( A Guide to my Tags )

And here's my recs list, finally! These are the fics that I come back to again and again, some of the classics, some that were milestones in my fic experience, some that are just incredible.
( Two DBZ recs )

( Harry Potter recs, miscellaneous )

( Harry Potter recs, H/D and Shoebox )

There's more, to be done at a later date.




Someday I may post a master list of my own work. That day is a long way away.

At what point do you give in to inevitability?

Really, I'd like to hear your thoughts.

I'm too lazy to go copy the original instructions, but I remember the essence: comment and I'll ask you five questions, then you answer them in your own post and ask others five questions each!

I stole this first from nuclearsugars, who asked me about ( languages, HP, respect, childhood, and quotes. )

And then furiosity asked me one more:
Did your idea of what you wanted to be when you grew up change a lot in childhood? Either way, what did you want to be? :D
All the time! Mostly I settled on "vet," because it was easy to tell people and I did love animals. (Still do. Mostly only cats though. Dogs are smelly, most times.) I remember, I am still so frustrated by this! I had the PERFECT idea one day, I think I was falling off to sleep, it was EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED, and then the next day I couldn't remember! I still can't remember. Anyway, yeah, point is, I've never really known what I wanted and I still don't.

And All The King's Men by Mijan.

It takes solid ST:TOS canon (No spoilers, Scarlett; I happen to know you've seen all relevant episodes) and Jim Kirk and the Reboot and blends them together into the best damn Trek fic you have ever read.

You could read it as slash or pre-slash but it is so, so, so much better as gen. Says me, so you know there's gotta be some pretty incredible gen there.

Read it read it read it read it read it!

"immortality? i didn't
have a choice,
mister; I am a
rock."

immortality?

Not really.

Here's what happened: At the reception (everyone in much more informal clothing), there was a guy wearing black slacks and a red coat with black over the shoulders--or at least, that's what it looked like from the angle I was at--his back was to me, turned a little to one side.

Also, he was bald on top and had white hair around the sides and back.

In short? He looked EXACTLY like one Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Best part was that this guy was the groom.

( More real-life updates, and a brief discussion of NaNoWriMo. )

(Crossposted to hd_500, rs_500, and lap_otter)

Because I know that many Potter fans have also become Star Trek fans:

If I were to create a third community along the same vein as rs_500 and hd_500, something like KS_500 (for Kirk/Spock), KM_500 (Kirk/McCoy) or even just ST_500 (for anything gen, het, or slash), would you be interested?

Would you be interested in assisting me in its moderation?

Would you be interested in assisting me in the moderation of any or all of these communities?

I know I'm often pretty slow about getting sign-ups out and distributing prompts, which would be the purpose of having others assist me--even being on standby so that you can post sign-ups if for whatever reason I'm not able to. The downside of moderating would, of course, be that any month you mod, you can't participate.

Let me know what you think! I'm fairly excited about the idea.

FUCK ME. FUCK MY LIFE. FUCK MY DOG.

(I don't actually have a dog.)

So I put together a beef stew recipe, and yeah, stew isn't supposed to have a ton of liquid, but you'd think while it's cooking it would at least COVER THE POTATOES. >:(

So I was commenting on mijan's post to tell her some bar jokes (sorry, Mijan, I'll have to tell you them some other time, I'm not in the mood tot ype them all out again) and somehow "enter enter" or "alt-tab" or SOME totally innocuous button combination fucking CLOSED MY OPERA. On which I keep several tabs open at once.

FOR EXAMPLE, ALL THE FIC THAT WAS ON MY TO-READ LIST.

So, sorry, hd_career_fair, I am not going to read you this year. And if someone could send me a link to dark_branwen's Draco/Luna fic, the longer one--that is the only fic on my to-read list that I actually have some emotional investment in. It may have been her Summersmut fic, I'm not sure, all I know is I was supposed to read it.

The only bright spot in all of this is that I don't have time to whine about it any further because I have to drive my little brother to Target. Which may not seem like a super big deal to any of you, but here's the awesome part:

I CAN DRIVE. TO PLACES. BY MYSELF. IN MY CAR. MY CARRRRRR. MY LICENSEEEEE. I HAVE THEMMMMM.

Plus, I got a call from the guy that's going to hire me, and he said "We'll try to call you back by this Friday. I hope you're still available by then, but I understand that you gotta do what you gotta do."

SO HERE IS THIS BAG. AND HERE IS THE JOB. YOU CANNOT SEE IT, FOR THE OUTSIDE OF THE BAG IS IN THE WAY.

So yeah! LINK ME TO THAT FIC, I NEED IT lIKE BURNING.

Stolen from mijan and fiona_fawkes.

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.

2) Have your f-list guess your favorite character/member from each item.

3) When someone guesses correctly, strikethrough the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.


So, here's my list of books, movies, TV shows, and so on:

1. Gyakuten Saiban (Phoenix Wright 1-3, Apollo Justice)
2. Star Trek (TOS)
3. Star Trek (TNG)
4. Star Trek (Voyager)
5. Star Trek (Reboot) (I KNOW, IT IS A SHOCK)
6. Harry Potter
7. Dragon Ball Z (Dragonball and Dragonball GT excluded)
8. Wicked
9. Mythbusters
10. Pokemon (I'll give you a hint: don't pick humans.)
11. Yu Yu Hakusho
12. Rurouni Kenshin
13. The Princess Bride
14. Stranger in a Strange Land
15. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

That's all... Some of those were a stretch anyway, and a lot of them will come down to total random guessing.

Shoot, now I need to figure out who all my favorites are....

There is a wonderful thing that I get from my friends in the Clan that I just don't get anywhere else--not from my family, and not even from fandom.

( Cut for long, and also really no one cares. )

By the way, Clan? You all are pretty fucking great. You don't know how grateful I am to have you.

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Also, fannish top five meme 'cause I feel like it. Ask away!

...I feel like I've been spamming you, flist. How do you feel about it?

Pimping this contest so as to gain more entries into it:

http://annemariewrites.livejournal.com/30365.html

It is a giveaway of The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan, plus an interveiw, plus a Question For Readers. I have to say, I couldn't even think of a single literary twist that wasn't TDL--I guess the books I read are just too straightforward.

"I don't mind straight people, as long as they act gay in public."

Would you wear a T-shirt that was:

-Pink?
-Silkscreened in black with that quote?
-Available in any size?
-Also available in a babydoll tee?
-Priced at $17?

If you would wear it but wouldn't pay $17 for it, what WOULD you pay? Would you pimp it so that others might buy it?

In addition, if you say "I would buy this!" I will expect you to, you know, actually buy one when they get made. Not that there's obligation, or that I'd think less if you if you didn't, it would just be a major pain in the ass if thirty people said "FUCK YES I WOULD BUY THAT" and then we got three orders. So, I mean, it'd be helpful if you said either "I'd buy that" or "I might buy that" or "I won't buy that."

( Mah Friends And Me, We Had Sum Funz )

Also, on an unrelated note, WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO SPOILER CUTS? I get that you guys are excited about Merlin, but seriously, WE HAVEN'T ALL ALREADY SEEN IT. [lj-cut text="Merlin season 2 spoilers ahead!"]YOUR MERLIN SQUEE HERE[/lj-cut]. It's not that hard. Do it.

Ysabeaux Pearls on deviantART

This is me and my mom! (Ysabeaux, pronounced is-a-bow, was one of the names Papa rejected for me. Raeyaunna (ray-on-ah) is what Mumsi went by when she was a teenager.) Every week we'll put up a new original design (design it on Saturday, knot it on Sunday, scan&post on Monday, rinse & repeat) and sell it for $30 or less--basically, cost of materials+labor. We also do commissions, although the only commission up is the WIPs. (The lack of verb-noun agreement as far as plurality goes is because it is only one commission; there are two WIP shots.) That was the one I did for livelongnmarry. Unfortunately, I don't have any completed pictures of that necklace; I mailed it off before I scanned it. Stupid of me. But you can tell how gorgeous it is anyway.

Anyway. I'm feeling pretty accomplished lately: I have a car, I have two potential jobs, and I've got this extracurricular activity that is going to bring me in some extra spending money. Granted, Mumsi's provided all the capital so far, but I'm providing most of the labor so we'll split the profits, and then I'll be able to funnel that back in to materials.

Sad panda times, though--there were some gorgeous deep royal blue (trace-element free, drawn before anything else and in order according to the color of the labels) pearls at Craft Warehouse. Two strands for ten bucks--too much, according to Mama. We get most of our pearls for four bucks or less a strand, so I can see where she's coming from.

Anyway, neat stuff. I'm pleased. Check it out! (Make a commission!)

So today was the day of my interveiw, scheduled for 9:30. Woke up, frantic running around, gotta go gotta go do I have everything am I gorgeous (I was) is my suit straight have I got cat hair on it time to go!

And we left, and we drove, and an hour later we were five minutes away (and early :D) when the interveiwer calls me, tells me that something came up and one of his vital panelists (it's a panel interveiw) won't be able to make it so can we do it next Tuesday instead?

Well of course I say yes, but it's a bit of a bummer. Except oh, now we can press the collar of that shirt, and I'll have more time to study my answers, and won't have to do the interveiw on Not Enough Sleep (I got to bed at about two or three AM, woke up at 7:20). So honestly, I'm a little relieved--even that the call came late enough that I can't go back to sleep in good conscience. It'll be on this coming Tuesday--still early morning, though.

So anyway, we're heading to Goodwill to "see if we can find a better blouse"--I love the one we found yesterday, though--and the guy from the OTHER Providence job calls me. Not that he hasn't called me several times before, it's just that we've always gotten each other's voicemail. So I sceduled an interveiw with HIM on Monday at one. Two interveiws, two days.

Somebody is kicking butt at this whole "getting a phlebotomy job" thing.

:D

Fuck if I can even remember what I did there. So don't expect anything from me. (But if anyone got any pictures of the TF2 Harry!Spy, that'd be awesome. Do want.)

*noms Nerds*

So anyway, a bit of a real-life update. ( This is boring, you don't really want to read it. )

( AND ALSO MY JOB STATUS. )

( AND ALSO MY CAR. MY NEW CAR THAT I HAVE. I HAVE ONE. )

SO YEAH BASICALLY THIS POST WAS TO SQUEE ABOUT MY NEW CAR AND MY NEW JOB THAT I DON'T HAVE OFFICIALLY YET BUT YEAH THESE TOKENS ARE THE JOB AND THIS BAG IS, WELL, A BAG AND THE TOKENS ARE IN THE BAG. AND BY THAT I MEAN. THIS JOB IS IN THE BAG. I HAVE A CAR AND AN ALMOST JOB GUYSSSSSSS! BE HAPPY WITH ME.

These are the things I wrote on the placemat while at dinner after seeing Trek for the second time with scarlet_malfoy and stitchesandlace.

-Hyphened list is exactly what I wrote.
Italics beneath are an expansion or explanation of the just-for-me shorthand I was using.

( Star Trek XI: The Second Veiwing (AKA Trak Rage) )

WHEW I am glad that is finally done. I've had that piece of paper in my purse since the night it happened.

IS COMING TO MY CITYYYYYY

This is not an informative post; you can go read about it at her journal sarahtales. (She is going to other places as well.) This is a to-do list for me.

1. Read the Uglies series by Scott Westerfield.
2. Buy a new copy of The Demon's Lexicon. (scarlet_malfoy WHERE IS MY MONEY)
3. Make others read it.
4. Make others buy it.
5. Make others come with me to the city

OKAY HELL, IF I FORGOT YOU I'M SORRY BUT SERIOUSLY LIKE A MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BIRTHDAYS ON THIS DAY WHY IS THAT.

*deep breath* Happy birthday to mijan, rio_keshi, emmagrant01, and last but never ever least (except when she is), She Who Must Not Be Named (And Has No LJ).