| Hello, f-list!
So, it's that time of year again! I leave for camp on Sunday (planning to get there around 3:30-4pm), and there is much to do before I go!
PRE-EISNER TO-DO LIST 2009
- record with Kyle (music music music! whee!)
- write this week's ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) brigits_flame entry (this week's theme is "oil and vinegar", which actually sounds pretty interesting)
- type up ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) esteebee's request from this post, which will probably take awhile as it ended up being kind of long. :P It's written, though, I swear!
- try my super-super hardest to write at least one more chapter of Uprising, as I suspect I will have little to no time to write it at camp
- PACK. well, not so much pack, but organize, which I suspect will take a considerable amount of time.
- attempt to go out shopping for some clothes that actually fit me properly. Also I want a new hat.
- ^ convince my mother to pay for the above
- call my agent to see how Operation Get Shelly Published is going (she's generally fairly talkative, but we've had a bit of radio silence and check-ins are fun! as always, I will share news if there is any.)
- figure out my weekend schedule! Right now my options are:
1. hang out with the lovely bethhum on Friday night, have a relaxing Doctor Who marathon with Sister Dearest on Saturday
2. go to a party with chris101d, possibly become intoxicated, stay overnight in Boston, and then attend Boston Pride on Saturday
As we know I am shite at making decisions, so of course feel free to give me ideas of how to spend my time. :P
- figure out a way to watch Children of Earth when it airs, as internet isn't exactly easy to get up in Teva-land ok not actually necessary, don't judge me.
If there's anything else I've missed, please let me know, as you lot generally are smarter than me. :P
Also, because it's been awhile:
WHAT'S NEW, F-LIST?
necessary sparkles are completely necessary. kthx.
P.S. Jack/Ianto icon used to celebrate the pretty much definite confirmation of a fourth season of Torchwood. woohoo!
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| Ladies and gentlemen of my f-list, I would like to present to you the timeline of my life. at the moment.
May 29: break up with boyfriend for various personal reasons
June 1: Dan the Hot Mechanic who always changes my oil and talks about engines with me asked for my number.
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| WRITER'S BLOCK SUCKS.
I've been staring at the word document for my novel for about three weeks now. I can't make myself write. I think it's because I've been doing so much writing the last few weeks between short stories and fanfiction. But the problem now is that I can't make myself write at all.
So that's where you come in, f-list! I need to write, so I'm having another promptfest! Essentially, you give me something to write, and I will write it for you! Just bold (< b> blah < /b>, without spaces) what you want from the list under the cut, and I will provide you with a short story/ficlet (probably 1k or less). :)
( follow me to your options... )
It's totally a two-way gift! I get to write, and you get a present! :P If there's a fandom you know I write for (or at least a fandom you know that I know) but you don't see it on the list, feel free to request it as well. :)
Thank you darlings! :) :) Sorry for the long-ass post! :P
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| So, ontd_twatlight. For those of you who don't know, _twat is a fantastic community of cracked out bitches, and I adore every single fucking one of them. At this exact moment, we are having a Firefly/Serenity appreciation post (found here, if you are so interested).
Highlights include:
and of course, (in regards to several pics of Simon):
That is all, darlings. Goodnight.
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| Hello, f-list! It's time for another ANIME BOSTON FREAKOUT POST!!
So, when you last saw me, I was freaking the fuck out because my costume wasn't here. Let me explain to you why. I spent about 45 hours on this thing. And then, because I apparently pissed someone off majorly in a past life, I spilled coffee on it. Maybe tea, I don't remember. Either way, I sent it to this very nice silk-cleaning place where they said they could clean it.
And...it hasn't gotten back to me.
The UPS tracking number says that it was delivered to Brandeis. Brandeis mail services said they'd look, but they don't really hold packages past the end of school. Which means that they either A) sent it back to Light in the Box or B) sent it somewhere the fuck else and I'm screwed. If it's en route somewhere, I'm royally fucked. If it's back at Light in the Box, I'm...probably fucked, as I can't really afford overnight shipping and the con is, you know, IN TWO FUCKING DAYS.
My mom is like, "well, you can always use it for next year." MISSING THE POINT, FML.
So. I am annoyed and upset and the coffee I'm currently drinking is kind of shit. This is overall not a very good day akshully.
Help, f-list?
for your time: unicorn sparkles!
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you're welcome.
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| | Subject: | anger | | Time: | 07:15 pm |
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| FUCK. UPS.
That's all.
edited to add: that's U.P.S., not like, "ups". JSYK.
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| It's officially the week leading up to the con. How do I know?
1. I've started having that repeated nightmare every night. You know, the one where you're late for the Masq and your costume is gone/incomplete/falling apart. Or I get there and I made the wrong costume. Or I get there and I'm just completely missing my entire costume. AHHHHH.
2. My wig cap is missing. -_-; FML.
3. I still need to do some adjustments on my Yuna costume, and it hasn't shipped back from school yet. D: (I ran out of room in my car when I drove home and I had to send it home via snail mail.) I AM RUNNING OUT OF TIME HOLY FUCK MAIL COME ON.
So yes. I am stressed. Con in 6 days. D: D: D:
Please to be comforting me with comments, f-list.
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| Unabashedly stolen from knightvision!
Comment here and I will:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your own LJ.
Onward!
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| So, I'm home from school! Which is kind of YAY but also kind of :( because I miss people. But that's okay.
Anyway. To-do list!
- novel! I'm only about 2/3 through the story, because I'm a big fat lazyface.
- shopping for camp! I don't really have any summer clothes that fit me, thank you freshman year. I actually managed to avoid the freshman 15 (\o/) but still, nothing fits properly.
- learn music! My guitar has been kind abandoned and sad for awhile, and I have about ten songs in my head that need to be written, composed, and performed, preferably in that order.
- fanfiction! Because I have too many plot bunnies and I need to get off my ass and write stuff, even if I don't post it.
Also, Anime Boston is coming up! Whoo! My costumes are 99% finished, which is good. AB attendee roll call?
Also part deux, I'm looking for some cute summer dresses, but I'm not sure where to start looking. I'm thinking stuff like this:
super super cute, yeah? :) :) Bright colors, pretty patterns, cinched waist. Is how I roll. Anyone know any good stores, either online or not, where I should start looking?
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| Alright, so I'm having this issue. There are a few fandoms that I would really, really love to get involved in, namely Supernatural, Firefly and Torchwood. But I feel like I'd be very late getting into the game. And then there're the issues with the fandoms themselves. Namely:
Supernatural
- I don't ship Sam/Dean. At all. Even a little bit.
- I like new!Ruby. Yeah, I said it.
- Actually, as an add-on to the above, I kind of ship Sam/new!Ruby.
- I'll probably just end up writing gen!fic anyway.
- And considering most of the SPN fandom is very Wincest-centered, I...do not wish to be harmed in a physical sense.
Firefly
- I mean...it's kinda...sacred, isn't it? I feel like I wrote anything other than the canon, we'd be back to the physical harm thing.
Torchwood
- I ship Jack/Ianto, so that's an in, but I don't ship them in the OMG OTP THEIR LOVE IS FOREVER kind of way. I think they love each other, yeah, but I don't think it's the be-all-end-all kind of love that a lot of the fandom seems to think it is. They're snarky and sarcastic and they're friends and they just happen to be having sex. That doesn't make them soulmates. Unfortnately...yeah. Fandom.
- I don't like Gwen. Neither does a lot of the fandom, obvs, but I don't want to bash her. I just don't like her very much.
- To be quite honest, I think it should be the Tosh & Rhys show. Just saying.
Aaaaaand that's why I don't know how to get into the fandoms. But if any of you guys know any good SPN/Firefly/Torchwood fic communities that are especially welcoming...toss them my way in a comment? :)
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| Over the last two days, I have:
- Watched 28 episodes of Doctor Who
- Written an entry for brigits_flame (you can find it over at pen_strokes )
- Drank copious amounts of tea
- Did not do homework
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I AM SO USELESS AT ACTUALLY BEING A PERSON.
On the positive side, I am now out of things to watch and therefore will hopefully go out into the world and interact with other human folk. I say this hypothetically as I most likely will just hang out on LiveJournal all night. Let's be honest here.
Fortunately, Skype! :) Interaction without actual interaction. :P
FOR FUN, TELL ME BOUT CHO LIVES.
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| So in other news, I suck at LiveJournal-ing. Because I've got all these people on my f-list actually updating me with stuffs about their lives and I'm chilling like "oh wow, I wish I had some means of communicating the various happenstances of my existence to those who I am friends with on the interweb. If only I had some sort of blog-esque thing to do so" and then I was like oh snap, yeah, I own a journal. Of course, by own, I mean have, as I am a cheap person and therfore do not have a paid account.
I digress.
Sooooo, here's my life. Existing. Maybe the reason I never update is because I'm ridiculously boring. :P (if you knew the amount of times I fucked up that smiley in the attempt to type it, you would all be ashamed of me. for real real.)
Anywhichwho, I honestly can't remember what's actually relevant to you lot that's happened over the last 3 months since I was last on soooooooo ask me questions about my life, those of you who still read this! And/or give me prompts for fics with pairings you like, as I'm being a boring-face and haven't written anything new in awhile.
(Also, HOLY FUCKING SHIT someone convince me to work on my fucking novel. I haven't touched it in forever and it's gathering dust and it NEEDS TO BE FINISHED before Susan cuts me in my face. Thx loves.)
XOXO,
Gossip Girl
:P
P.S. OMG. Vizzini from Princess Bride is totally on Gossip Girl. I don't watch Gossip Girl, but I heard about it, and I would SO never be able to take his character seriously. Ever. But OMG.
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| LOOK! A GROOVY NEW PRESIDENT!!
HI, GROOVY NEW PRESIDENT!
...when he walked out onto the platform, I turned to my friends and said, "I'd hit that like a stolen drumset. Is that inappropriate?"
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| I just got back from seeing Milk, and I've got to say, it was one of the most inspiring movies I've seen in a very long time. I'll go into details later, but all I can say right now is that I hope, more than ever, that the GLBT characters in my novels somehow serve as role models to people in areas that maybe aren't so accepting of people with differences. I want to make a different, I want to somehow inspire people to know that they're okay.
I'll probably see the movie again before I come back with a lengthy review, but all I can say now is four stars, this should get Oscars, it's amazing, go see it.
...also, there is no way anyone will ever be able to convince me that Emile Hirsch and Lucas Grabeel didn't hook up on set, and I have a really terrible urge to write Cleve Jones/Danny Nicoletta fanfiction. WTF is wrong with me?
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| Or rather, my shows-to-watch list.
I think that over the next year I need to watch (or re-watch) all of the following shows, in their entirety:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(ah, memories)
- Merlin
(apparently it's slashy and adorable)
- Superjail
(apparently it's on crack)
- Cowboy Beebop
(Faye Valentine showed me I liked girls)
- Firefly
(I used to want to learn Chinese because of this show. No, really.)
- Supernatural
(I love it. Shut up.)
- West Wing
(I own it, I really have no excuse not to watch it.)
- Sailor Moon
(...Alright, whatever. Don't judge me.)
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| Okay, bbs. Tis the season to be jolly, blah blah blah. I know I should be giving presents, but I'm a little bit (read: very) broke atm. SO, instead, I am giving away fanfiction!
Please to be filling out the following survey in the comments by bolding your choices, and I shall be writing you fic for the holidays! :)
1. pick your fandom/pairing
a. Yu Yu Hakusho (for old times sake :P)
i. Hiei/Kurama
ii. Yusuke/Kurama
b. The Elders
i. Rei/Aaron
ii. Aiken/Yaori
iii. Jake/Yaori
iv. David/Yuri
c. Harry Potter
i. Harry/Draco
ii. Sirius/Remus
d. Robin Hood
i. Robin/Marian
ii. Guy/Marian
iii. Allan/Will
iv. Will/Djaq
v. Robin/Much
vi. Allan/Will/Djaq
e. High School Musical
i. Chad/Ryan
ii. Troy/Ryan
f. Good Omens
i. Crowley/Aziraphale
2. pick your rating
a. G (hand-holding)
b. PG (*muah*)
c. PG-13 (*muah* *grope*)
d. R (*muah* *grope* *OMG TOUCH ME THERE* *fade to black*)
e. NC-17 (*muah* *grope* *TABLE!SEX*)
3. pick your genre
a. fluff
b. fluff with a side of angst
c. angst with a side of fluff
d. SMUT
e. action/adventure
f. suspense
g. humor
4. pick your prompt
a. “what do you mean, ‘get naked’?”
b. the Tango: Maureen
c. “IT’S NOT EVEN FUCKING RAINING”
d. rocks fall, and everyone dies
e. why so serious?
f. why does everyone think we’re gay?
g. rainbows
5. pick your random cameo (plz to be different than the actual fandom)
a. Good Omens – Crowley and Aziraphale
b. Harry Potter – Remus and Sirius
c. High School Musical – Chad and Ryan
d. Mulan – Mushu
e. Greg Kellner
6. pick your random song lyric
a. “hold me in your arms tonight/I may be gone tomorrow”
b. “I don’t dance/YEAH FUCKING RIGHT I know you can”
c. “how do you solve a problem like Maria?”
d. “all you need is love, love—love is all you need”
e. “all that I wanted was you, you were my tomorrow”
f. “I’ll make a man out of you”
Thank you bbs! Happy holidays!
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| Hi, LiveJournal.
So, it's been a long, long time since I last updated.
To give you the fast-track update on my life, in the past year and a half, I've:
- applied to and gotten into college
- written a novel and a half
- gotten into two new fandoms, one of which I'm ashamed of (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE)
- buried two friends
- graduated from high school
- fell absolutely in love with my high school...just in time to leave it
- dated a boy
- dated a girl
- became a teacher
- got my drivers' license
- got in a car accident (NOT MY FAULT)
- got my own computer
- found God (was in sock drawer)
- made tons of new friends
So that's about it. I'm going to try and update more often, rather than just going and hanging out on comms.
Also, to elvensorceress, you totally complete my life and our Secret Santa thing is going to be FANTASTIC. :)
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| Hey everyone! Camp is really great, but that's not the purpose of the entry. I'd just like to fill you all in on something really cool that my unit is going to.
Exactly one year ago today, two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwassar and Eldad Regev were kidnapped near the Lebanese border. A few weeks before, another soldier named Gilad Shalit was captured near Gaza. All three have been held without contact with their families--no one has any clue as to their well-being or even if they are alive.
On July 16th 2007 there is a rally in New York City at the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, at 12.00 (rain or shine). We are rallying the UN to pass legislature that will order the immediate and unconditional release of the soldiers in accordance with international law. Our hope is to get all three freed and returned to their families.
My unit at camp is going to the rally. My cell phone will be on during it (the rally is between 12 and probably 1.15ish) but I probably won't hear it ring, but call me if you'd like. It'll be really fun and if you're thinking of going I really encourage it.
Just a bit more info that's a little more personal: there's been a lot of talk about the three soldiers but they're saying really basic stats--names, ages, birth places, combat units. I'm going to take a quick sec to let you know just one fact about each soldier that's a bit beneath the surface:
Gilad Shalit, 20
had the option to serve in a non-combat unit due to medical reasons, but decided to serve combat anyway
Ehud "Udi" Goldwassar, 31
married 9 months before his capture, an avid photographer
Eldad Regev, 26
plans to become a law professor
If you have any questions about the rally or the Save Our Soldiers organization, don't hesitate to drop me a line or a ring.
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