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My little cat Bella has been throwing up for the last two days. I took her to the vets today on an emergency appointment. She had a fever of 40 and her kidneys were very tender. She's been kept in overnight for observation. She's had to have blood tests and a drip.

I'm just besides myself. But we just got a call from the vets and she should be fine!

Right. This is rather a change to my last Meta but still in the same theme.
I had an anonymous comment to my last Meta which replied “Well, if women didn’t act that way then they’d be taken seriously”

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Pimping an RPG is hard but, Dear God, if I ever see another Harry Potter RPG game again I will scream.

There really is one out there for everyone – want everyone to be werewolves? You got it! Want to take away the powers in a freak chemical accident? It’s yours! Dystopian future with dead!Harry? Hell, here are seven!

I really want this RPG to work out. I think it could be fantastic, it’s just so hard to get going with everything else that’s out there.

This has been a little pet project for a time and I’m really pleased to say its now open for applications. I really hope some of you will join us. It’s hugely open ended as what you can do and who you can be and is original character based. Don’t be sacred by the historical time period – if you’ve ever glanced at The Scarlet Pimpernel or The Count of Monte Cristo then you have more than enough knowledge to play here and, really, as long as your character isn’t whipping out their mobile phone to call up their peeps its not a problem.

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And for those of you not looking to RP: Old Episodes of Tintin on YouTube!
News of a Tintin movie sparked my interest (who will play Snowy the dog?!) and this is just a wonderful part of my childhood, Saturday mornings channel Four long episodes on Tintin – just perfect!
I’d forgotten or not realized how fast the actual action got going. In the episode I was watching Tintin was shot and then followed by spies all in the first three mins.
So go on, indulge yourselves!
http://www.youtube.com/user/Arefee

Whee it is meme time

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

prairiecrow  tagged me and picked the flowing icons:

OMG! Shoes: I seem to remember gaking this one off someone at stupid_free when I used to hang out over there. It’s just…its Disney characters and silly type about shoes. What’s not to like?

No writing: I cannot remember where I got this one from but I think it sums up nicely how much I enjoy my procrastination.

Revolution: “You can’t have a revolution without dancing.” Well, that says it all doesn’t it. I have this one because on one hand I think it’s funny and on the other it reminds me of Good Omens for some reason which is as good a reason as any to have it.

Big Brother: Supernatural, naturally. This is an icon of a wonderful supernatural comic that I lost since moving to IJ but it was lovely and had baby!Sam and Dean! This is an icon made of one of the comics with Dean saving baby!Sam. I like my protective big brother Dean.

Scourgify by Flesh: This icon was made by the amazing fleshdress  who made a whole set of absolutely amazing Harry Potter spell icons – just beautiful text and beautiful base pictures. I have millions of them because they’re gorgeous.

Today in Meta land we’re going to be talking about: Ignoring fan demographics and explaining them away.
The BBC Blog got me thinking about this today. Alison Graham, the editor and top reviewer, was twittering on about women only watching Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars for Gene Hunt.
Hold on, says I. That’s not true – I’m not watching Ashes to Ashes at all but when I watched Life on Mars it was because of the mystery of Sam in 1973 and the usually good and solid cases the team had to solve.
Slightly miffed at being told I am this one thing, I settled down to scan my journal but I couldn’t keep from the niggling little voice in my head that said “Isn’t this typical? Haven’t we heard this before with Supernatural? Women don’t like plot. Women are only here for the pretty”

And that really is the whole problem. Writers, producers and advertisers like to pidgin hole their demographics. When they get a group they can’t explain for example a large amount of women watching a show about space-ships or monsters they don’t look at it as an indication of having tapped a new market. They seem actually baffled by it.
“Why do women want to watch this?” They ask. “It’s geeky. It’s for men aged 18-25. It’s not for women.”
So they explain women away with the simple adage. “Women only watch because they fancy the main character.”

This is offensive on so many levels and depressing on so many more.
The idea that some shows should be just for men because they contain science or explosions is insulting, but so is the interpretation that some shows should be just for women because they contain romance and people being bitchy.

Explaining away women in the audience is a loss of possible revenue and a loss of a vocal and creative community that would support the show. It’s the thinly veiled sexism of ‘women wouldn’t understand this’ and ‘women are controlled by their hormones’ rolled into one.

Some women will fancy the main character. Hell, some guys will fancy the main character. This isn’t about that. It’s about taking a large, diverse section of your viwership and trying to force them all into a small hole that reads “Couldn’t be bothered.”

META FRIDAY: Content Party at IJ!

In the hopes of new friends coming to my journal here is pic spam of Bella (the little black one) and Brasidas (her big brother).
In Kitten related news Bella has now learnt to post on the internet from copying my hand movments when she's on my lap. This makes AIMing intresting as I'm half-way through typing and suddenly down comes little black kitten paw and "BING!"


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It is my birthday today. I am now a whole 20 years old. It's been a lovely day already despite having to do some tests at my doctors (still not well!). Jonathan was lovely and gave me a beautiful birthday breakfest with spiced grogg coffee which is why I now feel very full and very tipsy.

*hugs to friends list*

I'm sorry I've not been updating recently. I have been sick for two weeks, which is horrible, as I missed the start of term and just want to sleep all the time. I have another doctors appointment tomorrow as my test results came back - well, I presume badly because they didn't tell me what was wrong, just that I have to come in.

Well, it's been a while since I updated and a lot has happened. One of my cats had to be put to sleep, thankfully not any of the young ones but my oldest cat Boo. He had cancer and stopped being able to eat.

We went down to see my parents a few days ago and now Sheba cat has moved in with them. My mother fell in love with her and was crying about the idea of having to say goodbye so my father bartered her away as a Christmas present for mum.

We came home, expecting to have the house to ourselves to find our (drug-taking, failing) roommate had a fight with her parents and had come back with no by or leave and was intent on spoiling Christmas for us too. Hah on her, my parents have given us their house for Christmas as they're going on Holiday so back we go tomorrow.

Merry Chistmas all!

Is it ever right to get involved in a flame war? I would always normally say no but people are flaming my little brother and my over-all desire is to kick their hiding-behind-teh-internets arses.

My brother, Peter is 17 and into musical theater (yes, I can hear the groans now), his favourite show is Avenue Q and he's seen it several times, once on opening night, and been to two out of show meet and greets with the cast. The cast, because of this, now know him and treat him with varying degrees of good humor.

Peter also runs a video blog on youtube where he documents his life and often these blogs include his trips to Avenue Q (I say often but out of 20-odd blogs only three have anything to do with it, and one is a copy of the BBC filming us singing the Internet is for Porn). As such he's known to quite a few people on the forums and they've done meet ups to go see the show.

All quite cute, yes?
Peter's favourite cast member is Simon Lipkin who, while being gorgeous, is also good natured and very sweet to fans. In Peter last video blog Simon Lipkin stole his camera, ran away with it and jokingly while doing this called Peter a stalker. All very cute, yes? Nice guy does silly thing for fans.

However, a group of people who run an Avenue Q forum have been spamming my brother's youtube of this video telling Peter Simon Lipkin hates him, he is a real stalker and he gives fans a bad name. These people, all three of them, run an Avenue Q fan forum and suddenly, they've decided to be the fan police.

Now, having been in LOTR, HP and Supernatural fandom I've got to say - I've seen batshit crazy and stalker fans - and my brother is not. I've also seen the videos, in which Peter is generally over-excited and Simon Lipkin eggs him on and pals around with him. I've met Simon Lipkin with Peter three times now and he has always been welcoming and kind - coming over to talk to us or pointing my brother out when we haven't engaged him.

I seriously dislike fans who try to police fandom - I'm not talking about etiquette but simply labeling the parts of fandom they dislike as 'bad influences' and trying to blacklist them.

Peter isn't doing anything wrong by videoing these meet ups. The kids are usually very well-behaved, queuing for autographs and chatting about the show with Peter just filming the replies from the cast. None of the cast have complained and they seem to really enjoy the attention for a younger audience.

So, basically, my big-sister-half want is to beat these people up but I'm rather unsure how to without being "Big-Sister, rawr!"

And for those who would like to see what all the fuss is about: My brother’s video Blog!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lXM5tSY0tME

All the wank is in the comments, Peter shuts it down pretty quickly but still – RAWR! The impeach the fandom-honor of my family!

Title: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child. .
Rating: NC-17
Summery: Sirius comforts his little brother after their mother’s attempts to make Regulus a man.
Pairings: Regulus/Sirius, hints of Remus/Sirius.
Warning: incest, under-age sex.
A/N: Regulus is about 13/14 and Sirius is 15/16. Reposted on request.

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Title: Silhouettes
Paring: Regulus/Lucius
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: underage, dubious consent.
Notes: For melusinahp, Happy late birthday!
Summary: Regulus gets more than he bargained for at his first grown up party.


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Packing just doesn't seem to stop, at all, ever. I packed yesterday, I've packed today and I still have a whole chest of draws worht of clothes to sort out. And I haven't even started on books or any of the electricals.

And the kitchens not done and we're moving in Sunday! Yay, already broken contract before we've even moved in.

Title: Traditions.
Rating: NC-17
Summery: Lucius finds lots of perks to being a sixth year prefect – especially getting to pick a fag from the lower years.
Pairings: Lucius/Regulus, Rabastan/Rodolphus/Bellatrix, implied Lucius/everyone.
Warning: incest, under-age smut.
A/N: They are very underage, but it doesn’t really come up so it doesn’t matter! And its got boarding school clichés of fagging for red_squared


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Well, I saw the lovely fleshdress and emeraldgreen on Friday who were as lovely as ever. We enjoyed much bad food sitting in McDonalds and called each other pedophiles and squeed over seasidecafe where I will be playing a rather sparkly, rather cracky Rabastan Lestrange (or seaside_rab) which I am very much looking forward to!

Then on Saturday was up to London with Jonathan to see the also extremely lovely loopily. We talked about boldthrough, fandoming becoming mainstream and the as yet unnamed RPG we are planning to host. (Oh yes, be afraid, friendslist. Be very afraid)
We also squeed over the fantastic “Moths ate my Dr. Who Scarf” by standup comic Toby Hadoke which, while being very funny and something I most certainly want to see live, references fandom like whoa. We also discussed Supernatural and the BBC four’s “The Toa of Bergerac” all of which are fandom centric and there might have even been some old school conversing on Star Trek.
This was basically a knee-jerk snarking towards the idea that fandom is all underground and edgy. It is no longer edgy when the BBC have shows on it. Especially Radio Four.

But that is digression. We then got stuck in TGIF when our waitress forgot that we hadn’t paid. We had a debate about whether to leave and not pay the, rather large, bill or to tell someone. In the end we opted with our morals and owned up. I would have felt awful if they’d cashed up at the end of the night and she’d gotten in trouble for being the one who was down. The we went around Covent Garden and brought too many things for the house which doesn’t need any of them.

Sunday was a work day. Sigh.

And then today I wrote. I wrote dirty, dirty fagging porn for lj user="comtesse_sin"> which is waiting for a pre-read and beta by Jonathan. It is very naughty and would get me thrown off LJ for having underage boys doing terribly wicked things to even more underage boys. Of course, I could prove it’s the same as published work. I have a novel called “The Real Tom Brown’s School Days” where the main characters are all aged 11/12 and seem to be jumping into bed with each other, the masters and every one of the boys in the upper-sixth. It’s a very enjoyable book and I think I’ve pimped it before but it deserves pimping again.

Well, to begin with there isn't much to say about the holiday because I caught something horrible and spent almost all of our time in bed. I did get out to see the Collosum which was huge and filled with cats sunbathing which was sureal but very good.

In fantastic news however, I am in to Swansea University to do lovely, lovely History and Ancient History.

This is my IJ. I'm not currently using it as I am also on GJ and that is busy, busy at the moment.