ileliberte

Some really cool stuff has come out of the ronon_love challenge. I haven't read through all of them, but of the ones I did, these stood out:

Missing Breath by perspi. Teyla helped make a home for Ronon, once. In the face of loss and grief, Ronon returns the favor.
LOVED this. The team as a team, excellent Ronon-Teyla friendship, an absolutely stunning Teyla and most of all, a truly interesting plot. Go read and leave gushing comments please.

More Gamblers Than Avarice by tielan, written for me! Lovely piece of Ronon-Teyla friendship, set after (and around) events in "The Return" part 1. A really nice exploration of both Ronon and Teyla and life in the Pegasus galaxy. Very nice atmosphere as well.

Dum Vita est by miss_porcupine. The opposite of running is not stillness. It's falling.
Ronon in Atlantis, right after he gets there. Amazing, heartbreaking, and very very real.

The Long Winter by pentapus. A very cool idea and interesting shading. The wolves are excellent.

In case you haven't yet reached saturation level with the posts pimping out this comm, here's one more:

If you're an artist, go join, if you just love fanart, go watch!

A somewhat belated but very heartfelt thank you to all of you who left me comments on the testimonials meme. It's very kind of all of you to humor me :)

MY COMPUTER IS BACK!!!!!!!! *hugs to chest and vows to never let go again*
Also, Apple paid for all of it, yes! I now have a new display, new super drive and new logic board along with all the data that was already on my computer since they didn't touch the hard drive, meaning no reloading every single damn thing again.

Oh drawing with a tablet on my computer, how I have missed you! Remaining parts of the SPN meme, the Ronon love picture and gazillion other things that I need to get done, here I come!

Hello! I'm back! Did you miss me? (Not talking to those of you who didn't even realize I was gone, humph) Things what I wish to now share:

• I wish I could transplant my parents and friends over to the US so I could live here while simultaneously not having to miss them. Why must you all be so stubborn and have your own lives dammit?
• Hot new actor I saw on tv in India looked familiar because he was the cute young child star in an older movie I had watched many many times. Was saved from feeling like a pervert by the discovery that he was born in the same year I was.
• Indian ads are, for the most part, really rather well done.
• Hindi movies, when they are not brilliant and touching and amazing, can be really really embarrassing. Bengali movies that copy bad Hindi movies are, not surprisingly, even more cringeworthy.
• Will do a gushing movie review thing later, but for now, know that you should watch Chak De!. Right now.
• I really missed my tablet *squishes poor neglected tablet*
• I need to find someone who will cook me fish every day. Any takers?
• Sleep is GOOD.

Things what people need to do:

• Read Eat your Heart Out, Peggy Fleming by miss_porcupine and leave gushing feedback (which I did not. Unless correcting a typo counts? Erm). Because there's adventure and injuries and crises and lots of other excellent plurals. And apart from the usual suspects, a wonderful Cadman.
• Please stop using girly, girlish or girl over and over in spn/rpf stories to describe actions that you think are beneath them. At least it's canonical when it's actually Dean's voice doing it, but when it's authorial interjection, it's just annoying. Seriously, it's like it's in the invisible fannish rulebook for stories in that fandom the way almost every story has to mention it at least once.
• Forgive me for not replying to all of the utterly lovely feedback I got for the last few things I did.
• Recommend SPN and SGA stories that were posted in the last few weeks, and that you think I should read before I do absolutely anything else.

I can haz bulletpoints:
• Went to New York with my sister and my brother-in-law and left the back window open on his car, which was parked near a library in New Jersey. Fretted intermittently through most of the trip but thankfully came back to intact, albeit rather frosty car.
• Wondered how New Yorkers resist throwing screaming fits at the hordes of gawking tourists that descend there at this time of year. To lessen my touristyness I did not take my camera and had my sister look up all the maps. :D
• Lots and lots of lovely comments that I have yet to answer because, um, a mix of no time and incompetent time management? But ♥ for all the lovely things said, one of my favorite things when on the computer is to check my lj email and be ecstatic when I see a comment notification.
• Feeling vaguely punch drunk from very little sleep. I think I suffer from inertia of awakeness, even when my eyelids are sort of drooping, I still can't get up off the chair.
• I don't really have a lot to say, but itemizing my lj post seems funny enough for me to go on anyway. I am easily amused.
• Oh! Ok, fic recommendation Disasters, Narrowly Averted by mahoni. Adorable Rodney/Katie interaction and my favoritest part, Teyla getting frustrated by a Rubik's cube. *melts*
• HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

So if I were to, hypothetically, make a mission report through photographic evidence etc, what might the mission involve? No aliens made them do it scenarios please, and maybe less of people growing wings or turning into the other gender, but more coming across something interesting/wild/wacky/really freaking weird. No promises about actual completion, but am thinking about it and some suggestions might be inspiring.

I think I am suffering from astridv envy, her original alien creatures are awesome and I wish I could think these up. Go check out this awesome picture for the flashfic 'ways to die' challenge (fear not, only multiple MALPs die). All the scenarios are interesting and her original wacky beasts are wonderful, like in this (non-SGA but well worth seeing) post.

Die Verwandlung, a ficlet set during Conversion by miss_porcupine. Her Lorne and Sheppard interaction is, as always, an absolute joy. Heavy but not melodramatic. (The title is also quite apt as I discovered after I googled it :D)

Random musings on a Friday afternoon:
Dear author, if you write "cackling electricity" when trying to convey the dynamic presence of your character, I think it conveys a rather less imposing image than you were possibly aiming for. Leaving aside, for the moment, the tired cliche that term is even when spelled properly, that missing r makes a world of difference.

Dear self, the summary is rather frightening, why must you be lured into obviously bad stories just because there is a promise of some angst with a happy ending? Sucker.

Dear flist, ltlj has updated her space pirates story, please go and read because it is great. And has Zoe in it. Also all the usual suspects plus Carter. Is there any doubt why I love her so much? (ltlj that is, not Carter (though I love her too.))

Dear flist, I address you once again to ask for icon prompts. I will be smart this time and only ask for four. SPN/SGA, gennishly inclined, my favorite characters preferred, you know the drill. Icons will be shareable once I finish them, so please keep that in mind too.

Things that I have thought of today:
Dijon mustard does wonders for a ham and lettuce sandwich, but if too ambitiously applied, can remind the eater of that time when she first ate sushi and shoved a whole bunch of the interesting looking green paste in her mouth. OUCH.

It is sad that fan art cannot be surreptitiously done in between making webpages at work.

Coming to work early means that I can go home early. Really.

I kind of want to write fic but only having random snippets of dialogue floating in my head without any plot or unifying structure does not seem to be enough. Which is sad.

chowburger has a very interesting variety of styles in his/her art (art comm is drawburger). Not all of them work for me, but some of them really do and the creativity is always admirable. Not a very prolific poster from what I can see and very multi-fandom, but good art is good art no matter who's in it (hee, Dr. Who features prominently). I especially adore this post.

Everyone's kinda quiet today. You, dear reader, can be the one to change that. My aim id is ileliberte.

OMG whole morning without internet, don't ever leave me again intertubes *clutches* Yes, I'm slightly pathetic, what of it?

So this is possibly a pointless rec since everyone in SGA watching my journal is most definitely watching hers as well, but here goes anyway, John and Teyla in Formal Wear. The hotness of Teyla here is immeasurable, really. John looks good, if slightly...long, but oh god, Teyla ♥ The folds of the dress, the fall of the skirt, her pose, her shoes! So very very hot. And ok, it says I betaed it but that was in a rather nascent stage so all the changes were a lovely surprise. Mmmm.

I have an awesome idea for the last Teyla prompt for the choc_fic challenge (which is still open for participation), except that it's the one due last and I have way more to do before that. Why must my brain not work in a sequential manner?

So that this whole thing is not just me blathering on, here, have a link to this very creepy but oh so true video called Facebook Stalker set to the tune of Enrique Iglesias' Hero.