isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
08 December 2009 @ 02:37 pm
  1. Thank you so much to [info]icalynn, [info]misscam, [info]wandersfound, [info]fujiidom and [info]htbthomas for the snowflakes! ♥

  2. And a hearty Y HALO THAR to the new folks from the [info]sheldon_penny friending meme! Round about these parts is a whole lot of nothing lately, but be warned that the flailing, the crazy, and the incoherent capslock of rage sometimes gets a little spammy. :D? :D?

  3. WORKING FOR A LIVING >:(

  4. OH ALSO HERE HAVE SOME SNIPPETS FROM STORIES THAT ARE GOING NOWHERE, TO MY VERY GREAT DISMAY:okay let's try this under a cut! )

  5. OMG [info]damalur THANK YOU SO SO SO SO MUCH FOR THE REC AT HET_RECCERS ♥
 
 
what: Brooks & Dunn - My Maria | Powered by Last.fm
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
01 October 2009 @ 09:17 am
New SGA fic! Lay Your Worries Down, 1200 words; PG; Teyla/Rodney but has nothing to do with In the Hollow Tree; AU for 1x09 Home:
Teyla's first glimpse of her team's homeworld was of bright golden lights and dark hulking buildings streaking past the tinted windows of their ground transport.
There used to be whining here. You're welcome.

[info]inlovewithnight ll'd to this Mental_Floss post about the Bruce on the occasion of his 60th birthday and I spent yesterday afternoon hearthandsing the screen in between calls. Especially over this, because y halo thar new journal titles:
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia, where Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack and Frederick Douglass’ diaries have been preserved, recently prepared some Springsteen-abilia—including dozens of notebooks containing everything from lyrics to tour information and a to-do list that lists “extra garage door openers”—for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit “From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen.” Best item: an orange composition book with lines on the cover for the owner to fill in a name, address, and subject. The spaces read: “Bossinheimer Jones / Cool Street / Your Mama.”
Oh Bruce.

Aww and the E Street version of the Hava Nagila started up just as I finished pasting. ♥

BTW if any of you are still not watching Friday Night Lights, I am pretty sure you might be a terrorist. THERE IS ACTUAL, VISIBLE, SUSTAINED CHARACTER GROWTH, YOU GUYS. THERE ARE WOMEN WHO AREN'T CARDBOARD CUTOUTS AND/OR SOON-TO-BE-DEAD. THERE ARE BOYS WITH MANPAIN WHO CRY AND HOLD HANDS BUT AREN'T OBNOXIOUS AND RIDICULOUS AND BASTARDY ABOUT IT. *___________*

ETA
FYI [info]austen is a genius:
[info]apocabigbang
 
 
what: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Hava Nagila
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
16 September 2009 @ 06:05 pm
Oh, would you look at the time.



I put in some requests here, which I already regret because omfg now the ideas won't stop.

Link me to yours? I want to do some writing and I'm a little intimidated by being surrounded by all those SPN requests.


I was hoping to get the Vengeance sequel finished before the s3 Big Bang Theory premiere but Leonard has derailed me with his emo. :( And I realized that I need to get my SGA big bang into some kind of actual story form since it's due in two weeks OH GOD WHAT. Which is why I signed up for another challenge? D:
 
 
what: Tony Lucca - Devil Town
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
16 August 2009 @ 12:36 am
Part the first
It's kind of amazing how many tags there are in this journal that start with 'lol'

New layout here, btw. It's one that's been up before but I've randomly decided that I like it again after making minor changes. Including how the hell to get the right security icons to show up. It's still doing something weird where it dumps the comments down below the tags list that I can't figure out how to fix atm and refuse to give up on no matter how frustrating it is. O hay I think it's fixed now! But some post on my everything-ever flist filter is pushing everything below it under the tags list. Ugh ugh ugh.

That's the magic of not wanting to work on these sales kits that are ridiculously overdue \o/?

Part the second
I am bound and determined to get this stupid SGA Big Bang story done by the deadline (September something, I should really look this up). It's massively AU, like, even more than In the Hollow Tree ended up being (and is sadly not in that universe). Is anyone willing to look at it as it goes along to tell me if it's as shit as it feels? BECAUSE IT FEELS REALLY SHIT. Ugh, I've completely abandoned my outline and all I can come up with are little snippets that don't even belong in the narrative.

Like:
"So, a Goa'uld, a Wraith and a Communist walk into a bar."

"Technically, a Goa'uld would inch into the bar..."

"Yes, thank you. Technicalities are so important to drunken humor."

"...that was humor?"
Which delights me because I love all snippy!Rodneys but argh. DO YOU HEAR ME I SAID ARGH.

Uh so now that I've made it sound so enticing, would anyone be willing to go on a filter or to friend my test journal?
 
 
what: lol billy ocean on my last.fm
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
OH HAY WHAT'S THAT, IS IT A &TAAAAAAYLORS; ICON?

Working in the office yesterday did not get better, but it broke in the middle for delicious North Carolina-style pulled pork sandwiches (om nom nom) and ended with a Team Meeting of Fake Bad News and Pretend Scary Possibilities (aka Ha Ha), cupcakes, and leaving early.

\o/

Unfortunately, I continue to feel like I have the flu. THE SWINE FLU OMG. No, not really. OKAY MAYBE.

Oh yeah, and I woke up yesterday morning to a flat tire. Because there's a giant freaking screw stuck in it. So now I'm completely confused about whether to get it patched and rotated to the back, go ahead and buy two new tires because that one and its pair are practically bald (srsly the treads are almost level with the wear bars), or just suck it up and get four new tires since I've never had them rotated and they're all original to the car and almost 50,000 miles old and wearing thin. Bank account says patch, but panicky!inner-self says get four new tires or you'll die. What to do, what to do.

Today I also plan to do a fuckton of laundry, watch FNL, and some other stuff that I've already forgotten. Damn, I just had it. Oh yes, win the Powerball jackpot because working is for losers. Oh! And work on my SGA Big Bang fic because I just broke 15000 last week, which means only another 25000 to go oh lord save me.
 
 
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
[info]the_wanlorn continues to enable me in all things time-wasty! ~~SO CAN YOUUUUU~~

in which she opens a big ol' can of worms, or Top five favorite fic cliches )

I love doing these five things. More?

eta
Is anyone getting comment notifications at all? THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY.
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
19 March 2009 @ 08:30 am
  1. new completed stories
    1. In the Hollow Tree, Part One | Part Two
      Stargate Atlantis (Teyla/Rodney): PG-13
      "You are not going to use us as bait," Teyla said, keeping her voice as even and mild as she could. The notes were hard to decipher, many of them written by hands shaky with too much coffee or adrenaline or fear. The lab reports were easier to follow: copious amounts of blood from only one donor were left at each scene. In each case, there was enough blood present that the victim's survival without immediate medical attention was unlikely.
      AU for [info]telesilla as part of the [info]sticksandsnark ficathon. She gave me the prompt "Teyla and Rodney investigate supernatural events (cameos by other SGA characters a plus!)" and I actually managed to hit both!

    2. The Plato's Stepchildren Gambit
      The Big Bang Theory (Penny/Sheldon): R
      The knocking started just as Dream Keanu Reeves took the flute of champagne out of Dream Penny's hand and leaned down to kiss her on his penthouse balcony. With a groan, Real-life Penny dragged herself off the couch and yanked open the door.
      Started from a prompt set on the Porn Battle, but it grew to ridiculous proportions. Set in the same universe as Fascinating.
 
 
what: Hank Williams - Lonesome Blues
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
16 March 2009 @ 03:07 pm
[info]perspi wrote A Path of Stars (Teyla/Rodney, R) for me for [info]sticksandsnark 2009 and I want to fold it up and carry it around in my pocket for days. *___*

Work? What work??
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
16 March 2009 @ 08:58 am
I couldn't fall asleep last night until I posted my [info]sticksandsnark entry. BECAUSE I'M INSANE.

Anyway, it's at my fic journal in two parts (here and here) if you want to see why I couldn't shut up about it for weeks. Unfortunately, I still might not shut up about it because a) I wrote a casefile! I've always wanted to write a casefile! :D, b) depending on the time of day, it's either pretty good or the worst thing ever written, and c) did I mention that it's a casefile? 16000 words of casefile! Oh brain. :(

(Also, can I say just how much I love that the first six sticksandsnark entries for this year used Teyla icons? ♥!)

Ugh, Mondays. I've only been here for like 15 minutes and already I want to nailbat everyone in the company. Shocking, isn't it? It also doeesn't help that I left home without my laptop this morning and didn't realize it until about the 3/4 mark in the commute. >:(

But I changed my default icon and now I have my one and only OT3 to distract me all day! &them;

eta
DDD: but that explains so much. D:

eta again
Oh please by all means go ahead and re-tool my job responsibilities so that you take away the only low-impact, low-effort project that is still actually enjoyable! I love having only the high priority omgdoitnow things that are a pain to work on!
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
15 March 2009 @ 11:00 pm
I have decided that Leonard Cohen is who Ozymandias would be if he were a singer instead of a megalomaniacal masked hero.

[info]julie_reads is beta'ing my SGA fic* and just called me in her room to ask what the characters look like, since she's never seen the show. Apparently the whole time she's been reading, she's been imagining Dan Dreiberg as Rodney. Which is apparently what I was also doing for most of it.

And then I showed her a picture of David Hewlett and her only response was, "Him? Really?"

BRB LOLING FOREVER.


* I say beta but it's really her reading it and telling me repeatedly that she never wants to watch the show. So, not all that much beta'ing really.
 
 
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
We went out for drinks after work yesterday, which was nice because off-the-record bitch session but not nice because it would be so much more awesome if any of us had lives to talk about outside of work. (I kind of wish I'd gone with Movie Buddy to see Watchmen again but any frame of mind in which you could possibly think "Man, it would be awesome if Rorschach broke into our company HQ!" is not a good frame of mind in which to watch the movie. Plus, her husband probably would have cried if I'd asked to take back my ticket. Also, I still am angryfacing over Hayter's open letter douchebaggery.)

Anyway, after that I had a very lovely pity party for myself for about half an hour (also I played with new makeup, including green eyeliner and shadow, to give myself ST:TOS eyes. Seriously, you could have filmed me in extreme closeup with Vaseline all over the lens as I stared adoringly at [random crew member] on a pastel-skyed planet. It was fabulous.), then put on &Patti;'s last.fm station (it plays Little Steven! ♥) and got down to finishing the exchange fic.

WHICH AS OF TEN MINUTES AGO IS NOW PRETTY MUCH DONE.

\o/

It's 13,000+ words of hopefully entertaining casefile kind of stuff! I'll spend the rest of the weekend working on edits so it's ready for my recipient come Monday but did I mention THAT YOU WON'T HAVE TO HEAR ME WHINING ABOUT IT ANYMORE.

I'm putting it up on a filtered post this afternoon for the Lovely Volunteer Betas - if you'd like a look too, let me know.

And now I will play some ridiculously wonderful live ESB tracks and clean the bathroom in celebration! \o/ \o/ \o/

Oh yeah, and wait impatiently for this soup to be done (recipe under cut) )
 
 
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
09 March 2009 @ 04:19 pm
I have two fics ready for a beta this week:

  1. The Big Bang Theory (Penny/Sheldon)
    3000 words, PG-13? Possibly R
    Set in vaguely the same universe as the Porn Battle snippet from last month

  2. Stargate Atlantis (Teyla/Rodney)
    10,000+ words (WTAF), PG-13
    Due for the [info]sticksandsnark exchange on Monday
Both need a grammar/mechanics check (I admit to having a very serious comma abuse problem), and the SGA one needs hardcore plot-hole poking. It's the first long-form plotty fic I've ever managed to complete in one go, but I don't want to say anything about it here since it's an exchange fic.

Anyone who could help out with either? *bats eyes*
 
 
what: Hallelujah is kind of ruined for me now :(
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
28 November 2008 @ 06:35 pm
Dear god I have a fuckton of tags. I spent an entire disc of Bones last night cleaning them up and only managed to delete ~50. D:

Speaking of Bones, is this fandom the new XF? On my admittedly limited fic searches, all I ever find is Brennan/Booth and most of it is bordering on Chris Carter-style VOICEOVERS OF DOOM philosophical and parenthetical intellihet. (Does that even make sense?)

And because I'm always on the lookout for more fic and ways to pimp it, a meme revival!

If you see this, post three recs in your journal - any three recs - that you think don't get enough attention. They don't have to be the three best ever works of fiction or art, just something that you would like to see get noticed.
Now with 100% more apocalypse!
  1. In the Time to Come by [info]intl_princess: West Wing, Toby, CJ. This is gut-wrenching and funny and so easy to imagine.
  2. This Is What Happened by [info]whitetower: Sarah Connor Chronicles. All I know about the Terminatorverse comes from the movies, but this fic makes me want to watch the show.
  3. The Man in the Elevator by [info]samdonne: SGA/Doctor Who. Just a tasty little fic starter that brings together two of my favorite fandoms.
eta
OMG I just stumbled on a treasure trove of NCIS fic and ♥_♥. I love my guilty pleasure semi-secret fandom.
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
03 April 2008 @ 06:35 pm
I am going to get to 15,000 words this weekend if it's the only thing I do.

Unrelated: I wish there were a way to put my Netflix queue on shuffle.

Even more unrelated: Why am I suddenly shipping Lorne/Novak and Ronon/Heightmeyer? Jumper/Zelenka probably has more fic (and canon evidence) than the two of those combined.

Slightly related to the second unrelated bit: TERRY JONES: MEDIEVAL LIVES \o/
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
22 March 2008 @ 05:57 pm
It's official. I LOVE DAVID HEWLETT OMG. Also, Kate because aldjfkljd;klfj HOW ARE THEY SO AWESOME.

You should rent A Dog's Breakfast so you can love them too!

eta
WTF. Why is there something from The Daily Diva, called "Don't Date Him, Girl!", in my inbox? Gmail, I think we need to talk. >:(

This just came up on my Netflix recommendeds and I got really confused by the cover. Because I thought it was this. Because I'm apparently half-blind. Also this laptop monitor is crap.
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
a) My shoulder hurts. Randomly.

b) An empty office + working after-hours + SUPER JUNIOR ON MY IPOD :D :D = A+++++++++++ GOOD TIMES

c) The cleaning guy's a little creepy, though.

d) A chicken salad sandwich with bacon on it != a delicious lunch, contrary to what you might believe about the awesomeness of the idea. I speak from experience here.

e) It's a little worrying that a new HP movie, not to mention a new series of Who, isn't rousing any kind of squee in me at all. What happened to us, O Formerly Favored Fandoms? :(

f) Oh, right. SGA ♥_♥

g) This jackass I'm (virtually) working with had better call me back soon before I wind up spending the whole night here with the creepy, Christina Aguilera-listening, cleaning guy.

h) D:

eta
i) Has my journal always done this weird justified text thing?

j) SRSLY, GUY. CALL ME WITH THE INFO SO I CAN GO HOME OMFG.
 
 
what: if the vacuum stops whirring, i'm making a run for it