Hi there! I'm Magz. If you're old enough to have witnessed Spuffy Archives while it was still a thing, you might remember me from some all-human "fantasy" Spike/Buffy stories -- my first real forays into fanfiction. If you came along to the wild world of fanfiction later, you might know me from things like J² RPS and Glee Kurt/Karofsky stories.

At any rate, I've decided to make all of my fanfiction available for the reading again. [Yes, all of it. Yes, even the infamous "Hard Time."] I figured hey, I get kinda bummed when I go back to read stories and they've disappeared from the internet, and I hate to bum people out, myself. So whatever I've been able to find I'm slowly posting here, with guesstimates about their original post dates. You can find everything I've been able to put up so far in my freakishly organized LJ Tags List.

To that end, if you have any of the following of my early BtVS fics, please message me! They've disappeared from my hard drive [and apparently the internet], which makes it hard to post them here. The list of stories I'm missing, with titles and summaries miraculously saved by the Wayback Machine, are:

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Holy crap, this is my second post this month. I might be sick or something.

Today I finally responded to the Ao3 invite I got, uh... in 2012, set up an account, and have decided to start importing what fic I've got on here to there. This industriousness will probably not last.

My new Ao3 account is here: sparklepocalypse@Ao3

While I'm working on reading editing and posting old fic, why not? Yoinked from piscaria.

Pick up the book nearest you and turn to page 45. The first sentence explains your love life.

Les questions 3 et 4 se rapportent à la conversation suivante.

[from ETS Study Guide: Praxis French and German Tests]

Well. At least it's in French... which I don't speak. So! Extrapolate what you will from this.

Remember when I used to be so good at posting things in my LJ account? Yeah, me too. :|

Title: Serendipity -- Hold the Cliché
Authors: tessisamess and sparklpocalypse
Pairing: Kurt/Dave
Rating: NC-17 overall
Word Count: ~3,500 of an estimated 80,000
Spoilers: Canon up to Glee 3x14, "On My Way"
Warnings/Triggers: [highlight to read] Character death (not Kurt or Dave), homophobia, and a serious lack of spontaneous singing.
Summary: Sometimes you find love in someone new; sometimes you find it hiding in plain sight. Kurt and Dave have been friends since their senior year of high school, but when they unexpectedly run into each other at a Halloween party everything changes.

The first part can be found here. Posting will occur weekly until completion.

Damn, I sucked at LJ again. I'm working on it though! I swear. :|

I've been contemplating making DVD caps of the TV shows I have, but I'm not sure how much of a need there is for most of it. ( Dis be my TV on DVD list.Collapse )

I'll have to do some investigatin' to see what is needed by internet folks and what would be superfluous.

... if you have a paid/plus/permanent account, anyway. Folks with grandfathered-in free LJ accounts, feel free to skip this entry, which I've also posted to s2smoothsailing because well... that's sort of where this kind of thing goes.

So you've got your Smooth Sailing layout all beautified through the use of CSS and possibly some theme layer code poking, right? And then you click on an entry and realize that the subject line is just... not there. I can commiserate with you, there. I've figured out that futzing with the CSS of .bodyheaderblock will show a subject line -- but not the same one as shows in the recent/friends views on your journal.

After angsting for basically forever about how .bodyheaderblock just doesn't look the same, I scrolled through the Smooth Sailing base code and decided to experimentally copy/paste something in my theme layer. And it worked. So now I'm sharing said experimental copypasta with you fine people.

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And apparently I have! I've now posted three more entries this year than I did in all of 2011. Which is kinda sad, because I've only posted seven entries, total.

Given my visual trip down memory lane in my last two entries, I think it might be kinda fun to see if I can make some hellaciously ugly vintage-looking, 2003-4esque graphics. Maybe I'll try that this weekend. I probably still have the same textures and gradients I used back then hoarded away on my external hard drive, somewhere -- hell, I've likely re-used them in more recent stuff, but, you know. More wisely.

Maybe if all goes badly well, I'll even turn it into a little challenge for graphics makers. That'll make me post more often, right?

As if sharing all the available thumbnails of my old layouts wasn't enough, I totally have some graphics that used to belong to LJ layouts, but which I never bothered to make screencaps of. A few of them are nice. The rest of them are less so. But I decided to inflict them upon share them with the world, anyway...

Because I'm sadistic nice like that. Semi-NSFW for butts. Well, one butt, but it's a nice butt. And also Chris Evans is shirtless at one point, so... beware. Or enjoy! Whichever.

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So, back in the day I had this thing where I'd keep a layout for about, oh... two weeks before changing it. Layout ADD or something, I guess.

I've lost a lot of the code for these layouts, but the thumbnails and, in a lot of cases, the headers still exist! Some of them are... interesting -- actually, screw diplomacy. Some are straight-up weird-looking, but I'm going to share them anyway. Yay!

So, um... brace yourselves! I apologize for any retina damage these might cause. ( View my layout archive!Collapse )

In an attempt to use my LiveJournal account more, I'm going to start by adding old stuff from my previous account (dorkdance) to this one. Which seems lame, when I could be adding new content, but hey. Gotta restart somewhere, right?

So in the next week or so, I'm going to see if I can back up all my old fic (yes, including the crackfic to end all crackfics, Hard Time, which I just recently re-found), layouts, graphics, etc. to this account. I'm probably going to leave personal posts where they are, because reading those is like going back and reading your diary from ten years ago -- sort of cringeworthy.

But yeah! That's the state of the sparklpocalypse at the moment. :D