Title: "All I know is that I Should"
Author: Lil Jei
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: Noone but Tony and his unrequited love
Rating: PG
Word Ct:???
Warning: Introspective little angsty piece
Summary/A/N/Disclaimer: Tony's finding his way towards freedom. UnBeat'd and rough and all in the moment fic inspired by Missy Higgins "Where I Stood." Oh yeah the characters and show ain't mine just the angst.  

Tilting his head into the fading sunshine he rolled his shoulders. And rubbing his toes in the deep grass he thinks a little bit more. He'd been leaning back in the same posistion for nearly 2 hours. Trying to relax hadn't helped him at all. Because really what did he have to show for his reflective time was the question. The answer staring him back from the bottom of his stubby dirty toes was nothing. Nothing at all had been decided. He knew he needed a change, his vacation to the deep south told him so. He'd never felt so free as he had in the last 2 weeks of his leave time.

A string of bad cases, bad relationships, and a bit of bad everything else had just served to bog him down. He was at the lowest he'd been in years. 10 longs years after meeting Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Tony had once again fallen into a deep pit. It had been lust at first sight. Admiration and hero worship for the next few years. It wasn't until the amnesia, Mexico, Jeanne and more that it had stopped. Everything he'd felt for the man had just stopped and morphed before him. All the crap that had fallen at his feet had made his heart turn from a slow burning love to a quick a firey disgust and loathing. But now after nearly a decade by Gibbs' side all Tony felt was apathy. It hadn't been until he'd been shot again and forced into taking leave that he'd decided to not only escape the city but escape the team and his old life as well.

He didn't know who he was anymore. He looked into the mirror most days and barely stopped the tears. He knew a deep d...

Best comedy - Dead Trouble

Best portrayal of Fred / Illyria - The Key to Byzantium

The earlier ones were


Best Movie Crossover, Best Comedy, and Best of British Moderator Award - The Right Technology

Non-BtVS Crossover - Nine Lives

Best Portrayal of Dawn - Omphalos

So I now have two stories nominated for best comedy - I suppose that in theory I should game it and ask everyone to vote for the one that seems most likely to win, but I have no idea which one that is. Probably Dead Trouble, since The Right Technology is nominated in other categories, but I'm more inclined to leave it for the fans (if any) to decide.

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I apologise for soap-opera style "drama" in this one. But Dean needed to have that conversation. Well, no - Dean needed to be caught having that conversation. It'll be justified in the next part.

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I've decided I'm going to give 14valentines a shot again this year. For those who are unaware of what this community is all about, go check it out. Every day from Feb 1- Feb 14, an essay is posted in the comm about an issue that affects women. It could be domestic violence, body image, health, education, etc... People around LJ participate by posting something in their own journal, linking to the post of that day. Each day, the linked posts are listed for everybody to view and browse.

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Rundown of my day:

Went to my English Novel class at 8:30-10:30, and boy am I never going to dig myself out of all the reading I have to do. Thank goodness I have 5 hours between my first and last class of the day both Mondays and Wednesdays to do nothing but read.

After that class, I dropped my bag off, took a bus up to an Office Max to load up on printer ink, walked back down to the U-District with a stop by my bank, and also went to the University Bookstore where I bought my textbooks. Irritatingly, my English Novel class actually really needs the editions she specified, so I had to buy second copies for two of the books I'd already bought. The only good thing about this is now I can freely annotate those big books for the class.

Lugged all my books back to the dorm, made a PB&J sandwich, went out to the HUB and finished reading the section of Northanger Abbey for Wednesday with 2 hours to spare. I'll need to go back through it and annotate it, but I'm feeling the 5-hour break.

Went to my last class of the day at 3:30-4:50. Shawn Wong, I get the feeling, is going to be an awesome teacher. Plus, he's teaching the class in a "paperless" style, so I won't be killing anywhere near how many trees I did for 284. Yay! The only downside to the class is how late it goes, which during the winter means I'm walking home in the dark, if I'm not going out on the Ave for dinner. Blegh.

Ate dinner at UTeriyaki, but my legs are definitely feeling achy, which I get the feeling comes from the 2 weeks I got snowed in at home. Blah.

Tomorrow I have my Classics and Scifi & Fantasy classes, and hopefully those will be great, or at least passable. Then I'll go down to the B&N in UVillage and reward myself with cheesecake. Mmmmmm. And on Wednesday I'll go to the comic store and catch back up with the Buffy comics I missed. Yay!

So, all in all, a pretty good first day if I ignore how much I pai...

Got tagged by strangevisitor7 to list my top five fav stories (that I wrote) and decided to take this on, if only to remind myself of what I've written over the past 12 months.

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I've just spent 20 minutes trying to find a power supply to replace the one for my network hard disk, which I thought had died after I accidentally unplugged it.

Then realised that unlike its predecessor, this drive box fails safe by staying switched off until you press the on button again. Not quite so convenient, but probably a lot better for the hard disk.

Title: In Another Life (12/22+Epilogue)
Author: lyl_devil
Rating: PG-15
Fandom: BtVS, Numb3rs
Pairing: Willow/Don
Beta: strangevisitor7 & kallie_kat
Words: ~37,500 (as of Dec 28, 2008)
Disclaimer: I don’t own either show. I just like to play in their sandboxes.

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To the person who nominated my Doctor Who/Discworld crossover, Guess Who's Coming to Tea? at the forbiddenawards: Thank you so much! Unfortunately, however, I can't accept the nomination as I'd already been nominated for the Doctor Who crossover category - house rules:-)

Another drabble on the theme of mistaken identity - previous stories are here

This one's fairly obvious...

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I'm going to beauty school. And I couldn't be happier.


Artist: Eveline Tarunadjaja

Snagged From buffy_the_vamp6 

Rules: Give me a fandom and I'll name!

Favorite character:
Least favorite character:
Character with the best hair:
Character with the best eyes:
Character I'd most want to kiss:
Character I'd most likely shag:
Character I'd make lunch for:
Character I'd go singing in the rain with:
Character I'd go shopping with:
Character I'd go dancing with:
Character I'd take over the world with:
Character I most want to see more of:
Favorite het pairing:
Favorite slash pairing:

Wot I have wrote this 2008: 

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"Nothing"

Despair looms
Dark clouds heave
Dreams shattered
Depression takes hold

Tears marr less than perfection
Troubled thoughts make visible tracks
Truth becomes the cold 
Tracing the wetness heating the skin

Loss and love linger
Lined up between the two
Losing the game
Longing to be on the inside and outside all at once

Becoming all that was once lost
Beloved to none
Beleagured still
Because of this the tears fall

Praying for strength
Purged of the loss
Pursued by the love
Pleased by nothing, all found wanting

Never happy
Never upset
Nearly always torn in two
Nothing happens, nothing begun, nothing at all.

~J. Jan. 2009.

~Yea the muse was looming tonight. Sad and sappy does not make for a happy night. Heck it's not even the greatest poem but I was playing with alliteration and am a little more than appreciative of all of it. I rarely edit the suckers unless they're drastically dissapointing but alas this one isn't too terrible. It's times like these that I wish I was still in my college creative writing club...at least there I had a sounding board.

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Yeah, that’s what I really am. My face, it does not lie.

You know the drill by this point. Here's all my Veronica Mars fic, indexed by character.

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The Watchmen movie is one of the most eagerly awaited movies in 2009.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/

However, there is a big hitch, really big.
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/01/new-watchmen-pe.html
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117997778.html?categoryid=22&cs=1&query=watchmen

So, it's up in the air if come March, the movie will actually see the light of day. And I was so looking forward to seeing the movie.

Title: Not Quite Queen of the Damned
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Veronica Mars
Rating: Mostly worksafe, but possibly borderline
Summary: Faith and Vi hire Keith to investigate Phoenix Land Trust, Cassidy's old company. Is its business being conducted from beyond the grave?


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MEMORIES

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Finished settling back in. Yay!

And my sister made it back home okay in spite of new snow coming down (which is now sticking to the ground). Double yay!

50 Books in a Year 2008 Final Update:

42. Neuromancer by William Gibson
43. Naruto #27 by Masashi Kishimoto
44-46. Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, and Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop

I didn't finish all the way to 50 new books read, sadly, but I did read way more than 50 books in total, so I'm okay with that.

I made a mention in passing about mice in our apartment in my last entry, but now my room is (hopefully) de-mice-d. I caught 2 with one trap, even. I just hope no more manage to make it up the stairs and into my room again. *shudders*

Tomorrow will be one really long shopping day as I get the books I haven't gotten yet, catch up on the Buffy comics, and pick up some black ink (because I really, really need black ink now). At least, after I finish classes. I'm wincing a bit since I start at 8:30 and don't finish until 4:50 tomorrow, but I need to get back into the swing of not sleeping for 12 hours a day, or something close to it. On the bright side...I get Fridays off! Yay!

I bought my sister Batman Begins and Dark Knight (sort of a late Christmas present), and I believe she was entertained. She didn't return them to me, at any rate.

[One of Wayne Enterprises' accountants has traced the money and figured out that Bruce Wayne must be Batman, and confronts Lucius Fox]
Coleman Reese: I want $10 million a year, for the rest of my life.
Lucius: [take an incredulous pause before speaking] Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands...and your plan is to blackmail this person? [pauses, smiles] Good luck. ...

Today in 1893 U.S. President Benjamin Harrison declared full amnesty for Mormon polygamists. Is it the government's place to define which marriages are valid and which are not?


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You're expecting me to say an emphatic "NO!", right?  Well, not so emphatic.  True, I don't believe that it should be restricted to just marriage between a man and a woman.  On the other hand, the government does have benefits and such for married people so obviously they can't be totally uninvolved.  I have no clue how it all works but I can imagine that having multiple wives or husbands could create problems or complications when it comes to taxes and other things like bank accounts, etc.  In that case, I can see that being prohibited.  Not because it's wrong and immoral but for political reasons.  Reasons that I can't even begin to conjecture so there you go.  A definition has to be in place and I don't think it should be up to churches solely when it's the government that will have to go with it.  Someone suggested getting rid of the term marriage so the social norm of it being only man and woman will be gone.  The problem is that right now, that will be very hard.  We'd have to give it a new verb, a new term, to easily refer to the situation.  I mean, "we are in a civil union/domestic partnership" doesn't have the same ring as "we are married."  Of course, the problem is that there are people who are very religious and don't want the term marriage in relation to same-sex couples.  We won't ever agree.  Use a different word for same-sex "marriages" and you mark them as different.  Yes, they aren't the "norm" but they'll be singled out anyway without legally discriminating.  Yes, discriminating.  I stick by my wording.  Which side do I take?  Change the definition to be encompassing.  People are afraid that this will open marriage up to even more out of the...

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I watched the movie 1408 with my dad last night (he insisted it was a scary movie; it wasn't scary.  I wasn't jumping at any scenes.  Now The Grudge (and The Grudge 2), I jumped during those, but 1408? not even close to being scared.  Although the concept was interesting.  But this isn't a movie review).

Maybe it's just me, but John Cusack looks sort of like Dustin Hoffman (were Dustin Hoffman younger).  I mean a very slight resemblence, but...yeah, maybe it's just me.

And I'm going to Disneyland tomorrow yay!...just to get out of the house and so my mom can have some time to herself (we've been bothering her these past few weeks of winter vacation).  But yay I'm excited about that (last time I went was in my senior year of high school and I mostly shopped and rode very few rides except the haunted mansion one (because I love that one) and the muppet 3-D show among some others).

And my friend's moving to Seattle, Washington at the end of this month :( from now on, all my friends will be fictional friends from TV shows and books :( I'm not looking forward to the end of this month at all.  But I guess things have to change in life but why does my friend have to move away?  When she does, I'll have no friends to hang out with (which is weird; I never hang out with any friends...that's because I hardly have any, a, and b, I'm not much for hanging out outside of school, choir, random get-together-ness when we make a plan to hang out on a day, so...)

(Re: icon.  I've never used this one before but have always wanted to 'cause it looks so pretty but no one can really read the Buffy quote that I've put on the icon.  But yay for the pretty flower!)(The flower has recently died, btw.  About a couple years back.  It's become a theme whenever we plant something.  It always ends up dying...when we pay no attention to it.)(The flower will live on in my icon.)

I only made it until May last year http://trinfaneb.livejournal.com/25277.html (mostly because I started playing World of Warcraft again) but hopefully this year I will stick with it until the end :)

Jan.
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Utah St. vs TCU (tivo)
Sun Bowl (Pitt vs ?) (tivo)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "Samson & Delilah" (tivo, repeat)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "The Mousetrap" (hulu.com)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "Allison from Palmdale" (hulu.com)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "Goodbye to All That" (hulu.com)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "The Tower Is Tall But the Fall Is Short" (tivo)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "Brothers of Nablus" (hulu.com)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "Mr. Ferguson is ill today" (hulu.com)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "Complications" (tivo)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point" (tivo)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "Self-Made Man" (tivo)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "Alpine Fields" (tivo)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- "Earthlings Welcome Here" (tivo)
The Unit -- Hector gets killed (half episode, repeat, tivo)
The Dark Knight (repeat, dvd)

One photograph each day till he died

I read this blog and besides finding it touching, I was also inspired.

Aiden’s photo days

I just want to say right now that I’m not trying to be a copy-cat. I don’t plan on doing this for anyone but me. I’m not trying to capitalize on a possible new movement or gain attention. I’m not saying his idea wasn’t original and I’m sure to him it positively was. That is not to say that I think I am the first to follow his idea and I’m sure others have had similar ideas as well. Or not. I can’t say. I just don’t want anyone trying to belittle my project because I didn’t come up with it myself and that this man’s is now gaining attention so I must be trying to jump on the bandwagon. A little defensive? Probably a bit too much. No one really reads this journal but I do have it public so there is always that chance that someone I don’t know at all will read this and react unfavorably. Okay, I’m also in a typing mood and this was an excuse. Haha.

ANYWAY. I just really need to get back into taking photos regularly and I’m hoping that this will help me work on my photography skills. I also think it will be amusing to keep up these cameras I have now so years down the road I can still use them for this project and compare them to the technology of the day. We’ve come far since he started his project and I don’t doubt that in a few decades, I’ll be seeing the same kind of leaps and bounds. To keep things simple though, I won’t be using my DSLR. For one thing, I don’t want to keep changing back and forth between jpeg and RAW and if I didn’t change things, I don’t want to have to edit the photos each time I plan to put them online. And for another thing, I want to keep them simple. I’m not going to try to make this a grand project to give out one...

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Mmmm. This is an interesting question for me, considering some of the circles I run in. As part of an alternate lifestyle community, I know many people who are polyamourous, and even recently participated in a rather in depth group discussion about that particular lifestyle. One of the things that came up during the discussion was the issue of how many polyamourous families have to deal with the lack of legal rights when only two family members can be married. It can have lasting problems if one member of the family is injured, and especially if the family has children.

The unspoken reason that marriage in the US is defined as a union between two individuals (specifically a man and a woman) is the country's roots in the Christian church, despite the declaration that church and state are separate. An even more interesting question for me; why is that so? When did the church's definition of marriage come to entail a single man and a single woman? Looking at the history of Israel, the Hebrews, and the Jews, marriage was once a polygamous union. One man had many wives, a situation rooted (I believe) in the need for the Hebrew tribes to procreate.

Of course, that's a bit off topic to the question. Should the government be involved in defining marriage? Certainly marriage is a legal affair, which means the government needs to be involved to ensure that participants receive the rights and protection that marriage affords. There also needs to be a set definition of what exactly marriage is, and that is the true question up for debate. The government's involvement is necessary, but it is up to the people to set the definitions.

Yes! I knew there was one out there. I managed to find a full length studio recorded version of my current favorite song, "In Die Nacht" by Tokio Hotel.

I know, I know y'all are giving me that WTF?! look. *scowls and pouts* Shut up!

*squees and goes off to listen to it repeatedly*

Because the Red Dwarf bunnies are nibbling tonight, and I'm apparently feeling a bit contemplative, and I clearly don't know it's a dumb idea to post fic on Sunday night, here's another little piece I thought of while writing the last one. It's set during the time that Lister is in stasis, while Holly is all alone.

Not mine, it's all the property of Grant Naylor and Aunty Beeb.


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One is the Loneliest Number

ninjababeis completely to blame for this ridiculous bunny, however inadvertently. Let it serve as a warning to all that you should be careful what you show me. Also, completely unbeta’d, so any and all comments welcome.

Disclaimer: None of it’s mine, not one little bit, I’m just having some fun.

A/N: This is set about ten years after Dave woke from stasis, but it’s AU from the end of series 6, so there’s none of that whole ‘Dave is his own father’ thing, nanites didn’t eat and then resurrect the ship, fake Kochanski stayed in her own reality and Rimmer is still a smeghead. The boys have successfully found the Dwarf and things are as they should be. Until…

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So far my nominations for the Twisting the Hellmouth "Crossing Over Awards" are:

Best Movie Crossover, Best Comedy, and Best of British Moderator Award - The Right Technology

Non-BtVS Crossover - Nine Lives

Best Portrayal of Dawn - Omphalos

The last one surprises me a lot, because it's a fairly old story, but I'm certainly not going to complain about it!

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
- Winston Churchill

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center
is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
- Blaise Pascal

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
- John F. Kennedy

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles
because they sometimes take a rest."
- Alexandre Dumas

"The least of learning is done in the classrooms."
- Thomas Merton

"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once
in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About
something important, about something real?"
- Ray Bradbury

"I've never struck a woman in my
life, not even my own mother."
- W. C. Fields

"The goal of all inanimate objects is to
resist man and ultimately defeat him."
- Russell Baker

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food
dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."
- Woody Allen

"Anyone who says he can see
through women is missing a lot."
- Groucho Marx

"Vote early and vote often."
- Al Capone

"I never said most of the things I said."
- Yogi Berra

"The stars don't look bigger,
but they do look brighter."
- Sally Ride

"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough
to give but dreadful uneasy to take."
- Josh Billings

"No man remains quite what he
was when he recognizes himself."
- Thomas Mann

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty
being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What
do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
- Jean Kerr

"As I was walking up the stair /
I met a man who wasn't there. /
He wasn't there again today. /
I wish, I wish he'd stay away."
- Hughes Mearns

"Never raise your hand to
your children - it leaves
your midsection unprotected."
- Robert Orben

"I'm convinced there's a small room in
the attic of the Foreign Office where
future diplomats are taught to stammer."
- Peter Ustinov

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns
it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of
murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having
come by their ignorance the hard way."
- Kurt Vonnegut

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"Failure is success if we learn from it."
- Malcolm Forbes

"You know, you can't please all the people
all the time... and last night, all those
people were at my show."
- Mitch Hedberg

"The possible ranks higher than the actual."
- Martin Heidegger

"The nice part about being a pessimist is
that you are constantly being either proven
right or pleasantly surprised. "
- George F. Will

"You must not think me necessarily foolish
because I am facetious, nor will I consider
you necessarily wise because you are grave."
- Sydney Smith

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Graduated from college and lived on my own

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I really don’t remember if I made any...
This year I want to get a full time job (or a couple part time) and move out of California. I also want to get into a regular exercise routine and lose some weight/be more fit/get in shape. It’s not just an image thing, it’s a health thing. I have weird little problems that I want to see if I can fix. Oh, and get health/dental insurance so I can get my teeth checked out and finally see a gynecologist.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Kind of. My great-grandma died at age 90. I used to be a lot closer to her.

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Although it will soon be history these past thirteen years have been filled with misery. We came to school as kittens but now we have our claws which extend from our four paws. Although we've grown an...

We appear to have a new Doctor Who. A thespian named Matt Smith. My reaction when I heard the news was to say- "Who?"
pun intended :)

Speculum Fragilis
By Angelfirenze

Disclaimer: Schwartz and Rowling are responsible for this amalgam. I just had the idea. Oh, and I own Dr. Garrison.
Lyrics are from various sources, usually music I'm listening to while writing. In this case, it was Catherine Feeny's 'Mr. Blue'; the albums, 'Enjoy Incubus!', 'Make Yourself', 'Morning View', and 'A Crow Left of the Murder' all by Incubus;

Summary: Instead, he focused his efforts the same way he did on Ryan, making sure that both knew they were wanted in this house, that both he and Kirsten would do whatever it took to keep them, and that no matter what they did or said, nothing was ever going to get them thrown out of this house like so much garbage.

Fandoms: AU post-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/The O.C., Season One.

Timeline: The O.C. S1, specifically after 'The Rescue'. Post-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I should specify that in order for the two lines to sync up, I moved the start of 'The O.C.' back to the beginning of the summer as opposed to near the end.

Pairings: Harry Potter/Hermione Granger or Harry Potter/Luna Lovegood (I think Harry's going to decide, looks like...), Seth Cohen/Anna Stern.

Notes: And, voilà...!

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After watching the "Vegas" episode from last night's Stargate Atlantis, I was inspired to come up with a Top 10 list featuring all of my favorite bad guys who aren't human.


10. Lucifer (from the film "Prophecy")

The bad guy is played by none other than Viggo Mortensen. What's not to love? Granted, this is satan we're talking about here. But still, he's pretty hot for a bad guy, no? He's got the broody look down pretty good, which is an odd twist for the character. He's not the charismatic good guy that is seen so often in these types. He's enticing in his seduction, and he's brutally honest when considering his views.

"Other angels have made this war because they hate you, you and all humans. God has put you in his grace and pushed them aside. They're desperate. They've never been able to conquer the other loyal angels, and so this war has remained in stalemate for thousands of years. And while this state of affairs endures no soul can meet its god. Your parents, and their parents, and so on from the beginning lie still in wormy earth. Of course, some of them do come to me eventually, for while heaven may be closed I am always open, even on Christmas."

9. Dwayne (from the film "The Lost Boys")

I bet you're wondering how he could possibly be bumped up on the list over Viggo. This guy was my first crush. Well, one of them anyway. Keifer Sutherland was just a blip on the radar. He's just so.... guh. *drools* There's no question of his evilness here. I'll admit that he only made this list because he's hot. I told my Mom about this one on my list and she goes, "Oh right. The one with the dark hair and the big... ...

You are now reading the journal of a girl who officially owns a 2009 Ford Escape - blue!

:D

My thoughts on the casting news:

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Speculum Fragilis
By Angelfirenze

Disclaimer: Schwartz and Rowling are responsible for this amalgam. I just had the idea. Lyrics are from various sources, usually music I'm listening to while writing. In this case, it was the albums, Masterpiece and Bayside, by Bayside. Though, there's a bit of Zero 7's 'Destiny' thrown in at the beginning. *nods*

Summary: It's..." Dumbledore wilted slightly, knowing Molly had no idea how much it cost him to say this. "It is entirely his choice. It is entirely his life..."

Fandoms: AU post-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/The O.C., Season One.

Timeline: The O.C. S1, specifically after 'The Rescue'. Post-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I should specify that in order for the two lines to sync up, I moved the start of 'The O.C.' back to the beginning of the summer as opposed to near the end.

Pairings: Harry Potter/Hermione Granger or Harry Potter/Luna Lovegood (I think Harry's going to decide, looks like...), Seth Cohen/Anna Stern.

Notes: I swear, eventually, I'll get to Harry's doctor's appointment...

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Well, I'm not really sure this counts as a rant exactly... Oh, who am I kidding? By the time I'm done this will be a rant.

Anyway, the back story here is that I'd been working on some Buffy fanfic and decided I needed a break, so I switched to reading some Potter fanfic... This, of course, took me out of a Buffy mind, so I decided to go back and watch some Buffy episodes (was even considering finally buying Buffy's season five) - since it hadn't been that long since I'd went back and watched the first three seasons I decided to start with season four.

The good news is that season four feels much better than I remembered it being. Some things still suck (yes, I mean mostly Riley), but the pay-off that is Primeval covers many many sins. So, much so that I was honestly considering using my Christmas loot to (as I said) finally purchase season five on DVD.

Though I am still bitter over the fight before the goodness - why is it that it never gets mentioned that without Xander Queen Buffy wouldn't even be alive? And I'm not even talking about the big season one save or the big season six save, especially since that one probably shouldn't be called a save at all. But in the first three seasons there is three times that come right to mind that show without Xander Buffy would be dead.
1. In the very first episode (or the second, since they are clumped together on the DVD its hard to tell which episode this happens in) if Xander hadn't went down in the tunnels with Buffy she wouldn't have managed to escape, because he wouldn't have been there to pull her up out of the tunnel.
2. Angelus in the hospital, though I suppose you could argue that Angelus might not have killed her, but it is safe to assume that Angelus with a helpless Buffy would NOT have lead to hugs and puppies.
3. The zombies who were going to blow-up the school. Sure, TeamBuffy was trying to keep the Hellmouth closed, but would that have really matter if the zombies ...

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Jared: "Takes more than flesh and blood to be human."
- Nemesis (1993)

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
- Benjamin Franklin

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
- Ogden Nash

Why torture yourself when life will do it for you?
- Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
- Benjamin Franklin

I am a firm believer in the people. If given
the truth, they can be depended upon to meet
any national crisis. The great point is to
bring them the real facts.
- Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is
false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein

"To punish me for my contempt for authority,
fate made me an authority myself."
- Albert Einstein

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But
I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even
though he cannot at once reveal himself because
of his enormous size.
- Albert Einstein