girls smash stuff and eat cupcakes!

Probably no one's even reading this anymore, but just in case...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:48:16 GMT

Next week, I'm planning to back up this journal over at DW, but that will be private, so if there are any fics, etc., you might want to keep from here, save them now. I plan to delete it after everything's saved over there.

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:13:56 GMT

So I think I'm kind of...done with this journal. At least for now. I'm just not feeling it much these days. Nothing in particular, wank or anything, just...eh. Not feeling it, fannishly; further, I'm looking at a couple of career options, after graduation, that require a lot more separation between my on- and off-line lives than I've had.

I haven't left fandom by any means -- I'm still following things, and have been all the time I've been delinquent in posting. Nor am I deleting this journal -- I haven't backed it up, for one thing -- but I don't know if/when I'll be using it much again.

(Also: Live Free Or Die Hard = AWESOME. Just some parting words until I see y'all again.)

Checking in.

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:13:43 GMT

Hi! So. It's been...quite awhile, actually.

I'm okay. I'm just not feeling very fannish at the moment, and trying to compartmentalize more, and separate fannish from personal and whatnot.

Long story short, the past month=craziness. My brother got sick again and had to be hospitalized -- this happened while my parents were in Italy, leaving me in charge, and coincided with finals week. Then I was out of the country traveling for a couple of weeks. Now I'm back, and working, and taking a summer class to fill a gen ed requirement.

So, yeah, hi! I'm not dead. I'm not even bad. I'm just not here much, either.

\o/

Ficlet: Secrets

Mon, 21 May 2007 04:36:09 GMT

FIclet from the zombiepocalypse. BtVS/SPN; Buffy Summers/John Winchester implied; PG; the prompt was "can we talk about my Daddy Issues some other time?"

"You had this the whole time?" he asked.

The guilt was, if she was honest, tearing her apart inside. Much as it had been for the past three weeks, as they were driving across the country and she'd had the prophecy stuffed in her pocket. "I made a promise," she said. Because guilt or no, seriously, who was he to get all high and mighty? "And you're not one of my people."

John stared at her a little longer, and then laughed. It wasn't a nice laugh. "Of course," he said. "But Daddy out there is."

"Giles, and yeah, actually, because hi, I've known him for about nine years now and I've known you, what..." She made a show of checking her watch, which was bitchy, but she didn't care. "Oh, that's right, four weeks. I should trust you why?"

She remembered her dream then, and didn't know why until she saw something flash at his collar. "Oh my god," she said, and reached for his shirt.

"Not here," he said, smirking.

"You wish," Buffy snapped, already grabbing the chain. "Oh my god, you had this the whole time?" She could even ignore the flashing of the amulet -- not easy, because god, tacky much? -- because she was so busy glaring at John. "And yet you were getting all high and mighty with me?"

John shrugged, unfastening the chain and handing her the amulet. "You're not one of my people," he said.

They glared at each other. Buffy was kind of aware of how close together they were. And also that she needed to work off some energy, and that he hadn't shaved in a couple of days.

Giles cleared his throat in the doorway, and they both turned to look at him. One look at his eyes and Buffy had to look away, because he looked kind of -- like he knew exactly what was going on. "It sounds," was all Giles said, "as though the two of you have a bit of explaining to do. I'd very much like to hear it."

"Yeah," she said, at the same time that John said the same thing. They looked at each other, and when he smiled, she felt a little better, suddenly.

Maybe this could work.

"Come on, Mulder, let's go."

Fri, 18 May 2007 20:10:59 GMT

I am appalled by the lack of zombiefic, people. It's not going to write itself!

In other news, oh Supernatural. I want to like you, I really do. It'd be nice to be involved in an active fandom, and most of my flist is there anyway. And you seem like you'd be right up my 'pretty people smashing stuff and making wisecracks' alley, except for the no female regulars thing. And yet, somehow, nothing. SIGH.

"Did you raise the dead?" "YES!" "But the car's okay?"

Fri, 18 May 2007 04:28:25 GMT

IT'S

A weekend fic(let) battle.
Hooray! The hour is upon us! The 'fest will run throughout this weekend, through midnight Monday. Really, you're welcome to post whenever, but your odds of being read are probably better this weekend than three months from now.

Post in the comments to this entry! Please make a note in the subject line of the prompt you're using, or at least the fandom, plus the overall rating of the fic(let). On that note, any rating you want is just fine, so long as it's clearly there.

Single Fandom
24: Chloe, she is not putting up with this

The 4400: Nina Jarvis/April Skouris, steel
The 4400: Tess Doerner/April Skouris, skin

Angel: Gunn/Anne; "this girl taught me everything I know"
Angel: Lilah, it had to be zombies
Angel: Gunn/Wes, withdrawal
Angel: Gunn/Cordy/Wesley, my brains are the prettiest

Baby-Sitters Club: any, Kid-Kit

Battlestar Galactica: Kara/Anders; "zombie frakkin' Cylons"
Battlestar Galactica: Kara/Leoben; "enemy of my enemy"
Battlestar Galactica: Kara/Leoben/Anders; "Centurions are great for barricading purposes"
Battlestar Galactica: Gaius Baltar, "is this real?"
Battlestar Galactica: Cally/Gaius, taking advantage
Battlestar Galactica: Cally/Kara, presents
Battlestar Galactica: Cally/Roslin, secrets

Bones: Zack, this is stranger than anything Hodgins could come up with

Boston Legal, Denny/Shirley/Alan/Denise/Brad/Paul/Claire/et al any combination so long as Denny is present and Alan says "I'll take the case."

Brothers & Sisters: McAllister, president
Brothers & Sisters: the Family Walker, stuck at the end of the world with you

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy/Anya, nightfall
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy/Giles; "someone always stumbles"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy/Ethan; "of all the people I had to get on my team"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Dawn/Giles, acceptable losses
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles, research
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles & any scoobies, stupid prophesy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tara/Buffy, "I might have an idea."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy/Faith, "The world is ending and you want to WHAT??"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: ensemble, it takes an army
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow, Google was no help
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Xander, all those lost
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Amy Madison, all by myself
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Amanda/Vi, saccharine
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Molly/Dawn, aspertime
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Eve/Fred, memoranda

CSI: Greg, usually the dead bodies weren't alive

Dark Angel: Kendra/Original Cindy, we can do this
Dark Angel: Kendra/Max, the wrong place at the right time

Dawson's Creek: Pacey/Audrey, "I thought she was just tired!"

DCU: Kara Zor-El/Conner Kent, lavender Kryptonite
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Cassandra Sandsmark, "can we just hit things now?"
DCU: Anita Fite/Cassandra Sandsmark, "they're not my kind of zombie"
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Barbara Gordon, working with what we have
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Stephanie Brown, into the darkness
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Cassandra Cain, coconuts as weapons
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Zor-El, take off your clothes
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Pamela Isley, empathy
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Harley Quinn, nothing makes sense anymore

Dirt: The Sex Secrets of Celebrity Zombies

Doctor Who: Rose/Reinette, compassion
Doctor Who: Rose/Harriet Jones, foxhunting
Doctor Who: Rose/Ursula Blake, eyeglasses
Doctor Who: Rose/Nancy, comfort
Doctor Who: Harriet Jones/Ursula Blake, detection
Doctor Who: Reinette/Nancy, imperial
Doctor Who: Sarah Jane/Ace, education
Doctor Who: Ace/Susan, broomcloset
Doctor Who: Sarah Jane/Harriet Jones, sonic
Doctor Who: Reinette/Ursula, lipstick
Doctor Who: Nancy/Ursula, shock
Doctor Who: Susan/Sarah Jane, confusion
Doctor Who: Doctor/Jack, "I knew it." "I knew you'd say that."
Doctor Who: Doctor/Shakespeare, "Is this a dagger which I see before me?"

Due South: Stella/Ray K, zombies on Prom night
Due South: Fraser & Ray K, my partner's dietary changes
Due South: Fraser & Ray K (or F/K), "just because Dief's a zombie now doesn't mean he's not still very fond of you"
Due South: Elaine & Frannie, in case of emergency
Due South: consulate staff, fortifying

Ender's Game: Valentine/Peter, computers

Firefly: River/Saffron, playing games
Firefly: Mal/Kaylee, the needs of the moment
Firefly: River/Patience, horses
Firefly: River/Saffron, sanctuary
Firefly: River/Inara, fear
Firefly: River/Lenore, ressurection

Friday Night Lights: Tyra and Landry, "don't worry, I've seen this movie"

Gilmore Girls: Miss Patty, Taylor, and Kirk, survival of the fittest
Gilmore Girls: Lorelai/Christopher, family

Grey's Anatomy: Derek, the conflicts of being a neurosurgeon zombie
Grey's Anatomy: Izzie, baking
Grey's Anatomy: all of the interns, trapped in the on-call room.
Grey's Anatomy: Mark/whomever your heart desires, repopulate

Harry Potter: Snape/Harry, "Get down and stay down."
Harry Potter: Ginny/Draco, "need me to save you again, do you, Draco?"
Harry Potter: Ginny/Fleur or Fleur/Bill, curse-breaking
Harry Potter: Fleur/Bill, "you 'ogwarts students are useless when it comes to ze undead"

Heroes: Sylar, the more things change...
Heroes: Peter/Nathan, sacrifice(s)
Heroes: Peter/Nathan, "No more excuses, Nathan."
Heroes: Petrelli clan, whatever it takes
Heroes: Peter/Claire, hero worship
Heroes: Hiro/Ando, not like it is in the movies
Heroes: Peter/Claire/Nathan, noon

The Hitcher 2007: Grace, cost of living
The Hitcher 2007: ensemble (Grace, Jim, and Ryder), desperate times call for desperate measures
The Hitcher 2007: Grace, summer break
The Hitcher 2007: Grace and Ryder, "so he's not just my psycho stalker anymore, he's my UNDEAD psycho stalker"
The Hitcher 2007: Grace and Jim, my boyfriend's back
The Hitcher 2007: Grace and Ryder, eighteen-wheeler

House: ensemble, There's no cure for dead.

How I Met Your Mother: ensemble, at least it's not Sasquatch
How I Met Your Mother: Barney, always be prepared
How I Met Your Mother: cast, Barney Stinson: zombie hunter
How I Met Your Mother: Barney/Robin, shotgunning zombies is a lot like laser tag
How I Met Your Mother: Ted, worst blind date ever

Into the Woods: Cinderella/Rapunzel, the perils of a princess
Into the Woods: Cinderella/the Baker, necessity

Jericho: Johnston Green, bootmarks
Jericho: Mimi/Stan, headless chicken
Jericho: Jake, out of gas

Land of the Dead: Riley/Cholo, pre-movie. "We take the risk to bring in things people need. Not to make a few extra bucks selling liquor. You used to know that."

Lord of the Rings: Boromir/Faramir, "I'm just a messenger."
Lord of the Rings: Aragorn/Arwen, "you've still got that sword, right?"
Lord of the Rings: Aragorn/Arwen/Eowyn/Faramir, "how it's done in Rohan"
Lord of the Rings: Aragorn/Boromir/Arwen, "nothing's fallen off, so I cannot say that I see any problems here, Aragorn"

Marvel Zombies: Hank/T'Challa, need

Muppets: any, how felt digests

nip/tuck: Christian, is there nothing he won't do surgery on?

The Office, Phyllis and Karen, Vance Refrigeration

The Parent Trap: Annie/Hallie, together

Passions: Teresa/Ethan, another scene for the montage

Princess Diaries: Mia, movies

RPF (Actors): Liam Neeson/Anna Popplewell/William Moseley, "never thought I'd have to do this again"
RPF (Actors): Sean Bean/Sophia Bush, "macho trip aside, I know way more about cars than you, and we need to use this one"
RPF (Big Brother): ensemble, can a zombie win $500,000?
RPF (America's Next Top Model: any, "at least the girls are eating"
RPF (Fall Out Boy): pete/patrick, guitar strings
RPF (Panic! At the Disco): spencer/brendon, candle light
RPF: Joss Whedon/Summer Glau, running barefoot
RPF: Joss Whedon/Tina Majorino, shaved heads
RPF: Avril Lavigne, honky-tonking*
RPF: Pink, honky-tonking*
RPF (Actor): Patrick Dempsey, "They have to touch my hair to get to my brains!"
RPF (Actor): Kate Walsh/Katie Heigl, trapped in a bar
RPF (Actor): Katee Sackhoff, high heels
RPF: Summer Glau/Amy Acker, inexperience
RPF: Iyari Limon/Sarah Hagan, real life's not supposed to be like this

*honky-tonking, pirateygoodness explains, for those not in the know, is the time-honoured technique of killing a zombie by hitting them about the head with a (preferably acoustic) guitar. It's AWESOME.

Roswell: Max, his sister is a what?

Runaways: Karolina/Nico, chance(s)
Runaways: Gertrude/Chase, good-bye(s)
Runaways: ensemble, "Okay, don't be mad but..."

Shakespeare (As You Like It): Rosalind/Celia, danger
Shakespeare (Taming of the Shrew): Kate/Bianca, discipline
Shakespeare (King Lear): Reagan/Cordelia, silence

Six Feet Under: David and the difficulties of keeping your brother in his grave

Star Trek DS9: Jadzia/Ezri, dessert
Star Trek DS9: Ezri/Keiko, science
Star Trek DS9: Kira/Damar, "Oh, any excuse, really."
Star Trek DS9: Winn/Dukat, "You aren't dead now, so stop complaining!"
Star Trek Voyager: Naomi/7, lieutenant
Star Trek Voyager: Janeway/Chakotay, "THIS is what it took?"

Supernatural: Sam/Dean, "When the forest burns along the road like God's eyes in my headlights...."
Supernatural: Mary/John, "just because we're dead doesn't mean we can't keep an eye on you boys just fine"
Supernatural: Missouri Mosely, chainsaw
Supernatural: Bobby Singer, beer
Supernatural: Sam and Dean, pillows
Supernatural: Sam or Sam/whoever you want, kitchen chair
Supernatural: Dean, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Supernatural: Dean/anyone, cellar

Ugly Betty: Marc and Amanda and how to be chic though dead

Veronica Mars, Wallace, some people are actually less scary as zombies
Veronica Mars, Mac, do smart brains taste better?
Veronica Mars, Keith, there's a new sheriff in town
Veronica Mars: Madison Sinclair/Cindy Mackenzie, bonds of hatred
Veronica Mars: Madison Sinclair/Gia Goosman, contest
Veronica Mars: Lauren Sinclair/Ryan Mackenzie, youthful indiscretion
Veronica Mars: Lauren Sinclair/Grace Manning, toothbrush
Veronica Mars: Gia Goodman/Veronica Mars, sleeping bag
Veronica Mars: Lizzy Manning/Meg Manning, laptop
Veronica Mars: Veronica/Parker, pillow
Veronica Mars: Madison/Parker, relief
Veronica Mars: Veronica Mars/Cindy Mackenzie/Madison Sinclair, anger
Veronica Mars: Lilly Kane/Madison Sinclair, cheerleader
Veronica Mars: Madison Sinclair/Cindy Mackenzie/Lilly Kane, television
Veronica Mars: Madison/Mac/Parker, lights out
Veronica Mars: Lilly Kane/Cindy Mackenzie, grace
Veronica Mars: Carrie Bishop/Madison Sinclair, Australia

The West Wing: Josh Lyman, this bill is never going to pass

Wicked: Elphaba/Nessarose, sorrow
Wicked: G(a)linda/Nessarose, socks

Winnie the Pooh: Pooh, brains instead of honey

X-Men: Kitty Pryde/Celeste Cuckoo, bomb shelter
X-Men: Celeste Cuckoo/Phoebe Cuckoo/Mindee Cuckoo, mind control
X-Men: Rachel Summers/Madelyne Prior, time bomb
X-Men: Kitty Pryde/any student, pedagogical ethics
X-Men: Kitty Pryde/Emma Frost, the importance of argument
X-Men: Scott Summers/Celeste Cuckoo, a very bad idea

X-Files, Mulder/Scully/Skinner, "It could always be worse."

Crossovers
Arrested Development/Princess Diaries: Grandmere & Lucille, "we're going to need far more vodka"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: Buffy/Gunn; "the way it works in the movies"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: Buffy/Fred; "makeshift stronghold"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/DCU: Rupert Giles/Kara Zor-El, training
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Due South: Stella Kowalski/Rupert Giles, break from the research
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Due South: Benton Fraser/Buffy Summers/Ray Kowalski, target practice
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Due South: Buffy Summers & Stella Kowalski, invisible scars
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Firefly: Amanda/River, calculus
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Buffy/Peter or Buffy & Peter, prophetic dreams
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Buffy/Claire, "You can kill vampires? Cool."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Buffy/Claire, the importance of good hygiene
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Buffy/Claire, never underestimate a former cheerleader
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Faith/Jessica, hot chicks with super powers
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Wesley/Mohinder, finding a solution
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Dawn & Claire or Dawn/Claire, while the super heroes are away...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Buffy/Peter: Kicking heads solves any number of problems
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/The Hitcher 2007: Buffy/Grace, dealing with undead psychos
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Muppets: Dawn Summers/Count von Count, understanding loss
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Muppets: Dawn Summers/Scooter organizational structure
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Muppets: Fred Burkle/Rizzo the Rat, pancakes
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Muppets: Faith/Kermit, last hoorah
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Muppets: Rizzo the Rat/Amy Madison, before thee let the unclean thing crawl
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/RPF: Dawn Summers/Summer Glau, protection
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/RPF: Dawn Summers/Anna Popplewell, crossbows
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supernatural: Buffy/Dean, "is Joan Jett girlpowery enough for her highness?"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supernatural: Buffy/John, "can we talk about my Daddy Issues some other time?"
DCU/BSG: Kara Zor-El/Kara Thrace, frak frak frak
DCU/Sesame Street: Kara Zor-El/Supergrover, cape styles
DCU/X-Men: Kara Zor-El/Kitty Pryde, leadership
Doctor Who/Firefly: Saffron/Rose Tyler, deceit
Doctor Who/Firefly: Inara Serra/Mme. de Pompadour, hiding in a closet
Doctor Who/Heroes: Claire/Martha; "unkillable one goes in first"
Doctor Who/House: Martha/House; "medical impossibility"
Doctor Who/House: Martha/Foreman; "so your boss is a zombie"
Doctor Who/Indiana Jones: Martha/Indy(/Ten); "it's always something with you"
Doctor Who/A Room of One's Own: Martha Jones/Shakespeare's Sister, summer days
Due South/Princess Diaries: Lars & Ray K, weapons discussion
Due South/Princess Diaries: Mia & Diefenbaker, partners
Due South/Princess Diaries: any/all, the Genovian Royal Family's Canadian stronghold
The Hitcher 2007/Heroes: Grace/Claire, final girls
The Hitcher 2007/Angel: Grace/Gunn, "how fast does this truck go?"
The Hithcer 2007/Supernatural: Grace/Dean, "your car might be in danger"
Land Of The Dead/Supernatural: post-movie, Sam/Dean/Riley (gen or slash), A meeting at the river
Muppets/Dark Angel: Max/Miss Piggy, being a diva
Muppets/RPF: Gonzo the Great/Tina Majorino, playing it by ear
Muppets/RPF: Miss Piggy/Joss Whedon, you have some nerve
Muppets/RPF: Rizzo the Rat/Summer Glau, I worship at your feet
Muppets/RPF: Michelle Trachtenberg/Fozzie the Bear, shields
Muppets/RPF: Joss Whedon/Kermit the Frog, "lovers and dreamers and zombies"
Muppets/RPF: Amy Acker/Rizzo the Rat, ballistic missiles
Muppets/X-Men: Emma Frost/Miss Piggy, immovable object
Muppets/X-Men: Jean Grey/Kermit the Frog, it's now or never
Supernatural/Shaun Of The Dead: ensemble, "We're going to the Winchester!" "You're - wait, what?"
X-Men/RPF: Emma Frost/Tina Majorino, let me demonstrate
X-Men/RPF: Joss Whedon/Kitty Pryde, speaking truth to power
X-Men/RPF: Kitty Pryde/Tina Majorino, we are teh awesome
X-Men/RPF: Kitty Pryde/Summer Glau, let's do this

YAY ZOMBIEFIC! I am ridiculously sleepy, but first thing tomorrow, I'll be going crazy myself. Don't wait on me, though.

"either as a hostage or what we call a forest bride"

Fri, 18 May 2007 00:09:05 GMT

So, I was talked into making a vid. For ~~The Adventures of Sean Bean and His Highway Brides~~ The Hitcher. To "Girlfriend".

I suspect I ought to be way more ashamed of myself than I am.

This is the crap youtube version, because Firefox froze on me in the middle of uploading a slightly better-quality one to imeem. Hopefully I'll have a better one up in a few hours, on the off chance that anyone wants it. This is the imeem one, which is much brighter and more watchable.

Shall have the zombiepocalypse post up shortly, too. YAY ZOMBIES.

"is this the end of Zombie Shakespeare?"

Sun, 13 May 2007 01:40:30 GMT

So, I had this idea, and Amy -- and Erica, obliquely -- encouraged it, and really, that's all I need to do something these days.

ANNOUNCING

A weekend fic(let) battle.
So, you guys probably know how these weekend 'thons work. People contribute prompts, I collect the prompts, I post the prompts. On the appointed weekend, we all go crazy and start writing fic for the prompts in the comments. Ficlets, more properly; the length is limited by the maxiumum space alotted for comments (I think about 4300 characters).

The twist here is the central theme, namely that of a zombiepocalypse.

(Zombiepocalypse is, of course, the scientific term for an apocalypse with zombies.)

Because zombie fic is awesome.

I'll be collecting prompts through next Thursday -- that is, the seventeenth of May -- and that weekend will be the 'thon itself. Post as many prompts as you like, as many times as you want. I'll post a master list of prompts on Thursday. Crossovers and RPF, by the way, are totally fine -- I really can't get snippy about that kind of thing when I'm running a zombiepocalypse 'fest, can I? I mean, even if I were inclined to, which I'm not, because both crossovers and RPF are ace.

Prompts should be in the following format: Fandom: Character/Pairing, an element or basic idea for the story ("video camera", "trapped in an ice cream store", etc). The important thing is that all those elements -- fandom, character or pairing you want, basic element you want -- are present, as those will make organizing things a lot easier.

(Oh, and pimping is obviously much appreciated. Just to get a good wide selection of people participating.)

"I'm on loan from the Louvre."

Sat, 05 May 2007 20:19:24 GMT

Amy is setting up twicetoldfandom, an incredibly cool idea for a 'thon wherein writers are assigned pieces of art and have to come up with a story revolving around it. Except -- here's the twist -- each piece of art will be assigned to two (at least) writers, the idea being to see how many different stories each picture provokes, and how different writers are inspired in different ways.

At the moment, she's just polling to gauge general interest, but she'll need writers and artists, so if this sounds like something you'd be interested in, go check it out, by all means.

I am rather stressed this weekend, because it's finals time, I've got two papers to write and cumulative exam to study for, and I've just started my period so I'm all hormoney and anxious anyway. On the bright side, I have The Hitcher on DVD, because, yay! Stupid slasher movie with Sean Bean! What's not awesome there? And as soon as I've got at least one of these two papers written, I shall watch it. Probably tomorrow night, because with finals this week, I've got no classes on Monday.

I might get drunk, too. Or I might save that for after exams.

"You call this a bicameral legislature?"

Fri, 04 May 2007 05:45:22 GMT

O HAY Virginia's 11th on Colbert's "Better Know a District" segment!

After which he declared us#1on account of being the richest in the nation. LOL FAIRFAX.

Not that Stephen has a favorite. He made sure to emphasize that he loves all his districts equally. ~~EXCEPT WE'RE SO HIS FAVORITE.~~

I think as of the census we might not be anymore, though. At any rate, I know that as of the last census Fairfax wasn't the richest county in the nation; the 11th may still be the richest Congressional district.

"Work was hard, so we quit."

Thu, 03 May 2007 21:09:04 GMT

OH GOOD GOD IT IS SO BUSY TODAY.

Seriously, it's my last hour here, and it's the first time I've had more than five minutes straight to sit down. And it's not even finals week yet, that's next week.

Oh, man. Dead, seriously.

Oh! I should totally make a new mood theme using scans from Buffy Season Eight. That would be pure win.

"I love you, Lord Daftwager!"

Thu, 03 May 2007 16:41:40 GMT

So, first of all, the chili I made yesterday? I WIN AT CHILI. \o/ God, it was so indescribably delicious, you guys, seriously, especially considering I was just using cheap ingredients bought at the grocery store and whatever I had at home.

For future reference: when browning the meat beforehand, cook it in olive oil, a third cup of rum, and a bunch of spices, whatever ones you like, then let it sit, covered, in the runoff, while you make the rest, and add it last. Also, add about a third a cup of rum and the juice of a lime to the meatless mixture. And again with the whatever spices you want. I'm a big advocate of seasonings. And since my wussy parents were gone, my brother and I could make it as spicy as we wanted.

SO DELICIOUS.

The air pressure seems to have changed, because I woke up with a massive headache and it's cloudy and rain looks to be threatening where yesterday it was bright and sunny. Fucking migraine.
A story which started out as a cracktastic PWP set during a zombiepocalypse is now turning into srs bzns fic. FAIL.
I need an icon overhaul. Also, hm, I seem to recall my paid account expiring this month. I need to check on that and renew it.
I keep re-reading BtVS 8x3. OH MY GOD IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY YOU GUYS. This is exactly what I could've hoped canon would be. Well, no, not exactly; Anya would still be alive if it were, but still.
Less than three weeks until I go to England! :D I need to decide exactly what I'm going to do. I know I'm going out Bath way for at least a few days to see thedivinegoat and family (YAY I GET TO SEE THE KIDS AGAIN!) and there are lots of people in London I want to visit. Basically, if you're in the UK and would like me to visit, comment or email (or AIM, but I'm rarely on that because I fail at life) and we'll work it out. \o/
The novel is largely on hold for finals. While I know this is best for my sanity, I'm also reaching the point where I just want to be done with it. Hmph.
The Queen is in Virginia! This is because we are coming up on the 400th anniversary of Jamestown's founding. I admit I am ridiculously proud of my little colony. Fuck the Pilgrims, man. It's all about Jamestown. It may have been a total deathtrap, but...um...

Give me time, I'll come up with something.

"I dreamed we lived on a pony farm, and Corey was always walking around with his shirt off."

Wed, 02 May 2007 21:29:25 GMT

Hey, so, cesario, sunnysky, I think I've talked with you guys about how I kind of have this deep dark secret desire for some Buffy/Ethan?

You guys need to get the comic. Like, NOW.

ETHAN WAS POKING AROUND IN HER DREAMS. He called her his love. And pet. And hit on her a lot, because that is what Ethan does, he hits on everyone. HOMG NOT ONLY WAS IT NOT SPIKE, IT WAS ETHAN FREAKING RAYNE. Oh my god. The closest we got to its being Spike was Ethan poking into one of her sexy dreams about a threesome with Angel and Spike (which was adorable, by the way, and involved her being Nurse Buffy and them being naked and clinging to her), which she shrugged off as saying it had been a long time since she'd had sex.

Which is to say, she doesn't even freaking care about Spike and Angel anymore, she just wants some sex. In fact, she wants some hot threesome action.

Additionally, ASAFKJDFSKLJDFSAKLJ I SO CALLED AMY'S BOYFRIEND BEING WARREN. \o/

HOMG DAWN ENDED THE BATTLE BY STEPPING ON AMY. Which, btw, glorious little parallel with "Fear Itself", but never mind that, mostly GIANT DAWN STEPPED ON SOMEONE. I love it so, so, so much. So much.

I am, however, horrified that they might be pursuing a Buffy/Xander plotline. Didn't we finish that one, like, eight years ago? God, please, no Buffy/Xander. Just, no. Adorable Slayer Renee! Renee/Xander for the win! Renee, who is dorky and good with the machines and does guard duty and argues with Xander over comics. Yes. Renee/Xander is good. Buffy/Xander is a world of disaster waiting to happen.

This is why I count the comics as canon. Between the Buffy/Ethan subtext and the panel that provided this icon, it is pretty much everything I could possibly want from the series. SO MUCH LOVE OH MY GOD.

And I've made some delicious chili for dinner, which seriously smells like the best thing ever.

"Why don't I hear any sleep screams?"

Tue, 01 May 2007 16:34:32 GMT

That meme, because it amuses me. We'll see how much of it I actually get written, because I'm kind of, I don't know, not feeling ficcish at all lately. But it's worth a try! Name three fics you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return, I will attempt to write a snippet of one of them.

Once again, I would like to affirm my love for the DCenters. Which is good, because DC United is giving me very little reason to celebrate so far this season. But never mind that.

Today, they are joining in DC's current Year of Shakespeare program by figuring out who would make a good team. "ST Othello -- Charges headlong on whatever Iago sends him to chase, occasionally acts too quickly for his own good, but that's what you want in a striker." The bench includes Lady Macbeth (who will finish off when starter Macbeth starts to get messy, as he's got an unfortunate habit of doing), and Ulysses, who is "on loan from Ithaca United". SO MUCH LOVE.

The weather is stunningly beautiful and I'm taking my parents to the airport in a couple of hours -- they're off to a wedding in Tuscany. We're not Italian; my rich cousin and his girlfriend just wanted to get married in Tuscany. Then my parents are going to spend a few days in Rome and a few in Florence, so it'll be a nice vacation for them.

I loaned Dad my good camera, and was showing him how to work it. He asked if it advanced automatically, and I thought he was asking about zoom. Mom understood -- he was asking about film -- and started telling him that it was a "magic camera". I also loaned him the 2GB card I got for Christmas, so he ought to bring back some very nice pictures!

Some animal woke me up around three-thirty AM last night, too. I have no idea what it was, but it was kind of creepy. It sounded like screaming. It was only the fact that it would start and then stop again, and that it sounded exactly the same every time, that made me certain it was an animal or bird instead of a person screaming, because it seriously sounded like one. So freaking creepy. It woke my brother up, too, and we've been researching to try and figure out what it might have been. The closest match we've got is a bald eagle, and there are a ton of them around here, but I'm pretty sure they're not nocturnal.

"Shut up, everybody shut up, listen to me."

Tue, 01 May 2007 02:25:50 GMT

I'm reading whitehouse.gov and sifting through speech transcripts/proclamations/etc to find quotes for my final Government paper and basically I just need to vent a bit. I feel I should get an extra 10% right there, just for PUTTING UP WITH THAT SHIT, because oh my GOD the amount of lying and hypocrisy and FUCK YOU, BUSH, OKAY, JUST FUCK YOU, STOP TRYING TO BLACKMAIL ME INTO THINKING THAT IF I DISAGREE WITH YOU I AM A BAD AMERICAN WHO RAPES PUPPIES WITH CANCER.

And now I'm seriously starting to cry. I thought the election of 2004 crushed my spirit so hard that I could never get that worked up over politics again, but apparently I was wrong.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow

I was born in America. I am an American. I have a lot of problems with it, but it is a stunningly beautiful country with a warm, generous spirit. We are, at our best, like a bunch of big loud puppies that don't quite understand how our different parts work, but HEY LOOK AT THIS AWESOME BALL! COME PLAY CATCH WITH ME! IT'S AWESOME!

That's at our best, of course, and I'm sure you all know how often anyone is at their best.

I don't accept and embrace my Americanness because George W. Bush tells me I should. I do so in spite of George W. Bush.

Show me a "great American", Bush, and I will show you someone who dissented. There is nothing more American than that.

(Except possibly for Die Hard.)

"I've got no date and an all-Rush mix tape"

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:22:20 GMT

It's getting warm again, which means my music tastes change. Well, kind of. I mean, I listen to whatever I feel like most of the time anyway, but warm weather means my new wakeup method is (along with caffeine, obviously) zooming along with the windows down, ROCKING THE FUCK OUT.

Incidentally, a few days ago, my brother mocked me for all the mullet rock on my iPod, and I came to the somewhat horrifying realization that he and I are, respectively, Sam and Dean Winchester. OH GOOD GOD. He's even got the floppy Sam hair. We're just, you know, a lot less emo.

It's currently warm and sunny and oops, I forgot to pack a pleasure-reading book (probably because I feel guilty even thinking about doing something for fun when it's finals time), but I've got an hour until my next class. Guess there's nothing to do but sit in the sun and play around online. What a tragic shame.

"Ooh, I think this was pizza!"

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:29:11 GMT

Hey, I completely forgot I have one of those last.fm things! I finally downloaded the software for this computer, too. So my profile is here, if you want to friend me thar.

I found Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream at 7-11! \o/

I have some srs bzns stuff going on lately, but I honestly don't know how ready I am to talk about it. I don't know, I might keep it private, because it's really...there aren't a lot of things I'm not willing to talk about in public, and most of what I'm not I'm willing to talk about under flock/filter, but this stuff is kind of really, really personal and yeah. Nothing earth-shattering or anything, just...stuff.

I'm also not really feeling all that fannish lately. I am, however, trying to teach myself to do mash-ups, just because I'd like to see if I can, and because iTunes, while on Shuffle, came up with a combination that horrified and fascinated me because it was sheer bad-touch perfection, and I think it's workable. I also have an idea for, of all things, a BSG vid. I don't know either, I just know that "Chemicals Between Us" screams Kara and Leoben at me whenever I hear it.

Besides, it's coming up on finals time, so. My mind is elsewhere. Jen B. and I are getting together to do some work tomorrow -- me to draft and begin writing a paper, her to do a bunch of drawings she needs for an Art final -- so that will be fun.

So yeah. Radio silence is not due to anything sinister, just a combination of factors of, you know. Life. Also I'm really sleepy now, so. Bed!

"I see you've played Knifey-Spoony before!"

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:07:42 GMT

Hey, so, that thing I asked you guys to send us good vibes for a couple of weeks ago?

It happened.

WE'RE MOVING TO AUSTRALIA!!!!

We're going to Adelaide around January sometime. So we'll get there in the middle of summer. HOMG HOMG!

Mom and I literally screamed when Dad told us. Mom had already told Dad that if it didn't go through this time, she got a free punch, because he keeps getting us excited and then it falls through. He came in and said "Okay, bad news: you don't get to punch me."

HOMG. I just. I wasn't sure I was going to, but hello, how many chances am I going to get to travel to Australia on someone else's dime? AWESOME.

"That's not good for the clock."

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:05:28 GMT

And apparently readers can assess how accurate your results are. Which is also cool, and I'm assuming is why it keeps changing.

And it appears that it's zillah975's birthday! Happy birthday!

I owe emails, but dude, I am kind of ridiculously sleepy right now. So that will have to wait for the morning.

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:37:36 GMT

Still no cable at home. Thank god we have DVDs, because we've got no TV and no Internet. It remains absolutely horrific.

We have, however, got a new couch! It is an absolutely hideous color (at least, it's hideous in our living room, which is bright robins-egg blue), but the blue brings out the brown, and brown + light blue is an okay combination, so. Besides, it's also unbelievably comfortable, and that makes up for a lot.

And I am also suddenly really feeling an urge to write some Buffy/Anya. Which is awesome. Maybe I'll even get around to finally writing that AU S6, where they hook up instead of Spuffy and X/A and it's fun and healthy and sweet.

"No TV and no beer make Homer...something something."

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:04:12 GMT

Cable is out at home. This is horrific, because not only have we no TV, we've also no Internet.

HORRIFIC.

It also completely threw off my morning routine. I ended up leaving incredibly early for school because 'read BBC News/flist/etc' is part of my routine, and my internal clock got screwed up and assumed that since I was no longer reading things online, it must be time to go. I was on campus before I realized that I'd left an hour early. FAIL!

Thankfully that left me with an extra hour to hang out at the JC and read the flist and everything on my laptop. So I'm not in complete withdrawal.

Mom and I went shopping yesterday! \o/ She and Dad are going to my cousin's wedding next week, and it's in a little Tuscan village, so after that they're spending a couple of weeks on holiday around Italy. Anyway, she needed cheap niceish shoes she could wear for the wedding, and a slip, and I tagged along and got an adorable new dress out of the deal.

"It doesn't take a nucular scientist to pronounce foilage!"

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:15:09 GMT

Good Lord, it's gorgeous out today. It has been all weekend and thankfully it's continuing today. I'm going to have to wax my legs later, so that I can start wearing the shorter skirts in my collection -- today I'm wearing the long lightweight flowered one.

I feel not at all bad about my decision to skip my first class and lay around with the windows open.

And yesterday I went up for an extra-credit thing one of my professors was doing. This was the class where the professor lost my exam, and between this and the extra-credit paper I picked up in that class, I am now in the clear. \o/ God, that's such a load off my chest. And I'm all registered for next semester, and am taking all Astronomy and History classes, which, awesome.

I also have Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, which is very cool and incredibly readable. All thinky about plots and characters lately, as I get at this stage of writing something. I'm about halfway through with a draft of the second novel and have an idea of what it wants to be, namely, YA horror which deals with the notion of "what if the world ends and you don't save it, you just get lucky, survive, and can only try to undo the damage in your little corner of the world?" And also it's a road-trip story. So basically I'm now getting my hands dirty with the plotting business.

And I'm about to go make a delicious sandwich.

In short: A+!

Also, have my results for that VisualDNA thing. Pretty accurate, actually

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Pretty accurate, actually, as these things go.

Sandwich time, seriously.

"No, you shut up, sir."

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:34:23 GMT

Wow, so I totally didn't notice that comments were disabled on the poll entry. That's some EPIC FAIL right thar. They've been reactivated, so if you had thoughts, go for it. I thought the discussion seemed a bit quiet.

In other news, it's only been up for about half an hour or so, but the poll is already yielding some interesting results! This got started, by the way, after I was thinking about that Mary Sue meme that's going 'round, where you write 100 or so words about a Mary Sue in your fandom of choice. And I realized that I have spent far too much time thinking about this. Basically, in every fandom, she's roughly the same, and even has one of two jobs (cop or museum conservator), but the problem is that I've put a lot of thought into this, and where in the world my MS would fit, etc.

Given a convo I had with roz_mcclure last week¹, for instance, it seems obvious that she'd be a Slayer in the Buffyverse, but the thing is that in Buffyverse, Buffy is basically my Mary Sue, and an original character there would be less whiny and angsty, probably, but she would also mostly just be Random Slayer #3 who meanders around in the background, because honestly I wouldn't like to hang out with any of the Buffyverse characters all that much.

Additionally, I've been focusing a lot on the latest original project, and doing that always gets me thinking about my preferences as a reader and how they influence my fannish choices/activities/involvement. So between the two, the Mary Sue thinky thoughts and the original fic thinky thoughts, I thought a poll might be fun.

Given how crap I am at meta, we'll see whether anything comes of the results, but, you know. Still interesting.

¹It was, as I remember it -- I was rather drunk at the time -- thus:

Me: Okay, so, in this story, Stella is a Slayer after "Chosen", and she and Giles --
Roz: Is everyone a Slayer in your world?
Me: No! Well, not everyone. Well, yes.

"Someday, Corey, someday!"

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:53:11 GMT

I was thinking about my fannish ins yesterday, and thought I'd throw a few questions out there. Possibly I will actually do some srs bzns analysis of the data later, we'll see.

View Poll: The In

Note: I should add that setting would, for my purposes (because even after editing this poll multiple times I still thought up changes after I posted it), fall under the "other thematic elements".

ETA: Ha, so I totally didn't notice that comments were disabled. That's what we call EPIC FAIL right thar. They're open now.

"Why do you think I took you to all those 'Police Academy' movies? For fun?"

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:26:13 GMT

I'm stealing fox1013's take on the Mary Sue meme. In fact, I'm stealing her exact wording, because I am sneaky like that. I want to do the Mary Sue meme, but I don't know what fandom I'd put myself in or why. Still, since I've seen a few other people do this: if any of you want to mary sue me into a ficlet, go right ahead. I'll just be here.

In other news, my Mom and I have been talking, and I now have a fallback plan for after graduation. Basically I had a minor existential crisis and went off for detailed career assessments &c. And as usual, one of the top results was law enforcement -- seriously, for years now, this has come up in whatever career profile test I take; it's interesting because Mom says I should be a nurse and traditionally there are a lot of similarities and the two, cops and nurses, get along very well. I always get super-high Investigative/Realistic scores, which is probably part of it.

So now it's the backup plan, just in case. Which is very reassuring to me, because I always need to have a backup plan. \o/

And apparently my great-uncle Bobby was a Portland cop. I didn't even know I had a great-uncle Bobby, so there you go.