feel my chest when i look at you

TRUST YOUR GUT: Or, HOLY SHIs;lDKSFLDKL epicflailer WAS HERE!

2012-07-28T20:14:33Z

For those of you who don't know, epicflailer is out seeing the world right now and SHE ACTUALLY CAME HERE TO STAY WITH ME FOR FIVE FREAKING DAYS. Like. She left like five days ago and I'm still not over it.

It was surreal, you guys. And it's kind of silly to think of it that way too, because it's not like I haven't met online friends before, but. It's never been someone who's lived so far away, who I've known for so long (it'll be the same way the day I finally get to be graced with inahurricane's presence, oh my god) and who's always been fifty billion times cooler than me. I was basically a giant bundle of nerves the day before Natalie got here. Like, I WANT HER TO LIKE ME, OKAY? It would kind of suck if we'd been online friends for seven years and then we didn't mesh in real life, maaaaaaan. Also, I REALLY wanted to be a good host! I've never gotten to be a host before, never for such an extended period of time either.

(Apparently my personal approach to being a good host is stocking up on lots of food. Yeah. I don't even know.)

Okay, I'm gonna do this in bullet points, because that usually works out better for me, and also because this thing is probably going to be preeeeeeeeeeeetty long, I'm just putting that out there now. I'm ridic and I have word-vomit, I'm having it looked into.

Thursday

- I spent the morning frantically finishing cleaning my apartment (the whole process took me three days, I'm not even kidding) and getting sheets and towels together for Natalie and making her a sign for the airport and generally just spazzing out like a nervous wreck. It's been AGES since I've met someone from online that I haven't met previously (actually! that's not true! I MET pixiebeanz IN APRIL AND I NEVER TALKED ABOUT IT HERE, WHAT THE FUCK. SHE IS THE LOVELIEST, SHE TOOK ME TO FREAKING M&M'S WORLD!!!) and, you know, I just wanted everything to go smoothly.

- I met up with adelate at the airport, who was here too! :D :D :D She was gonna go see Frankenstein in Sweden with ihearthings_ii, but her Thursday was wide open so she spent it with us.

- We stood there for quite a while waiting for her and I was looking around frantically for Nat's fabulous dip-dye hair. I was apparently looking so frantically that I TOTALLY missed her walking up to us until she was standing two feet away from me. I AM THE MOST PERCEPTIVE. /o\

- We took the car back to my place (my dad's car, which I'd borrowed for the extent of Nat's visit; my dad's BRAND NEW car that he's super sore about and is about five times bigger than his previous car hahahahaaaa NOT THAT I WAS NERVOUS ABOUT IT OR ANYTHING) and dumped her luggage there before we had to take off for the city. While there Nat kindly gave us both a sweet from Singapore! Suan Mei, is what I'm told it's called! THAT WAS SO FREAKING DELISH, MAN. I had a permanent dent in my cheek for half an hour, lollll, freaking huge piece of candy. ~~that's what she said~~

- SO! We were going to the city to go to the movies, and going to the movies to see SPIDER-MAAAAAAAN! :D :D :D It was both mine and Nat's second time seeing it, but Noora's first, so Nat and I bravely sacrified a few hours of our time to look at Andrew Garfield's face. Such a damn hardship.

- After the movie we met up with the always fabulous ihearthings_ii and we all went and got sushi at Sushi Nørregade, which has been one of my fave sushi places for AGES. AND NAT TOTALLY LIKED IT TOO. You guys have no idea the irrational pride I felt every time she would go, "oh wow, this is SO GOOD." :DDDDDDD

- Once we went back to CJ's place with her and Noora and got money from Noora ~~for our services~~ we headed back to my place and kept going with the Andrew theme. ALWAYS SUCH A HARDSHIP. We watched the How Did They Ever Make A Movie About Facebook? documentary (still one of my favorite documentaries I've ever seen, all bias aside) and the actors' commentary to The Social Network. There is no fun equal to the fun that is cooing over Andrew's ridiculous cooing over Jesse with someone else. :D :D :D :D

- You know, already by then I was sort of quietly surprised by how well we were getting along. It's not like I didn't KNOW we would get along, I mean, we have for quite a few years now, but you never know when it's face to face, you know? And there's quite a few things we don't share the same taste in, but what I discovered while she was here is that there's SO MUCH RANDOM SHIT that we totally agree on as well! The amount of times one of us went "DUDE, I KNOW, RIGHT?!" and an empathic conversation would start from there was amazing.

- ALSO SHE BROUGHT ME SO MUCH AMAZING FOOD. A chicken and rice dish that I'm SO excited to try out once I have some company over for dinner, some beef-jerky type thing (but pork, I think? :D), seaweed chips, and this coconut spread called Kaya that IS LIKE FREAKING AMBROSIA. I have not stopped eating it every morning since she gave it to me, oh my god. No going back from this~

- She also wrote me a postcard that nearly had me crying and that I kind of want to frame and hang, it's so sweet and amazing and I am totes unworthy. I'm not even doing it justice. I look at it every day on my way to the kitchen and have a :') moment.

Friday

- Fucking hell, so long already. I TOLD YOU. I'll try to be a bit more brief. (lol. right.)

- Friday was SIGHT-SEEING day! We chilled out for a while at home first, just sitting on the couch talking about random stuff (which were some of the best parts of her stay for me ♥) before we headed into Copenhagen. My first suggestion was obviously the boat canal tour, which takes you through most of the famous sights of Copenhagen by boat in an hour. All the sight-seeing without having to move! \o/ Of course, though, because this is Denmark, once we'd been sailing for maybe ten minutes we got a TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR. Luckily our boat had a roof on it though, which most of the other didn't, man, I felt so bad for all the poor soaked people. And TERRIBLE that Nat wasn't getting as much out of the boat tour as she could have. The rain cleared up after a while though, and eventually we went to a roof-less part of the boat where we had a much better overview.

- After that we went to Rosenborg Castle, which is where our crown jewels are under lock and key! I always love going back to that castle, it's so lush and decadent and wonderfully over the top. Obviously it's no Versailles, but it's a fantastic look back in time. I tried to be an awesome tour guide for Nat, but we quickly discovered that I know jack all about my own country and we basically just ooh-ed and aah-ed over all the pretty furniture and china.

- Then we went to the Round Tower (that is round! not square or anything!) which has a fantastic overlook of the whole of Copenhagen. It was quite lovely. I still didn't know what the hell we were looking at.

- After that we walked down to the Royal Palace, and from there down to The Little Mermaid! Who, I felt I had to preface to Nat from the get-go, is TINY and not too terribly impressive! I swear that's people's main complaint when they see her, so I just wanted her to be prepared and stuff. Luckily she was quite taken with her, so that was fantastic. :D I also managed to slip on the rocks leading down to her like a total douche.

- It had turned into such a gorgeous night, but we were EXHAUSTED and basically just wanted to kick back, so we went back to my place and ordered take-out. :D And then Nat proceeded to kill me by showing me an hour-long One Direction documentary. I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SHE WOULD DO THIS TO ME. HARRY'S STUPID FACE. WHAT EVEN.

Saturday

- We'd already pre-determined that Saturday was going to be a chill-out day (it was fantastic how well we meshed on sight-seeing vs. laid-back all the time too.) We watched all the TV and did all the talking! Some eps of Merlin and some eps of Project Runway (WHICH WE COULD TOTALLY JUDGE, OKAY, OUR FEEDBACK ON THE GARMENTS WAS ALWAYS SPOT-ON) and other stuff I can't remember.

- We also did grocery shopping and I made her a Danish lunch! Which, I had to Wikipedia what the hell a Danish lunch contains like a douche, 'cause I never really eat it. It was a hit though! \o/ I'm not a fantastic cook by any means, but Nat seemed to like it anyway. ♥

- I'd booked us reservations at a sushi restaurant (ALL THE SUSHI ON THIS TRIP) that night, but of course that was the day my body decided I needed a migraine. /o\ Things were fine, though, fortunately; my head was a bit heavy, but it didn't turn into anything serious and we could go out to dinner anyway.

- CAN I ALSO JUST SAY THAT I LOVE NAT'S FASHION SENSE? ALL THE CUTE CLOTHES TO EVERYWHERE WE WENT. SO MUCH ENVY.

- The restaurant was lovely! The sushi was better on the first day, but the restaurant was at the top of a pretty high hotel, so the view was absolutely stunning. We got to see the whole sunset. *_____* Also I got the most beautiful sashimi I've ever had in my life. I have a picture ... somewhere, but not here. But yes. They'd perched the sashimi on an ice block and all the decorations around it were amazing. lol the guys next to us were like, "yo, man, we should take a picture of that and post it on Facebook." :D

Sunday

- Sunday we went to brunch! I should mention that for most of these things I made Nat bike on my bicycle while I rode on one I'd borrowed from my aunt, and Nat hasn't ridden a bike in YEARS and she was fantastic. I can't even imagine how tough biking must be if you haven't done it in so long, and she was an absolute champ.

- After brunch we went out for an extended drive! I took her on the scenic route (which basically means lots of trees, cows and horses) down to Dragør harbour, which has an old town almost fully preserved from the 1700's. Such a beautiful place, and it was a gorgeous sunny day. ♥ We got a soft ice cone with chocolate dust on it (WHICH NAT LOVED AND I WAS SO RELIEVED ABOUT, THAT SHIT WAS MY CHILDHOOD) and we strolled through the town and down the docks (where we found theteacherspet's boat askllkdlkfdlkgkg I WAS SO HAPPY THAT NAT WAS JUST AS STOKED ABOUT THAT AS I WAS. <33333333333333)

- After that we just drove around for a while, and. It was so lovely, I don't even have words. We just talked, and sometimes we didn't talk, and we listened to shuffled stuff on my iPod, and the whole thing was kind of perfect. I've never been on a roadtrip before, but I imagine that that's just what they feel like, when they're with the right kind of people.

- We had to get home though, 'cause we were going to the movies to watch The Dark Knight Rises (lolol, Nat was so cute, this was our conversation the night before; her: "oh maaaaan, The Dark Knight is playing, I still haven't seen it." me: "Oh? Well, we can totally go see it if you-" her: "OH MY GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS AKSLKALFKDKLFDGJFKJGKJK AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" <3333333333) It was such an intense movie, and because I'm a wuss I spent most of it looking down at my lap, but it was fantastic anyway! Totally recommended.

- We had to go on a quest after that! Nat needed stuff from a store, and we had to go to three freaking places at 10pm on a Sunday night before we found it, lolololol. Fantastic. :D Being in a car with Natalie has proved to be a pretty flawless time though, so I had no problems with this whatsoever.

- Sunday night was beautifully perfect too. We were both just sitting with our computers, sometimes talking, sometimes not, with the perfect John Mayer playing in the background. We occasionally showed each other stuff on our laptops, had an argument on Twitter (I fucking love internet friends ♥ ♥ ♥) and when I suddenly got an LJ reply from a certain someone I got all choked up with the perfection of it all. I think I just sat back for five minutes and wallowed in that feeling. Which. Sounds cheesy. But it's perfect and it's one of those nights that I'm going to look back and remember how special it was.

Monday

- We watched most of We Bought A Zoo that morning before we headed off to Creative Space, a pottery-slash-café hangout, where you can enjoy a cup of something and - y'know, paint pottery. :D I felt SO bad though, because I dragged Nat there and didn't even think about the fact that it takes them a week to burn and glaze the stuff, so she couldn't actually do anything. /o\ ihearthings_ii was there too, along with her sister, so we all sat at the same table and Nat just had to sit there and watch us, which, oh man. But she finally tried an elderflower drink, which I'd been guzzling all our days together so far, AND SHE LIKED IT! HELLS YES! \o/ We both had three elderflower drinks that day, I think. :DDDDDD

- After I finished my sushi dish CJ still wasn't done with her teapot, so we decided we'd meet up at our next destination at 4pm, so me and Nat had some time to walk around. We walked by the school I took my bachelor in, since we were in that area, and then went to a pretty big farmer's market that has ALL the delicious, upscale stuff.

- Then at 4pm we met up with CJ and her sister again, this time at La Glace; a very old, very fancy cake shop, where the cakes are SO rich and beautifully crafted. We hung out there for a while and heard about CJ's backpacking travels, which was awesome. :D

- Then we met up with Nat's fantastic parents, who had kindly offered to take me out for dinner as a thank you for housing their daughter. (BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A HARDSHIP.) I was kind of nervous, I can't lie, because I didn't want to be rude or disrespectful at any time, but I really shouldn't have been. Her parents are LOVELY and super sweet and complimentary. Apparently I hold my chopsticks like a boss. :D :D :D And they were so inquisitive too! It was super interesting talking about the differences in our cultures, since there are so many massive gaps. I can't wait to visit Nat in Singapore now.

Tuesday

- Tuesday was Nat's traveling day and I woke up feeling massively bummed. :/ We watched Rio, though, which always lifts my spirits (I have beautiful eyes~) and then we went for a walk. The 24th is my grandpa's death day, and I asked her if she was okay with going with me to his gravesite for a little bit, which she was. I didn't wanna make her uncomfortable and really hope I didn't (D:), I just wasn't sure if I'd have time to go later in the day and I always feel weird if I don't go see him on that particular day. So we went, and Nat was super lovely as always and went and filled up one of cemetery's watering cans for me so I could make sure everything looked nice before we walked on.

- I showed her a little bit more of local town, the part I actually live in, and we walked back to my place. We were both tired and kind of bummed out, so we decided to watch another movie (lol, this makes it sound like we just sat in front of a TV the whole time; I mean, we DID, but there was almost constant talking through all the stuff we watched.) We watched 17 Again, which remains flawless, and then it was time to take Nat to the airport. :(

- I was pretty fine until it came time for Nat and her parents to go through check-in and luggage drop-off. When we hugged goodbye I got all choked up and had a hard time not getting misty-eyed. I wasn't actually expecting it! But it sucked saying goodbye all around.

Meeting Nat face to face exceeded all of my already high expectations. It meant so much to me, because I feel like I've been through a damn lot with this girl. It was fantastic finally being able to put a face to a name, and a voice to her words. Sometimes it was a bit like being in the Twilight Zone; I think the first thing I said to her was OH MY GOD YOU'RE A REAL PERSON. I'm just - yeah. I'm so thankful.

epicflailer, I adore you so much, you ridiculously fantastic person, and I can't wait for the next time we meet up. You're such a competent, strong, independent woman who is so clear on what her values are, and I've never known that so much as when I finally got to see you be your fierce self in person. I admire the person you are so much, I can't even tell you. IT BETTER NOT ANOTHER SEVEN YEARS OR I WILL CROSS THE DAMN COUNTRIES BY FOOT IF I HAVE TO. ♥ ♥ ♥

Archive Of Our Very Own!

2012-04-08T23:44:59Z

So. This is slightly embarrassing, as I doubt anyone reads these anymore, and my writing is so way beyond stale it's starting to get a suspicious smell, but I've added a few of my fics to AO3, should you be interested. For archival purposes or whatever. Oh God, I'm gonna go bury my head in the sand now.

It's mostly the longer works I've done, but if there's anything else in particular you'd like me to add over there, just, y'know, let me know.

Oh! There is one new story actually! One I wrote for epicflailer's birthday last year and wasn't actually ever going to publish, but what the hell. More popslash in the AO3 archives I may! MOAR. So that's right here, brand-spanking new and everything, and a crossover too: Don't Strike Out Or The Paint Will Dry (Justin/Nick, whoo!)

That's it! I hope your Easter (breaks) are going swimmingly.

My new place!

2012-02-26T15:49:30Z

Hello! So recently (or well, not really, since I've been here for two months now) I got my very own casa! There's been so much restoration and decorating that needed doing, but now I'm finally done. Well, 98% done. Probably 95%. I swear, there's always something more to do.

It's a rental, and it's from the early 60's I believe, so most of it is old as something-we-don't-mention-in-polite-company, but it's mine and I love it so much. So I thought I'd share it with you! (Also because epicflailer asked me to, and we all know the drill around here, whatever she wants she gets.)

(Just in advance, apologies for what are bound to be crappy pictures. My camera wasn't cooperating, so I had to use my phone. TECHNOLOGY, YOU FICKLE FIEND.)

Welcome! So these are the pictures that greet you in the hallway before you enter my living room. (There's no reason to take pictures of my hallway, as it's teeny tiny and only has a cupboard and yes.) The pictures are from UUPP on Etsy, should you be interested! I had the middle one custom made though.

I decorated my room at my parents' in beige tones, and it stayed that way for five years, and while I absolutely loved that room, I most definitely needed color this time around. In case you couldn't tell. Ahem. But yes! My living room!

Artwork over my couch. I bought them from Tracey Capone on Etsy, one of the first things I bought last summer before I even had an apartment. I just fell in love with her pictures, and knew that that picture of the cherry blossom tree was going to lift my mood every time I looked at it. Definitely wasn't wrong. ♥

More of my living room. :D

Bedroom time! I don't know how obvious it is here, but that one wall is a light green. Super soothing.

MY VANITY, AKA MY LOVE, THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE, ETC ETC.

That wallsticker seriously took three hours to do. I was stressing so hardcore that my mom just ended up sitting there quietly and handed me the stickers as I went, lolol. Bless her.

Most of my base furniture is either Ikea or Ilva, by the way. If you don't have an Ilva near you I weep on your behalf. They kick Ikea's butt ANY day.

My wardrobe. :DDDDDD LOOK HOW BIG.

And now it's my little dining area, connected to the kitchen!

I'm so in love with those bar stools it's not even funny.

My kitchen! Which, with this particular apartment, came fully renovated, which was mostly why I so desperately wanted this particular place. It's gorgeous and there's SO much countertop space for how small it is. Love love love. The walls here are a pastel yellow, by the way, I can't tell how well the pictures pick up the wall colors.

Last, but not least, bathroom! Which I hate immensely for the tiles that you aren't allowed to replace and the floor you aren't allowed to cover, but ah well, I did what I could with it. The walls in here are a pastel purple.

My view. My courtyard is a lush green area with a playground and tons of trees. Basically couldn't have asked for anything more. I get the sun directly over the building across from mine. Annoying for picture time, gorgeous during sunsets.

There we go! Here is my new home. And you are ALWAYS welcome. ♥

Also, please keep your fingers crossed for me tomorrow! I'm finding out whether I got another job or not, and I need to get away from my current place so badly. It's ridiculous how hard it's gotten to get up and go to work each day, basically, so yes. Any good luck you have would be much appreciated!

W H Y .

2011-10-23T20:17:52Z

Who told you it was okay to look like that in an over-sized suit? THAT HAS NOT BEEN POPULAR SINCE THE NINETIES, ANDREW, DON'T YOU TRY TO BRING IT BACK WITH YOUR TUSSLED HAIR AND BAMBI EYES.

How much do you wanna bet that this wasn't even a damn pose? Probably just Andrew being Andrew. WHO DOES THAT? WHO? JERKS DO.

This post was brought to you by bubbleforest's endless hatred for Andrew Garfield's adorable face. Also the fact that he's apparently in exile right now. YOU KNOW IT'S THE BEARS THAT HIBERNATE, RIGHT, ANDREW? YOU'RE ALLOWED TO SHOW YOURSELF IN PUBLIC, GOOD SIR.

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

2011-10-16T17:50:16Z

I have not posted since January. That's. Holy crap. And I'm only really here to pimp MTYG, because IT'S BACK, Y'ALL:

And it's year TEN. I've been participating for half that time and I can't see myself ever not wanting to sign up. You're gonna join me, right? IMAGINE IF YOU GOT ASSIGNED TO ME. You'd get to write all the ridiculous pining in all the land.

ALSO WHAT IF I GOT ASSIGNED TO YOU? I would love to get assigned to you. So really, you should sign up.

Sign-ups start tomorrow! I still don't even know what pairing I'm gonna request this year. Maybe I'll throw a curveball and ask for AJ/Nick.

...Or maybe not. :D

ALSO DOES ANYONE WANT TO YELL WITH ME ABOUT ANDREW GARFIELD? BECAUSE THAT RIDICULOUS BASTARD HAS EATEN MY LIFE.

Sesa Reveal Post! Delayed like a boss.

2011-01-20T00:50:30Z

Oh man, thank you thank you thank you for all your well-wishes yesterday. I'm still walking around in a stupor where communication still mostly consists of me staring blankly at people and coming up with maybe two or three coherent words, but I'll reply to you all soon! Feeling thoroughly loved though, and highly undeserving. ♥

Let's cross off a thing from my check list! Sesa reveals happened as I was knee-deep in BA writing, so I didn't have energy to talk about my story at all. This will be relevant to absolutely no one, but ah well. It's tradition for me. :D

I wrote This Will Destroy You for call_me_loca, and let me tell you, when I opened up that email and it said that I would get to write AJ/Brian of all freaking things, I had to do a double check. AJ/BRIAN. I adore MTYG, but it tends to give me pairings I find super tricky to write, which is a challenge in itself and one I really appreciate, but. Yeah, I was just really happy.

So I had huge plans for this story, about three or four different plot ideas and just all-around excitement to get started. But then the BA came along and ate my soul, and when I looked around next it was a week before the deadline and I still didn't have a thing. Also really wouldn't have time for the things I had planned. (Priest AJ, you are forever scorned by me, I'm sorry. /o\)

When I looked around my computer I found the beginning paragraphs of a story about AJ and Brian breaking up. And it all just clicked. Really, I love writing about boys pining for each other, which people seem to know, as kikiduck seemed to guess me on that basis. :D It was a bit of a high-pressure situation, as I had to write it alongside my BA and had to make sure my groupmates wouldn't ask why I hadn't written my alotted sections of the paper on time, but I really enjoyed writing this story nonetheless.

I definitely felt rusty in the beginning, but parts of this thing just came out with me typing so fast that my fingers could hardly keep up, which never happens. I don't know, I just felt like I was being transported. I kept only instrumental music on and sat around just staring out my window a lot, trying to get into a detached frame of mind that in actuality wasn't detached at all.

Reading it back now parts of it definitely feel rushed to me as I was in a bit of a time-crunch, and I'm really unhappy with how I executed the final scene, because I've had that in my head forever and it wasn't meant to have been written as quickly as I wrote it. But the feedback I've gotten has been beyond lovely, some of the most heartfelt feedback I've gotten in the years I've been a part of MTYG. I can't wait to reply to it all, but just until then, thank you thank you for all the incredibly nice things you had to say about the story, and about my writing, and about the characters. Both AJ and Brian felt so different to me from how I usually write them, but then I put them in a different situation and you all seemed to really feel for them. Such a high compliment, I really can't be anything but humbled and grateful. ♥

Now's the time.

2011-01-18T21:27:28Z

My final oral exam was today, and I walked out of there with the second highest grade. Even stranger, I walked out of there being done with school entirely.

I now have a bachelor's degree in social education.

Weirdest fucking feeling ever. :D

I've been showered with love today though, both online and off. I haven't made a big deal out of it, and I still got five good luck texts this morning, three phone calls after I was done, a bouquet of flowers sent by delivery, a pair of earrings from my parents and tickets for a Harry-Potter-marathon-at-his-apartment from my brother. :D Plus people here have been so nice in wishing me good luck when I've mostly hid away from the world to study and freak out. ♥ These last couple of months have been absolute hell and I can't believe I get to say this: I get to spend tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, doing absolutely whatever I want.

Dammit.

2011-01-06T12:15:31Z

I've had no time to read or feedback or rec anything from MTYG this year and it's making me both sad and guilty. Freaking BA. :/ I'm so drained I can't even think straight anymore.

But! It gets handed in on Monday, so rest assured that I will read and feedback as much as I can after that. This is my public IOU.

Happy New Years!

2010-12-30T16:54:48Z

I've had no time to check in here - freaking BA is killing ny soul - but I'm sitting at the airport now, heading for Germany to spend NYE with saba1789! SO FREAKING STOKED MOVE FASTER CLOCK COME ON.

I hope you'll have have a fantastic New Years Eve! I hope I'll ser much more of all of you in 2011. <333333

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My brain. It is smush.

2010-12-21T19:46:43Z

I'M DONE. Phew. That was slightly more painful than I expected. Also completely, completely not the story I expected to write this year.

Excited though! And nervous. Really mostly nervous. Excited that my story's coming soon! \o/

I wish I could say that I could return to the world of interaction now, but I have to get straight back to working on my BA. School, I hate you, I'm so glad we're breaking up in a month and a half.

I've been slowly DYING for the past two days.

2010-12-16T15:05:59Z

Thank God I have friends who are actually able to keep up with all the videos that are popping up from the Backstreet Cruise, because I don't have the patience. They've dug up gem after gem after FREAKING gem.

They played a snippet of the new NKTOBSB song (which is super catchy, from what I can hear!) and AJ and Brian got totally into it. Brian's HEARTEYES at AJ the whole time, okay, I can't deal. Also them apparently singing "I love you like that" to each other with massive enthusiasm.

Where Brian depicts AJ's dream career choices surprisingly well and they are presh with their high-fives. Also, Bald Evil Kenivel. :DDDDDDDDD Howie, you snarky bastard.

THEY HAVE A DANCE-OFF. Okay, like, there are no words for how cute this is. Their hugs are gorgeous. :')

AROUND THE 10 MINUTE MARK, OKAY? THEY KISS AND UNICORNS SIMULTANEOUSLY DROP TO THEIR KNEES AND COTTON CANDY RAINS FROM THE SKY. I CAN'T EVEN DEAL WITH THE MACKING THAT GOES ON HERE.

Let's also include a Brian/Nick kiss around 0:55, because drunk affectionate Brian is apparently canon and it makes me so happy. :') Drunk affectionate Nick too, but I'm pretty sure Nick's standard operating mode is affectionate. ♥

And while we're at it!

Boys karaoking Bust A Move, because it's everything hilarious ever. They are the WHITEST and I love them so much.

BUT. AJ AND BRIAN, YOU GUYS. CORONARY APPROACHING, TBH.

Have we met?

2010-11-04T19:13:54Z

Oh my God, you guys. Thanks to _titch, I may just have found the missing puzzle piece of my life. It's. Asldkfodgkdrgkjdkjlkdrk. I can't even. I DON'T KNOW.

Um. Basically Brian apparently did a commercial ten years ago and you should watch it. Really. Fucking hell, the amounts of which I love him just multiplied by fifty thousand billion trillions.

Movie Music Machine from Jack Hattingh on Vimeo.

Assignments are out!

2010-11-01T22:38:55Z

So I have NO clue what to write. But I'm excited! :D

This is me toning it down though, I must say. I am keeping it in non-caps so at to not wake up your entire house right now. Um. Aslkodwkeofkdgdmgklg.

Hell YEAH, it's that time!

2010-10-27T13:19:57Z

So my life has been crazy lately and I still need to write my recap from Georgia, but let me just take a moment out of my post-exam paper exhaustion to pimp my absolutely favorite writing challenge ever.

It's the ~~ninth~~ tenth year for the popslash secret santa. How crazy is that? How awesome is that? I have to urge you to sign up if you haven't already! Even if you've drifted away from popslash, I think sesa is like a universal happy memory for all of us who've participated in it, you know? Maybe that's worth trying again even if you haven't written about boybands in a while. :D

I'm gonna be with this challenge foreverrrrr and I hope to see you there! ♥ (Plus, think of how likely it is that one of the guys will turn into an inanimate object in your story. Or an animal! Or a cyborg! The odds are incredible in this fandom.)

Quesssstionnnn.

2010-10-15T20:03:03Z

I don't even know what to say about this week yet. I'm jetlagged as hell, but even once I get my coherency back I'm never gonna be able to put all this AMAZINGNESS into words. Oh my God, you guys. Best decision ever to go on this trip. I miss mah _titch though. :(

Then I come home to all kinds of crap here, but whatever. I just wanted to say START GETTING READY FOR MTYG, Y'ALL. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD Pairing generator, I'm counting on you this year, man.

Georgia on my miiiind!

2010-10-06T20:49:52Z

UNITED STATES, HERE WE COME.

BRIAN THOMAS LITTRELL HERE WE COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

\o/

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

2010-09-25T12:03:03Z

Ooh, this 30 day Backstreet challenge looks like fun! (I'm completely late on this, aren't I? I bet I am. Goddamn.) How many of you have done it so I can go check 'em outtttt? Maybe I'll just do a bulk entry of them all so I won't be such an out-of-touch dweeb.

Maybe THIS will get me back in the LJ game! \o/ Because yeah, like ... yeah. I don't even know anymore.

So freaking insane that I'll be going to Atlanta and seeing Brian in a WEEK AND A HALF. I want to start spazzing in excitement, but I can't because I have a week and a half long exam to get through first. School, why does your timing suck so much?

ALSO REALLY EXCITED FOR MTYG RIGHT NOW, I DON'T KNOW WHY.

ADAM.

2010-09-15T09:03:02Z

ADAM.

ADAM.

ADAM!

UM. YEAH. BASICALLY. AND SOME OF MY FAVORITE LADIES IN THE WORLD. ALSO BRIAN SOON. I DON'T EVEN. I CAN'T. AM I BREATHING?

Haaaay!

2010-06-16T21:42:24Z

I did my first ever 5k race today, and didn't stop to walk once! It helps a lot that you're running with 5,000 other women and you get a bit competitive. :D I finished in 32 minutes, so not too shabby.

Also posting this from MAH NEW iPHONE, HALE YEAAAAH. It was love at first sight. Typing this out is a BITCH though. And I still have to name it!

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bubbleforest @ 2010-06-13T11:04:00

2010-06-13T09:04:55Z

I don't know how I ended up playing strip poker with the guys this weekend, but it was hilarious and MORTIFYING. lolololol I work with these guys and now I've seen them in their undies, good lord.

Gah, I adore all three of them so much. We're nearing the end of my internship and they keep telling me how much they're gonna miss me, and I keep doing the same, and at the summer party this weekend we were all drunk so it was amplified to, like, five hundred. We're sappy bastards on a normal day, it was totally awesome.

Ugh, I don't even wanna think about leaving that place. I've never been around a group of people who make me feel so incredibly special by just being myself. And I may be slightly crushing on one of the guys, who is TOTALLY unavailable and yet keeps flirting the pants off of me EVERY single day, oh my godsdffgkjhldgk. It's all really exhilarating and confusing and fun and that's just going to work. I don't even know anymore.

OKAY NEVERMIND, no one cares about this high school babbling, ANYWAY. I'm getting an iPhone tomorrow! \o/ All the grandkids got some more money when we sold grandma's house, and I decided that now's the time, since it's not gonna be that expensive every month if I just buy the whole phone off the bat. You iPhone savants are gonna have to point me to the right places! Please? ♥

Back to witches and wizards and magical beasts.

2010-05-28T13:48:09Z

I still don't even know how to describe the past couple of weeks, they've been so freaking amazing. Of course, it might also because I've gotten so lazy that reading or writing anything over two paragraphs requires an immediate nap, but still! Once I have a spare second I really just wanna sit down and write about everything. Why do I have to wait a year every time to see you people? UNFAIR.

I'm going to my cousin's son's christening on Sunday and I bought this for the occasion. It's so pretty I just wanna roll around in it all the time. You know that feeling when the only thing you're actually looking forward to about an event is the dressing up part? DENMARK WEATHER, YOU BETTER START BEHAVING.

Ending this quick and random entry now, as I'm on my way to IKEA to get this fancy laptop thingamabobber that I saw at ihearthings_ii's apartment this weekend. Also to hopefully replace the lamp that I broke during me and iconis' night of debauchery. :D

"I love that guy, man. He's incredible."

2010-05-23T09:56:05Z

ASDFKLÆDSFGHKLFG;DFKGH45869[DFGKH.

SO MUCH KRADAM LAST NIGHT.

I CAN'T EVEN.

THEY LOVE EACH OTHER. Oh my God, giddy giddy boys who are so happy to see each other and. They CHOSE to be roommates. ASdfgkhjkdfgf. AND TWITTER COMMUNICATION! :'D

Unffff season 8, still so freaking epic even after a year.

bubbleforest @ 2010-05-23T10:25:00

2010-05-23T08:25:46Z

I CAN HAZ AN iconis ANY MINUTE NOW. \o/ And I've been hanging out with her and ihearthings_ii all weekend. We got lured in by Jesus! Wear it like a druid! Massive amounts of shopping!

I'm such a lucky person right now, it's ridiculous.

BY THE WAY, I love you all and I'm sorry I haven't been around for any kind of post-Sparkle commenting. /o\ I'm gonna do a recap as soon as I can, and go back and comment on stuff I need to comment on. How do you recap an epic week like that though? NOT POSSIBLE.

Badger badger badger badger badger.

2010-05-14T21:32:09Z

I am home! Simultaneously purring at the sight of my own bed (BED OH HOW I MISSED YOU) and sadfacing so hard that Camp Sparkle is over. OVER. D: Why do you people not live with me all year long? I don't understand the universe sometimes.

First time I've had to say goodbye after a full week as well, I don't know how you guys have been doing it all these years. There's seriously nothing better than hanging out with so many of my favorite people all at once. When will I ever be cool enough to ride in a pink limo again? Nevahhhhh.

More coming soon, after I've slept for fifteen hours and been to a wedding, but for now:

I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH OMG. RANDOM CLAPPING FOR ALL! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

QUACK!

2010-05-06T22:19:27Z

Oh my god, I cannot pack. I am so incapable of this seeminly mundane task it's ridiculous. SHIRTS AND PANTS, WHY DO YOU WEIGH SO MUCH? I just want to walk around England being dressed!

But adsfgjkladsfgkhk, climbing the wallllls right now, in twelve hours I'll be with some of my favorite people in the world and I'm so freaking stoked. Pixi Stix and hot tubs and dancing boys, OH MY. :D :D :D