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Ugh, work. I do not approve.

On a related note, is there anything more frustrating than traffic being backed up for no apparent reason? I don't know what was going on this morning, but it took fifteen minutes to drive two blocks and it wasn't like there was an accident or street closed. Just every car in the world out there all trying to make left turns.

And then when I tried to log into the program I need to, y'know, do my job the program first informed me that my password was expired, led me through the 15 minutes rigamarole to change the blasted thing then refused to authorize me even though that form was submitted months ago.

Death of a thousand cuts today, I swear.

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Ooh, sncross_bigbang.

*ponders*

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.:)

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