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Hey im new but been following this community for a while now. any one know were i can find a fitted hoodie pattern? size small (girls), maybe one i can download? or free online somewhere?

feel free to add me always love new friends :)

So, you've (theoretically) read some of my fics, come up with an idea of your own and want my help writing it. Wait, by that you mean you want me to write it? And it took to the last third of the PM to even mention the fandom of the story? And OCs?

...My reasons why you fail, let me show them to you.

1) I don't recognize your name so if you've ever reviewed any of my fics it was one of the "good job." ones that are nice enough but not really memorable. And I don't think you're even one of those.

2) Again I don't recognize your name so obviously I've never spoken/pmed/whatevered with you so we've never really established the kind of borderline relationship I have with a few in my fandom for whom I do occasionally write stories for.

3) I do have a prompt begging post on my LJ, but you used Fanfic PMs to message me so I assume you've never seen my journal so it was just luck that I happened to write prompts at all.

4) Your "Review" contained only one line that made me think you may have read my fics (other than the fact you knew I wrote Leverage). It was, I quote, "Oh!Love your stories bythe way". While I normally would say a review was a review and be happy you just finished asking me to write you a long!Fic "at least" 20 chapters long and you can't be bothered to even let me know which of the genres/pairs I write you like.

5) You told me the story should be a long!fic at least 20 chapters long. My chapters tend to run between 3 and 6 thousand words each and I spend at least three hours on each of them. You're asking, telling, me that in order to do this I'd be writing between 60,000 and 120,000 words dedicating a minimum of 60 hours of my time.

6) You told me you already had names and ages for the ocs I'd need for the story.

...Oh person, you're adorable...

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I found some really awesome silver foil damask wallpaper on sale today and wanted to use it as a wallpaper for a wall I didn't paint. Any ideas on how to attach it to a wall?

I can't use wallpaper paste as it is an apartment. I was thinking maybe staple gun? Because the pieces would have to be hung in panels, I was thinking of putting some silver ribon over the seams ...and the staples (which would only be stapled at the seams).

Do you think that would work/look nice? Or do you think it would look cheap? I would hang framed pictures up over it to break it up. Any other ideas on ways to attach it to my walls.

MAYBE spray adhesive, but I live in a city with high humidity 90% of the year, so it might not work very well.

Any ideas are welcome! Thanks!

So I saw a little tutorial and what did I do....
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The Declaration (2007)
Written by: Gemma Malley
Genre: YA/Science Fiction
Pages: 301 (Trade Paperback)

The premise: ganked from BN.com: It’s the year 2140 and Longevity drugs have all but eradicated old age. A never-aging society can’t sustain population growth, however…which means Anna should never have been born. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. The facility is full of boys and girls whose parents chose to have kids—called surpluses—despite a law forbidding them from doing so. These children are raised as servants, and brought up to believe they must atone for their very existence. Then one day a boy named Peter appears at the Hall, bringing with him news of the world outside, a place where people are starting to say that Longevity is bad, and that maybe people shouldn’t live forever. Peter begs Anna to escape with him, but Anna’s not sure who to trust: the strange new boy whose version of life sounds like a dangerous fairy tale, or the familiar walls of Grange Hall and the head mistress who has controlled her every waking thought?

My Rating

Give It Away: the premise is stellar, I grant that, but it's execution is just too simple for my taste, and I've seen the premise before in a Bacigalupi short story, which is much darker and a lot scarier. It also didn't help that I kept flipping to the back of the book to see how it ended, which pretty much spoiled any surprise the book had in store for me. So, don't be like me: don't do that. I can't help but wonder if I would've enjoyed this book more if I were much younger, because this book, according to Amazon, is geared towards Grade 5 and up, which might explain just how simply-written and black/white everything is. It's not to say that adults can't enjoy the book (when they've not already seen this premise played out and they haven't spoiled themselves), but it is worth noting that it seems geared for a younger audience, younger than your usual teen reader. That's not something I usually note, but I feel in this case, potential readers should be aware--YA tends to be written in such a way that doesn't cater to its young audience, and this is a book that caters. As far as the story goes, the premise, great as it is, doesn't feel lived up to, but then again, this is the first book of a duology (or series?), so it's easy to imagine (especially given the ending), that we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg. That said, I'm not sure I see myself continuing. Sure, it's a great premise that I'd like to see explored more, but if the sequel, The Resistance, is written like The Declaration is, I'm not sure I want to continue.

Review style: WARNING!! THERE BE SPOILERS!!! Why the all-caps? Because if you haven't yet read this book and you want to, THEN DO NOT READ THE SPOILERS. I did, and I regret it, because it sucked a LOT of the tension out of the book for me. So please, take my advice and DO NOT READ SPOILERS if you want to read and enjoy this book, which means there's no need to click the link below. However, if you've read the book and want to discuss, then feel free to click the link to my LJ. As always, comments and discussion are most welcome! :)

REVIEW: Gemma Malley's THE DECLARATION

Happy Reading!

Book club selections @ calico_reaction. Hop on over! We'd love to have you!

December: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
January: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
February: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

If a high school teacher sees an injured student in the hallway, the teacher is not going to agree with the student's plan of finding a friend to drive her to the hospital and then go back into her office while the student goes in search of said friend alone. Nor is the friend's teacher going to allow the friend to leave class to drive an injured student to the hospital. Schools have rules and protocols in place for dealing with injuries and medical emergencies. "Let the kids take care of it themselves" is not one of them.

Why does no one, including the injured student, make an effort to bandage the wound or stop the bleeding? There's a girl walking down the hallway dripping blood and no one does anything.

I confess, I do not know much about blood loss, shock, or how much blood can be lost from an injury to the palm, but I find it hard to believe that someone can be perfectly rational, aware, and walking around with no problems right up to the second she faints for dramatic effect from blood loss and/or shock. If she'd just stood up or had looked at her hand for the first time or saw spots and felt dizzy, something, I could accept it, but she was sitting down talking and then fainted after the conversation was over without any symptoms (other than bleeding) to warn all was not well. (This is the part where everyone tells me that they never have any warning before they faint, right?)

I'll admit, it was a good place to end the chapter. It was also a good place to hit the back button.

Rant the second:

If someone writes a fic for you, say "thank you." I don't care if you don't like it, if the author took your prompt in a different direction than you'd expected, or if it is riddled with typos and OOC-ness (not that any of the fics inspiring this rant were poorly written. Most were excellent and the rest were good). It is a gift. Someone put time and effort into it for you. You don't have to write a two-page review praising it, but you should comment. Even if there isn't a single thing you liked about it, you should thank the author for his or her effort.

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I was wondering if there were any naming customs among women of the samurai class, like the male naming custom of getting one kanji from fathers/grandfathers. My Google-fu (keyword combinations of samurai/bushi women names/naming customs) has turned up nothing, but I'm a bit nitpicky.

So, you have your protagonists using a condom during intercourse in your smut piece, under the explanation they haven't known each other long and want to keep it safe. Which is not what I'm ranting about, safe sex is sexy and needs to be dealt with more often.

*However*, you write them having oral after...with swallowing...and no mention of putting on a fresh rubber? Er, yeahhh.

tl;dr, you can still get STDs from oral sex, so plz to be either consistent with written condom use or just plain go the standard No STDs In PWP-World route.

Title: Bad Company 12-14
Author: gatechic
Characters/Pairing: Wyatt, Jeb, Garrett, Travis, Mason, Brent...basically, a bunch of characters.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Post-series. After the eclipse, the Cain men set off to find the rest of the Clan and find themselves on an unexpected adventure.
Word Count: 2,461
Disclaimer: ( Here )
A/N: These are prompts written for tm_challenge: Season Challenge 02 Big Damn Prompt Table. This started off as a bunch of drabbles, not so much now.


Prompts 12-14.

I just recieved a sewing machine after following this community and getting many great ideas of what to do with it.  However in playing around with it, I popped the bobbin case out with the bobbin, and now can't get it back in.  I've already tried the instruction manual and google, neither of which helped (bad descriptions, or ones that didn't work).

Does anyone know how to insert the bobbin case on a singer 4228?

Guys, taking one prominently voiced opinion and methodology of the character and applying it rigidly and two-dimensionally does not constitute writing them in character.

Jane Smith is not only perfectly capable of but perfectly willing to act on the spur of the moment. Simply because she prefers plans to going in half-assed does not make her some obsessive control freak. It means she prefers to be prepared, which is a wiser strategy altogether. When John makes his biased remark, it's because he does go in half-cocked, success or no. One argumentative remark in canon does not equal her whole characterization.

Jane spontaneously attacks with a lamp. Jane spontaneously attacks with a car. Jane spontaneously attacks with a bunch of kitchen knives. Jane spontaneously attacks with a bazooka. Jane is the one fidgeting in the elevator. Would you quit writing her like a sexy robot? She is not some smooth, icy enigma--she's a little too professional for her own good. She has a nasty temper, a huge reluctant soft spot, an irrational streak and cracks jokes just as much as John in the middle of a fist fight. I'd actually say her husband knows and understands her pretty well.

Also, writing them working together the way they did in the first job, post-movie, is kind of fail. A huge part of the last battle was the two of the working together really well, and meshing their styles, and having each other's backs. The thing about their sniping early in the movie was because they didn't trust each other. After the movie, odds are they're going to behave more the way they did in the kitchen than the way they did in the sewer.

I loved this movie because at the end they do know each other, and trust each other, and are comfortable with each other, and treat each other like equals, even though both have very different styles of working. I'm a little tired of fics that have her practically acting like verbally vicious and disapproving Cameron from The Sarah Connor Chronicles and occasionally allowing John to have hot sex with her.

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Title: Mama Fish
Author: Rio Youers
Genre: Dark Fiction (horror/speculative)
URL: Amazon
Price: $7.99 (note that this is a novella length work at 92 pages)

Summary (from the publisher): At Harlequin High School In 1986, Kelvin Fish was the oddball, the weird kid that no one would talk to, except for Patrick Beauchamp who was determined to learn more. When Patrick's curiosity about Kelvin leads him into a bizarre and tragic series of events, Patrick gets much more than he bargained for.


My Review: Damn, Rio Youers can write.

Mama Fish is an interesting little novella and one that is hard to categorize. Part coming-of-age, part befriended misfits, part urban horror, and part speculative, this novella is most certainly a page-turner, keeping me engrossed the whole way.

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Crossover: Batman/Ironman
Timeline: After Batman Begins and before Dark Knight and after the first Ironman movie.  Very minor spoilers for both movies.
Characters: Bruce, Tony, Pepper, Alfred
Summary:
Tony Stark needs help with more than just his stock price.  There's something in the stories about Batman that calls to him and he goes to find the Big Bat on his home turf.

AN:  This is BM/IM FRIENDSHIP ONLY!  There is no, and will never be, any slash, however I am going for a bit of bromance, so if you want to see that as pre-slash please do.

At ffnet here

Title: The Replacement Job
Author: strangevisitor7
Fandoms: Highlander/Leverage
Characters Amanda, Sophie and the Leverage crew
Rating: PG
Spoilers : None for Highlander and end of season 2 for Leverage
beta: Many thanks to ithildyn

Disclaimer: The characters you know and love belong to their respective creators

A/N: Written for morgynleri_fic and the hlh_shortcuts secret Santa exchange

Summary: Sophie asks Amanda to take her place on a job.

The Replacement Job

Here we go! This chapter follows a corny story about the events as I typed it up, so excuse that. Nonetheless hope you all enjoy!

Title: Home
Author: MoaningMinnie
Rating: PG
Summary: Set a year or so after season 3, the team go on an away mission which changes Elizabeth's life forever.

Previous Parts can be found here:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

And for Part 7, you can find it here:
Part 7

Title: A Little Less Conversation
Author: Gin (backinblack)
Fandoms: Supernatural, Blade: Trinity
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Smut, I suppose.
Pairings: Hannibal King/Dean Winchester
Characters: Hannibal King, Dean Winchester
Summary: "That's a good look for you," came the disembodied voice, right as Dean pulled himself onto all fours.

Read it at my lj or posted at Archive Of Our Own.

Having never worked with fleece or embroidery, having few sewing skills and no sewing machine, I have to admit, I'm pretty pleased with myself. Not that making a customized sherpa hat for friend is something I'll do again any time soon...



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