So.. my last post was over a month ago???
I really have NO life at all!!! *gasps*
emm.. ok you can actually delete the gasps from there.
I do have to say however to all my dear and beloved Flist that I DO NOT have any money whatsoever to send xmas cards... :( so sad, I'll miss them. But as an alternative, if any of you want for me to make you a virtual card I'll make ANYTHING you want for a xmas card. You pick the subject and even the pics if you want. I'll be your card slave this year.
Is so lame, but I still think is Christmas and in Christmas you try to make people happy, right? So I do want to my my dear flist happy with that. Just comment and tell me what you want for xmas :D
Now I'll go catch up with my flist updates... Though I have to say, for the last couple of days, all I can see flooding my flist is Adam Lambert O.o
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I don't really care about so much about the plots on White Collar. They just keep giving me tasty OT3 stuff and I'm content.
I've spent most of the day uploading stuff to the AO3. It allows me to feel productive when I can't write. I have too many goddamn stories, though. ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) angelgazing pointed out that I will never be done uploading because I write faster than I upload. Though possibly this is no longer the case. I don't know. I have been having my usual late autumn/early winter problems getting motivated. Since the archive takes so long to upload, I am also rereading some favorite stories (I don't have to pay as close attention to rereads - I can skim and skip and be interrupted without losing anything, 'cause I've already read them before). I keep getting errors, unfortunately, which is slowing things down even more.
Technology is not my friend.
I know lots of people are excited by tagging their stories in all sorts of ways, but I am doing what I find useful and that's it. As long as I get the characters/pairing on there, and maybe if it's a casefile or an episode tag, that's about the extent of my interest. Maybe if I upload my HP stuff, I'll split the Remus/Sirius out by era, like I have it in my tags on LJ, but mostly I don't care about the tags. *hides*
Also, I wish there were a place in the profile to link to a warnings policy, and that that link could just automatically be included on every story. Because I am just using the "No Primary Warnings Apply" which isn't the same as "no warnings needed" but 99% of my stuff is "no warnings needed" and I'd like to be able to say that somewhere, since it isn't a choice on the warnings field. I guess I could make it a tag, but I never think of it. I wish it were automatic.
Hmm...
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seen in cofax's linkspam roundup: Barbara Hambly is selling short stories connected to her older (Del Rey) fantasy series, direct from her website for $5 a pop. There are two Benjamin January stories, one Joanna Sheraton and Antryg Windrose, and one, um, wacky mashup. Buy them here! I will soon, but right now I have to go make the cranberry sauce (with orange zest, fresh ginger, cinnamon, and clove. Mmmmmmmmmmmm).
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Hope everyone had a good holiday (or if you don't observe, then an excellent Thursday).
Because I'm a bit of a bookmark packrat, I dug out the link to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) marinarusalka's post on 10 rules of fandom. A fun read, and in my opinion true then, true now, will still be true in the future.
Probably I've linked to this before (if I haven't, I should have!) but it bears repeating, so here's smilla02 's brief thoughts about squee and criticism.
( SPN 5x10 recs, mostly gen codas (spoilers behind the cut) )
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I spent yesterday driving to Massachusetts, along with Geoff and a friend; my folks are doing Thanksgiving on Saturday, because it fits everyone's schedules better. So actual turkey day was entirely sans turkey, but turkey prep has begun! (We just came back from going to pick it up at a local farm.)
I'm thankful for my friends, my health, my financial security, and my physical comfort. I'm thankful for modern medicine, which has kept my father (among others) alive, sustained him, and enabled him to reach this day. I'm thankful for fandom, for fannish friends, for fannish projects, for fannish squee and porn and gumption and collaborative effort. I'm thankful for my life, and the communities and the world I live it in.
I hope those of you who celebrated yesterday are still comfortably curled up around your distended bellies. (Unless you were crazed enough to go shopping today, in which case I hope you got whatever it was you were willing to brave the maddened crowds for. Better you than me.) If you're not the celebrating-U.S.-Thanksgiving type, I hope you're having a wonderful weekend of your own!
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Title: Whatever I Want (Whatever That Is)
By brooklinegirl
MCR, Frank/Gerard (Also Gerard/OMC, Gerard/OFC, etc. The working title was Gerard is a Slut. Just - FYI.)
NC-17
~9300 words
Summary: The first time Frank walked in on Gerard going down a girl in the dressing room, he was pissed.
Thank you SO MUCH to lordessrenegade for beta work, and for keeping me from making terrible mistakes with Han Solo action figures. ♥
( Whatever I Want (Whatever That Is) )
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Happy Thanksgiving to those who are celebrating! Happy Thursday to those who are not. I hope everyone had a lovely day, regardless.
My day began with BACON and PIE and ended with FOOTBALL and PIE, and in between there was stuffing and homemade cheese macaroni and turkey that was actually moist and tasty (!!), and more family shenanigans than you could shake a stick at. My brother was in rare form tonight, and basically had the whole table in stitches for most of the meal. Mostly at my expense, but eh, that's not new. and unfortunately, the Giants are capping off the day by sucking like unto a hoover, but I am too full and sleepy to care too much.
I am thankful for my family, my friends - including you guys - my health, and my job. Man, a year ago at this time, I was a week away from being laid off. I'm still a little freaked out by how that went, still anxious and lacking in confidence sometimes, but I'm so glad I found a new job quickly, and one that I mostly like, for people and an organization that I like. (I'm also grateful that I have tomorrow off and I don't have to use a day - it's one of our holidays. Mmm...sleeping in...) I'm grateful I have health insurance and can pay my rent and that I have an apartment I love.
I'm thankful for fandom, not just because of all the great stories to read and the feeling of having people who get my excitement about various shows and characters, but because of all the great people I've met and become friends with, who've made my life richer and better and more fun all around.
*hugs*
And also, I am thankful for PIE, and I would share some with you all if I could.
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Happy Thanksgiving to those parts of the flist tucked in south of the Great White North!
May your turkey be juicy, your cranberries tart, and your pie worthy of a Winchester!
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Heads up to anyone who might be tempted: Amazon's deal of the day is the entire Stargate Atlantis series on DVD for $88.99.
*goes back to watching turkey roast*
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Happy Thanksgiving to the Americanese types on my flist, happy First Thursday of Hiatus to everyone in SPN fandom, happy "OMG I get to lie in to a normal time tomorrow!" day for non-US SPN fandomers (at least those totally awesome ones like me who watch SPN way too late/early Fri morning), and...happy regular Thursday to everyone else. :D
You know what I am in the mood for? Ridiculous silly OTT Sam/Dean schmoop. Where they go on a date or get married or are cursed to speak in heartfelt love poetry to each other or something. CAN ANYONE PROVIDE???
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It's Thanksgiving again -- this household can tell by the fact that we'll be getting a full family breakfast (along with the family home fries, omg yay best part of a holiday) in the morning -- and I hope everyone (whether you're in the US or not) manages to find a few minutes today to reflect upon the good things you have.
It's hard for me sometimes to remember the good things and not the things that utterly suck. It seems particularly more difficult this year, somehow. This has been a year of tremendous highs and tremendous lows, and it's human nature (certainly my human nature) to only remember the bad stuff.
But oh, the highs are at least as high as the lows are low.
I am daily thankful for sarah, who has finally agreed that we can have the wedding I've been wanting for a while (although it's just a formality; we committed to each other long-term the minute we merged our libraries and eliminated all the duplicate books), who remains my own personal jdn doing battle against an inaccessable world on my behalf so I can save my spoons for when I need them, and who still finds the time to go tromping across seventeen grocery stores to purchase sufficient Diet Coke with Lime (okay, i'm mostly kidding, six was her one-day record). I am thankful we have learned to communicate (mostly) and cooperate (nearly all of the time) and compromise (usually) to the point where I can say forever and not be terrified out of my mind about it.
I am thankful for my family, who doesn't quite grok me and with whom I have so very little in common, except for the important parts: the fact that we love each other. (Even when we're all rolling our eyes at each other.)
I am thankful for ![[info - staff]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png) mark, who had the same crazy-ass dream I had, who decided that we'd go reaching for that crazy-ass dream together, who had the courage to say "I believe in us" and step off the edge of the cliff. Who regularly humors me by delivering things I always thought were impossible. Who doesn't always understand me, and often doesn't agree with me, but who tries to understand and negotiates to a compromise anyway, because we're in this together. (I am also thankful for janine, who is a large part of why Mark can do this DW thing.)
I am thankful for ivorygates, who keeps me company when the rest of the world is sound asleep, who is the perfect bulwark for my creative process, who is one of the most generous people, in terms of giving me the gift of her time and effort, that I know.
I am thankful for my doctor, Dr. Clair Francomano of GBMC, who was the first doctor ever -- or at least, the first one in a long time -- who believed me. Repeatedly. And then wrote me prescriptions.
I am thankful for all of my friends (yes, I mean youse guys) in the area, who descend willingly upon my home once a month bringing bright cheer, baked goods, yarn, and an eager desire to socialize, who make the fact that there are entire weeks when I'm effectively housebound and don't see another human being other than Sarah something to be barely noticed, instead of something that's making me slowly die inside. I know how far some of you travel in order to be there. I also know that without that monthly human interaction I'd've gone stark raving bugfuck by now. We've been doing it for over a year, and I've never once thought about skipping a month. (Even if the house is sometimes a trainwreck disaster three days before and there's going to have to be some Heavy Cleaning before Sarah would be willing to let anyone through the door.)
I am thankful for all the people who have made Dreamwidth their home, who believe in us, who are pouring out their writing and their meaning and their soul to make this place their home, and to all the people who have taken it the step further and given so selflessly of their time, their effort, and their energy to make it better for everyone.
I am thankful for the fact that we, us, our Open Source project over here, are building something amazing, something that organically grew out of Mark's and my core vision and has become something so much grander than either of us ever dared to dream: an open source project built ground-up from the foundations of respect for each other, commitment to inclusion and equality, and the passionate conviction that no contribution is too small and no person is unteachable. This thing over here, the thing we all built and keep recruiting more hands to tend, is pretty fucking awesome. And so are the people who are making it.
I am thankful for the drugs when I need to take them, the wheels when I need to roll on them, the cane when I need to walk with it, and for every fucking last day I can almost forget they're there. I am thankful for the money when I spend it, the hand up when I can lend it, and for all the blessings that mean the one is often found together with the other.
I am thankful for all of you.
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Criminal Minds
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Maybe I will try to write. I would like to post one more story this month, if possible, before I buckle down on yuletide and broken toys.
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