taste_buds
Holidays provide a built-in excuse for indulgent entertaining. This all-purpose foodie community covers everything from homemade hangover cures to dinner party menus. Need quick advice? Get five-minute snack suggestions, low-fat ingredient substitutes, and even measurement conversions. Delicious recipes garnished with humorous advice. Yum.

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naturesbeauty
Always on the lookout for compelling images, we were delighted to discover this flourishing community of artists who share a love of nature. Honoring the subject with photographs, paintings, sketches, prose, poetry, and other creative works, you'll be simultaneously riveted to your monitor and inspired to run helter skelter towards the nearest wooded dale.

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Hello hello, it's me again. As we discovered this week, crack fic is fun. enharmonies made Carl a mermaid and I wrote kid fic about Peter & Carl and a nativity play together. Two people had fic with violence and 1daftpunk wrote Peter & the Sorting Hat. You can read all these small fics in this entry.

You can also join in with the unwritten prompts, should you so wish.

However, since it's still the season, this is a new prompts post. You may post the same prompts as last week, or you may use new ones. Here's a reminder of the rules:

* You post prompts and other people write drabbles
* A drabble is generally at least 100 words but please don't be limited by this
* Prompts can be any genre at all
* Prompts should include one of what we might term Libsetc, but ah well it is Christmas so maybe if they're in the general 'indie' vicinity I'll let you get away with it
* Prompts can be as specific or as general as you'd like
* Anonymous posting is enabled, so you can post prompts anonymously, say if you want a fic where Carl beats the crap out of Peter or something.
* You can also post drabbles anonymously. If you don't know how to do this, paste your fic into the comment box but then before you click 'post comment', click 'more options' instead, and it's one of the options in there
* Fics/prompts needn't be Christmas/winter related, but of course they can be if you'd like
* If you think your fic is too long for a comments box, post it as a new post in the community
* If you don't want to do this because maybe you did write a fic where Carl beats the crap out of Peter, email it to us at albionstocking@gmail.com and we'll use the sock puppet to post it to the comm.
* If you want to watch every comment on this post, click the drawing pin icon above my writing and it subscribes you to the comments. It says 'track this' when you hover on it.
* This is a give and take thing. If you all request it won't work. Anyone can write a drabble, seriously. Give and take. It's nice.
* Play nice. Anon comments are on, but I will be monitoring. If anyone gets any negative comments they'd like removing, let us know, okay.
* Any other questions? Please do reply here, anonymously or not.

If anyone can tell me how to turn IP logging off, I will.

Current Music: The Gaslight Anthem - Wooderson | Powered by Last.fm

"the band reunited for the Cherry Cola night at The Tabernacle"

Current Mood: happy

Title: Smashing
Pairing: Pete/Carl
Rating: PG
Genre: Drabbley-thing that I may or may not continue at some point
Disclaimer: Characters aren't mine (if they were I would definitely not be here night now), any resemblance between events depicted in this fic and events in real life is mostly coincidental and the events described in this fic never happened. Probably.

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backpacking
Want to embrace your wanderlust on the cheap? If you're tall on adventurous spirit, but short on funds, this community can help you plan a trip to anywhere. Offering plentiful tips on how to travel light, you can post about bargain hotels and hostels if you're into urban exploration or discuss camping gear and mosquito netting for the great outdoors. Hitch your backpack, pitch your tent, and carpe diem!

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Was it ever established what the lyric "I can't rate-rape myself" in "If You Love a Woman" means?

I'd always assumed it was a linguistic idiosyncrasy on Carl's behalf but I was listening to Mumford & Sons' "Little Lion Man" and it contains the lyric,

"Rate yourself and rape yourself,
take all the courage you have left"
[rest of lyrics here]

Is it therefore an actual English idiom???

ETA: A kind person on Youtube has informed me that it means "to judge oneself whilst being overly critical."

( Have some Young & Stupid to make up for the srs bzns )

Hi everyone, especially those who were (im)patiently waiting for the next instalment of my fic, Marlborough Light. Well it's up at my journal now. Couldn't get a cut to work on albion fic so anyone interested just head there.
Sorry for hopeless technoskills xxx

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Current Mood: crushed

Hello, my name is Storm, I am 18 years old, and I live in Alaska.

( This is my life list )

**FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009**

So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything.

And finally some answers to some questions:

( Read More and Get Some Answers... )

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Current Location: Under a Rock
Current Mood: grumpy