heathershaped | some randoms and a poll

+ Obama requests the HHS instate a rule to allow hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples. Operation Bring The U.S. Into This Century continues apace; in other news, I love that man.

+ A la carte icons for LJ! Before LJ started being weird on every level I can remember wanting these very much. As it is, I might be more excited if it weren't utterly confusing -- of it I could in fact even ACCESS the userpic add-on page at the moment. We'll see.

So weak for icons. -__-'

+ Hipster Who will not be back in my life until tomorrow; sadtimes. In the meantime, via

everysecondtuesday, a Doctor Who primer. Because so many people are jumping into Who for the first time, and there's a lot of canon! As someone who's just been dipping in and out of New Who for the past four or five years, it's v. helpful to me.

Just in time for Daleks tomorrow, no?

+++ Poll: I've been thinking about all the posts I've been planning to do and telling people I'm going to do, but haven't ever done because I am a) lazy, b) not all that confident in my ability to meta coherently, and c) lazy. But I will never get better at being coherent if I never try! I figure I'll put it to you guys because I can't do them all and ... I felt like making a poll! (bear with me while I recreate it for LJ because I'm pretty sure it will not crosspost; also, I haven't done a poll on DW before so who knows if even that will work! eta: it works! But I had to crosspost manually.)

Poll #2757 What should Heather write about?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

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options! with pros and cons.

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post-series 2 assessment of Gwen and Morgana's relationship in which I re-evaluate some things (likely to be somewhat depressing, at least to me)
5 (41.7%)

On why Gwen's characterization in series 2 doesn't really bother me at all, at least, not in the way it seems to bother a lot of people. (likely a bit more controversial than I usually like to get into here)
7 (58.3%)

general fandom post about how nice girls finish last (likely I will generally regret making it; also, surely it's been done before?)
6 (50.0%)

Book reviews! On Libba Bray's Great And Terrible Trilogy that I've been saying I would post about for like a year - more of an anti-rec post really (likely to make me angry whilst writing)
4 (33.3%)

Vampire Diaries post, because I never talk about that show and that's a shame (likely it will be mostly incoherent because of squee and pictures)
3 (25.0%)

Legend Of The Seeker post, because I never talk about that show and that's a shame (likely to be incoherent because of squee and pictures and probably some gifs)
7 (58.3%)

Book reviews! On the Jacqueline Carey books, or most of them anyway; or Your Worldbuilding is Weird Lady, But Overall I Really Kind Of Dig This (likely to take longer than my laziness might allow.)
4 (33.3%)

Something Else I mentioned, but forgot mentioning, wanting to post about (remind me in the comments!)
2 (16.7%)

TICKY.
6 (50.0%)

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