ION, I feel that The Toast's regular Femslash Friday feature may be of interest to some people here. Today's is about Leslie Knope and Ann Perkins. [link]

It's weird that I'm getting breaking news from Tori Belleci and Grant Imahara. TSA agent reported shot at LAX: [link]

Today's is about Leslie Knope and Ann Perkins. [link]

They make a great couple.

The Toast's regular Femslash Friday feature

Wait, Buffy and Willow do not belong in that list...what the what? Xena and Gabrielle kinda don't anyway, because they ended up being the series endgame. But Buffy and Willow did not have lady love vibes! You so weird, slashers!

oh pot, it's always nice when you talk to kettle.

Hahahahaha!

Hooray -- my boss is going home sick and has therefore cancelled our update meeting, at which I had nothing to update. So that's a relief. I wish she had taken an actual sick day at some point, since she has been a mess all week. Ah well.

I'm writing copy for a Christmas romance anthology, and I used "It's that time of year when the world falls in love" as an intro. Now I have that song stuck in my head.

Everything crossed for you, Sue.

I so suck at lighting photographs. I'm working on composing shots and being aware of lighting. I do turn off the flash because I hate that washy foreground fill. But I wind up messing with it in post.

I don't even have official Photoshop--my pro video editor BiL gave us the program and I had to give it back. It was too complicated and intimidating. But I have a couple of much simpler photomanipulation programs, and I love them. Cropping to level, or cropping out distractions, or cropping down to focus on an object in a shot--or several distinct objects in the same shot, playing with lighting and contrast and saturation.... It's like fingerpainting in kindergarten. I've managed some fairly decent results from extremely indifferent photos.

I just keep trying to better my actual picture-taking, because I can't get over feeling like the P-shop is a cheat.

I am clearly looking at the wrong examples, because when I look for inspiration, I find selfie projects like this and this, and I'm just trying to find some clear space in a cluttered apartment. Someone suggested I make a softbox, and I had to demur gently.

Damn, why does it take *effort*???

Is it practical to preserve writing on a normal mug? Assuming I can avoid the dishwasher, is there some sort of treatment (or a specific medium) that could make markup feasible?

Mmm, gingerbread anything! Marked for later.

Clafoutis anything as well! This things a keeper.