We are starting this years InsaneJournal holiday sale. From now until the end of the day Friday, November 27 we are going to be holding a sale on Self-Committed[paid] accounts and Extra Userpics.

The prices are be as follows

Self-Committed[paid]
1 Month -> $5
6 Month -> $15 $10
12 Month -> $25 $18

Extra Userpicx
6 Month -> $10 $5
12 Month -> $20 $15

Then on Friday November 27th from 8am until 4pm (Eastern US time) we will be running a very special sale on Permanently Insane accounts.

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We begin our saga on the fair hills of house_wilson, where the grass grows green and the House/Wilson shippers occasionally throw shit fits over whether or not David Shore is dicking around House/Wilson shippers.

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Today is the 11th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we remember the hundreds of victims that transphobia claims every year around the world. Here is only a partial list.

It isn't just victims of violence, either. I'll confess that I had never heard the case of Tyra Hunter until I read that article at Shakesville: she was a transgender woman involved in a traffic accident in 1995. When EMTs arrived on the scene they started to treat her, then noticed her male genitalia. They stopped medical care and called her slurs. After they finally did get her to the hospital, she received substandard care and died. The EMTs and the hospital might not have caused her injuries, but due to their prejudice and apathy, they certainly caused her death.

Take a moment today to educate yourself about one of these victims. These are real people, dying every day.

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Here's some Project Runway plagiarism wank to go with the lovely vanity pub and author wank. I hope it goes without saying that there might be a spoiler or two for the finale, but I'll say it anyway: There are spoilers for the finale in this post.

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If you are a women over 40, please get annual mammograms and do monthly breast self-exams. Go in for an annual pap smear.

If you're a parent of a child, please talk to your doctor about getting your pre-teen vaccinated against HPV - a virus that infects 70% of adult Americans and can cause up to 6 forms of cancer including vaginal and anal cancer.

My cousin's wife is in a medically induced coma due to metastasized vaginal cancer and her family is struggling whether to wake her up and let her suffer a few more days so she and her two children can say goodbye to one another. She is 45.

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Hang on to your hats, kids, this one's a doozy in several parts. To start off, you might want to catch up on </a></b></a>agilebrit's clairvoyantwank writeup. Clairvoyant indeed! To sum up, romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises teamed up with a publisher called ASI solutions to form Harlequin Horizons, a vanity press. Romance Writers of America promptly revoked Harlequin's "recognized publisher" status.

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This was the most popular choice in the poll, and funny enough, I haven't encountered yet a person who didn't like it, even when initially sceptical towards oatmeal or apples. (Well, unless they have allergies, of course.) I'm going to use °C and metric measurements for the recipe, but converters are easy to find online and also it's not one of those where you have to be super accurate, so that shouldn't be a problem.

What you need:

- oatmeal (I buy the 1 kg package which lasts for several meals)
- 2 to 3 apples
- sugar
- cinnamon
- a bar of butter (I use the 250 g bars -- you'll definitely need less than a pound)
- vanilla ice cream

and a greased baking pan, casserole dish, or similar (if it's fireproof and somewhat flat it'll work).

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Serve fresh out of the oven, in small bowls, with some ice cream on top. Makes for a nice hot-cold contrast. Oh, and you eat the cake with spoons.

Additional info:

- Makes you feel full extremely quickly. I've had huge people who are big eaters laugh in my face when I served them the "tiny" dish, only to see them declare defeat after their second bowl.
- The dough can be kept in the fridge to use it up later, and also works great as a muesli breakfast substitute.

You can't really mess up this one. Trust me.

You know what I'd like to see on Glee? Bob Bryar.

Specifically, Bob Bryar (the Silent, Kinda-Scary New Kid At School Who Can't Sing or Dance At All) / Kurt Hummel.

GUYS. THEY ARE PASSING SHY, AWKWARD NOTES IN MY HEAD. "R U GAY, CHECK Y OR N."



Please to be noting that I still haven't really watched an episode of Glee. Much like my Adam Lambert-on-AI experience, I watch abbreviated clips of the show.

Guuuuys, why is hardly anyone on my flist watching this show? I need someone to talk to about biker gang politics, the realistic depiction of rape, Hamlet parallels, and Charlie Hunnam's glorious ass.

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Background: Ubuntu is a distribution of Linux. Think of it as a version of Linux like you have Windows XP, Vista, Me, 95, etc. Some people created Ubuntun Christian Edition, which annoyed some members of the Ubuntu community who didn't see why a special religious-based distribution was needed but it was mostly a polite argument. Then, in retaliation, Ubuntu Satanic Edition was created.

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octopon - Pirates of DarkWater fandom asylum. Completed!

gotham_gazetteCompleted!</i>

vagrant_story - Vagrant Story fandom asylum. Pending/WIP.

Please keep in mind that I will be retiring Vagrant Story and Gotham Gazette if no further interest is shown.

And,

Please feel free to join commedia; a personal project of mine, aiming to review and analyze comics (and other selected media) that feature DC Comics' The Joker.

It is currently a WIP because I am still going through my 500+ hardcopy!issues collection. I do not download torrents/scans.

Two important polls need to be voted on, as seen here explaining two routes the asylum's project can take. IE: spoiler free reviews, spoilerific reviews, etc. This asylum will continue to be WIP until further interest is shown.

I am also open to affiliating with other comic book and/or Batman related asylums, except for RPGs.

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From wank_report:
Genevieve Koski, writing for the A.V. Club, offers her opinion on a recent screening of Ghostbusters for Better Late Than Never, the feature in which authors who never experienced some element of the pop culture of the past go back and review it with the jaded eyes of the present. Her opinion, of course, is negative.

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Do you know of any video games ("with nice graphics" would be a bonus) where there's a transformation sequence of a MALE character where the camera pans lovingly and repeatedly over the guy's ass and bare chest for what feels like ten minutes? And he wears, I dunno, a thong and a few strings of strategically placed floss to cover his nipples.

You don't have to guess why I'm asking.

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For fans of either David Bowie and Jennifer Connolly and Jim Henson and Brian Froud.

I am Colleen (ninetieschic) on this and Sam will probably choose some outlandish un.. no doubt lol.

Holy CRAP the writers of Heroes are a bunch of priveleged douchebags.

From Jim Martin, assistant to show creator Tim Kring:

I don't think white privilege is an issue in Hollywood at this point.

And from Foz McDermott, writer:

Being a white male in the business of Hollywood is NOT easy. There are programs and incentives to help everyone except white males.

The stupid. It burns.

"Violet Hill" by Coldplay. Drummer is Will Champion, who's actually a multi-instrumentalist and singer. Tempo is about 77 bpm.

This one is slow and a little simpler than what I'd like to be playing right now, but real life is going to disrupt my practice time over the next two weeks - going out to my parents' house for Thanksgiving and all.

According to Wikipedia, Chris Martin wrote the lyrics as an anti-war protest against Fox News. That's right, Bill O'Reilly inspired this song. It has a marching-band tempo, with plodding bass notes throughout but really coming through on the wailing chorus and accompanied in those parts by crashes. Remember when I mentioned a while ago that crashes are usually accompanied by bass notes in rock music? This is a perfect example of the effect: Champion really pounds those notes and they sound like a relentless barrage.

They've got a couple of half-measures in the choruses that I'll have to watch out for - just a quick extension to let Chris Martin wail an extra two beats. Really, the entire notation of this song could almost be the first verse and chorus repeated three times. The second and third verses have an extra four measures that repeat the same notation. There's no bridge, post-chorus, and the drums aren't present in the song's intro/outro.

Verse 1: 8 measures
Choruses 1, 2, & 3: 3.5 measures each
Verses 2 & 3: 12 measures each

Total: 42.5 measures

The biggest lesson I'm looking for here is experimentaion with eighth notes. This song's got kind of a shuffle beat on top of the marching band thing - you know how some songs make you really, really want to bob your head? Like, not just that the song's catchy, just, there's something in the rhythm that makes you want to bounce. Shuffle beats do that. This one leaves the eighth notes off the whole beats, instead putting them at "and-a." So it goes: bass--and-a-snare--and-a-bass.

On a more personal note, I can remember driving on I-5N through Portland the first time I heard this song on the radio. When those driving crashes poured down over the first chorus, I thought to myself, Wow, this almost sounds like Coldplay, except Coldplay only ever does pretty floaty love songs. (Which wasn't necessarily a bash on the band: they do good pretty floaty love songs. It was just very nice to hear something else from them again.)

Here are two story/art challenge communities for any of you who like to do such things.

First one is story_arc

Everyone has seen the various prompt communities. This one is for the writing/drawing of story arcs, or a multi-chaptered fic/picture series. Using the prompts, you work all of them into a single universe, as series of stories or artwork that relate to each other. Or, alternatively, into a single story, each prompt being used for a single chapter.

To some, that'll be easy. To others, it's a lot more challenging. You get a pick of prompts, and we welcome claims of all types. Pairings, threesomes/moresomes, single people, over all fandoms. Collaborations are welcomed, though we request that both parties join the com.

The second is mix_n_make

Everyone has that song that reminds them of a person, a fandom, a story or art idea just waiting to come forth.

Well, here at Mix n Make, we not only share that feeling, we encourage you to make the image in your brain a reality.

The goal: Make a playlist and write/draw what each song inspires of you. They can be as short as three songs, or as long as you want to make them. Not only can you share your favorite songs, but you can get those bunnies out of your brains and shared with the rest of us.


Come join us, we take all fandoms and original works.

I'd like to invite you to come share in these comms on IJ

beinghumanfic - Being Human - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
crusoe_fic - Crusoe - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
darkbluefic - Dark Blue - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
darkfic - Dark Fic - multi- fandom stories with a dark side - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
eastwickfic - Eastwick - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
fastforward_fic - FastForward - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
inplainsitefic - In Plain Sight - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
inthedollhouse - In The Dollhouse - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
lietomefic - Lie To Me - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
makebelieve_ij - Makebelieve - multi- fandom - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
minutefic - Minute Fic - multi- fandom - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
ncislosangeles - NCIS Los Angeles - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
promptsrus - Prompts R Us - multi- fandom - offers prompts for the curent fandoms as well as old and rare fandoms. Also many author choice prompts
psych_fic - Psych - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
rifts_anomalies - Rifts & Anomalies - multi- fandom - shows dealing with time travel and spacial rifts - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
riftsandanomali - Rifts And Anomalies - multi- fandom (This was a mispell, but...) - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
sentinel_fic - The Sentinel - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
theforgottenfic - The Forgotten - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
thelistenerfic - The Listener - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
thesuperheroes - The Superheroes - multi- fandom - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
timeschildren - Children Of Time - multi- fandom focusing on Dr Who and the various spin offs - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
torchwoodfic - Torchwood - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
uncle_fantasies - Man From UNCLE - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
whitecollarfic - White Collar - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
xfilesfantasies - X-Files - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons
xmenfic - X-Men - Discussion, general, hetero and slash fic & icons

A discussion on Dreamwidth asked for the steps you take when updating -- what you use / pick / do, and in what order. The interesting part is how it made me view the update page more closely than usual and I consciously noticed all the things I don't use. On InsaneJournal, these are:

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As for updating, I more or less follow the modules in the way they are ordered from top to bottom, i.e. first the subject line and icon, then the entry text, checking it in the preview window, then adding tags, and posting it.

What annoys me a little is that I often have to look up my tags in a new tab, because there's neither an auto-complete feature nor a direct link (to the tags page) on the update page. It would save me some hassle.

What about you?