In lieu of gifts, please donate what you can to the survivors of the Pakistan flooding.

Thank you.

The contrast is incredibly dark, but it's the only way I could get YT to take the whole damn thing instead of cutting it off at 4m42s (a common problem, I've read). But at least the quality isn't too bad if you watch in HQ. :)

Sorry for the delay.

Joker's Reign on YouTube.

bipolypesca

Well, hello. I am not dead.

( MTS, EHD, and the origin of this vid )
( lyrics )

Vid title: Joker's Reign
Fandom: The Dark Knight
Song title: Reign
Song artist: UNKLE with Ian Brown
Vid artist: bipolypesca
Size: 105MB (don't bitch; it started off at 1.28GB, so...)
File type: AVI
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Joker is having a very good time. His reign of terror on Gotham makes Bruce reconsider his retirement. This, it turns out, was a mistake.

Download here:
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And, against my better judgment, and despite the fact that I hate, hate, hate streaming... the sheer size of this file has prodded me to try to make this one available on YouTube.

Edited to add: Here's the YouTube link. My suggestion is to watch in HD and let it load completely before playing to avoid that trademark YouTube choppiness. At the rate with which I've watched YouTube delete videos and/or mute audio due to copyright issues, there's no guarantee it'll be there long. Ugh. Never mind. YouTube cut off the last minute of the vid for no particular reason. I'll work on this again to-night and try to get it to upload properly. In the meantime, you're stuck with downloading.

Feedback always appreciated.

bipolypesca

My birthday is coming up, August 31st (as you can see on my Profile), and since I've had an LJ account these last few years and occasionally spat out a CLexy story here and there (in between lengthy, wordy series which seem to be perpetually WIP), I've received anonymous donations for my birthday (as well as for Christian and other holidays that I do not celebrate, I'm afraid) on my LJ--donations like a paid account at various levels for various numbers of months, cute icons, things like that.

The presents have always been graciously appreciated (though not thanked-for because they are always anonymous!), but unfortunately, they have also been unused. As you might or might not have noticed over the years, the only thing I really use my LJ account for is to announce that something is available on my website, or to ask meekly for help when some terrible 'tragedy' has occurred. So, sadly, LJ upgrades tend to go to waste on me for the most part.

But what I certainly appreciate is the incredibly kind recognition--you anonymous donors 'give back' to me because you've eked a little enjoyment out of my work here and there, and that is very humbling.

What I would like to do this year, instead of happily accepting gifts I know I will not use, is to give you a chance to extend your generous spirits in the same vein, but to do a hundredfold more good with them.

This year, I am giving my birthday to DonorsChoose.org, a wonderful organization which allows you, the donator, to pick and choose the precise school projects you wish to donate to--classes that need materials consisting of anything from some coloured pencils to a few high-end computers--and from which you receive thank yous directly from the teacher and students of the class you have helped! You can donate any amount you can afford--five dollars, ten dollars, or go hog-wild and pay off an entire project's monetary needs! Rest assured that every dollar you donate goes right to the class's needed materials, and every last penny does some good.

You can find my Give-Back Birthday Page here, or if that doesn't work for you, here is the direct link:

http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/viewChallenge.html?id=22616

Please go to my Give-Back Birthday Page (more than once if you like!) and, in lieu of any other type of gift to me, give generously to the classrooms that need your help the most. I have added several projects to my Give-Back page, all of which have to do with reading, writing, or literacy, something I know everyone here appreciates. I might add a few more as the month goes by.

Also, if you so wish, you can remain just as anonymous on the donorschoose.org page as you have on my LJ all these years (you modest persons, you!).

Thanks so much, everyone. Now, go crack open those checkbooks and show me how much you love me! ;)

bipolypesca

continued from part 1

( Left Unsaid )


Feedback relished. And sometimes catsupped.

bipolypesca

And now for something completely different... :)

Strangers With Candy, if you've never heard of it, is hilarious, and can be seen for free on hulu.com. I recommend it.

This is my only foray into the fandom. I started it months ago and just finished it, rather unexpectedly. It's split into two posts only because it was a bit too large to fit in one post.

Title: Left Unsaid
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Drama, angst, hurt/comfort, male/male sex.
Fandom: Strangers With Candy
Pairing: Chuck Noblet/Geoffrey Jellineck
Spoilers: Through 3rd season.

Author's Notes: This fic is unapologetically OOC.  I wanted to get behind the relationship seen on the show, try to explore why.  On the commentary of Hit and Run, during the opening scenes, not long before Geoffrey will lie twitching on the pavement and Chuck will run in the opposite direction to go hide at home rather than help him, Chuck Noblet's portrayer Stephen Colbert asks Geoffrey Jellineck's portrayer Paul Dinello, "What do you see in me?"  ‘What, indeed,’ I wondered.

How does what appears to be a supremely self-involved person like Geoffrey Jellineck allow a relationship to continue which so often places him in degrading, humiliating, and self-confidence destroying situations by a man even more self-serving, if that's possible, than Geoffrey himself?  I decided to try to answer that question for only my own satisfaction.  What emerged was not in any way keeping with the spirit of the fantastic hilarity of the series (though the occasional chuckle does pop up), but rather a somewhat melodramatic piece exploring the motivations of one Geoffrey Jellineck.  This explores what the characters would perhaps be like if they were a bit less ridiculous and a bit more grounded in the human complexity of real feelings.

The piece takes place just before the end of the series, directly after the third season episode entitled Bully.  I chose this point in time because Chuck and Geoffrey have gone through multiple breakups and arguments, and Chuck has done several horrible things to Geoffrey, and yet they remain together in the empty classrooms and dark restroom stalls of life.  In fact, their relationship only seems to be getting stronger—if the playfulness and expressions of joy at each other's company during the earlier third season episode Invisible Love are anything to judge by—as if every time Chuck damn near gets Geoffrey killed or ruined, Geoffrey only grows to understand him a little better rather than to hate him a little more.

At the end of Bully, Geoffrey is battered and bleeding profusely and might be, in his own words, ‘starting to hemorrhage.’  He is in the process of driving Jerri Blank home.  This story picks up after he has finished that task and has reached his own destination.


( Left Unsaid )

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