racetrack

racetrack is the personal CDJ of Dawn who maintains frakkingcylon.
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hafren, lupinesque, and I were wondering who was looking at what characters and figured this might be the easiest way to poll that would be to... poll that. Please feel free to direct anyone you know who might be applying. This would help anyone who's interesting in knowing just how quick they might have to be on Holds day!

Poll #5342 Reach out and feel BREACH.
Open to: All, results viewable to: None

What branch of character are you looking to apply for?

Name of the character interested in?

So. While working out details for Ethan Avery, I decided I would try to entice people to be a) mummy and daddy (Inner Circle, WHAT WHAT) and b) MULCIBER, his BFF. There is, currently, an empty spot next to Ethan on the Beaters for Slytherin. It seems very fitting for him to be in the most violent position in the sport. You can see what I have for Ethan here.

I miss Mr Eko. (And Jack, and Kate, and Sawyer, and Hurley, and Locke, and the whole damn show.)

( Lost, Season 2, Episode 10, The 23rd Psalm. Eko is a BAMF. )

( One of the only cute things about Fire + Water )

Woo. More picspam, because I am seriously a nerd. This is from season 2, episode 14, "One of Them."

( Meet Henry Gale. ;) )

Another picspam! This time, it's mostly Jin & Sun! (With a bit of Hurley tossed in).

( Flist Friendly )

Every time I watch something, I cap it. You just never know when you'll want to icon someone, and sometimes, the movie is just so crappy you don't want to have to watch it again just to cap it. Anyway, I decided I'm going to do picspams for my favourite stuff. Either because of the images, the pretties in the images, or the funny quotes.

In this case, it's funny quotes, funny images, and HURLEY. One of my favourites.

( ''Dude, you speak English.'' )

EXCITED! EXCITED! EXCITED! EXCITED! EXCITED!

modthebreach is coming along swimmingly. Most of the pages are done, save a few. Everything is just about ready for apps, which will open at the end of the month.

*twirls*

If you want access to the mod account, just let me know here in the comments, and I'll add ya!

ETA: LET'S DISCUSS CHARACTERS WE'RE GOING TO APP!

ETA: POST NOW OPEN for anyone who is not on my flist to come and plot!

You might remember me talking about THE BREACH, the MWPP war game that hafren and lupinesque and I have been working on (mentioned here).

As of this moment, we have finally finished the time line of events, and gotten a GREAT deal of things done on it that we wanted to do before showing everyone what we've done. For now, we're going to keep everything friends-locked, but if you comment here with your username, we'll be happy to give you access. You can check out the awesome time line and other things we've been working on.

At the moment, we're still not taking any holds. We DO have a few people in key roles who have shown interest and so those characters have been italicized so that you'll be able to see who is open and who is not. The application is available for anyone who wants to go ahead and start thinking about them. We WILL be opening holds pretty soon!

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Who: Nora Alderton
When: About three years from FTH-verse
Where: Robards-Alderton home in... fuck if I know.
What: I picked a prompt for this. 5. never forgive, never forget and stuck it on there. Alas, poor Nora, you get to deal with your Auror boyfriend's sudden death.
Rating:PG

( It was nearly a month before Nora could bring herself to pass the threshold into Gawain's office. )

For real? You wanna log anything, go for it. I'm down for pretty much all of my fandoms, and I love AU/PSL/Game stuff!

Who: Charity & Doc Dearborn
When: 1975
Where: Dorchester, Dorset
What: Charity contemplates what to do about her marriage and her childless future. Requested by lupinesque in the ANGST MEME.
Rating: PG

( And then, hope abandoned her. )

So I'm having such a blast in find_horcruxes that I have finally decided to do up one of these WANTED posts! Let's see here!

Adelaide Banges (shebanges) would love to have her siblings around! Quinn Banges, next in line to take over Dervish & Banges in Hogsmeade, is married to Marion (bangesandmash) who is about to pop out his kid. He finished Hogwarts in 1970 as a Gryffindor. Take a look at Marion's history for more information. Those are the bits of info that I know of that have been talked about in game! I'm sure I'm missing a few bits and baubles but that's the general gist. She'd also love her sister Felicity Banges (finished in 1973 as a Gryffindor), unmarried.

Charity Burbage (mugglemethis) would absolutely love another Ravenclaw from her year (1962) to be fairly lifelong BFFs with. Female preferred, but someone she's super close with would be awesome. Her mother was just killed in game (C is a Muggleborn), and one of her co-workers in the Muggle-Wizard Liaison Department has gone missing.

Morgan MacDougal (bangupjob) would love her eldest brother (former Gryffindor, finished in 1960), the sorta smarmy arse who knocked his girlfriend up straight out of Hogwarts, and married her. For that matter, Morgan would love her nephew Peadar MacDougal (Ravenclaw, finished in 1979). Ian's wife is up for grabs, though there is no name attached to her. Ian has the lovely bonus of being the 7-times great grandson of vampire "Mad" Angus MacDougal, and two of his siblings -- Morgan and Madog (doesnotfetch) -- are already snatched up. A third MacDougal sibling (Gwendolyn) is in the process of being apped for!

Narcissa Malfoy (vainglorious) is really wondering where her loyal henchwomen society ladies are. She will need you to tell her that OF COURSE she's not gaining weight, and her butt is NOT getting big as she gains weight and her butt gets bigger as Draco grows and grows. I'd really enjoy a confidante for her, tbh.

Wanna try out Netflix for a free month? Comment here with your email address (it'll be screened!), and I'll send you a coupon!

Who: Neil Bradley, Charity Chambers
When: June 2000
Where: Some huge arse church in London.
What: Jilted at the Altar. Charing Cross history, but it could be mostly any of them with a few tweaks.
Rating: Probably a PG?

( Dazed and confused and hurt, something inside of her snapped, collapsed. )

So I was going through some of the icon makers out there that I commonly use for searching for PBs, and I'm finding a VERY startling trend. I've counted 10 different icon-makers who currently have "used" 25 gig of bandwidth (some in half a month; some with a week left). That's what you get with a free account with Photobucket. I just don't see how THAT many icon-makers are spiking over 25 gig of traffic, ALL in the same month. It just sounds... fishy.

Straight from the website. "Huge Bandwidth - Up to 25 GB of monthly traffic. Bandwidth is reset every month."

I currently have all of my icons on my own domain, so in looking at my detailed bandwidth usage. Over the two years I've used the domain, my icons have steadily gone up and up. Now I realized that my icon journal is not as popular as most others -- and that is no problem -- but last month, but icon's bandwidth usage JUMPED four gig. Might not seem like a lot, but when you consider that it's been pretty steady at 11.5-12.95 gigs, that's a huge jump. So. I went to look, and there's a few xanga (peacocks, yours are on one of these too) websites hotlinking, some forums, and some random other places. It's not a lot, actually. But it got me thinking...

I really don't think that icon-makers are going over 25 gig of bandwidth on their own, and I really wish I could take a look for y'all and see where the traffic was going. You can do a site:url search on Google (Google images seems to be the best way to go about that). I found that spock has a handful of people hotlinking from MySpace and a proboard. I don't know how often Google caches things though. And I also have no answers for those with free accounts. Obviously, you can lock the folders, but there's nothing to stop people from leeching your bandwidth with the right url, short of changing every single URLs address. I hope that I'm wrong about that. Anyone know if changing your folders to private/password protected keeps people from actually using the direct links to hotlink?

The other option is that Photobucket messed up on free accounts this month and somehow set EVERYONE's bandwidth lower or just had a hiccup. With as many people who have had the hiccup, I think questioning them might be an option. I realize it's free, but they may not be aware that something is messed up. It's all in how you go about it, so be nice if you decide to. XD

If you enjoy Battlestar Galactica, then you'll have no problems with the dark plot. Because a good portion of the game will be on New Caprica in harsh conditions, the focus will be more about the problems facing the survivors in the climate, with very limited resources, and space. There's only 20 percent of the planet that is habitable, and that's around the equator. We'll be exploring how they live in canvas tents for an entire year, leaving Chief to form his union and give his speech. To hold the ground-breaking ceremony. For babies to grow up a bit *cough Hera*. Some characters will, sadly, not have much to do at certain times (ie., Tigh will end up in the detention center, Zarak refuses to bow to the cylons during the first few weeks of occupation, Athena will be locked up in the Galactica Brig... etc).

( Cut for my NON-BSG-obsessed friends. I didn't realize how long it was. :| )

( The Holds & the Characters Needed )

So, everyone who knows me knows that I am OBSESSED with Battlestar Galactica. I've been DYING for a good RPG that focuses on the characters, well-written etc, and isn't just about shipping wars and the like. Or to create one myself. With the END of Battlestar coming up, I had been having a hard time thinking about what kind of RPG I would create. A lot of characters are now DEAD, etc. And then it came to me: DUH, the year and 4 months on New Caprica. We never saw it, but we know what direction things take for some of the characters so it gives us a year and 4 months to toy around with things, to get them where they need to be by the end of season 2, and then to the Exodus.

Now, newcaprica is still in the beginning stages. The WAY WAY WAY beginning stages, but I wanted to see who would be interested?

( The Holds & the Characters Needed )

The game would pick up immediately following the nuclear destruction of Cloud 9 (and several smaller ships), President Baltar's order for settlement, and explore the hardship with that godforsaken rock. Of course, I haven't decided if the first year will be in real time or not, because, let's face it, we really want to get to the occupation of New Caprica, and how things are even WORSE then. It would also invite several new and lovely events into the fold