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It's a chat for tonight's episode of Supernatural for West Coasters -- which means it's geared for people starting at 9 PM PST -- but anyone who has already watched the episode and don't spoil or people who don't care about spoilers are welcome, too.

"The diet industry has set up millions of Americans to fail," Vandoske says. "Fortunately you can never fail in yoga, which emphasizes accepting your body as it is."

He will be born in a city associated with lost angels, but it will be dark angels who force him and his mother to flee to the mirror in the sky, where shoes move without feet and the emerald circle is seen in the morning light.

I am beyond pissed with all the people who keep saying that there's such a thing as "female-friendly programming". Even though I had no interest in seeing it, I would much rather see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen than My Sister's Keeper (or Iron Man than Sex in the City, like last year).

"Privilege" is a term used to talk about someone who is free from the difficulties that not having privilege entails. This means being less likely to be pulled over because of the color of your skin, attacked for dressing what society perceives to be the opposite of your biological gender, banned from marrying the partner of your choice, and mocked for having an impairment that affects your speech. "Privilege" means the absence of difficulties directed toward "different" members of society.

• I'll be doing a digest at some point. I still like doing them, but @gnfeeds pretty much eliminates the need for it for Twitter users. Plus, the Twitter automatically links from multiple sites, which saves me the trouble. Anyone who doesn't mind me dragging my feet a little will still see digests here for the foreseeable future, so no worries there.


• Posting meta on here isn't really working for me. My LJ just seems like the more appropriate place for it. I still need to figure out a use for my Dreamwidth besides backing up my fanfic on firmament, though; it's driving me nuts to just have this sitting here, particularly when I like it so much. Suggestions are welcome.


• As far as fic goes, there should be at least one story this month, if I get off my bum and write. It probably won't be much, since I have a story due August 1st, but I'll try to finish something.

I heard about MJ's demise just after I woke up, and I've been in a state of shock ever since. It's not because I had any particular fondness for him, although I've always enjoyed his music. It's just jarring when a pop culture icon who has been a part of my life for the entirety of it passes away.

Another commercial break, and Kirk gives a log entry that amounts to "SCHWING". Spock shrugs in a way that implies a similar thought as the women leave Kirk's quarters. Kirk tells "Walsh" that he's undergoing legal action and kicks him out with a smirk of his own. We go to the bridge, where Spock is commanding, and Not Chekov (I don't remember his name) is swooning. Sulu snaps his fingers and tells him they're back on duty. Hmm, Sulu isn't affected by the women? I wonder why.

So I can't say I've been a die-hard fan, but I am connecting with a part of my childhood that I was ignoring for a while. I just wish it hadn't been under these circumstances.

I have nothing too interesting to talk about right now...what I will do is link a couple of fanfics that I posted.

This isn't so much like my normal book roundups. I read a couple of different books, but eight out of ten of the books in this list were written by Jo Rowling. This marks the second time I've read the entirety of the Harry Potter series, and the first time I've done it knowing what happens in Deathly Hallows and after the publication of The Tales of Beedle the Bard.

I got to see the episode yesterday, which was great, but we have to wait until a week from Sunday for another episode. Stupid hiatus. (And apparently, I forgot to write about last week's episode. Oops.)

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amadi

I don't think most people read fic in order to be emotionally challenged. I think we read for fun, for excitement (perhaps moreso with people reading "adult" fic), for comfort and for relaxation.

...most people don't engage fic for the purpose of being emotionally challenged, especially in a provocative way.

I just made some new friends through various means, and some of them have been kind enough to do extensive intro posts. After reading these posts, it occurred to me that there's a lot more I could say about myself. I have the general intro that covers most of the basics, but I think I'm going to do a series of posts on a bunch of different topics to get into my life more.

I haven't done much in the way of drawing for a while. The most I usually do is draw birthday cards for my friends and family (which are surprisingly popular, considering my lack of talent). But I have a DeviantART, and there's a meme for the Star Trek reboot floating around, so I thought I'd give it a go.

If you want a Tarot card read, leave a comment with a number 1-10 and with a question. The question can pertain to any of these categories: Romance, home, travel, work/career, emotional state, family, the physical body, finances, friends, anxiety, inheritance, fortune, etc.

such_heights

I think it's a good measure of how important fiction is to society; fiction fuels imagination, and imagination fuels design and innovation. We'd probably have a lot of this stuff even without fiction, but what would things look like if we didn't have Jules Verne and Star Trek? And would it have taken longer?

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Usually, I play Tetris Friends until my eyelids are falling closed on their own, but tonight, I was randomly browsing Twitter. A couple people mentioned that they thought the swine flu was mutating, I think. (The tweets were in French, and I'm not very good with it.) There's nothing in the major media, so it sounds like people trying to start crap. I'm not worried.

Besides the whole supernatural element, the main reason I like this show is because we've gotten to know the characters of the town so well, so seeing more of their lives in general should be interesting.

Walking around the park is one of the best parts of a game. This isn't like a movie or a play, where quiet and stillness is encouraged; there's all kinds of places to see in a ballpark. This stadium has a playground for kids, a grassy area with cheaper tickets, and a Coors Light Party Zone or something (which is just a bunch of benches, but is pretty nifty nonetheless).

I looked at the DVDs stacked around the living room while I was putting away the cords and thought, "Hmm, I need to put some of these away." ...I finished by taking every single DVD in the living room off the shelves, grouping them by genre, and putting them back on the shelves according to how much I thought the people in my family would watch them. And there are hundreds of them, too.

I read a lot online in the course of the day, most of which I forget by the time I finish my daily rounds. One of my favorite sources is cleolinda, who is pretty good about entertainment linkspams. That's also why I don't really share my links; I feel like it's already been done. But that's sort of the point of the Internet: spreading links around, even when other people have posted them. So! Have some links.

Here's a question: does anyone know of any good self-instructional guitar sites? My sister gave me an electric/acoustic a little while back, and I love it, but I suck at tuning and I suck even more at chording.

My laptop is named after Susan Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia, my iPod shuffle is named after Giselle from Enchanted, and my broken iPod Nano is named after Castiel from Supernatural.

The reason I'm up at three in the morning is because I feel a little too blah to sleep. After my impromptu nap, I took cold medicine and blunted the worse of the soreness and nasal explosions, but I still feel...off. You know how it is when you don't have the energy to do anything productive, but you're annoyed enough by being sick that you can't sleep either? That's where I am.

It's probably because I went to a lot of weddings over the course of a last year, but I got a lot of questions regarding my romantic life and future plans for a family. I basically said "oh, nothing right now", but the truth of the matter is that I don't really want much. A partner would be nice, but I don't need to be married, and I don't want kids.

I can't get over how young they all look! I may have been raised on the original series, but I watched the movies more than anything, and they were all well into middle-age by that point. And my old-school crush on Leonard Nimoy's coming back. What a babe (even in that ridiculous gold sweater).