Lurker Central

So I'm sure some of you, like me, are not morning people. Today I discovered a never-fail way to be wide awake in the early morning hours!

Here's what you do: Get up. Yawn. Get the cat off the mantle. Take a nice, soothing shower. Turn off the water and discover that one of the knobs is loose and the hot water will not turn off OMG! Discover that no matter how much you turn the knob, the water keeps coming! This works extra well if your tub drains slowly and the water's coming so fast the water level starts getting high!

The final step is to make a panicked call to your landlord, trying not to drop your cell phone in the now almost-overflowing tub, then rush down to the basement in your robe to turn off the hot water to the entire house! If you follow these simple steps you may never in fact never sleep again!

*goes back to waiting for the plumber.*

Yesterday anyone who follows @mishacollins on twitter got this message yesterday:

You are a part of a movement, an uprising. You are now the very definition of civil unrest. Get ready to rumble. www.gishwhes.com

If you go to that site you get a field to enter in your email (and the most complicated captcha I've ever seen), then you receive an email from someone claiming to be Misha's "advisor" saying that you'll be contacted and to buckle up and enjoy the ride. I have no idea what any of that means. Also, the man now has my email. I have no regrets.:)

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Went out to look at cars today. Saw some decent prospects. We'll see how that goes.

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Should be fic tomorrow! stellamaris99 is kindly tearing two fics apart for me. Sadly one can't be posted until the end of the month, but the kink_bingo one should be good to go soonish!

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( spoilers for The Girl Who Waited )

So apparently we had an earthquake today? I didn't feel anything (and wouldn't have known anything had been amiss without twitter and my coworker's radio) but at least two people I work with decided to spend the last hour of the day complaining about how we weren't let out early and they "didn't feel safe." I complained on twitter that they were making us look bad in front of the west coast.

I know some of you are in the DC area. Everyone okay? *worries*

I'm behind, so lets do a few questions at once.

13 – Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

I...like both? I try hard to make my writing feel like canon but I'll use fanon if it fills in a blank (and, most importantly, if it amuses me.) For example, I like the fanon of Cas' wings being ridiculously sensitive and I've used his wings being black twice, although the reasons for them being black were different in each story.

14 – Ratings – how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?

I've written the gamut. I'd say the majority of my stuff hovers around PG-13.

15 – Warnings – What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a fic?

I try to warn for the big things - violence, torture, I haven't written non-con but I'd definitely warn for that, and I usually spoiler cut warnings. And I do warn for character death even if it's temporary (but again, spoiler cut) both because I don't feel the need to ruin someone's day unnecessarily and as an enticement. I know first hand sometimes you're just in the mood for an angsty death scene.:)

( The Other Days )

LJ! How I've missed you! *hugs!* I can answer comments!

DDOS attacks aside, I've been so buried in RL work that I haven't been able to touch my computer in days. That's going to be the state of affairs for this weekend too, sadly, but I'm carving out some happy internet/writing time tonight in the desperate hope I can get this story done.

I did have a remarkably good day. Nice, quiet, Got Stuff Done. I hate to say it, but I think that has a lot to do with the fact that my supervisor has been out for three days. I love the woman, I do, but she's a walking ball of stress and she makes everyone around her a ball of stress.

What else...ooh, yes, on Tuesday I came home to find the fairies had left Supernatural: the Anime on my doorstep (because my family loves me and wants me to be happy and enables my dorkiness). I haven't gotten the chance to do more than stare lovingly at the cover, but I'm looking forward to it. There's a good mix of anime original content mixed in the the episode retellings, and I can't tell you how pleased I am to have new sort-of canon to carry me through the long, long wait until Sept. 13. And honestly? I'm really interested in how Sam and Dean talk in Japanese. I've never seen a Western show translated into Japanese like this (plenty the other way around, of course) and I'm wondering if my guesses will be on target. I'm betting that Dean's the type to throw omae around when he's not playing a role, and I'm wondering if Sam will be using boku in the beginning and if that will change (the time span mixes seasons 1 & 2, ending with "All Hell Breaks Loose."). And I'm really curious what Sam will call Dean in Japanese; I can't think off the top of my head of an anime where a younger brother calls the elder by name all the time, so it should be some kind of honorific. Nii-chan feels a little young. Ani-ki, maybe?

(This is why I'm hoping they do further seasons so we can get to the angels, aside from the fact that anime loves drawing angels: I'm dying to know how they'll talk. What "you" will Cas use? Would he use a different one for Dean? (doujins would spontaneously spring into being if that were the case. Would it start to drift as he starts falling in S5? Would the angels use the same gender divided way of speaking as the humans or would Anna's word choice be the same as Cas or Uriel's? Language is awesome!)

Yes, I'm a nerd. As you were.

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Thirty Days of Fanfiction Day Nine:

9 – Pairings – For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?

Supernatural is obviously Dean/Cas and...hmm. I have a Uriel/Cas story waiting patiently on my hard drive right now, and I'm writing Dean/Cas/Lisa for my Birthdayfest fic in Sept. I like Cas/Anna, especially the bittersweet, longing Cas/Anna, and I like Dean/Cas/Anna even more (I have a half-plotted out "When The Levees Break" AU that goes along those lines). And I have a real fondness for Cas/Jo; I have a half-plotted out "Abandon All Hope" AU that goes in that direction.

But still, even the fics where he isn't with Dean he's still with Dean, if that makes any sense. If there isn't some profound bonding going on it doesn't feel right to me. Sigh. My OTP, let me show you it.

In Heroes I was all about Peter/Claude and to a lesser extent Claude/Bennet. Claude was what got me writing Heroes in the first place and no other character really stepped up to fill that role once he was gone. He was basically my Castiel for that fandom.

For Doctor Who my pairing was Doctor/Rose, especially Nine/Rose. I also ship Jack/Doctor (especially Jack/Doctor/Rose) and Fitz/Doctor, because Fitz is adorable.

Left 4 Dead 2, the only pairing I write is Nick/Ellis, and in JLU I ship Question/Huntress hard.

( The Other Days )

It's my birthday! *throws confetti*

The family birthday lunch was yesterday, so I've been celebrating by lounging around all day in my pajamas and working on my Birthdayfest fic (3400 words so far!) If I can break 5K I'm going to take a break and start playing with my new kindle.

*hugs you all*

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Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day Four

4 – Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?

I generally write about the same 2-3 characters over and over, so this doesn't come up so much in fanfic --- wait, no that's not true. The Ninth Doctor once showed up in Voices, turning a fic that was supposed to be about the John Smith/Ten divide in the Family of Blood into all about him. Which worked, because it was better than the original idea I had by a mile.

( The other days )

http://www.freesparkle.com

Yaaaaaaay, New York legislature! (And how often does one get to say that!)

Now c'mon, New Jersey. Time to get on the ball.

The road was flooded in three separate places on the drive home today. It's only a 10 mile commute! I would have been better off in a kayak for most of it.

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I was so tired last time I don't even remember falling asleep. I picture myself keeling over on the couch like a cartoon character as soon as the last person left my house. I woke at three AM to a thunderclap that sounded like a canon going off and my cat poking me as if she was afraid I'd gone into a coma and would no longer be able to spoon food into her bowl.

In brighter news, there will be fic posted tonight (the one for the kink meme) if it kills me, even if I'm no surer how to tag this thing than I was a week ago.

Kink Meme Project Update:

1) Cas gets hurt, Dean finds out and goes BAMF, and uses Cas sword to protect him and gets revenge. Up to writer how Dean is able to use sword(profound bond, mating etc.)

2) Cas falls, and is reborn is a human. 16-18 years later, he manages to track down an older Dean, who thought Castiel died. Dean feels weird around such a young Castiel, but Cas isn't going to let him deny them both their second chance.

3) Clairestiel/Dean, anything based in 5x04. Prefer Clairestiel/2014!Dean.

4) Cas has to travel back in time (for whatever reason you think of) and gets stuck in 1994 maybe because he's running out of mojo. There he runs into a teenage!Dean, and Cas finds himself saving Dean's life.

The other two have to go on the back burner for a bit while I focus on my Everlasting Birthday story and kink_bingo, (and whatever I get assigned for rarities) but I have outlines for both of them (outlines, oh dear God what is wrong with me) so they're just on hold, not abandoned.

(I am already freaking out about the Birthday fic. It's gonna be long, and I've never written full-blown, from the ground up AU before and I'm doing it all wrong and oh God, somebody hold me.)

Happy Mother's Day to everyone on my flist! (and *hugs* to everyone out there who didn't have a happy one, for whatever reason.)

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Kink Meme Project Update:

1) Cas gets hurt, Dean finds out and goes BAMF, and uses Cas sword to protect him and gets revenge. Up to writer how Dean is able to use sword(profound bond, mating etc.)

2) Cas falls, and is reborn is a human. 16-18 years later, he manages to track down an older Dean, who thought Castiel died. Dean feels weird around such a young Castiel, but Cas isn't going to let him deny them both their second chance.

3) Clairestiel/Dean, anything based in 5x04. Prefer Clairestiel/2014!Dean.

4) Cas has to travel back in time (for whatever reason you think of) and gets stuck in 1994 maybe because he's running out of mojo. There he runs into a teenage!Dean, and Cas finds himself saving Dean's life.

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Who has two thumbs and writes a 6K story for a kink meme fill?

Yep. *Sigh*:)

Anyone up for a beta?

While LJ is working:



It astonishes and humbles me that he died only a handful of years older than I am now. Somehow it seems that someone who accomplished so much should have lived so much longer than 39 years.

I marvel at the power of one life.

Rest in peace, Dr. King. May we achieve the dream.

I came home to find a note propped up on my couch saying "Happy Early Birthday!" and hiding behind it the Discworld graphic novel! Best thing ever for a rainy day.

I have awesome friends.

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You know what else is awesome? Roger Ebert going to town on a really, really bad movie. (Best quote? "Here's a science-fiction film that's an insult to the words "science" and "fiction," and the hyphen in between them.")

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Back to dark fic.