Ramblings

i simply cannot stop transforming mp warp over and over

it's addictive dammit

ahahahaha

he's just so AWESOME in both modes that I'm like "want to see other one" *doot doot doot* LOOK WHAT I DID BECAUSE I'M AWESOME WHEE.

this figure is going to be, like, junk in a month I swear >_>;

The thing is though, I was never mechanically inclined and always avoided stuff like this when I was a kid because I thought people would think I was stupid and I was really self-conscious about it. Even worse, I was terrified I'd break things and I didn't want to even touch them for fear I'd have catastrophic effects on them.

So being able to do it now, with something I really like that is beautiful and cool, really really makes me happy.

YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW, LJ. YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOOOOOW.

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this desktop now protected by MP Skywarp

who would just love a reason to blast you to hell so don't give him one ~_^

(and holy hell is figuring out how he transforms confusing o_O)

i hope everyone is having great holidays with much fun.

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...along with, you know, "both the CLASS act and the CFCO are in, after at least a decade of fighting, thanks ever so for not noticing. Because of course, disability rights is cool to be hip to, but actually paying attention to our issues requires work..."

coincide exactly with this from Belle:

Because the guy who's been actually doing work, even brought up a bill for single-payer, said this bill is worth supporting, and you think you know better, so you're gonna go side with the people who don't think we should have health care (reform) *at all*. Ooooookayy.

Listen, if I'm going to be supporting actual moderate-to-conservatives going under the progressive flag, I'm at least going to stick with the ones who aren't complete fucking boneheaded losers. That would be the ones who got elected into office and are at least *trying* to make some kind of useful policy that will *help* *some* actual people be better able to not, you know, die.

There are two main lines of opinion on home-made presents. One is that it's a thrifty way to do something really special, the other is that it's the sort of hassle only a grade A martyr would ever sign up for.

But as far as I'm concerned, it makes no difference whether you buy presents or make them. Even if you're making things, you pay for ingredients or materials, and there's not much difference in time, energy and homicidal rage between wrestling with a recalcitrant sewing machine and tramping the shops in search of something no-one has in stock.

Of course, this all presupposes you want to give a present that the recipient will actually like. The shops are all stuffed with "gifts", sometimes helpfully categorised by gender and age (pink smelly things for women, beer and football for men, plastic junk off the telly for kids) to avoid having to think about the individuality of the person you're buying for. This is somehow supposed to be better than just offering cash or gift certificates, but I don't see it myself.

I'm cynical, but I'm part of the problem. I found a book of "presents" in one of the charity shops while I was looking for something I could offer Edward. After ascertaining that none of the presents were likely to tempt my family, I bought the book anway: I can always make some of the present ideas and sell them to other desperate souls next Christmas.

In case anyone was keeping track, this year's offerings were a mixture of bought and made. The easiest, as ever, were the ones I care about least - they can just get some random chocolate. The hardest was the one I love the best, but at half past three this morning I finished something she will hopefully love.

Can anyone who's read Spotlight: Arcee answer something for me? 

In that comic, are the mechs considered gender-neutral until Arcee is "made femme," or is everyone a guy until Arcee is experimented on? Because if the latter, I'm really uncomfortable with the idea that being a woman is freakish.

I mean, I'm one of the last people to say something has to match political norms to be "okay to read," and I'm certainly not saying it's not OK that someone wrote it or that people shouldn't enjoy it... but, well, for me personally... the idea that "she" is what happens when you take a world of "he" and start tinkering and create a monster (and, from what I gather from plot summaries, Arcee ends up badass because -- ze? he? I'm fairly sure "she" is actually not the proper pronoun, given that the gendering is nonconsensual -- because ze hates what was done to hir and vows revenge.)

I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with that. I wondered in another thread on this if a woman wrote it, which is again not like me. But... again, I just have a bit of a visceral twitch at the idea of a dude, however artistic, writing about women this way... particularly if all mechs are default-men, rather than default-nongendered (though, again, I admit I do not know how it is portrayed.)

And, again, I may be speaking out of ignorance here, but it also bothers me a bit that a character that is famous for being one of the first femmes (I still don't like that word, but I want to be clear I'm talking about gender and not some analog of "sex") is made "cool" by having not been originally that way. (Despite that I, and I know others, think she was a rather uncool token as created.) It strikes me as having a whiff of -- intended or not -- "a femme character would not be cool on her own. She has to have a non-femme past."

And, again, if Arcee was the equivalent of a man at first, that reminds me of a human history that has for a long time told us all that women are secondary, an afterthought in a man's world... however delightfully asskicking they may be.

So again, I... hope that isn't what it implied.

I'd like to read it, but not pay to do so, so I know what I'm talking about without giving money for it if it bothers me (*hint hint bludgeon*)

thank you ultharkitty for the amazing giftfic. It is brilliant and I love it. ^_^

And its title is the worst pun ever. Which is all the more awesome.

ALSO: MOAR FALLENBASHING NAO PLZ

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As unhappy as I am with some other things, I just have to squee over this. I know, I know, to some people if one thing is wrong it's all wrong. Still... (reposted from the Capitol Insider newsletter of the Disability Policy Collaboration):

On Saturday, December 19, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) reached agreement on a package of amendments to the Senate health reform bill. [snip]

The $871 billion bill includes the following provisions which are of major importance to people with disabilities:

• Major insurance market reforms including elimination of pre-existing condition exclusions and annual and lifetime caps;
• Coverage of rehabilitation and habilitation services and devices in the essential benefits package for the new insurance Exchange;
• An expansion of Medicaid eligibility up to 133% of the federal poverty level;
• The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act which will establish a new nation wide long term services insurance program that will help individuals and their families meet their needs without needing to be impoverished;
• The Community First Choice (CFC) Medicaid option which will make comprehensive community-based services available to Medicaid beneficiaries in states which choose the option (it would begin on Oct 1, 2010 with no sunset date); and
• A requirement for the development of standards for accessible diagnostic and other medical equipment.

Inclusion of the CLASS Act was a great victory for the disability community. It had been uncertain in the last week as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) worked to ensure the 60th vote from Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE). Nelson had mentioned the CLASS Act as a concern to him, but in the end, the CLASS Act was kept in.

1. Anybody want a Dreamwidth code? I have all of ONE, oh wow.
2. Is anyone else having problems with LJ eating line breaks when they post? It's been happening to me for a couple days now and is driving me batty.

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As much as I love to have people IM me, I hate the following:

There exists apparently some kind of swinger site out there with profiles. Someone there goes, apparently, by "trinityva," or something close enough to it for horny foolish dudes to mistake me for that person, anyway.

Hence, I get all kinds of "hey saw ur profile on $blee" IMs.

And when I'm understandably cautious seeing an IM from some random dude who can't spell UH, WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU FIND ME, MOUTH BREATHER they get all flusterated because I absolutely must have desired their attention.

After all, I have a profile! *facepalm*

Title: Bright Ideas
Characters: Starscream, mentions of Megatron/Starscream and Optimus/Starscream
Verse: My own weird thingy; same 'verse as The Beginning of the End and Inception, except more... cracky.
Wordcount: 850+
Rating: I'm going to say M for some mentions of sexytime, but... none happens explicitly here.
Warnings: Hmmm. Not sure. Again, mentions of sexual stuff, but nothing explicit.
Summary: This is a gift for pellimusprime, who wanted some OP/SS. I tried to write something longer and explicit and entertainingly cracky, but Optimus just wouldn't come out right. Starscream was fine, but Optimus just seemed silly in places. Even though it was meant to be crack I didn't like making him less than epic. Since the Starscream bits were fine I decided to write this thing, which is entirely from his point of view. Which, yes, means I fail at writing Autobots, at least for the moment. Damn you, good guys! >_< Pell, I hope you like your silly crack, and I'm sorry it's so short.

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(is that even the word for it?) karnythia (author and independent publisher, writer of the well-received "Adele" story on MU, and general person of awesomeness) has kin that's gone missing. The information is here. If anyone knows anything, please help out.

and this makes me curious. ALSO BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE GETTING INDIGNANT. IT IS A FUN PASTIME. anon meme.

Here is a piece of artwork I did for ultharkitty of Cyclonus. I didn't even want to try adding Ultra Magnus in there too. Ffff.

http://trinityva.deviantart.com/art/Cyclonus-147411714

I really hope you like it ultharkitty ! If you want an icon too I will make you one.

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