royanrannedos

Hey Guys,

Unfortunately with our last release, and its instability, we were forced to roll back releases. Unfortunately in doing so, it would seem that our notification system has been broken somehow. Our engineers are working on this issue as quickly as possible. We hope to have a patch within the next day, so we can deploy our code and fix the notification system at the same time. Please *bear* with us ;)

Currently all notifications are being queued up so they can be processed as soon as the fix is pushed and verified to be working correctly.

Thank you,

Another 100originalfics prompt! Prompt table can be found here.

Title: Home
Author: Kay Brooke
'Verse/Characters: Catah: Edward, Hopina
Prompt: 090: Home
Word Count: 2,246
Rating: PG-13
Note: Yeah, I kind of beat this prompt into the ground.

He called the whole world home

Seems to be likely ( Read more... )

The first of the prompts I was given! This one is from fueschgast, who wanted the Doctor and Rodney McKay to meet. It's not really a complete story because it totally got away from me and grew bigger than I had planned, but this is what I've written. I may go back someday and flesh it out into a proper story.

Title: Rescue
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairing: Rodney McKay, the Tenth Doctor. McKay/Keller sort of implied if you want to see it like that.
Word Count: 2,024
Spoilers/Warnings: Takes place in Season five-ish of SGA. None really for DW.
Summary: Rodney McKay didn't believe in an afterlife. But if he did, it wouldn't have looked like this.

His day, Rodney McKay decided, could not get any worse

(Yes, I will catch up eventually. There will be another post later today)

I made some simple Christmas-y icons using images from stock photography. There are 15 in total, at the link.

Preview	Preview	Preview

All 15 can be found here

Woo, original writing! I don't know what I'm going to do once I actually finish my 100originalfics table (which can be found here).

Title: Winter Party
Author: Kay Brooke
'Verse/Characters: Catah: Atro, Martyn
Prompt: 092: Christmas/Winter Holiday
Word Count: 1,812
Rating: G
Note: I wrote this while sitting in the freezing cold waiting room at the car dealership while I had a tire changed. Thank god I had a laptop with me.

It was Atro's idea to have a party

Last month I had this plan to do a "Countdown to 2010" thing this month. I mean, it's going to be a new decade and everything (well, not technically, but the world celebrated the beginning of the new millennium in 2000 instead of 2001, so...). It was kind of going to be like an advent calendar thing--except going up to the new year instead of just Christmas--where I would post a little something every day: writing, icons, music, whatever.

I then scrapped that plan because of recent events in my personal life, but I've decided to go ahead with it anyway. I do have something for each day so far, so the next few posts will be catch-up for the first four days of December.

Other things: I'll be sending out holiday cards a little later this month. Please see this post if you'd like one.

Also, I'm still taking fic prompts in this post. I'm writing these as part of this project, so please leave me some prompts! Or else I will be forced to write original stuff. Gotta get those last 7000 words I need for my getyourwordsout pledge somehow.

From the Texts from Last Night site:

Margaritas ran out of lime juice. Substituted Jaeger. Jaegerita not good.

Just snagged this little silver & fossil gem - this will be beautiful on a lapel or hat (so it's a Christmas pressie from me to me):

...or at least as close as you're ever gonna get
Fair warning: This may be a little too real for the squeamish.

( Read more... )

Sneaky Gate

persephone_kore pointed out to me the green light at the bottom. Apparently Real Heterodynes Don't Hesitate. I know somebody suggested this already....

LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
4. Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
5. Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn

What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

Tweaks and enhancements

• You can now ban a user from all of your communities and journals at once. To access this feature, hover over the person's userpic and choose Ban user everywhere from the drop-down menu.
• Follow LiveJournal on Twitter!

Give a little to help a lot!

In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

( Read more... )

Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

"A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity"
"Culture of Old Europe is Uncloaked in an Exhibit at N.Y.U."

By John Noble Wilford, New York Times/NYTimes.com

Hey guys - I'm posting this amendment in both community and my own journal. I can only assume that no one is ever interested in giving opinions about my ideas because my wall of text is too long.

k.

( this is much shorter. )

And this is as far as I've gotten.

So my question now has to do with how this is going to end. I think Aeon needs to end up across the battlefield from Aeder, this time trapped by duty and crossed loyalties. I think Aeder needs to be an unmitigated ass one more time, probably maiming or killing Aeon. He needs to be utterly haunted by it, and then redeem himself with something self sacrificing, such as dying to save Rowan.

Thoughts?

From Wondermark by David Malki (via Karrion) - there's some here that we can use.

The continuing ( Read more... )

Over the weekend we attended Darkover 32 in Timonium MD. This year there were a number of Steampunk themed panels, and I heard a rumor that there would be even more next year.

After the Con, Guests-of-Honor Emma Bull and Will Shetterly went up to Gettysburg to the studio of Rob Gibson and had a steampunk-themed portrait made with equipment from the 1860's using techniques of the period. coffeeem posted her version of the day, including the resulting picture, over on her LJ page. Worth checking out, in my somewhat biased opinion.