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Lu (Not Your Average Retelling)
25 July 2015 @ 12:51 am
Welcome Fellow LJers!

My name is Lu, and I am your hostess. For more about me, you can see my profile.


While you are here, please feel free to join in the squeeing about extremely neurotic yet brilliant actors, kickass dream-manipulating criminals, ridiculous boys, smartass con artists, fast-talking scientists, and psychic detectives.

Please refrain from bashing any of the representatives of these groups that I love.

Please feel free to shower me with spoilers for any show that I love EXCEPTING WHITE COLLAR AND FRINGE, because I have a policy about those two.

I don't have an automatic friending policy, but the good news! Is that if you are here for the fic (or the meta, or the icons) these are posted COMPLETELY UNFLOCKED over at my creative journal, and you are more than welcome to watch that. In fact, PLEASE DO, because if you get even a little pleasure out of what I work on, it makes me incredibly happy.
 
 
Lu (Not Your Average Retelling)
06 May 2012 @ 07:25 pm
Hey, does anybody have any Natasha fic recs? I was putting together a list of Awesome Avengers Ladies fics, some Peggy, a lovely one about Maria-who-became-Maria-Stark, lots of great Darcy, some AMAZING Pepper and...one fic in which Natasha is the central point.

ONE.


That is NOT RIGHT, people, THERE HAS TO BE MORE OUT THERE
 
 
 
Lu (Not Your Average Retelling)
28 April 2012 @ 12:58 pm
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Originally posted by [info]poisonivory at Livejournal, come on.
I never use Scrapbook, but I think people who pay for a service should, you know, know when that service gets severely diminished. Via [info]caiusmajor:

Originally posted by [info]zeitgeistic at Livejournal, come on.
Alright, I am not drunk enough to deal with this, so I'm just going to put out this PSA:

Livejournal Scrapbook is going away. Your 10GB of Paid Member space is now 2GB. If you care, there is an explanation in Russian on the Russian news page. There's also a user-submitted translation.

+ You will no longer have access to your Scrapbook once this goes live.
+ Your images will redirect, but the URL will be different.
+ Unable to tell what will happen to any photos you have that put you over the 2GB limit.
+ Back up your Scrapbook just in case.
+ If you want your photos transferred over now instead of waiting, let them know here.

 
 
Lu (Not Your Average Retelling)
28 March 2012 @ 09:58 pm
My dad is going to Chicago on business. The people he's doing business with may have tickets to the hockey game.

DAD: I hope the tickets fall through, I really do!

ME: But Toews is back on the ice after his concussion!

DAD: ...who cares?

ME: I wish I didn't. Wave to him for me.
 
 
Lu (Not Your Average Retelling)
Originally posted by [info]missmollyetc at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012
Originally posted by [info]lk737 at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012
Please repost this? I have never begged for one of my posts to be boosted. I am just so worried for my friends and want you to know.

According to this article, dated March 15, 2012:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/webnews/major-isps-turn-into-copyright-police-by-july-says-riaa/

"File-sharers, beware: By July 12, major US Internet service providers (ISPs) will voluntarily begin serving as copyright police for the entertainment industry, according to Cary Sherman, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The so-called “six-strikes” plan is said to be one of the most effective anti-piracy efforts ever established in the US."

The article goes on to give details. After six notices, internet providers will decide to throttle a person's internet speed, or cut it off altogether. I don't know if they will crack down on torrents only, or if it is up to the internet provider. I get the sense it is up to the internet provider. So some people could get away with downloading non torrents, while others might get their internet service cut off. I urge you to click it and read, as we all know people who download.

No more downloading eps of your favorite shows for vidding, gifs, or fanfiction art. No more downloading screencaps possibly. I'm so sorry my friends. I don't even know if BT Guard will work to protect you, but I would google it if I were you. It is a professional service that supposedly can protect you from the invasive eyes of your internet provider.

Just, my friends, please make each other aware. Please be aware of the date JULY 12TH. Mark your calendar and double check with your internet provider by then. If you start receiving notices of downloaded activity, this is why. And your internet service could be throttled or cut off.

Fox news confirms this:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/17/us-isps-become-copyright-cops-starting-july-12/

Youtube video explaining this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OG0R-yS-c

Electronic Frontier Foundation on Mandatory Data Retention

Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that it's actually July 1



FUCK
 
 
Lu (Not Your Average Retelling)
12 March 2012 @ 07:21 am
FYI  
My computer died an abrupt death on Saturday and I am therefore not really around :((((((((


Posted via m.livejournal.com.

 
 
Lu (Not Your Average Retelling)
22 February 2012 @ 08:34 am
Signs you were in Harry Potter fandom too long:

seven years later, you read a Hogwarts AU in another fandom, where the author's note reads "Character does not have fond memories of graduation" and your brain immediately snarls, "THERE IS NO WAY HOGWARTS HAD GRADUATIONS."


(See also: my obsession with canon-correctness. Now that I am trying to write in a COMICS fandom, this is driving me quietly mad)
 
 
Lu (Not Your Average Retelling)
11 February 2012 @ 06:50 pm
Because Galentine's Day is the BEST HOLIDAY!!!!


Happy Galentine's Day
my thread
 
 
Lu (Not Your Average Retelling)
28 December 2011 @ 05:22 pm
And the thing is, my hair has needed cutting for MONTHS, but I had a groupon for a place that I cleverly failed to notice is a half-hour drive away from where I ACTUALLY LIVE, so it had to wait until I could get there. I'd never been before, and will never go again--half an HOUR's drive, I am such a moron--but the guy who cut my hair was. Um. Just. Totally whackjob entertaining. In the course of washing, conditioning, cutting, and styling my hair, he told me:

~about the contact high he got at a concert last week that apparently made him crave mass amounts of Mexican food

~about his friend who owns a moving company and who is like, the Best Dad Ever, and taught his budding engineer son how to create a six-tree tree house with pulley-system ziplines between trees and working electricity from cords he made himself out of junk from the hardware store

~about this guy he knows who honestly believes in the zombie apocalypse, and lives in a pseudo-military compound with eleven billion guns and a specially designed military-issue vehicle designed to run on a special kind of fuel. He keeps enough of that fuel ON HAND to drive to Seattle, where he has a boat, which is always kept fueled enough to get him to the island he OWNS off the coast of Seattle. The specially-designed vehicle has a scoop on the front with robot arms that will cut off zombie legs, and all the windows are three inches thick except for the holes at the top where you can stick the guns out to shoot at the zombies

~about the sheriff in the small Montana town where his grandmother lives, who never arrested anybody for underage drinking, just took their keys and made them come pick up their cars at the police station with their parents the next morning. Similarly, the sheriff never troubled a man who had trained his horse to carry his dead-drunk self all the way home from the bar and lock the gate behind it.

~about his second, part-time job being the mascot for the Utah hockey team. I'm trying not to see it as a sign that I really will fall for hockey RPS. I'm...mostly failing.


MOST. BIZARRE. HAIRCUT. EVER.


(Actual HAIRCUT part...eh, okay. I wish I knew why all hairdressers, especially the ones I tell how I want my hair to curl/wave, think I should be flatironed to hell and back. I mean, it really only affects me until I get in the shower, it's no big deal, it's just...why???)