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I saw Welcome to Night Vale live on stage, and it was an amazing performance capping a wonderful day with friends. I assume that eventually the spring show will be available for download, so no spoilers, I guess? But it was completely excellent. The area around the theatre was filled with people wearing purple and themed shirts. And there was a surprise!izzybeth, so EXTRA excellence occurred. NIGHT VALE, guys. FANPEEPS, GUYS.

I missed BP like crazy. I hope everyone had a blast.

I went to the local comic convention on my ownsome. I got to meet one of the creators of Watson & Holmes and was so effusive (both to him and to the girls who happened by the table while I was there) that when I bought a physical copy of issue six, he gave me a t-shirt, too. I also bought some prints from a guy whose recent official work was for DC, but whose convention table featured several of my favorite Marvel characters drawn beautifully. Miss America! Wiccan! Captain Marvel! So pretty!

And I bought Lumberjanes 1, which is pretty much the best thing ever and everyone should read it. Also, the Lumberjanes pledge is wonderful and better than any pledge I ever took as a kid. I want to be brave and kind! I want to question the world!

I was asked out on a date. I accepted. The date went well, but the guy immediately moved me into the "girlfriend" slot in his mind because there were daily good morning texts. And I'd been clear that I was dating casually. And that I don't really text. And yet. Second date was postponed due to illness, but it needs rescheduling so that I can ... tell him I'm not interested in person. I know, that's not strictly necessary this early on - except I met him through a new group of friends and I don't want more awkwardness than I can avoid.

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My last post was in February? Really? Ok, then. Expect an Actual Post soon. Perhaps even later this weekend!

HOWEVER. In the meantime, it is bitchinparty weekend. And I am distinctly not in Seattle, because distance. If you've found me on twitter, you've already seen me using #bpenvy on that site to try and have some con-less fun - and if you haven't, I'm injiver there. So far, the main conversations in the tag are "what we are doing while not at BP" and "a single song that always reminds you of a particular character/pairing" Please join in there if you tweet or here if you don't (where 'here' means whichever journal you're seeing this on). I'll be around off and on tonight and after I get out of work tomorrow, but hopefully any conversations started will be self-sustaining in my absence. Also, new topics welcome! I'll add them to this post if you start something new in comments.

And maybe someone else has started/wants to start some con-envy activities on their own journals? Links please!

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When I have no time, I want to write. When I have time... I give myself writer's block.

Awesome.

It's sunny here today and the mounds of snow have turned to weighted slush. I'm considering whether I should stop by the parents and offer to lift things higher in the basement, because the snow at the end of their drive was higher than my head last weekend, and I have no idea where all that water's going to go. My back hurts still from last week's bulldozer adventures, so I'm avoiding further shoveling.

I scored tickets to the closest Welcome to Night Vale live show, which was slightly more difficult than it needed to be, thanks ever so, venue. I am looking forward to it, though! And I officially have that entire day off, so I can go play in the city ahead of the show.

Did I tell y'all about the anime con? Yes, no, maybe? Ok, I just checked. No, I did not! So. I went to an anime con, briefly met a hieronymousmosh who was in the city for Unrelated Reasons (probably she's a spy), and got to hang out with the much missed watchersprout for an entire weekend.

Also, I hung out with watchersprout's boyfriend (aka a con guest and therefore the reason she was at this particular con), another of her friends from up here, and occasional assorted others who were mostly accompanying the other guests. I dressed as a comic book character and went mostly to the 18 years + panels and learned some dirty ASL. (Also, props to the convention for providing ASL interpreters, even if the poor boy-type one was completely embarrassed by the language at the roast and repeatedly had to tag out with the others.) And I bought a cool-seeming card game, if I can ever get friends into the same physical space to play it.

This weekend, I'm going to an itty-bitty new local comic con, followed by a Meet Up event. I signed up for Meet Up awhile back but have yet to actually... meet with anyone. Partly because my schedule is terrible for planning things, but also because new people are terrifying. But I'm going to this one. *strong face*

I read Ancillary Justice, and it's as good as you've heard. If you like spaceships, unique characters, betrayal and quests for vengeance, and/or interesting social construction of gender, you should check it out.

I'm now reading Aurorarama, and it's not so great. I don't like the main POV characters and there's too much going on with the steampunk-ish setting. Which, actually, is my complaint with most of the steampunk I've read - too many concepts stacked on top of each other until plot and character vanish below the waves. Although at least this one doesn't seem likely to introduce aliens two thirds of the way through. Still not sure if there's time travel going on or not. Which you would think would be obvious, but sadly not.

Also, I have little to no interest in fictional drug use/abuse. And there's a lot of it in this book. Blargh.

Anyway. Back to writing. What's new with you?

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Happy More Joy Day, everyone! I am much less than prepared this year! And yet, I would like to do something that will make you smile. So, ask me for something - a story (true) or a fic (truthy), a short recording (bearing in mind my lack of 'real' equipment) or a photo of something at this end of the modem. Tomorrow is my day off, and I will spend it making these things happen...

...as well as making January cards happen. So if you want a RANDOM postcard from my grandpa's neverending box o' postcards, make sure I have your address (and preferred mode of address if you'd rather not get something to your fannish name) which you can DM or email me. djinnjer AT gmail DOT com (This email address will self-destruct in two days, so that I'm comfortable leaving this not locked.)

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And despite a brief trip to work to confirm that we should not open in this weather (I fought the snow drift that ate my car AND WON), I am now in my apartment. Again. And bored despite A MILLION THINGS I COULD DO WITH THIS TIME. Again.

So I'm going to write? And I'm going to warm-up with my favorite ficlet-producing exercise - hitting shuffle on my music library and writing for the length of a song. If anyone would like to see a particular pairing/character come out of that, leave the name(s) in comments!

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Hi, all! So.... my past year of posts fits on a single screen? Wow. A year in review summary is not exactly necessary!

I did, however, write all of two three fic and a mini-fic. First off, I have a dSSS reveal! ( stuff written by me!Collapse )

In nonfic, I actually had a good year. Everyone AROUND me had scary/sad/bad years, but my personal year was pretty okay. I went to MJ and had a fabulous time! I visited my Carolina cousin and my other cousins! I got a promotion and a new old apartment! I ran my first 5k! I started going to knit night regularly and am beginning to cultivate a few new friendships as well as this whole "knitting" skill.

In the new year, I'm going to write more (whether that's fanfic, original stories, LJ/DW entries, or just allll the letters I owe). I'm going to connect more with friends, existing, and with friends, to be. Possibly with boy-or-girl-friend to be. I'm going to travel so much, my wallet is already wincing. I'm going to keep being me and, hopefully, keep being a better version of me than I was the day before.

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A twitter-sized post, though I didn't post the poll to twitter. Yes, I am going to North Carolina! (Part of the) last full week of the month! Both cousin and I are excited, though I feel I am abusing more exclamation points! And I will see other cousin and cousin-in-law and toddler cousin once removed. Yay!

In unrelated news, I was handed an envelope by a coworker. Inside was a rather wordy invitation from a customer to have coffee or lunch - with a phone number that connects to a "recording device" so I can call anytime. And his address. With clarification so I'd know he comes from the good part of the nearby 'bad' town. (If he actually knew me, he'd have known I don't really care.)

Sadly, the card is from a regular whom I am friendly with because it is my job, and not yesterday's cute guy with the mysterious accent (to me, for I am terrible at accents) who asked for sci-fi and fantasy recs and name-checked Bujold as his favorite sci-fi author. And now I'm in the position of... calling someone to let them down gently? (Clearly, this is something to do from a store phone, not mine. Perhaps I should simply pass him a note back.)

Oh, look, this is practically tumblr length! Someday, I shall tumbl, and it will be glorious.

Ok. To bed, to read more Fangirl, which is good so far.

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I need your advice!

I took off the week of September 22, because I am at use-it-or-lose-it time when it comes to vacation days. I had been planning on a staycation and more making the apartment habitable. (There are STILL things to clean. Because it is old, and the last tenants not particularly thorough. Also, I am possibly picky.)

BUT. I received a letter in the mail from my favorite cousin, making clear the standard 'you should visit sometime' was actually, 'no, seriously, anytime!' So maybe I should go to North Carolina? Airfare is high-ish and the drive is long.



Also, I need to pick out a book to make my '100 Club' handsell. Because district manager says I am good at handselling, so why am I not in the 100 club already? Ifreet should Get On That. Only, I am good at handselling books related to the books someone already likes. I have a harder time coming up with "everyone should read this!" titles.

My goodreads account is here and these are some of my particular favorites. But several of them are not currently in print in this country (including my first choice to handsell! *shakes fist at Fred Vargas's U.S. publisher*) and most of them are genre, which can be a hard sale to a nongenre reader. I am leaning towards Among Others by Jo Walton or possibly The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin. Or maybe Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie? Argh.

Suggestions? Or just things I need to read?

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Fandom: Star Trek (2009)
Characters: Kirk, McCoy
Notes: A salvageable piece from an example of why I don't do plot.

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Or as the kids call it, amnesty day.

Title: Hide and Seek
Fandom: Inception
Pairing/Characters: pre-Eames/Arthur
Warnings: none
Notes: I'd call this done-done, but my first readers seemed to want me to actually attain Eames/Arthur by extending the story. Months later, I declare that that's not going to happen. Originally for cottoncandy_bingo, for the square "Characters as children."
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Hello, dreamwidth and livejournal! Despite having come down with plague (or the common cold) again, I yet live!

Last week, my local comic book shop decided to throw a release party for Superman... Unchained #1. Yeah. That's right - it was not a movie release party, it was a first issue release party (at which someone would win tickets to the movie). Superman is the owner's hands-down favorite character, and when I picked up the previous week's pulls, one of the guys specifically asked if I'd be coming to the event. So I roped akarui_rynka into staying out way too late on a Tuesday night with me to buy a comic at midnight that neither of us had any particular interest in. Me, because I'm a Marvel girl. She, because she doesn't follow Superman - other Supers, yes; Superman, no. But come on, midnight release at the comic shop - we had to check it out.

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* They do have a bundle of The Authority 0-12 in the discount bins, and I'm sure people have talked about that series around me - does someone want to tell me if I should head back and buy it?

In other news, I am reading all the Avengers fanfiction and wallowing in some WiPs that I can't honestly recommend, except apparently they are hitting on my bulletproof tropes pretty damn hard. Emotional h/c that is at least in part self-inflicted/exacerbated by the hurt character's inability/unwillingness to articulate that the problem even exists? Yes, please.

I am betaing a due South fic for someone who doesn't know me by this pseud. But I am all for more due South fic existing, so, sure I will beta for you, person I met in RL first.

And I'm maybe possibly writing sometimes. A little. So far, it's mostly short scenes rather than actual fic with storylines. But maybe I will have something worth posting eventually. *shrug* Maybe I should just post the not-exactly fics.

So! How are things?

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Seriously, at some point I need to fix my icons. "Whee" it is!

Hi, all! Hi, new people! I went to a convention, had fun, and returned straight to work. Which naturally means I came down sick the following week with the cough that struck half the convention. I have done a lot of sleeping. Yesterday, I celebrated an entire day of wakefulness by watching The Unusuals. All 10 episodes. (I had seen some of them before, but my memories were foggy at best. Also, at the time they aired I had no reason to be squeeful over one of the leads' other roles.)

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And now, since I started this right before I have to work, I guess that's as much as I'm writing!

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So, I almost posted about a month ago, and I saved a draft and... yeah, so I just changed the access level to flock from private. Oops? Failing at social media - I make it an art!

Hi, everyone! I'm not dead! I'm working tonight and going to the airport in the ugh-morning, and I shall be in Boston by tomorrow afternoon. BUT I will be staying at a hostel tomorrow night, not the main hotel because without a roommate that extra night felt expensive. So if anyone else is around during the day, let me know ( to come find you?Collapse ) I am excited to see some of you soon!

And if I'm not going to be seeing you soon, enjoy equinox anyway!


Ok, eep, off to pack. What do I need? What do I want? What bizarro hoops will I have to be prepared for at security?

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I have emerged from the MJ waitlist, I have requested the days off, and I have booked flights which was harder than it should have been. Now I just need to figure out sleep-space. Is anyone I already know looking for a roommate? (Though, I did meet one of my best friends, fannish or otherwise, from the roommate thread the first year, so maybe I should reserve a room and hope for the best!) \mostly official/

Also, I am on a following spree on Twitter, as apparently I am actually going to use Twitter? So if you got a random follow from an injiver, that is me (ifreet, djinnjer, and other, more obvious variants on ginger were taken). If I haven't found you, feel free to comment/follow me. Still trying to figure out if I should lock my tweets or not. Probably yes? I don't know.

Relatedly, I am trying to figure out Google+, yes, finally. The reason for the delay is that I've used the same Gmail address for both fannish and nonfannish contacts for years, so untangling the two seems unlikely. Despite policing my journal for accidental linking of identities, I'm not too concerned about other fans figuring out who I am in RL - but I'm not entirely comfortable with work-people, past or present, figuring out my fannish pseud. I don't know, I don't know. Google was not thinking of me when they rolled out plus.

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Hi, Happy More Joy Day! (Or day after more joy day, depending on where you are in relation to my timezone).

So! I have spread a little offline joy today, I hope. And now I turn to you, my further-flung friends, bearing a box full of odd, old postcards. If you would like something beautiful, mysterious, or simply inexplicable to turn up in your mailbox, then hit me with an address in comments (screened), through LJ or DW's message system, or in my email if you have it (or want to obtain it from the locked entry linked from my profile page).

(Just in case, let me know if you'd rather the postcard not reference fannish names/things - or if fannish things are okay, provided they then be hidden within an envelope.)

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It is Sunday, and I have the day off! Yesterday, I also had the day off and DID NOTHING due to fall weather - until a friend's birthday party anyway. Then I dolled up and went out and actually had a fairly awesome time despite talking to (mostly) strangers! My friends are awesome and know interesting people.

But this means I have fifteen billion things I should do/have done by tomorrow, and only until five to do them (due to plans to go see a Derby movie/fundraiser for the local Roller Derby team).



eta: Man, I did not even remember to include "Bake cupcakes" option. I am the worst at polls.

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Yes, that has been in question. Again.

Title: Here's the story
Fandom: Avengers (2012)
Pairing: Steve/Tony
Notes: no warnings, but contains spoilers for the movie (which I then proceed to handwave, but still. Spoilers). For sisterofdream, because she is older than she was a year ago and somehow more awesome as well. And for cottoncandy_bingo, my parenthood square.

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I have been minimally online (read: I have checked email/updated facebook on my phone) while attending a one-year vow renewal on a beach for a college friend and her husband, with college friends. And I am still not-really-here, because I am still on vacation even if I have left the beach, so I should be out doing things! But I needed to hop online from a scenic starbucks* to share something awesome.

Something awesome enough that I'm glad I was sitting down when I received the email notification, because there was honestly physical flailing.

ponderosa drew fanart of my Ford/Sterling Leverage story "Man with a Plan." If you haven't seen her art before, her work is amazing - and in this particular case, near/at the NSFW end of the scale. (Given the content of the story, that really shouldn't be a surprise, but just in case.) This particular piece is gorgeous. The technical aspects - the color, the light - are amazing. The expressions on the characters' faces are complex and perfect - I love that Ford's eyes are closed or lowered enough that their eyes don't meet, that Sterling looks a little stunned.

Anyway, since this is a fandom of, like, three (possibly four now?), if you've read the story and/or find the pairing interesting, please go take a look and leave her feedback!


*Starbucks! I am disappointed in my inability to find a more interesting local spot. ETA: My local guide has instructed me to abandon this town for another, where I will have better luck.

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I am on the upward swing of a monstrous summer cold. It struck just in time to bench me from the Derby fundraiser, but akarui_rynka volunteered to drive to the Marian Call concert, thank goodness, because I was going to that no matter what, and that drive home would have been a mistake if I'd been attempting it myself. But I was not! And the concert was SO FUN.

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Seriously, there were so many great moments. I wish I'd felt better; I'm glad I went anyway. I had such a great time - and getting FB messages from Rynka about her favorite songs from the new album in the days following the concert made me grin so hard. And I'm excited that Marian Call is passing back through my area in a couple weeks. Hopefully, I will be off work and over the last of this cold. If you get a chance to see her, go!

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