted pop-tart.

Mmmmm, the taste of nostalgia.

In other news, I am now wayyyyy deep into Narnia fandom again. I love this fandom's acceptance of RPF. Because those books get heavy sometimes and I'm not always in the mood. But I always am up for some Georgie! Why do all my main ships revolve around Georgie

1. James/Georgie
» OTP. they are my OTP for-EVAHHHH. NOBODY tops them.
I've even thought about writing original fic of them and then changing names, details, etc. Yeah I know.
And what happens in my braincanon when James leaves Anne-Marie to be with Georgie? She hooks up with Georgie's older sister. ( I've even written a drabble of this. )
Yeah. I know.

2. Anna/Georgie
» IDEK. It just works, in my mind. And what else are they going to do if the guys are all busy being slashed with one another?
Femslash doesn't get enough attention in this fandom. That's one of my only beefs with it.

3. Ben/Georgie
» I want fic for this SO bad — I cannot wait for VoDT to come out. likecharity had better make good on her promise! if you could call it that.


Okay, now, I have to say this:
I know I'm late to the party and all, but MAN. narnia_dazzle is FUN as hell. I love it.
I am so Team Bin Bons, but after seeing some creepy-ass shots from Dorian Gay Gray, I'm a little off-put by him. Perhaps I shall switch to Team Skandarwin. ( this picspam already has me half converted, f--k. or should I say, YEAH! )


BRB, putting a Skandar banner in my profile. It is black and white and red all over just like a newspaper, verrrrry verrrrrry trippy.

OK, I just put the banner in my profile, and let me tell you, it SCARES me. IDK why I put it up. Now you will go look at it out of a compulsive, curious need! and you will be frightened too! haha!


Finally: