making friends and influencing people

[sab]

Some vague shoutouts to my LJ f'list homies, because I am nothing if not a -- what's the word for what I am? (Hush, pene!) Anyway, a roundup.

ETA cut tags, because I am of the Cult of Nice.

You

I've learned a great deal about Singapore (and Croatia!) from both viggorlijah and deadspeaker -- Dale, meet June. June, meet Dale.

And I've long considered introducing _maayan and selenak to one another (kernezelda, hold my hand, this could potentially be so goddamned frightening for the bystanders), 'cause, just imagine! The character debates! The pontificating! The Euro-lefty bemusement at all of us stateside plebes! The ultimate face-off between the flyboy dork hero and the misunderstood vaguely sinister alien! Then again, what with M. firmly entrenched in SG and summertime and teetering on retirement, and S. madlessly reaching her brachiarte into the furthest corners of fandom and being, you know, a freakish superwoman who writes more a day than I *eat,* perhaps they'll just be ships that pass in the night. But still, somehow fascinating.

channe should post more. Channe, I don't know you at all, but I like you very much, and would quite enjoy it if you utilized your livejournal more frequently so's I could better familiarize myself with your brains. In my quest for Borg-like assimilation.

Speaking of which, and probably all the relevant parties already know this, deborah_judge is about to take the plunge into DS9, and I feel we should enable her to the best of our enabling abilities. On the same note, barkley is inches from the end of B5, so 'Raste, Hobs, Se, etc, when you get a chance, hie thee over to Barkley's LJ and chime in on some of her episode reviews. When she's done she's gonna want fic, too, so, you know, stand by.

And of course I'm still doing B5 for crack_van; I have about...five stories left in my stable of things I put aside to rec, and I'll crank them out over the next several days, but I will gladly welcome recs from the peanut gallery too, for stuff I may have missed, as this is our ONE AND ONLY MONTH and we should make it COUNT.



Me

If you're the sort of person who needs amnesty for defriendation, consider yourself absolved -- if you've been skulking around wanting to defriend me, go for it! I'm so agreeable and I don't hold grudges and it will not affect whether or not I keep *you* friended, as my own friending policies are desperately fickle and insane. As I'm sure many of you have noticed, as I add and drop and re-add and re-drop people depending on my mood that day and the price of cabbage in China. My friends' list is like a big...BONSAI, that I just keep snipping at and pruning and reshaping. It's like a zen GARDEN of friends that wants perpetual raking. If you catch where I've drifted. (I didn't.)

In related news, if you're visiting and would like to friend me, you really don't need to ask. Just click away, do your thing, etc.

What you'll find here is, fandomwise, these days, mostly B5, Jeremiah, Band of Brothers, and Firefly. I've got my ear pressed up against Smallville and, you know, Sports Night and Buffy and Farscape and so on, too, but I do more listening than talking around those parts, these days.

Outside of fandom, you will find an underemployed professional writer living and dying in the great slum of Hollywood, with a penchant for disaster movies and movies about undersea aliens. I read books about expats and war, and sometimes books about expats in war. I've got a cat who eats birds whole, and alive, from the beak to the feet, under my desk daily.

Oh, I also make icons. I forgot I made icons. They don't suck!



Them

And some general LJ recs, in case you're in the market for new friends and I don't fill yor bill (why? WHY?!!?):

inapickle, as we all know, is a tiny genius and should be read by everyone. The same could be said for kormantic, although of late neither one of 'em is updating frequently enough for my taste.

tangleofthorns is the go-to girl for electoral politics, also Boston-area activism and CSI.

If you're not already reading ginmar's LJ, you probably should be -- she's stationed in Baghdad and her reports on army life are sort of frighteningly close to home and also not at all self-pitying and very human. She's recently in the midst of a feminism debate that hasn't caught my interest (a lot of caterwauling and preaching in the comments and nothing new under the sun), but her reports from the front are sharp and insightful and enthralling.

Where in the world is killabeez?

In conclusion, I've made a filter for all the icon contests I submit to, so as to save clicking and back-clicking and madness. You should feel free to nab and/or bookmark this filter for yourselves. And if there's any icon contests I've left off, lemme know and I'll add 'em.



I think that might be everything I know. That's a lot! I know some things! Now I'm hungry.

Comments

[-maayan.livejournal.com]

Jess is talented indeed.

I am more in a "Let's go over there and take Dubya out," frame of mind, but until such time as I've worked out all the logistics, yes, we could time-share Sab.

Let's not get the EU involved, though. The paperwork would be a killer.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I'd be all for taking Dubya out were it not for the fact that this would make Cheney the Vile President. I can't remember the last time I was so anxious about American elections...

I've been meaning to ask - would John and Scorpius in "Kansas" (your story, not the episode) have been gallivanting about in a post-9/11 America, or was the story written before the Patriot Act?