I read this post by nixwilliams suggesting people make icons of Family First senator Steve Fielding not existing (since he doesn't believe in climate change), so I googled him with a vague thought of just putting Nix's text over an image of him or something(*). And then this image of him dressed as a beer bottle was so perfect I had to make an icon of it. This one is pretty funny too but a bit...

Oh dear.. after being told about Amazon's crapness on Intellectual Property issues and considering buying from them anyway, it was only a matter of time before they'd come and hit me where I live. Gay books = porn? Queer is a dirty word? That's right; amazon have had a queer whitewash. If you're a questioning teen, you'll no longer find Young Adult books with queer themes on a basic search,...

Title: Theme Ingredient Fuckersnaps Pairing: Bradley James/Colin Morgan Rating: NC-17 (fun sexy times) Word Count: 3426 Disclaimer: Entirely fictional. Ie. Really really not real. No slander intended. Author’s Notes I: Thank you to sajee and nixwilliams for betaing this and enabling sharing the Merlin love with me. Comments and feedback are very much appreciated...

i left my key at work today. that was silly. i only realised when i climbed off my bike and went to check the mail. i felt in my pockets, i emptied every nook and cranny (what on earth is a cranny?) of my bag, to no avail. i cursed the heavens. nixwilliams was out and not due home for hours. i decided, as it was a pleasant evening, to go and sit by the creek for a bit and read some wodehouse...

I guess I'm the first to post. Honestly I'm not entirely sure what the etiquette for this is, so if I do it wrong, feel free to edit or whatever. I signed up for two authors (one author group to be exact). I'm not entirely sure if either of them are still in the running, but I did art anyway. Three fic related pieces of art and three general pieces, based around the theme; court romance. In all...

Anything i have to say about my own life right now seems small and insignificant when this is happening . As of 5:30 this morning, there were still 31 active fires across the state . 108 people are dead, more than 750 homes are gone. Marysville is gone. Australian Red Cross Victorian bushfires 2009 Appeal ETA: nixwilliams has more specific information on how to donate here

i was sitting on the bus this morning, on my way to work, when i spied an advert on the side of a passing tram. the advert was for a website called prochoice.com.au . oh!, i thought to myself. i know the atheist bus adverts were not permitted on australia's transport, so maybe they've moved on to a different battlefield. but then i noticed the images in the ad. it featured hardware. pictures of...

i'm back! in case you hadn't noticed, i've been without internet for about a week now. did you miss me? did you notice my absence? the reason for my sabbatical is that my computer wasn't at all happy. i was downloading a system update, when i got a message saying that my hard drive was full up. i had checked that there was enough space before commencing the update, but apparently not. i tried to...

(via nixwilliams ) Heat causes Melbourne train tracks to buckle Lowest temperature in Melbourne today: 19.0'C (66.2'F) at 6:17am. Highest temperature in Melbourne today: 43.4'C (110.12'F) at 6:15pm.

I have been riding my bike every day this week and as such my body is turning into HARDENED STEEL. I know this because I can feel my thighs and buttocks area. As in, not with my hands (though I can do that too). Soon I will look like Wolverine in my icon. Ladies and gents, form an orderly queue. Unrelated. Note to self: Buy nixwilliams a foot grater for his birthday.