For picspammy's Short Form challenge, I present Girls Aloud's "Can't Speak French" with bonus video at the end.



( i can't speak french, so i let the funky music do the talkin' )

ALL GREY'S ANATOMY FANS!

There's an angst battle that's beginning over at ga_angst_battle.

Go and leave prompts! The prompts are open until Thursday night.

Pretty please, do it for me? I love angst like nobody's business and I don't want to have to write my own prompts.

Woo! I changed my journal layout to something a little easier to read. And it's got a pretty new header.

CHECK IT OUT: ahkna.livejournal.com

You know why I love ONTD? Not only does everyone have a bitchy, snarky comment about everything (I love it) but there is something for everyone.

There are Girls Aloud posts, random posts where you get to make fun of Twilight and comic book posts.

In one of these comic book posts (about how Rob Liefeld is distraught that one of his rather lame characters made out with another dude) someone linked 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings. So I've spent the last 45 minutes laughing my ass off.

I need to go to the comic book store.

Today is an absolutely beautiful day, so I suggested to my mother that we go down for a walk at the Ajax waterfront. We threw the dog in the car (not literally) and drove over. It was absolutely gorgeous. Windy but just enough to keep you from getting hot.

I spent the entire time taking pictures, most of which I am very pleased with.

Do people ever run non-porn battles? Like it can be shippy or gen or whatever but it's not about sex?

'cause I really want to write comment fic but not sexytimes comment fic.

ETA: I'm not anti-porn (pro, actually) but sometimes my fic just doesn't want to get to the sex and then I feel like I can't post it to a battle because it just never gets there/

I wrotes some fic.

Supposedly for the bsg_pornbattle but I seem to be suffering from a hardcore inability to more than vaguely suggest at it. In the second one, the characters don't even touch.

Static (Jean Barolay/Erin Mathias), PG-13
Jean Barolay is tough. So is Erin Mathias.

Taking a Little Back (Gina/Kendra), R
Kendra visits Gina in her cell on Pegasus

I'm going to be writing some more stuff, hopefully a little more graphic (just slightly), over at the femslash_today porn battle as soon as it launches. So many fandoms I want to write, including Dollhouse, Fringe, DS9 and Law & Order: SVU.

The Cavil/Ellen sex in "Occupation" is a hell of a lot creepier when you factor in the events of 4.5. And it was creepy to start with. So he knew Ellen was more or less his mom and he traded sexual favours? That's messed up even by Battlestar Galactica standards.

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I didn't end up going out to see them but someone did a nice little display out in the park today. I set my tripod up on our deck and just set my camera's exposure to 20 seconds. I like being able to sit out on the deck and watch fireworks (and bats - I love watching bats fly).

Two more that are about five second exposures.

Canadians making me LOL today include Jewel Staite (calling Canadians hosers) and Nathan Fillion (giving smackdowns).

Twitter is fun.

So I'm completely in love with True Blood. I'd wanted to watch it for a while but now that I'm home we have OnDemand. So I've basically devoured the first season and the most recent eps of Season 2 in only a few days, much to Little Brother's chagrin. He hates the show. Which is fine because he's chased me out of the room by watching the last seasons of Stargate Atlantis quite often.

So, in honour of my favourite vampires, Pam and Eric, I've started a picspam. It's just their first scene, in the bar but I'm still working on the other parts. Tell me what you think of the colouring.

( fangtastic bffs, part one )

I went through the newspaper this morning and checked all the cancelled Canada Day events due to the labour strike. Now, I'm usually on the side of strikers but when they pick specifically disadvantageous times when garbage is going to be hot, wet and smelly or when it's going to ruin one of the single most important days of the year for the country, I most definitely get pissed off. I wasn't even this pissed off when a strike meant it took me three and a half hours to get to work and just as long to get home. (That would be the 2006 Toronto Transit Commission wildcat strike)

I usually hate the Toronto Sun because they're an utterly stupid rag that borders on hateful with their articles by Michael Coren, a truly dispicable "social conservative", but this here is a good article about how Canada Day should go on as planned, with a truce called between labour and management.

I think, for a country so often overshadowed by bigger, louder nations, like our neighbours to the south, it becomes even more important that citizens get a chance to celebrate Canada. Our flagship cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa) should be leading the country in celebrations and I'm disappointed in Toronto.

That's it. Disappointed. After spending five months in another country, extolling the virtues of Canada and Toronto, I'm just disappointed, disgruntled and dismayed. Hopefully my local area is still having celebrations. (I really wanted to take pictures of fireworks exploding over the city on a long exposure)

iT'S possible I am more drunk than I have ever been in my life. Blame my late brother's bff and my other brother who is also drunk,

We're so drunk w're watching Batman with ChrisO'Donnell. Seriously.

I am realy really drunk right now. And I think so is my little brother. We're at home now and he is making a sandwich and I am making a post.

We're rally drunk right now. I love my brother more than anything.

A lovely lily covered in fresh rain.

I went out and took some more panoramas but I thought that people might get sick of those so I'm shaking it up and putting up a pretty flower picture I took today.

The conference is done and now there's just partying left. However, at the ripe old age of 24 I just don't have the energy to party with the senior citizens.

I went out in the morning before the conference started and took a bunch of shots of the lake, which I then stitched together with a program. I highly recommend you click here to see it nice and big. I really like this picture.

Bradley Whitford is getting a divorce?

My brain feels like it has exploded.

I've had a busy day today. There was a boat tour through the mountain, several huge waterfalls, trekking a ways up one mountain to get a picture of one waterfall, a cocktail party and general driving around.

Not bad considering I've been awake since 5am. But now I'm completely exhausted, so here is a picture of some of the streams at the bottom of Bridal Falls.

I'm in Harrison Hot Springs and it's absolutely beautiful. I'm practically vibrating with excitement over touring about with my dad tomorrow and being able to take pictures.

Last night I couldn't stop coughing as I fell asleep so I took some codeine I'd been prescribed las time I had an uncontrollable cough for no reason.

Then, in the middle of a nightmare, I wokue up coughing again at 4:30 this morning. I have to take a flight in a few hours! Feeling like the living dead is not going to help me.

So it only took four days but my mom is now addicted to Doctor Who and likes jumping around to Girls Aloud.

My mom is so fun.

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

I think some of these people know who they are, one person in particular. But there are a great many of you that matter a great deal to me. Even if we haven't so much as chatted online, your comments mean a huge amount.

LOL!

Some of the most fun I've had since coming back is fucking around with people at fandomsecrets. There are two secrets, entitled new fanbrat and entitled old timey fan. New fans are jumping all over the latter and getting all hostile and talking about how they've never had access to Star Trek before in their lives.

There's already new Trek versus old Trek wank and, naturally, the "nu" fans are being absolutely hilarious.

No one ever learns. It was the same with Watchmen and Batman and every show/comicbook that has gotten a commercially viable, high profile movie. Oh internets. You bring me joy.

An older picture, from March 2009. When heartsways was showing me around London, there happened to be a G20 protest, which we didn't know anything about since we're pop culturally current and generally unaware of anything from the real world unless it has "Katie and Peter" featured in the title or got mentioned on ONTD. Still, it was a completely hysterical protest (not for the victims of violence later) but because no one seemed to have any one thing they were angry about. It was basically just a bunch of people airing their grievances about...life, as far as I could tell from the signs. Each sign was proudly displayed by a person firmly believing in its message: "Put Children First", a sign ironically held up beside posters for the World Wildlife Federation; "We won't pay for their crisis", championed by an older man holding a copy of the Socialist Worker; a young punk with freshly gelled mohawak and a bandana covering his face; groups where everything was rainbow. It all just seemed like it had been slapped together.

Mini jammy dodgers and tea! Delicious, delicious cookies.

Fresh asparagus, part of a yummy yummy dinner of cheese tortellini in a basil pesto with garlic bread using tomato-basil bread.

A duckling on the Avon! So cute. He made little cheepy noises.

Alright, so I finally got my bottom in gear and have logged into my dreamwidth account. (Thanks to Pax for the invite)

I'm still ahkna over there too. This is me here if you're interested in friending me.

Headed to Warwick Castle yesterday because it was such a nice day (we both have year long passes) and just wandered around in the nice, warm sunshine and caught a little bit of the jousting show.

Because heartsways and I are nerds, we headed out to the the West Midland Safari Park today because we like looking at big animals. I'm most pleased with this picture out of the 500 or so I took.

Made a post to ohnotheydidnt about TR Knight's fate on Grey's Anatomy.

Spoilers (if you still even care)

So, I went and saw Star Trek today.

I thought it was good. Just not...life changing good. I loved the characterization, and the colours/lensflare. Though I thought the sets were visually influenced by Farscape and the ships by the second two Matrix films. I'd love to think more about the movie though, I think I'm about halfway through a million thoughts on characters, plot, etc. I probably just need to see the movie again.

Possibly I'm bitter about all the new people joining the fandom though. Not that there's anything wrong with it, just that it usually brings wank about old versus new. People get really crazy about how entitled they are to play in the reboot!universe and such. I find that boring.

And the less the focus on DS9, the worse the world is.

Basically it makes me want to do a Kira picspam.

Or maybe I should post the "Trials and Tribble-ations" picspam I have lying around.

So heartsways and I are watching some DS9 (Season 7, "Covenant") when I realized that my DS9 ship is actually a OT3.

Odo/Kira/Dukat.

And now I have a craving for a long, angsty fic. Just think about it. The sex would be incredibly hot. Kira hates herself for being drawn to Dukat while she loves Odo. There's angst, self-loathing, true love, multiple messiahs for multiple alien species, everything a great story needs. It'd probably end in bloodshed too. Because you know Odo would win back Kira's heart and the Prophets would kick Pah Wraith ass.

It'd be an awesome Greek tragedy.

A bee from the Victorian Pleasure Garden I can see from the living room window.