Smallville beta reader needed [May 11, 2008 @ 2:15am] pidirectory [readrfreak_15] Name: Shevi Email Address: skd11404@yahoo.com Fandom Category: Smallville Title: After Smallville Rating: T Genre: Romance/Drama Relationships: Lois and Clark Predicted Total Length: Around..20 chapters Summary: Did you ever wonder what could happen after Smallville? Additional Comments: The story will be posted on fanfiction.net as well as livejournal. My pseudonym for fanfiction is writrfreak_15. Chat . Edit Entry . Save

i can has amusement? [May 10, 2008 @ 6:02pm] moving_walkway [ mood | amused ] Found this on icanhascheezburger.com and found it very amusing. ( the evil latte! ) Clarisse, you'd better watch out for those evil lattes. 4 Read . Chat . Edit Entry . Save

Administrator Absence [May 10, 2008 @ 3:12pm] pidirectory [beautifulfic] [ mood | busy ] Hello everyone, Unfortunately due to some unforeseen complications with my pregnancy, I am being admitted to hospital on May 12th 2008. I'm not sure how long I will be gone for. I imagine I should be home again by mid-June, but I make no promises. It is only precautionary, and the baby and myself are both healthy. I'll just be stuck there for a while. Because I am the main administrator for the site ,and this has happened unexpectedly, the site will be a little less organised than usual. Test marking and mentoring, preliminary emails and automated systems should run as normal. The main delay I can see is that there WILL NOT be a new test published in June. I shall endeavour to get one done as soon as possible, but since I cannot guarantee it I would rather warn people that there may be a wait. I hope you're all well, and I shall see you when I get back home. All the best, Asli 14 Read . Chat . Edit Entry . Save

destiny is a fickle bitch [May 09, 2008 @ 8:39pm] moving_walkway [ mood | geeky ] US Top Names list for 2007 is out. This is glee-inducing! (And Isabella was the 2nd most popular baby name for girls in 2007! Nevaeh has also moved up to #31. *headdesk*) (No, I'm not trying to scare you away with my namenerdness. I will, however, scare you away with my Lost ramblings, inspired by last night's awesome episode.) ( The dead, time warps, and Chosen Ones (contains spoilers for ep. 4x11) ) ... It's episodes like this one that remind me that Lost is most definitely my kind of show. 3 Read . Chat . Edit Entry . Save

Naruto Beta Reader Needed!!! [May 08, 2008 @ 9:52pm] pidirectory [selverlady] [ mood | determined ] * Your name/pseudonym: Silver * Email address: reply by comment * Fandom/Category: Naruto * Title: Heaven and Hell. * Rating: T * Genre: Romance, Fantasy. * Relationships: M/F * Predicted Total Length: 18,943 * Summary: In a world where war has been going on for centuries and amongst the bloodshed, love bloomed between an unlikely pair. * Additional Comments: This story is complete but needs some touching up here and there. I would really appreciate the help, but I wanted to let everyone know that this story does have an original character in it. Chat . Edit Entry . Save

i believe in a thing called love, just listen to the rhythm of my heart [May 08, 2008 @ 9:35pm] moving_walkway [ mood | contemplative ] I made myself a "Charladay" icon. I think they've surpassed Jack/Juliet on my "favorite Lost ship" list. I've decided that I'm sick and tired of the love polygon that exists mainly between Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Juliet (and then you have to add Ben's creepy stalker crush on Juliet into the mix, of course) and am up for some more subtle romance that's not in the forefront of the storyline. Kind of like Charlie/Claire, and as much as I love them I feel like there's no point in supporting them anymore ever since Charlie's death last season. Also, I always forget about how much of an ass Charlie was to Claire in season 2. (Charlie was pretty much an ass to everyone in that season, come to think of it. I blame the drugs that he was not taking.) But what I liked about them was that, when Claire wasn't telling him to to get away from her baby, it was clear that they really did care for each other, but it wasn't as much at the forefront of the story as all the Juliet/Jack/Kate/Sawyer drama. I hope Faraday/Charlotte will be more subtle-like. (And I hope that more happens between them, beyond Faraday's little puppy-dog crush. Which is extremely cute, I'll have to admit. He's so adorable.) New episode of Lost on in 10 minutes. Huzzah! Chat . Edit Entry . Save

And the Nice Prize goes to... [May 08, 2008 @ 2:41pm] spindlewand Ok - there have been a few nice things this week - I got my Thalium stress test and no one has called to tell me my heart is broken, so that is good. I cut Braveheart's hair and it came out nice, so that is also good. I bought a hat in like, 15 mintues, which is way good for reasons you will read in a few lines... Grace is finally feeling better - WTG, Grace! We may manage to get a few of us Elanimals together in June right around (Coincidentally) my birthday. We have had a nurse three days this week and are supposed to have one tonight too. My mother likes the Rivendell socks so as soon as I can figure out whether the rest of the site has to be secure if the payment is going through PayPal I can get the pattern as a download. Braveheart has learned an important thing about human nature and his communication device. He asked for something by pressing it's button on the device twice. Third time, he pressed "grandma" first, and then what he wanted. If it's everyone's responsibility, no one takes care of it. All must be personalized. I hope he remembers that... And - drumroll here, big drumroll - my brother is getting his second Master's degree, and we get to go to the ceremony on Saturday. 50 years ago my parents had a plan and one HS diploma between the two of them. The plan was to get an education. The plan, actually, was to get an education for all of us, even those of us who had yet to be born, and this plan was executed in the face of significant obstacles, not the least being the relatives who mocked them and told my father he was a bum and should get a job instead of going to school. There are five of us in my family of origin, and Saturday's degree brings the total number of Graduate Degrees to eight. You cannot imagine how I feel about this. Graduation, in my family, is hardly less sacramental than marriage. And every graduation is celebrated not only as itself, but recalls and celebrates every other graduation, not only in our family, but of every person for whom a degree was not a walk-through on a carpet of money. A degree implies that you have stuck with it, that you have cleared hurdles, that you have persevered in the face of adversity. With a degree, you can say to yourself, "I set out to do this, I did it, and I should therefore be able to do the next thing, too." Do not get me wrong - there are many, many people out there who have not got a piece of sheepskin, but are tremendous successes at what they do, are more informed about the world than I am, are better able to navigate our crazy society. A degree does not promise that you will succeed at anything, and not having a degree certainly does not promise that you won't. But wanting a degree, going after it, hunting it down, bagging it, and bringing it home to hang over the fireplace if you so desire - well, that is one of the ways you can get to where you want to be by applying your own efforts and sacrifices to a goal, and it is probably the way my family understands best. I get all teary at graduations. I have trouble driving to them - the first time this brother stood up in a cap and gown I drove over the George Washington Bridge on the way from - well, New Jersey, to, still, New Jersey. I'd lived 13 miles from that bridge a good part of my life and certainly knew the roads - I was just that crazed with joy. For the next brother I took the train. But for both brothers, an for my father, and even for myself, I had Marvelous Hats. (I graduated with a degree in Medieval studies wearing a Henin) The hat for this one is off-white, transparent, and almost 2 feet across the brim. Your happinesses below. 9 Read . Chat . Edit Entry . Save

My Patronus [May 07, 2008 @ 10:41am] spindlewand I can hear Weird Al Yankovic warming up every time I say that... What Form Would Your Patronus Take? (With 10 Excellent Results & Pictures) Your Patronus would be an Eagle! Take this quiz! Quizilla | Join | Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code They are also scavengers, but we don't have to say that too loudly. So I think Celie gets an eagle. Poor Elizabeth - Muggle - gets none. 9 Read . Chat . Edit Entry . Save

New Fandoms Added [May 05, 2008 @ 12:48pm] pidirectory [beautifulfic] [ mood | happy ] Hello everyone, This is just to let you know that we have now added the following fandoms to the beta reader listing: Beyblade, CSI: Las Vegas, Final Fantasy VII, Fullmetal Alchemist, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pokemon, Rurouni Kenshin, Stargate: SG1, Star Wars, Teen Titans, Twilight and Yu Yu Hakusho. You can add beta profiles for any of these fandoms by logging into the site and going to your account, before selecting the "Add a Profile" link. Hopefully I have isolated all the major ships. However, if there's a ship in any of these fandoms that's not on the list or any character names spelled incorrectly then please let me know, and I'll get straight on it. Also the site should be fully functioning and operational. If you find any bugs or glitches then pelase let me know, with the error message, and we'll set to repairing it. Thank you, Asli xxx 5 Read . Chat . Edit Entry . Save

you certainly have a way with people [May 04, 2008 @ 2:45pm] moving_walkway [ mood | irritated ] Note to subconcious self: stop having dreams about Clarisse being pregnant. For that matter, don't have dreams about Shaylagh being pregnant either, especially if it's suggested that Mitchell's the father. I have just encountered what should be labelled the most difficult boss in "Final Fantasy X" (at least up until this point; the final bosses are probably going to be just as hard or harder). It's also the most strategic boss I've ever encountered, because you have to position your party members so the boss's attacks only target one or none of your characters, and if a character is alive on a flashing platform you've got to move him or her before the boss attacks said platform, instantly killing the character. And meanwhile, you've got to actually attack the boss, and just when things start to get easy the boss switches direction and you've got to revive previously KO'd characters while keeping the rest of your party healed as well, and the boss keeps switching direction and counterattacking and soon you've just got one character (for me it always happens to be Auron) who's under Berserk status so he and the boss have counterattack wars and of course you end up losing because you've got fewer hitpoints. And then it's all GAME OVER and I'm all, "Defeating Sin: You're doing it wrong."  1 Read . Chat . Edit Entry . Save

I owe you guys a Nice Report! [May 03, 2008 @ 10:33pm] spindlewand This past week... I got to spend more time with my parents, cause they came on Wednesday and stayed over to Thursday, so we could bring the House Elf in for an evaluation. The Elf only escaped about four times in teh building where he was evaluated, and we caught him pretty easily every time. And one of the staff brought him back when he escaped at Gym/Swim and ran all the way from the Gym to the lobby And my husband got him when he ran down the driveway and started beating it towards the corner on the sidewalk Are we seeing a pattern here?  The House Elf has an independant side. Well, the neighbors had their fence put up this week, which means the fourth side of our yard is now enclosed.  Except for the driveway, there is building or fence between every bit of the yard and the outside world.  So we are looking into gates for the driveway.  I want this gate so badly that I am willing to pay to have it installed, and this from a person who generally feels "Why should I pay the doctor?  I can operate on my own brain.  They keep you awake anyway, I may as well be doing something. " So the neighbor's fence is a really really good thing! I finished my Wee Tiny Sock and mailed it off, and I found out today my upstream has mailed to me. Spottedcat got some icky, kelp-like stuff out of the washer.  I was only kidding when I said it was the bat, Spottedcat!  I think it was probably Dementor remains.  Getting rid of the last of it should definately improve your mood!  I also very generously told her how to keep stray cats from peeing in her washer.  Not that they were, but you never know, with stray cats.  Ah, you are all so lucky to have me! Laura found a terrific essay to help her with her exam prep! One of Andrea's kids won an award at school! VV's Moving for a really great reason! Slian has posted wedding details! Gina's baby rolled over!!!! Grace's Master Blocker had a birthday!  I didn't post it on your blog, Grace, but I hope Tommo had a TERRIFIC day! I may get into Gryffindor for the Sock Kit Swap after all.  I had to list two choices - I picked Gryffindor, Natch, and Slytherin - no offense, but they were already predicting that Ravenclaw would fill first, and I can't deal with bumblee colors.  So the only house open when my application went in?  You guessed it!  But if they get 20 Hufflepuffs they will reopen Gryffindor, Slytherin and Ravenclaw, and they are up to 16 already so there is hope! I finished one sock for Braveheart today.  It is from the lovely green superwash Alpaca Audrey sent me, and he seems to like it but is reserving excitement for when he gets a full pair.  I have to cast on for the other tonight. Braveheart has been working on using the alphabet on his communication device. The House Elf has been learning the alphabet from a video. We are listening to Eragon on CD. I've been reading some good drabbles in LOGE Your niceness NOW!  Don't make me come after you... 5 Read . Chat . Edit Entry . Save

for you i'd bleed myself dry [May 02, 2008 @ 3:38pm] moving_walkway [ mood | giddy ] ( Lost prattle. cut for episode 4x10 spoilers ) ' So in a bit of creepiness, we learned in lunch today that Shaylagh's stalker is Lizzie's neighbor... and apparently he stalks her too. Why is the world filled with this creepiness? And then of course there was geometry, in which we discussed how there was apparently a psycho woman who lived near Mrs. Chadwick who lures fragile men and kills them. It was rather frightening. I'm content staying away from all of this sketchiness, thanks. 1 Read . Chat . Edit Entry . Save

Writing meme stolded from Sandy [May 01, 2008 @ 9:15pm] spindlewand  What's the last thing you wrote? Out, actually?  My last post.  In my head?  Moody has jsut caught Snape upchucking in his garden. Was it any good? Well, I think  the post was good, but it did not get much response, so maybe I am wrong.  And I like the plot twist, but I may not be the best judge. What's the first thing you ever wrote that you still have? This may depend somewhat on what my parents pitched when they got the dumpster and cleaned out the basement.  I am pretty sure I have the first part of the novel I was writing in seventh grade, though.  Write poetry? I have.  Some even recently.  Not much in the past 20 years though. Angsty poetry? If you worite a poem about going insane and getting locked up and in the poem you actually prefer it that way, is that angsty? Most fun character you ever wrote? For me or my readers?  And either way I have no idea. Oh - maybe the kept man from the third NaNo novel. Most annoying character you ever wrote? To write, or as a result?  Possibly the woman from my second NaNo. Best plot you ever wrote? We have yet to ascertain if I have ever written ANY plot.  So maybe that novel from seventh grade, in which, at least, things did happen.  Coolest plot twist you ever wrote? When I had the wives of the guys who ran the Boston Tea Party get miffed their husbands were partying without them and had them invite the British officers to a coffee party, thereby making the BTP all that much easier?  I was in fourth grade. How often do you get writer's block? I don't get this.  Sometimes I just can't write, or shower, or do anything... How do you fix it? I have no idea.  Sometimes it resolves itself.  I hadn't written for I have no idea when I did my first NaNo, so maybe that. Do you type or write by hand? At this point mostly type. Do you save everything you write. Pretty much, yes. Do you ever go back to an old idea long after you abandoned it? Depends on what you consider long, and what you consider abandoned. What's your favorite thing that you've written? Maybe Staring at the Wall.  What's everyone else's favorite thing that you've written? Well, very few people read anything I write.  I am really not sure.  There are two kids out there somewhere who like Muggle Matters so far... Do you ever show people your work? Well, yeah, whoever wants to read it on MNFF, mostly.  And I wrote a book for my son, which I read to him. Who's your favorite constructive critic? Probably Andrea.  She has no problem telling me what she doesn't think works. However, I pretty much adore anyone who will read any of it. Did you ever write a novel? Yes, my first Nano.  The next two were 50,000 words but not done yet. Have you ever written fantasy, sci-fi, or horror? Eh, depends what you consider HP fanfic, I guess, if I've written fantasy.   No sci-fi, no horror, although I do have a really horrible world I can use... Ever written romance or teen angsty drama? Yes.  I have a lot more of Muggle Matters and Muggling along than is up yet. What's one genre you have never written, and probably never will? Political Analysis?  Sex therapy?  A popular guide to Nuclear Fission?  I will probably never wirte a graphic novel. How many writing projects are you working on right now? One, with a prequel and sequel, mostly. Do you want to write for a living? I woiuld like people to read what I write.  I wouldn't mind getting paid for it. Have you ever written something for a magazine or newspaper? Leter to the editor got published once. Have you ever won an award for your writing? Not outside our challenges. Ever written something in script or play format? Yes, back in fourth grade. What is your favorite word? Feahsceaftig.  You can't use it too often, though.  Do you ever write based on yourself? All the time. Which is possibly why I do not have a wider readership. Which of your characters most resembles you? Mother in my first NaNovel. Where do you get ideas for your characters? I cast people or characters I know and then they evolve. Do you ever write based on your dreams? I have tried once, but most of my dreams are fellini-esque and would not make good narrative. Do you prefer happy endings, sad endings, or cliff-hangers? I prefer happy endings, but they should make sense.  RL has enough misery for anyone. Have you ever written anything based on an artwork you've seen? No Are you concerned with spelling and grammar as you write? Somewhat Ever write something entirely in chatspeak? Nope.  Not possible.  I'm working on parseltongue, though, as that seems to me more accessible. Does music help you write? What helps me write is being left the hell alone, which is hard to come by. Are people surprised and confused when they find out you write well? I was an English teacher, so basic competence is expected.  Very few people can be arsed to read what I write, so how would they find out if I do write well, though???   5 Read . Chat . Edit Entry . Save

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