Lurker Central

So this morning I'm all set to leave, literally have him hand on the doorknob when I hear Lexi chirp behind me (she chirps. It's a thing.) I turn around just in time to see her pounce an enormous freaking centipede, knocking her water bowl over in the process because she is a creature of unparalleled stealth and grace. I managed to step on the hideous thing (it was on my boot, ew, ew, ew) but by the time I shooed her away and cleaned up the water and refilled the bowl I'd blown a good 10-15 minutes.

End result? Bug eliminated, but the delay made me literally two minutes late clocking in. So I guess you win this round, nature.

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So I think I know what I'm nominating for Yuletide this year! (I sat out last year, I'd signed up for Too Many Things, but I had a lot of Yuletide Envy come reveal time.) Here's what I wrote in the brainstorming post:

Tombstone
Characters: Doc, Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil (easiest picks ever.:)
I think Tombstone is fairly well known, just not well ficced and it's one of my very favorite things.

Into The Woods
Characters: The Baker, Cinderella, Jack, Red
This is the Sondheim musical and it's both streaming on Netflix and on DVD (with a fantabulous cast.) Post musical-fic, with second chances at love and found families and picking up the pieces, please. (I wish!)

Warriors of Virtue
Characters: Komodo, Grillo, ???? (any of the Roos, really)
WoV is a late-90's kid's martial arts flick about a boy named Ryan who takes a dare trying to impress the popular kids and winds up falling into a magical world where he befriends a group of kangaroo-people martial artists who embody the elements of fire, wood, metal, earth and water. As you do.

But let's look past the plot, such as it is; I'm a huge sucker for Crazy Overlord/Loyal Lieutenant dynamics and this movie might as well have been made for me. The villains really do make the movie and even them aside, the sets and costumes are gorgeous and the world itself is interesting. This is far from the greatest movie ever made but I love it with ever beat of my sad fangirl heart and just want to see any fic for it.

It's also currently complete on youtube. Please watch! (and I'd like to point you all to around 48:00, where there's handholding and Overlord asking Lieutenant if his Evil robes are flattering. I am not even kidding.)



Anyone else doing Yuletide? Whatcha nominating? Whatcha offering? *chinhands*

(BTW, please, please someone nominate Left 4 Dead 2 and Human Target. I was planning to offer those but no one's even mentioned them yet!)

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While I'm in a begging mood, grasshopr_molly and I are doing the Round Robin meme here and you should all totally jump in. Mostly because I'm blocked./o\ 2014!Cas has been kidnapped by Mysterious People! For Reasons! You can decide the Reasons!

I've been banging my head against the wall with this fic all day. Brain hurts now.

Have a kitten picture.

I mean, I do, because he's terrible, but that was bad even for him. Ugh.

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I have arrived! Lexi wants all of you to know that I am a terrible kitten mama who puts innocent cats in cages and straps them into big noisy metal boxes that go very very fast. Or anyway, I'm assuming she wants you all to know, since she did her very best to let everyone else on I-95 in on my horrible cat parenting by yowling at the top of her lungs like she was being tortured. Tortured, I say!

At least she did that for the first half hour or so. Then she settled in and took a nap. Incidently, holy tap-dancing Jesus, did you know it costs $12 to drive into NYC now? You'd think the bridge was made of gold and held up by strands of purest adamantium. They're not using that money to maintain that highway, I'll tell you that right now. I am so very tired. Also, the internet here is currently out so I'm typing this on my phone. Technology!

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What happened to AO3? How can I make go back to the way it was? Everything about this redesign is terrible!

This is Lexi:

( Obey the glare )

You may not be able to tell from this picture, but Lexi secretly yearns to be a mountain goat. Nothing pleases her highness more than leaping to the tallest shelf possible and looking down upon her servants.

Lexi also yearns to be an alarm clock, like some kind of steampunk creature. If I hit snooze too many times she yowls and pounces and generally demands that I feed her and then depart so I won't be a drag on her wild kitten parties.

Which is a long way to say that the first thing I saw this morning was her perched on my Babylon 5 DVDs on top of my highest bookshelf, seconds away from sending them plummeting to a horrible, crashing death like some kind of fuzzy gargoyle of destruction and ohmigod, Lexi get down from there right now!

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Wrote some comment fic last night (because I'm trying to do kink_bingo and have a July 21st birthdayfest deadline so of course.) Will post it up here after dinner, assuming I'm not compelled to rant at length about SYTYCD.

(Speaking of: I'm usually tweeting a running commentary during SYTYCD, @Gambling4Kitten if anyone likewise wants to squee and boggle.)

I spent all of Friday so worried and guilty about being at work instead of with my sick kitty (OMG, what if she needs me? What if she gets worse? She could be dead right now omg) that I couldn't concentrate on anything, and then when I rushed home and burst in the door she was all, "You woke me up. What?"

I should never have children, yo.

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Being frantic with worry all day did somehow help me figure out what I'm doing with a 5 things story I'm working on, so y'know. At least there's that.

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Eventually Human Target is going to reveal who Guerrero has his kid with, but until I'm going to continue shipping the hell out of him with Mathilda from Leon. She's be almost 30 in 2010, which is still a tad young for Guerrero but she's so old at 12 that I don't have a hard time believing she could handle him at 29. And if we go by actor ages, Guerrero is right around the same age as Leon in the movie.

Mostly I ship them because they would be unstoppable instruments of death.

Lexi has been lethargic and mopey the past day or so (not once did she jump up on my mantle to destroy my action figures), so when I walked out of the shower today to find her sprawled pathetically on my bed it was time to bundle her up and take her to the vet. One ultrasound later they're still not entirely sure what the problem is --- could be something she ate, could just be some infection, could be pancreatitis (you can imagine how much I liked that possibility), but to sum it up they're keeping her overnight.

This is the first time she's ever been sick. I miss my kitten baby.

(And oh God, I'm going to be paying this off forever.)

I want my Yuletide assignment. I need something to salvage this weekend.

*sigh*