Once a Stranger

delicious seems very intent on keep on failing and - I've been very patient with it - has anyone found a good, not paying alternative for it? I mostly use it for my own links bookkeeping, barely ever used the networking aspect. Is there a program or a firefox plug in that could do that?

OKAY I HAVE:

- two chicken legs
- one zucchini
- bits of eggplants left from yesterday
- shallots and garlic aplenty
- tomato sauce if needed
- quinoa, potatoes, rice, etc. also if needed

I'm not sure how to cook it, and google hasn't been helpful with finding easy enough and appealing enough recipes with those stuff. So.

Suggestions anyone?

I think the Sherlock fandom has managed to mostly spoil most of my enjoyment of the series. Yay.
Also it would be really nice if it stopped spoiling me for the Sherlock Holmes movies grrr (then again given how spoiling happy thye are about Sherlock itself it was probably too much to ask).

( slight spoiler for this week's The Good Wife )

Also for hamsterwoman, from tumblr:
http://demoiselledefortune.tumblr.com/post/15948017518/meganphntmgrl-demoiselledefortune

Meganphntmgrl: This just ended up leading to an entire GoT AU Sueniverse before I even started reading the books, though for logic’s sake I think we (Ska and I) decided Loki would have been like an acknowledged Lannister bastard or something (because if his dad is any variation on movie!Odin he would have been rescued or something still). And then we realized the Sueniverse cast is mostly Lannisters oh joy.

Me: Thor is so Baratheon tho :p

Meganphntmgrl: yeah but are you really gonna object to Adrian Veidt » Adarian Lannister

Me: … I could see him as Targaryen, alternatively.

Wouldn't be surprised if you'd already sorted the Watchmen cast in ASOIAF houses though? XD

It's so frustrating seeing reactions to the Huntress in DCnU is Helena Wayne thing, because so many people are excited and enthusiastic by it, and it's not like they're wrong for being excited and enthusiastic about it, they have very legitimate reasons for it!!! but each time I read it it feels like they're gloating about me losing one of my favorite DC character - yet another of my favorite DC characters.

And at this point I just. I cannot anymore, DC. Congrat. After Renée being so deep in limbo nobody even know what's up with her to tell the writers of Batwoman when they wanted to know, after Cass Cain and Steph Brown having their past as Batgirls and Robin so heavily erased and insulted and being in limbo and oh yeah at some point they'll show up in Leviathan and we have such a good habit of keeping our words so you can have faith in it, and the Birds of Prey history being erased, and Oracle being demoted to Batgirl and her disability offensively removed, and Secret Six disappearing, and Catwoman, Voodoo and Red Hood and the Outlaws being written in such a panderingly objectified way, this one is the last straw. I give up.

I love Batwoman and Demon Knights so I'm reading those as long as I keep on liking them; and if Cass and Steph ever do show up in another Bat book, I'll check it; but other than that it's going to take a hell of an interesting premise to make me bother to check out anything you do.

schmevil is pondering about perhaps reviving sequentialcrack, a community for reccing fanworks in comics based fandoms along the model of crack_van; if they are people who would be interested in signing up to do recs. So, if you are, tell her about it :)

... okay then.

So after last year's increase, I went back to reading very few books this year. Then again, I was reading a lot more fanfics and comics; which I think balances it out a bit. ^_^;;

How many books read in 2011?
17 thereabout

Fiction/Non-Fiction ratio?
Err, there's this one book about Chinese mythology I'm halfway through. Otherwise all fiction.

Male/Female authors?
8 Male to 9 Female authors.

I don't think I read of any PoC authors :/

Favorite books read?
Dragons of Babel by Swanwick or Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold

Least favorite?
Les Pilleurs d'Âme by Laurent Whale. Very mediocre, badly written and sexist attempt at a SF pirate story.

Oldest book read?
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

Newest?
A Dance with Dragons by GRRMartins, which I got upon release.

Longest book title?
The Gatherer of Clouds by Sean Russel

Shortest title?
Cethe by Becca Abbot

How many re-reads?
One: Last Call by Tim Powers

Most books read by one author this year?
The whole Psycop series by Jordan Castillo Price. Very decent m/m urban fantasy romance. I liked the world building especially.

Any in translation?
The Initiate Brother by Sean Russel and Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams, translated from English to French.

How many of this year's books were from the library?
3, Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams, The Initiate Brother by Sean Russel and Les Pilleurs d'Âme de Laurent Whale.

Book that most changed my perspective:
Errrr... can't say any had a very profound impact on me. I guess Dance, sheerly for the importance of the fandom in that life, and some shift of opinions on some characters, and some decreased optimism about the overall series.

Favorite character:
Theon and Quentyn for the horrendous things they go through in Dance with Dragons

Favorite scene:
err, I suck at this sort of things.

Favorite quote:
IM SORRY I WASNT TAKING NOTES AS I WAS READING.

Most inspirational in terms of own writing?
:/

How many you'd actually read again?
Oh, I'll probably reread Cryoburn and Dance with Dragons at some point.

And welcome to the 6th World :D

Your main fandom of the year?
Superhero comics, in general, superhero movies as well, in that it's where the fandom is productive with fics.

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I HAVE FINISHED WATCHING MAWARU PENGUINDRUM. I DONT REALLY KNOW WHAT TO THINK EXCEPT THAT I HAVE DUST IN MY EYES.

I have miraculously candles even though I couldn't find any at my local supermarkets because my dad called me and told me he had some (waking me up cuz of my crazy sleeping patterns); so, yay, I now have candlelights for Hannukah in my flat. Well, not anymore, these candles don't last very long >_>;

Happy Hannukah! :D


(also it kind of cracks me up that Children's Crusade #8 is going to be released on the last day of Hannukah ;))

but I stole this meme from rosehiptea and it looks neat?

Send me a fandom and I will tell you my:

Favorite character:
Least Favorite character:
5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon):
Character I find most attractive:
Character I would marry:
Character I would be best friends with:
a random thought:
An unpopular opinion:
my canon OTP:
Non-canon OTP:
most badass character:
pairing I am not a fan of:
character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another):
favourite friendship:
character I want to adopt or be adopted by