Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Ari (creature of dust, child of God)'s LiveJournal:

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Friday, January 10th, 2020
11:59 pm	fic index: index of indices +Buffyverse index. +Firefly index. +RPF index +Stargate: SG-1 index. +Stargate: Atlantis index. +Miscellaneous fandoms index. (20 modest proposals | eat a baby)
Sunday, April 8th, 2012
4:14 pm	joy for easter day 1. Christ is risen. Also at DW: http://wisdomeagle.dreamwidth.org/1115931.html. Comment here, or join the conversation there, where there is/are comment(s). Current Mood: all the tired (2 modest proposals | eat a baby)
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
5:44 pm	... memory lapse, what? I'm going back through old lgbt/queer_fest prompt posts so I'll have collected in one place all the prompts I've made over the years for purposes of 1) Recycling them myself 2) Being secretly pleased when other people recycle them. Found this in the 2010 prompt post: Savage Lovecast, Tech-Savvy Youth, Screening thousands of calls, talking incessantly of sex, watching Dan eat inappropriate numbers of cookies -- a year in the life of the Youth as they figure out their own romantic and sexual lives, aided and abetted by their co-workers and boss. I had zero recollection of this when I did my Yuletide sign up last year. Huh. Apparently I didn't invent that fandom last fall; I invented it 2 years ago. (AFAIK, no one's actually taken me up on the idea, though.) Also at DW: http://wisdomeagle.dreamwidth.org/1106187.html. Comment here, or join the conversation there, where there is/are comment(s). (1 modest proposal | eat a baby)
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
12:57 pm	(it's not Lent yet, but the next time I look at the internets it will be:) ( hidden for Lent ) I'm also toying with doing a profanity jar. I'm not going to share the last-minute cussing, I think. :)P Also at DW: http://wisdomeagle.dreamwidth.org/1102676.html. Comment here, or join the conversation there, where there is/are comment(s). (4 modest proposals | eat a baby)
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
2:52 pm	a little early I changed my LJ/DW display name since I'm afraid I'll forget to do it on Tuesday. Meanwhile, have another ( hidden for Lent ) while you still can. :) Also at DW: http://wisdomeagle.dreamwidth.org/1102313.html. Comment here, or join the conversation there, where there is/are comment(s). (7 modest proposals | eat a baby)
Monday, January 16th, 2012
5:03 pm	[fic repost] "The World Set To Rights" (Emily Byrd Starr/Perry Miller) Title: The World Set to Rights Fandom: Emily of New Moon series Featured Pairing: Emily Byrd Starr/Perry Miller Rating: Teen Disclaimer: No longer in copyright. Notes: Written for mardia in yuletide 2011. Originally posted here. Summary: Perry Miller and Emily Byrd Starr, née Douglas Starr, do what they do best (use words, words, words, to avoid an uncomfortable truth.) Additional Ao3 tags: Trans Character, Engagement, Family Wordcount: 1840 ( She had been named Douglas, for her father ) Also at DW: http://wisdomeagle.dreamwidth.org/1093579.html. Comment here, or join the conversation there, where there is/are comment(s). (eat a baby)
4:43 pm	[ficrepost] "Emily of Blair Water (variations for Sax and Strings)" (Emily Byrd Starr et al) Title: "Emily of Blair Water (Variations for Sax and Strings)" Fandom: Emily of New Moon series [fusion with Some Like It Hot] Featured Characters: Emily Byrd Starr, boy!Ilse Burnley, girl!Teddy Kent Featured Relationships, Emily & Ilse (Elias), Emily & Teddy, various romantic subtexts, all based on the canons in question Rating: Teen Spoilers/Timeline: AU of the books, but versions of the events of Emily Climbs have happened. AU of the movie, but basically covers all of it. Disclaimer: Transformative work not created for profit. Notes: Written for mardia in yuletide 2011. Originally posted here Summary: When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the country in an all female band... Additional Ao3 tags: Trans Character, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Alternate Universe - Fusion, Friendship, Alternate Universe - Power Swap, Musicians Wordcount: 5362 ( Blair Water, a quiet, provincial town near the Canadian shore, was the last place where one would expect to witness violence of any kind ) Also at DW: http://wisdomeagle.dreamwidth.org/1093311.html. Comment here, or join the conversation there, where there is/are comment(s). (eat a baby)
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
2:42 pm	[meme] oh dear Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012. Via vassilissa "The problem of the authority of Scripture is part of the wider crisis of authority in modern Western culture." This is why I will never, ever get laid, isn't it? (The romance novel is probably equidistant and vaguely more satisfying: "We came down here to take out a boat, but I have always had an aversion to being a wallflower." Although oddly specific.) (15 modest proposals | eat a baby)
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
5:08 pm	Yuletide guessing post I have 2 fics in the archive. I don't know if you remember what my fiction writing even looks like, but I think I've said enough meta-wise about them that if you should stumble upon them, you'd realize they're mine. I know at least one of you has read at least one of them. Guess a fic, win a fabulous prize? (i.e., I will add your prompts unto the enormous backlog.) I did indeed remember to screen comments. :) (eat a baby)
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
6:43 pm	[dear author] Yuletide 2011 Dear Yuletide author, [Fandoms are Jossverse RPF, Savage Love RPF, Baby-Sitters Club - Ann M Martin, and Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot. The rest is behind a cut because it is so ridiculously long I don't even.] ( this is the cut tag ) In conclusion, THANK YOU for writing a story for me. I know I will love it. ~Ari (7 modest proposals | eat a baby)
9:17 am	merry Yuletide! I wrote 0 treats, but I had a lovely lovely lovely Christmas Eve service and then woke up this morning to lovely lovely lovely Stacey/Charlotte fic for Yuletide. (Well, first I woke up to open the physical gift that I got from Mrs. S, but then an hour later I got to come here and unwrap "Your Words in My Memory." YAY! And in half an hour I get to leave for church again. :) (eat a baby)
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
3:42 pm	[yuletide] Yuletide Madness has begun! Huzzah! I already had uploaded 2 stories. Inorite? I haven't published any fanfic in two years, since Yuletide 2009. But this Yuletide will change all that. I will ctrl-f gleefully though the list and somehow find the time to write and the internets access to upload. And Starbucks opens tomorrow at 8:30. I... will probably be here (as that's where I am now), because presents can, occasionally, get me out of bed. Will gleee! sometime in the next couple of hours, before Starbucks closes, then head home to write and make myself lovely(ier than usual) for Christmas Eve service. :) (eat a baby)
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
7:09 pm	[meme] I always remind people of via likeadeuce, modified a bit: When you think of me, what is the first thing that pops into your mind related to me in (any or all of) the following categories: TV Show: Movie: Book: Character: Ship: Thespian: Writer: Word or phrase (fannish): Color: Food: Drink: Icon: Website/community: Other LJ or DW user: Word of phrase (mundane): (14 modest proposals | eat a baby)
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
6:49 pm	happy new year's eve Up to "The Eye" in my SGA rewatch. It was lovely. So lovely! if this doesn't work -- it will -- I know, but if it doesn't -- it will -- in the unlikely event that it doesn't -- -- Rodney! Oh, TP ♥ (eat a baby)
Friday, November 25th, 2011
7:57 pm	three things 1. So I did indeed check out one of the other sources that my Yuletide recipient requested, and I was quite charmed. Unfortunately, of all the possible stories for that fandom or for the fandom we matched on, the ones that are pinging me hardest are absurd crossover-fusions between the two fandoms that are superficially chronologically compatible, are SO ABSURDLY DIFFERENT IN TONE that crossover-fusions would be... okay, they would be lovely and delightful, and I am absolutely in love with a particular way this could work and have started writing it, and this is why my brain shouldn't be allowed out in public. 2. I broke Rule #1 and read the comments on some trans-related blog posts (not noting which ones, because I know the first thing I would do would be click the link and read the comments, and I don't want to inflict that on anyone else), and now I feel vaguely ill. (DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS, SELF. 3. Meanwhile it's not often that you get two Fridays in one week, but this week is a happy exception (that's my positive spin on having to work today.) (eat a baby)
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
2:40 pm	every year, my tastes are not your tastes (and that is ok) oh dear. Skimming Yuletide letters and the "I want my men to be MEN! MANLY MEN! Not teenage girls!" makes me want to go, "I want my teenage girls to be GIRLS! Teenage girls! Not manly men." But I would be 100% okay with trans fic for my teenage girls, so it would be a lie. (Well, sort of. I don't think Tina Hakim Baba will ever be a ~manly man~, which doesn't mean Tina will never be a man. Maybe I will say it: TEENAGE GIRLS! I want my teenage girls to be girly girls. Even if they are boys.) (Of course, I am also okay with my men acting like teenage girls, see also Joss Whedon's pink backpack.) (8 modest proposals | eat a baby)
2:17 pm	[yuletide] There are offers other than mine in all my fandoms! \o/ Thank you, mystery RPF authors, whoever you are. :) (eat a baby)
Friday, November 18th, 2011
8:27 pm	[Yuletide] signed up! I did end up requesting BSC, Princess Diaries, Jossverse PRF, and Savage Love RPF. I made 21 offers, 5 limited (3 to offer only particular pairings, 1 because I'm not caught up on canon, and 1 because I have a dislike for certain characters), 16 any. I aimed for a conservative offer, and for me, this is it. Surprise: I really, really like princesses, girls, and fiction written for people under the age of 20. I left what I've written of my Dear Author letter at the office, so right now it's just blank, but I'll work on updating it with All The Things over the weekend (and decide whether it's really worth going into work over the weekend just to email myself All The Thoughts on Tech-Savvy At-Risk Youth...) ++ Hilarious Cow Clicker update: I posted the link to the NPR story to Facebook, and a few minutes later Dad emailed me a link to the story saying he thought I'd be interested in it. Then a few minutes after that he apologized, saying he'd forgotten that he'd gotten the link from me in the first place. :) He was right, I was interested! (eat a baby)
5:59 pm	"cow clicker is not a very fun game anymore" I just heard this article on NPR and it is the MOST AMAZING THING EVER this little parable about creativity and cyberculture and Facebook and fandom. Cow Clicker is not a very fun game anymore. <3<3<3 Current Mood: delighted (5 modest proposals | eat a baby)
Saturday, November 12th, 2011
9:24 pm	[communion] SGA So I baked -- banana bread and corn muffins -- and watched SGA (S1 through "Childhood's End"). The thing about SGA is, I think I will never think of it as my show, in that tolerant, adoring, "oh show, how so ridiculous" way that I feel, e.g., about BtVS or SG-1. Gvambat never really got into SGA, which started airing at a time when my fannish experience was very much a shared-with-girlfriend experience, and I have still not seen past the middle of S2 (for some reason my rewatches always cease right around "The Eye," perhaps because I know that nothing can possibly be more amazing). So, as you know, Amy-and-or-Bob*, my SGA OTP is McKay/Weir. I am sometimes a little afraid when rewatching that I'll discover there was less of the delicious McKay/Weir stuff that I love than I remembered, but so far this has not turned out to be the case. (Of course, a lot of what this pairing consists of in my head is "oh, Rodney's totally getting spanked tonight," so.) So that's delightful, getting to bounce up and down as I rediscover how much I love them. *you probably know what "As you know, Bob" means (and if you don't, have an innocent link to an explanation! [warning: tv tropes. I lied about the innocent]). "As you know, Amy" is the female equivalent. I suppose "As you know, Pat," is the gender-neutral equivalent? The other delightful thing is this thing we call communion. I had a prof in grad school who explained the communion that we experience as Christians as being kind of like this: I see a thing in a store that I have no interest in personally, but I know that my bff would love it, so I see it through her eyes and love it because of the communion we share. That's what fandom is like for me. It's watching SGA and part of me hates Sparky, because it plays with a lot of tropes that squick me, but the biggest part of me is experiencing with mylittleredgirl et al and while I don't actually ship Sheppard/Weir and never will I... see it and am happy because of the communion that I share with people who do. Or noticing the Teyla/Bates and thinking of scrollgirl, and it's more than thinking, "Oh, Scroll would (does) like this," it's thinking, "I like this because of the relationships I share with people who like this." Communion, it's pretty awesome, guys. (The distance to McKay/Sheppard is a bit further. I'm not sure I even remember why so bitter and resentful about it; I've grown more fannishly tolerant in the many intervening years, but the bitterness is still there. Fandom is not a zero-sum game, but sometimes it feels like that, I guess.) (4 modest proposals | eat a baby)