this 'rejuvenated' graphic makes me giggle

In Tokyo, they wouldn't let us deplane before a group of people in nuclear fallout suits heat-sensor us and confirm our swine flu status. Like, the entire plane's status. Like they count the health forms we had to fill in ("Have you sat next to someone who sneezed constantly?"), and if the number of forms don't match the number of people on the plane, no one is allowed to disembark. These guys get extra points for using pieces of packaging tape to seal the backs of their nuclear fallout suits, though. Keep it classy, airport health officials. Plus, we get free face masks!

Few things rock harder than being upgraded to business class on your 24-hour plane trip of doom across the world. Thanks, Northwest-cum-Delta! On a day I had expected to be heavy with goodbye and claustrophobic with economy seating, I got champagne platters for dinner and more on-demand movies than I knew what to do with. Yay! So, my thoughts on: ( Inkheart, Defiance, Benjamin Button, Gran Torino, Milk )

( And then I talk about The Office! )

Has anyone already written The Office/Parks & Recreation crossover fic? If not, then WHY?? On an FNL note, what the hell happened to Santiago, he of the Trail of Dead tackle music?

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Narnia Exchange is just around the riverbend! I'm not co-modding this time, but I am totally participating. What should I even request?!

[Poll #1403587]

ETA: Still one more DW invite code up for grabs. Anyone? Bueller?

'Residue'. Narnia. Peter/Susan. R.

Tagalog word of the day!: tagahalakhak (pronounced tah-gah-hah-LUCK-HUCK), meaning hilarious!

I have these snippets lying around -- a couple of lines from overexcited meta, a few sentences of directionless porn -- that I keep around in case I might want to use them in a fic at some point. A lot of them I can't use because the contexts are really specific and vaguely cracked out, but I'm a packrat. If I get rid of a bunch of stuff, it's usually by accident.

Anywayz, these are Peter/Susan snippets from various exchanges with Bed and Z that I've smushed into one thing. Yanno, as much as I love Peter/Susan, I'm beginning to feel like I've said all I need to say about them. Maybe I need a new lens. Maybe I need to AU this shit up. I wanna read other people/s Peter/Susan.


Residue
Narnia. Peter/Susan. R. 647 words. Warning: incest.
Post-Narnia. They're not afraid of silence.

( there is no wolf )

the national identity thing

So, one time my dad was in Timor Leste, in a meeting that ran inordinately long because they had to translate everything from Portuguese to English. (The official languages in Timor Leste are Portuguese and Tetum.) "And after the meeting, we started chatting," said my dad. "And you know what language we were chatting in? Indonesian!"

The guy reckons that in five years or so, everyone in Timor Leste will be speaking Portuguese and most people won't even know Indonesian. The translator said, "Naw, man, the kids'll know Indonesian. How'll they watch their sinetron otherwise?" (Sinetron are like narmy Indonesian telenovelas with a lot of tears and screaming.)

Which is hilariously unsurprising but also not hilarious at all. ( Let me get my soapbox. )

On an unrelated note: am I probably going to use part of my $25 iTunes gift-card to buy this?? STAY TUNED TO FIND OUT.

INSTAVIDREC: Merlin/Will set to Telepopmusik's "Close" fsnkjfksajflkjsdflkjdfd I don't usually do vids, okay, but I am warming to them, especially if they're gonna be ABOUT MERLIN AND WILL BEING HEARTBREAKING. omg. Watch it, guys.