schmevil

You know what I'm really not looking forward to? Watchmen Movieverse fandom. Rorschach slash. Ozymandias slash. Comedian/Sally fic. YOU KNOW IT'S COMING. I'll be hiding in the library.

A friend came out to his best friend today, and the (happy) fallout of that took up several hours of my day. I'm so proud! He was shaky and scared, though his friend's reaction was positive. I've yet to get to a place where I'm entirely comfortable, so I understand - even the slightest hint of disapproval can send you into internal hysterics. We talked about school, and how it gives us a false sense of security that sets us up for one rude awakening after another. How many times can you get your hopes of Everything Being Ok, dashed, before you stop getting them up? We've made a shopping-and-lattes date for Monday.

I haven't seen much of any of my friends, as I've been working forty-four hours a week, and starting at six thirty AM, besides. While it's nice to end your work day at two in the afternoon, it does set you at odds with everyone else. Curses. I need a second job.

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I FINISHED MY REMIX! Actually, days ago, but as I haven't posted in ages, I'm just spreading the happy news now. I scorn emelerin and everyone else who's still working on their remixes. Losers. Wankers. Layabouts. *scoffityscoff*

The remix came close to killing me, but I've had more fun working on it than I have on anything else in... a scarily long time. Clearly I need a new Problem Fic to occupy my attention. Usually challenges do nothing for me, but the unique challenge that the remix represented, really piqued my interest. I'd rather like to remix other stories. *leers at flist*

Speaking of fic, I spent the afternoon spamming Skyehawke. emelerin was kind enough to offer invites to her flist, and I was bored enough to take her up on it. After uploading a good portion of my completed fic, I've realized something: clearly I don't write enough. I like the posting and editing interface - it's easy to use and not noticeably buggy. The search function is shite, but the site is still small enough for that not to matter. If anyone would like an invite, reply to this post.

Without the remix hanging over my head, I've no idea what to do with my alloted fandom time. I'm too busy, generally, to become involved with fora or archives, but I'm already bored. And none of my (manymanymany) WIPs are really grabbing me. Arithmancy and Flowers (the fic which would not die) is of course still there, like a cracked out, overweight, old gnat. Buzzing. But I need something new. Something to get passionate about. Perhaps even a new fandom. Ho hum.

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I've been bad about actually sitting down and watching my shows, of late. However. Today I watched a stack of Smallville tapes. And laughed. Then laughed more.

Young!Lex is a seriously, hardcore laugh-riot.

Everyone of the many times his wee, round face would scrunch up and he'd bawl, I died. This entry is being written by zombie!MHC. I died. Horrible acting, right down there with Lucas.

Is it wrong that I also snickered at Lionel's epiphany and screamed SUCKAH at the screen?

Randomly, Lex is a Gryffindor. There's nothing for it. My love was shaking, during the Belle Reve storyline, but it's been renewed.

And what can I say about Chloe in "Truth", except: ha! (Krabapple styles)

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Snapeboy update:

icarusancalion you'll be pleased to learn that he hates the Velvet Underground and thinks there's nothing better for a night of drinking, than the Sex Pistols. He admired my Ramones t-shirt as well. My hopes are high.

For bowdlerized.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Situation: love triangle involving Snape

( Youthful Enthusiasm )

For icarusancalion.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character(s): Percy/Snape or Percy, Snape
Subject: A certain upstanding young man is caught up in an illegal business.

( Puzzle Box )

Sorry to anyone who commented on the old entries. I thought three was too many, so rationalized.

For eilanhp. I hope you don't mind, but I couldn't seem to compress the idea any further.

Title: Tesseract
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Character(s): Percy Weasley
Words: 218
Percy receives his Christmas gift.

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For cedarlibrarian. Three times. Three ways. Sine qua non.

Title: Sine Qua Non
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Character(s): Harry, Ron, Hermione
Words: 300
In the final battle against Voldemort, Ron saves Harry.

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For aldalindil. I'm not sure about this one.

Title: Topos
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Character(s): Alastor, Minerva
Words: 100
Unrequited love.

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I have a ridiculous comment-backlog to catch up on. It's been the week of much commenting. Good thing I'm feeling decidedly boring today, as it gives me the time to just sit back, relax and argue with people. Woo.

I'm nearly done my JLA challenge stuff and it's... different from my usual fare. Two words: erotic asphyxiation. Also puppies, but that's a third word and it just screws up the balance of that sentence, you know? I would like to point out at this juncture that no, the puppies don't die, liviapenn. tstar78 has approved the drabble idea, so there.

My Gilesfic is stalled. I don't know why. I think I'm just intimidated by writing Giles during canon. The first part of the story is pre-Bufffy and focuses on his childhood and early adulthood. Writing Giles-Giles, Joss-Giles, though, is... terrifying. I'm not sure I'll be able to get the dialogue right and considering that the story focuses on my two favourite Jossverse characters, Giles and Buffy, I'm worried that I'll screw up their interaction irredeemably. It's hard to explain exactly why it's a concern in this case, if you haven't been one of the unlucky bastards audiencing for me. *waves at faith_accompli, tstar78 and rageprufrock. Soon lasultrix will be at my mercy as well. Mwa ha ha! If any of you feel like volunteering for torture by MHC fic, I'd be grateful. Not like, grateful enough to actually do anything for you, but grateful. And stuff.

I haven't had time to work on celli's birthday fic *shame*, but I have found some time for betaing lavenderoracle's fic.

It's all coming, I swear. ^_-

Um. Other than that I'm kind of bored.

Entertain me? *pokes*

Today I learned to tie cherry stems into knots with my tongue. We still have quite a few of them, so I can spend the week mastering my new skill. Very useful this will be, at parties. emelerin would do well to learn it, so she can entertain the geeks.

I also inspired pogrebin to make this icon. No, I will not tell how I exercised my compulsion to muse. And yes folks, to muse is now a valid verb, mostly because I say so and hell, it fits nicely with fan lingo in general.

All you HP fen who have yet to do so, need to read Riddling Thomas, by acadine, which I stumbled over in my hunt for responses to AS Byatt's piece on Harry Potter. By the way, if any of you can pass me the link to some other interesting responses, be they in fic or essay form, I would very much appreciate it.

Found an a thingy that gets rid of lj's hideous orange/purple/blue sire layout that also applies to the comment threads. Go here and switch it to XColibur. It's so much nicer.

My cousin, who I'm not close with, so don't bother offering *hugs*, has a two year old baby who does not walk or really even crawl with any kind of efficiency. It turns out that she has an unusually low ratio of grey to white brain matter, ie she just can't move, but she can think. She's a two year old girl of normal intelligence (they think) trapped in a near immobile body. It's possible that with therapy she'll be able to learn to walk and talk. Just imagine the interesting perspective she'll have.

ETA - 2 More things.

I registered for courses and since I was very, very late I had to take whatever I could get. Well.

Modern Canadian Fiction
Music and Society
Women and Politics
Public Law
Drama and Vision in the Middle Ages

I saw Pirates of the Caribbean and I loved it. So. Much. Fun. I ship Jack/Will/Elizabeth, with no variations thereof. None of this pansyass Jack/Will, or silly Jack/Elizabeth, or goofy Will/Elizabeth. They are a fabulous threesome and dammit, the movie should have ended with the three of them sailing into the sunset on the Black Pearl. You know that Will and Elizabeth wanted to go. It was in their eyes!

So I wrote some drabbles for liviapenn
Harry Potter. OotP spoilers

( Sirius/Remus in the house )

( Remus and Severus afterwards )

And then some more for celli
Smallville.

( Spaghetti. Rain. Chloe. )

( Video games. Happy. )

Drabble for wednesday100
100 words without the letter 'e'

Epistle

Days pass, quick as spring rains; slow as thick syrup in Montana - morning syrup you mix in with fruit, with sharp, surgical accuracy, or did.

That smirk - only yours - curls up half your mouth and you lick your lips, without thinking to do so. You clutch the spoon firmly in your fist, still with a hint of worry.

You don’t want to drop it.

You look up, cautious, only waiting for a half-familiar clump-clump down the stairs.

My skin grows folds and small, odd hollows. This morning I thought, I am hiding in my own skin.

I watch you wait.

Today I wrote my very first drabble ever. *sniff* The Sophist, for the Meaning of 'S' challenge at the wed100.

tstar78 and I started a new community, the_lioness, for discussion and fics about Lillian Luthor. Jooooooin us.

faith_accompli made me this new icon, as well as the community icon for the_lioness. Isn't she fantastic?