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New Podfic: Three Strikes & You're Out

niko: (podfic)
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 01:17 pm

Getting back onto the podficcing horse with lovely sequal to Strange Bedfellows,  "Three Strikes and You're Out".     Sooooo much fun with all of Ezra's big words   (although, if I never encounter the word "precipitately" in a fic again, I will be happy.  :) )

Announcement posts:

DW:   http://amplificathon.dreamwidth.org/1937647.html
LJ  :   http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1460117.html

It seems to be a "thing" to make pages for one's podfic in AO3.  Considering that because I do love AO3, and it's been cool having all my fic in one place, so why not podfic too?    But then, it seems weird to create a whole "work" whose only purpose is to link to something off-site.   Dunno.
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 10:28 am
Logging the latest h/c bingo card. I failed to do even a little amnesty snippet in the last round, but I figured I'd give it one more shot.

( My hc_bingo card )
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100 Things #4: Do Not Murder

niko: (HYD-1)
Thursday, May 10th, 2012 05:25 pm
OK! Going with a bit of a whumpy one today. :)

Source: RD Sennou Chosashitsu (aka Real Drive) - Anime
Moment: Souta vs. Zaftig Android
Warning? General plot spoilers for Episode 16, but it's mostly standalone.

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100 Things #3: To going against the grain, going insane, going mad...

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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 06:57 pm
I have a few of these queued up, so here's a second to catch up a bit.

Source: Rent
Moment: La Vie Boheme
Warning? NSFW - Idina Menzel's bare bottom  :)


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100 Things #2: Did you just call me a cowboy?

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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 06:55 pm
(Apologies to folks seeing this twice - I'll get the hang of this cross-posting thing eventually. :P )

This is probably one of several Mag7 moments that'll be included... it's hard to pick just one. :)  But let's start with an iconic one that never fails to have me falling in love with these boys all over again.

Source: Magnificent Seven (TV) - One Day Out West
Moment: Did you just call me a cowboy?
Warning? None

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100 Things #1: Why would you be named after a snail?

niko: (HYD-1)
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 08:55 pm
(It occured to me that I really ought to be cross-posting here for completeness sake.  No spoiler-formatting DW?  *is bummed and must edit my post instead of just copy/pasting :) )

So...  *drum roll*

Source: The Changeling Sea, by Patricia McKillip
Moment: Peri Meets Lyo
Warning? Extremely Minor Spoilers from early in the book

As a point of order:  I'm thinking many of my favorites will involve spoilers in either the scene or as setup to the scene, so I'm going to plan on Cutting the main body of my posts and going with a simple header as above to start things off.)


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niko: Tiger out (Tiger out)
Friday, July 22nd, 2011 08:40 am
Guh. Just watched Tiger & Bunny ep. 16, and *Wow* do I love this series.

This is *so* the sort of angstiness that pushes my buttons. Suffering in secret, friends knowing something's wrong in a vague sort of way but missing the bigger picture. The way things played out in this episode with Kotetsu struggling with private failures juxtaposed against Bunny's public triumphs... *_* Pure, undiluted fan-service. *_*

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Thursday, July 7th, 2011 08:39 am

For reference on a [community profile] fic_promptly  prompt.   Can't find it on any sites I trust to link to otherwise.  I love this poem...  (And not just because the whole "sick tiger" concept with religious themes is soooo Ken Hidaka. :) )

Little Boy Sick

I am not God's little lamb
I am God's sick tiger.
And I prowl around at night
And what I most love I bite,
And upon the jungle grass I slink,
Snuff the aroma of my mental stink,
Taste the salt tang of tears upon the brink
Of my uncomfortable muzzle.
My tail my beautiful, my lovely tail,
Is warped.
My stripes are matted and my coat once sleek
Hangs rough and undistinguished on my bones,
O God I was so beautiful when I was well.
My heart, my lungs, my sinews and my reins
Consumed a solitary ecstasy,
And light and pride informed each artery.
Then I a temple, now a charnel house.
Then I a high hozannah, now a dirge.
Then I recompense of God's endeavour,
Now a reproach and earnest of lost toil.
Consider, Lord, a tiger's melancholy
And heed a minished tiger's muted moans,
For thou art sleek and shining bright
And I am weary.
Thy countenance is full of light
And mine is dreary.

Stevie Smith (1902-1971)

Squee-ing, mostly

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Friday, July 1st, 2011 10:07 am
Swooning over all the pretty in this icon batch, and I *so* need a Wild Wild West/Mag7 crossover now.  

WWW isn't a show I go back to as often as I should, but lawdy, Robert Conrad is *such* a pretty man (though, character-wise, Artie was always my favorite, of course. :) )

I'm thinking Maude should be involved - she's good at bringing out the campier side of the Four Corners crew - and it starts out as a bit of a madcap farce with Ezra (and any others he ropes into helping) hiding Maude from the visiting feds because she accidentally-on-purpose conned someone she really shouldn't have.  And Jim and Artie are half-amused/half-exasperated as it starts to seem as if the whole town is giving them the runaround.  And then the *real* bad guys come along and there's gunshots and concussions and mayhem from there, of course.  :)

*nods*  Yup, someone needs to write that for me.  :)

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In other news, I am so smitten by Tiger & Bunny these days.  Warm, fuzzy shippiness that seems like the most natural thing in the world for these characters.  Occasional trust issues.  A generous dollop of angst.  Single-father adorkableness.    Boys in bandages and other assorted fan services. A truly squishable ensemble cast.   *happy sigh*

I'm solidly shipping Kotetsu and Barnaby harder than I've actually *shipped* anyone in quite a while.  It occurred to me the other day that it may be clicking for me because it's kinda the same dynamic as Aya/Ken - the standoffish-but-not-entirely-frigid stoic type with a more emotional, go-with-his-gut cheerful type who may have issues, but is less likely to wear them on his sleeve.

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Musing

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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 04:37 pm
Something I wonder about sometimes:  Why is there so little cross-fandom discussion or meta about hurt/comfort in fandom?

It's a genre (or whatever) that has a lot of fans, it tends to be a preference that follows a person from show to show, and I personally, at least, have a number of meta-y questions that I'd love to see thrown out to a diverse group of h/c fans for discussion.

And yet, the couple multifandom comms I've seen here on LJ fizzled pretty quickly or never got off the ground...  ( *sniffles sadly at [livejournal.com profile] theonesyoulove *  ) and the one comm on DW also has no traffic.  I always wonder if its an advertising problem (word didn't get around to a broad enough group of fans that the comms existed)  or if I'm just in the minority, and most fans really have no interest in discussing their tastes outside of a specific fandom environment, comparing notes on fandoms that lend themselves to h/c, etc.   It's a bit of a bummer, really.

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Meme-age

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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 09:51 am

A meme from Miz [livejournal.com profile] dj_aida .  :)

- Comment with "Hit me!"
- I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you.
- Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
- Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people.

My Questions:
1. What is the attraction of podfic for you?
2. Who is your absolute favorite characters in all the fandoms you follow?
3. What is your favorite dish?
4. Where in the world would you most like to live?
5. What fictional character are you most like?

( Answers Below the Cut>>> )

H/C Bingo 2011

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Friday, June 10th, 2011 10:04 am

Quick record of my new bingo card.   Nothing immediately jumping out at me as a big "Yay", but it's a long window for posting something, so who knows. 


( H/C Bingo Card )


 

Tentacles again.  ^_^
 

( And might as well put Mag7 Bingo one here, too )
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Fic Yay!

niko: (Yukino Squee)
Thursday, June 9th, 2011 01:40 pm

[livejournal.com profile] tenshi_no_korin  wrote me a Suikoden story for the Help_Japan auction, and it is fabulous! :D

http://tenshi-no-korin.livejournal.com/261544.html

I adore Tenshi. :)  Here stories are filled with little details from the games (or that *feel* like they're from the games) that ground the story in canon in a way that can't be easy when you're working with a world where "canon" consists of some fairly low-end pixels... and her characterization for Viktor, Flik, and the rest of the Suikoden cast is soooo amazing. :)

Plastic Hottie

niko: (Furuba Tohru Swoon)
Friday, February 18th, 2011 05:11 pm
OK, sorry to spam FLists, but there is one more thing I have to put up out of pure frivolity.   Looking over a website with anime-related figures (which are usually heavily weighted toward half-nekkid female figures, I come across this....)

 

( Plastic beefcake behind cut )

H/C Bingo Amnesty

niko: (Real Drive)
Friday, February 18th, 2011 12:38 pm

Just a rambling whumpy thingamajig that's the closest I got to fic for H/C Bingo.

Warnings:  Dean's potty-mouth and a carefree disregard of the evils of run-on sentences.

( Dean vs. Tentacle Monster )

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niko: (Podfic)
Friday, February 18th, 2011 11:20 am

I have been going through a phase of "not having my shit together" for... four (!) months now.  My LJ/DW-reading backlog is humongous, but I do have two things that I've needed to get posted for about ever now.

So, #1:  Podfic!  :)

Jojo's "Strange Bedfellows" is posted HERE.


 


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Terriers

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Monday, October 4th, 2010 10:08 pm
Been having a bit of a Jonah month that's stopped me from following online-stuff much, but needed to pop in here and do a quick pimp for FX's new show, Terriers.  It's one of those shows that's so good it makes me ache until I vent a bit of love somewhere.   (Of course, it's also been getting horrific ratings, so it's a bittersweet sort of ache, but I'm gonna enjoy it while I can. )

In various pre-airing interviews, references came up a lot to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid... and while this show isn't a western, they definitely learned their lessons in how to create a wonderful partnership between the two main characters.

 

( {{SNIP FOR RAMBLY SQUEE}} )

Long story short: Highly recommended.  :)

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3 Fandom Meme

niko: (Kino Dream)
Friday, August 27th, 2010 03:07 pm

[livejournal.com profile] tygermama picked :  Andromeda, One Piece, Fantastic Four/Marvel Comics

1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?

Sorry I got so verbose.

 

( Andromeda )

 

( One Piece )


 

( Fantastic Four )

 


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Monday, August 16th, 2010 07:09 pm
Just got back from two weeks mostly-away-from-civilization and feeling a bit disconnected from all the things that were occupying my thoughts before I left, so here's some randomicity to kick-start my brain a bit.

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niko: (Real Drive)
Monday, July 5th, 2010 11:19 am

My Netflix queue spit out the old Disney "Davy Crockett" series with Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen, and I watched it over the weekend for a bit of nostalgia.

I now remember why this stuck with me enough to put it in the queue to begin with... it's got some lovely buddy-ship chemistry between Davy and Georgie, despite the rather gee-shucks corniness of the whole thing.  There's this bit where the two are walking through a forest and Georgie is singing the Davy Crockett song, and Davy has this sort of fond exasperation about it that just speaks volumes.  Makes me squee a smidge. *g*

I wants me some fic.

(It does feel a bit odd to be getting a squishy like this over *Buddy Ebsen*, though.  I mean, dude, it's Jed Clampett!  And Barnaby!  Barnaby, fer chrissakes!  I feel like I ought to be making a fandom!Secrets post or something.  ^_^)


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