A trio of birthdays! That means a much bigger cake, so there is no bad here :-)

Happy Birthday to headrush100, dodificus and starting_gate.

I hope that the day is being as perfect as a day can be and that you're enjoying yourselves celebrating.

::much love and hugs::

Happy special birthday to the adorable sassyinkpen!

I hope today has been as wonderful as a Sassy's birthday should be.

::much love and hugs::

It's the birthday of a lovely lady today, eloise_bright.

I hope that all the day is perfect, from start to finish and that the rest of the year follows suit.

Have a wonderful time celebrating!

::much love and hugs:

bhayling pointed me at the producer's blog for the last episodes that went up today

http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/blogs/guest/notes-of-an-assassin/harpers-island-episode-12-and.php

and it has some facinating bits and pieces including one about RB's character.

( very slightly spoilery snippets )

So now it's aired in the US and I can talk about it :-)

( series spoilers )

Happy Birthday crimsonquills!

I hope that the day is off to a cracking start and that you are toying with a slice of cake even as i write this.

Have fun celebrating!

::hugs::

Going right behind a cut; spoilers for all of CoE.

( episode thoughts )

It's the birthday of a very lovely lady today: appomattoxco!

I hope that you're celebrating it in style and that the birthday fairy has arrived and delivered cake and presents and lots of balloons :-)

::hugs and love:;

Just watched with David:

( episode thoughts with spoilers )

Some on a post I made last night still haven't shown up in my inbox ::sigh::

It's a very special birthday today; Artifact Storage Room 3 turns one.

To mark the occasion, people are doing fic, art, etc based around the room, an anniversary, or a birthday and here's mine. It may come as a shock, but it's a birthday fic with no spanking in it :-)

Many thanks to wesleysgirl for beta reading and making it better, as always ::hugs::

Title Crumb of Comfort
Author janedavitt
Web page Jane's Stories
Pairing Jim/Blair
Rating R
Length 4,000 words
Spoilers None
Warnings None
Summary Jim wants socks for his birthday, but Blair thinks he can do better than that.


( Crumb of Comfort )

Am watching on my own. One hour to go.

OMGOMG.

I also watched TW.

OMGOMG.

I am never going to sleep tonight, this wound up and flaily.

ETA Episode spoilers for both shows in comments.

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

elmyraemilie gave me these five words: Heyer, Wodehouse, Sayers, Heinlein, Wentworth

Obviously, they're all authors, and the interesting thing is that all but one (Heinlein) are favorites of my mother as well as me.

Heyer.

Elegant, readable, deeply romantic, her books are ones I've read over and over. I return to them with the same satisfaction I get from sinking into a hot bath or sliding between clean, cool sheets. They're beautifully written and led me to Austen, another favorite.

She wrote three sorts of books; the historicals, detectives, and contemporary novels (for her: 1920s). I love the historicals mostly, while preferring the broadly Regency timeline ones to the medievial or Elizabethan -- The Great Roxhythe, a 17th century one, is dry as dust, if incredibly slashy. I remember finding it in a used bookshop in Portsmouth for a few pounds, grabbing it quickly before it melted away, and then bouncing up and down clapping my hands as David smiled, bemused.

I enjoy the detectives a lot and of the four contemporaries, I own one (Barren Corn) and loathed it so much that I didn't bother searching for the others.

Wodehouse

The man who taught me to love golf without ever having done more than play pitch and putt. His golf stories are pure heaven and I adore them. I also confess to a crush on Psmith.

Sometimes, his convolued plots get too much and my head aches, but overall, much love.

I might :;coughs abashedly:; have written Jeeves/Wooster slash... Jeeves Lends a Hand

Sayers

Peter is pure hotness at times, I have to say and some of the short stories are decidedly creepy. I'm a sucker for university stories so Gaudy Night is one of my favorites. How Harriet kept saying 'no' to Peter, I don't know...

Sayers, for me, is in there with all the other Golden Agers and I love them all; Christie, Allingham, Marsh, Tey...

Which leads me into

Wentworth

Patricia Wentworth is often either unheard of, or dismissed as a Christie imitator but Miss Silver and Miss Marple aren't much alike, besides a love of knitting. Wentworth's plots aren't complex and she's definitely a cosy writer for the most part, but there are times when she raises a chill and I love the world she's created.

And again, I wrote some slash...Saved By Miss Silver

Finally, Heinlein.

When we got our first computer in 1997, the very first thing I searched for was Robert Heinlein. From that search, I discovered alt.fan.heinlein (and some of my friends from there are on my f-list even now which is a joy). Afh is where I learned to fight online and some of the flame wars and kerfuffles left a more innocent me reeling, but I grew a thicker skin and had a wonderful time there. The discussions were second to none for their intelligence, wit and insight. That led to me meeting Ginny Heinlein, a truly amazing lady whom it was an honor to call a friend. I miss her.

I'm not, perhaps, as into Heinlein as I was; I used to love his books with an uncritical fervor and now, maybe, I'm a little more analytical -- but I reread his juveniles recently and oh boy, could he tell a story! I think if we'd ever met, we would have argued fiercely about a lot, but it's a conversation I'd have enjoyed.

Books were and are part of my life in the way that oxygen is. These five authors are ones whose books have given me a lot of pleasure.

Two hour finale tonight, so it starts at nine, not ten...

Between this and Torchwood, I'll have no nails left :-)

I'll have to watch tonight's Torchwood tomorrow (David's in Toronto at the Judas Priest concert) but that's worked out pretty well as I'd have had to have watched HI tonight and this way we can watch both episodes of Torchwood back to back, no waiting. The waiting between episodes is killing me and it's only 24 hours ::whimpers:;

I'd say don't spoil me, but I know you wouldn't :;trusts::

Happy Birthday to two very special friends indeed, theemdash and thismaz.

I hope that the day is behaving beautifully, the sun is shining, and cake is all over the place. Sort of :-)

::much love and hugs::

Did anyone else watch it? I found it entertaining with a nicely flawed lead and an appealing quirkiness.

(Basic plot, teacher whose life is down the drain decides to moonlight as a hooker since his sole asset is, well, see title ;-))

Happy Birthday to llaras.

I do so hope that the day is a happy one from start to finish and that the sun is shining down on you even as I write this.

Have a wonderful time celebrating!

::much love and hugs::

I saw on one of my Yahoo groups that Black Lace is to cease publishing erotica after 2010. (Article in The Guardian here).

That's sad. Black Lace started up 16 years ago and I well remember seeing them in W H Smiths and buying them with this heady sense of being a woman of the world, owning my sexuality and all that jazz. I bought the m/f ones -- didn't know slash existed back then -- and I still own a few of them, though it's been years since I read the ones I bought all that time ago. I just glanced over them and winced at some of the decidedly purple prose mixed in with overly clinical names for body parts, but they had some pretty kinky smut in there too and they were definitely groundbreaking; erotica for women in a completely mainstream high street shop, displayed high up, sure, but openly.

Last ones.

Heck, even blinded with boils, he`s still pretty :-)

( episode 13 )

Not so much of RB in this episode...

( episode 6 )

Here's another bunch. It's very, very hard keeping it down to even 20 but I'm trying :-)

The shower scene ones are blurry because that's the effect they were going for.

( episode 4 )

David and I just finished watching.

EEEEE!

Is it tomorrow yet? Thank God we don't have to wait.

I'm screencapping all of the Point Pleasant episodes for RB's scenes; this is episode 3.

( Point Pleasant 1.3: 29 screencaps )

I'm screencapping all of the Point Pleasant episodes for RB's scenes for a comm so I thought I'd post them here, too; this is episode 2.

( Point Pleasant 1.2: 18 screencaps )

Happy Birthday msbeata!

I hope that the day is already bringing you all that a birthday should in the way of cake and presents and much spoiling.

Have fun celebrating your special day.

::love and hugs::

Happy Birthday nosurething2!

I hope that it's been the best and brightest of days for you and the year to come matches it.

::hugs you::

raynedanser and I were discussing Point Pleasant and I decided to do these just because.

Not spoilery, just pretty.

( RB as a doctor? I feel better already... )

I just bought Rainier cherries, at a dollar a kilo more because, well, Rainier is so TS connected in my head.

David mocked me muchly but agrees they're very sweet and interesting looking; yellowish pink, not dark red.

I'm such a fangirl... ::grins::

I haven't had time to scan in the two TS scripts I got for my birthday (Sweet Science and Rogue); there were, sadly, no real changes from the filmed script so it went to the end of my to-do list. In fact, Rogue is missing that great opening scene where Jim drinks the spoiled milk so there's less, not more :-(

There was one bit, though; the great scene between Simon and Blair in Sweet Science. We lose some of the words, but gain a hug -- and we lose the 'he needs you' line.

( transcript/script )

Title Raincheck
Author janedavitt
Web page Jane's Stories
Pairing Jim/Blair
RatingNC17
Length 1225 words
Spoilers None
Warnings None
Written for the sentinel_thurs challenge of 'rain'.

( Raincheck )

This is Shawn Ashmore looking cute. I can think of some other people I could stand to see featured with a flag in Cosmopolitan....

ETA He plays Iceman in the X-Men movies.

Is it just me, or is the new Caramilk comercial absolutely smutty as hell? All those waving tentacles and faces in interesting places and the wiggling, writhing...whew.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8GOyuEELWc

As it's Canada Day, I did some caps of CKR being evil in Harper's Island.

Spoilery, I guess, though you only see him.

Being evil.

( CKR )

Who better to start off a new month than _minxy_ herself.

Have fun celebrating, sweetie, and move forward and onward knowing that you're loved.

::hugs you tight::

We will never, ever be able to get our inbox back, but we've rescued everything else from the old computer. The problem was that one of the Windows files or drivers was missing (do not ask me how that happened) and so the boot up couldn't complete. So David took the hard drive out and attached it with this belt type thingummy to the CD drive of the spare computer we were using and presto! Our computer!

So we salvaged loads of stuff and now we'll just have to bite the bullet and buy a couple of things we'd previously purchased that are now demanding a registration number that was lost in the shuffle. I think we might have needed to do that anyway on some stuff as this computer is a 64 bit one.

And the new computer (OMG, the graphics are so clear!) has a working, fancier version of Windows Movie Maker, so I can vid again (Sony Vegas jumps through hoops for Eleanor, who mastered it in a week or so and can do vid effects that make me blink, but it is incomprehensible to me).

It's all good, yes, it is.

I've started work on the Point of Contact sequel for Moonridge too, and it's fun getting back into that 'verse. It feels weird not having anything much to do after doing so much writing this year, but it's nice to relax -- before the edits arrive :-)

Happy Birthday to crayonbreakygal and chlare.

I hope that the birthdays fairies have done their job and delivered a perfect day to both of you.

Enjoy being spoiled and pampered!

::love and hugs::

Happy Birthday rusty_halo, a friend from way back when :-)

I hope that the day is off to a wonderful start and that cake, presents, and balloons are imminent; have fun celebrating!


::love and hugs::

Title Flashpoint
Author janedavitt
Web page Jane's Stories
Pairing Jim/Blair
Rating PG13
Length 300 words
Spoilers None
Written for the sentinel_thurs challenge of 'embers'.

( Flashpoint )

Happy Birthday timeofchange!

I hope that the day is being all that a birthday should be and a little bit more -- no, a LOT more! :-)

Have a wonderful day!

::much love::

First time posting from the new, empty, huge computer. The screen is so darn wide. Wow.

I've set up Firefox and email and given Eleanor one of her own and now I'm going to recreate years of bookmarks and try to keep them tidy :-)

The new computer has a 23 inch monitor, Intel 2 quad core, I TB hard drive, 6GB RAM, 64 bit something and we can have both external hard drives plugged in and accessible at the same time, yay.

The old one had an 80GB hard drive and wheezed along slowly, poor pet.

It doesn't like our printer though...too old for it. How snobby can you get? Tchah.

And just to show not everything is getting more expensive, it cost $1000 LESS than our old system, bought seven years ago.

Happy Birthday hawk_soaring!

I hope that the sun is shining down from a blue, blue sky and the cake is delicious, as all birthday cake should be.

Have fun celebrating!

::love and hugs::

OMG, that episode was good. Edge of my seat.

( major episode spoilers )

Just got E from school, safe and sound after her week in Washington and she was at the White House gates when Obama came out and he rolled down the window of his limo and waved at them!

How cool is that?

She had lots of fun but looks exhausted, poor pet.