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Welcome to The Gatehouse today! Last week, we started to explore dieselpunk architecture with features of New York City’s RCA Building and Times Square. Stefan from Paris contributed an artwork of his own to our mini-series, entitled “ Underworld.” Stay tuned, for Chicago is next! As you may have noticed, the sidebar of the blog now features the latest two photographs uploaded to the Steampunk Fashion group on flickr. Our own HildeKitten of House of Secrets Incorporated maintains this pool where everyone with a flickr account can add pictures to. We looked the other way for a moment and all of the sudden the newest steampunk ezine, Exhibition Hall has produced two new editions! They continue to cover events, feature interviews with designers and steampunk personalities of note as well as reviews of the lesser known works of steampunk fiction. Click here for a complete overview of all the issues that they have released so far and prepare for their fourth publication which is scheduled for release 1 December. If you have been enjoying Sjón Refur’s Cinema is Cinema be sure to add the companion edition to this blog to your reading list. Here the author provides less formal observations about recently-watched films and reviews of motion pictures that do not quite fall within the scope of Golden Era cinema. Most of dieselpunk fiction seems to ignore the Great Depression of the 1930s. Either it takes place during something of a prolonged Roaring Twenties era or in a post-apocalyptic setting that goes far beyond the hardships of an economic downturn. Is there a place for the Depression in dieselpunk nevertheless? That is the question Mr Xianar asks at our forums, the Smoking Lounge. Please, share your views! If you are the mood for something old-fashioned, visit Chronically Vintage: a cute little blog maintained by one Jessica Cangiano and updated almost every day with photographs and ephemera from the 1930s through the 1950s. | | |
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...was relatively lucky as most days go. I left work at 6pm after doing overtime the rest of the week, two days of which we left at 5am and 2:30am, respectively. Manager treated us to lunch in Gumbo for our work, and I am getting reimbursed for my taxi rides home (to make up for not getting OT allowance, as I hardly get to work before 8:40).
Nah, I don't think I'm quitting this job.
Also had Peking duck for dinner with the family in Trinoma, which is awesome, but I rather hated Trinoma that day because their midnight sale kept us there till 11:30, at which point I was too sabog to even walk properly. But hey, at least I left work early!
I said I'd watch Twilight today so I can watch New Moon with my officemates on Friday. I can't seem to get around to it though hahaha
It was also our halfsary (y'know, half a year, six months, and so on) a couple of days ago. Milestones are nice. We ate in My Thai in SM Fairview yesterday, which is already upscale for us (as we usually have fastfood or food court food, cheap eh), but we were pretty happy with the food. I thought it would be spicier, Thai food being Thai food, and he wanted more shrimps on the Pad Thai noodles (an extra 30 pesos for two shrimps, what). But we were satisfied on the whole.
Cliches are cliche for a reason: time really does fly when you're having fun. ♥- Mood:satisfied
 - Music:Cooking Mama 3 sounds and general band music from the studio
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http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=1537 We hope you enjoyed this week's edition of One Book A Day. Here, for posterity, is the complete list of titles:
I know, that's a lot of friends. What can I say. We're friendly guys.
That's our last official One Book A Day for the year, the kind with books from all sorts of authors and publishers. But as you'll see, several of our publisher sponsors will be using the same format to let you know about their upcoming books.
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I was wondering if anyone could tell me where I can download Saiyuki Offroad and if it was ever scanlated into English.
Many thanks in advance! - Mood:hopeful
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Last repost this evening - I swear, I'm off to frost cupcakes now! I'll totally stop spamming you!Title: Lust Potion Number Nine Author: lesyeuxverts Rating: PG-13 Pairings: Harry/Severus, with mention of Harry/Ginny, Harry/Viktor, and Harry/unspecified male Word Count: ~14k Summary: Harry Potter was the last person Severus expected to need this particular potion, but the Ministry's Propagation and Restoration Emergency Guidelines have them both trapped in lives they don't particularly want to lead. A/N: Please note that this is intended to be AU with regards to the timing of the epilogue; Harry and Ginny were married immediately after the war, rather than several years later. Written for the 2009 Snarry Games, in the Alive&Kicking Genre and for the Love&Marrage and Play The Game prompts. Nothing which you recognize from the HP universe belongs to me, alas. The boys would have so much more fun with me… Huge thanks to jin_fenghuang, rgrayjoy, and carpet_diemon for all of the help, support, and brainstorming while I wrote; to my teammates for the support, encouragement, and concrit; to odogoddess, jin_fenghuang, and angela_snape for being the best beta-readers a girl could ask for; and to the mods, for putting on such fabulous fest and being extraordinarily patient with me. Thank you all so much! Long fic is long and is posted at DreamWidth: Lust Potion Number Nine | | |
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Title: Christmas Ever After Author: lesyeuxverts00Rating: PG-13 Prompt: "Thou canst hear though from the wild/ Thou canst save amid despair/Safe may we sleep beneath Thy care/ though banish'd, outcast, and reviled." Summary: "What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace." - Agnes M. Pharo Any other notes, warnings, etc.: Thanks so much to softly_sweetly, raspberry, and bewarethesmirk for looking this over for me; and to L and S for being there for me as I wrote this. This is canon-compliant, including canon character deaths, but has a happy ending of sorts. Written for laroseminuit in the 2008 round of rs_small_gifts. ( Christmas Ever After ) | | |
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Title: To Perish Twice
Author: </a></strong></a>![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lesyeuxverts
Word Count: 5k or thereabouts
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Harry/Severus
Warnings: forced bonding, epilogue-compliant (more or less), happy endings
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Severus had had five years of very bad sex with Potter, once a year and regular as clockwork – he wasn't about to go on like that for the rest of his life.
Author's Notes: Written for jadzialove in the 2008 Snarry Holidays exchange.
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Title: The Memories That Matter Most Author: lesyeuxverts Word Count: 2400ish Rating: R Pairing: Snape/Harry (Harry/Ginny, Ginny/Dean) Warnings: infidelity, divorce Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. Summary: Harry doesn't need the photographs in order to remember – but he keeps them nonetheless, his forever memories. Author's Notes: The story is told backwards in four parts. Inspired by the photographs in jin_fenghuang</a> 's Snarry Games art When All is Said and Done. ( The Memories That Matter Most ) | | |
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Title: No Place for the Living
Author: lesyeuxverts
Pairing: Snape/Sirius Rating: NC17 Warnings: Dub-con, bondage Summary: Flesh and bone and rope have their limits, and Snape never pushes too hard. Disclaimer: The world of HP and its characters belongs to J K Rowling. The author of this fic has borrowed them for the purposes of storytelling. No profit was or will be made. Word count: 2280 Author Notes: Written for iamisaac in the 2008 round of snapelyholidays. Thanks to M and S for the beta, and to E for the title! ( No Place for the Living ) | | |
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Title: Always White Author: lesyeuxverts00 Rating: NC-17 Pairing: Harry/Teddy Summary: Harry has to marry Teddy. Just to save him, of course. He isn't a dirty old man lusting after his godson – he isn't. Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction set in the Harry Potter universe – all recognisable characters and settings are the property of J. K. Rowling and her associates. No copyright infringement is intended. No profit is made from this work. Please observe your local laws with regards to the age-limit and content of this work Warning(s): forced bonding, semi-public sex Word Count: 3500 Author's Notes: Written for entrenous88 in the first round of hp_cross_fest. ( Always White ) | | |
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So, in uploading fic to my shiny new Archive of Our Own account, I've realized that there's a shameful number of fest fics that I haven't reposted here. For the sake of having everything at my LJ, I am going to spam your flists like crazy tonight, and I am super-sorry about it, and please just scroll on past. Nothing to see here...just really old fics.Title: Not By Bread Alone Pairing(s): Harry/Draco (Harry/Ginny, Draco/Astoria) Summary: No man – wizard or Muggle – can live by bread alone. Rating: NC-17 Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. Warning(s): Infidelity, prostitution, bondage, angst Epilogue compliant? Epilogue compliant, yes. Disregards most of interview canon except for Astoria's name. Word Count: 6500ish Author's Notes: Written for the 2008 round of hd_holidays. ( Not By Bread Alone ) | | |
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I <3 Lev Grossman. In an interview by Zack Smith for Newsarama, he said, of his new book The Magicians, I’m only putting in formally-published form the oldest, most basic tropes of fan fiction.In Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield called the album Them Crooked Vultures fan fiction with a classic-rock heart.On New York Magazine's Vulture blog, Nick Catucci referred to a recent episode of 30 Rock as pure fan fiction, minus the part where he tells her to take off everything but her glasses.On Examiner, Anthony Strain wrote that a plot element of the 11/09 episode of Gossip Girls has totally been done before, if you count certain kinds of fan fiction.The (Lewis County, Washington) Chronicle's Carrina Stanton reviewed a Centralia College production of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, a [Peanuts] fan fiction by Bert V. Royal. Neely Tucker's piece on recent pro fanfic continues to bounce around the world. ( In Twilight news… )Finally, in the Weekly World News, Reginald Cunningham III reported that Joseph Cao, the only Republican to vote for the health care bill, in a particularly embarrassing incident […] accidentally distributed to Congress a copy of his Twilight fan fiction.(Cross-posted to http://as-others-see-us.dreamwidth.org/7761.html.) | | |
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Title: Nebula Summary: There was no one word to describe their relationship. PeinKonan Words: 2000 Disclaimer: I am not associated with Masashi Kishimoto or any affiliates Rated T for sort-of-not-really implied intimacy Warnings: The end of the Naruto Pein fight, Pein and Konan's past. Located at ff.net www.fanfiction.net/s/5511724/1/Nebula- Mood:accomplished
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A couple of weeks ago, I asked for help putting together a steampunk outfit for a Halloween costume. I didn't have much time/money to do too many additions, but I think it turned out okay anyway. Today, some friends of mine and myself got together for a photo shoot at a local college campus. I thought you might be interested in seeing the finished product, though I do apologize that I'm not necessarily the best model. ( Fairly large pictures behind the cut. )Thanks for looking and let me know what you think! | | |
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I finished my new patch-work winter skirt. I'm thinking maybe I'll be Cinderella with some clockwork mice that do all my work. 
I want an under-bust corset to go with it, but that will have to wait until all the gift giving holidays are over.
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(First, OMG, Yuletide! Yay! But getting my assignment made me realize that I had not yet posted a Yuletide letter, so let me postpone my squee until later - or direct it toward the ginger cake I'm going to try to make again - and go on and do that. In between trips to the kitchen to carry on with the baking.) ( Dear Yuletide Author, )Okay, now I will go back to the kitchen and see if I can scrounge enough sugar to make some pumpkin bread. And squee (quietly) about Yuletide while finishing off my gingerbread dinner with gingerbread dessert. :D | | |
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The newest outfit for my daughter, for a steamy zoo expedition tomorrow:  The skirt is made from the same pattern I used to make her red and black outfit for SteamCon. The vest was made from Simplicity 2484. The boots and shirt are from Target, although I tea-dyed the shirt from its original white cotton state. This was the "test run" of the outfit, to make sure the pieces were coming together. Once we knew everything fit and worked with each other, I added some antique mother of pearl buttons to the vest, and some lace to the collar and cuffs of the shirt, but it got too dark for another picture. ( One more picture ) | | |
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51 icons total: (34)Naruto and (17) Bleach*Spoiler warning for recent chapters of Naruto and Bleach. :3 Previews:   
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