HIHIHI

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So, this morning I wake up with two words in my brain, and I had no idea what they meant. Flotsam and jetsam. So I look it up and the Google Machine tells me that they are maritime words to describe a wreck.

Flotsam is floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo. Jetsam is part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is purposefully cast overboard or jettisoned to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore - wiki

I do not know where I picked these up, but dreaming about vocabulary words is MUCH BETTER than dreaming about my ex, which is what I've been doing all week.

This post was to remind you all that tw_holidays is still posting fics, and is possibly wrapping up soon? Many many fics have been posted so far, one of them mine (though I can't tell you which one, that would be cheating!). The reveal is January 5th.

But I should also say that snape_potter is still posting fics for Secret Snarry Swap and some of the fics are just magnificent. I haven't had the time to read most of either of these fests, but I will say what I have read has been quality stuff. And yeah, I wrote for this fest too, and I'm floored by the reception my fic has gotten. I have NO IDEA when the reveal is, though. So I will just sit on the link to my own fic for now.

I am on the DW Love Meme here. Leave a comment or seven, leave your own name, and post about it so it gets spread 'round. I believe jjhunter is going to stop unscreening comments on the 23rd, so hurry. EDIT: not stopping unscreening, but it will be closed for new noms.

I do not know why I'm writing this in the Rich Text editor. Maybe I'm just too lazy to code simple HTML these days.

Boys are coming SATURDAY. \o/ \o/ \o/

(and GOOD NEWS on the TEEN WOLF front. I would like everyone to welcome my long-time friend flaming_muse to the fandom. MWAHAHAHAHA YES. OH YES.) I feel like putting together a 'welcome to Teen Wolf fandom' packet with icons, meta, and fic recs for the newbies. I could totes do that.

Comments

[romantical]

Flotsam and Jetsam are the names of the eels that hang out with Ursula in The Little Mermaid.

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HAHAHA maybe that's where I got it from? You are awesome, thanks.

[renaissance_slacker]

"Flotsam and jetsam" is also used to refer to a messy lot of assorted small things, like the contents of a junk drawer. Same as "odds and ends" I guess. I'd heard it used that way long before I knew it referred to a shipwreck.

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AH, maybe that's where I've heard it. Someone also told me they are names of sea creatures in The Little Mermaid.

[king_touchy]

"Flotsam and Jetsam" is also the title of a chapter in Lord of the Rings. (From The Two Towers.)

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OH, neato! Thank you for letting me know! :D

<3

[jjhunter]

Just dropping by a fly-by clarification that the love meme will be closed to new nomination comments at the end of today, but I will continue unscreening new comments to existing threads afterward - I just won't make doing it really quickly a high priority.

Re: &lt;3

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Okay! I'll change that here, then.

Thanks so much for hosting the meme. ♥