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Say "NO!" to ACTA [31 Jan 2012|11:06pm] [ mood | frustrated ] [ music | Chameleon Circuit ] Copied from www.accessnow.org/page/share/just-say-no-to-acta?no_ty=1 ... "All of the things that you and I enjoy about using the Internet, like the ability to speak freely and widespread access to information, is under threat with a dangerous new international treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. This intellectual property agreement, which has already been signed by several countries, will force ISPs and websites to track our every move, turn over our personal information, and report our activity to the government, all in the name of copyright protection. The European Parliament still has to approve ACTA for it to go into effect around the world. If they vote NO, then ACTA will be effectively dismantled -- even in countries that have already signed it. We helped bring down SOPA and PIPA in the US, now let's turn the fight to ACTA. Now matter where you live, call on the EU Parliament to take a stand and vote “NO” on ACTA! For more information on ACTA, go here: https://www.accessnow.org/what-is-acta" So please visit https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-say-no-to-acta and help stop ACTA from passing! post comment

[19 Jan 2012|11:12pm] [ mood | determined ] Originally posted by nyxmidnight at Why SOPA is dangerous, an explanation of the bill Why SOPA is dangerous To Sum Up SOPA: Gives the government the right to unilaterally censor foreign websites. Gives copyright holders the right to issue economic takedowns and bring lawsuits against website owners and operators, if those websites have features that make it possible to post infringing content. [A comment feature is enough.] Makes it a felony offense to post a copyrighted song or video. This bill turns us all into criminals. If it passes, then you either stop using the Internet, or you simply hope that you never end up in the crosshairs, because if you’re targeted, you will be destroyed by this bill. You don’t have to be a big, mean, nasty criminal — common Internet usage is effectively criminalized under this law. This bill will kill American innovation and development of the Internet, as it will become too risky to do anything of value. It is toxic and dangerous, and should not, under any circumstances, be supported. 1 comment|post comment

Merry Christmas! [25 Dec 2011|05:52pm] [ mood | happy ] Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope all of you have had an absolutely fantastic day. I know I did. Here's wishing you all the love and happiness in the world for the next year! 2 comments|post comment

[08 Dec 2011|01:55pm] [ mood | tired ] I recently rewatched one of my favourite movies ever - Frequency, starring Dennis Quaid and James Caviezel. It sounds like this crazy time-travel story - though it isn't actually time-travel because no one leaves their time - which involves changing the past and saving people's lives and, oh, did I mention that there's a serial killer, too? Basically, Jim Caviezel plays John Sullivan, who, in 1999, finds his father's old amateur radio. Due to solar storms, he finds himself talking to his father, who is still in 1969. The problem? He knows that his dad dies the next day (in '69). I don't want to give too much away, but the two of them end up changing the past (Frank's, the dad's, present), and trying to catch a serial killer. But underneath all that, it's really just a very sweet, touching story about a father and son getting to know each other again. John talking to a dad he lost thirty years ago, and Frank getting to know his son as an adult. It's so wonderfully sweet, and it kind of makes me teary sometimes. And now, to get to the point, does anyone have any movie recs with something along the same lines? Not the time-travel bit, but do you know of any really good father-son relationship stories? I'm bored out of my mind right now, so I'm looking for books, TV shows, movies... anything, really. I'm not a huge fan of horror or supernatural, but I'll give pretty much anything a chance. Thanks! 2 comments|post comment

[09 Sep 2011|05:54pm] [ mood | nauseated ] [ music | My audition song, looping through my head ] Please wish me luck, you guys. In an hour and four minutes, I will be auditioning for Nunsense, this year's Christmas show here. I'll have to sing and dance, and I feel like I'm going to be sick. The easy stuff (i.e. acting) is tomorrow. Eeep! 13 comments|post comment

Original Fic - "You Gonna Tie Me Up Or What?" [01 Sep 2011|08:09pm] [ mood | accomplished ] Title: You Gonna Tie Me Up Or What? Author: kay_jay_dee  Fandom (Pairing): Original (Josh/Colin) Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 5055 Summary: I sometimes forget what an innocent Colin is. "What do you mean, you've never been tied up?" Written for the 2011 bbtp_challenge  Disclaimer: Ha! Not needed! This is mine, all mine! Yeah, I'm proud. Highlight for Warnings: * A tiny, tiny bit of D/s. Someone gets tied to the bed. All that good stuff. * Beta: vl_redreign  and florida_minxie  . Mwah! Thank you, ladies! ( You Gonna Tie Me Up Or What? ) 18 comments|post comment

Music Meme [15 Aug 2011|08:36pm] [ mood | giggly ] Snagged from michira_70  and nerilka24 . You put your iPod on shuffle, and whatever you get are the answers to the questions. This is what happens when I'm bored, 'kay? ( My answers ) 6 comments|post comment

[14 Aug 2011|11:16pm] [ mood | loved ] I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who sent birthday wishes my way. I had a lovely day (with way too many desserts - thank God calories don't count when it's your birthday!) and everyone's birthday wishes just made it that much better. I love all of you guys! 5 comments|post comment

[11 Aug 2011|10:32am] [ mood | optimistic ] I've somehow ended up involved with four fandoms at the same time. I have no idea how this happened, because I've always been a one-fandom kind of gal. I often jump back and forth between them, but I usually stick with the same one for at least a month before hopping onto the next. Recently, though, I've been playing around in multiple fandoms at the same time, which is just plain old strange. Let's take a look, shall we? I've been reading A-Team fanfiction. I've been a fan of that TV show for years (and the movie was a whole lot of fun, too) and every so often I like to indulge in a few fics, though it's so hard to find the good stuff. I mostly stick with fics by JunkFoodMonkey. I love it when I can find an author who has written lots... otherwise, you just have to sort through so much bad stuff before finding the good. I'm hooked on Cabin Fever right now. I'm reading fanfiction for the Chronicles of Narnia. The Chronicles of Narnia. Which is just, y'know, what the hell? I've been a fan of the books since I was a little girl and I still reread them every now and then, but I've never been sucked into their fandom before. Now, suddenly, I'm a shipper of Caspian and Edmund (mostly movie!verse, but some book!verse stuff, too). I'm also reading a series by Elecktrum right now, which is honestly better than most of the books I've read recently. Thank God I found it, because I've been reading some bad books lately. And not bad in a good way. I've been reading and writing Harry Potter fic. Harry Potter was actually one of my first ever fandoms, and so it's good to be back. I'm mostly a Harry/Draco and Remus/Sirius shipper, but when it comes to HP fandom, I'm really not fussy. I'll read just about anything. And finally, I'm writing QAF fic again! I'm still having a really hard time finding Brian's voice (Justin's comes a little easier), but that's not the point. The point is that I want to. I'm mostly playing around with drabbles, which should be posted soonish, but I'm thinking of longer fics... if I could think of something to write about. I guess I'll just have to watch lots of episodes and wait for inspiration, right? Oh, the things we tortured artists go through... Okay, one last thing. Bring Back the Porn on September 1st! You can find all the details on the challenge here. Even I'm writing something - a Harry/Draco fic that, for some reason, wants to turn plotty. My PWP might just have to turn into Porn With Plot. Or - gasp, shock, horror! - Plot with Porn. Thanks for sticking with me throughout my rambling about fandoms I know a lot (if not all) of you aren't in. I just wanted to post. 9 comments|post comment

And this, ladies 'n gentlemen, is why I won't get Facebook [21 May 2011|06:59pm] [ mood | thoughtful ] [ music | Forever Young (I should probably know the arist's name, huh?) ] Because I have the shortest attention span in the world and this is exactly what happens with absolutely every fandom or community that I join - I'll be incredibly enthusiastic for a couple of months, reading everything, writing fanfiction non-stop (though hardly anything gets finished; see 'short attention span' above), commenting on journals, finding trivia... and then it will sort of fizzle out. I mean, the last time I posted here was February. How did that happen? So, I'm still here, but I never quite feel inspired to post any more. My QAF marathon kind of fizzled out, (for some reason, 'fizzle out' is my expression of the day), and I don't really have a whole lot to say. Hmmm... But now I'm listening to Forever Young and I've been listening to other QAF songs throughout the entire day - Lover's Spit, High School Confidential, Save The Last Dance For Me... and I want to be that incredibly enthusiastic QAF fan again, the gal I was when I joined IJ. I know that soon after I joined, I was playing in the Adam Lambert fandom (which, again, is something that has - say it with me - fizzled out) and posting about Glee, though I can't quite get into the Glee fandom, and then I was reading Harry Potter fic again... but I feel like I've just found my way back to QAF. And yeah, maybe fandom isn't as active as it was 'back in the day', but I wasn't around then and a fandom is a fandom, right? Sometimes it's crazily active, sometimes it's slow, but it's still a group of people who have come together because of their love for the same thing, right? Even if that 'same thing' is just pretty boys kissing. I'm going to pause for a moment, just in case anyone feels like holding hands and singing Kum Ba Yah. I need to make time to start watching QAF again. I probably won't be watching the episodes in order and I don't have great ambitions of recapping each episode once I've watched it, but I think I need this. I need to rediscover that gorgeous, gorgeous story about Brian and Justin and everyone around them. The first time I watched the series, I remember being floored by the intensity of the love story and how amazing it was. I need to discover that again, because I need that soulmate type love in my life right now - not necessarily for me, but I need it there. I'm still here, guys, and I still love the boys. I'll be around. 9 comments|post comment

[16 Feb 2011|12:24pm] [ mood | tired ] Dear Glee, First off, I really, really hope that your Bieber-love from last night was ironic. Secondly, Glee, why no Kurt? Yours, KJD, who still loves you. 5 comments|post comment

*giggles* [20 Jan 2011|04:41pm] [ mood | amused ] Best definition of love ever. post comment

[18 Dec 2010|03:32pm] [ mood | infuriated ] Does anyone here want to throw in some money to help me buy my own island where everyone will understand that saying 'fag' is not okay? 11 comments|post comment

My QAF Marathon - 103 [15 Dec 2010|04:19pm] [ mood | tired ] ( Let's hear it for the boy! ) 9 comments|post comment

[08 Dec 2010|11:15am] I am not ashamed to admit that while watching last night's Glee episode, I had a big goofy grin on my face the entire time Kurt and Blaine were singing 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'. 25 comments|post comment

My QAF Marathon - 101-102 [27 Nov 2010|02:51pm] [ mood | complacent ] ( My Thoughts... ) 16 comments|post comment

[21 Nov 2010|05:51pm] [ mood | creative ] Last night, I marathoned the first two episodes of QAF and realised something: not only was this the first time I'd watched the pilot in a while (I've always considered the first two episodes the pilot), but it was the first time I'd watched any QAF episode for a while. I'd forgotten how much I love it and why I love it. The story, the characters, the sex... and, above all else, the characters. So, that's why I'm now holding my own marathon of all five seasons in order, and I'm wondering if anyone would like to join me. I'm going to watch - or try to watch - an episode a week, but I'm not planning on any specific time or date because whenever I do that, real life usually ends up getting in the way and I'm not very good at commitment, anyway. I will, however, be posting my thoughts on my journal, whether those thoughts turn into meta or fic or an in-depth analysis of a character or just 'My God, I love Justin'. I'll probably be trying to get these thoughts up every Sunday, but as with watching the episodes, it will happen when it happens. I'm going for something very loose and breezy here. I'll be watching when I can and posting when I can and if I miss a week, so what? I'm really, really hoping that at least one person will join me, whether they want to discuss the episode here at my journal or post their thoughts on it on their own journal. Let me know if you do, yeah? Also, as I was posting this, Tweak said, "I've just seen the face of God." I'm taking that as a good sign :D 7 comments|post comment

Team Blurt [13 Nov 2010|09:06pm] [ mood | cheerful ] ( Spoilers for Glee episode Never Been Kissed behind the cut... ) 4 comments|post comment

[04 Nov 2010|04:09pm] [ mood | content ] I WANT MY MUSE FOR FIC BACK! Ahem. Sorry, I just had to yell that before I could do anything else. I'm writing so much at the moment, but it's all original fic. My stories and characters just won't leave me alone, which is great, it really is. It's so much better than not being able to write at all, which has been known to happen. But. There's always a 'but', isn't there? I really, really want to write some fanfic right now, whether it's QAF or Adam Lambert RPS. Stories just aren't hitting me right now, though. I want to explore Brian and Justin, or write about something - anything! - happening between Adam and Tommy, or write a drabble about Emmett... but nothing's coming. *facepalm* Oh well. I just need to give it time, I guess. And, in the meantime, back to working out what's going on between Jess and Neil and sorting out Vicky's thoughts (because, you know, I talk about my characters like they're real people). 7 comments|post comment

It's Sunday! [03 Oct 2010|02:30pm] You can't believe how relieved I am that it's Sunday - I finally have time to breathe! The Mousetrap opened on Thursday after three intense, late-night rehearsals. It's been hard to find time to play on here between that, sleep, writing, and finding time to be me instead of Mollie. Yes, I know I sound nuts, but I'm a theatre person; it kind of goes with the territory. So, if anyone is interested in what it's like putting on a show with a community theatre (at least, here), this is what my last couple of days have looked like: 6:15 PM - Get to the theatre, get my costume shirt on, get my make-up done, catch up with people and make sure all my other costume pieces are in my dressing room. 6:45 PM - Warm up on stage with the other actors. Warm ups typically include the physical aspect, mainly stretching, and the vocal, which we usually spend longer on. We go through tongue twisters, say lines from the show, do breathing exercises, sing songs... All this is great because I really struggle with projection, and warm up is what really helps me make sure I'm loud enough for the entire audience to hear. 7:00 PM - Check my props to make sure they're where they need to be, pre-set my shoes and costume that I have to change into backstage (quick costume changes? They suck, especially when one of your earrings falls off and the buttons of your shirt won't come undone). Go back downstairs and finish getting ready. This involves getting eyeliner pencils up the back of my legs to look like stocking seams, putting actual stockings on, changing into boots that are just a little too small for me, and getting a blond wig on. 7:30 PM - Be informed that the house is in (in other words, the doors are open and the audience can enter). Start getting nervous as hell. Do breathing exercises (In two three four, hold two three four, out two three four, repeat) in an attempt to calm down. It often doesn't work. 7:55 PM - Get into place for the top of the show. Worry desperately about forgetting something. Try not to puke. 8:00 PM - Walk on stage; feel fabulous. 10:40 PM - The end of the show. Take a bow and feel fabulous. Get out of costume, talking non-stop because, God, is there a better feeling than recieving applause? Go up to the lobby of the theatre and talk to people about the show, hopefully with them being complimentary. 11:00 PM - Get home and realise I'm starving because I never eat before going on stage. 12:00 midnight - Still feel hyped up. Have a hot shower to calm down; it doesn't work. 1:00 AM - Still feel hyped up. Alternate between writing and dancing, because I can't sit still yet. 2:00 AM - Finally fall asleep. So, yes, that has been my last couple of nights. I'm finally getting a break until Thursday again. It's nice to have this time off, but I know that I'm going to be so disappointed when this show ends. We only have three more shows, then the cast and crew party, and then it's over. But the post-show depression (for lack of a better word) is so worth the high I get from applause, it really is. I've been smiling every single night, not at all able to stop. post comment

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