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[breadandbarricades]

Bread & Barricades: SPECIAL, Les Misérables (2012 film)

Special! We watch the 2012 film and talk: Hugh Jackman (a lot), D&D alignments (again), George Blagden, Horses, Christians (surprisingly), and reading fanfics for SCIENCE. Film/TV mentioned: The Greatest Showman, The Last Jedi, Mamma Mia!, Big Eden, Im...

Now that you’ve got the hang of our structure, we release a SPECIAL! We watch the 2012 film and shittalk actors, enthuse about our favourite Gay Films and talk a LOT about fanfiction. Specifically: 

Sick Leave by Chrissy24601

Encore by SimonBlackchill 

Hear Me by Pastel_Teacups

Sold to the Law by @esteliel

look at the stars, it's written there by carnival_papers

[darkhorse-javert]

As asked by @chrissy-24601, for ‘At Les Deux Chandeliers d'Argent‘

11:What do you like best about this fic?

How easily I could write Javert by then end, and his thoughts about Les Deux and Valjean. Just how well the whole thing turned out really. I had such clear scenes, but I wasn’t sure I could do it justice.

12:What do you like least about this fic?

There is supposed to be one more chapter with Javert returning, and I had a wonderful plotline for it, all very clear. But I couldn’t write it immediately because of RL, now I can only remember snatches.

Maybe you’ll all get it for Christmas, :)

Chrissy, as my beta, please feel free to weigh in if you have any memories about betaing

[spiderfire47]

chrissy-24601 replied to your post: Does anyone have any suggestions for s...

Competitiveness. Wanting to show off for the other and impress them. Men want to impress someone they are in love with, even if they think it is just rivalry. That is why rivalry is so often laden with UST.

Oooh.This is a good idea. I actually already had some of this in the story - ribbing, some “I told you so” moments.  I can ramp that up a bit and play with it.  

thunderofthelaw replied to your post: Does anyone have any suggestions for s...

Lingering glances? Accidental touching? Internal narrative at odds with dialogue? Vaguely suggestive car parts, and discrete smudges of oil?         

Heee.  Vaguely suggestive car parts. :) What do you mean about internal narrative at odds with the dialog?  

This got me thinking about spending some time on describing their hands, as the POV character watches the other character’s grease saturated hands work, nimbly manipulate the tools.  I like writing about hands and I can circle back to that, over and over again - what are the hands doing, imagining what the hands could be doing...etc.  Thank you! 

[apfelstrudelz-blog]

The Fool, the The Hierophant and the Devil?

hey hey

The Fool: Something you've always wanted to try

riding a bike, getting a tattoo, planting a tree, turning my phone off for a week :DD

The Hierophant: Something you believe in

ummm idk i believe in past & future lives, i’m completely okay with turning into space energy)) 

The Devil: Who you talk to when you're dealing with big issues

i shitpost on tumblr lmAO BUT IT’S TRUE, ALL I DO IS CRY INTO THE INTERNET (really i prefer not to talk about my problems w/ anyone i know (well unless i’m asked about it))

[spiderfire47]

chrissy-24601 answered your question “Why is prose so hard?  ”

but doesn't it feel good once it's done? :)

But it’s never done.  It just gets less bad! At some point I just give up.   

It would be easier if I was not so enamored with writing about memory. 

[spiderfire47]

If there is a place in Hell for parents like you, we'll see each other when we get there ;P. (not in that fandom but HOLY... that is one hot needlessly-shirtless kiss)

The Parenting Road to Hell needs to be a story, I think.  Good intentions that go horribly awry.  Innocent and not so innocent mistakes.  Showing kids your worldview, which is yours and important to you and convincing kids it is normal, when you know damned well weirdos like you are hardly the norm. :p 

Honestly, though, 10.5 is turning out to be a lot of fun.  (9, on the other hand, was miserable.  I think the twins will be a very different 9 than K was. We'll see.) K is old enough to have interesting and complex questions, she is reading the books that I remember loving...but the absolute best part is the pre-puberty indignation and embarrassment of all things biological.  It is AWESOME. :P  

[spiderfire47]

Another day, another foot of snow.  This time it comes with hurricane force winds.  Have some more of the answers from this meme.  For chrissy-24601

2. When did you first connect to other people via computers? 

College. I got an email address. Joined some mailing lists. Did usenet.  Was a master at gopher.  The World Wide Web came into existence the year after I graduated.  

When I got to college was also when I first used a mouse.  I remember being SO FRUSTRATED trying to drag things to the trash on the fishbowl macs we had.  I worked tech support in the school computer lab, and I remember installing windows 3.1, where I played countless games of minesweeper.

3. We’re/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other? 

AOL, Netcom, LJ (early adopter account - account #9768 - but that was years later), many listservs, usenet.  

5, Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy? 

Yes and no. 

6. When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?) 

The first cell phone I carried was a brick for work.  That was...oh around 2000.  My first phone was a flip and I got it a couple years later. I am not an early adopter on phones - the tech is years old before I start using it (because it is cheaper that way.) 

7. When did your family first acquire a color TV? 

When I was...around 8 or 9 I think? 

8. When did your family acquire a second TV? 

When the color TV came home, the B&W one went to live in my parent's bedroom. Where my Brother and I watched Knight Rider on Friday nights while my dad washed Washington Week in Review on the TV downstairs. 

9. Did you ever own “designer jeans”?

Ripoffs of designer jeans, yes.  Actual?  I doubt it.  Unless they were on clearance and if they came home because they were cheaper than other things.  

[spiderfire47]

1, 4, 10, 20!

1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favorite?

I guess it depends on how you define jobs. I am a science teacher. I have taught at five different schools for one to ten years.   However saying that you are a “teacher” is not really an adequate description. For example now, in addition to my work with my students, I am a union rep, I run the mentoring program for new teachers, and I am a coach.  So, how many jobs is that?  

I have also, at various points, been paid for doing work as an EMT, a camp counselor, a water safety instructor, a life guard, an assortment of research assistant jobs, a network administrator.., I think that is mostly it.  

I have to say, I love what I do now but I don’t know if it is my favorite. 

4. If you went to college, does your major match your career/current job?

Sort of?  My undergrad degree is in physics, my PhD is in the physics of ocean currents and I have an M.Ed. in educational leadership.  My first two degrees trained me to be a research scientist, my last one trained me to be a principal.  

I am currently doing none of those things, but I use skills I learned in every one of these degrees every day.  

10. Have you ever been to a disco?

No.  I went clubbing a few times at Manray, a defunct boston area goth club, some 15 years ago, but I don’t drink and I am a wild introvert so, not really my thing. 

20. Do you feel like an adult? 

Oh yes.  Although sometimes I am not sure I recognize me.  

I used to play Whitewolf tabletop games - mostly Mage and Werewolf, but the Changeling book had an interesting take on adulthood.  In the Changeling system, children can access the fairy world but as you get older and live less in the “now” that young kids do, and more in the future and past, as adults do, you loose access to that world.  One of the oddest things about having kids is watching them live in that world and just not being able to let go of everything to follow them into it.  I have succombed to banality.