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For fic-related reasons that need not be disclosed, I was worried about Auburn yesterday. Worried about the doom and gloom she shrouds herself and her characters in. [livejournal.com profile] murron called last night and we decided that constant doom and gloom could not be healthy, and, in fact, needed treatment. Mainly because we feared for Auburn's characters - well, and her, kind of sort of. A little.

So, here it is. The small edgy and round  remedy  to make [livejournal.com profile] auburnnothenna smile and think positive. (Or anyone who feels down, really. But mostly her. Because life can be good!)



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Thank you to [livejournal.com profile] murron for the very cute covers and some additional music and the enthusiastic noises on the phone. :o)

Chase away the doom and gloom - The make Auburn smile compilation


If you decide to download, can you let me know? Bandwidth is very limited on my site.

I've smirked, is that acceptable?

Date: 2006-06-04 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auburnnothenna.livejournal.com
I'm bringing out the Stooges for you. Both of you. *narrows eyes*

:-)

For fic-related reason that needs not be disclosed, I was worried about Auburn yesterday.

What? That? I've got thicker skin than that, sweetie.

I think you just want me to write you food porn.

just barely

Date: 2006-06-04 11:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
You could work your way up to a full-blown smile, lovey. Or must I bring out the laugh?

I think you just want me to write you food porn.

I don't just want food porn. I want happy food porn. How can that be wrong? *bats eyelashes*

Re: just barely

Date: 2006-06-04 11:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auburnnothenna.livejournal.com
I'm immune to the eyelashes, you know.

I'd finish Seven Walls and be quit of it a lot sooner if someone didn't keep distracting me.

But for you, I'll smile.

No happy food porn yet, though. Save for that UST laden scene we keep talkign about.

Re: just barely

Date: 2006-06-04 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
There were no eyelashes this time. Just the threat of maniac laughter.

Besides, how could I possibly distract you? I have not made any voodoo dolls. (Yet.)

No happy food porn? *cries* You said you loved me! And, think of Kat, too!
Something else, then? Ronon's story (can be short), to slot in to my part of Passage?

Re: just barely

Date: 2006-06-04 11:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auburnnothenna.livejournal.com
"Tell us a story, Ronon," Teyla said. The four of them were sprawled over the tarp, waiting for the oppressive heat of the day to fade before they gave in and slept. The sky glittered with stars. The night before, Rodney had explained that the night sky of Earth wasn't half as bright, because this planet's system lay so much closer to the galactic core than Sol did to the heart of the Milky Way.

"Don't know any."

"Sure you do," John told him. Teyla was using him for a pillow and he absently played with the ends of her hair.

"No."

"Even you aren't that laconic," Rodney said. "Tell us about the charm thing you've got in your hair."

"It's not a charm."

"So tell us what it is. We're bored here, you know. I may have shove mud in my ears if I have to hear Sheppard's story about getting his first nookie in a Ferris Wheel one more time."

"Kiss, McKay, kiss."

"My version is better."

Teyla felt John chuckle.

Re: just barely

Date: 2006-06-05 12:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auburnnothenna.livejournal.com
"Go on, Ronon, save McKay's ears, and ours. If you talk, he'll shut up."

"I resent that," Rodney snapped without any heat.

After a pause, Ronon finally spoke.

"My brother's son gave it to me when I was on leave the last time. He'd carved it himself. His mother was an artist and she'd begun teaching him. The face is Sata, goddess of war. If you're brave, she protects you." He paused. "My brother said it wouldn't do me any good."

"Sata, huh?" Rodney murmured.

"Seems like she did her job," John added.

"Maybe."

"We are glad," Teyla added.

"Yeah?" Ronon said.

Re: just barely

Date: 2006-06-05 08:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Yes. The playing with Teyla's hair really, really does it for me. That's just so ... *sighs contentedly*
You know me too well. *loves and adores and generally marrries you*

Re: I've smirked, is that acceptable?

Date: 2006-06-09 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] murron.livejournal.com
Nice icon :).

I'd love to have given you Monty Python - Always look on the bright side etc. But I guess what you have now will serve its purpose just fine ^_^

*hugs*

Date: 2006-06-05 12:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daneffew.livejournal.com
am downloading the mix thanks muchly

Date: 2006-06-05 01:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diluvian.livejournal.com
Taking! Thanks for sharing, you've made me happy.

Date: 2006-06-05 01:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enname.livejournal.com
Oh.
*laughs*
Too cute.

That shade of orange is either going to cheer you up or make you snap. It has an impact. Hopefully the former for Auburn.

Date: 2006-06-05 02:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] turtlespeaks.livejournal.com
hmmm. *is interested*\

*downloads*

Date: 2006-06-05 02:41 am (UTC)
ext_1004: (Default)
From: [identity profile] munchkinofdoom.livejournal.com
Listen you two! If Auburn stops torturing her characters and turns to fluff, I am going to come and get you. *glares* I spend all my spare time enabling other writers onto the slippery slope of dark!fic and really don't want to turn around to find one of our stalwarts recanting the faith!!!!!

Mind you, food!porn sounds interesting... *g*

Date: 2006-06-05 03:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enname.livejournal.com
Long may you enable. :)

Date: 2006-06-05 04:03 am (UTC)
ext_1004: (Default)
From: [identity profile] munchkinofdoom.livejournal.com
*cackle* I knew you'd understand.

I wonder if there is any such thing as dark!food!porn? Maybe carnivorous cabbages? Reminds me of that vegetable episode of Lost In Space when I was a child. Did I ever tell you I was always cast in the role of Judy because I had the best scream? *g*

See what happens when you go on a nostalgia bender. You get horses, I get manic vegetables! *g*

Date: 2006-06-05 08:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
dark!food!porn?

Can you please stop it? Enable darkfic somewhere else, because this is supposed to be a happy thread. Happy. For once. I need a freaking break from darkness. (Witness the excessive use of italics)
Fates almost killed me with the darkness and Yoshino killed me with the porn, and I know need both happy (or at least content) and gen.
If you ever want darkness from my side again, you had better go and enable some light for me first. *hands on hips and taps foot*
Well?

Date: 2006-06-05 12:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enname.livejournal.com
What happens if we are made happy with are darkness? Twisted souls that we are. :P Perhaps we need to make a 'happy to be dark' thread or something?

Oh and aren't carnivorous cabbages cute? Or perhaps it is just the way my mind is imagining them. Anyway, they'd only eat other cabbages because they are after all, carnivorous. Devastating to the cabbage world.

Long as there are no manic vegetables riding horses. :P

Date: 2006-06-05 02:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
What happens if we are made happy with are darkness?

Then you go to another place. This is the happy thread. *sticks out tongue and is a dictator*

Long as there are no manic vegetables riding horses.

*squints* What did I tell you about more sleep yesterday?

Date: 2006-06-05 04:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enname.livejournal.com
Rodney has dictated! Let the icon speak :P

*looks at the clock* It is only.... 3 am. Ok, so I know you said to go to bed but I kinda forgot to look at the clock. Really. It is my excuse and I am sticking to it like glue. Sleep is really over rated.

Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-05 04:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auburnnothenna.livejournal.com
You realize that would be cannibalistic cabbages? Right? Carnivorous would be if they were snapping the fingers off the poor migrant workers in the fields.

So now I'm smiling over the mental remake playing in my mind of Attack of the Killer Tomatos, only this time it's cabbages.

Juan is running for his life, pursued by a giant rolling cabbage, snapping leafy lips at him.

Re: Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-05 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
See? SEE?! I TOLD YOU PEOPLE NOT TO GIVE HER ANY IDEAS, BUT DOES ANYONE EVER LISTEN???!!!

Re: Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-05 04:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enname.livejournal.com
*hides* Its a cabbage!! Comic carnivorous cabbage. The alliteration though is the stuff of nightmares...


Breathe! Please, before you fall over.

Re: Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-05 05:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
Have now asphyxiated. And it's all. Your. Fault.

Re: Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-05 04:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enname.livejournal.com
Oh dammit, my brain is not turned on at all tonight. You're right, I conflated carnivorous with cannibalism. In my defence they both start with C. Disturbing in its own right, because that means I am a cannibal too.

I had a rather disturbing image of a version of King Kong, only he is a cabbage. It is either that or packman, where all the little packmen are carnivorous cabbages chasing people down hallways. Cheesy music and all.

Re: Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-05 04:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auburnnothenna.livejournal.com
King Kong Cabbage actually sounds like something hybridizers would dub a variety.

Re: Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-05 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
*headdesk, repeatedly*

What happened to my happy thread?

*cries bitter tears*

Re: Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-05 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auburnnothenna.livejournal.com
But, sweetie, we're all happy as cabbages!

Re: Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-05 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
Better grab a mop for the tears now.

I want happy snuggles and I get cabbages. Where is fairness in the universe? And in which universe does snuggles translate into cabbage?
*cries some more, soaking your shirt*

Re: Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-05 05:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auburnnothenna.livejournal.com
Points up at the quick Ronon story comment. As close to snuggly as I get.

Re: Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-05 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
Not true.
Just because you haven't done it yet doesn't mean you won't ever. Because you will.

Re: Attack of the Killer Cabbages!

Date: 2006-06-06 05:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enname.livejournal.com
It does rather, doesn't it? Possibly lucky then that hybridizers won't go around spiking super enormous cabbages to the top of the empire state building. Although just think of what it could do for world hunger. Well once you stopped the cabbage rampaging.

Date: 2006-06-05 08:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
*glares and clamps a hand over your mouth* Not one more word. Or else.

Date: 2006-06-05 08:22 am (UTC)
ext_1004: (Default)
From: [identity profile] munchkinofdoom.livejournal.com
I'll be good, promise! *stares at the skillet of doom*

Been racking my brains for the lighter side of SGA for you, and coming up short. Maybe the ice hockey game with Chuck at Rodney's evil Canadian minion? Or maybe the one where Canada is taking over the universe, one polite act of mayhem at a time? *g*

Date: 2006-06-05 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
*squints* Yes, well, and where is the happy in that?

Think happy. For me, come on, I know you can do it. Happy. Small things. Charming things. Not necessarily fluff, just thinks that make you sigh and go: Yeah. I want to snuggle this idea.

Date: 2006-06-05 08:42 am (UTC)
ext_1004: (Default)
From: [identity profile] munchkinofdoom.livejournal.com
That'll learn me to mistake funny for happy... *g*

Hmmm... this might be hard. I've not seen much snuggleable in SGA recently, now that you mention it. *Would I be exposing myself to the possibility of burning if I mention that I have been reading a hell of a lot of snuggleable material in due South fanfic lately?*

So, while I wrack my brains for you, I shall leave you with a photo of my current snuggle bunny.

Image

Date: 2006-06-05 08:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
Oh, come on. Like she would ever stop torturing her characters completely. We're talking about Auburn, here.
But every once in a while, I need something happy to cheer me up. You cannot exist on a constant diet of doom and gloom and angst. So, things like the above? I need like the air to breathe. And if I don't breathe, you don't get no flu-fic, which will be the mother of all darkness. So, there. *sticks out tongue*

Date: 2006-06-05 12:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enname.livejournal.com
*whines* No. There must be cake dammit.

*tries to think of happy cute things* Ok, let's not do cute because what I find cute and what the rest of the world finds cute is incredibly different. After all, I think my icon is cute.

Huh. Maybe I'll go watch an episode or two to help...


Date: 2006-06-05 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] workerb.livejournal.com
Downloading the music mix because it has my all time 'cheer me up' song by Katrina and the Waves. Thanks!

That cover is adorable.

Date: 2006-06-05 08:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
I saw it on another CD and just knew it had to be on here. That scene from High Fidelity still is a sure bet for a huge smile. :o)

Date: 2006-06-05 03:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] becca-radcgg.livejournal.com
*hugs Ellen* I love you for doing this! I've been having a really crappy week, so this is wonderful. I know that it's mostly for Auburn... who I totally send hugs out to as well, but thanks just the same. You rock!

Date: 2006-06-05 08:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eretria.livejournal.com
Happy music to fight off crappy weeks! Happy music to all! *hugs*

Date: 2006-06-09 05:48 pm (UTC)
tinny: Something Else holding up its colorful drawing - "be different" (Default)
From: [personal profile] tinny
Am very very late, but still interested. I took it, too. :)))

Happy thoughts are just the right thing for me now.

Date: 2006-06-11 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kyizi.livejournal.com
Bwaha! Excellent, that's Donnald O'Conner, isn't it? hee, fab!

Date: 2006-06-22 08:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sanitylapse.livejournal.com
Downloading the mix.

Date: 2006-07-04 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] livrelibre.livejournal.com
Downloaded. Thanks, I needed a little happy music now.

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