Just something one of my betas made me think about...


If the bad guys are eating babies, does it make a difference if the babies are still alive when the bad guys start eating them?

( Spoilers for Eurovision )


ETA: sorry for spoiling people, I really shouldn't post when about ready to fall asleep, and I'm so used to everyone watching it live, and the news instantly reporting on it that I honestly didn't even stop to think it was a spoiler.

I went to the doctor last night. Kinda forced into it by my uncle.

Love the guy, but man, can he be demanding. (though admittedly I had been trying to delay any kind of doctor visit for the past two months or so)

He ended up making the appointment and even drove me there, joined me in the waiting room and then told the doctor the problem. (for some reason he felt that I wouldn't be as worried as he is, I have no idea why...)

Anyway, I've been suffering with my weight for a while, and it's always kind of showed in my legs. Uncle Herman was mostly really worried about that and my heart and well you know, crap like that, which isn't really an illness, so I'd feel kinda embarrassed wasting a doctor's time with it.

(money isn't really the problem here since of the 24€ I had to pay for the visit, I'm getting back over 20 as soon as I drop off the note at the ziekenfonds. (the big advantage of not having to worry about insurance for something as small as a simple check up.)

End result, the doctor wrote me a prescription for something to what's the word drive off water (which means I'll end up having to go to the toilet a lot while taking it) And I got another letter for a specialist that he's sending me to.

I still have to make an appointment since they don't take appointments until tuesday, but... if I pass the tests, including a psychological one, I'll probably end up getting a gastric bypass.

Thing is... the last few years, every time when I try to lose weight, I end up getting it back within months, only worse. I weigh over twenty kilo more now, than I did before my last longtime successful diet. It's not just that lately I can't seem to stick to a diet, it's that jojo effect that's bothering me, in that it keeps getting worse whenever I stop the diet.

Just not sure how I'll handle things with work. The doctor said that if I did get this operation, I'd have to take three weeks off of work after. Which I hate doing. Once again, money isn't the biggest problem, the doc said that the ziekenfonds should pay back at least some of the money and I do have a klinipolis which should help. Also when sick, you get paid sick leave once again with help of the ziekenfonds. I just hate taking sick leave, esp. for something like this. Not sure if I could get the doc to set the operation during my vacation though, or you know get work to rearrange my vacation, since they've probably already started arranging job students for summer.

Either way, I really hope this will hep, my aunt and uncle at least wants to make sure I'm healthy, as annoying as their motherhenning can be.

I had the occasional problem trying to find even one answer out of the ones given that fit completely, but at least I could usually find something that leaned close enough...

And then I tried to do the tests conservative counterpart and I literally couldn't find a single answer in any of the questions that I could even remotely agree with.

NC Pastor Wants To Build Electrified Fence To Contain And Ultimately Kill Gays: VIDEO

I don't use the term Nazi lightly, I don't find you should compare just about anyone to Hitler, but this guy... comes extremely close. He definitely seems to be playing by the same playbook.

A protest is apparently being organized against this guy, see here for more information.

I understand that there is such a thing as freedom of speech in the US, but this kind of talk... should in no way ever be acceptable.

PS: I left out the term 'starve' from the title, cause technically it's inaccurate, but of course that can often depend on your meaning of the word...

( Some spoilers up to spn 722 )

I'll start this of with the warning that this is a rant, there's no place for logics in this, so please don't start telling me that everyone has a right to write what they want to write, rather than what I want them to write, because I already know, k?

Now I loved the Hunger Games books, let's get that clear from the start. My favorite of the three is the third, but the first one was ok. But and here's my problem... whenever I see a crossover between Hunger Games, and well you can pretty much name any and all series, books, movies, whatever that the books get crossed with and they've almost all got one thing in common. They're all fusions, and more importantly, they're fusions with the first book.

Now I know that the Hunger Games is set in the future, so yes, there might be some difficulty in creating interaction, but honestly, if Firefly fandom can do it, why can't the Hunger Games?

See the problem is, I've already read the first book, I have read the actual book three a four times. I've also seen about a thousand if not more fics that redo the first book, only with their own oc's.

Another thing the majority of HG fusions have in common, is that most of the time, the story focuses on male characters. Where the book was special, because it had a strong female lead characters, most of these fusions take the easy way out and at most barely even mention the female tributes.

And those few HG crossovers that aren't fusions, still for some reason seem to stick all the characters in the games...why?

Why aren't there fics that deal with say, an angel taking the Winchesters to the future where they have to help out in the battle against the Capitol, and they end up running into a girl who may very well be the descendant of one of them.

Why not write a fic about Finnick surviving, because he somehow ended up in the past, and see how he deals with modern times. And if you're going to do a fusion, for some weird reason, why not have white collar thief Finnick, who likes to steal industrial secrets, get collared by FBI agent Katniss Everdeen and her beloved husband and artist Peeta Mellark, and become her CI, aiding her in taking down white collar criminals...
(and yes now I really do want to see that fusion*eg*)

I mean, the Hunger Games has such strong characters, that I always find it a total pity to see them just thrown aside, just so they can repeat the story of the books, you know, only with guys.




Also, there was a prompt on the kink meme that really really annoyed me. Not in a way of 'that's something the mods should do something about', but in the far more annoying way of 'why would you even want that.'

As in, Mulan is all about a girl stepping out of the gender roles forced on her by society, so why in gods name would you want someone to write a spn fusion with mulan, only with Mulan replaced by Cas, a male Cas..

I was wondering if any of you guys knew ancient Greek. Sure I could try and use little_details but honestly, they ask you to try and search stuff on google first and aside of google translate, I have no idea where to even begin looking. (and google translate only works for current Greek.)

Anyway, I'm having my bad guys use a trap similar to a devil's trap or holy fire, only instead of working on supernatural creatures, it works on the human soul, forcing into the backseat of their minds, making them pretty much passengers in their own bodies.

I've been going with Paidi Pagida, but I'm pretty sure that going with the literal translation of child and trap would have anyone who actually knows Greek mocking me for how stupid it sounds.

So anyone have a better idea of what I could use for a name? I prefer something that has as few words as possible, with one of which usable as the shortened version of the name?

Anything that translates to either 'trap for children' or 'soul trap' would be perfect.

One of these days I'm going to somehow write a wincest fic (probably one involving non-con and evil!Sam) and I will have Sam talking about his lusty/romantic feeling towards Dean as loving him like less than a brother. Because in my mind familial bonds will always trump sexual one as being more, more important, more emotional and all around more meaningful.

Tags: rant, supernatural

Originally posted by higlearn at Livejournal, come on.