14/1/08

schmerica: (the creative process)
MULTIFANDOM INCEST DRABBLE CHALLENGE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS.

GO PLAY.

(It doesn't actually have to be drabbles, any kind of commentfic is fine. RPS IS ENCOURAGED. GO WRITE ME WAYCEST SHENANIGANS, PEOPLE. Along with your Simon/River and Margot/Richie and Bluths and Octavia/Octavian and possibly Dirty Sexy Money twincest and a million other things!)
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schmerica: (cute and fuzzy and innocent)
[livejournal.com profile] sociofemme asked for a picture of my kitchen.

[livejournal.com profile] shihadchick asked for the place I eat breakfast and the last book/paper thing I read.

[livejournal.com profile] fox1013 asked for whatever I thought would entertain her the most.

[livejournal.com profile] renenet asked for a picture of physical band-related stuff I possess.

Cut for my crappy pictures, yay! )

I will take more pictures later -- including the ones involving actually, uh, leaving my house -- but if you have any more requests, feel free to make me your minion. I enjoy it.
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schmerica: (baby torosaurus)
+ The fact that this Youtube clip is only two seconds long does not stop it from being one of the best things in the history of ever. GERARD WAY. YOUR STUPID FACE. YOUR STUPID VOICE. *FLAAAAAAIL*

+ This is my current favorite picture of Frank. So WEE. And SAD. And TATTOOED. And PRETTY. And STUFF.

+ Where is all the super-early-days Frank/Ray? It must be somewhere, right? Because ... Frank! And Ray! And Ray not really wanting Frank in the band at first and then realizing he was totally awesome! And the best picture of all time! And stuff!

+ [livejournal.com profile] octette has a pretty awesome Bandom Primer (in powerpoint or avi form!) up here. It is all made up of facts that she has learned primarily from fic, so it's totally biased and hilarious and sparkly. Also it has Pete Wentz's dick, but don't let that scare you off!

+ New name! Because I made a comment in [livejournal.com profile] pre_emptive's journal last night consisting of this:

Gerard chews on his lip silently for a moment. "So I guess this isn't a good time to bring up rape fantasies, either, then?"

But, uh. That doesn't actually fit into the box on the profile, so this will have to do.
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schmerica: (is anybody out there)
YOU GUYS, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS OR NOT, BUT THE PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM IS CRAZYCAKES.

Seriously, seriously, their consonant system omigosh! There are FOURTEEN STOPS and ONE FRICATIVE. There are five places of articulations, labial and dental and velar but also palatovelar [k', g'] and labiovelar [k^w, g^w], and they are all come in both voiced and unvoiced EXCEPT the labial voiced stop [b] which just DOESN'T REALLY EXIST. And then there are the aspirated stops [b^h, d^h, etc] which come in all of the points of articulation but ONLY VOICED. There are no aspirated unvoiced stops at all!

And [s]. That is IT, fricative-wise. No affricates, either. It gets voiced to z when a voiced stop follows, but STILL.

And we're not even going to TALK about laryngeals, because dude, Ferdinand de Saussure made them up with HIS PSYCHIC MIND POWERS. I'm serious! He was all "I'm a 19th century linguist, ha ha ha, and I think historical linguistics would make much more sense if Indo-European had some weird random sounds occurring RIGHT HERE." And then everybody laughed. And then FIFTY YEARS LATER HERE COMES HITTITE and everybody is like "..............OK. LARYNGEALS FOR EVERYBODY?"

UGH YOU GUUUUUUUUUUUYS I LOVE MY MAJOR OKAY.

(...[livejournal.com profile] etben, this makes me want more THEY'RE ALL LINGUISTS. Hee.)

(PS NEW ICONS. This entry is made by me, 'is anybody out there'. [livejournal.com profile] lordessrenegade made me 'frank needs a hug'.)