Internet win of the day: 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling. I'm tempted to send this to all my clients, but I think it would just confuse them...

So that bit of genius was ganked from nefernat, who ganked it from Neil Gaiman, who has a really intriguing non-answer to the very last question of this interview. Hypothetically, were this to be true, I might possibly be a little unbearably giddy. Just warning ya.

P.S. Forgot to mention that I did see Statuesque the other night (Gaiman's holiday story with Bill Nighy and Amanda Palmer0. It was whimsical and charming and all, but um, I was really scratching my head there at the end. If anybody cares to explain it in comments, I'd love to hear, because I'm feeling a bit dumb.

It's been a long time since I've sunk into a good H/D fic, but the title of this one caught my eye: Says The Magpie To The Morning (Sorrow, Take Your Own Advice). So I had to click...

When Blaise finally comes, I've stopped paying attention and moved on to planning what to wear to lunch at L'Oranger with Mother tomorrow and wondering whether to order the navarin d'agneau or the filet de saumon. He collapses on top of me, his ragged breath warm against the curve of my neck. With a bored sigh, I push him off and sit up.

The salmon, I decide. Laurent tends to overcook the lamb.

This is the Draco I've always adored most -- older and at least a bit wiser, cynical as hell about love, still so damn prideful tho his cracks are getting harder and harder to spackle. It's a really simple story, not much plot at all, but I highly recommend it if you're drawn to the gorgeous messiness and terror of love.

Oh dear. Amazon.co.uk is a dangerous place to wander into with Christmas money. Damn their irresistible box-set sales!

I've spent the past few days in a blur of movie watching/knitting. I watched Dorian Gray, 500 Days of Summer, An Education, Moon, My Favorite Year, and A Film With Me In It. No, there's no pattern there, but my dad's lap quilt is now a metre-square and just might be done by his birthday at the end of January. If my hands don't fall off first.

Also, this:



*bouncy bouncy bouncy* Is it January 10th yet?

I just took on Winsor Pilates for the first time, and I lost. I had no idea I was this out of shape!

Time to flop on the couch and watch the season finale of Beautiful People... yes, again. And you can't tell me they haven't watched AWZ. I swear I heard strains of "Unzertrennlich" playing during the tabletennis rooftop confessional! (Is anybody else watching this show besides omarandjohnny? And if not, then why not?!!! Take Glee, make the musical numbers glitter even more, swap out the moralistic lesson-per-episode with naughty innuendo, slap on an extra heavy coat of campy sparkle, and you've got this show. So much love!)

Oh, -17C? That must be why I'm shivering. I've got to go pick up my new glasses today, but I'm really not so keen on going out. This is forehead-freezing weather, people, when those ice crystals start forming in your eyelashes.

On the plus side, if it stays below zero for awhile the canal should freeze well. I'm already craving beavertails!

*sigh* I should bundle up now. *bundles*

Christmas is next week? When the hell did that happen?

I owe a real update soon, but it won't be today. Suffice is to say that real life is surreal these days, blending with fandom in unexpected and amazing ways. Instead, have a snowy picture:



I took ton of pictures yesterday, and as usual there was only one I liked -- it's the lines of the buildings and the railing, kinda flow-y. By the way, that's the Rideau Canal, aka my skating rink. The snow's pretty, but it's going to be ages before it freezes at this rate. It's hardly ever open for skating before Christmas, I know, but every year I hope.

Got to bundle up now, I'm off to Slasher's brunch with my girls!

(from HuffPo.)

Oh, poor preacher man, having to watch the pretty boys making out.

And I bet he has a whole 'nother list on the other side, with offensive stuff like "cat people" and "vegetarians." Wow, I'm going to hell in at least a dozen ways. Anybody going to keep me company?

...well, more of a commercial, really. I'm quite proud of how the Statue of Liberty bleeds into Deniz peeling off Roman's shirt...




In other news, I'm worried about something, dreading something else, and disappointed that something I'd hoped would happen hasn't (yet). If the third thing would happen, it would definitely take my mind off the first two thing, at least for a little while. /cryptic.

I just described the amount of stir-fry on my plate as "orgasmically huge." Can you tell somebody's trying to write pr0n?

Public Service Announcement #1: InsaneJournal's running a permanent account sale for the next month. I know I've got some new friends at IJ *cuddles you all* and if you can at all afford it, this is a very good deal. *cuddles my 500 icons*

Public Service Announcement #2: Speaking of things that must be purchased despite being unreasonably outrageously priced: the Gays of Our Lives con FINALLY got their website up and running. Looks like all the DeRo-centric stuff is scheduled for Saturday; I'd love to try to swing the VIP ticket, seeing as it's for charity and all, but it'll be tight. And to be honest, the other stuff doesn't appeal. (Brunch? Do I really want to see these people in the morning... or have them see me before I've downed a bucket of coffee? shellydkitty and aldiara can verify that it ain't pretty.) But there will be an EKP kinda thingy there during some of the free time, and we will have to get our "AWZ: This show's not for wimps" t-shirts.

Anybody else thinking of going?

So aldiara and I are rewatching DeRo v.1 together, and I haz thoughts...



And now? Now an intervention is required before I set out to make an AWZ moodtheme. Somebody handcuff me to my laptop and make me work, please!

This is a totally random question, but we are befuddled by a Turkish word used on our German soap. It sounds like "shoe-pus" and might be spelled şöpaz or çepaz or shöpas or [insert your own spelling], and it's just baffling us. (Well, baffling aldiara anyway, because she's awesome like that and won't rest until she cracks it.)

In context, one character is complaining about her family and her boyfriend says he could get his brothers to beat everyone up, and she replies, "Yes, then the [shöpaz] would be over." So we're thinking it's something like "drama" or "idiocy" or "trouble", but none of those meanings are churning out anything that remotely looks like şöpaz or çepaz or shöpas.

Here's the 15 second clip where they use it. Repeatedly.

Any thoughts?

ETA: OK, so a query at linguaphiles turned up... well, nothing, other than that it's probably a made-up word. Or possibly slang Turkish used in Germany. But with native speakers as baffled as we are, we don't feel so bad.

SOLVED! Thanks to frogspace and gin_tonic who explained it's a faux-Turkish pronunciation of 'Spaß'. THANK YOU!

Tonight I started posting my fics on A03, and I just have to say: SHINY!!!! I'm totally geeking all over the little icons. And the page layout is so sleek and readable! Love it! *pets lots* Tonight I got up all my Alles Was Zählt stories -- and if you guessed that "angst" would be my most popular tag, you would be right!

Only thing that's not so shiny is that although I got my account a week ago, I was waiting to see if they might sort out the umlaut (or lack thereof) problem before I posted. Didn't expect someone to dive in there first and enter things like "Deniz Ozturk" and "Alles Was Zahlt" *winces in pain* I went ahead and entered everything spelled correctly, and I'm hoping the tag wranglers will realise that Ozturk=Oeztuerk and connect them. (Not that it's a big fandom or zillions of people will be confused or anything. Correct spelling is just one of my pet peeves inherited from my grandfather, who always insisted he was "Ó Briain, not O'Brian, for feck's sake!")

Anyway! Tomorrow I'm moving on to Merlin, then Harry Potter -- tonight I entered everything manually, but I think I just might play around with the spiffy importing feature. I have fewer stories in those fandoms, but they're longer/in multiple posts.

Beta means we're supposed to try to break things, right? *g*

Bedtime now. And I've still got the same grin I've been wearing for hours!

...so I'll borrow someone else's words: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of a large bandwidth must be in want of German pseudo-porn starring a pair of gay ice skaters. And if Internet legend holds, every time a new subscription is added to Eskimo Kiss Project, somewhere in the world a fangirl gets her wings."



This is the most fabulous fandom in the entire world! *loves all of you to bits*

P.S. In other news of sparkly awesomeness, I am figuring out a new vidding program and also just made my first DVD with menus. Technology, ye shall be conquered yet!

Hello, dear neglected f-list. Long time no see.

I'm not having a good weekend at all, and today I am closer than I've ever been to tossing my laptop off the roof and joining a commune that disavows that Demon Electricity.


Gah, it feels like all I ever do these days is bitch about technical stuff, sorry for that, but if it would just throw me a fucking bone I would not have to. Aldi and I have already vowed never to take streaming episodes for granted again; now I long for those blissful days when I could complete the entire conversion-editing-rendering process without wanting to bludgeon something.

In happier news, we did close the gap between our old timeline (the AWZ episodes that aired long before we started EKP) and the current storyline we're covering. It's quite an accomplishment -- we've got nearly 500 videos! Not to mention, tons of love from all the viewers. *cuddles you lot*

And we got this adorable comment from some poor naive soul: I was just wondering about the description for one of the episodes. It said "Marian's totally proud of his lover Etienne evading the police". This made me a little confused... did Marian have a thing with Etienne and Mike? I'm a little confused. I thought he was with Nadja? Could you clear this confusion up for me? Aw, bless. No, Schatz, much as we like to pretend that everybody on this show is gay, that's just in our imaginations. SO FAR.

Well, it's time to get back to work and see if I can't battle this into submission. We've got an episode to get out!

OMG you guys!!! I'm in the spoiler pics for AWZ's new year's episode!!!!!



Oh, also, this clip showed up on RTL today, one of the most gorgeous skating scenes AWZ's ever filmed. Biased, yeah, shup. But seriously, guys, I'm just blown away. Especially since this was the actors themselves, not skating doubles! I can't believe how good these two have gotten, especially DG -- he may hate skating, but of late he's shown a comfort on the ice that just leaves me gobsmacked. Go, look at the pretty!!

GERMAN HACKER KIDS RULE!!!!!!



That is all.