Okay, so my current credit card company send me a letter that, while not affecting me immediately, is a sign that I'm going to want a new, different card.

Has anyone been particularly pleased with the credit card they're currently using?

(Comments are screened, because money issues can be/are very personal.)

So Ten Inch Hero has been on my to-watch list since I read a transcript of this scene:





knowing that Jensen Ackles would be playing Priestly. WARNING: this is the second best scene in the movie.

The VERY best scene in the movie( spoilers )

Okay, so the Literary Review has a Bad Sex In Fiction Award that is an attempt to: 'draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it'.

The shortlisted passages are here.

The best, and by 'best' I mean most atrocious (imho) is this one:

( Warning: A Sex Scene That Will Get You To Join A Nunnery Behind The Cut )

This meme has been on my flist like a bad habit:

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration.

Now, I'm not going to answer the questions like an obedient little girl, but if you have any questions, consider this an invitation.

Also, I loved this week's fannish5 :

Name five characters who would throw the best holiday gatherings.

1.) Barney Stinson. Can't you just imagine it? It would be leg -wait for it- dary.

2.) Iroh. He would be an amazing host. And the tea would always be hot.

3.) Gordon Gordon from Bones. The food would be to die for, and he's shrink your head to boot.

4.) Saetan SaDiablo. I would LOVE to dress up for dinner at his house.

5.) Loreleai Gilmore is NOTORIOUS for throwing epic parties.

I'm full of mashed potatoes, rolls, yams, and turkey. I'm contemplating pie with ice cream and also in the mood for a meme.

The Smut Writer's Meme: Name any pairing from past or current fandoms and ask me a question. I'll tell you anything you want to know about their sex lives from my own personal fanon.

Back when I was a freshmen, I read a delightfully creepy short story about a puppeteer who falls in love with a beautiful doll. After one performance, he thinks she looks almost alive, gives her a kiss..... and she stabs him with her epic, plum-colored fingernails and sucks the life out of him.

Does this sound familiar to anyone else?

Okay, so I really enjoy blues dancing but I don't listen to blues music that much.

I know I have some dance majors on my flist, as well as people with generally awesome music, so I'm hoping for some suggestions and recommendations of good songs to blues dance to.*

And the sexier the better. ^_^

*these don't need to be specifically blues music, as long as you can blues dance to them.

Watched The Vampire Diaries in real time, which was fun.

And then I watched the beginning of Supernatural. A friend and I left after the first act to chat, and I had my roommate spoil me for the end, in which ( Read more... )

I think my header says it all. But iapetusneume was all articulate about this issue right here.

Experimental Engineering by metisket

'“Havoc,” she said abruptly. “That’s right. You’re not using your legs, are you?”

He wasn’t sure whether to be pissed off about the way she’d put that or not. Not using them. Like he’d just woken up one day and decided he and his legs were quits.

On the other hand, there wasn’t a bit of pity there, which was nice. Well, there wouldn’t be, would there? Automail mechanic.

He let it go. He was lousy at being mad, anyway.

“Yeah, the legs are pretty useless,” he said.

She tipped her head to the side and peered into the car. “So how’s your car set up?”

Right. As far as she was concerned, his legs were irrelevant. Clearly the point here was how he’d fixed up his car.'

This is the first Winry/Havoc I've read with manga!characterization, and I really like the glimpses we get of Jean's life after getting paralyzed and how Jean being in a wheelchair isn't glossed over or treated as Oh My God The End of The World (it's kind of what I wished season 2 of Dark Angel had been).

metisket writes Winry excellently - she'd totally tsunadre without being a cliche, and I love the way that other relationships Winry has aren't forgotten. What metisket also writes excellently are men head-over-heels in love (if you haven't read her Soul/Maka, do that now) and this fic is no exception. Jean's adoration just shines though each word.

So, when I was wracked with insomnia last night, I caught up on tv.

Bones:

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The Vampire Diaries:

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