PICK ONE OF MY CHARACTERS AND I WILL TELL YOU:
→ why I decided to play this character
→ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date
→ my favorite original aspect about this character (world-building for ocs or head-canon for fcs)
→ the last thing they did "off screen"
→ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow
→ what the next thing I'm doing for them is (narrative, post, shelving, whatever)

BONUS ROUND:
» I will tell you what character of yours I'd like to play mine against
» you may ask me a free question if you so desire

For a comprehensive list of all my character journals, see binary_heat. "Active" (hahaha) pup roster on the main comm page; every RP character I've ever publicly owned up to belongs to the comm.

Lately (read: for the last few days) I have been feeling anxiety.

This is something that, largely, does not happen. So I am really poorly equipped to deal with it. This leads to extraordinarily useful* and therapeutic** pastimes like curling up into a ball of shivering misery on my bed, browsing TV Tropes as a form of escapism, or typing "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" repeatedly into chat windows. Anything I do to try to combat the anxiety seems to make it worse because it involves thinking about the anxiety. Anything I do to try to distract myself from the anxiety seems to make it worse because then I feel anxiety because I'm not getting useful things done. And when I try to get useful things done, I feel anxiety. For no good reason I can discern.

:(

*SARCASM
**SARCASM AGAIN

Verbatim repost:

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i realize now i do not fear death... i fear my daughter will not be free when i die

- From the Twitter of an Iranian medical student

"If it bothers you so much, then why don't you stop watching?" seems to be the question of the last few days from my friends and family who know how invested I have become in the cause of the Iranian people (as I have explained in great detail here) The answer is simple: one day of caring is not enough. We must be the voice for the people of Iran who would otherwise be silenced. They are without reliable news sources, they are without mobile phone calls, text messaging, facebook, twitter, youtube, AIM, Yahoo, Google, and pretty much every other useful outlet for information you can think of. Yet they persist on the streets and on the internet in any way they can. The least we can do, whether we are across continents, oceans, or time zones, is spread their words safely.

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My death is irrelevant.Wht is important is that u do not forget my words.We want freedom.i will die 4that

- From the Twitter of a protester in Tehran

Right now, brave men and women in Iran, both young and old, are sacrificing their lives for their voices to be heard. They must fear not only the police, but also the Basij -a force of men loyal to the government who plant themselves among crowds in plain clothes in order to discretely attack protesters and incite chaos.The protesters are peaceful. They mass together in crowds that are reported to grow in size every day. At night they have very few, if any, safe places to stay. Houses with satelite dishes were attacked by the Basij tonight, and during the 50 minutes of Twitter's maintenance, another university was attacked.

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140 characters is a novel when you're being shot at.

- From another Iranian Twitter

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?

1. The most obvious thing to do is stay informed. Keep an eye on reliable sources on Twitter, refresh blogs and news sites that are covering the stories.


2. If you are on twitter, retweet information from reliable twitters, but REMOVE THE USERNAME if they are in Iran. People have died because of the lack of responsibility by fellow tweeters and the media in this front. They can be tracked down by the government of Iran.


3. Spread the information elsewhere. Repost this article or write your own on Facebook, Myspace, Tumblr, or anywhere else you can think of. If you write your own, make sure you are concise and accurate. Link to your sources for people to learn more.


4. Change your location on Twitter to Tehran or Iran, and your time zone to GMT +3:30.


5. DO NOT auto-refresh and take down websites, even if you are asked. It slows down the internet for the rest of the people in Iran.


6. If you make a proxy DO NOT post it publically, otherwise it is useless. Send it in a direct message to a trusted source.


7. DO NOT spam the hash tag #IranElection with useless things to "confuse the government". This does not help at all.

USEFUL SITES TO FURTHER HELP

Cyber War Guide for Iran Elections

Green Revolution - How to Help

Anonymous - Why We Protest - Iran

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STAY INFORMED!

Follow on Twitter: @ProtesterHelp and @StopAhmadi

(REMINDER: DO NOT REPOST PERSONAL TWITTERS OF THOSE INSIDE THE COUNTRY, EVEN IF THEY ARE RELIABLE!)

Chronology of events

Live-blogging by Andrew Sullivan

General information from a poser on Fark.com

Live-blogging on HuffingtonPost

دنیارابگوییدچطورآنهاانتخاباتمان دزدیده اند
Tell the world how they have stolen our election

- original article by one_hoopy_frood on LJ

I'm thinking of changing my middle name to something obviously male, with the same initial as my current middle name.

It would reflect the masculine aspect of my identity really well, because it's sort of like a middle name: always there but only visible when I choose to display it.

Currently my plan is to wait a year and then go ahead with it if I still want to. I think that's a pretty good benchmark for how serious I am about the change.

Earlier today I linked to a post (trigger warning, especially in the comments) that says some very important things about men and rape.

Now I am going to link to another post (trigger warning again) that says some more important things on the same subject.

Its title is "On rape and men (Oh yes, I'm going there)", so please be advised that it discusses a triggering subject. It exists on livejournal and also on dreamwidth.

I heard about it as "that cereta post" (actually, as "that cereta post"), and I asked which post that was, and while I was waiting for an answer I went and looked it up. It was well worth the looking.

I am still reading through the comments to the LJ version. They are full of excellent material. It will take a while, but I recommend perusing them if you have the time to spare.

So okay. I'm writing epic pornfic (hands up, all who are surprised) and I need a beta* with a strong stomach. Any takers?

*ETA: as many betas as I can get. I want this thing to be perfect. XD

In other news, I saw Up. It was awesome. I cried. Several times.

Went to see Quintotrek again, with Dad!

Showing was at 5:50. We left the house at 5:40. Jogged the first eighth or so of the trip, speed-walked the rest of the way, arrived barely past 6:00.

The jogging at the start was perhaps unwise, because my dad is a long-distance runner and I... am not. I kept pace with him for two minutes, and my reward is an ache in my throat, just behind dead centre of my collarbone, every time I take a deep breath. D:

On the other hand, Quintotrek: even better the second time through. HELL YEAH.

Roger Zelazny confuses me.

I mean, his prose actually doesn't make any sense. It does not do the job of conveying speech and action to the reader in an intelligible fashion.

Maybe this story (The Doors of his Face, the Lamps of his Mouth) was just heavily experimental, I dunno. But when I have to reread a paragraph several times to understand what just happened (and sometimes am still lost after the fourth run-through), I'm not impressed.

Three years ago today, my mother died.

I can't tell if it hurts less with time. I'm too tired to hurt right now.

I am such a child for giggling at that total.

I was at Anime North (an anime convention) all weekend.

FUN AND AWESOME AND FUN

Photos forthcoming as soon as I have any.

Saw the new Star Trek.

Not that I knew anything at all about Trek except that Klingons are awesome and Vulcans are space elves, but that movie was FUCKING AWESOME AS HELL from start to finish.

I have no spoilers, only GLEE.

That is not news.

News is: Pyth has pills to make her less of a crazy person. On Monday, Pyth got a prescription for new pills in addition to her old pills. The new pills are... I won't say working, but certainly the dull fog is starting to lift a little.

*dispenses celebratory cuddles all over the Internet*

canadabear is the bestest.