Nenya Kanadka

Today I Learned that "What What In The Butt" is an actual song? I'm not sure how I missed that it wasn't just a random meme.

(There are so many memes and cultural moments whose sources are lost in the mists of time--from the perspective of someone who grew up under a rock on Mars--that sometimes I just shrug my shoulders and roll with it, hey.)

But muccamukk dug it up and showed it to me over waffles just now and I am charmed as fuck. This is genuinely the most wholesome, adorable, hilarious song about buttsex ever. He just wants to clarify what's being proposed! He would like it very much but he just wants to be clear on *what* is going in the butt. Also he's a total cutie. There are roses! And flirty eyebrows! He's a delicate flower! (Who knows what he wants!)




I love humanity. Boom de yada.

The colours on the previous layout were gorgeous, but it was horrendous on mobile. Since I've been using my phone a lot lately, I finally remembered I wanted to change that!

I may tweak this one slightly (for background image/icon size/colours possibly more blue-purple than pink-purple), but I love it already. Let me know if it's illegible or headachy or etc for you as a reader though.

(Layout is Midnight Bloom by plainstyles.)

ETA note to self: updated the background, haven't figured out how to change round icons as the CSS is different from what I'm familiar with...hmm!

Or, Lying Around Doing Nothing In Pajamas, which is how my professional-singer brother plans to spend his post-Christmas holidays.

Did a fair bit of it myself yesterday, aided by my three main presents of Doctor Who pajamas, a Questionable Content "Baking is science for hungry people" apron, and a book from Mucca about the Mars Curiosity rover. Which I am now about a third of the way through. It is really, really fascinating, especially how the author (chief engineer for the Mars Program Office at JPL) keeps tying in what they invented and discovered and designed for Curiosity both with the previous Mars missions (Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity) and with future plans for human exploration of Mars. Which they are seriously thinking about in concrete terms, and he goes into that.

I'd just finished a biography of Sally Ride (Sally Ride: America's First Woman In Space by Lynn Sherr) so it's really cool seeing an engineering perspective on the whole thing after reading about astronauts. The Ride book was fantastic as well. I continue to be torn between being jealous of Ride for getting to be an astrophysicist, being jealous of her later college students (she sounds like such a good teacher! aaahhhh), and being sad that she didn't feel safe coming out as bi/lesbian in her lifetime. (Though her friends knew.) And besides the obvious big things like being the first woman in space (SPAAAACE!), I love so much that Ride was openly a feminist and spent the last decade or so of her life supporting STEM education for girls in practical, workable ways with Sally Ride Science. I'm just a little sad that I'm one of the girls who fell through the cracks. But, you know: bi feminist astrophysicist in space. \o/

Other reading list:

* Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer (Rob Manning & William L. Simon)
* The Siren Depths: Book 3 of the Books of the Raksura (Martha Wells)
* Parallel 59 (Eighth Doctor Adventure #30) (Natalie Dallaire & Stephen Cole) [also about space, and interrogations of naked!Eight, oh how I appreciate this canon's dedication to my kinks]
* Sister Mine (Nalo Hopkinson)
* Triptych (J. M. Frey)
* Three Parts Dead (Max Gladstone)
Recently read:
* Stranger (Rachel Manija Brown & Sherwood Smith)
* Hostage (eARC) (Rachel Manija Brown & Sherwood Smith)
* The Prosekiller Chronicles: Rise of the Spider Goddess (An Annotated Novel) (Jim C. Hines)

Also Yuletide, including ten (:D!) Imperial Radch fics, a goodly proportion of them Breq/Mercy of Kalr (♥), and half a dozen Raksura fics (which I am forbidden to read until after I finish Siren Depths, because spoilers). But did I read any of those late last night? No, no I did not; instead I fell into the Doctor Who tag on AO3, aiming for Twelve/Gomez!Master fic but falling into some Gomez!Master femslash, some Eight/male companions, some Ace/Seven (I've not even seen Seven), and various assorted other things.

Recs:
Minimum Viable Population by yonderdarling -- Twelve and the Mistress negotiate the annoying, raging attraction they have for each other. Bloody hilarious. (6169 words)

Companionship by Turn_of_the_Sonic_Screw -- When Rusty met Oswin, or, a few good Daleks. (373 words)

And now I shall go see about turkey leftovers.

This is actually the second time someone has offered to do this for one of my fics, but the first time I know of that it's been completed.

A couple of days ago someone on Fanfiction.net PM'd me to ask if they could translate my Garak/Bashir story "A Hard Landing" into Russian. I was extremely flattered, not only because wow yay yes, someone liked my fic enough to want to translate it! but because I've studied a little Russian myself and have fond associations with that language.

They worked pretty fast, and today they sent me a link to the completed fic. For posterity, and in case any Russian speakers on my flist would like to see it, I link below. (Squee!)

Original Fic: A Hard Landing
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Pairing: Garak/Bashir
Rating: PG-13, 683 words
Summary: Julian has his suspicions about the Cardassian tailor; Garak tests his ability to read between the lines.


Translation: Жёсткая посадка
Автор: Nenya Kanadka
Переводчик: Эклер-кун
Фэндом: Звездный путь
Основные персонажи: Элим Гарак, Джулиан Башир
Пэйринг или персонажи: Гарак/Башир
Рейтинг: PG-13
Жанры: Слэш (яой), Романтика, Юмор
Описание: У Джулиана есть свои подозрения насчет кардассианского портного. Гарак проверяет способности доктора читать между строк.

:D :D :D!

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Way to go, Iowa:

Iowa Court Voids Gay Marriage Ban

First state in the midwest!

“The fact that it’s here in some way highlights the inevitability of this all,” she said.

Yes.

This is like a tab dump, but for songs running around in my head. Unlike the "X number of random songs on your iPod" memes, this doesn't have to be the first line of the song--just the ones that are sticking in my head most. Anyone who wants to steal it, feel free. :-)

(in no particular order, and pardon the Backstreet Boys--it's from a fanmix)

1.
This is a song for the unloved
This is the music for one last cry
This is a prayer that tomorrow
Will help me leave the past behind

( talking laughing loving breathing )

Dupont Circle, Washington, DC, Jan. 19, 2009.





This is goodbye from the American people, you asshole. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

(Photos: Scott Wyngarden.)

THANK FUCK.

Go, go, Randall Munroe, go!

As usual, xkcd gets it.

(Also, this is me. Without the yo-mama jokes.)

Oh, my goodness, this is brilliant:

Firefox crop circle!

(via this thread at Making Light)

In other news, on Sunday December 10th, I will be confirmed in the Episcopal Church here in Tennessee. :-) For someone who "doesn't believe in joining churches" (as I've said how many times, and still believe), and was raised as low-church as it is possible to get, joining the Anglicans may seem odd, but it is such a great place for me to be right now. And even more than how wonderful and sweet and loving my darling new church here is, I would like to toss garlands of flowers and thanks in the direction of the guy who runs the universe for how much happier and saner I am right now than I was this time ten years ago, or even five years ago. This flood of warm fuzzies and goofy thankfulness brought to you by me trying to describe my senior year in high school to someone, and realizing the huge absense of emotional and mental stress I have now by comparison. Woohoo! And St Chris's, I love you. "Safe, warm, happy" is on my confirmation banner for a reason. :D (In Ragi, shutupshutup.)

Also, the solar-system tour from the game SecondLife is pretty damn cool. Just saying.

*tosses confetti* I have now successfully voted in federal elections in both my countries of origin. Hurray!

The early voting was set up here in the public civic auditorium, easy to find, and not too busy. Mostly older people, probably because it was during the working day (9-4 weekdays and 9-12 Saturdays until Oct. 31, then 9-6 Nov. 1-2, in my county). But I can't be the only one who dropped in on the way to work or will go in during lunch break. They were getting a steady stream of voters, but it wasn't very crowded--I was in and out in 15 minutes tops.

Does this mean I am a woman (or possibly an American) now?

*grin* Vote! Everybody who can.