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There was just a chemistry joke in my SVU fic. And I laughed. Mostly because there was a chemistry joke in there like it was nothing, more an author's in-joke than a laugh-out-loud funny thing.

I'm going to do that at some point. Just throw all the nerdy jokes into a fic I can.

Been crazy excited since yesterday, when somebody posted on this Star Trek Enterprise round robin that I play in that's been abandoned for more than three years. I only ever looked at it every once in a while, whenever somebody replied to a one of my topics on the forum (which wasn't often at all, as I played in the T'Pol/Hoshi section that was highly underpopulated), so I was tres surprised when I got an email saying that somebody had replied to the RR thread, and even more surprised when it was somebody that wanted to continue it. Excellence. We had a really complex story going on, which upon discussion with said replying somebody, we're going to tweak a little into a somewhat less impossible to write yet still complex storyline regarding the Temporal Cold War. Which I have to research, because most of that plotline in the show was done in the first two seasons, which I only occasionally watched.

Lion King was nice. The dancing just didn't impress me, though. I expected that to be the best part of the show, because that's what they're always talking about, but it seemed like they had to modify it down even more to compensate for the costumes. I don't think for a moment that it was easy, dancing around with lions on their heads, but it seemed like very simplistic dancing. Music was nice, costumes were excellent. There was a lot of sound trouble at the beginning, though. We could hear fine, as we were in the front and the acoustics are decent in the Fox, but I could hear the people behind us and in the balcony murmuring about how they couldn't hear. It was a good entire scene, too, at least 10 minutes. I felt bad for everybody in the back (where I'd normally be sitting). They had an 11 year old (or so, I think that was his age) playing young Simba for most of the first act, which surprised me. He was v. cute, too. He did a good job--he had a stronger singing voice than half the male leads.

Lion King, however, seems to attract the people who don't know basic theatre etiquettes. Meaning, in this case, don't bring your infant to a show starting at 8pm. If they're too young to talk, they're probably too young to appreciate the show, Lion King or not, and are also too young to be up that late. And also, you don't clap at every animal that parades by in the aisles. ESPECIALLY WHEN PEOPLE ARE SINGING ONSTAGE. These people clapped at the drop of a hat. Just like during Shakespeare. Somebody really needs to just add "Do not clap during songs/dialogues" to the "turn off your cell phones" announcement at the beginning.

And I got the impression that Austin's parents suggested me when they gave him the extra ticket. Just in that he didn't seem overly. . . enthused that I was there. We were both v. polite, but most of my conversation was with his sister and parents when we met them later, and everything with him was initiated by me.

Edit: I just found my Tropico CD. I am a happy girl. I dunno if it plays anymore, as I've had it for probably 4 years and it's gotten considerably scratched up in that time, but I've really wanted to play it recently. Considering I got it for free (one of those 'free after rebate' things at the CompUSA), tis excellent.

EditEdit: IT DOES PLAY. Trufax excellent.

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Hey, mister Harry Potter VII hacker? Here's a tip. You want people to take your little posting seriously? Post the whole book. Try using things like grammar in your post. I mean, hell, I can barely figure out what you're saying. I can't figure out what you're saying in bits. *shakes head* Supposedly you can write code enough to take down a v. well protected corporation's system, but you can't write intelligibly. yeahsure.

I think that this book is going to be the one that people in fandom ignore. Not ignore as in don't read, but ignore as in regarding fic. There's always the one, you know? "Divided Loyalties" in Babylon 5, "Loss" in SVU, etc. HP fandom has been surprisingly closely tied to the books, that I've seen, though I've seen the ignoring to a certain extent with OotP, ignoring Sirius's death (though I'm not always sure if those were written before or after the book came out). But it's going to be huge with this one, methinks, with the whole Snape debate. People have come out strongly on one side or the other (me? I'm strongly on the wanting to believe he's a good guy side, but I've got the sneaking suspicion she's going to make him not), and especially with those pairings that involve him/the Death Eaters, I don't think people are going to change their HPverse-view one way or the other when the book comes out.

I've got to admit, I'm excited about July. I was in HP fandom before I knew what HP fandom was (my first website at age 8 or so was running an HP RPG-ish thing that a bunch of people played in until the big Warner Bros takeover/legal scare), and though I've become somewhat disenchanted with JKR's work as I've gotten older (I just didn't like HBP very much, plain and simple) and have never quite gotten into modern HP fandom (it was so small before; now it's practically unmanageable and yet nobody seems to write the rarepairings I want), the prospect of a movie and the last book in the same month is catching me back into the same excitement that was there years back when the 3rd book came out, and the fourth, and the first movie, etc.

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So. I was looking for the old VJB (a Star Trek: Voyager Torres/Seven group) Awards winners listing by googling it (because that was so long ago that it'd be hard to find on-list), and I came across VJB wineries. The first listing on the page I clicked on: Cabernet Sauvignon Chocolate Sauce. (Dark Chocolate Dessert Sauce Infused With Our Award Winning Cabernet Sauvignon. A Perfect Pairing Over Ice Cream, Strawberries, Brownies, etc.)

I dunno about the Cabernet bit, but dark chocolate sauce? With alcohol? That's got to be seduction heaven. I'm not generally a fan of alcohol, but mixed with dark chocolate? I'd hit that.

That's got to make it into one of the VJB spoofs (that I haven't seen any of recently, sadly).