Friday, September 3rd, 2010
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3:10 pm - Meet My Friends
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* Welcome on my LJ and feel at home. Generally, it's a public journal with few f-locked posts on more personal issues.
* If you feel like commenting, you can do so in any language you like and I understand (i.e. English, Czech and if you keep it simply, Russian).
* Friending is wonderful - but if we don't know each other from somewhere, I might take some pending time to decide whether to friend back. Leaving a screened comment here will be helpful and appreciated.
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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9:33 pm - Christmas Exchange
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You have last four days to sign up for the SOS Christmas Exchange.
The wishing part will be closed on Sunday 8.11. at midnight (GMT+1).
current mood:  cheerful
current music: Ella Fitzgerald: Let's Do It
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
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9:16 pm - Summer Charity Challenge 09
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
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8:35 pm - Announcement and Reminder
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Incredible happens. My Czech SSHG Nelíbejte učitele za jízdy (Don't kiss a teacher while driving) which started as a Christmas gift and ended as a five chapter story eight months later has been finally completed. You go and read it, I'm going to enjoy things forbidden during the writing period - like watching Torchwood ;)
And I remind you that it's still possible to join SOS Summer Charity Challenge with your HP ff or translation. The challenge is open till September 1.
current mood:  tired
current music: Massive Attack: 100th Window
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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5:02 pm - Suprising conclusion
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It has happened to me for the first time. Trying to finish my WIP, I stumbled in my computer upon an unfinished Czech one-shot dated two years ago. It was a typical after-DH-shock-absorbing fic of Hermione talking to a (supposed) picture of Snape. In that time, I wasn't able to make up a decent finale, so I put it aside.
Now I read it again, found out it's not so badly written - and suddenly a conclusion popped up in my mind. (Needless to say it's a much less emo ending than I would have written two years ago, so waiting for it wasn't probably a bad idea.)
I love when things like this happen - when for a short moment writing seems like an easy job ;)
You can find it here (in Czech). A note for SSHG NONshippers: Safe to read. There is not even a hint of romance.
current mood:  accomplished
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
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2:39 pm - HB!
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
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9:42 pm - Cultural Inventory Monthly March & April 2009
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* Music of the months:
Fleet Foxes. An eponymous first album of this Seattle group was labeled the album of 2008 by Uncut and Billboard. They call their music "baroque harmonic pop jams", I call it dangerously enchanting stuff. So enchanting I do consider to see them at their concert in Berlin in June. Me? Nach Berlin? Now what kind of spell did that? Taste The Winter Hymnal and decide for yourself.
*Movie of the months:
Watchmen. You certainly haven't expect anything else, have you. I actually felt like reading a very good fanfiction. A fan watching another fan paying a fantastic tribute to a work we both love.
*Series of the months:
Doctor Who, third and fourth season. Just clicks with me.
* Book of the months:
Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul (Úchvatná: Odhalte tajemství ženské duše) by John and Stasi Eldredge (translated by Dan Drápal). A book of this Lent. Inspiring and thought provoking. Covering a big topic on a limited space and therefore a little shallow from time to time. But book I've enjoyed very much.
Now this is going to be difficult. So let's make a little separation here...
*English fanfiction of the months - multichaptered:
Silvering Divide by Somigliana. After long long time a story which brought me back fanish joy of reading a good SSHG. Canon compliant (well, EWE), with a very clever and original plot, with real and lovable characters and believably growing relationship.
*English fanfiction of the months - One-shot:
Of Madmen and Englishwomen by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) harmony_bites.
I decided to catch up with the recent SSHG Exchange - and start from a reliable author. I still owe Harmony a proper comment, so let's try here and now:
Certainly not your ordinary SSHG romance, but one with elaborated settings, background story going a long way to the past, and with sooo well-written characters (and not just the canon people!) Story which is not afraid to face difficult questions (like magic v. religion), story which doesn't forget that scars are still present and won't disappear - even in the middle of a love scene. Did I say I loved it?
current mood:  awake
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
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12:34 pm - Rorschach's Journal, April 5th
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
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9:50 pm - Culture Inventory Monthly January & February 2009
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
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1:17 pm - Happy Birthday!
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
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5:05 pm - Watchmen Are Nigh!
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
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10:44 pm - The Mannerly Art of Critique Translated
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I wanted to translate The Mannerly Art of Critique, a classic essay of commenting fanficiton since harmony_bites recommended it to me. I was aware it would be a tough and time-consuming work because the essay is long and witty - but it was worth of every minute spent on it.
The translation is now posted under the title Vytříbené umění kritického komentáře on sosaci.net, a Czech site supporting fanfiction writers, accompanied by a newly opened An Author Seeks An Critic section where authors longing for a concrit of their particular fanfiction can ask for it.
I hope that some Czech writing souls might find this helpful...
current mood: accomplished
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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8:30 pm - Botkiller
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Mwahahaha!
The reported bots have been suspended.
Thanks, LJ Abuse Prevention Team!
current mood:  devious
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
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11:36 am - Bots?
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Is it just me, or are the cyrillic bots (aka cyrillic serial friending livejournals) striking back?
It's time to report to LJ-abuse, I think.
If you need a piece of information of the problem, I highly recommend you this series of posts.
current mood:  annoyed
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
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9:02 pm - Public Transport Fun
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I'm a big fan of a "tube courtesy campaign" which has been launched two weeks ago by the Prague Public Transport Company. Apart from fliers and adds, it also includes funny animated shots which you can see on big screens in the tube stations and on the net.
Using public transport and being amused - that's what I call a nice change ;)
My favorite is the "personal stereo" shot:
The rest is here.
current mood:  giggly
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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10:58 pm - Culture Inventory Monthly December 2008
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
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10:46 pm - P&P Insomnia
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Danae just finished the BBC 1995 Pride and Prejudice series (aka the first part of The Marvelous Christmas DVD Gift) and humbly acknowledges it an indubitable, magnificent classic.
Just tell me how can I fall asleep now.
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
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2:23 pm
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
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4:54 pm - Christmas presents
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I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!
I have. Once again I'm reminded that presents are undeserved grace not a reward for good girls. Otherwise I wouldn't got what I've got - offline and online.
The greatest "material" present is this one. My icon has come true ;)
And I'm most delighted by my fanfiction presents! I've expected one and got three fabulous stories. I heartily recommend all of them: Sny a útěky (Dreams and Flights) by ivakas, Pouto (A Bond) by Jacomo and O kruhu a spirále (Of A Circle And A Spiral) by Aveva.
If you feel like reading more, you should visit the SOS Christmas Exchange site because there is a lot more. Including my story, which has only the first chapter so far.
So what is the greatest present you've got this Christmas? Or which present is the most characteristic for this year?
current mood: cheerful
current music: Led Zeppelin: Black Dog
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
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12:11 pm - Is Your Cat Plotting to Kill You?
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complacent
hyper
sad