Clever Manka is dressed and undressed

I'm making this a sticky post because I'm already tired of scrolling through my Guardian tag to get to it

As I continue to accumulate resources for This Fucking Show, I need somewhere to keep them other than in my Gmail drafts folder. So this post is mostly for my own resources but please please please feel free to hit me up with any others in comments.

( Cut to save y'all's reading pages.  )
I'll continue to add to this post as I come across stuff. I get the feeling I might be in this fandom for a while. ETA:  Oh I'm definitely gonna be in this fandom for a while

I am actually arting today! Two days later than I wanted/planned, but hey! Better late than never and when do plans work for me, anyway? Fuck plans!

While I was taking my lunch break on DW, I saw bonibaru posted about this Hannibal vid and jesus fuck if you're a fan of the show, watch it. Watch it now.

ETA: Oh, yeah, right, my mom. (I am really so very bad at family-ing, y'all--so very very bad. this is why I didn't have kids) She is home, and mostly ok. Apparently she has acute diverticulitis which came as a surprise seeing at how she wasn't aware of the fact that she ever had non-acute diverticulitis (ha ha--Mommy didn't think that was funny, either and she usually thinks I'm hilarious so she must still be feeling pretty shitty).

It's been a short week of long days. Who else gets those? I'm wiped out to the point where I overslept this morning and was half an hour late to work. I think this has happened to me like, five times in my entire life. So yes, I am tired and I am taking a sick day next Tuesday to rest up.

My Guardian obsession continues. Saw a few new-to-me vids for it this week, but the one I posted in yesterday's dump on clevermanka.net is my fave. I'm on episode 33 of 40 and I'm anticipating the finale with both excitement and dread (I've been spoiled for the ending). Someone on the Guardian comm (sid_guardian) made an advertisement post about it if anyone is thinking about dipping a toe.

Are people who follow me here interested in my linking to my Tuesday and Thursday cm.net posts here on DW? Tuesdays are my Tumblr collections and Thursdays are a collection of links I've compiled over the previous week.

Thanks to baronjanus who reminded me that I hadn't recced this amazing Venom fic (rated E) here, yet. Best Venom voice I've read so far in this fandom. Hot and funny!

“WELL, HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW KISSING WAS A SEXUAL INITIATION RITUAL FOR HUMANS? YOUR MOUTHS SEEM DETACHED FROM YOUR GENITALS BUT HONESTLY, YOUR WHOLE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM IS WEIRD. LIKE, IT’S PRETTY CLOSE TO YOUR EXCRETORY APPARATUS. NOT THAT I’M JUDGING.”

Okay, so it's judging. But frankly, the entire human body is a mess; evolution has really dragged these poor sacks of cells on some odd paths. Humans are fragile and redundant and weird, basically duct-taped upright and tottering around; Venom has mostly made its peace with that over the last few months, and has learned to enjoy wandering its way into odd loops in the intestines, and prodding bits of the knee and ankle. Madness, the human back. Total chaos in there.

Also this fanvid for Jason (The Good Place). Spoilers for Season 3.

Something I forgot to mention in my earlier posts about Con*Strict was the vid show. I la-la-la-love fanvids, and this was my first con with a vid show. It's not surprising how group watching escalated the feels--just like watching a movie or a concert with a large, receptive audience intensifies the experience.

Here's one of the vids from the Con*Strict vid show, done by one of the attending members. It was my favorite for two reasons which are not difficult to determine.



( More of my fave vids from the show )

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Yesterday I wore one of my re-fashioned outfits (a dress made from pieces of four tee shirts) with a pair of bloomers underneath (just long enough for the lace to peek out from under the dress). I felt like I was in my PJs all day. I'm looking forward to having more of those in my closet. Also looking forward to the practice (from making my own) so I can start making them to sell. I'm going to need to invest in a small mannequin for that, so if anyone local sees one for cheap, let me know. This is not as outrageous of a request as it seems--Lawrence has some unlikely thrift and dumpster finds.

Speaking of style, I avoid wearing gloves as a fashion statement because I think they're a little fussy (it's hard to actually do anything while wearing them). Fingerless gloves would solve a lot of the problem, but they've always seemed so...pretentious. These might change my mind. Fuck pretentious. Those are JEWELRY. I mean, Christ, just look at those things.



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One of the reasons I've never considered becoming a yoga instructor is that the market is so glutted here in Lawrence. A conversation with ms_danson made me wonder about the possibility of doing a yoga podcast, though. I picture a website that has a basic dictionary of poses as well as individual pages on the site. Each page would have a list of images of the particular poses for whatever the focus of that page's series, and a link to listen or download a voice narration for the series. People could request a theme, goal, or focus for a series once a month or something. Doesn't that sound great? Now there's motivation to do a teacher training course. Someday. In my copious spare time with all my excess energy.

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Energy levels are still shit, and the ridges in my fingernails are back. The index and middle fingernails have them now, too. The thumbnails look and feel like washboards. Ugh. So demoralizing. I see Dr. Jonah on Thursday and I'm going to talk about re-upping my mineral supplements that we started decreasing two months ago. I feel like earlier this summer my energy levels were better. I'm done with waking up tired. This regressing business is for the birds.

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We shopped for phones last night. It was hellish. I think I'm going to wind up with a Galaxy S6. mckitterick is price shopping because for what we want, it's cheaper to buy our own unlocked phones and get a month-to-month plan through T-Mobile (which is what some local friends did who are very happy with their service). I have to admit, these newfangled phones are awful pretty. And it will be nice to have a phone that doesn't randomly turn itself back on. Or refuse to disable the Mute function. But oh my goodness they're so difficult for me to use. Touch screens do not react well to my skin, and there's something about my electrical charge that makes things go a little nutty. When someone asks me to take a picture with their phone, it always turns off or goes to a different screen or something. Beyond that, though, there's my concern about having internet access 24/7. I'm honestly relieved that the Tumblr phone app is so bad because I see myself easily becoming That Person.

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Tomorrow I am a panelist for the Kansas Women’s Leadership Institute conference. Last year I served as a panelist on a university-wide presentation for graduate-level support staff and was in the pilot group for KU's new online catalog software (a nine-month project). I need to remember to put this shit in my end-of-year review. I don't think anyone (including myself) realizes how much I actually do around here.

Which...I guess I should do something now to prepare for tomorrow's presentation.

I don't think I can properly articulate how much I hate the musical Grease. Suffice to say I hate it a lot. But this video makes me okay with the fact it exists.



HOT.

Originally posted by morgandawn at Viddler Deleting Free Accounts/Vids Going Away March 11, 2014

Shit is going down in Kiev, y'all. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK. Thanks to redheadfae for the heads-up on this.

I don't like the phrase "I want to be him/her when I grow up." I'm going to write a blog post about that when I have the time. Right now things are still a little busy at the day job and I'm dealing with a stupid, tiny, non-split/non-ergonomic keyboard because I spilled tea in my ancient and beloved Microsoft Natural Pro keyboard that saw me through nearly TEN YEARS of typing. You guys, WE WERE REALLY CLOSE and I am grieving for it.



A new keyboard is on order because honestly, typing on this current piece of crap is horrible, but I am worried about the inevitable getting-to-know-you period. Just, ugh. WHY WITH THE SPILLED TEA. WHY.

The idea of "Do What You Love" needs to die in a fire (also thanks to redheadfae for that one). Because seriously. FUCK THAT. I can't even say it's a nice idea because it's based in such utter discrimination and privilege. I mean, nice work if you can get it, bro, but don't tell people to Follow Their Bliss when they can't even be sure they're going to be able to pay for rent and groceries in a given month.

I've got a week left on my Whole30. NGL, I am looking forward to my glass of wine on February 1. Pretty sure that's gonna be my only indulgence, though. I played around with the idea of doing regular Whole30s through the year, thirty days on, one day off, thirty days on, wash, rinse, repeat, but I'm not sure how that's gonna play with all the travel I've got on the menu this year. I might just declare that I'm Strict Paleo-ing except when I don't want to and call it good.

Holy fucking shit, this fanvid. Some vague spoilers for Sherlock season 3.

The East Wind: A Sherlock AU trailer. What if there was no Fall? With John's help Sherlock is tracking down Moriarty's Web; but you can't expose the secrets without exposing yourself to the world's only consulting criminal who is determined to burn your heart out.

I've already picked up a few super cool folks from the Friending Frenzy I mentioned last night. HEY THERE NEW PEOPLE! Looking at the content of this post, it's pretty much a perfect representation of how I post and what I post about so if you're backing away slowly at this point, feel free to bail early. No hard feelings.

Here's the BBC Sherlock mini-episode "Many Happy Returns." No spoilers.

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It's really good.

I'm mystified as to what's going on with the applications today. Yesterday I had twenty-some new apps and I honestly don't know how many letters of recommendation to process (maybe fifty?). Today, two letters of rec and one application. Do that many people really do stuff like that over the weekend? In any case, I'm stuck here today with not a lot going on, nobody here, and no apps to process. Um.



It might be a long day.

The first time I heard "Wrecking Ball," I emailed pennswoods and aprilstarchild and said oh my god I have found my perfect Johnlock song and please won't somebody vid this and look look look SOMEBODY DID:



Also, I love the singer. WHO IS THIS SINGER? I want a copy of this version. SOMEONE FIND ME A DOWNLOADABLE VERSION OF THIS.

I have way too much to do today to be fucking around with finding songs or watching Sherlock vids (or anything other than application materials) but aaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuugggggghhhhhhhhhhhh.