rm wrote a post criticizing "unimaginative heteronormative romance novel crap" in Jack/Ianto fanfic in which she said:

"So, can we please stop writing fics that involve Jack cooing over how adorable Ianto is? or making him breakfast in bed? Or saying 'I love you' every two seconds?"

I had to go to photoshop. I posted the resulting image as a comment to rm's post, but purpleglitter tells me I should post it here as well. So here it is:

Somebody left their zero cabinet outside in somerville...

I had a swell time at the x_bluerose_x's party last night. I very much liked the banana chocolate goodness of Sex in the TARDIS as well as the strange Liqor 43 brontosproximo brought. I got a little more sloshed than I intended, and while I was not falling down drunk (which I haven't been in many years), I still managed to achieve stupid drunk (which I haven't been in quite a while either).

The crowd was jolly, and the floor show at the end was... well... interesting.

Gliese 581c brings up the tidal lock issue: if Gliese 581c is tidally locked to Gliese 581 then one side of the planet would be scorched while the other would be frozen, rendering the planet uninhabitable for water-dependant life. Most of the planets detected so far (including Gliese 581c) have been only detected through indirect measurements of their mass, we no nothing of the structure of that mass. It is possible at least some of these are double planets. Though perhaps unlikely — if Gliese 581c is a double planet, both planets might be tidally lock to each other instead of the star similar to the situation in Asimov's Nemesis, allowing for liquid water and possibly water-dependant life.

The possibility of life on Gliese 581c brings up something that has been a bit of a minor mental obsession of mine: life that has evolved vision is likely to evolve vision keyed to the spectra of light it most often encounters. Life evolving around a red dwarf would not likely see the same spectra of light we see. Blue would be of little use and their visual range would probably be shifted into the infrared. Something printed red-on-white or blue-on-black in our eyes might simply look like a blank page to such a life form and their chosen inks may be only visible in the near-infrared and be invisible to us. Perceptual differences such as that would serve to further complicate communications with intelligent extraterrestrial life. It is easy to assume our perception of light and sound and smell and feel is the default, because within humanity we consider anything outside of that default a disorder. Our bias is sample bias, and other intelligent life in the universe is likely to perceive things in vastly different ways than we can even imagine.

Sometimes it feels so wrong, you know it's right...

stolen from ravenways:

Your results:
You are Derrial Book (Shepherd)

Derrial Book (Shepherd) 85% River (Stowaway) 85% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 80% Inara Serra (Companion) 70% Wash (Ship Pilot) 70% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 65% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 60% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 60% Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 55% A Reaver (Cannibal) 40% Alliance 35%

Even though you are holy you have a mysterious past.

Click here to take the Serenity Personality Quiz

Swiped from purpleglitter and khep:

List the top ten fictional characters you'd like to fool around with...

The Rani - Doctor Who Inara - Firefly Ardra - Star Trek: The Next Generation Severus Snape - Harry Potter Captain Jack Harkness - Doctor Who Pie - Imajica Romana II - Doctor Who Brenda Bates - Urban Legend Orlando - Orlando Idgie Threadgoode - Fried Green Tomatoes Worf - Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

I've introduced purpleglitter to Firefly. We've watched the first three episodes, and she loves it. I myself have yet to see the whole series, but I'd previously seen the episodes purpleglitter and I watched together.

Before, I've watched firefly with dicotomygrrl and merryperseis, and lady_babalon and sophiaserpentia. However, the viewings have been sporadic, especially since most of them are simply rewatching the series with me. purpleglitter likes to dive into a good series, marathon-style. Now that I've suckered her in, I'll probably get through the series in short order.

For each of the following, indicate which one you option you like more (or dislike less) by selecting a number on that side of the scale. The closer to -5 or 5 indicates the degree to which you prefer that option.

Poll #854560
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

butterflies (-5) vs. dragonflies (5)

China (-5) vs. Russia (5)

Christianity (-5) vs. Islam (5)

Doctor Who (-5) vs. Star Trek (5)

fossil fuel burning power plants (-5) vs. nuclear power plants (5)

fruit (-5) vs. vegetables (5)

Hugo Chávez (-5) vs. George W. Bush (5)

Iraq under Saddam (-5) vs. Post-Saddam Iraq (5)

madness (-5) vs. sanity (5)

Mars (-5) vs. Venus (5)

meat (-5) vs. tofu (5)

New York City (-5) vs. Los Angeles (5)

North Korea (-5) vs. Iran (5)