That LJ Thing, suggestions sought and other notes

[misscam]

Well we really screwed this one up…
says LJ. No shocker there. (Though I have to say I felt some parts of fandom overreacted a tad, but that's not uncommon when one feels attacked, really.)

So now what, one wonders.

Get To Know Your F-List Week! (Cont'ed)
Every day I'll ask two random questions. All you have to do is answer them.

1. You can take over any LJ community you want. Which would you pick?
2. You can bring back one extinct species to our time. Which would you pick?

My answers, plus from yesterday, as I forgot. (Ooops.)

1. marthafuckinsux. Then I would delete it. Oh, bliss.
2. Triceratops.

1. I never get bored with learning.
2. I would be Frigg, who survives Ragnarok to oversee a new world.

In other notes:

- Trying to finish a Doctor/Rose fic I've been scribbling on so I can finish a Doctor/Martha one and then a Doctor/Rose (guest-starring Tegan) one again, so I'm appealing for a wee bit of help. Suggest me improbably places to shag. (I'll of course credit you with the idea if I use it.) Come on, I know a good deal of you are kinky. Show it. Given it's Doctor Who, I'm sure you can be extra creative with time and space.

- Norway most peaceful country in the world.

- I sort of have a WoW fiance. Hmm, yeah. He proposed during a raid in Karazhan, my brother approved (he was there also, heh) and my guild is treating it as "official", so yeah. I guess I need a wedding dress now.

- Now there's an... Interesting rant.

- The irony of an atheist getting Nigaria scam mails titled Dear Beloved in Christ....Reply Back is slight, but there.

- Occaionally, all the little things that can go wrong at work do. This is such a day. ARGH.

I need to find ways to make this day less sucky. Woe.

Comments

[preachelectric]

1. Right now, greys_eps, just so I could get them back on track and up and running again. Not to mention I just really want to see more episodes.
2. Um, dragons (I don't care that they're mythical creatures).

To make this day less sucky: Have an internet wedding. Not that hard, since you already have a man waiting. That way, everyone will bring you good wishes and cake.

[moonburst.livejournal.com]

1. None, I really don't have that many interests in running a com. Like at all.
2. I'd bring back the frog that used to live in a square mile of treetops in the rain forest before they were destroyed a little while back.

I had no idea you could marry in Wow. That's hilarious!

[psychater.livejournal.com]

1. kill_dr_weir. Then I'd make it compulsory for everyone on my flist to join it.
2. The sabre-tooth tiger. That'd be a pretty neat thing to see while at the zoo.

[jarrn.livejournal.com]

1. I have no idea. I tend to break communities :///
2. A THYLACINE! WOOO!

[spaced-oddity.livejournal.com]

1) I honestly don't think I have any communities that I'd like to mod. :\
2) Triceratops! Or brachiosaurus! Or any herbivore dinosaurs, basically. I'd ride one to school/work every day and it would be excellent.

[aegwenn.livejournal.com]

You know, I take my eyes off lj for just a couple days and bad things happen. I have qualms with the wording of parts of his apology, but am impressed that he did apologize and did so without attempting to shunt all the blame to WFI.

1. I . . . don't actually have any that I can mention in unlocked posts. All the ones I like I wouldn't want responsibility for and all the ones I dislike I wouldn't delete despite temptation. As for the first category, that would only be to add myself as a member again, then quickly shift it back to the original people in charge. It would be entirely too high maintenance for me and I would not have the patience the moderators showed time and again.

I didn't know there was a Martha hate comm. That's depressing. I want to know why, and yet . . . I think I'm better off in ignorance.

2. I want to say velocirapters. I really do, but I think this is because I hate myself. So let's just say the dodo.

As for improbable places . . . hmm.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Suggest me improbably places to shag.

In a tree - extra-kinky if it's the Forest of Cheem and aware of them being there.
The Big Bang (lols, obvious pun!)
Jackie Tyler's kitchen, on top of the washing machine as it spins
The Doctor's Alien Sex Dungeon that he unconvincingly denies any knowledge of
The Vatican, if you can handle the flames
Antarctica
The M25

[phdelicious.livejournal.com]

1. You can take over any LJ community you want. Which would you pick? Probably a hate com so I could shut it down, but I actually don't know any and I'm too lazy to do the research.

2. You can bring back one extinct species to our time. Which would you pick? More research... Tasmanian Tiger FTW just cause.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

TEGAN!!!!!! *\o/*

1) I would take over some fandom newsletter comm and only rec stuff that doesn't suck. And the discussion links would be to actual discussions, not "LOLZ LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW HOT CHARACTER A IS".

2) Um. Um. Um. I really really really really really want a pet velociraptor. But dire wolves were cool. And so were sabretooth tigers! OH AND! TASMANIAN WOLVES. But it would be cool to see giant unicorns roaming around. HI, HORN LONGER THAN A MAN!! Best. Rhinos. Ever. OR! Dwarf elephants so I could have a pet elephant. ohmigodthatwouldbesocool.

Um. Can you tell I spend more time at work browsing the dinosaur & extinct animals pages of Wikipedia than I do actually working?

[lyricalviolet.livejournal.com]

1. ljmixtape
2. Unicorns

An improbable place to have sex? Well, considering we were talking about this at work yesterday...how about a Methodist Church? Or under the table at the prom? About about under the table at the Intergalactic Sadie Hawkins Dance of the year 3 billion and 5?

[yattara.livejournal.com]

1. Comm? Probably a fandom-related one. Or drwho_eps, just because. (Shiny! Want!)

2. Any big cat.

[crackpig.livejournal.com]

Are you familiar with the slang term Frigging/To Frigg/Frigged?

heh.

1) secretcomm because I'm pretty darn sure it's world control conspiracy and lesbian webcam.
2. Indefatigable Galapagos mouse

[antistar-e.livejournal.com]

1. I'd take over metaquotes, mainly because it would make me feel like the supreme ruler of the internets for all of five minutes =D

2. My first thought was to say Pteradon or Quetzalcoatlus or something, but that's just because I read too much Dinotopia as a child (oh, the hell. I still read too much Dinotopia) and wanted to be a Skybax rider XD

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

1. haven't the foggiest idea.
2. the dodo

- I sort of have a WoW fiance.
The proposal sounds so romantic.

[starsong24.livejournal.com]

1: lastdragonrider .
2: Uhm. Marsupial lions. Or maybe Eohippus?

[starsong24.livejournal.com]

Oh, and:

Suggest me improbably places to shag.

Underwater, behind a filing cabinet, on top of a filing cabinet, the top of a giant redwood, a hydranga, inside a grand piano, halfway up the wire mesh you get around astroturf.

[crackpig.livejournal.com]

improbable places to shag

The Vatican
Uranus (snicker)

[robin-2370-hood.livejournal.com]

I have never followed something so intently like I did the lj [whatever they're calling it today]. It was interesting in a frightening way. I went to sleep scared that someone was going to come into my room at night and plant things on my computer. I'm way to paranoid for my own good.

1. If I ever took over a community it would self destruct within five minutes of me taking command. I'm not good with power, I would end up giving the community away for magic beans, or some such thing.

2. Godzilla.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

1. easily, customers_suck. I'd pwn the whinebags there so fast...

2. probably the Raptor. Those guys were intelligent. And I'd like to see if I could get one to agree to fuck up Fred Phelps and company in exchange for a breeding ground.

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

I think it was hardly possible to overreact to what LJ's management did (except maybe by threatening murder or suicide . . .)

1. Hmmm. Just about any right-wing LJ community that has enough people would do. You can guess what would happen then. >;-)

2. Was gonna say the thylacine, but I see two other people had the same idea. (Damn, and I thought hardly anybody knew what the thylacine was . . .) So okay, what else . . . damn, so many possibilities, it's hard to choose. Maybe the dire wolf. Or maybe one of the species of Hyaenodon. (How could anybody not love hyaenodons?) Or Epicyon, the gigantic dog of Pliocene North America. Or maybe a Synthetoceras (the protocerines were just so weird-looking, I would love to know how they looked and lived). Or one of the early canids that looked almost like weasels, such as Cynodictis or Cynodesmus. Or . . . *forcibly shuts self up*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Comparing it to Holocaust? Overreaction.

If you got a time travelling machine, you'd just never run out of species you'd want to see, would you?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*Inside* a grand piano? Impressive!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

:P

He did go down on one knee. Then we went and downed Romulo and Juliette. Whee.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

No work can compete with the awesomeness of tiny elephants.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

The Doctor's Alien Sex Dungeon that he unconvincingly denies any knowledge of

That sounds like the plot of a whole story of its own. WRIIIIITE IT

[misscam.livejournal.com]

There's hate comms for almost anything, really. Where there be fans, there be anti-fans.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

:P

It would be an interesting wedding, certainly. Though I still haven't gotten a ring.

[everysecondtues.livejournal.com]

Agh. I was so tired I answered with my rl journal. Didn't even notice until I got the e-mail notification. Sorry. I try to keep the two separate for a variety of reasons. I hope I didn't do this with too many other comments yesterday.

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

The Holocaust? Okay, my bad. I didn't see that one. Probably I would have classed that with threats of murder or suicide. When Warriors for Innocence are dragging people out to be disappeared in the Nacht und Nebel, then we can compare it to the Holocaust. (But there's little question that's what such wingnuts would like to do . . .)

Indeed I wouldn't. I want to see EVERYTHING that had fur, and quite a bit that didn't.

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

*polite cough* They're properly called Hyracotherium. See Donald Prothero's Fossil Horses for the details.

*slinks quietly away*

[starsong24.livejournal.com]

Hyraco...why? I mean, the skeleton was named 'Dawn Horse' when they first found it, wasn't it?

*puts paleogeek hat on, big-time*

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

Human error, and naming conventions in taxonomy created to help fix such errors. You can read the Wikipedia explanation if you want, but here's mine:

Hyracotherium's bones was first found in England by Richard Owen, and dubbed that because he thought its teeth showed a relation to hyraxes. Then a critter was found in the U.S. by Othniel Marsh, who dubbed it Eohippus. One day, the two fossils were compared, and proven to be so similar that they must really be the same beast. When this happens (and it happens surprisingly often), taxonomic naming convention is, the first name becomes the correct one . . . usually. So, Eohippus because Hyracotherium, and the "eohippus" name was tossed.

This is also what happened with "Brontosaurus" -- it turned out to be identical to an earlier-described dinosaur, Apatosaurus. Shame most museums and non-paleontologists who write books on dinosaurs for kids didn't fully realize this until the 1970s, a loooong time afterward.

Sometimes paleontologists like the "wrong" name and have used it in official science papers too much for too long to sacrifice it, so an exception is made. This happened with Manospondylus gigas, which you probably know better as Tyrannosaurus rex. ;-)

*removes paleogeek hat*

Re: *puts paleogeek hat on, big-time*

[starsong24.livejournal.com]

Ah. That's very interesting.

Pity, though...Eohippus is such a lovely name. At any rate, I would bring back...Hyracotherium, then. ;D

Re: *puts paleogeek hat on, big-time*

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

I'll drink to that. :-)

(Don't feel singled out -- I do this a lot. Comes with being a compulsive nerd.)

[preachelectric]

Pester your man into hurrying up and getting you one. ;)

[kunenk.livejournal.com]

1. I don't particularly want to take over any comms… too much effort. An' I kinda prefer just plain lurking, I guess.

2. Dodos, if they agreed to be nice. Because big non-flying pigeons! Eeee.