Random thoughts and Jamie's kitchen

Actually slept last night. What a concept.

Have all sorts of Pet ideas going through my head. I'm currently trying to tease them out into something that at least represents a coherent part. Sometimes I regret not writing it in the present-tense, sketchbook style that I did with Strategy because boy did the ability to basically write "stuff happens, and now we're going to talk about the good bits" get me past a lot of gaps, but by the same token Pet just didn't want to be written in present tense. It felt wrong. So past tense it is, with me kicking it and poking it and demanding that it make at least a vague linear sense with itself.

In other news, zortified sent me a Halloween card. Thanks Zort! Happy new year to you too! =)

( Then there's last night's ep of Jamie's Kitchen )

Stop her before she posts again

Can you tell I'm alone in the office and spamming LJ instead of working on Pet?

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Did you ever read fanfic that was so bad you immediately had to back out of the website and go open up one for a good author so you could cleanse your brain out? What I hate is when it has a deceptive appearance of goodness. Like it's spelled right, the grammar seems reasonable, a lot of effort was put into it. And then you read it and Abort! Abort! Pull out, we've sprung a leak!

Or something.

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And yes I'm not unaware of the possible irony of saying something like that while talking about Pet, a story which I know has probably brought as many bells to a dead-silent halt as it has rung them for others. To which I say: since when is Pet spelled right and who gave it reasonable grammar?

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Alexis Denisof is a pretty, pretty man but that one shot of him with his coat slung over his shoulder just makes me giggle and imagine him going through the gamut of International Male poses. Now he's checking his watch! Now he's got his hand in his pocket! Now he's leaning over the shoulder of an African-American friend while pointing into the distance! In next month's issue, he'll be standing on the deck of a boat while wearing stripes and squinting into the sunlight!

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I appreciate the local A&P's efforts to get into the spirit of Halloween, but I don't think stringing cobwebs up around the displays of meat is creating the exact feelings of horror that they were hoping to inspire.

Anti-marriage protection week

I'm assuming by now everybody knows I'm pro marriage rights for all and anti people being bigoted and stupid, but just in case in honor of LJ's official Anti-Marriage Protection Day:

Ahem

Dear so-called Marriage Protection folks,

Please stop trying to deny gay people the right to marry. We can't fuck it up anymore than you have.

Thank you.

TBQ

Pet: Part Six

( Pet, Part Six, in which there's some conversation, some discoveries, more non-sexual kinks, a little bit of sex, hyppogriffs, and TBQ slowly edges away from something resembling a flowing narrative in favor of hitting the highlights. Oh yeah, and there's a little foreshadowing. )

Angel 5.3 Unleashed

( Comments on Angel 5.3. Episode spoilers only, with a mention of what we see in the promo for next week. )