So, made fish again. This time, thankfully, the fish was pre-scaled, so I didn't have to do battle with it.

( Picture )

The taste is pretty good, but I think I'm actually starting to get a little bored of fish. Not that I've been making a lot of it, but this time I may have gone overboard with the oil, so the fish tasted extra fatty. =.=

Oh, and the shiny off-white thingy is napa cabbage, which helps to suck off extra oils and fats. Obviously, I didn't put in enough.;

mood // sore

Wanna figure out how I can make this into a layout. *ponders*

(And I know I've said it before, but Shadowscapes allows free usage of the displayed art for non-profit websites, not something you usually get from artists. So yeah.)

Edit: - using edits because I've spammed the f-list enough for the day

( Pairing Meme );

mood // recumbent

Badly written porn makes Cashew cringe. Somethings to keep in mind:

1. If a dick is "painfully digging into [your] prostate", it's not going to be pleasurable. It also means you should go to the doctors' and get things checked out, because prostate stimulation shouldn't hurt (in general). And if you're trying for sadomasochism, fluffy is not the way to go about this.

2. Saliva is plenty enough lubrication to get one finger into the rimming action without damage to your partner, honest.

3. If your character is in a position where he's facing the bed with his ass up and getting the hell rimmed out of him by his lover, most likely the precome isn't going to be dripping down his cock toward his balls. Just...gravity people. Dribble some lube on your finger and position it around a bit and see where the liquid flows. (Obviously, if you're in zero-gravity, this dribbling issue is less of a dribbling and more of a stochastic flow, but since no one writes zero-gravity sex...)

You know, in general, it might be good for smut writers to have some dolls for whatever position they're trying to write, so they can keep the gravitational force clear, instead of this attempt at cut&pasting porn from other people. This is especially helpful for those who seem to have spatial visualization problems.

4. You cannot have "brows of sunshine". Actually, try avoiding metaphors as much as you can in a smut fic; all they do is serve to detract from the hotness.

5. The end of the spine is the tailbone a.k.a. coccyx, which is tucked away happily under enough fat to prevent damage when sitting on it. If your character is biting on it, I don't want to know about it. Also, gory much? (Try sitting back, feel the pressure between the upper end of the buttcheeks? That pressure's being supported by the coccyx, which is inside your body. Your lover should not be biting it during pleasurable sex.)

6. "No offense" in the middle of a smut fic is not right. Even more so when you were just talking about how your character has mastered all types of foreplay. Because seriously, no one's taking offense, the phrase is just...wut?

7. "That part of his body" is not particularly specific or helpful. If you can't even bring yourself to name the body part in question, don't write smut about it.

Yeah, I know, not all of these are biological fuck ups, but sometimes the bad porn just needs to go away. Gyah.;

mood // discontent

We are starting this years InsaneJournal holiday sale. From now until the end of the day Friday, November 27 we are going to be holding a sale on Self-Committed[paid] accounts and Extra Userpics.

The prices are be as follows

Self-Committed[paid]
1 Month -> $5
6 Month -> $15 $10
12 Month -> $25 $18

Extra Userpicx
6 Month -> $10 $5
12 Month -> $20 $15

Then on Friday November 27th from 8am until 4pm (Eastern US time) we will be running a very special sale on Permanently Insane accounts.;

Buzzwords

The best part? Carbon and climate totally follow climatic trends.

Yes, I'm a nerd. >∇<;

mood // amused

I totally know this is the nostalgia talking, but man I miss the 90s CPop. They actually had some content, with lyrics that meant something other than random propaganda or things that don't make sense.

Hey, there's a reason they're considered classic nowadays. :p

And...I should totally be working, right.

*slinks away*;

mood // complacent

I should be frantically reading papers. Instead I procrastinate and re-rendered the layout so it will enforce a minimum width for browsers less than 1024 pixels wide. (Who uses 800x600 resolutions anymore these days?)

One of these days, I'm going to have to grab a screencap of the layout on a 1920px width screen to give people a better idea of the layout I had in mind. :p;

mood // blah

Glah, not feeling much better today. Still didn't get work done. Stress and lack of motivation plus feeling crappy does not productive Cashews make.

I need happy pills. >.>;

mood // depressed

*sigh*

Didn't make it into lab. Fell asleep after lunch and didn't wake up until 6:00pm. An almost entire day spent sleeping.

On one hand, feeling at least no longer like my head's been stuffed with cotton. On the other hand, even more behind than usual.

Oh, and my muscles have started hurting like nobody's business. Geh.

And then there's the dream. Good fucking beautiful sleep, the fucking dream.

( Disturbing stuff within. );

mood // drained

I hate that the Zack/Cloud fandom is tiny. Well, not tiny in the sense that there aren't writers, but tiny in the sense that there aren't enough decent writers to go around.

Because it's getting pretty annoying (and sad) when I'm randomly clicking FF links in the vain hope it's something readable. If the story isn't horribly OOC, then it runs the pretentious purple prose.

So, here's a few tips to remember for the writers who think they're all that:

1. Your first person narrative, it sucks. Live with it. If I see one more "I think therefore I am", I'm...I don't know what I'll do, but it won't be pretty.

2. You fail to understand Zack. You just fail. I understand the man's under duress in your story, but that's no excuse for him being completely fucking depressing for eighty some odd chapters at this point. Cheer the fuck up emo writer.

3. Less attempts to build new worlds, more attempts to work with what you've got.

3-1. In fact, stop trying to add mythology while you're at it. This mystical shit doesn't do anything for your story.

4. Game play and story integration, you fail at it. Enough of your super-speshul whatever shit thing. Just work with what you've got and focus more on the characters, less on trying to explain how materia works, kthxbai.

5. Pick a personality for Cloud and stick with it please. Since Zack is alive, there's no good reason for Cloud to act like he has multiple personality disorder. If Zack's alive, Cloud doesn't go batshit insane, okay? This should not be hard to figure out, dammit.

Well, this does motivate me to try to write something more for Nano, but my brain's too numb and I'm too behind in work to really think past "must slice brains, must slice brains". Fucking...just...gah.;

mood // listless

So, Tezuka and Sanada's granddads are shogi buddies!

I can't...breathe.

Oh god, owowowowowowowowowow.

Well, good to see that there's still some crack left in Konomi. On the other hand, this totally explains the Tezuka-Sanada duets that's been out.;

mood // amused

Sluggish is an understatement for what I'm going through. My brain isn't working, I know I need to get a lot of things done, but I just...can't move very well. Even typing has been a trial.

I'm also suffering water retention, so I'm like...fat. And by fat, I mean I'm carry a bunch of water under the skin that's making me bloated and bloodless looking. My fingers have a difficult time making fists and when I bump into something, the skin just sort of sinks in, like an over bloated corpse.

TMI, sorry.

In short, ew, I feel like a walking corpse. *is so, so tired*;

mood // lethargic