More Easter stuff

[wiseheart]

It's boring and pointless. If you still wanna read it, don't complain afterwards. *g*

Yesterday no self-respecting Catholic - not even the renegade sort like myself - was supposed to eat meat, so I made spinach crépes instead. They were excellent; Mum and I seriously overstuffed ourselves. Not exactly the point in fasting, but who cares?

Today, we absolved the cemetery programme again. It tells a lot of our social life if you consider that the only people we regularly visit are my dead grandparents, eh? We cleaned up the grave a bit and put a big bouquet of tulips on it. It looked very pretty. Really spring-like. So we bought another bouquet for ourselves. It stands in the kitchen now.

We tried the Easter ham for lunch. Even though I accidentally rubbed it with black pepper instead of cumin, it turned out fantastic. Then I hung up the hand-painted eggshells in the entire flat and coloured some eggs for the festive table. We also ate half of my bunny-shaped biscuits, they were delicious.

Tomorrow, more cooking is on the plan, plus I have to finally bake the raisin bread. It's a good thing that I've already finished "Trial Without Error". I wish I had a beta for it, as I suspect I went creative with the frigging English grammar again, but the only person I could ask is busy, and I don't exactly have volunteers standing queue at my front door.

I even went to the atlantis beta LJ community, hoping to find someone, but the self-important people over there are only willing to do certain kind of stories, and my stuff is a)hard to put into any single category, and b) is anti-Sheppard and Kavanagh-friendly - neither of those things are very popular in mainstream fandom.

Oh, and BTW, I finally got to watch "I, Robot" with Will Smith. I wasn't impressed. It seems to me that nowadays everything vaguely connected to sci-fi contains overdone special effects, a lame storyline and bad acting.

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There are worse things than "I, Robot", believe me...

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

Oh, and BTW, I finally got to watch "I, Robot" with Will Smith. I wasn't impressed. It seems to me that nowadays everything vaguely connected to sci-fi contains overdone special effects, a lame storyline and bad acting.

Actually, I liked "I, Robot" more than "AI". But well, both can't hold the candle to "Blade Runner", in any case. But then, you at least saw "I, Robot".You did not go to the movies to watch "300", a movie I had been waiting to see for months (since I am big fan of Frank Miller's comic) - only to then spend about two hours waiting for the movie to finally finish so the boredom, th insufferable bad ideaology and the butchering of something I had loved so far would end. Unfortunately, that is exactly how *I* spent that evening. I really wished I had stayed at ho,e and watched "I, Robot" again.

On another note, if you are still into reading LOTR, there is a new story of Jael_beruthiel that is comepletely worth reading: All Lies and Jest, a story that deals with the LACE in an admirable and awesome way. At least IMHO. I can highly recommend it, for yesterday, it really saved my evening. :)

Cheers to you! -- Aislynn

Re: There are worse things than "I, Robot", believe me...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do believe you! That's why I rarely go to the movies anymore. Sooner or later, they come to German TV, and I save a lot of money that way. Plus, if I really hate the movie, I can switch to anoter channel. *g*

I'm not a Will Smith fan, but my main problem with the movie isn't his so-called acting. It's simply the fact that in today's sci-fi it's all the shiny effects and nothing else... a sad tendency that has gone on for years.

I've put Jael to my Author Alert list, so yes, I know about the story. Haven't come to read it yet, but I'll do so. I loved her other stories you'd recced, so I'm looking forward to this one as well.

[missyvortexdv.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you do quite a bit for Easter - it's nice to hear about traditions, especially when barely anyone does much over here. Not being Catholic nor knowing anyone who is strictly one, I had no clue about the not eating meat thing, but then I already don't myself anyway, being semi-vegetarian (only occasional fish).

Regarding I, Robot - did you notice who was doing the voice for VIKI the computer AI?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I watched the movie with German dubbing, which makes it a bit pointless to try guessing the voice. *g*

I'm not so strictly Catholic myself - not anymore, that it - but the not eating meat thing is more a social tradition than a religious one. For a few years, I used not to eat meat for the six weeks of Lent - so that a lot of bad stuff would be purged from my system - but lately I always forget when Lent starts, so I haven't done so for years. But when I did it, it was really hard for me, as I'm a carnivorous animal (at least when it's fish or chicken).

[missyvortexdv.livejournal.com]

Ah, I should have forseen that possibility. Well, in the English version it's Fiona Hogan doing VIKI's voice aka Dr. Simpson SGA. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Heh. Simpson, the Evil Computer. That sounds... kinky. If Kav knows?

You've infected me with Kav/Simpson shippiness, BTW. I catch myself adding little Kav/Simpson scenes to various stories, which could be a problem in time, considering that I've hooked up Kav with Teyla in "Choices". I wonder what Simpson might think about Athosian group marriages...

We need a Kav/Simpson icon.

[missyvortexdv.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I would apologise but I like it far too much to be honest and any chance of more Kavanagh/Simpson friendship or even just scenes with them is nice. I think Simpson might have trouble with the idea at first if it personally effected her (can't see her really being bothered by Athosians own traditions as they related to the Athosians), like most Earthlings would at the very least, but I doubt she'd be completely opposed if it really mattered in some way to her own happiness. It'd be an interesting AU of an AU to have added in and could have all sorts of extra juicy angles on how the community would react to not just an Athosian/Earthling marriage but a polyagamus (is that the correct word?) one that involved another Atlantis expedition member, who arguably might be more notable than Kavanagh.

Somehow I can see those who dislike him to be happy if they knew about him being married to Teyla. Jealous she chose him yes, but happy that he's sort of more out of the way in some small way, less of their problem with his links to the Athosians - but adding in any other Earthling could cause more serious rumblings and worry over what the Athosians intentions are. I'm not sure if Bates would like it in regard to security and it might trouble Weir for the fact that presumably expedition members - particularly ones working together regularly - marrying causes issues too. But it could be really interesting.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Actually, I like Kav/Simpson, too. They have amazing chemistry together - which could be friendship as well as something else.

Clan marriages are different from polygamy, by the way. In a clan marriage, several spouses are present, both male and female, not just one guy and several wives.

In the "Moments of Joy" AU, I work with a different Weir, as you know, and while I haven't exactly figured out her opinion about Kav, their relationship would be much more relaxed than in canon. Plus, Bates won't remain chief of security after Hot Zone anyway, so his opinion, while might still count, won't be a deciding voice.

Besides, Kav won't be the first one to enter a clan marriage. At this point, Zelenka is already married to Marta (and thus part of Halling's marriage group, although nobody seems to realize that in Atlantis), and Markham and Stackhouse, too, have an Athosian wife - the same one, actually. Given the 2:1 imbalance of men and women in Atlantis, alternate lifestyles are almost inevitable, especially since I won't let them have easy contact to Earth like in canon.

The Darkroom series, while an AU itself, is much closer to canon, so the settings are different. For example, it's mentioned somewhere in Darkroom 2, I think, that Kav and Simpson have recently broken up.

[missyvortexdv.livejournal.com]

I thought polyagamy might be the wrong word.

I don't know if you ever watched Star Trek Enterprise (I'm guessing you might not have liked it) but I loved the bits about Dr. Phlox's family (sounded sort of like clan marriages but more like a marriage network I'd say), not that they explored it too much on the show but it was nice to have an alien culture that differed from Earth so dramatically regarding such social aspects.

So, in the AU, who else is in Halling's clan? (apart from Marta and Radek)

you mentioned the K/S reference in Darkroom before, and I do intend to read that series, but sadly reading time is limited. Right now I seem to be storing up links every day but I probably can't get through them all each weekend...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I watched the first season of Enterprise indeed, and, as you've rightly guessed, I hated it. Especially what they made with the Vulcans. But I do remember Phlox' family network - for the first time in Trek, they've actually managed to come up with something different from the human marriage customs.

As for the Darkroom, well, you don't have to store any links specifically. You're a memer of otherworlds_lib; should you happen to have the time, you can always look up the stories in the Memories. But be warned, those stores are... erm... explicit. Not the K/S parts, but the rest sometimes is.

[missyvortexdv.livejournal.com]

Yes, there do need to be Kav/Simpson icons. I though maybe I'd make a kavtolanon one just now for fun but stargatecaps.com is offline so it'll have to wait since I don't have the caps saved on my computer. I did have them but of course they're on the likely now dead HDD that has also some Kav and Simpson fic on. :/

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You haven't saved your stuff? Ouch, that must have hurt. I don't backup often enough myself, at least not my research material, which is foolish. I try to do it semi-regularly, but somehow time never seems to be enough and used for other things. :/

[missyvortexdv.livejournal.com]

This was from quite a while ago and I didn't have a dvd writer working under linux, nor my convenient USB drive, so my backups were infrequent. I tended to email files to myself, but never did that with graphics.

The data might be recoverable, I still hope. A friend who works at a pc shop and does this sort of stuff all the time is gonna get all can off it, though I must wait since he's doing it expenses only to save me money and he has paying customers who obviously come first. So, it'll be a while but I pray those files will be intact still.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it can be frigging expensive. When my HD crashed two years ago, I spent three months' worth of salary on saving the data. *shudders*

[carterhaugh.livejournal.com]

I'm just tagging onto this entry to ask whether you'd be terribly freaked out if I added you? I come by every once in a while but that seems a terrible bother in comparison to just adding you to my friendslist. ;)

Feel free to tell me to bugger off, of course!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Why should I be freaked? I got this account from you, after all. Not to mention the Gildor icon. :))

Add away to your heart's pleasure!

[carterhaugh.livejournal.com]

Hee! Glad to know that you're still enjoying the icon!

And done! Thank you!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Who wouldn't enjoy the company of Lord Gildor? ;))