isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
22 December 2009 @ 04:04 pm
Please to ignore all the whining I've been doing because Yuletide has actually been a lot of fun. Finished my two assigned fics, have been lucky enough to beta five really fabulous fics so far, and have a list of things to do as treats as soon as I'm done with my swapfic. (Now if only I could snag one of these pinch hits...)

If anyone's interested in doing a treat for me (WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE), my Yuletide letter is here. This year with the archive moving to AO3, treat-writing is open to everyone even if you didn't sign up for Yuletide. All you need is an AO3 account (which you can request here)!

How much longer til Madness starts? *twitches*
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
21 December 2009 @ 05:14 pm
Stolen from [info]dashakay!

The year's not quite over yet but now's as good a time as any to do an annual fic round-up. First one ever, I think?

All of the fic written this year is under the year: 2009 tag at [info]ishieland, or you can find it organized by fandom here in this journal.

I need to come up with a better way to index all that stuff. Maybe I should make the leap to AO3?

By the numbers: )

And a little Q&A about my writing this year )
 
 
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
20 December 2009 @ 11:52 pm
I'M DONE WITH MY YULETIDE ASSIGNMENTS THANK THE FUCKING LORD.

I tell you what, I did not expect it to be this harrowing. I mean, harrowing, yes. But this harrowing? WHAT ON EARTH WAS I THINKING. Don't get me wrong, both of my fandoms and prompts were seriously fun to play with. It's just the whole OMG PRESSURE aspect.

...man I srsly want to see what someone wrote for me right now. :D :D :D
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
14 December 2009 @ 12:39 pm
of interest to no one but me )

The good news is that thanks to Yuletide and the kink meme, I'm going to end the year over my wordcount goal.

\o/

Also tomorrow is my birthday and I am going to celebrate with a cheesesteak for lunch. YAIS.
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
[info]danceinacircle thank you for the v-gift! That is srsly the most adorable Cthulu I've ever seen. ♥

Okay, I know that not many people actually read this eljay anymore because a) boring, b) spammy, and c) apparently my brain now belongs to Big Bang Theory.

But!

I am really panicky about my second Yuletide fic and need to step away from it (and BBT, let's be honest here) for a while. So if you see this, would you be so kind as to drop me a prompt/fandom/character/pairing?

Anything's fine - in fact if it's a fandom I don't know, it might be a nice challenge to try writing it based solely on hive-vagina/osmotic knowledge? IDEK WTF I'M SAYING OR DOING OH GOD YULETIDE PRESSURE DDDDDD:

Um, but right now I have to take out the trash. So. Yeah. HALP.
 
 
what: Sea Wolf - You're a Wolf | Powered by Last.fm
 
 
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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
 
 
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01 December 2009 @ 08:04 pm
THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME


Also! I am going to do holiday cards tomorrow during the day so I can pretend it's a good reason to not work. Want one?

Now is the time when I dance boot up the Write or Die. \o/ SOMEONE DISTRACT ME WITH SHINY THINGS PLZ

ELIZABETH I AM BEING A TOTAL CREEPER ON YOUR LAST.FM RADIO AGAIN *_*

ORITE ALSO WORLD AIDS DAY. I donated at amfAR because they are basically the only AIDS charity I know of that doesn't have bizarre publicly-stated goals or potentially weird spending habits. Like, I appreciate that (RED) is all about awareness but sometimes I don't get how things like turning Twitter red for a day is really going to do all that much.

And I wanted to donate in honor of a local doctor who specializes in HIV/AIDS treatment and also in transgender patient care, but amfAR wouldn't let me do it without putting in an email address so they could tell him about it, and I don't have his email address. So, DR BARRY MCCORKLE, YOU ARE AN AWESOME AND WONDERFUL MAN AND I WISH YOU MANY MANY YEARS OF PROVIDING QUALITY AND COMPASSIONATE CARE.
 
 
 
 
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22 November 2009 @ 02:18 pm
Posted two ficlets and a monster 20k fic this week:

Kafka, Schmafka
PG; 20,000 words in two parts; Penny/Sheldon, Howard, Missy, Raj, Leonard
Total, utter crackfic with accidental plot. \o/
Raj made a strangled noise and pointed at Howard's back where two lumps were visible under the purple and black stripes of his sweater, just above the familiar protrusions of his bony shoulder blades. Howard reached for the plug end of the power cable, pulling the sweater tight across his narrow back. When he did, the lumps twitched and wiggled like something alive was trapped under the fabric.


ERROR!
PG; 325 words; Sheldon
Post-ep for the 3x08 drabblethon on [info]sheldon_penny
(she is clearly in no mood to hear about the usefulness of rain protection vis-à-vis aquatic birds but the entire situation seems to have been recreated in its entirety from unguarded moments he cannot deal with while she is naked and wet and helpless; when taken all together it momentarily short-circuits at least four major functions of his thought processes)


untitled
G; 265 words; Community ensemble
Just playing with their voices to see if I want to do more in this fandom

Pierce Hawthorne was a self-made man, a true American success story. Like Bill Gates. Or PT Barnum. Or those oil guys with the big hats.


And I don't know if I've mentioned it, but OMFG &COMMUNITY; *_______* I want Troy & Abed & Señor Chang to just be hilarious at me every week.
 
 
 
 
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17 November 2009 @ 10:07 am
I'm done pretending I write any fandoms other than BBT at this point and I'm surprisingly okay with that.

Newest fic!
It's Been One Week; PG13; Penny/Leonard & Penny/Sheldon; written pre-last night's ep & was based on promo spoilers but holds up pretty well I think. I hope!
By Tuesday, Sheldon had apparently decided to unilaterally ban all round or spherical fruits, vegetables, and baked goods from the apartment, except for any cookie deliveries that might come from his mom or meemaw.
Jesus, I really need to sort out what else I have due before the end of the year. Have I flailed yet about my Yuletide assignment? Because I freaking love my Yuletide assignment now that the initial wave of OMG PANIC has receded!

FYI I WILL NEVER STOP LISTENING TO GARTH BROOKS AGAIN BECAUSE I FORGOT HOW MUCH I LOVE HIM.
 
 
what: Garth Brooks - Baton Rouge | Powered by Last.fm
 
 
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13 October 2009 @ 05:58 pm


O HALP I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT I WAS GOING TO NOMINATE FOR YULETIDE THIS YEAR.

HALP.
 
 
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03 October 2009 @ 03:19 pm
:D  
[info]apocabigbang signups start today! For writers | For artists/vidders/fanmixers

I think I'm going to finally do my Massive Crossover of Doom instead of just picking at various pieces of scenes. And the schedule for this Big Bang is totally relaxed - first drafts aren't due until February, and the minimum is 10K words. Maybe I'll do more than one story!

Now it is time to finally sit down and watch s1 of Mad Men! We are going to eat lots of red meat and potatoes and drink delicious cocktails and probably at some point I will attempt to fashion a cigarette holder out of some sort of flammable product \o/
 
 
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28 September 2009 @ 10:24 am
I am officially dropping out of SGA Big Bang. I couldn't make the story work and honestly had no desire to kick my own ass long enough to figure out why. So, for NaNo! :D? :D? :(

It's the end of the financial quarter, which means free lunches! Free Lunch Week is a beautiful thing. Even better than surprise!cake, because there is more of it, but not surprise!cupcakes because a) surprise! and b) cupcakes! and c) sometimes those chalky disc-shaped sprinkles! However it doeesn't make me as sleepy at the end of the day. Just the normal post-lunch sleepy without the added bonus of "why don't I keep a toothbrush in my desk for the high-sugar days?"

Fic rec!
I am a complete mess when it comes to actually reading email these days, so luckily [info]wandersfound sent the link for this on Twitter instead! She wrote this fic for me and it is sheer genius: The Bear Planet, Dwight is the Doctor's companion. NGL IT IS PRETTY MUCH THE MOST PERFECT REPRESENTATION OF THAT IDEA THAT COULD POSSIBLY EXIST. EVER.

The weather has turned to autumn overnight, pretty much. A big thunderstorm rolled in last night and temperatures dropped about 10° F, so now everyone is bitching about having to pull the heavy sweaters back out of storage. THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE BECAUSE HEAVY SWEATER WEATHER > ALL OTHER SWEATER. I MEANT WEATHER. WHAT.

Still listening to Sarah Harmer's Almost on a loop.

Don't send help. ♥_♥

Oh hay wait, do send help. Boss and Fail!coworker appear to be about to come to blows. Soothe them with folky Canadian singer-songwriters y/mfy/just gtfo to lunch early?
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
So basically I've written about 12000 words in the past week in various fics.

Please note that not a one of them was for the SGA Big Bang that's due on Tuesday and is nowhere near done. Lol whoops. It would be really nice if my brain would acknowledge that there are other fandoms besides BBT. I'M JUST SAYING.

Also if it would recognize when a fic is as done as it's going to get instead of making me pick over it endlessly.

Drunken capslocking last night was lots of fun! I think that needs to repeat sometime in the near future.

Today I am fleabombing the porch and trying to figure out how to set up litterboxes* so that we're not assaulted with the grossness every day. Yay cats! :(

eta
You know what? Screw you, Canada. You have way too many awesome acoustic folky rock singer songwriter people who make me want to draw hearts all over my laptop. >:(

*Not that we didn't have litterboxes set up before, just that I can never figure out where to put them so the cats don't stink us out of the house every day. 25+ years of living with cats, you'd think I'd have this down by now.
 
 
 
 
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18 September 2009 @ 09:48 pm
moan  
This weekend is all about 1) cleaning the basement because it is gross, and 2) a last ditch effort at getting my SGA Big Bang story in shape to hopefully meet the 40,000 word mark by the end of the month.

And of course, 3) pretending that I'm not actually sick.

It is not looking good, flist. :(

eta
I am bored and lonely. ;_;
Tags: ,
 
 
what: Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Shampoo
 
 
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
 
 
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I literally cannot stop listening to Elvis Perkins. There's this line in How's Forever Been Baby that goes "and it was let's fell our withering tree / it bloomed in the rushes and debris" and it basically makes me go completely insane. Goosebumps and shivering and tears in my eyes. I don't think I've ever reacted to an album like this before, and six months after hearing it for the first time, I'm still reacting like this. Wtaf. Even thirteen year old me wasn't this ridiculous. (Okay, seriously, go watch this video for Shampoo and tell me it doesn't make you want to carry Elvis Perkins around in your pocket forever and ever and draw broken hearts all over everything and feed him little sandwiches.)

And can I just tell you how fucking much I love three-day weekends? I've been up ridiculously late every night and slept not at all enough and it's just glorious.

Also I have had some ideas floating around for the last month that didn't make it in to Vengeance in the end and there is no possible way I can just leave that AU alone, so, sequel! Which I am hoping beyond hope to complete before the season opener Josses it all to hell and back!

Here is a ridiculously large portion of the beginning! )

Oh Leonard. :(

I failed at replies yesterday but those are coming! And there is a comics reference post coming at some point this weekend also. Hopefully! Because there is also painting the garage and lazing about the house like a big, lazy, obsessing-over-melancholic-singer-songwriters person to do.

Augh I really need to snap out of it and get some work done on the SGA Big Bang. Check-in on the 20th! lkajf;lajds;lfkj;askdjf
 
 
what: Elvis Perkins - Shampoo | Powered by Last.fm
 
 
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01 September 2009 @ 08:53 am
Once I'm done with The Vengeance Paradox, I really need to finish my [info]femgenficathon entry because I have to get busy on the [info]sgabigbang fic (oh god what was I thinking).

The femgen one is Teyla-centric, set way before In the Hollow Tree but in that same AU with possibly a random crossover character or two. What can I say, I loves the crack. Anyone want to take a turn at beta'ing?

And now I'm at work and with nothing pressing on the agenda because I had to clear my calendar for a big call later this morning, and because all my end of the month stuff is done.

Clean off my desk* and finish hanging the new Dorothea Lange posters I did last night on the big plotter printer, or wander around the office looking for supplies I can add to my stockpile (I'm down to only 10 pads of post-its! the horror!)?


* and by clean off my desk, I mean shift around some of the many many piles of paper before getting bored and checking email obsessively.

eta
It's probably a bad sign that my reaction to finding out the Executive is going to be in the office all week instead of jetting around is: ;_________;
 
 
what: Bruce Springsteen - Tougher Than The Rest
 
 
isn't it enough to know that i ruined a pony?
31 August 2009 @ 08:57 am
Whoops I forgot all about doing day 7 of that week-in-the-life meme. Considering that I didn't leave the house at all yesterday, you're probably better off.

Here's a round-up of all the new fic posted since the last time I did a round-up. In reverse chronological order, just because. And yes, that new BBT fic is now in three parts. *headdesk*

holy shit this needs a cut )
 
 
what: conference call of doooooooom
 
 
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