tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:59364eruthroseruthroseruthros2010-10-30T16:23:47Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:59364:303808some links2010-10-30T16:13:13Z2010-10-30T16:23:47Zpublic91. You guys, <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://icepixie.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://icepixie.livejournal.com/'><b>icepixie</b></a></span> wrote <a href="http://icepixie.livejournal.com/730876.html">The Heart's Compass</a>, the Babylon 5 Delenn/Ivanova AU of my <em>dreams</em>, seriously, could I have had this show instead? It's a little awkward in places but, I mean, so was the show. And listen, it is a story where Delenn falls for Ivanova instead of Sheridan, early in the series, and it makes my heart happy. <br /><br /><span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://icepixie.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://icepixie.livejournal.com/'><b>icepixie</b></a></span> also wrote a a post-Sleeping in Light Ivanova/Delenn story that I haven't read yet (<a href="http://icepixie.livejournal.com/740403.html">Later Stars of Dawn</a>), which added to the Ivanova/Delenn story that <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://thingswithwings.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://thingswithwings.dreamwidth.org/'><b>thingswithwings</b></a></span> wrote for my birthday one year (<a href="http://thingswithwings.livejournal.com/58585.html">Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C Major</a>, Garibaldi/Franklin, Lennier/Vir, Ivanova/Delenn, postseries) makes <em>three</em> Ivanova/Delenn stories in the last few years. It is a small-fandom rare-pairing embarrassment of riches!<br /><br />(Especially since there are also a few drabbles and short vignettes over at the AO3, though most of them are about unrequited love.)<br /><br />2. Don't know what to be this Halloween? Check out <a href="http://wtfshouldibeforhalloween.com/">wtf should I be for Halloween</a>, which contains as many costume ideas as there are articles on wikipedia. And puts "<a href="http://cleolinda.dreamwidth.org/867379.html">sexy</a>" in front of all of them.<br /><br />Since it's completely randomized, there are some really great options. This year I plan on going as a Sexy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Reliance_Water_Aerodrome">Fort Reliance Water Aerodrome</a>, for example. (There's also the potential for fail, because of course there are many pages on wikipedia that really shouldn't be indexed with "sexy" in front of them; I didn't encounter anything faily when I clicked through, but that doesn't mean it can't happen.)<br /><br />3. I frequently encounter images on tumblr that are unattributed or dewatermarked, and sometimes that makes me really sad -- I don't know if that photographer has a ton more pretty image, or what the original context was, or anything. But if I see something really great and I really really want to know if there's more by the same photographer, I look for the picture over at <a href="http://www.tineye.com/">TinEye</a>, a reverse image search engine. Sometimes it even works! Anyway this is a link to TinEye, which I think I was first linked to three years ago when their image index was even smaller; now I do sometimes have some success with them.<br /><br />4. The US Department of Justice recently filed a brief that said that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/business/30drug.html?_r=5&hp">genes shouldn't be patentable</a>, which is ... kind of amazing. <br /><br />5. Apparently TVTropes is going to have to take down, move, rename, or mark as NSFW a lot of their sex and sexuality-related content because google ads noticed that <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=9lvm2r0f3zho5qst6yux72it&page=2#47">ads are running on pages with mature content</a>. And they might have to make <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=9lvm2r0f3zho5qst6yux72it&page=18#446">registration mandatory</a> to view sex/kink/fetish tropes, and they are planning to make registration mandatory for editing pages. I don't hang out there or anything, but it still makes me sad -- many of those pages are very useful for vidding/iconing/etc. Or for <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://kink-bingo.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://kink-bingo.dreamwidth.org/'><b>kink_bingo</b></a></span>, where I have often used the TV Tropes pages for tentacles to find pictures or examples or video of canonical tentacles.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=eruthros&ditemid=303808" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:59364:282364more random recs!2010-01-01T07:19:58Z2010-01-01T07:19:58Zpublic1Man, I have totally lost my System from previous years. These are still from all over the place! I haven't even finished reading in some of these categories! Please send help, or possibly a spreadsheet.<br /><br />Recs in <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://eruthros.dreamwidth.org/282364.html#cutid1">Babylon 5, the Cthulhu Mythos, Dorothy Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey series, Fairy Tales - The Ugly Duckling, Jonathon Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Ursula K Le Guin - Earthsea series, Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler, Lois McMaster Bujold - Chalionverse, Terry Pratchett - Discworld</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=eruthros&ditemid=282364" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments