Various stuffs

[cornerofmadness]

One is a handy little site for those of us moving and/or looking for a job that would take us out of our usual neighborhood. It's a site that does a comparitive cost of living. In other words it tells you what you need to be making in your new location in order to live with the same type of lifestyle you're currently at. In other words that dream job in LA might sound great and the pay's more than you're making now but when you look at the cost of living you realize you'd be living in your car if you took that job. Some places are FAR more expensive to live than you realize (most of us know that L.A., NYC, SF etc are expensive but other places are just as bad and you might not even think of it). Anyhow here you go. Hope it helps  Cost of Living.

And since I couldn't get the damn coding to work on that nanomo thing and my webmistress had a devil of the time with it too, decided to just SAVE it in photobucket and do it like any other picture. so here

And came across this magazine scan. Now tell me, isn't Makai better off with shorter hair (seriously, poor VK was much girlier at that age than I was.) 

 

 

And while I'm not looking for a huge fight to ensue in my lj like we've seen recently with other fandom things, I am curious. How can you label yourself a canon whore and yet have all your ships be unconventional (het and slash) ? How does this work? This is the third time I've drawn something like this in a ficathon and I don't know how to approach it.  By their very nature unconventional ships are non-canon so how can the requester be a canon whore? Do I pretend everything happened as it did on the show but with the unconventional ship in play? I've been unsuccessful in giving the people what they wanted in past ficathons which is why I ask, not trying to bash. I'm just curious

Comments

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

That cost of living calculator is scary. I'd need to make 50 grand more to live in SF. That's just insane Hence me offering this up. I knew areas to avoid looking to teach but some other places scared me (here for instance housing is cheap but hard to find and gas is about 20 cents more than in FL)

VK - don't wear your hair like that. Guys are going to hit on you. Yeah that was my thought. I figured he was home schooled just so he didn't get beaten on a regular basis in school.

As for the fanfic stuff, you've made many excellent points. Actually I could see Angelus/Spike with Angelus in charge up until he's souled because in those brief periods afterwards they did a good job of implying Angelus was leery of SPike.

While I could buy Faith being bisexual I've never considered her sexually attracted to Buffy. I think she wanted to BE Buffy which is a different thing all together (ditto with Wes/Angel)

I think my problem is wanking canon so that nonconventionals can be together and yet having it look like canon. I've nothing against unconventional pairings I have my share and I hope I do a good enough job with them that the stories feel like they could have been part of canon.

I guess my real problem is if you call yourself a canon whore then you like CANON not some AR of it.