coupla recs, coupla thoughts

[minxy]

In looking for a free plug in for Greek fonts in Photoshop (how's a girl supposed to make physics figures without Greek letters, huh? I ask you) I came across this little tidbit of information:

The word Sepia is Greek for cuttlefish (relatives of the squid), and Sepia is the reddish brown pigment derived from the ink.

Did you know that? I did not know that. Sepia means cuttlefish? Okay.

I found Greek-ish (enough, but why y for gamma?) fonts, btw. Which I've now d/l'd and installed, but it's triggered this plot bunny about Daniel getting audited for d/l porn and maybe it was just font plug ins for the new languages he's discovering and aren't automatically installed on his word processing program. Or, you know, maybe it was porn and he's just saying it was fonts. No, not writing it. I told you the punchline, that's as far as I intend to go.

In between typing up massive amounts of methods pages (ah, physics, how I love thee waaaaay more than biology. Way. More.) I have done the following:

Read cofax7's newest contribution to the This Is Not Wartime series: The first time Cam met John Sheppard. That's nothing but goodness, right there. Also gen, and PG-13 or something.

Then I went and read more TINW, and found out that I'm not so much in an apocafic place, which is not to say that I got sad, Cofax, so much as it was just way beyond my ability to process (although I do keep hearing the phrase 'mid-way through the first pint, the mountain blew up' repeating over and over in my head. I don't even know if I've got the syntax right or not at this point.)

thassalia is responding to prompts, which means I wrote her one three, because I am all about the prompting, and she, quite rightfully, ignored all of the prompts and wrote the setting requested. It's a beautiful ficlet, what she wrote. Really, amazing Cameron voice and character: Blue Jeans and Beer, and Zebulan Pike was Here (for me yay!). S10 goodness, all about the Cameron. All about Cameron going back to his old stomping grounds and faith and humilty and *handflaps* Gen, fantabulous.

Then there's paian, who was poked into posting just one more Lost City fic, and this is such beautiful old married love, Jack confident in his feelings, Daniel confident with his words. All In, adult, Jack/Daniel, gorgeous.

ltlj wrote a pretty little John/Teyla thing: Sojourn, NC-17, SGA.

seperis wrote in her quantum mirror universe (Rodney who had a thing with an academic John comes to our 'verse where McKay dies and Sheppard is straight), Corner, in which Rodney's people management skills are lacking somewhat. Gen, PG-13.

Really intrigued by this five things store from oxoniensis, even though I know barely anything about Supernatural, except that Sam and Dean are brothers, which should have put me off, really, but didn't. Five Stages, Sam/Dean, NC-17.

ETA: Home Fires Burning by shusu. John/Rodney, NC-17, epic and creative and canon and character and just a little dark and well done.

At some point I also:

Read not one, but TWO stories that failed to label themselves as WIP until you got to the end of what was written. No love. Also? I can't see ever giving those authors a spin again, but maybe I'll forget it was them at some point.

Watched Eureka at my Dad's insistance, and he was right, I really did like it. Warm fuzzies.

Actually edited a crappy first draft when I couldn't find ought to read last night. It's off in beta. Wouldn't that be wierd if I posted a story in the midst of all this *handflappy* writing and stress and stuff.

I may be just a little too manic with the changing of the default icons, but I do like how much David Hewlett can communicate with his face.

Wrote a physics textbook (what? It totally feels like I did. Also? I need a scanner at home.)

Comments

[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

Lower case gamma just looks a little bit like a "y". If you need more fonts I have around 3000 or more of them. I may have something you could play with. ;-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Yeah, I know. I just think it's beyond wierd that I have to use this bizarre font rather than pay $40 for the official Adobe font plug in. WTF.

Not playing. Going for efficiency only, this will do well enough, I think. I just had to write a little code for myself so I knew which letters would get me the right symbol.

[wraith816.livejournal.com]

*singsongs*

You read Sam/Dean...
You read Sam/Dean...
You read Sam/Dean...

*VBEG*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Eh, he'll always be Alec to me. *g*

Seriously, I was all about the structure of that story. Wanna see more of that.

[agent-dark.livejournal.com]

I see you mentioned a love of physics there :P I found this fic (http://www.gateworld.net/fanfic/archive/50/breakingpoints.html) the other day. Carter fic that was quite heavy on the science, socialogical and even poetic sides. It was pretty deep for my limited knowledge, but it was unlike anything I've ever read in this fandom. It says it has Sam/Jack, but its completely irrelevant to the fic. May as well have just made Jack a generic husband for what it is.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Thank you! Always love pointers, especially with links.

[rydra_wong]

Or, you know, maybe it was porn and he's just saying it was fonts.

Or, depending on who he's talking to: it was fonts, and he's just saying it was porn.

Alternatively: Daniel's brain actually doesn't distinguish fonts and porn.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

OOOOOhhhh, that's a good one. I was thinking that maybe it was Vala (who is, by the way, deeply disappointed in the quality of the performance, although the people were very attractive, they were just chewing up the clearly low quality scenery) downloading without permission.

Alternatively, it was for Teal'c, who got way too addicted to playing Doom 3 and required an intervention. Jack insisted that porn was the way to go (Sam absolutely refused to do the dance of the seven veils and looked scary), but Daniel forgot about that and brought a nice lovely book (about fonts?) from his bookshelf because he forgot to go home that night too. Jack insisted he go download the porn afterall when the first earnest entreaty with very pretty words, in, perhaps, Copperplate Gothic Bold) to get Teal'c back into the land of the not-quite-as-violent failed to even get him to set down the controller.

[cofax7]

That snippet is now definitely OBE, I have to say. Curse veejane's careful eye and intolerance for coincidence!

[nandamai]

The word Sepia is Greek for cuttlefish (relatives of the squid), and Sepia is the reddish brown pigment derived from the ink.

Did you know that? I did not know that. Sepia means cuttlefish? Okay.

I actually did! But don't ask me how I know, because I really don't know.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

What's OBE?

Also, read Counting Scars last night and sighed contentedly.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Heh. You know that point where wierd bits of information outside of your field just boggle your mind way too easily? I'm there.

Dude, the origin of things. Wierd.

[nandamai]

Thus doth dissertations make whackjobs of us all, man.

[shiba-inu.livejournal.com]

You just *know* that, on at least one occasion, SG-1 found a temple with carvings that rivaled (or possibly exceeded) the famously pornographic Hindu wall carvings. And he has miles and miles of video of it...

All quite professionally documented and footnoted, of course. Ahem.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Which is exactly why he was greeted like a rockstar by the entirety of Atlantis. The anthropology department was ready to upgrade him to diety status at that point: that video was prime trading material until Radek found a way to get porn higher priority in requisitions.

[cofax7]

OBE=Overcome By Events.

And you make me glad, although I now have two stories with Scars in the title and I don't know which one you mean. *g*