I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Texts from Hillary (Clinton): fabulous! Best one.

On routinely feeding chicken caffeine so they can stay awake to eat, and Benadryl to calm them down.

tinypinkmouse made a podfic of my Eureka Jack Carter/Nathan Stark story Displacement! And heardtheowl made a podfic of my Jo Smith/Dean Smith/Sam Wesson story House of Yes!  (Also, holy cow, over 375,000 fanworks on the archive. I know that’s small by Harry Potter standards, but it’s an order of magnitude bigger than Gossamer, by which I still measure all things.  Or, you know, All Things.)

I didn’t think much of Old Man’s War, but John Scalzi is slowly winning me over. The forthcoming Redshirts looks like a great parody of the old ST:TOS tie-in novels I loved so much, and this Hugo-nominated short story is a good parody of the epic fantasy genre. Favorite line: “It is said night dragons can speak to the moon, but don’t because all the moon wants to talk about is how much it likes basalt.”
( YA fantasy )

I have already been making a feed available for Twitter as rivkat_lj because some people asked, but that’s a feed of my entries only; I do the same for my pro blog; I don't get why people want notification of long blog entries via Twitter when RSS is available, but I also don't want to make it difficult for anyone who wants to read my stuff to do so.  I'm actually trying the LJ implementation because in my experience twitterfeed, which I've been using, misses about one post in five. 

I will never crosspost comments anywhere, and I don’t really get why you would in most cases, since my mental image of comments is things that participate in a particular conversation. But then I think that about a lot of tweets too. This latest LJ trick obviously increases various risks, though I think it increases them in direct proportion to the similarity of your LJ name to your Facebook name.  As far as I’m aware, anything crossposted to Facebook will show up there as “comment on rivkat’s post” and not as “comment on legal name’s post,” so even if you have overlapping friend sets (as I do, a bit) it won’t be obvious to someone looking at your Facebook page that the two are the same. If I am wrong I will be very perturbed.  Obviously it would make me sad if someone crossposted comments to one of my very few locked posts, and I could seriously do without the changes in the comment form.  I installed the greasemonkey script and it seems to work, but my guess is that it will break eventually.

ETA: Okay, this just got bad.  I got a pingback to an entry to which I don't have access.  I don't like having talk behind my back shoved in my face, and I think it's silly to have pingbacks in those circumstances along with being invasive of the journaler's privacy.  But that's not the bad part.  The bad part is that a big chunk of the access-controlled entry was contained in the pingback.  Which, if I unscreened it, would be visible to everyone (since the post at issue is public).  Not on, LJ.  Not on.  Has anyone else seen this?  I thought the pingbacks only had post titles.

I have DW invites if anyone wants.

In other news: For some reason the button on my library access authentication page that says SUBMIT reads as very sexual to me. Possibly I’m just strange.

( TV: Eureka squee )

My Yuletide stories:

Written for me, a delightful Have Spacesuit, Will Travel story in which Peewee grows up just as she should, with lovely details and a real Heinlein-meets-someone-who-can-write-women feel: Document 32 from the Russel Collection, on loan from the Franklin Institute, by Brown Betty.

I wrote two stories: Displacement, Eureka for Am, who asked for Nathan, Jack, beer, wings, a sporting event, and snark. Cheerleading’s a sporting event, right? Sadly, Am seems to be a dropout, but it was interesting to try Eureka, which has more charisma than it has any right to.

Your Pearly Whites, a Profit treat for serrico. I love Gail, and I love that she almost likes the things Profit makes her do.

Meanwhile, I have fallen in love with the BBC’s Jekyll, six delicious hours of cracked-out psychopathic goodness. E.g., Hyde: “Ever killed anyone, Benjamin?” Benjamin: “Not personally. I have people.” Hyde: “You’re missing out. It’s like sex, only there’s a winner.” Michelle Ryan (the new Bionic Woman) is gorgeous and morally ambiguous at best. The real attraction for me, though, is Dr. Jackman/Jekyll’s wife, Claire. In the first episode, she seemed clingy and useless to me. But I was wrong. She just knows what she wants – her husband, the father of her children – and she doesn’t care what stands in her way, fighting with wit and nerve. (Claire, rejecting Hyde’s claim that he isn’t her husband: “I married one man.” Hyde: “You miscounted.”) Some nice surprises, though a couple of them could have used some extra background, and I’m still mulling over the ending. Highly recommended!