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http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/421240.html

http://delicious.com/url/8e2ad3eae9251c837d41ccdba9ad70ba#msilverstar

Set approx. 5th century century CE, in England A group of Celts is fighting against the invading Saxon sea-wolves with everything they have including household magic. But it won't be enough and their leader, Coveros, despairs. The cavalry appear, lead by Arthur Pendragon, to protect his kingdom. Wonderful way to counter-act the anachronisms of the show itself, and the scene where Coveros and Arthur are meeting to deal with very real political issues, also includes a snarky ration of Merlin. It's all so very fine: settings situations, relationships, characters, dialog... I adore this fic! 3,260 words

http://community.livejournal.com/fellow_shippers/4059770.html

Title: Yet You Do
Fandom: LotR RPS
Pairing: Sean/Elijah
Rating: PG
Summary: Elijah just realized something.
AN: Written as a birthday gift for primula_baggins. Title is taken from a song by Basia, A Gift.

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• 21:25 Fourth Kind not so great. Kinda failtastic actually. #

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http://community.livejournal.com/lotrips_finders/807915.html

Um, hello, everybody. :)  I hope this is alright.  I'm not new to the lotr fandom, but I've not read very many stories in a long time as it seems the few authors I did follow have stopped writing.  Anyway, if I could ask you for your kind assistance I would be very grateful.  What I'm looking for are at least semi-novel length stories that are what you think are well written.  The pairings I'm looking for are Aragorn/Legolas, Gimli/Legolas, Gandalf/Legolas, Eomer/Legolas, Elrond/Legolas, and Elladan/Legolas/Elrohir.  I'm a Legolas fan...yeah.  I don't mind the more effeminate Legolas, but I don't mind him being strong and independent either.  I kinda like a mush of both, I guess.  Again, thank you either way.

Two questions for the readers of Vampire fic amongst you (Guess who's nano fic involves Vampires?).

Firstly in vampiric folklore is the transformation from human to vampire more consistent with the Buffy/Angel portrayal or the Twihard trainwreck?

Secondly after a vampire has sired another vamp, what is the relationship generally considered to be more parent/child or consistent with lovers, or does it depend on the sire and the situation?

You would have to wonder why someone who's only experience with Vamps is Buffy would choose such a topic for Nano wouldn't you?

http://community.livejournal.com/monaboyd/1916550.html

Chapter 4

http://community.livejournal.com/bean_daily/1351130.html

Last request, anyone? For splix the delectable Steve in his jammies!


 

 I have an awesome mechanic who called me a little while ago to tell me I can pick up my car tomorrow!
He got the window in this morning and then fixed my car.
So  yay! not car-less for the weekend.

http://community.livejournal.com/rugbytackle/1290329.html

Double Drabble: Thrill
Author:alex_quine
Pairing: Aragorn/Boromir
Rating: Gen
Warning: Cold Pressing AU
Summary: Aragorn would forget the past.
Archive: Rugbytackling, my LJ
Cross-posting: Sons of Gondor
Disclaimer: These characters belong to their copyright holders. I borrow them for entertainment, not profit.
A.N. This is for mooms  …Many Happy Returns.

 Thrill
 

http://community.livejournal.com/fellow_shippers/4059606.html

Title: The Delayed Flight, Part Seven
Author: tweedle_
Pairing/Characters: This part – Elijah Wood/Orlando Bloom
Rating: NC17 for sex.
Warning: AU or roles I quite fancy the boys being given a chance to play in a TV drama.
Disclaimer: Fiction. Roles. Characters. Wishful thinking.
Beta: The very excellent ismenin. Thank you!
Summary: Elijah’s flight is delayed by a certain someone and things go well and truly pear shaped.
Comments: I really would appreciate hearing what you honestly think. Honest. :)

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http://manolobig.com/2009/11/06/the-friday-fierceness-la-goulue/

http://manolobig.com/?p=3245

Today’s Friday Fierceness will probably be unknown to many of you, although you’ve seen her a thousand times. Louise Weber, also known as La Goulue (The Glutton, a nickname given to her by journalist Gabriel Astruc who was bemused by her habit of dancing on a gentleman’s table, kicking off his top hat with her toe and taking his drink while he chased after his chapeau) was the Moulin Rouge’s first major star and is credited with creating the can-can.

The illegitimate daughter of a washerwoman, the outgoing Louise was hired as model by Pierre-August Renoir and soon became a favorite artist’s model in the Montmartre district, more in thanks to her over-the-top personality than any great physical beauty.

She was also one of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s favorite subjects, painting her first for promotional posters:

and then for his personal work at the Moulin Rouge where she was known as “The Queen of Montmartre“  the headlining act, supported by Jane Avril –another Toulouse-Lautrec star– Nini Patte en l’Air (Nini Legs-in-the-Air) and of course the larger-than-life Môme Fromage (Kid Cheese) who was a big girl all through her career and was played by a size-22 actress Lara Mulcahy in the well-costumed but otherwise inexorably horrid Luhrmann flick, Moulin Rouge!

At the height of her fame she danced nightly with Valentin le Decosse, a businessman who took an assumed name –his real name was Jacques Renaudin– and lived a sort of double life. The shadowy figure in the foreground of La Goulue’s Moulin Rouge poster is Valentin, and was a sort of inside joke as everyone in Paris knew of his “secret identity” much to the shame of his business-minded family.

La Goulue was prone to plumpness –the success she found as a model with a trimmer figure can be attributed to her life of borderline malnutrition– and although she was corseted within an inch of her life and dancing non-stop for up to five hours a night rumor has it she left le Moulin at the height of her fame partially because famed manager Charles Zidler made comments about Jane Avril’s more slender figure and put her, not La Goulue on the newest Lautrec poster.

La Goulue left le Moulin in April 1895 after what could generously be called “artistic differences.“  She was wealthy and famous and didn’t take well to being bossed so when the managers asked La G to tame some of her more raucous dancing and behavior –they were getting in trouble with the police bureau–she essentially said “screw you guys, I’m outta here” but, you know, in French.

In retrospect, this was not her brightest move and she quickly lost her Moulin money through a series of failed business attempts and by the end of her life, she was living in a caravan and selling cigarette and peanuts on the streets where formerly she reigned as queen, suffering with severe depression and alcoholism.

Two years before her death in 1927, a journalist tracked down the former star and recorded just about a minute of silent footage where –with her trademark smirk and twinkle– she treated the young filmmaker to a brief glimpse of the dance she made famous.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/what-are-the-most-notable-quotes-from-2009/

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=21325

Yale Book of Quotations editor Fred solicits your nominations for most notable quote of 2009.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/a-different-kind-of-organ-market/

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=21127

Who gets bumped to the front of UCLA medical center's liver-transplant line? The godfather of the Japanese mafia, according to this 60 Minutes video...

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/charity-wont-contain-this-secondary-market/

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=21329

Each year I receive about 10 introductory economics textbooks from publishers. The purpose is to induce me to adopt the book in my 500-student principles class...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/9C0HvfJsDqk/

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=21317

Making fun of earmarked Congressional spending is easy, feel-good entertainment. But is it a distraction from the bigger problem?

http://manolobig.com/2009/11/06/from-francescas-inbox-sales-for-the-weekend-7/

http://manolobig.com/?p=3228

Before you jump into this post, Francesca wishes to remind you that she posted about many excellent sales, which are still going on, in yesterday’s post.

Now, to continue!

Always for Me is selling summer cover-ups at deep, deep discount. Buy now, save for the summer.

Chadwicks is selling some very nice items at steep discount. Use code CHDEAL40 anywhere on the site, through Monday, for 40% off your highest-priced item.

Fashion Overdose will “take 50% off your next purchase” with code PMM10 until December 1. Francesca thinks this means 50% off your ENTIRE purchase, but that would be exceedingly generous, so maybe it means 50% off one item? She is not sure. Let her know if you use the code. The code is in honor of their Plus Model Radio podcast, here.

Igigi is giving free shipping through November 13.

Junonia discount through Sunday.

Lane Bryant will give you shipping for just $4.99 through Sunday, on any order of $100 or more. Also, use code 000304955 for 30% off ALL Boots and Outerwear at LaneBryant.com! Use promo code 030002753. Offer valid 11-4-09 through 11-8-09.. Francesca is pretty sure the code ends Sunday night as well, but is not positive.

One Stop Plus code ends Monday. Did you know they sell helpful lifestyle items for larger/heavier people, such as large bath towels, a cot that supports up to 600 pounds, curved shower-curtain rods for extra space, wide/deep chairs, etc.? Check it out.

Silhouettes code ends Monday night.

Size Appeal has new arrivals.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/superfreakonomics-book-club-emily-oster-answers-your-questions/

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=21301

Our first guest was University of Chicago economist Emily Oster, whose research, co-authored with Robert Jensen, formed the basis of the section where we discuss how the introduction of television turned out to be an unlikely boon for rural Indian women. (I should have also mentioned that we cite Emily's fascinating research on how women were regularly put to death for centuries on charges of witchcraft.)

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/london-calling/

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=21279

Just announced: Levitt and Dubner's sold-out lecture at London's Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) will be webcast live on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 13:00 GMT (that's 8 a.m. Eastern -- or use this handy calculator to find the time where you live). One day earlier, they are also speaking at the London School of Economics; negotiations are still underway to temporarily rename it LSF.