Catharsis acheived

[itsallovernow]

I feel much better now, after spewing out all of my frustration with my weekend.

In part, this is because the fabulous haphazardmethod has found pink fur boots that are calling out my name in the heart of Topanga and the thought alone makes me giddy.

And because I got to see in person, the fabulous cards made by ropo and got a book mark out of it!!

Also, because it is ridiculously gorgeous in Southern California today, and because I'm wearing bright purple fishnet tights which I adore.

And am listening to Vienna Teng, thanks to the general recc of LJ, although Amoeba failed me and does not have her in stock. It was a sad, sad day and I'll have to order the CD's, but I discovered this after going to see Finding Neverland at the ArcLight. The movie was beautiful, skilled and sad and warm and made me cry.

I know that I should not justify buying the Starburst editions of Farscape by saying I can give my DVDs to my dad. This does not mean I'm not sorely tempted! Or that I'm not tempted to say fuck it and buy the iBook G4 because it's now less than $1000. Keep in mind, when I say buy, I mean extend myself further into debt in order to facilitate my love of material culture that completely countermines my revolutionary tendencies. Opus said it very well yesterady. I want to be a liberal, but I may not want to be accountable so much. Not if it means giving up my iPod. Not really true, but worth thinking about. The ghetto plasticar of license plate lateness is not a lifestyle choice, it's a "I have no other choice."

My own cat makes me ridiculously happy, despite ruining $20 Donna Karan tights that I'd owned for all of three hours before he slid off my lap, and latched onto my leg in surprise. He's got ears like a fox, slicks them back with this wild look in his eyes, and is the words best snuggler. And he moved my water bottle all over my room trying to get at the ice cubes inside. He's pretty, but not so bright. Ah well, I will love him and hug him and call him George.

the_sporkys have started to receive the names of the fic being nominated for NC-17 categories in The Sparkys. This makes me giggle and giggle. We'll be good, and we'll be professional but it just makes me grin because I have in my head the conversation with Cranky that lead to this community, and the phrase, "It'll be the Booker Prize of smut." So, yeah for that.

Hmm. That seems to be all.

Oh, and crankygrrl is looking for people to donate parts of her ass to. I know there are people out there suffering from noassatall, so go forth and bid on Cranky's:) Help fund her trip to So Cal.

Oh, and since I'm a week behind, and I liked this meme, although I'm not sure how well it applies to me:

This is the problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but in actuality we know nothing about each other. I'm going to rectify it. I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Comments

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

opus is one of my higher powers. and he truly understands the inherent difficulties of surviving in this modern society. *veg*

i love your description of your cat: with ears like that he sounds a bit like a maine coon cat? i had a maine coon cat who used to try to get at the mice in this old house (1790) i lived in when i got out of college. he'd follow the sounds along the wall and then leap at it. heh. silly cat.

enjoy the boots and the day; and have fun next weekend...er, you are going to burbank?

ps. your icon has caused me to crack a rib laughing....well it sure feels that way. ;)


as for the meme, when and what was the first fanfiction you wrote? *g*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - no the cat is just a big black domestic cat with random Siamese thrown in:) He just grew like a goldfish and if we could harnass the boys, we could ride 'em around.

Hee - I love that icon. Courtesy of the fabulous Feldman.

And first fanfic, hmm. Well, when I was 13 I wrote a story incorporating a variety of characters from but not limited to Remington Steele, Young Sherlock Holmes and several Elizabeth Peters books. It was complete and total wish fullfillment.

Hee - first series attempt at fic? Latitude and Longitude which I posted a year and a half ago:)

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

heh, "grew like a goldfish", now i have an image of this rather large cat with fins. i'm guessing there are no actual fins. ;) when cats get that big they sometimes mistake themselves for a dog. or at least mine did.

i can see how elizabeth peters books would lend themselves to fic...lots of potential stories and great characters. as for remmington steele; frell pierce brosnan was *very* fine in that show. *veg*

yeah wonderful and funny icons. i appreciate them more and more.:)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

My most embarrassing fannish admission?

I have a lifesize cardboard cutout of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. (It was not my idea, my best friend brought him to the airport to pick me up with a rose tied to his hand. It was sort of hysterical and humiliating in equal measures:) And, mmm, he was (and is) so very pretty.

[ch1pper.livejournal.com]

guh! I am so seriously tempted to buy some Brosnan Bond DVDs. helllo!! DIe another Day is seriously hawt!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Mmm. So incredibly hot. Although even hotter in The Thomas Crowne Affair:)

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

*g* that's a sweet story....i bet the other people in the airport liked him too. and he is yummmy still.

now i must confess to the life size cardboard cut out of jean luc picard that resided in my hallway for about a year. but i never got used to it being there....made me twitch each time i went around the corner...so sadly he had to go. *veg*

ps. i do have a life size cardboard cut out of yoda with a light sabre in my office. when my boss saw him she started singing "yoda, y.o.d.a., yoda" to the tune of "lola". tee hee!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee:) Jen, that's adorable.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

thank you! just imagine the impression that makes on people coming into my office. bwahahah!

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Oh, and crankygrrl is looking for people to donate parts of her ass to. I know there are people out there suffering from noassatall, so go forth and bid on Cranky's:) Help fund her trip to So Cal.

This so cannot end well, except now I'm thinking about having a sign-up sheet in Burbank and getting people to sponsor me to lose two pant sizes... maybe get them to send money to Unicef or something...

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

We're going to get thrown out of the hotel bar before the weekend is over, aren't we? *grin*

BTW, Thea, didya talk to the hotel?

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - I can only hope so and FUCK. No, I completely forgot and then got overwhelmed. I'll call 'em today if I have time.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Dude, I already have the sign all made up. We'll just put the, "And bid here for Cranky's ass" right underneath it. Clearly children that need help from UNICEF are also lacking in assitude.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Definitely, all them Ethiopian and Sudanese kids definitely need some "back"

[rubberneck.livejournal.com]

We can set it up right next to the "Will Write Smut Fic For BEER" stand.

edited because italics are different from strikethrough 8 )

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Alternatively know as "Will Write 88UT fic for beer." *grin*

[fbf.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there an entires series of those signs? *tries to remember, watches smoke escape from own ears*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee:) That is one plan. Actually, it's not a bad plan:)

[fbf.livejournal.com]

I will help in the Sporky/Sparky thing if you need it. I should have said that ages ago but you know me, brain=sieve. hee

And even though you feel better and life is good I am kidnapping you to my LJ for a little while as it is offically Puppy Pile Day.

*drags you off for snuggles and admires the purple fishnets*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I do, I do. Need you that is. Hee - Cass wants to know how we're gonna decide which fics go on to the finals. I neglected to tell her about the Magic 8 ball approach, promising a more objective and scientific method:)

Yay, off to the puppy pile:)

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm in too... while we're in Cali we can talk about putting together a 10-point check list or something. Like, maybe, they get a score out of 8 on any number of technical elements and then a score out of 2 for pornaliciousness...

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I'm refraining from saying that you don't have much of a choice, being equally responsible for The Sporkys:) (JK - well, not about the responsable, but about the choice) I think that the 10 point system is a fine plan. As is that icon.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

The icon is by Kaz. The idea's all mine. *grin*

What happens if one of use get's nominated for a Sporky? I guess we'll have to abstain *grin*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Um. Well, from voting on that fic, yeah:) Although, I'm pretty comfortable rating my own stories. Snort. But in the interests of fairness, yeah.

[rubberneck.livejournal.com]

I think we should abstain from rating our own stories and let that fact be known on the Sporky's webpage (once we figure out our system).

Not that we need to share the eventual rating system, but we should *definitely* let folks know that we're in this for good smut no matter who writes it.

No matter how many judges any particular story gets, we just devide by the number of judges to obtain a same-scale score for all.

8 )

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Dude! You're so *smart*.

Heh.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Okay, that officially reads waaaay more snarky than was intended.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Agreed, no rating our own stories.

Um, but just for clarification, you do realize we're sharing the development of the ratings system right here, right now, right? Hee.

No matter how many judges any particular story gets, we just devide by the number of judges to obtain a same-scale score for all.

Yeah. I think we start with simply the scoring system, and then if there are ties, or special cases to be pleaded, we discuss as a group.

[rubberneck.livejournal.com]

Possible elements to score:

Set-up: for plot-fics, how does the sex fit into the context of the story; for PWP, location and mise-en-place of the scene itself
Originality: standard porn "oil&lube" checklist vs. inventiveness
Characterization: adherence to recognizable characters--i.e., shmoopy John is more believable than shmoopy Aeryn
Daring: exploration of character, in other words, the selling of extreme characterization
Storytelling: does the scene/story show us something new or interesting about the characters (or could it be replaced with "then they had sex")

And, of course, general hotness.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, excellent categories!

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

The two point score for pornaliciousness would be the general hotness score.

Also, because I'm a pedant, I think there should be a score for grammar and spelling. I don't care how great the story is, if the actual writing craft is poor, it makes for a lousy read.

What about:

2 pts for spelling and grammar
2 pts for characterization
2 pts for general hotness/pornaliciousness

and one point each for set-up/plot, originality, inventiveness (or is that the same thing?), and daring?

[rubberneck.livejournal.com]

I agree about spelling and grammar.

I think each aspect should have more than 2 points, though, because that only allows:

0=bad/nonexistent
1=decent
2=outstanding!

I suggest a 5 point scale:

0=nonexistent
1=an attempt was made
2=decently done
3=good job
4=above average
5=outstanding!

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's probably fairer. Do we need to up the number of categories to ten? That way we would end up with a score out of fifty... but maybe that doesn't matter when you're not actually grading the stories, as in for marks...

[fbf.livejournal.com]

you know I think I have, sitting about my office, a form that I would give to the judges for the Young Playwrights submissions. It was based on a scale of 10 and the combined numbers were what decided placement. I'll try and look for it tonight.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that would be fabulous.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - since I'm not prepared to send anyone a letter grade on their story, I don't think it matters. Just as long as we have a high point and a low point:)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Five points it is:)

And word on the spelling and grammar. (God, first dude, now word. But I swear you will never hear me say that outloud, unlike Dude).

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Also, because I'm a pedant, I think there should be a score for grammar and spelling. I don't care how great the story is, if the actual writing craft is poor, it makes for a lousy read.

I'm stating for the record that if it isn't well-written, it ain't moving on. It's why we started The Sporkys.

[cretkid.livejournal.com]

hence why i like having my New Author category; people can nominate whoever the frell they want, but I get to make the final decision of who passes into round 2. :D

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - exactly.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Nice icon, dude.

I think Feldman and Thea are planning on selling my ass in Burbank...

[fbf.livejournal.com]

I think Feldman and Thea are planning on selling my ass in Burbank...

only parts of it. *bg*

*skips off giggling*

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Your icon terrifies me...;]

[fbf.livejournal.com]

hence I keep using it to reply to your comments. *bg* yes, evil I know.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Um. Yes. How else are we gonna pay for the room?

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

Next time, you really do have to stay all day!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I will. Next time, nothing else is allowed to be scheduled on the same day!!