Lurker Central

So I discovered today that my email had decided all on its own to broaden its definition of spam from attempts to hook me up with sexy Asian singles to include all sorts of other things, like a bunch of AO3 notifications and TWO emails from my spn_j2_bigbang artist (who is awesome and lovely and now probably thinks I'm a total flake.) *facepalm* Oh technology, how do you work?

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Hey guys! Check this out!



I'm flirting with the idea of doing the minibang part of this, because hey, it's just 5K but I'm realizing I'm really kind of wretched at gen, or at least coming up with ideas for gen. I dunno. Prompt me?

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Happy Finale Day! Love your spoiler cuts and try to not burn down the internet, okay?

*hugs* for all the comment happiness in the last post! As a thank you, here's two College Humor videos that always make me smile:

Minesweeper: The Movie (which I would totally go see)

The Tetris God

(Giving up on trying to embed now. Oh, technology why do you thwart me?)

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So behind on word count. *types types types*

So I got a message from my bank saying to call because they were "investigating charges" on my card. After spending forever and a day on hold with every department still working after five they told me that there was "suspicious activity" - although they couldn't tell me what the activity was - and that the card was deactivated.

This is the second time they've done this this year. I'm glad they're trying to keep my account secure and all and getting the new card isn't a huge deal, but my God is it a pain to have to change the card number on all my online accounts. Bah!

And in other Bah! news, my laptop is back! \o/ Still with the same problem! *sigh* After the diagnostics the techs decided the problem really was with the charger, so I'm glad it didn't turn out to be a battery or motherboard issue after all, but I don't understand why if they had a charger that worked (and they did give it back charged) they couldn't have one there for me to buy when I came to pick the laptop up. I want to give you my money, people! Why do you not want my money?

My life, so hard.

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When I got my laptop back last night I went through my old WiP folder and found the Sherlock Holmes stories I'd started back when I first got into the Granada series. One in particular I've been poking; now I'm probably never going to finish this story - it would easily be novel length and um, I don't remember how the plot winds up any more. It centered around one of Moran's jailed lieutenants using a twin switch to escape the gallows and immediately getting to making Holmes' life a living hell. Irene got dragged in because her husband Godfrey had some old business dealings with the lieutenant and the connection spurred him to follow the case, of course resulting in Irene jumping in. (my head!canon for Irene/Holmes is a more what-might-have-been sort of love rather than a wild passionate thing, because does Holmes ever not do wild passion and Irene has far too much sense for that sort of thing. Soul mates who will always be happiest at a courteous distance.)

Anyway, there's a scene in this between Irene and Holmes after Watson gets shot (because I'm writing this, of course someone's getting shot) that I think turned out really well. Because of the way the story was structured, story notes by Watson and diary entries by Irene, even if the rest of the opus never comes to light I think with some polish I could frame this scene as its own thing, an excerpt of the famous, long thought lost Irene Adler diary finally come to light.

Would anyone be interested in this? /idle thoughts.

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How is it the 16th already? How?! Give me back my summer!

Either my phone's charger is dying or the charging jack is slowly fritzing out. This is vexing either way.

Thirty Days of Fanfiction Day Ten:

10 – Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?

The fic I'm writing now for spnraritiesfest has a pairing I've never written before so, um...we'll see how that works, won't we.:)

( The Other Days: )

I am appalled --- appalled! --- that there is no Romo/Lee community. This is a huge shock coming from Heroes and Doctor Who fandom, both of which have fic comms for pairings that never met in canon. I'd heard tell that BSG fic was fairly scarce, especially the slash, and man, you all weren't kidding. I thought the most recent episode (not to mention the end of last season) would have spawned some fic.

It almost makes me want to start up a community for them, until I remember I know nothing about community maintenance and even less about graphic design. And yet I'm still tempted! I love those two that much. I'd call it...I don't know. Lawyers in Space, maybe.

Incidentally, online reaction to Sine Qua Non has only driven home to me that I'm watching the "Flawed Humans are Awesome...and Also, There are Some Robots" version of BSG (in addition to The Adama and Roslin Hour and, obviously, Lawyers in Space, among others), because while I understand why those of my flist watching the Cylon Show had problems with the episode it really worked for me on every level. Avoiding spoilers, I tend to watch BSG much more for the human (presumed and actual) characters than the Cylons, and episodes that deal with their connections to each other and how they try to rebuild their society affect me much more than the larger Cylon arc. This often results in me squeeing over episodes dealing with politics and union battles, then going online and finding that the episode got a resounding "meh" from fandom at large.:) Not that I'm not engaged by the toasters, mind you; I just like the humans more.

Oh, and a word of warning: on Cute Overload there is a video of a kitten so cute it actually broke my computer, resulting in my writing this on a borrowed laptop. Sure, maybe it's more likely that the problem actually stems from lappy's chronic overheating issues and that it shutting itself down immediately after viewing said video was mere coincidence, but I say...yeah, you're probably right.:) It is, however, a much better story if I say that my computer's in the shop because it died from kyoot, so that's what I'm sticking with.

Sigh.