Play Misty for Me

I grew up in a house where books like Rendezvous with Rama and Childhood's End were scattered around like afterthoughts. For a 12 year old growing up in boring suburbia it was like finding gold. Clarke was one of the greats, with keen sense of what could be and what might be, and he was the most amazing storyteller. My own daughter is 12 and, coincidentally, just beginning to read Rama. I don't think there's a better introduction to Science Fiction available.

Rest in Peace Mr. Clarke, and thank you.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know, dream on. These are, after all, the people who gave Lucius a personal shield that can only be activated by an ATA carrier. etc. So I guess it's too much to expect that the Wraith on the Midway station and the Wraith on Earth are as invulnerable to our conventional weapons as the ones in the Pegasus galaxy. Where are the self-healing wounds? And Sheppard takes out leather coat guy with single shot from his hand gun?

Uh guys? Why are we so freakin' worried about a couple dozen wraith getting loose in a military base full of MPs if a single shot or a single burst from a P90 can kill them? Okay, so maybe we just don't want them sending a message home. I can get all over that. But if they intended to do that, then why try to get to the surface? Gonna look for a turntable and a couple of little kids?

Oh, and let's speculate what happens w hen they do get to the surface. I can see it now, MPs..."Hey dude, funky clothes, but man, you been underground too long. Get a tan."

And while they might be able to walk around, say Hash-bury in the 60s or even Times Square on any given Saturday night, me thinks that in Colorado Springs, ummm, not exactly a place they can go incognito. Oh wait, they can go to Hollywood and lurk on film sets!

Extracted from  an article in Inc. magazine:

Here are seven signs that you are a bad boss:

1. The staff has developed guidelines for dealing with you and quietly passes them to new employees.

2. You have one or two fanatical acolytes, no one else has more to do with you than they have to.

3. You never see people walk by. Employees would rather circumnavigate the entire office to get to the coffee machine or bathroom than take the shortcut past your door and risk being invited in.

4. Your 360-degree evaluations come back short and full of generically positive comments, with one very mild criticism thrown in for credibility's sake.

5. People don't volunteer for your pet projects. The idea sucks and they're afraid to tell you, or it's brilliant, but the consequences for letting you down are too terrible to imagine. And, of course, you'll probably work on it as well. Which means more time spent...gulp...with you.

6. You have legions of former employees, but they rarely give your name as a reference for new jobs.

7. You have legions of former employees, period....your staff falls away like linty Post-it notes

At the end of the day bad-fic is in the eye of the beholder, so that means I'm as likely to commit it as anyone else. But answer me this...

Which is worse, bad-fic that's decently written but the premise, plot, characterizations, and assumptions are overwhelmingly awful or a story that could be a good idea written badly?

On the one hand, you have a story that you can get sucked into early on because the prose flow and maybe the setup doesn't give away where it's going, then suddenly....WHAM!...you realize that it is just wrong wrong wrong! In some cases to the point of being offensive.

On the other hand, there is the fiction that is so rife with errors of grammar, spelling and punctuation, that it's painful or even impossible to read. Or the characters are portrayed so badly you don't recognize them. You never get to the end of the story because it's just too much work, the mistakes interrupt the flow too much. Ultimately the fact that the author didn't care enough to fix even the most glaring, fundamental errors makes you not care about the story.

Of course there are those bad-fics that combine the worst of both worlds, but those are the authors I won't even click on.

And it's pretty freaky cool.....

Ranty Meta and Spoilers for S2 and the next week's episode and late S4.

Free rice is a way to test your knowledge of vocabulary and contributing to a campaign against world hunger.
 
I bounced around between levels 44 and 48. How did you do?
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Hey, and pass it on to anyone you know who might like it.

Misty

Oh My God, if you read nothing else today, go read this blog. I think I gave myself a hernia laughing.

Misty
 

I loved Wraith Killers by ladyra  and then my husband sent me this and well ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpDckbqhpW8&mode=related&search=

and nomimated a story of mine for a Diversification award. And I have to say 'Thanks!" because, well, it's nice and such a compliment and really, I'm inordinately, goofily flattered by that. So thank you! Of course, the Email Gods, being perverse, I didn't know, and chaps1870 was a sweetie and pointed it out to me.  So hopefully now the folks there will send me another note telling me which story and what they need to know.

Giggles, I am so 13!

Misty

By: Misty4me

Pairing: Beckett/Sheppard

Rating: G

Word Count: 392.

Written for the West Wing Title challenge at

beckettsheppard, episode title “Two Weeks Out”.

 

Summary: Missing Scene between ‘The Return, Part 1’ and 'Part 2' SPOILERS FOR THE RETURN PARTS 1 and 2

 

 ( Four Weeks Out )

The only one who thought that The Arc was REALLY boring? There were a few seconds of fun, but overall, it was predictable and everyone did exactly what you expected them to. YAWN.

( click for spoilerish comment )

But yeah, overall, it was predictable and not very original and pretty much not very memorable.

Pairing: Carson/Radek, established relationship
Rating: PG
Summary: Carson gets news from home. Unbetad, so all mistakes can only be blamed on me.
For the ICAW Ficathon: sithdragn wrote:  What I want to see in my story: I'd loooove some smut, established relationship, one learns something new about the other. What I do not want to see in my story: Characters as animals. Please.

I didn't manage the smut, but I may redo this later to add it in.

( Read here )</span>

OKGo....this is totally crack but funny as hell.....best use of treadmills I've ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI

Spoiler for Siege 2. It's a Beckett/Sheppard piece, though not slashy unless you want it to be. Mostly it's what was going through Carson's mind....

I tinkered, made some art for a banner and changed the colors a little. I am so avoiding writing. Really....

chaps1870 made me do this, really she did. I am not responsible.

I am also clearly only allowed to go to states that border on someplace I've already been..... ( Where )

So I was looking at stills from movies and ran across a Ralph Finnes film called "A Dangerous Man". With a title like that you just have to look...I did and I just couldn't resist!

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( Sheppard of Arabia )


( Sheppard and McKay )

Title: Emergence

Author: Misty4me

Pairing: Beckett/Sheppard

Rating: NC-17

Spoilers: None

Word count:1429

Summary: Follows my story Offering, so more chastity belt kink. You really need to read that before you read this one or it won't make near as much sense.

A/N - Thanks once again to chaps1870 for being my beta and for the title.