with frizzy hair and lobsters on their heads

[raven]

The Chancellor announced the Budget, yesterday; coincidentally, hathy_col and I found ourselves in a pub in the early evening and reached the not-unreasonable conclusion that really, we ought to take the opportunity to drink cider at the day's prices.

Which wouldn't have been so bad, had we not also got through most of two bottles of wine. Today mostly I have been having, inexplicably, the worst hangover of my life - I don't mean that it's inexplicable that I drank a lot of wine and cider and now I have a hangover, I mean I have behaved much worse in the past and not suffered with quite such inside-of-head toxicity - and am emerging into the cold blue daylight feeling rather delicate. It was worth it, though. We meant to watch Deep Space Nine and instead just sat up talking about life and work and dating Scottish boys and how much we love Kate Mulgrew. And watched this, courtesy of tau_sigma and giggled a lot.

Amidst my delicacy, I am trying to sign up for Remix. This means, in the most part, uploading all my stories to AO3 and making sure I actually qualify in, er, fandoms. In general. It baffles me how I can write as much as I do, and just... not qualify. The problem is how much I like crossovers: not just the Doctor-takes-Remus-as-companion type, but straight-up crossovers between Buffy and Angel, SG-1 and Atlantis, every Doctor Who ever. I do not qualify in Star Trek - by fifty words, but STILL - and, that about says it all, really. Part of the problem is that my main fandom of recent years is Slings & Arrows, which is still small enough for yuletide, and partly it's because three or four fics is quite often my natural stopping point for a fandom - that's it, I've said all I need to say about these characters - and five is the magic number for Remix eligibility.

So now I have a weird suspicion I am eligible for Remix purely on the strength of the Harry Potter fic I wrote in the early 2000s, a lot of which has already been remixed. Ah, well. This is of interest to absolutely no one but me, I do apologise.

Today has also been notable for a lot of interesting articles drifting by on the flist.

-Republican senators refuse to work late, citing obscure Senate procedural rule. I kind of love this. It's so transparently throwing their toys out of the pram (via speccygeekgrrl and gwynnega).

-A lack of class in the GOP. This is a really good article.

-The Tory party have done something that would be hilarious if it weren't so unhilarious.

-In better news, Constance McMillen has had the last laugh even if she doesn't get a prom.

And a quick handful of recs:

Thursday's Child by thistlerose
Star Trek, gen. Spock, McCoy and a baaaaaaaby. So adorable.

Force of Habit by taraljc.
Star Trek, gen. McCoy and his ex-wife, Jocelyn, and Joanna. Really nice, this, with good voices.

Relatives and Relativity, by yahtzee63.
Doctor Who/Sense and Sensibility. Such fun. I haven't got anywhere near to finishing it yet, but such a great idea for a crossover, and so far really wonderfully executed.

That's it. Bedtime, then tomorrow the Grand Adventure Up North begins.

Comments

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

Ta very much for the rec!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! It's a lovely story.

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you for the rec, my dear! So glad you liked it. :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Not a problem! It's such an adorable story.

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

While I am quite glad for my country to have a humane health care system, I have never been more ashamed at the behavior of my elected representatives in Congress, and of my fellow Americans. Someone shot a bullet through (the Republican!) Eric Cantor's office window. Death threats have been sent to various Democratic senators and representatives. And the Republican party continues to act, as you said, like a child who throws his or her toys out of the pram in the middle of the mall, while the Democrats just do it while no one is looking. Argh!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I wondered if, after this, they might be compelled to behave, now that their behaviour has been made so public. We can but only hope.

(Hi, I am in Scotland, but very faaaaar from you!)

[absinthe-shadow.livejournal.com]

The Remix problem interests ME, because I have Always Been Tempted but never had enough fic! I would never have thought it would be a problem for you, because in my head you're a v prolific writer. :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

The first five or six years I did it, it was only a three story requirement, and in any fandom at that - it's only now it's got the more complicated sign-up procedure. Apparently, I'm just not a prolific writer in the right sort of a way! :) Probably by next year you'll qualify in Hetalia fandom, right? :P

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

That last rec looks like fun. Thanks!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[tau_sigma]

One day, I am going to watch Star Trek with you and Colleen, yes? I think it would be wonderful.

Also, I'm glad you're both enjoying the USS Make Shit Up. *g*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

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