Between you and gravity

I wrote a couple of things ...

2013-04-19T21:54:23Z

... that have nothing whatsoever to do with paperlegends and I may actually be doomed.

My friend Christina dragged me into One Direction (shutup) and then this happened to me: http://cherrybina.tumblr.com/post/48278017590/niallscanadiangirl-they-are-thrusting-holy-fuck
and I have no defence at all against Zayn's face, so.

I resisted writing it for a really long time because pervy old lady but then I accidentally stood on the shards of my shame in the middle of the night and these happened ..

Harry/Michael Clifford (guy from 5 Seconds of Summer who Harry's been snuggling with). Basically it's tour bus porn: http://archiveofourown.org/works/765993

And then I got linked to the above gif set and somehow wrote Zayn/Niall A/O knotting/heat porn in three hours at work yesterday: http://archiveofourown.org/works/766427

... I got nothing. I need to get onto paperlegends - lol.

21 first lines meme

2013-04-16T00:03:37Z

Ganked from .... ... everyone.

1) "You sure?" Tony turns to glance at Bruce as he puts his foot down, resettling in his seat.

2) It’s the smell that draws him.

3) It might be expected that when Sherlock dreams, he dreams of flight. Or perhaps falling.

4) Richard first sees Peter in 1963, at a club.

5) Sherlock stands outside the door of the club, his eyes closed.

6) They meet at Oxford.

7) The first time; after the first time - Sherlock lays John out on his back, on the bed, and studies him with the same intensity he studies bodies at a crime scene.

8) The music feels different.

9) "So - is there anything about it that you miss?"

10) Adam moves through the party easily; a drink in one hand; the other free to slap someone's back, or pinch someone else's ass; or sling an arm around a shoulder, fake-smile in place as a picture is taken.

11) Adam knows he's made a mistake, as soon as the words are out there.

12) "So how’s the tour going?"

13) Adam locks his car, and curses at the rain, coming down heavy as he’s crossing the road.

14) Being around water always makes Adam feel good.

15) Tommy gives the illusion of constant movement, but he's really a still kind of person.

16) It's not something Tommy's ever told anyone.

17) Cobb wakes up as a large wave buffets him to the shore. Again.

18) Adam had thought the club was an urban legend.

19) Tommy closes his eyes and puts his hands flat on the bar.

20) Sunset is the most painful time of day.

21) The fall can be beautiful. And the fall can take centuries.

IT HAS BEGUN.

2013-02-01T10:31:30Z

By which I mean, paperlegends sign-ups are open: http://paperlegends.livejournal.com/

Paperlegends!!!

2013-01-04T20:35:40Z

I write therefore I ..

2012-11-25T07:52:19Z

... forget the rest.

I haven't done much writing lately. With great effort I finished my entry for the spn rebang. It's a Dean/Cas 1940s AU which makes it sound a lot more fancy than it really is. It's basically porn set in 1947-ish. It's here, if it's your kind of thing: http://archiveofourown.org/works/564377

Aside from that I've been frozen with indecision about what to start next, and petting the hurt feelings of my scorned bathroom meme, which is here, if it's your kind of thing: http://janesgravity.dreamwidth.org/7931.html

There's only three prompts after something like two or three weeks, but I believe in it dammit!
If you know anywhere I can pimp it out, or if you feel like pimping it out yourself, let me know/feel free. At the moment it's the little meme that maybe could if it could just find somebody to love. (I deleted it off LJ, btw, in case anyone's looking. It just exists here now).

I ramble.

Uh. Frozen by indecision. Right.

I should poke at Atoms (Bruce/Tony) and write the second/final part of that. Or uh, I signed up for this: http://dchappyendings.livejournal.com/ and uh, I guess I could start something?

I want to write Mordred fic. Like. Really really really really badly. Partly because Alex Vlahos is an actual human cupcake, and partly because I think there should be ALL THE MORDRED FIC because god knows he's not getting any screen time (let's save that rather butthurt stan-rant for another post Jane shall we?)

There are so many possibilities. So. Many. And we're back to frozen with indecision. I genuinely don't know what I want to work on, if anything. I want to do something, I think, but the question is what? This is my brain at the moment. -.-

Apparently I committed to doing nano this year, but I haven't written word one. I've barely written anything at all this month and I haven't kept track of my word count for GYWO at all but November's been a bit - extremely - pants.

We lost Scout - one of our cats - to cancer a few weeks ago, we've had two other cats at the vets for surgeries on bad teeth and a lacerated tongue respectively and my creative energy has been really lacking.

What that means is ideas keep pinging around in my brain like a little ball in a pinball machine and I can't settle to anything at all and blergh.

On the bright side, I've finished about four or five books lately so .... go me?

I saw Skyfall last Thursday. I haven't seen Quantam of Solace so I can't compare, but I found Skyfall a bit lacking? I'm not sure why. Parts of it were great - the first chase, and Javier Bardem, and new!Q but the story felt really stretched, and I thought they waited too long to introduce the main villain. I felt like I was waiting for something that never quite eventuated.

I also started watching Apollo 18 on Friday night but ended up falling asleep on the couch.

I'm being dragged into One Direction by Christina, but the less said about that, the better.

Oh! Also, if you haven't been listening to The Confessions of Dorian Gray, you really really really really really should. It's a radio play of sorts, on big finish: http://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/the-confessions-of-dorian-gray and Dorian Gray is read by Alex Vlahos and it's so very good.

Sigh. Maybe it's time to read On Writing for a fourth time. See if Mr King's words of wisdom can kick start anything.

Wonderful.

2012-11-23T19:58:13Z

Twitter is down on both web and my phone. And so is AO3.

Fandom aid for Hurricane Sandy

2012-11-01T18:33:36Z

ETA: Here's my buy-it-now offe: http://fandomaid.livejournal.com/52858.html?thread=427386#t427386

Signal-boosting

I wrote a thing!

2012-10-11T06:52:34Z

It's Tony/Bruce - well it will be, when I get the second part written. I've put the first part up for now because I kind of need to focus on the SPN rebang for the next few weeks and I can't do that if science!bros are cluttering up my brain.

So hurrrr is part 1 on the AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/534238 come and say Nice Things? :D

Words

2012-09-30T20:21:34Z

I seem to have crawled out of the non-writing ditch finally. Post-big bangs is always a bit traumatic and I always, always forget.

But yay, writing! I don’t want to talk too much about what because it’s a delicate flower and a special snowflake and if I look at it too hard it will disappear along with my muse.

So sshhhh … my words are fragile ;p

What else, what else.

I’m off work this week – it’s the school holidays here so I’m hanging with the 5 year old. Based on the weather so far, we’re going to be watching a lot of movies – lol.

I’m a terrible, terrible mum, so he’s seen The Avengers and somehow he’s got the idea that HULKSMASH! (that’s what he thinks Hulk’s name is) is Pepper Potts’ dad. It’s one of those … “yes, yes he is” moments because otherwise you end up in an in-depth discussion with a five-year-old. Which can be fun but can also make you want to go and rock in a corner a little bit.

The other thing I’ve been doing is playing this on my phone:

I’m addicted. I can’t get past fungus, but I’m addicted anyway.

That’s it. That’s all I have.

Mulling

2012-08-26T08:15:03Z

Mostly I’m mulling what to work on next – lol. I figured I’d give myself some time off after the inherent drama of getting my paperlegends fic posted (link here: http://archiveofourown.org/chapters/860059) and I spent most of last week watching Dr Who and not doing much else.

Which I was looking forward to doing, but oddly it made me twitchy. So I’m going back into the writing trenches this week. The question is – what do I work on?

I have some ideas for more in this ‘verse: http://archiveofourown.org/works/487883#comments knocking around but I don’t know. It’s not a pairing I would normally write, plus knotting and mpreg … two things I was sure I would never, ever write. Um. Oops?

I could poke at kink bingo or cotton candy bingo for something, or shuffle at the dragon big bang maybe. I have a few ideas knocking about and I’ve been poking at the Avengers kink meme and the Merlin kink meme.

I like the idea of something along the lines of Merlin and Arthur are together/break up – but they don’t get back together. Fast-forward a few years, and Arthur is seeing someone else, and it’s serious … ~~Leon~~, and Merlin is on the verge of something with someone else too (either Gwaine, or new!Mordred). If it’s new!Mordred, for some reason there’s an age difference. Like – Merlin, Arthur et al are in their mid-30s and Mordred is about 24-25.

Say they all gather for Lance and Gwen’s wedding and they all haven’t seen each other in a while and … I don’t know. I just like the idea of exploring that dynamic.

I’m rambling a little bit because I’m hungry – lol.

I’m surprised I’m not more burned out from battling to get paperlegends finished to be honest. Usually that’s what happens to me and I can’t write for weeks – lol. This time, however, *fingers crossed* writing seems to have led to more writing. Well, that’s the hope, at least. There are a couple of Avengers kink meme prompts that I really like the look of, and there’s also – maybe – the possibility of doing Dean/Cas for bondage (other) for kink bingo.

Although I do like the idea of Dean/Cas for pervertibles … the possibilities of that are pretty much endless.

Lol I’m fandom-hopping at the moment, fic-wise. But let’s call that a good thing. It’s a challenge, and it’s good for my brain cells.

Yes.

The "I finished paperlegends where's my fucking t-shirt" post

2012-08-20T08:20:05Z

I DID IT. OH MY GOD. It's the longest fic I've ever written and I immediately hobbled myself because it's Percival/OMC and not Merlin/Arthur. I mean, there's Merlin/Arthur in it but it's very background and very pre-slash and I knew even while I was sweating blood over it that about three people would read it but I didn't care ...

That's a lie. I totally care because EGO but the most important thing is that I finished it and made the word count and got it done.

Would I like a hundred comments telling me how awesome I am? Yes, of course. Like most writers I have a giant, fragile ego that likes to be petted and stroked ... my ego is a cat, basically.

But, hey. I DID IT, I FUCKING DID IT. And I'm really, really proud of myself for that.

Link here: http://ficbyjane.livejournal.com/8267.html
Art link here: http://xsilverdreamsx.livejournal.com/33277.html - go give my awesome artist some love, too :D :D

I need some ideas

2012-07-20T08:44:57Z

I keep looking at my kink bingo card and my brain goes ... ... ... http://janesgravity.dreamwidth.org/6154.html - there's some awesome prompts on the card but my brain can't get down with the kink for some reason.

Plus, fandoms. I'm leaning sort-of maybe towards Avengers, Merlin and mmmmmmmaybe Supernatural but Supernatural is HUGELY intimidating so idk, idk.

Ideas?

Book meme

2012-07-11T09:46:36Z

Ganked from katzb101:

1.) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2.) Italicize those you intend to read.
3.) Underline those you LOVE.
4.) Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather shove hot pokers in your eyes than read.

01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte</u>
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06. The Bible
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare _ Some, but I'd rather watch Shakespeare than read it.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Dragon big bang

2012-07-07T02:02:05Z

Come join the Dragon Big Bang! Author sign ups start July 1st!
Author Sign-ups | Artist Sign-ups

big bangs and dragons and bingos ... oh my ....

2012-07-07T01:56:55Z

There’s a Dragon big bang. I’m not even going to try and talk myself out of it.

BECAUSE DRAGONS.

It’s here: http://dragonbigbang.livejournal.com/

It’s ~only 10k and rough drafts aren’t due until November 1, so it’s well outside of the Merlin big bang deadlines. Which. Nrghadfoidfsasfd

I haven’t written word one since last Saturday. My son has been sick – he got strep throat and scarlet fever, and so I really needed to be mum more than I needed to be SUPERJANE WRITER EXTRAORDINARY (I’ve had sugar).

He’s much better now, thanks to the wonders of modern medicine, but I’ve been tired at the end of the day, and feeling capable of no more than watching Supernatural (I’ve just watched S4 and now I need ALL OF THE DEAN/CAS FIC) and playing angry birds. So, that’s what I’ve been doing.

It’s been kind of weird but I’ve been such a potato after work and then dealing with a sick/clingy child when I get home … (that sounds harsh, he’s with his Dad during the day but we all know mums have magic healing powers) … and I couldn’t really take time off. Anyway, the upshot is I’ve played a lot of angry birds. And Temple Run. And bejewelled ….

However, I’m hoping to get back on track with the big bang now. I have about what … three weeks before the challenge starts to go live? I can do it. I just need to not freak out and work out what I can do in the time that I have. :D

I also signed up for kink bingo, which runs for a year, and I’m hoping to use it when I need a ‘break’ from the big stuff. I got a very varied card, which is in the post below this one. I haven’t had a chance to study it properly yet, but I will in the next day or so, hopefully. :D

Reel_merlin is due on August 19, and I haven’t started that yet, but I’m not too worried. I’m not planning a magnificent octopus giganticus for that. I’m going for gratuitous porn, sort of. ~~~Easy, right?

Stop laughing. -.-

Kink bingo!

2012-07-03T08:20:01Z

Editing post to add Cotton Candy bingo card:

Heart (Shape)	Being silly	Sunshine and blue skies	Piercing / Tattoo / etc	Locked out
Heirloom / Antique	Huddling under covers	Day off	Surprise	Lonely / Alone
Food	Hats	WILD CARD	Four seasons (one or all)	Secret admirer
The little things	Silk / Satin	Playing music	Hug	Sleeping
Watching someone	Sing	Moon	Glow-in-the-dark	Morning

I haz a card!

bondage (other)	tickling	animal play	medical kink	double penetration
caning	electricity	dressup	temperature play	vanilla kink
chastity devices	spanking / paddling	wildcard	class fantasies	bodies and body parts
mechanical / technological	scars / scarification	tattoos / tattooing	pervertibles	plushie or furry kink
nippleplay / tit torture	guns / blades	shaving / depilation	sex toys (non-penetrating)	obedience

If it's not one thing ...

2012-06-30T08:15:50Z

...

So the deadline for the Paperlegends big bang was yesterday. Last weekend I had Noble Goals of writing enough every day to at least get to 20k to submit.

That ... did not happen.

Work is work but it is busy at the moment. What I didn't count on, however, was my son getting sick. I thought, at first, he just had a bad cold and possibly an ear infection because that's usually how he rolls.

We kept him home from school from Wednesday and luckily now, it's school holidays because he doesn't have a cold. Oh, no nothing so simple

I got worried today because he was complaining about how his stomach hurt when he coughs, and he's barey eaten since Wednesday.

So I pledged half a kidney, and we took him to the after-hours doctor today (seriously $60 for a 10-minute consult. I knew I should have taken him yesterday - normally healthcare here is free for under-6s) and it turns out he has strep throat and scarlet fever.

Which explains the pain because his lymph nodes are swollen, and the fact he's been off his oats and waking up in the middle of the night wanting to get into bed with me. Which is fine, but it's not so great for the writing.

Thanks to paperpushers, I got about 580 words written today, and I'm up to 13.5k which I think is going to have to be my rough draft.

I have the brain capacity of an onion that's been bounced down a flight of stairs. All I've been doing this week apart from work and taking care of Patrick is watching S4 of SPN and playing angry birds. And sometimes even THAT'S beyond me.

This week will be better. Good god, it has to. I'm going to submit my draft tomorrow and then cross my fingers and try not to spit in the eye of the universe.

Er, again.

/o\

I'M HAVING A LARGE CRISIS

2012-06-26T09:12:45Z

This is about my Merlin big bang ...

I'm up to 12k which I know isn't anywhere near enough for any kind of rough draft but I was attacked yesterday out of nowhere by 'OH MY GOD I'M A TERRIBLE WRITER NO SERIOUSLY I SUCK WHY AM I EVEN TRYING' and I just need ... a few distant, platonic (I don't really like people touching me) pats on the back and a few you can do its and maybe the odd you don't suck even if you've never read a single word I've written, because otherwise I'm just going to let EVERYONE down and by EVERYONE I mean my betas and my artist and I don't want to and .... *sigh*

Pimpin, yo

2012-06-22T08:25:49Z

Or, er, something.

Anyways, the Sherlock rebang fics have been posting for about a week, and er, mine's here:

http://ficbyjane.livejournal.com/7174.html

Or here, if AO3 is your thing: http://archiveofourown.org/works/440445

Or visit the comm: http://sherlockrebang.livejournal.com/ and go show the artists and authors some love :-)

100 things - 10 books ... Un Lun Dun and Kraken

2012-05-26T02:53:28Z

I couldn’t decide whether to do Un Lun Dun or Kraken for the next book. So … I’m doing both?

Un Lun Dun was the first book I read by Mr Mieville and it is awesome. It compares – I believe – to Neverwhere by Mr Sir God Neil Gaiman but I haven’t read Neverwhere.

Also, Un Lun Dun has trash bin ninjas. IT HAS BINJAS.

Uhm. It’s set in a kind of alternative London that you reach by various means – one of which is climbing up and up and up the shelves in the public library.

It’s been a while since I read it but it’s full of awesome things like that and you should read it, honestly.

Kraken… okay, I can’t adequately express my love for Kraken. Like. I. Can’t.

So here’s a review I did with a friend of mine on the ~other side: (I mean non-fandom side. Generally I try to keep them separate, but crossovers are inevitable).

http://bookgazing.dreamwidth.org/132285.html

IT EXPRESSES ALL OF MY SQUID-RELATED LOVE. And possibly how MUCH I love China Mieville. Possibly. Maybe.

Please excuse me while I get my whine on.

2012-05-17T09:30:55Z

Sigh.

I’ve been having a weird week. I have more sads than usual, which is fucking with me because the Avengers exist and Adam Lambert’s album comes out tomorrow and the Star Trek cast WENT TO HOOTERS TOGETHER and so there are Good Things in the universe but I have been a sulking whiner (whining sulker?) since … oh, Sunday.

Yes. It all started on Sunday. And it had nothing to do with Sunday being Mother’s Day. We never really celebrated it much – a card and maybe a box of chocolates – so the fact that it’s my first Mother’s Day without my own mother isn’t really more of note than any other ordinary day I’m without my mother.

Last Saturday was her birthday.

This week, Patrick started school and turned five. And that’s what started this weird …. Thing. Because I thought “Mum won’t see him start school”. Which was enough to make me reasonably sad because here’s a milestone that she wont’ see. Along with all the other milestones and ugh.

And then, on Monday night, I got a phone call from my friend. The one I get together with on Saturday nights and we watch movies/cross-stitch. Another friend of ours who lives in Australia is over for a couple of weeks. So we all ended up going out for coffee even though I hate leaving my house on weeknights if I don’t have to – lol.

So we were all catching up, talking about our last birthdays – we all turned 40 last year.

M asks me: “So what did you get for your birthday?”

Me: “Well that was the weekend my mother was admitted to hospital so … um. I think I got a DVD.”

M: *makes joke; laughs it off*

Me: moodily drinks hot chocolate.

Other friend … *drinks hot chocolate but not moodily*

Other friend dropped me off and we got talking about Patrick’s first day and his birthday, etc. And okay, yes, I’m not exactly Mother of the Year material but I didn’t feel up to organising a party, even a family one.

Rambly background: We live at the bottom of the South Island right now and J’s parents live in the middle of the North Island. With both my parents gone, we’re planning on moving back up north next year so Patrick can be close to his remaining grandparents.

At restaurant, M reacts with SHOCK WTF YOU’RE LEAVING? And, okay, she didn’t know but it’s not for a year and oh my GOD.

Other friend: laughs it off. (She’s ragged on me about this SO MUCH and it’s like. IT’S NOT SOMETHING I’M DOING TO YOU, IT’S SOMETHING I’M DOING FOR MY FAMILY. FFFFFFFFFFFF)

Anyway. We’re sitting in Other Friend’s car, talking, and I say that J wants to go back up north before Patrick’s 6th birthday so he can spend it with his grandparents/cousins, etc …

Other Friend: It’s a shame he won’t be here for his sixth birthday, so he could have a party with friends from school.

Me: … …. …

Other Friend: Oh, maybe not the best thing to say.

YOU. THINK??? JFC.

God. I’m well over people this week.

Then I committed the critical error of getting into a conversation about 50 Shades with a workmate. We drifted on to fan-fiction and she told me that fan-fic gave her the same feeling that mushrooms or shellfish gave her (she’s mildly allergic, so slightly nauseated) … good to know.

So I made my wallpaper on my work computer the Black Widow and my screensaver “Better clench up, Legolas.”

And now that I’ve word-vomited my damage … time to move on …

Oh! My CBB posted this week: http://ficbyjane.livejournal.com/7133.html and check out my artist’s work too: http://argylepiratewd.livejournal.com/111381.html So there’s that. :-)

Big bangs and stuff

2012-05-09T08:16:38Z

Hey, I remembered my DW password! All right! :D

Lol I’ve been posting on LJ because I’ve been doing that 100 things meme. I’ve done … three posts for it so far, I think. Three down, 97 to go …

Anyway, I thought that maybe I should do a general/writing post because …. Because.

Let’s see. I’m chipping away at my paperlegends fic, and I’m hovering near 8k but I’m slightly blocked on where to go next so I’m waiting for my awesome betas to read it and tell me where to go. :P

Apart from the slight brick wall, it’s going … okay? I mean, it’s going, you know? I’m getting words down, and the story is taking shape relatively well and so … *touches ALL THE WOOD*

I also have Holmestice and the Sherlock rebang fics to get done by the end of this month (Holmestice is May 20) and I haven’t written any Sherlock fic for months in my universe so it’ll be interesting to see how that falls out.

I’m trying that “write every day” thing on for size and so far … well, I’ve put words on paper every day since Saturday (thank you, paperpushers chat) and it’s Wednesday, so, there’s that. Go me? :D

What else. Oh my god The Avengers. I know, I know it’s everywhere but I just have to OIUAFSDOIUASFDIOAFDSAEWRKDFS okay because that’s my Avengers feels in a nutshell ~~help I’m in a nutshell~~ and I am THISCLOSE to writing Bruce/Tony or Bruce/Clint because BRUCE BANNER.

Uhm … oh! The cockbert big bang fics have started posting and my girl, magenta, wrote an awesome Adam/Cinna Hunger Games fusion fic: http://archiveofourown.org/works/399632?view_adult=true

Ostensibly I’m posting mine on Tuesday and I’m nervous because it’s the most random pairing ever, and it’s so very gen and I have very mixed feelings about it. But it also ticks a charity fic off my list, so … there’s that?

Urgh. I’m going to go and watch Misfits – lol.

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2012-05-02T19:59:32Z

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100 things - 10 books that bring me great and flaily joy.... The Graveyard Book

2012-04-30T08:44:51Z

Hands down, this is one of my absolute favourite books.

I’ve read it three times, and travelled to Wellington a couple of years ago to listen to Neil Gaiman speak and to get my copy of it signed. :D

It’s one of those books – you know those books, the ones that you pick up and choirs of angels start singing and shiny light shines from them and they’re perfect?

Yeah. For me, that’s this book.

And this:

Bod said, "I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want," he said and then he paused and he thought. "I want everything."

Which is pretty much my second favourite book quote ever. (My favourite book quote is from the last lines of The Vintner’s Luck, which is where part of my name is from.)

And I just realised I haven’t said a word on what the book is about.

Basically Gaiman has redone The Jungle Book - Bod ‘Nobody’ Owens’ family is murdered when he’s barely able to walk. He ends up in a graveyard and is raised by ghosts. And it’s just. FLAILY HANDS OF EXTREME JOYYYYYYYYY.

Le fu

2012-04-27T11:30:09Z

I'm watching Queen of the Damned because it's what I picked for my reel_merlin fic. Possibly the. Worst. Movie. Ever. Oh my GOD.