Some Updates, Some Fun, Some Weirdness.

[misscam]

East of the Sun, West of the Moon has chapter twenty-three up here (ff.net) and here (CSI Forensics) while Cam has nearly finished ch. 28. I keep staying 5 chapters ahead. Aren't I the diligent writer?

Sniff. All them permanent LJ accounts now gone. Ah well. Maybe when I'm rich.

Rumsfeld has departed the country, thank Odin. Now don't you come back real son, you hear?

Some fun links:
Watch a guy go from pick-up to BATSHIT INSANE in the span of a few posts (Truly, this one is a marvel.)
Roleplayer is wanting more playmates at YTDAW - that's The Roleplayer of a few posts earlier, in case you missed that griping tale. (Apropos YTDAW, I've actually considered a 'Best of Babydoll' feature with links to her various YTDAW posts. We shall see.)
Pictures from Norway's Centennial

Some mildly weird e-mails sitting in my inbox:

Topic: Dangerous Games of the Heart
Hello, i am so interesed in this story, but I understand a little English, it´s possibly to send me this in sapnish, I will appreciate very much.
Regards.

Pedro

(Dangerous Games of the Heart is a Water Rats fic I wrote years and years ago, so why anyone would now want to read it in 'sapnish' is beyond me. Not to mention I don't speak that language at all, so why would I have a copy of it in 'sapnish'?)

Topic: CSI Script RE:John Laks
Ms. Sandman,
I recently did a Google search just for the fun of it to see what would come up with my name. Wow what a surprise to see it in the script of CSI my favorite show. Please feel free to use my name. I can also prove the name is mine and I'm not some nut case out there.
Is this a show that is going to air? or just a proposed script? And I have to ask how did you come up with that name?
John Laks

(Someone's never heard of fanfics... I actually wrote that name into Lullaby for the Living, just because Laks is Norwegian for salmon and I thought it would be a distinctive name. Poor guy, I must have ruined his excitement when I replied with the truth. Ah well.)

Also, for my Cam Recommends page, I need more good fanfic. Got some you think I would recommend, hit me with a link. CSI or LotR preferably.

*pets icon* hadria made it for me just before I posted a C/W story with the same name. Oddly fitting, I must say. Also pretty.

Comments

[colorstoobright.livejournal.com]

Sapnish. It sounds too dirty. "Wanna sapnish before we head on out, honey?" *shakes head*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Ah - maybe he was subtly trying to hit on me! See, that makes much more sense.

[falena]

Eh eh eh...the emails are so fun. I actually felt kind of bad for Mr. Laks. Especially because he evidently didn't know of the existence of fanfiction.

The link to babydoll's post would be fun (and useful) for all your friends who don't hang out at YTDAW.

I loved the pictures from Norway's centennial...All those cute guards..I've got a thing for men in uniform! ;P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yes, so did I. He sounded so excited and all. Poor Mr. Laks.

Yeees... We shall see. Maybe if she comes back soon and goes more insane. I'm waiting for her reaction to the finale.

Hehehe. That would be our royal guard, 'Garden'. My brother served his draft there.

[falena]

Mmm, now I'm thinking naughty thoughts about your brother...that's what I get for reading way too much House smut in one go...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Naughty thoughts off my little brother!

Smut is the naughtifier of the universe.

[falena]

Sorry. I've got a little brother too and I'm kind of all protective myself.

Btw, you're right. Not that the universe needs any help in getting naughtier, though.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yes, it's okay to ogle all the other males in the universe, but one's little brother... is always little brother.

I'm sure the universe created smut just to be naughtified.

[falena]

It probably takes pleasure in being naughtified..which means it was already naughty in the first place. Doesn't this kind of imply that the universe is caught in a chicken-and-egg kind of situation?

I've just re-read this post and now I'm worried about my own mental health...Scary...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a new spin on it, that's for sure. What came first - naughty that sparked naughty thoughts or naughty thoughts that created naughty?

I sense a headache.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Hee :) Although doesn't Google auto-translate sapnish these days?

"I'd love to marry you, Roger," she sighed, "but you're a little sapnish."

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Rofl!

"I'm sorry Gary, but not today, I feel a touch sapnish."

[velocityofsound.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry Gary, but not today,

You could have Asian Bird Flu, Ebola, and the Mumps and you'd still not turn that man down. :)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

What, you think me a total shameless Gary-slut?

[falena]

Sorry to jump in here, but I couldn't fight the urge. See, I'm a translator-in-training and those things Google spits out cannot even resemble a decent translation. They're awful.
I think I could manage a better translation myself even with my limited knowledge of Spanish (and Spanish is my fourth language).

Okay. End of rant. Sorry, I couldn't help it ;P

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

It's actually bait in a cunning trap to find a good translator. Just walk around saying "Gosh, Google translates into $language_wanted", and grab the first person who starts foaming.

[falena]

Hehehe...It works!

[moyawyvern.livejournal.com]

Holy crap in a bucket. I read pretty much that whole thread in the Thorn Tree. If that was a real person, that was pretty frickin scary. I have never seen a person go from reasonably pleasant to beyond extreme anger issues in less than a post. But couldn't he have changed up the curses a little? They were all the same. Apparently everybody is the son of a whore. If it is a joke, it was damn funny, but still a little scary.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Imagine going cycling with that dude and having an argument? Scaaa-aary.

[ladyiapetus]

Eesh. That Laks guy sounds similar to the poor twit who was e-mailing me last year, wanting to know when (not if, when) one of my Digimon fanfics was going to air in Japan/air in the US/come out on DVD and VHS.

As for fic reccs...have you read anything by Scribe? She's quite good if you haven't. I especially recommend her Gateway series, which begins with The Patient and is ending with The End of Days. It's the best take on "LoTR in the present day" that I've read.

Good Things in Small Packages: Post Grave Danger (5th season finale). Nick, plus Archie and Hodges (lab techs). Includes CSI-tech friendship, Farscape and penguins.

Epilogues: Another post-Grave Danger fic. Several characters deal with the aftermath of the episode in their own ways. My favorite part is the different formats the chapters take on as the POVs change.

*thinks* Have I recced anything by Wintertime to you before? I can't remember. If not, all of her CSI stuff is pretty good, so you could probably take your pick from her author page. I especially recommend 4 AM. Trust me on that one.

forensicsfan is another favorite CSI author of mine. She mainly writes Nick/Sara, but she almost always manages to slip in a little W/C.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the links, I'll check them out and see what strikes my fancy. I know Wintertime somewhat, and I've read a bit of Scribe's stuff.

Mmm, fanfic.

[velocityofsound.livejournal.com]

Wintertime's Cicuit (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1921831/1/) is one of my favorites. Sad as fuck, though.

[velocityofsound.livejournal.com]

Or I could learn how to spell. Perhaps I should learn sapnish instead.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Do regale us with tales of your progress in it.

[immoralilly.livejournal.com]

Please, please do a 'best of babydoll'. The girl needs to be mocked. Oh, and the AIM stalker is hilarious. I love the internet and the random people who pop up on it.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

:)

Yes, it certainly provides much entertainment...

[kittkatbar77.livejournal.com]

Oh so the scary roleplayer is back huh? i guesss she's looking for someone else to pull that brest cancer trick on. lol. that just cracked me up reading that last week. i hope no one gets sucked into her lure, it could be disastrous. :P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they'll get something they did not quite expect.

[hadria.livejournal.com]

Rumsfeld has departed the country, thank Odin.

Hmmm, something did smell foul today.

If you do a "best of babydoll", I'll build you an altar of love in my room.

HOLY FUCK, the man on the bicycle board is a FREAK. It would be kind of funny if it wasn't so believable, but some people seem to think he might be a serial killer. 0_o

I feel sorry for the poor delusional guy who thinks scriptwriters need his permission in the first place and has never heard of fanfic. :( :( :(

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I never can resist an altar...

Yes. I must have broken his Laks-en heart, for he never did reply.

[moyawyvern.livejournal.com]

I am very glad you posted that ad-thing from Roleplayer girl that she put on YTDAW. I just got a random IM from someone with the name that was listed on the ad and it said that she saw me on YTDAW. I went immediately running for the hills. I am hiding behind my couch now and hoping she doesn't see me and try again.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun!

Or alternative, engage the madness and experience the mind-boggling for yourself.

[moyawyvern.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I can stand that much mind-boggling. I have to go to work today and I don't want to scare the small children there. I'll stick with hiding behind my couch. It is nice there.