Maggiology

So, I'm in love.  I'm finally reading Gregory Maguire's "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West".  Her name's Elphaba and honest to goodness I think I'm in love with her!  :D  She reminds me of a female, green Snape!  Or perhaps my own pet rabbit Sabrina (The Destroyer of Worlds).  If you haven't read the novel and you're any kind of fan of the acerbically passionate then you simply must read!  I don't want to give out spoilers but I just had to squee and give a very adamant recommendation. 

I know they've turned the story into a musical and plan on seeing it in November of December when it's travelling through the midwest.  However, the pictures I've seen of the actresses portraying my favorite character have so far been a bit disappointing in the looks department.  Not nearly ugly enough and (I never thought I'd say this about an actress, but) not nearly skinny enough!  Anyway, please anyone who reads this please:

Read 'Wicked' by Gregory Maguire

I'm considering starting a fan group.  And I will almost certainly write some fanfic once I've finished the novel.  Novel is the correct word.  The damn thing is just so novel! Edit: Actually I think what I find disagreeable about the actresses appearances is that they don't look smartly sarcastic enough to me. Not quite mean enough.

Seriously?  I understand that plenty of women need or want to wear a button shirt, or maybe they feel slimmer or more confident with their big tatas squished into their chest.  But honestly, does that mean that 90% of women's bras over a size 36D  have to be minimizer bras?!  I love my boobies.  I don't want to punish them for being big and beautiful.  I've always felt lucky because at 36DDD my breasts have managed to stay quite perky.  I can't help but feel that shoving them into a minimizer bra could adversely affect that perkiness.  Also, I've tried dozens of them on and every damn one does horrors for my silhouette.  

I need my tits to balance my body shape.  I have wide hips and plenty of booty.  With my chest "minimized" I look even more like a pear.  And I've recently discovered that minimizer bras are not the same as side-slimming bras.  You can buy bras with a side/back slimming band without having minimizing effects.  I have a difficult enough time finding my size in the shops alone, without adding the complication of trying to find a non-minimizer 36DDD!  I have a paranoid suspicion that there must be some bitter itty bitty titty committee determining that all "non-standard" bra sizes must come in a design that distorts the big busted body shape.  Please just let me embrace my body and burn the minimizer bras!

Sit on Kinky Santa's Lap at Fetlife!  

This is an awesome drawing over at Fetlife.com.  They're giving away 217 kinky presents for the Holidays.  You can enter to win one.  Their advertisers donate the presents to fetlife.  It's another form of advertising but in this one you actually have a chance of winning really nice stuff.  Like corsets and floggers and all kinds of cool stuff.  

Fetlife is a social networking site for people into fetishes, kink and/or BDSM. 

Good luck!

Haven't posted one of these (or anything ) in a while, so thought I might as well!

What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Literature Nerd   Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category perfectly! You love the power of the written word and it's eloquence; and you may like to read/write poetry or novels. You contribute to the smart people of today's society, however you can probably be overly-critical of works. It's okay. I understand.
Social Nerd
Drama Nerd
Artistic Nerd
Gamer/Computer Nerd
Science/Math Nerd
Musician
Anime Nerd
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 Jeezus fucking H.  This is absolute bullshit!  At least I can be thankful that my friends S&B are still considered married.  It's a bitter congratulations though.  And what the fuck is with Obama not saying anything?  He had the support of almost every openly Queer person in this nation and now what?  Please, Mr. President, don't be a fair-weather friend.  As I understand it, never before have our civil rights been put to popular vote.  For a court to uphold this precedent, makes a mockery of not only our legislative system and our national values, but of our court system as well.  Can this go to the US Supreme Court?  I damned well hope to see it there.  See it shot down.

All I have to say is this:   "Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."  - Victor Hugo, as far as I know.  There is no stopping this.  There is only stalling and obstacles that shall be overcome.  I can only hope that victory will be all the sweeter for the fight that we have put up in defense of our rights!

Okay, first a little fanish backstory.  I first discovered fandoms and the amazing world of fanfiction at the tender age of 13.  Star Trek: TOS was my very first fandom and K/S began my love for slash at an age when I was far too young to be reading such things! ;-)  Then Harry Potter happened and I suddenly had two fandoms.  Somewhere in there I discovered that some absolutely brilliant folks had taken it upon themselves to slash my beloved Holmes and his dear Watson.  

Then I started college, and as I'm sure anyone who's ever been can tell you, there was little time for fan-squee.  I was focused elsewhere for a while and then when I came running back to fandom it was to Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes.  Somewhere between adolescence and adulthood my love for Trek had waned.  I still hung on to my old books but gave up most of the other memorabilia.  I had no regrets.  I was left with a distant fondness and what I came to think of as a slash-fiction legacy.  I moved on and that was all good.  Totally cool.  Yeah.

Until Zachary Quinto.   Now, don't get me wrong.  There isn't a soul in existence who could replace the inimitable Leonard Nimoy.  But ZOMG Quinto brought it all rushing back to me.  I'm head over heels for the Human-Vulcan hybrid all over again!  I have a feeling that J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman may have a little to do with this as well.  However, seeing Zach Quinto's amazing performance had me racing to watch all the episodes of Heroes.  The show was awesome and I was hooked before I ever layed eyes on Quinto's character, Sylar, who doesn't show up until eight episodes in and it's not until the tenth that we get a good look at him.

So I started watching Heroes on a Friday night only to wake up shaking my head on the following Wednesday, three quarters the way through the entire show!  LMAO   I haven't felt this level of single-mindedness in years!  I've breathed a bit and managed to pace myself.  I'm finished watching all the episodes and I think I'm going to be just fine.

Now I find myself with a new fandom!  One that hasn't been written in nearly enough.  The show is funny and exciting but very dark and intense.  I find myself hungering for some absolutely sick and disturbing fanfics.  So if anyone can help, please:


Point me to your sickest most depraved Heroes fanfic!  Thank you!

I saw the new Star Trek movie on Monday and I cannot believe how much I loved it.  I've been head over heels for TOS since I was 12, but I'd kinda forgotten how much I enjoyed the characters.  This completely re-opened my interest.  Mostly, I just can't believe I'd forgotten how unforgivingly HAWT Spock is!    Jeez, I'm going back to see the IMAX experience but we're going to have to bring a fire-extinguisher to put me out!  So, yeah.  I'm totally slashing new Spock and new Kirk.  And I'm adding Uhura to the mix, cuz damn!  That was steamy.   How can one kiss be heartbreaking and unimaginably sexy at the same time?!  Definitely my favourite on-screen lip lock of 2009.

Ciao

I thought I'd post this because I think I've got at least a few LGB folks on my flist. This is a graduate psychology research project coming out of the University of Kansas. Being a sociology major myself, I highly encourage any of my flist friends who qualify to engage in this survey.

Please feel free to post this link elsewhere. And please only take this survey if you are Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual.

------ Forwarded Message
From: "Martinez, Richard Aaron"
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:31:33 -0600
To: David Greene
Subject: Question


Hello David,

My name is Richard Martinez. I am a graduate student at the University of
Kansas. I am looking for LGB individuals to participate in a research study
in psychology. I would greatly appreciate it if you could forward the
following information to any type of distribution list you have available.

"I need LGB individuals to complete an anonymous online survey that takes
around 20-30 minutes of your time. Your participation would be appreciated
and you would be helping psychology research at the University of Kansas.

If you wish to participate, just follow the link below: 
Take Survey


Thank you!

Richard Martinez"

------ End of Forwarded Message

Wow! It's been a while since I've been on here. At first I was sick and busy with work and holidays. The dizzy spells have become rarities and now I have zero hours at the bookstore due to economy and everyone's hours being cut. Being the new kid that means I get to take the brunt of the after holiday hours cuts.

I snagged a quiz from gin_tonic. It was a clever little thing but I'm not at all surprised with the results.

Your result for The Harry Potter Husband Test...

Mrs. Snape

Your perfect HP man is Severus Snape.

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So, I was at work on tuesday - I work at a book store - when the whole world just tilted on its side and I landed on the floor. I was really disoriented and I thought I had passed out but I guess I didn't loose consciousness. But I was so dizzy my boss and a co-worker had to help me to the back room. They called glass_dancer who left work and came and picked me up. I had had a nice breakfast not three hours before and hadn't skipped a meal lately so it was clearly not my blood sugar. I'm 23 years old and in fairly good health but I was so dizzy even nearly an hour after falling that glass_dancer had to help me to the car. He wanted to take me to the hospital but I really just wanted to go home, so we compromised and stopped at a pharmacy on the way home so that I could take my blood pressure. I thought perhaps it was low and that had caused the dizzy spell. I've had trouble with ulcers on a few occasions, so I thought perhaps I had a bleeder. My blood pressure was fine but the machine also takes your heart rate and mine was 58 beats per minute. It's normally about 72. This was a bit concerning but we were only a few blocks from home so I said I'd go to the doctor in the morning if I still wasn't feeling well. The dizziness eventually lifted for a few hours only to come back for another few and repeat the cycle.

In the morning I was still dizzy so I called into work and glass_dancer took me to the emergency room. They were very busy and it took us two hours to get in and I was there for another eight hours while they made pin cushions of my arms (10 sticks: four to get my first IV, including the most painful needle poke I've had since the spinal tap when I was nine. She put it in my wrist and dug around for a while until I screamed and made her stop. Another five pokes, including a blown vein were required to find a vessel that would give up it's precious fluid; then a tenth and final poke to a very deep vein in the crook of my elbow when they realized that the IV in my hand was too small for the purposes of a CAT scan). They ran loads of tests on blood and urine and gave me an ECG and a CAT scan. I had an allergic reaction to the IV/Iodine contrast in the CAT scan that swelled my face up and forced them to put five big syringes full of steroids, benadryl, and pepcid into the small IV in my hand. That hurt really bad as well since the IV was on the hand that had had the wrist obliterated by needle.

Anyway, they ruled out a blood clot in/near my heart and determined that I have an abberant subclavian artery though they said that should have nothing to do with this. Apparently they felt I was well enough to be packed off home and sent to my primary care physician. So I have an appointment for 1:15 today and absolutely no idea how I'm going to pay as I don't have insurance and I'm flat broke!

I'm dizzy even now and this has been a terribly creepy illness. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CRUISE DIRECTOR!

Nicked it from VeniVincere! A lovely little meme if a little simple. It's probably very accurate!

I was 14 years old when George W. Bush was first elected president of the USA. My eyes had just opened to politics and already I knew he was not someone I could love or trust. He did not represent me. My entire political life he has been the leader of this country.

I was 16 when we were thrust into a war against terror, an intangible notion. I saw friends, children I had grown up with, march off to fight. For what, our freedom, others' freedom? Sometimes. For our ideology, undoubtedly. For oil? I'm sure. We didn't always know. Some have returned with nightmares and flashbacks, unable even to watch the fireworks we light to celebrate the nation they fought for. Some will never return. I wish with everything that I could say I am proud of all of them, because I am proud of so many. But I can never be proud of a torturer. There were those few. Some whose faces I looked into in press photos and wondered, 'could you have gone to one of my birthday parties? Would I have thought you were evil when we were kids? No, I can't imagine I would.'

As a teenager I came to terms with being bisexual in a country where everyone is expressing their beliefs on the rights that I am to be allowed. Passionately, over half of them have argued that women cannot marry women and that men cannot marry men. Last night, Arkansas approved a measure to ban unmarried couples from adopting or fostering children. They aim to prevent gay couples from raising children. Arizona, Florida and California, a state whose court ruled marriage between same sex couples constitutional earlier in 2008, passed measures to amend their constitutions to prohibit same-sex marriage.

Still we are at war. Still my country does not know if I deserve the same rights as all heterosexual citizens. Still we are living in the second greatest depression. And still I am filled with exuberant hope! Last night, for the first time in my life, someone I voted for won. For the first time in my life I am represented! I would like to welcome President-Elect Barack Obama to his new responsibilities. Sir, I cannot bid you ‘no pressure’.

Hummph! My beta is brokened. *pokes beta* Rather my beta is terribly busy at the moment so... The story is officially finished and in need of a beta. I am off to find one.

Well, I'm a right wanker! I missed the deadline for Snupin Santa, my first ever fic exchange! Gotta keep this short so I can finish. But I've made this post of SHAME. :\

I loved this so I just had to take it! Looks like alwaysasnapefan and I have pretty similar tastes. Not surprising, really, fabulous as we both are!

Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test...

Traditional, Vibrant, and Tasteful

9 Islamic, -8 Impressionist, -11 Ukiyo-e, -9 Cubist, -1 Abstract and 0 Renaissance!

Take What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test at HelloQuizzy

LoL! Tweak said "It's not slash; it's canon" when I came in. Just had to share that!

You are a Social Liberal (90% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (6% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid.com: Free Online Dating Also : The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

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I decided I was up for the challenge of Celandine's meme. I'm doing a lot of memes lately. Maybe I should write something of substance, lol! Anyway the meme works that the questions can only be answered by one word. (Yay! I just did html) Here goes:
You can only type one word. Tag 7 people (or not!):

1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Where is your significant other? work
3. Hair color? Brown
4. Your mother? Sweetheart
5. Your father? Republican :(
6. Your favorite thing? Teddy
7. Your dream last night? vivid
8. Dream/Goal? accomplishment
9. The room you're in? study
10. Your hobby? orgasms
11. Your fear? spiders
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? somewhere
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you're not? average
15. Muffins? Yummy!
16. One of your wish list items? socks
17. Where you grew up? Joplin
18. The last thing you did? peed
19. What are you wearing? Jammies
20. Your TV? Off
21. Your pet? Pushkin
22. Your computer? Brian
23. Your life? jumbled
24. Your mood? languid
25. Missing someone? Scarah
27. Something you're not wearing? socks
28. Favorite store? online
29. Your summer? short
30. Love someone? terribly
31. Your favorite color? green
32. When is the last time you laughed? today
33. Last time you cried? reading

Not tagging - do it if you like!

Found this on flist via cruisedirector first thing this "morning". However, morning meant noon for me today since I'm having trouble waking up again. It's like I keep dreaming and I just can't wake up. Idk, pretty sure I have a sleeping disorder though. Anyhwo, the rules of the game are these: Take a picture of yourself, right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair, just take a picture. Post that picture with no editing and post these instructions with it. So here is a picture of me within ten minutes of waking up!
( Here I am )