Nora Charles

My fan fiction is under the fanfic: all fic tag.

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Der er en tendens til at det er kikset eller uhøfligt at poste offentligt uden at det er på engelsk.

Men hvorfor skal alting foregå på de andres præmisser? Nogle ting rager ikke nødvendigvis alle seks milliarder mennesker i verden, og hvis det gør, så kan de vel også bruge google translate. Nogle gange er ens modersmål det mest egnede at kommunikere på, og nogle gange er det det mest dejlige og skønne at kommunikere på.

Der er ingenting i vejen med at skrive på engelsk, men det skal ikke være gruppepress der afgør hvilket sprog man bruger.

Jeg tror vi ofte glemmer at virkelig mange af dem vi taler med på engelsk til daglig heller ikke har engelsk som modersmål, fordi vi alle delvist af nød er blevet så flydende i det. Hvor kunne det være rart at snakke bare os imellem, med det sprog og de kulturelle referencer som vi er stærkest i.

yvi har skrevet en indlæg om det, hvor den beder om debat.

Have you seen Kissing Jessica Stein?

I'd like to read some fic based on that movie's plot, but which reframes the story from being "straight woman exploits queer woman emotionally, first seducing her then gradually parking her in the friend zone, leading her on for the sake of the intense friendship coupled with ego-boo attraction she can provide, all the while flirting with men" to "bicurious romantic woman with heterosexual-leaning demi-sexdrive falls in love with and enters into an intimate relationship with a sexual woman. Their different sex drives cause relationship problems".

Not necessarily Jessica/Helen, I'd be happy with a fusion with any fandom starring any two same sex or gender characters.

I've migrated to trunk.ly

So far it looks much easier to aggregate links and to copy links from the bookmarkers you're following than it was using delicious. It looks like it could be a wonderful tool for fandom. I like the tumblr style rebookmarking and the reccing of users who link to the things you are interested in.

I've been talking to British people on the phone all day today and yesterday. It's very tiring talking to someone of a different culture you aren't that familiar with, without the aid of body language and facial expressions, and while concentrating on pronunciation so as to not seem foreign in a difficult to deal with way.

It was nice to be able to make some progress in communication as I got more practice, and sleeping on it definitely helped me put my experiences from yesterday into use. Now I feel like looking for jobs in the UK, so I can try living there and learn even more.

Then again, dealing with real people up close and personal while they're being confronted with one's foreignness can try one's love for their country. I consume a lot of British media and feel a lot of affection for the UK because of that, and because of some wonderful vacations I've been on to England and Scotland, and I don't really want to ruin that idealized image by having an experience like I did while living in Spain for the first time.

Monkey bread is a pull-apart coffee/dessert cake type thing, made by baking small pieces of white bread dough in a sugar and butter sauce. Some people add cinnamon, nuts or raisins, and, for some strange reason, some people use margarine instead of butter.

Has anyone tried it? Is it sort of like extra gooey cinnamon rolls? I've been on a caramel kick recently, and the youtube videos of that caramelized sauce lovingly clinging to the fluffy sweet buns make my mouth water. But when I think of trying out the recipe, it doesn't really seem worth it compared to just buying a single cinnamon roll in the store.

#71: Drag Dance Part 2

What am I missing, here? Is it the smarmy smile on the guy's face that makes his line "aggressive", is he standing too close, is it because he asks Wren for a dance in spite of her closed off body-language and unenthusiastic "...hey"?

I mean, I can see that he gets aggressive and defensive and snippy with her in the second panel, but I'm confused about why Wren is upset before that. Her line "Are you, like, hitting on me?" makes it seem like it's the mere fact that he's hitting on her, not the way in which he's hitting on her that bothers her.

Anyway, it's true that there are a lot of guys who think being in a queer space gives them license to be extra skeevy and objectifying and entitled and transgressive, because they confuse real life with porn.

Let me tell you this story. I wanted to request it for yuletide, but I forgot. It has illustrations! It's about an English girl and her forbidden love with a creature of darkness.

( Agnes stood on the bridge )

My netbook has finally died. Taking backups was so time consuming that I only made sure to back up my most vital files, so now I can't get at all the important but not vital things I had saved. It's a nuisance.

I also miss sitting in the morning sun while reading the news and checking my mail.

Maybe one of those harddisk readers would work? I'll have to ask in the computer store.

( So! I now have a dropbox )