There's nothing to be afraid of, even when you close your eyes.

Friends Cut.

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:20:49 GMT

"the lesson is, always listen to amy"

Friends Cut.

Strangely, I feel lighter.

Fanfic Meme.

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:29:18 GMT

This is just for fun, something that I decided i wanted to try. Until 10PM on Sunday the 18th (EST) Anonymous commenting is enabled and I.P. Logging is off.

I want to try an experiment to see how much I can tell about you as a person through your writing. I don't want to know who wrote what since in some case that will spoil it, but it could be interesting to see what I can pull about people from their writing.

Looking at mine, you can tell quite a lot about the person I am, so i want to see if I can do the same for other people.

Rules/Guidelines.

1. It needs to be at least 200 words for me to be able to pull anything out of it.
2. Any pairing, any subject will do (original characters are also fine).
3. It's better if it's something that hasn't been betaed and was written all in one-shot. You can use an older fic that you've written if you'd like, but it's really better if no one's had any input other than yourself.
4. Don't bother trying to trick me into thinking you're someone else since it defeats the purpose of it. This is to see if I can tell things about you and writing differently on purpose would completely defeat the point.

Shall we try? :p

EDIT;; I'm starting to reply to the entries. This is an experiment only, to see how much i'm able to read through writing alone and how accurately. Hopefully, it's been as fun for you as me. :p

EDIT2;; Submissions are closed. All comments will be replied to by 8AM on Tuesday, the 20th (EST).

EDIT3;; Submissions are closed, all fics have been analysed. Thank you for playing and bearing with me. :p

Writing

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:15:32 GMT

I don't normally post about writing on my journal. I'd rather leave all my fandom related writing over on kinou_no_koukai, but I thought that it would be okay to talk about this here since it's not fandom related.

Writing is a huge part of my life, one that's hard to fathom in some ways. I usually write about one ficlet a day whether it's original or for fandom, but lately I've been getting blocked. It was gradual at first, I just noticed that it had become harder to write as fast as I'd used to and I wasn't liking what I was producing as much.

But then, it was like a gate came crashing down and I can't write for the life of me. I might get a couple sentences, ones that I don't like in the first place (but they're better than nothing) and then I get so blocked that I can't keep going. Writing is such a huge part of my life that when I'm blocked it's hard to get the motivation to do anything whether it's translating, reading or watching movies.

Even talking to people on IM is hard because it involves a form of writing.

So, any ideas guys? On how to break the block?

Krissy suggested that I just try writing without thinking and below are the results of it. It's all cheesy and overdone. I don't like any of it. If you care to look, then all you really need to know is that "/////" means that I got blocked and started again.

It begins with a breath. Then two.

Sometimes I think that the air shimmers around us, marking us as its own even as the setting sun gently kisses your cheeks. "It will all be over soon," you say, your voice mourning something that we haven't even lost yet.

I want to tell you that it's not over yet, that it can't be over yet, but my words stick in my throat.

//////

And all that I am wants to be with you.

He can feel the words, taste them on his tongue as she moves closer, silk brushing over her skin. The sounds of jazz fill the air and it's all he can do just to breathe.

///

The world is a sad place, a lonely place. There's only one shot and then it's gone.

She stands on a beach, watching expressionlessly as the waves crash against the shore

///

"I wanted this too, you know." His eyes are almost pleading as they fix on your face, desperate to keep you beside him. Desperate to see what he could make

////

The happiness that filled his heart when he looked at him... He could hardly fathom it, could hardly believe that the man who stood across from him had chosen to be his.

"Ne," he began softly, reaching out a hand to him. "Don't you

///

Slowly, slowly the snow started to fall, covering the world in a blanket of white. Snow was pure, she thought as she watched the soft flakes coming down.

She had longed for that purity as a child, but now... Now she knew better.

Sneak Attack Friends Cut!

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:40:02 GMT

I don't know why, but it suddenly seemed like long past due. Considering the fact that I don't have much time online anymore, I'd rather have my flist be made up of people that I want/need to keep up with. I was looking through it without the filters and saw that there were a lot of people who I'd never talked to before and I couldn't remember why we were friends in the first place. In other journals, every entry was in a different language and I couldn't remember why I had friended them either. There were some people who only talked about KT and NewS and some people who only ever talked about fandom.

I don't know about you guys, but despite being a part of fandom, this journal is for me. The people I keep up with, I want to be friends with. So while having fandom friends is great, I generally want to know more about you. And no, knowing that you think that Tsuyoshi is the hottest man in the world and you want his babies, is not what I mean by knowing more about you. If there was little to no aspects of your personality/life outside of fandom in your journal, there was no point in me keeping you friended because I won't read it. Unless of course I talk to you in a different way than LJ (S'up, Usami? :p).

So the basic idea was, if I couldn't read your journal OR had never talked to you despite being on your flist for awhile OR didn't think there was anything that we could connect on. If there's nothing that I think I can talk about to you anymore, you're gone.

As always, if you think that I've made a mistake, please feel free to comment here or contact me via LJ pm.

Thanks for everything, guys.

Public: Sorry for the spam guys, this is important.

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:37:21 GMT

i realize now i do not fear death... i fear my daughter will not be free when i die

- From the Twitter of an Iranian medical student

"If it bothers you so much, then why don't you stop watching?" seems to be the question of the last few days from my friends and family who know how invested I have become in the cause of the Iranian people (as I have explained in great detail here) The answer is simple: one day of caring is not enough. We must be the voice for the people of Iran who would otherwise be silenced. They are without reliable news sources, they are without mobile phone calls, text messaging, facebook, twitter, youtube, AIM, Yahoo, Google, and pretty much every other useful outlet for information you can think of. Yet they persist on the streets and on the internet in any way they can. The least we can do, whether we are across continents, oceans, or time zones, is spread their words safely.

My death is irrelevant.Wht is important is that u do not forget my words.We want freedom.i will die 4that

- From the Twitter of a protester in Tehran

Right now, brave men and women in Iran, both young and old, are sacrificing their lives for their voices to be heard. They must fear not only the police, but also the Basij -a force of men loyal to the government who plant themselves among crowds in plain clothes in order to discretely attack protesters and incite chaos.The protesters are peaceful. They mass together in crowds that are reported to grow in size every day. At night they have very few, if any, safe places to stay. Houses with satelite dishes were attacked by the Basij tonight, and during the 50 minutes of Twitter's maintenance, another university was attacked.

140 characters is a novel when you're being shot at.

- From another Iranian Twitter

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?

The most obvious thing to do is stay informed. Keep an eye on reliable sources on Twitter, refresh blogs and news sites that are covering the stories.

If you are on twitter, retweet information from reliable twitters, but REMOVE THE USERNAME if they are in Iran. People have died because of the lack of responsibility by fellow tweeters and the media in this front. They can be tracked down by the government of Iran.

Spread the information elsewhere. Repost this article or write your own on Facebook, Myspace, Tumblr, or anywhere else you can think of. If you write your own, make sure you are concise and accurate. Link to your sources for people to learn more.

Change your location on Twitter to Tehran or Iran, and your time zone to GMT +3:30.

DO NOT auto-refresh and take down websites, even if you are asked. It slows down the internet for the rest of the people in Iran.

If you make a proxy DO NOT post it publically, otherwise it is useless. Send it in a direct message to a trusted source.

DO NOT spam the hash tag #IranElection with useless things to "confuse the government". This does not help at all.

USEFUL SITES TO FURTHER HELP

Cyber War Guide for Iran Elections

Green Revolution - How to Help

Anonymous - Why We Protest - Iran

STAY INFORMED!

Follow on Twitter: @ProtesterHelp and @StopAhmadi

(REMINDER: DO NOT REPOST PERSONAL TWITTERS OF THOSE INSIDE THE COUNTRY, EVEN IF THEY ARE RELIABLE!)

Chronology of events

Live-blogging by Andrew Sullivan

General information from a poser on Fark.com

Live-blogging on HuffingtonPost

دنیارابگوییدچطورآنهاانتخاباتمان دزدیده اند
Tell the world how they have stolen our election

- original article by one_hoopy_frood on LJ