jactrades

Good things today:

1. Australia now gives people three gender options for their passport: female, male, and X. And it's been added onto the growing list of countries (including the US, I was pleased to see) that does not require surgery for transgendered individuals to change the gender listed on their passport.

2. I signed up for the Kirk/Sulu holiday exchange and am über-excited for both my own eventual gift art/fic and for all of the great Kirk/Sulu fics & art that will come out of the exchange. Y'all should sign up too!

3. A planet orbiting two suns has been discovered., which is neat for both Star Wars & Star Trek fans alike. (I pay so much more attention to astrophysics and astronomy news now than I did before getting into SF fandoms.)

4. I claimed, erm, three fics for mixes and one for art at startrekbigbang, which is... a lot. But I've got a pretty easy workload for the foreseeable future, and not much going on, writing-wise, so I think I'll be okay.

5. It's finally Friday! And I'm on vacation all of next week for a much needed vacation up the coast & into Oregon. \o/ (If I'm betaing your fic for a bigbang, never fear, I'm printing everything out and will keep pounding away at things.)

A second volume of happy songs for exercising, getting pumped up, or otherwise lifting your mood & getting you going!



( Let's make this happen! )

So, a bunch of things have occurred since we last talked, internet!

1. I dropped out of het_bigbang. *sadface* I probably could have pushed to get my story done by the deadline, but I'll be traveling during that week (on the Pacific NW Roadtrip of Awesome), and would really rather concentrate on having Fun Times than revisions. Plus internet access will be hella iffy - I think we'll be in the uninhabited northeast corner of California on posting day, and at Crater Lake the day before.

However, I still really love this story and will get it finished sooner or later. Preferably sooner so that I can stop hogging all of the library's Berlin Airlift books. (Also, historians, why do you hide all the hilarious stories in the endnotes?)

2. The husband and I went to Outside Lands with a few friends. Outside Lands is SF's music festival, smaller than Coachella, but with much better food. It was Abhi's first music festival, and so fantastically organized and with so many great bands (oh, the scheduling woes of three great bands on three stages at the same time) that I fear I've ruined him for anything else.

( long list of who we saw, and more importantly, what we ate )

3. We went to the SF Street Food Festival in the Mission last weekend, and I will not detail even more food again, but it was delish and I love this city and its wack-a-doodle chill folks.

4. If you got all the way through that, then you rock, and should fill out this meme I've genked from all over, especially if you're a new person!

( meme )

Edit:
5. There's a five that I forgot! I'm in the process of making a number of mixes for my best friend, who has been temporally transferred from her home in Bangalore to work on a project in England (somewhere... not London). Anyways, we're jogging buddies, and she's been having motivational issues, so I'm pulling together a bunch of fun songs to run to. One mix will be Bollywood, one will be dance/electric, one will be un-ironically awesome pump-it-up songs like Eye of the Tiger, and one will be indie-ish summer-y stuff. And maybe more, depending.

If anyone has song suggestions, they'd be extremely welcome. I'll post the mixes here once I get them all done. I've never really pulled together my running music, so this has been a fun process. (And also needed - see above for all of the nomnomnoming of unhealthy fried food I've been doing of late. But it's so worth it. *still dreaming about funnel cake*)

Title: Unknown but remembered
Author: jactrades
Written for: this picture prompt from igrockspock
Fandom: The Giver
Characters/Pairing: Lily
Rating/Warnings: G
Wordcount: ~250
Summary: "I don't think we've had a Storyteller in the community for a long time."
Notes: Part of igrockspock 's A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: A Multifandom Comment Fic Meme. Unbeta'd comment fic.

( Lily finds the photograph in the archive within the Annex of the House of the Old. )

Guess what's available on Netflix Instant Watch?!!! They're only streaming seasons 2 & 3 right now, which is, uh, odd, but whatever, I'll take what I can get, especially since it's HD quality. And there's also all of NextGen (childhood crush on Riker, here I come), Voyager, and Enterprise, but no Deep Space Nine.

I got back from my week of surf camp last Friday, and then spent most of the weekend passed out.

It. Was. So. Awesome.

Despite being a water fiend in general, I never had much of a chance to surf when I was a kid (I raced sailboats with my dad instead). The few times I have gotten out on a board have been some of the best hours of my life, no joke. So when we moved back to California from DC, I decided I was going to take up surfing as my sport of choice. Thus, surf camp.

( It may have been the best vacation of my life. )

Title: On the other side of every mountain
Author jactrades
Written for: uber_wench 's awesome art! Be sure to check it out!
Fandom: Star Trek AOS
Characters/Pairing: McCoy-centric, with a large dose of Kirk
Rating/Warnings: R, mostly for language.
Wordcount: ~6,300
Genre: AU/Fusion with M*A*S*H. Yup, that old show.
Summary: For trekreversebang . It's nine in the morning, they've already been in the OR tent for four hours, and Jim Kirk, surgeon extraordinaire, feels chatty. Of course.
Notes:Only the first half got beta'd by the amazing hellokatzchen , all errors are mine. MASH plotlines (and a bit of TOS) shamelessly used.
I've also created a fanmix/playlist that I wrote to: (there was another mountain)


( “You know, I’ve been thinking.” )

Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show:


Debra doesn't have it exactly easy. She's one of the few woman in a rather testosterone-driven Miami Metro Police Department. She has a (maybe) psychopathic brother who murders people regularly. She has rotten taste in men - probably stemming from the fact that her father focused all of his attention on teaching her brother how to murder ethically (yes, I know) instead of spending any time with her.

So she curses like a sailor, puts up a tough front to the world, and loves her brother as fiercely as she can. Girl's got steel ovaries.

( Rest of the days )

Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time:


I only watched the first few seasons of this show before tuning out with the disgust at the waste of what was an amazing premise. There were a lot of things wrong with this show, but one of the ones that rankled the most was the utter misuse of Chloe Sullivan, Ace Reporter of Smallville High and genuinely awesome gal. She was funny, actually seemed to have a brain in her head (unlike the rest of Smallville's denizens), and it certainly didn't hurt that Allison Mack was pretty smoking. And the scenes with her and Lex (the other candidate in the running for Most Misused Character)? Completely full of win, even if I didn't ship the pair (much).

I have no idea how they've treated her since I stopped following the show, but I don't have much any faith in the show's producers. I hear she's, uh, married to the Green Arrow? And maybe runs the Watchtower or something?

( Rest of the days )