HI I AM IN NEW YORK
All the travel worked out in an orderly fashion and was easy, which naturally meant that something else had to go wrong--namely, I got my period mid-flight in a drastically bad way, and the resulting tension from nausea + altitude change + turbulence turned into a set of all-over cramps that left me curled up into a ball on the airport floor for a solid hour before I got my legs to stop trembling enough that I was able to leave the airport. On the way out, I stopped at one of those ridiculous airport spa places that always offers massages for some reason, and I GOT A MASSAGE, and literally that is the reason I was able to make it to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
oliviacirce's place.
UM SO I'M MOSTLY BETTER NOW. And it's generally only one day out of each period that is this bad, so I'm crossing my fingers that tomorrow will be substantially better because PANIC(!)! NEON TREES! BLACK CARDS! ETC.
So... if you expected to hear from me today (for instance, if we were trying to make plans for this weekend) and you have not... that is why. I am currently using a laptop for the first time today.
But while I was in the air I finally finished reading every story in the eyai verse, and that was *well* worth the entire day, really. If you haven't read the eyai verse, it's a shared origfic universe done by a group of brilliant fannish writers, breathtakingly beautiful, all gorgeous Victoriana and clockwork and nanotechnology and artificial intelligence.nextian's got a primer here, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
girl_wonder's got a masterlist here.
On reflection, I think my two favorite individual stories are billet-doux and torque & other nouns, but in large part it's because the worldbuilding is so fabulous and they each provide an intimate side-view of it from characters who are not centrally involved in the main arc of the revolution and counter-revolution. And, who am I kidding, also because they're the two stories that hit the gender and sexuality angles of the eyai and I am nothing if not predictable.
Also!
(keywords: Mikey - don't google yourself)
Description: Mikey Way playing the bass, wearing the "don't google yourself" t-shirt he made himself.
Reasoning: It's a handy reminder about the fourth wall, or at least of the lack thereof in live RPF fandoms. I made it (read: cropped the image and fucked around with the contrast and color balance a bit) after that one time a composer I am not RPF fannish about at all got involved in a twitter conversation about him.
(keywords: fallen tardis)
Description: From the Eleven's first episode of Doctor Who, the TARDIS lying on its side in Amy Pond's yard.
Story: Honestly, more than anything, what I remember the most from that episode is all the dark blue shadows with golden glowy light pouring out of them, and this is a pretty solid encapsulation of that image. But it's also upsetting and pathetic, and shouldn't happen, and so I tend to use it for situations that are likewise.
(keywords: Ganymede)
Description: It's a picture of a hyacinth and the words "killed by frisbee."
Story: This is my DORKIEST MYTHOLOGY REFERENCE ICON EVER. So Ganymede was the beloved of Zeus, and he was so hot that ever since, "catamite", a corruption of his name, has been a commonly used term for hot young boys sleeping with older men. ANYWAY, Zeus, it turns out, was a little bit TOO athletic with the discus to play with him appropriately, and accidentally killed him with it, and then turned his body into a hyacinth, which is supposed to be the source of the flower. Um, and this one time in college, I thought the whole story was hilarious and made an icon about it. Probably that really cheesy Latin 101 workbook "Twenty Latin Stories" was involved somehow, because it made every Greek myth more awkwardly hilarious by means of its vocabulary and grammar constraints. MYRMIDONS. The end.
(keywords: Melville/Hawthorne)
Description: Animated icon. Frame one: busts of Melville and Hawthorne and the words "Melville/Hawthorne". Frame two: "theirloveissotranscendentalist"
Story: OH MAN WE ARE REALLY PLUNGING THE DEPTHS OF RIDICULOUS COLLEGE ACADEMIC IN-JOKE ICONS. Seriously, this is from maybe 2003? You can totally tell by (a) its use of the "theirloveisso" meme that was only a little bit outdated then (b) the super sexy way it was entirely created in, like, AppleWorks Paint. Because it was 2003, and also evidently part of 2003 before I learned Photoshop.
(keywords: awkward silence)
Description: O'Brien and Bashir in TOS uniforms, and the words "awkward silence".
Story: I didn't make this icon, which makes it one of a minority in my ridiculous icon collection. It's byiconsbycurtana! Which presumably means it's actually by someone called curtana. As you know, Bob, this is from the scene in "Trials and Tribble-ations" where Bashir makes a date with a woman on Kirk's Enterprise and then realizes that she is possibly his own grandmother. More broadly, awkward silence tends to be a hallmark of Bashir and O'Brien's relationship generally. And I like their awkward eye-aversion.
Reply to this with a travel story of your own and I'll ask you about five icons.
oliviacirce's place.UM SO I'M MOSTLY BETTER NOW. And it's generally only one day out of each period that is this bad, so I'm crossing my fingers that tomorrow will be substantially better because PANIC(!)! NEON TREES! BLACK CARDS! ETC.
So... if you expected to hear from me today (for instance, if we were trying to make plans for this weekend) and you have not... that is why. I am currently using a laptop for the first time today.
But while I was in the air I finally finished reading every story in the eyai verse, and that was *well* worth the entire day, really. If you haven't read the eyai verse, it's a shared origfic universe done by a group of brilliant fannish writers, breathtakingly beautiful, all gorgeous Victoriana and clockwork and nanotechnology and artificial intelligence.
nextian's got a primer here, and girl_wonder's got a masterlist here. On reflection, I think my two favorite individual stories are billet-doux and torque & other nouns, but in large part it's because the worldbuilding is so fabulous and they each provide an intimate side-view of it from characters who are not centrally involved in the main arc of the revolution and counter-revolution. And, who am I kidding, also because they're the two stories that hit the gender and sexuality angles of the eyai and I am nothing if not predictable.
Also!
Description: Mikey Way playing the bass, wearing the "don't google yourself" t-shirt he made himself.
Reasoning: It's a handy reminder about the fourth wall, or at least of the lack thereof in live RPF fandoms. I made it (read: cropped the image and fucked around with the contrast and color balance a bit) after that one time a composer I am not RPF fannish about at all got involved in a twitter conversation about him.
Description: From the Eleven's first episode of Doctor Who, the TARDIS lying on its side in Amy Pond's yard.
Story: Honestly, more than anything, what I remember the most from that episode is all the dark blue shadows with golden glowy light pouring out of them, and this is a pretty solid encapsulation of that image. But it's also upsetting and pathetic, and shouldn't happen, and so I tend to use it for situations that are likewise.
Description: It's a picture of a hyacinth and the words "killed by frisbee."
Story: This is my DORKIEST MYTHOLOGY REFERENCE ICON EVER. So Ganymede was the beloved of Zeus, and he was so hot that ever since, "catamite", a corruption of his name, has been a commonly used term for hot young boys sleeping with older men. ANYWAY, Zeus, it turns out, was a little bit TOO athletic with the discus to play with him appropriately, and accidentally killed him with it, and then turned his body into a hyacinth, which is supposed to be the source of the flower. Um, and this one time in college, I thought the whole story was hilarious and made an icon about it. Probably that really cheesy Latin 101 workbook "Twenty Latin Stories" was involved somehow, because it made every Greek myth more awkwardly hilarious by means of its vocabulary and grammar constraints. MYRMIDONS. The end.
Description: Animated icon. Frame one: busts of Melville and Hawthorne and the words "Melville/Hawthorne". Frame two: "theirloveissotranscendentalist"
Story: OH MAN WE ARE REALLY PLUNGING THE DEPTHS OF RIDICULOUS COLLEGE ACADEMIC IN-JOKE ICONS. Seriously, this is from maybe 2003? You can totally tell by (a) its use of the "theirloveisso" meme that was only a little bit outdated then (b) the super sexy way it was entirely created in, like, AppleWorks Paint. Because it was 2003, and also evidently part of 2003 before I learned Photoshop.
Description: O'Brien and Bashir in TOS uniforms, and the words "awkward silence".
Story: I didn't make this icon, which makes it one of a minority in my ridiculous icon collection. It's by
iconsbycurtana! Which presumably means it's actually by someone called curtana. As you know, Bob, this is from the scene in "Trials and Tribble-ations" where Bashir makes a date with a woman on Kirk's Enterprise and then realizes that she is possibly his own grandmother. More broadly, awkward silence tends to be a hallmark of Bashir and O'Brien's relationship generally. And I like their awkward eye-aversion.Reply to this with a travel story of your own and I'll ask you about five icons.
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And I am so excited for tonight, I can't even.
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I don't really have any good travel stories, just endless whinging about the traffic jams on the A303 every summer. (That road is kind of legendary in most of southern Britain for being totally inadequate.)
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Icons:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/253182/14869
http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/417761/14869
http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/513417/14869
http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/831587/14869
http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/861691/14869
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:)