| Recovering from facial lacerations |
[24 May 2013|03:43pm] |
So, my story takes place in a yet to be determined modern American city, and basically the main character ends up with a cut starting at the corner of his mouth and going about 2 inches across his cheek. It's done with a box-cutter in unhygienic conditions, and it will be several hours before he can get treatment for it. (Maybe longer? I'm not sure if that would be plausible or not) Since the only medical care he has access to is a kind of shady mob doctor, it's going to scar up pretty nasty.
I've already found some resources on how to patch him back up, but I can't find any information about the healing process. How long will it be till he can do much talking? Would it be likely that he would have a slight speech impediment? Would he have to go on a liquid diet, and for how long? Also, how long would the stitches need to stay in for?
I've had some luck googling facial oral lacerations, and I've also tried searching for things related to Glasgow/Chelsea smile/grins.
Thanks in advance!
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[24 May 2013|06:04pm] |
FREE FOR ALL FRIDAY
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| Steak Flatbread Pizza |
[21 May 2013|05:00pm] |
2nd Installment of Flatbread Pizzas. Last time, I gave you my Vegan Flatbread. Well, today - we meet on the other side of the spectrum.
For more check out: The Realistic Housewife
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| Meat Jun! |
[21 May 2013|10:28am] |
A little battered and fried (in a pan I believe) bulgogi served up at Seoul Korean BBQ in Burbank. You sometimes see the Fish Jun but rarely the meat. I believe it is very popular in Hawaii but seldom available west of there. More about this little family run restaurant here.
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| Lobster Roll Salad |
[21 May 2013|12:14am] |
I was recently inspired (by Michelle Bernstein, who is my BFF. Not really. But she did talk to me. I promise. Go look at it on my blog.) to get a little more creative with salad. I took a beloved, traditional dish — the lobster roll — and transformed it into a lower carb salad version that was a little lighter on the mayonnaise and butter. The tangy, fresh lobster salad on the bright butter lettuce felt so springy and happy, but the garlic butter croutons were the piéce de resistance. Mike sliced up some juicy watermelon for dessert, making this a quintessential (and amazing) spring meal.
( recipe + photo of my dessert :)Collapse )
To see Michelle Bernstein giving us salad tips (!!! I'm a little star-struck.), read about my salad troubles, and see more photos, please head over to Willow Bird Baking!
x-posted to food_porn, picturing_food, cooking, cookingupastorm
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| best official merchandise ever |
[24 May 2013|09:09pm] |
oh my god. so i was browsing ebay for blake's 7 merchandise (as you do)(mostly i don't buy it - i just pin it to my pinterest and go 'TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS OF SHIPPING? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?') and i stumbled across...
oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. i hurt from laughing.
a) why does this exist? and b) why is it more than four minutes long?? i just - love how awful it is (and the idea of people dancing to this for over four minutes) so much. that is the sort of con i want to go to. perhaps i will write to 'nine worlds' and say this to them: i will definitely go to your con if you play this. and get chris barrie and paul cornell to dance to it.
it makes doctor in distress look a bit sensible (a bit. at least they wrote some lyrics).
i assume people who care already know about this (woe, old fandom, woe), but... maybe you will be again entertained by its existence.
oh my god.
anyway.
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| Why Can't My Fantasy Life Be Real? (just wond'rin) |
[24 May 2013|01:48pm] |
Today feels a little fantastical.
I'm home today, didn't go in to work, sort-of-sick, left over from really-being-sick last weekend. And that leftover sort-of-sick has added to the feeling of somewhat separated from reality that I've been experiencing all day (for the better part of a week, truth be told).
But wait a sec, let me finish reading (re-reading, actually, for the who knows how manyth time) this last chapter of This Time by one of my favorite authors ever,  subversa.
Okay. Done.
My biggest question after reading that story is: why am I not Hermione Granger, in my seventh year of wizarding education, head-over-heels with the "new" exchange student in our year. For, truth be told, I think I am head-over-heels with that student, it's the pesky little thing of it being all in my head... call you Adin, indeed.
The other factors adding to this little bit of unreality are my new pieces of art by two of my favorite artists ever, now two of my favorite new fandom friends, sempraseverus and  foxestacado. And here we are getting closer to the truth of the matter: it's because of Misti-con! Going to Misti-con has put a serious crimp in my perception of real vs imagined life!
You know how sometimes you think, "wouldn't it just be great if everyone felt about fandom the way I do, if everyone thought that the best way to spend all day was thinking about my favorite characters, imagining them in new escapades, reading new stories about them, viewing new artwork, dressing up as them, etc?" Well, when you go to con, that suddenly becomes your real life. And with a con experience that is as intimate and all-enveloping as Misti is, can't you see how easy it is to get a little confuzzled as to what's real life and what's fantasy? And wow - it doesn't help matters when I decide to read one of my favorite stories EVER about Severus and Hermione.
Hmmm.... I'm a little torn, to be honest. Not that real life is bad or anything, but I think I might just keep this fantasy feeling going for a bit longer. Maybe I'll sort through my con photos (that link should work if we're FB friends; send me a friend request if we're not and you want to see them), try to decide which ones I'll share here. And either decide on another old favorite story to read or maybe listen to some Cabin Pressure episodes to keep me entertained for the rest of the day.
So how is everyone else doing? :)
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[24 May 2013|09:58am] |
more comments.more posts later - for now:
a) today's xkcd is really good (alt text in particular). but not funny.
b) my ESTA expires in 30 days! noooo - america, we are parted once more! (until i get another one). i'm actually really pleased they emailed me to tell me, as i was just working on the assumption that at some point i would probably be stopped at the airport and made to sign up on some pay-by-the-minute machine upstairs (which is how i got my first ESTA).
c) bank holiday on monday! and i am thinking of taking some days off, because work is so sloooooow at the moment.
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| I picked a bad time to fall in love with a show. |
[23 May 2013|11:22pm] |
Really, Hannibal was destined to break my heart: Bryan Fuller doing an NBC show? That doesn't even have an official fate after the upfronts? Tears and pain. But this is also just a bad time: I'm going on a trip starting next Thursday, so I won't get to watch next week's Hannibal until a week from Monday at the earliest, and I'm officially moving starting either tomorrow or Tuesday (depending on when we get the keys), so it's not unlikely there'll be dish/Internet disruption after that.
It isn't just Hannibal that'll be hard to fit, of course - Gerard and Mikey's Aquabats episode is coming up (the timing seems disputed, but I'm thinking it's late June/early July?), and I'm going to miss the Teen Wolf premiere, the Game of Thrones finale, and probably an episode or two of Mad Men. But Hannibal's the one that's really making me hug my pillow dramatically. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE TIME I GET WITH THE SHOW. IT CAN'T LEAVE ME. ;___;
( I even got a sprawling crossover idea, which is really how you know I'm in trouble.Collapse )
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| Milestone passed |
[24 May 2013|01:10am] |
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Gauntlet progress: Finished chapter 7 and started on chapter 8, and that brings the total up to 102 pages / 44k words. I passed 100 pages! \o/
I also had to split the outline for 7 into two chapters, so that bumps the expected count up to 13, though more splits are certainly likely before I get to the end. Conversation scenes really lengthen a story, especially OT4 stuff. I'm thinking that Morgana and Gwen may end up with expanded roles in A Bird of Paradise, but I'll deal with that once Gauntlet is finished. They have nice big roles for the middle of Gauntlet, at least.
Ahh, feels so good to be writing again. So good! It is my happy place. Hopefully I can plow through 8 by the weekend and then sort out how knotty 9 is going to be.
Crossposts: http://versaphile.dreamwidth.org/1954083.html.
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| Earthquake just now |
[23 May 2013|09:00pm] |
Weird lateral earthquake sensation here, sliding horizontal movements that feel sort of like vertigo effects. This was about fifteen minutes ago. Hanging stuff was swaying.
USGS says there was a 5.7 earthquake in the Sierra, 11 km WNW of Greenville CA, followed by a second one of 3.5 magnitude 10 km NW of Greenville. We're about 150 - 200 miles SW of there, depending on which road you take.
USGS site is showing zero on the depth of the quake, but I don't know if that will change.
I hope it hasn't caused much damage up there.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
ETA: local news had phone interview with someone in Greenville, no damage, just a few dishes falling. They said they're about 60 miles from a major fault and not far from Mt. Lassen. There's been 8 aftershocks.
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| Overdose treatment in early 20th century Russia |
[23 May 2013|06:02pm] |
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What was the treatment for an opiate overdose in early 20th century Russia? The year is around 1910-1925. (The world is not quite the same as ours so there's some wiggle room here.) I poked around Google looking for 'historical overdose treatment', 'laudanum overdose', etc. (and I tried on runet a bit) but all I can really find is general information on famous Victorian so-and-sos who might have died that way and advice for real life people who have access to modern medicine. From what I understand, this would have been just before mechanical respirators and EKGs were in common use, and quite a long time before naloxone or other opioid antagonists. (EDIT: I also just checked Notes of a Young Doctor by Mikhail Bulgakov, in case it's useful to anyone, the titular doctor treats a diphtheria patient who's choking to death with a camphor injection and a trach, but I'd rather my characters was up and talking the next morning.) Patient injected morphine, is currently unconscious and not breathing well. Thanks for the help in advance.
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| New fic! |
[23 May 2013|12:48pm] |
As promised, here's the story I posted last night:
"So gimme all you've got (I can take it)" (AO3 | DW)
Bandom (MCR), NC-17, 2400 words, Ray/Frank, for ![[community profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) bandom_meme
Ray's played a bunch of different types with Frank, and he doesn't always take the lead. But he's usually the virgin, not the teacher.
Yay porn! Yay roleplay porn where people are pretending to be sex workers! I needed to write something that wasn't me trying to tie in themes and build things and everything that my BBB is. It felt great to write.
And if you haven't done so yet, feel free to drop me a number at the AO3 work meme! :D
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| Champions League Starting Line-Ups Are Out |
[23 May 2013|10:23am] |
UPDATE - Congratulations to Wolfsburg and Muller for a stunning penalty to win the game!
Lyon:
Bouhaddi; Franco, Renard, Georges, Bompastor; Henry, Necib, Abily; Thomis, Schelin, Rapinoe
Wolfsburg:
Vetterlein; Wensing, Henning, Hartmann, Popp; Blasse, Kessler, Goessling, Muller; Jakabfi, Pohlers
They are warming up at Stamford Bridge already.
Prediction: Popp to score the winner <3 (Hope springs eternal!)
Good Luck to both teams - but a little more to Wolfsburg ;)
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| that clinking clanking sound |
[23 May 2013|10:02am] |
you probably already saw this around the internet yesterday, but amazon are attempting to monetise fanfic - well, fanfic for gossip girl, vampire diaries and a show (?) i've never heard of, anyway. more licences are 'on the way,' but i can't really imagine the beeb linking up with amazon in what could easily become a highly undesirable media situation (but maybe they will. they did sign away doctor who to virgin all those years ago [and virgin proceeded to put in sex and drugs and moral quandaries], but that was all those years ago), so let's face it - this thing probably won't directly affect me.
but! my two cents anyway: personally i think it sounds like an idea that was cooked up by some people who ain't never read a fanfic. and worse - who don't even understand their own business model. amazon works because it's cheaper and more convenient than other sales outlets: what they're trying to launch now is more expensive and less convenient than what we already have. so...
basically i can't imagine it will really succeed in any measurable way. but - maybe it will. or maybe it won't, but it will still make things a bit annoying in the real world fandom.
john scalzi has some thoughts about why it's a sucky business plan. although he doesn't seem to give credence to the thing that x_los instantly flagged when i told her about this, which is that it's possible that WB and amazon will try and crack down on 'unauthorised' fanfic on the internet.
scalzi says 'of course you can still write your fanfic and post it elsewhere on the internet! lots of fic isn't allowed on amazon, for various reasons, so it's nothing to do with them' but... that's kind of a stupid way of looking at things, because the only way amazon's thing will ever work (see above) is if there isn't an equally easy way of getting almost exactly the same thing from someone else for no money. AO3 has a 'download for kindle!' option. so anyone who knows what they're doing will go there or to any one of the many other sites they already use for fanfic.
this means that either amazon are relying on a lot of people who like gossip girl and want gossip girl fanfic BUT who have never actually read any gossip girl fanfic (and thus don't know where to find it - i would estimate this is a small number of people). OR... they are going to try and do something about the other sources of fanfic on the internet. which is potentially worrying.
of course, whatever they do won't stop the unauthorised fanfic (fandom is very good at secretly sharing things creators would rather we didn't amongst ourselves) but it could make it more difficult to find. which would be annoying.
on the plus side! maybe it will be TIME FOR THE ZINE TO RISE AGAIN! (i have been thinking about zines a lot recently). this is not much of a plus side, though.
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| While I finish this bandom_meme fill. |
[22 May 2013|08:23pm] |
I was going to link to my fic in this post, but it's taking a little longer than I would have thought, so I'll put up a link after I wake up (and more people are around).
In the meantime!
( Wednesday reading.Collapse )
And a fic meme:
I have 165 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 165 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.
I put 165 because it will be that number when the new story's up (if you pick 1, I'll tell you tomorrow), but...165? When did that happen?
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| Wednesday reading meme |
[22 May 2013|09:36pm] |
What I've been reading
I read the latest two Roma Sub Rosa books and also the second collection of short stories. I'm still not sure what the materialistic explanation for some of the supernatural-seeming goings-on in The Judgment of Caesar is actually supposed to be, but I totally ship Cleopatra/Caesar/Ptolemy now. Bisexual incestuous threesomes are my preferred method of conflict resolution.
Then I was in a very Latinate mood and I flicked through X-Treme Latin, one of Henry Beard's collections of ridiculous things translated into Latin. I'm a sucker for any old dumb joke if it's translated into Latin. Also, 'SpongoRobertum QuadratoBracatum'.
I reread T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT and Suit, which is still the only place I have ever heard or seen thongs referred to as "t-backs". Kind of middling Konigsburg, but I do like Chloë and her dieresis as a narrator. And at least all the items in the unwieldy list title are of equally great significance to the plot, unlike some other titles I could mention. Well, t-shirts are iffy compared with the others, but I'll let them slide.
I read/reread Neil Gaiman's Make Good Art Speech with the bonus fancy typography for gift-giving and such. It is very attractive as a physical object and it is a nice speech.
I read Holly Black's new middle-grade book, Doll Bones, which is nicely creepy but I felt like the kid characters were a little too self-aware or too articulate about being right on the cusp of being Too Old to Play With Dolls. It's a fine line to walk and I tend to prefer not saying anything outright that you can imply vaguely instead.
I read Why Read the Classics?, which collects the titular essay and 35 introductions/essays/bits of literary miscellany by Calvino, who is of course always interesting about anything, including the books I haven't read yet or never plan to.
I really enjoyed Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue, an entertaining survey of implicit or explicit lesbians in literature, grouped into six categories or tropes: the Travesties (that is, cross dressers, in both directions), the Inseparables, the Rivals, Monsters, Detection and Out. I particularly liked that she included a lot of medieval and Renaissance materials, since that's one of my things.
The Shadow of the Sun is A.S. Byatt's first novel and the last one I hadn't read. My copy has a nice new introduction by the author, who is always good at writing about people who write and writing about her own writing. As for the book itself, well…it's like a dry run at the Frederica Quartet, only all the characters are seriously 100x more annoying. (I loved the Frederica Quartet, but let me tell you, it was certainly not because of how completely non-annoying the protagonists were.) Byatt is so worried about making her girl-who-goes-to-Cambridge character a Mary Sue that she goes overboard in the opposite direction, making her a dull and incurious slab. Meanwhile, the older academic who grooms her, seduces her, dominates her (although not, mysteriously, employing any of the breathlessly-alluded-to-but-never-elaborated-upon sadistic practices with which he makes his wife's life a misery during his affair with her), impregnates her and finally entraps her is so goddamn creepy that I could throw up. On the other hand, it is Byatt, so it is all beautifully written with lots of nicely observed little moments.
I also read On Histories and Stories, which collects some of Byatt's essays about writing, including her own.
What I'm reading now
I have this book, Antigones, which looks great, except the beginning is all about Hegel and I hate Hegel so it's kind of a slog.
What I'm reading next
If I knew, I'd probably be reading it now instead of posting here. I think I may just amputate this part of the meme in the future unless I have something specific in mind.
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