Gip and pimping

[cornerofmadness]

I think my new icon sums up how I feel about the world right now (especially disturbing to me is this need of ours to download videos of people dying such as some of the beheadings in Iraq some time back and now Steve Irwin's death).

I still feel like crap and I'm in a bad mood so to cheer myself up, here's some pimping for us.

For those BtVS/AtS writers on my list, leni_ba is running another Choose Your Author ficathons. It's a lot of fun. i've done the previous 4 and always got a good story out of it. Sadly, this time with them doubling my work load I just didn't feel I could commit to it this time out. Still, please check it out. CYA


I did however push my limits and sign up for the Spook 'Em Multi-fandom challenge. I mean, it's Halloween related. How could I resist. Besides for this one you write for yourself so you're not disappointing too many people if you don't get it done. Check it out. Who knows what fandom(s) I'll actually do. Spook ‘Em


And if you're interested in doing little scenes of original fication based on a weekly prompt, please join us as nanomowhinging. It's really been working out well for some of us.

Comments

[dknightshade.livejournal.com]

Why does it not surprise me that it took all of 24 hours for that video to end up online. *sighs* That's horrible. What bothered me more were the reports today that it 'would probably never be broadcast.' Probably?! That's just horrible. It's a man's last moments. There's no need to broadcast that. Period.

I was thinking about joining nanomowhinging. I don't think I'll ever be able to do Nanomo because of the timing (Nov = Bad), but I have a couple of original characters rolling around in my head. I can't quite get their story straight, so I thought maybe that would help.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

OMG tell me about Nov being a bad month. You just know Chris is male because no female would pick that month, all three major religions are busy at that point. Well even Pagans too.. I see you joined so welcome

and as for Steve's death, I couldn't agree more. Bastards

[mzzgoddessblue.livejournal.com]

wait....Steve's death is online?? I said yesterday to someone at work, that i wouldn't be surprised if the last moments show up on the internet, but i really didn't think it would be that quick. I havn't seen it around, but then to tell the truth, I don't do a lot of surfing on the net really.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's there...i just don't want to think on it

[mzzgoddessblue.livejournal.com]

i'm not surprised. i dont' particularly like watching people killed either - in real life of course. I still remember seeing that old video shot in I think Vietnam, of the prisoner kneeling down and being shot in the head (it's a rather famous image so I'm pretty sure you know which one I'm referring to), and it's stayed with me forever. hate it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I know and some people jsut seek this stuff out

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

You know, of course, that it really doesn't help that Steve was filming a documentary when he died. That just guaranteed there'd be video footage. On the other hand, there will be no question about what killed him (survival tip: When something gets driven into your chest cavity, leave it there, don't yank it out. Leaving the "cork" in his punctured heart might have saved him, but then the poor guy probably had no idea the barb had penetrated that far, and snatching it out was pure reflex.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I had exactly that same thought

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

And no, I haven't seen the video and never want to, but content is leaking out. My dear father unloaded the above information on us at the supper table tonight, with predictable effects on our appetites.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

understandable