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[rm]

So, I am thinking, a pair of eye-glasses to replace my snapped cat-eyes ones and a pair of square-ish wire-rims with those transitions lenses so I can have prescription sunglasses on the cruise. Y/Y?

From the Department of WTF BBC: Should homosexuals be executed? I'm having a hard time cogently responding to this, but the very short version: you just apologized to Alan Turing, who, btw, helped save your asses in WWII. Doesn't that tell you the damn answer?

keori gives us an amazingly detailed overview of the history of impact of DADT.

Fela's Women.

Have now seen all the abstracts for Bristol.

I was weirdly and freakishly charmed by Stephen Colbert rapping with Alicia Keys last night.

More reaction to and fallout from the Chartrand mess: here and here. This is about a lot more than pseudonyms; it's about how you get paid better if you talk about how much women suck and how women on the Internet literally pay the price for all that casual vitriol from men fictive and not.

Design the next NYC condom package.

In India a call has gone out for volunteers to marry sex-workers to get them out of the biz (via catdancerz). This one's complicated and interesting.

About being a marginalized person and the expectation that you be willing to educate others about it in a way that considers their feelings, often more than your own. via i_am_schizo

Offered without my internal commentary: Looking young may mean living longer. via 00goddess on Twitter

Okay, so who exactly on the flist is going to Gallifrey One this year? I've actually lost track. Why do I need to know? Inappropriate trinket planning, of course.

Tomorrow Patty leaves for Ohio. This is *frowny face*. I will work and write like mad to catch up on everything (hi, Werewolves; hi Virtual Season; hi, ConSweet), and then when she returns on Jan 1, we get ready for the cruise!

Okay, actually, my book is back-ordered EVERYWHERE. I'm expecting the major e-tailers to get it in in time for Christmas shipping, but at this point am just not sure. I do have a decent stock of books in my house though, so if you want one and you're in the US and you need if for the holidays $14 via Paypal (sorry kids, I'm more than Amazon, list is $14.95) and I'll pick up the shipping and packing. Email or PM if interested.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Which coat did you get?

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Something that might be Jacktaculuar, from a vintage shop. It might be a bit too blue and I don't know if the measurements are accurate, but I'm going to work on it.

It'll need shoulderboard insignia and replacement buttons and things. But we'll see if it fits when it gets here!

If it's a bad fit, maybe I can offer it on torch_wood or a cosplay forum for someone else. Or maybe I'll hang it on my coat rack as a decoration.

(I TOTALLY HAVE THE WRONG HAIR TO BE JACK. I WOULD HAVE TO BE GENDERSWAP JACK.) :)

[rm.livejournal.com]

I had to get mine taken apart at the seams, cut down to size and reconstructed. And I still need to fix the shoulders and get the damn rank slides (and the correct buttons, which you can get through Sutlers, but I've not gotten around to ordering yet, which I should do today).

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Yours > Mine. :D

I really need to see this coat in person to find out if it'll work, anyway. I'm doing this budget-style. If I get rank slides, I'll hook you up!

Do you have a vortex manipulator? :)

[rm.livejournal.com]

I have the crappy licensed one, which is clumsy on my wrist (I'm so fine-boned). I actually have someone who is going to take it apart and make me a real leather casing for it, which is so emblematic of how crazy I am it's not even funny.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I've wanted a real leather one for a YEAR.

I'd just wear it with my street clothes and put a watch inside.

Oh, the obsessions of Torchwood/Jack fans... :D

[rm.livejournal.com]

I found mine in the bottom of my suitcase before a recent trip (having left it there after some other con), and now it just comes with me on every trip I take in some weird good luck charm way.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

If only D were still around .....

[rm.livejournal.com]

Man, I was thinking of him the other day. In that "fucked up things that happened this decade" sort of way.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

It hits me every time I go somewhere I think he would have liked ( DoV ) , or when I look at handcrafted jewelry and so on. I'm really lucky to have the lapel pin and cane. I just kicks me in the soul to see the things he could have done.