valentinite

Hi. You've reached Sarah's fandom journal. I have another one for talking with people I know in real-life; this one is for fandom/online gaming/etc. A bunch of you may have both added, and I will attempt not to duplicate anything. Content is generally all fandom-related (including fandom RP) -- mostly short squee/whining and occasional fic/meta.

I'm a 30-something-year-old (born in 1979, do the math, I don't update this entry every year) software engineer in the greater Boston area. Major hobbies (current and past) include general geekery, console RPGs, DDR, text adventures, cycling, greek & latin literature, NFL football, space exploration/aerospace research, and open-water swimming. (I.e. these are all the interests that I've been known to treat in the same fashion as traditional fandoms.)

Current fandoms: Doctor Who/Torchwood/SJA, Phoenix Wright

Friending policy: Feel free to friend/defriend at will. This journal is for fandom, and people float in and out of fandoms all the time. If I've missed a notification and you want me to friend you back and I haven't, just say so. Also, I don't currently have very many friends-locked entries in this journal and don't plan to. What you see is pretty much what you get. I'll occasionally friends-lock something if it could possibly identify my employer. I realize that it's pretty easy to get to my real identity from here, but I don't want to make this journal show up if someone googles my employer.


Another note: Even if this journal goes quiet for extended periods of time, I'm likely still reading/lurking. I just don't always have anything to say, or RP ate my soul. Again.

I put a few video games on my Christmas list amongst the unending pile of canoe camping gear, and my sister picked me up Layton 2.

( Mild spoilers for some puzzles -- no solutions, but commentary that could aid solving )

So, a bit back, lady_angelina lent me Ghost Trick (and Trace Memory, but I haven't gotten to the latter yet), and I finished it this morning.

Review contains spoilers for the first few minutes, game themes, gameplay, and for one plot point which is reasonably early on; it does not contain any for the big endgame spoilers.

( Spoiler cut ahoy! )

Anyone looking for me on AIM may find me scarce; our internet is glitching in and out -- it hangs up for ~5-100 seconds every few minutes, which is deeply annoying when browsing/whatever, but is completely fatal to AIM as it locks up going INTARWEBS WHERE HAVE YOU GONE for much longer than the connection has actually dropped.

PMs and email are better. <3 And eventually perhaps you will have an update with substance in this space; lengthy post-writing energies have been eated by work and life, and short brainspatter has all ended up on plurk. (Which is the same username as here; anyone who wants rp-related nonsense and general whining is free to add me there.)

I am still kind of terrible with image editing, but I'm less fail than I was a year ago, so I will try this out.

1) Create a graphic (200 x 200 max size) to represent your personal "candy". It should have your username on it, but otherwise can feature whatever you want. Make it something special since it's self-representative.

2) Make a post with the subject "trick or treat?". Put your "candy" somewhere in it, and be sure to repost these instructions.

3) Then, go around other people's LJs and reply to them with either "trick" or "treat". If you reply with "trick", they will give you an LJ/Plurk/AIM/etc. dare that you have to perform before taking their candy. If you're too wimpy for that, simply say "treat" and take their candy.

4) List all your collected candies in your original "trick or treat?" post to show off your collection!


( don't laugh at a few minutes in an image editor )
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OK I am too tipsy to actually write anything of substance after a friend's bachelor party (where I ran into leora who mentioned LJ-support and we realized we had a bunch of friends in common, some IRL and some internet, like lady_angelina. It's a small internet.) So I will continue this meme.

( Video games: Day 2 - Your favorite character )

( The rest of the days )

Argh, why does RL give me no time to destress and do creative things. I probably should hiatus someone or something, but damnit I want fun things.

That said, no posts from me tonight; if I miss a bulletin post or something I should reply to, kick me and I'll do it later?

There was discussion on plurk of baking. I am not typing recipes in commentboxes, and besides, I had most of these typed up, and the rest I'd been meaning to move off shreds of paper into digital form. A few are directly as my mom emailed me, hence some wide variation in phrasing between recipes. (I don't think I'd ever say to beat anything vigorously unless we're talking kinky fanfic here. ...and now watch this post lead someone in my family to find this journal due to recipe searching or something, because yeah, that'd be my luck.)

Other notes: unless noted, ingredients should be at room temperature, including eggs/milk/butter. (I added that to the first recipe but not the others.)

( basic yellow cake )

( turning basic yellow cake into Boston Cream Pie )

( lemon pound cake (if you make just one of these, make this one) )

( blueberry coffee cake )

( blueberry muffins )

( baking powder biscuits (the American sort of biscuit) )

( basic sugar cookies (the UK sort of biscuit) )

( a lovely light and not at all traditional zucchini bread )

( Russian Tea Biscuits, which are probably not at all Russian )

Okay, so I was AWOL on RP-stuff all weekend, but I'm trying to get back in the groove. Expect backtags shortly. (I'm skipping the buses back unless there's unexpected eventage, in which case I will just be mondo late to the party.)

I'm a little spacey due to the muscles in my neck still considering strangling me despite giving in and getting a massage earlier, so if anything is completely nonsensical, lemme know.

puddingtreat! I was thinking of either throwing Taura into late afternoon or moving Lana somewhere else since she's done talking to the Sheriff, and you've got a bunch of folks free. Want either of them, and if so, which and for whom?