you can't do that with a tiffany lamp!

he said this to me one day, so i wrote it on my arm.

2011-12-20T03:31:34Z

[tumblr crosspost]

today was one of those days, you know them? when reading through my blogroll brought up an extra heavy dose of posts about assault, and sexual bullshit, and people's capacity to be wretched, and just how dark life can sometimes get. how far we, as a society, really don't appear to have gotten. and, as these kinds of days usually do, it got me doing a lot of thinking about my own past and my own history. which is, you know, a bummer. and i don't really have much left to say about any of those things. i'm tired.

so fuck it, i said. i'm not going to write that post. i'm going to write this post instead. i'm going to write a post of celebration.

this is me celebrating that finally, in my life, i have a partner who i can trust completely, even in bed. who i find totally sexy, and who thinks i'm totally sexy too. who says so. who will never do anything i don't want to do, and who will never make me feel weird for asking for what i do want. who checks in, who talks with me, who never makes me second-guess myself, and who can make me weak in the knees, and then make me laugh, and shout, and sob, and shake, and laugh again, and then we cuddle under the covers and watch nerdy-ass fucking television.

i fucking deserve this shit. and if this sounds like something you want, know that you fucking deserve this shit too. if you don't have it, you'll find it. if you do have it, celebrate too. and spread the word: we all deserve to get what we want. we are all so worth loving.

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SO EXCITED

2011-11-09T21:32:58Z

tool shed toys, milwaukee (some sections nsfw)

boyfriend and i are going shopping here tomorrow to celebrate 6 months. he's never been! i've been saving up money! IT'S BETTER THAN CHRISTMAS.

:D

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BEST ROOMMATE. ALSO, VODKA.

2011-08-16T21:40:52Z

watching justice league with lovelokest. batman? is being a perpetual creeper. you know. as usual. so, batman is always watching.

themeletor things you may not have known: batman and ceiling cat are THE SAME PERSON

lovelokest wouldn't that be basement cat?

themeletor no, ceiling cat is watching you masturbate. basement cat is CHEERING YOU ON.

lovelokest so. basement cat is ollie?

[ETA: THIS]
MOMENTS LATER:

lovelokest so, how does he have wings? are they real or are they strap-on?

themeletor that is not a fair question. strap-ons are as real as you want them to be!

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you put words in my mouth i'll put blood in yours

2011-04-24T22:47:54Z

whoah, hi internet!

i've had a busy week or whatever. hot damn. maybe i'll tell you some stories later! i have lots of them. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

in the meantime, look what i did yesterday! i got a tattoo!
( semi-nsfw pics -- hooray pink polka-dotted underpants! )

let me just tell you, that was an awkward post to assemble while sitting on a packed greyhound bus with a bunch of strangers. MY ASS LET ME SHOW YOU IT.

*also, inking over old scar tissue hurts like a bitch. good thing fairestcat is okay with getting her fingers pulverized. oops! THANKS CAT. ♥

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seven very important words

2011-01-07T01:47:01Z

hey internet.

who has white collar fic?

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just in case

2010-11-10T05:33:34Z

this is me making a permanent record of the fact that ell and i are not, in fact, mutually exclusive forces, and tonight we both managed to exist in the same apartment eating delicious thai food and watching white collar. THERE IS PHOTO EVIDENCE.

also her cats are THE GREATEST.

♥

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girls to the front

2010-10-19T02:46:15Z

any locals or near-locals interested in an evening of RIOT GRRRL? HUH? YEAH? YEAH.

THAT'S RIGHT.

RIOT. GRRRL.

come to the riverwest neighborhood of milwaukee for GIRLS TO THE FRONT Fest: A celebration in the spirit of Riot Grrrl! i'm volunteering on friday. i don't know what i'm doing yet, but i'm volunteering.

also i'll give you a ride if you want.

no, seriously. i don't care where you are. i will drive to madison or wherever and i will get you and we will go to see some fierce fucking revolution happen (and participate!) and then i will drive you home.

really, you should show up. it's gonna be great.

xo mel

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if this is what you want then fire at will

2010-10-15T06:19:59Z

so

not only have i finally bought all the plane tickets for The Vacation (which is in HALF A MONTH, SHIT),

and NOT ONLY do i get to see sansets (FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER) and kinetikatrue (FOR THE THIRD TIME EVER), and my former college housemates (FOR THE FUCK THAT SHIT I MISS THEM A LOT TIME EVER),

and then later my orlando peeps like momebie & marilla82 & theemdash & company (FOR THE... FUCK IT. FUCK I MISS YOU GUYS TOO, FUCK),

and also harry potter 7 at midnight in universal studios (FUUUUUUUCK~),

BUT I GET TO SEE ell. NO SERIOUSLY. PEOPLE I AM SO EXCITED YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW.

DO NOT EVEN.

HOLY SHIT.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

(ps also if you have not seen my chemical romance's new music video, you really really should. no i don't care if you think they suck. DO YOU LIKE RAYGUNS? DO YOU ENJOY DUST-RIDDEN APOCALYPSES? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT DOGFOOD? OR MAYBE GRANT MORRISON? ... YOU LIKE FURRIES, RIGHT?

( here it is courtesy of rocktube, embedded under the cut ))

xo,
mel

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junkbabies and zonehoppers

2010-09-19T04:50:51Z

( move along, nothing to see here. )

(for those of you who know me on twitter, all these can be found on my public list "weaponry". for those of you who don't know me on twitter, why the hell not? meletor.)

ETA: * = PRETTY MUCH PEOPLE RP-ING ON TWITTER, BUT THE SHENANIGANS ARE PRETTY FUN TO WATCH. ALSO THIS WORLD IS A BLAST SO REALLY I DON'T BLAME THEM. :D

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i'm in the basement, baby, drop on by

2010-08-26T05:32:58Z

my day in a nutshell, copied and pasted from my twitter feed:

out of the 119 photos i took in chicago today, only 20 aren't boats. and 50 are rigging shots. god, i am a slut.
-41 minutes ago via Chromed Bird

ps: also we went to bleeding heart bakery, and i ate a delicious cupcake and bought a cookbook. CUPCAKES AHOY! (ONE OF THEM HAS AVOCADO. OMNOMNOM.)

pps: photos will be posted later, don't you fret. right now, though, i desperately need to go to bed. mmmmmm, sleeeeeeep~

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and in the grand tradition

2010-08-18T14:36:07Z

meletor's parents theater, it's too goddamned early for this shit edition:

dad: organic! does that mean it has bullshit on it? cow shit?
me: you're bullshit.
dad: because they can't use chemical fertilizers. so they use animal shit.
me: yes dad, the cereal is covered in poop.
dad: it's like joni mitchell. give me spots on my apples. *sings* put away the ddt ... give me spots on my apples ... but leave me the birds and the bees~
me: LOLS
dad: *warbles* pleeee~eeease!

(important to know about my dad: he's the man who raised the music nerd in me. also he couldn't carry a tune in a wheelbarrow if you strapped it down.)

aaaand back to reading batgirl back-issues. STEPH ♥_♥

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all the centrefolds that you can't afford

2010-08-16T05:03:34Z

HEEEEEEEY INTERNET~

I AM WRITING THIS POST FROM MY NEW NETBOOK. due to her tininess, adorableness, badassery and sparkles (also the fact that the hardware/case is by msi -- mostly that, really) her name is lyn-z. THAT IS ALL.

...

ok that is not all -- today i spent most of the double shift i worked at the restaurant getting skeeved on by bret michaels' roadies. seriously, they were there before soundcheck, and then they were BACK AFTER THE SHOW. UNTIL AFTER WE CLOSED. GO TO A DIFFERENT SHITTY ASIAN RESTAURANT'S SHITTY BAR AND MAKE LEERING FACES AND UNWANTED ADVANCES AT A DIFFERENT COMPLETELY UNINTERESTED WAITRESS, ASSHOLES. ugh. so that was fun; what is my life?

also, my tattoo is itchy.

that is all.

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now i know how joan of arc felt

2010-08-12T22:51:43Z

i got a tattoo yesterday!

dana withers of blue lotus tattoo in madison is a goddess and a ninja. we were at this for four hours with almost no breaks.

photos beneath the cut, borderline worksafe (it's a sidepiece so my shirt's all rucked up).

( as the flames rose to her roman nose and her walkman started to melt )

as usual, feel free to ask me any questions you'd like (about this or any other body mod i've had).

woohoo ink!

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we run as thick as blood

2010-08-01T04:22:29Z

dear the internet, who wants to talk with me about the fic i am plotting that is a rewrite of a batman beyond episode but expanded to take into account things like, for example, terry's similarity to a certain once-dead robin and also other intriguing parts of comic canon that i want to make click with beyond-era dcau? PROBABLY NOBODY, but if this sounds like something you or someone you know would like to explore, please say hello. i am kind of desperate.

( cut for rambling about the fic, which will get all up in the business of epsiode 3x05, 'out of the past', aka the one with the lazarus pit )*

in unrelated news, i'm getting an awesome tattoo the wednesday after next. it's either going to be blackberries or A PIRATE SHIP, i don't know yet. i'll find out when my amazing rockstar tattoo artist emails me some sketchage.

also GUESS WHAT, I DON'T WORK TOMORROW. THIS IS AMAZING. I'M GONNA DO LAUNDRY.

*btw if any of the brave few still on my flist from '05 recognize a fraction of these shenanigans from that one thing i started and never finished? this is what happens when that SITS IN MY HEAD FOR FIVE YEARS.

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themeletor @ 2010-07-23T23:28:00

2010-07-24T04:32:54Z

dear the internet,

does anyone have an icon yet of rachel maddow wearing her bacon police hat? or, alternatively, if someone has a screencap i can make the icon.

that is all.

(we now return you to your regularly scheduled mel-is-too-busy-freaking-out-to-be-on-the-internet. though also, in the interest of sanity and anticipated celebration, i am planning a tattooooooooo~)

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it's just like that overplayed cage the elephant song, i guess

2010-07-20T05:45:30Z

( cut for whining, melodrama )

(which reminds me! i finally gathered and turned in all my paperwork for the local culinary program of decent renown! i should get news in 2-3 weeks! i rpobably won't get in for the upcoming semester, because they have a waitlist a mile long, but. ... that may be a good thing.)

(yeah, it's probably definitely a good thing.)

*breathes*

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then you will make a grave, for i will be home then

2010-07-01T08:36:50Z

dear the internet,

i was going to make this post earlier but then i got distracted by vampires. which, in other words oops i just watched the first four episodes of trueblood and am going in for a fifth (confederate!flashback!bill! yespls!). doot doo...

HEY THIS HAPPENED TODAY:
( cut for arachnids and capslock )

...better get to that fifth episode, i guess. thanks to someone i have the decemberists' "yankee bayonet" stuck in my head.

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nothing makes our tummies so full and keeps us happy too

2010-06-29T05:34:05Z

the internet is AMAZING.

half an hour ago i was at a friend's house talking about how this song was a huge part of my childhood (to the point that i'm sure i'd re-traumatize my parents if i played it for them) and how i hadn't heard it since i was four or five years old, have no clue who sung it or what tape it was on ... and with the power of google and youtube, here it is!

(ps this was probably the first food that ever charmed me, back when i was teeny!tiny!mel. omfg.)

(pps this only rivals (and probably beats) "froggy goes a-swimmin'" as far as 'songs that i adored obsessively but haven't heard again since kindergarten' go. DEAR INTERNET, I LOVE YOU.)

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the kombucha mushroom people, sitting around all day

2010-06-26T04:59:40Z

( stalking the wild snickerdoodle: a photoessay )

(secret of the snickerdoodle:

take your favorite vanilla cupcake recipe (i decided to use a modified pound cake formula that gave me a crisp cookie-like top above a moist, dense crumb) and add 3/4 tsp. ground cinnamon per dozen cupcakes. top with a sprinkle of demerara (or turbinado) sugar and a light puff of cinnamon before they go in the oven, then bake as usual.

let cool completely, top with a swirl of caramel buttercream and/or a drizzle of homemade caramel sauce, and finish with a touch more demerara (or turbinado) sugar.

share; enjoy; nom.)

♥

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themeletor @ 2010-06-25T00:21:00

2010-06-25T05:31:14Z

DEAR FANDOM.

WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THAT *JENSEN ACKLES* WAS VOICING JASON/RED HOOD IN THE UPCOMING ANIMATED MOVIE?

I THINK SOMEBODY* DROPPED THE BALL ON THAT ONE.

PS LOOK AT THIS SHIT:

PPS I MAYBE ATE WAY TOO MUCH SUGAR TONIGHT. OTOH THE SNICKERDOODLE CUPCAKES IN MY OVEN SMELL LIKE CRACK. DELICIOUS CRACK.

*(that somebody may have been me.)

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in which an inventory of the closet yields the evidence for a unique conclusion

2010-06-23T05:28:54Z

i don't know what possessed me to pull out the harley quinn suit tonight, but ~~two~~ ALMOST THREE (oh harley, you have been sadly neglected) years and a couple pants sizes later it still fits just as well -- maybe better -- through the magic of spandex.

which doesn't change the fact that i'm already at work on a poison ivy costume for halloween this year. (i have to start now because hand-sewing all those leaves is going to be a BITCH.)

also between my thigh-high boots and black leatheresque bolero, and seeing as i always have a pair of black fishnets to hand, i could probably whip up a black canary costume on short notice with the help of a good dancewear shop (one that stocks patent finish leos).

and i mean with the exception of halloween and maybe a con or two in my future (though i don't know that i'd ever go to That Sort of Con, since i get easily overpeopled at, like, wiscon), i have no idea where i'd wear any of this, but i'm going on the theory that it's good stuff to have around.

...
which is all to say that i? am apparently a dc comics hooker.

\o/

(hi. what's up in *your* life? ♥)

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it's hard to say that i'd rather stay awake when i'm asleep

2010-06-17T05:07:56Z

god, there is so much going on right now in my life and on the internet. hopefully i will get to it soon. please to see the rest of dreamwidth regarding issues of ableism, racism, self-brain-policing, and of course bloody sunday.

in the intervening time, gail simone, our relationship is very torn right now.

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APB

2010-06-12T03:09:36Z

so, does anyone remember the tempermental little macbook i had for my last semester of college? probably not. heck, i barely remember it. but it pooped out some time during the summer of '08, and i, spurred by various forces, FINALLY took it in to the apple store to see if they could at least recover any of my data.

good news: most of the computer works just fine. bad news: the hard drive is shot.

other bad news: after some detective work upon my return home tonight, i've determined that at some point my mother found stray and/or strewn and threw out the backup dvds i made years ago, back when i was vidding.

the upshot being, if you have, or know anyone who might have, copies of any of my vids (istanbul, save me, joga (vid title "emotional landscapes") -- all of these are batman begins; the numb3rs vid is up on youtube so it's fine) PLEASE LET ME KNOW and maybe, um, send a file my way? please? it would seriously make my whole wide world so much better. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

this is poopy. it is a completely poopy situation. but i am not giving up! i have faith in the internet. and in the power of love.

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i would write across the sky in letters

2010-06-10T04:09:10Z

today i:

~spent all morning sitting in the sunshine reading comics (THANKS sansets)
~drove downtown for a quick meeting in which i labeled the other department-orphaned cohorts* and myself the "isle of misfit hippies"
~then drove all the way across the city and spent the afternoon/evening shooting the shit with a long-lost friend and helping him fit me for, and make, a chain mail halter top (IT'S GONNA BE GREAT) (PS BOOBS).

then i watched the glee season finale with my dad, which btw was AWESOME.

i mean, pretty much, ALL OF TODAY was AWESOME. ps did i mention that this pretty thing (a 1912 ford roadster; picture on the other side of the link) was parked outside the co-op when i arrived and i got to coo over it with the owner and aforementioned misfit hippies? THAT WAS AWESOME, TOO.

i'm going to try to post more often. i mean, good luck with that, self. but whatever. THE POINT IS TODAY WAS GREAT AND I'M GOING TO REMEMBER THAT. the day before yesterday was pretty cool, too. yesterday sucked, though.

HEARTS!

*the other four employees for whom each one is her/his own department. like me!

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ITS A TELEGRAM STOP

2010-06-06T01:46:26Z

GUYS VINCENT VAN GOGH IS MY CHILDHOOD STOP

I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS WHO EPISODE THAT I AM UM OBTAINING BY COMPLETELY LEGAL MEANS STOP

OMGOMGOMG EARS

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