Signed up for cottoncandy_bingo. Eep, it's been a long time since I participated in anything like this. But I'm looking forward to it! And I kind of love a lot of my prompts, even if I have no idea what I'm going to do for them yet.
Wearing pajamas all day
Skin
Tradition (old)
Love notes
Performing
Music
Ordering pizza / takeout
Mirror
Light
Belief
Poetry
Sleeping
WILD CARD
Flu
Laughter
Sharing food / drink
Apology / Forgiveness
Boat / Ship / Cruise
Hiccups
Proclamation
Alcoholic beverage
Gifts / Gifting
Glomp
Under the surface
Too Cold / Hot
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Woke up this morning with the song from this Tokyo Disneyland parade in my head. WHYYYYYYYY?! "Bunny hop hop bunny hop hop hop!" If you can make it to the end of that video a) I applaud you and b) you will understand the WTFery that is the Tokyo Disney Resort. Keep in mind that the Easter Wonderland overlay 1) celebrates a holiday that is neither understood nor otherwise celebrated in Japan and 2) runs until the end of June. LOVE IT.
Anyway, I am going to Disneyland soon, but will miss Easter Wonderland this year by just a couple days. But should be able to enjoy the mini Tanabata overlay they do the first week in July which I loved last year. I wish they had a culturally appropriate overlay more often.
Last night I dreamed that in the '90s, Nick Cave hosted a Japanese variety show called Mr. Nick is Here! There was a fashion segment! And a bit where Blixa Bargeld tried strange Japanese food! And a karaoke contest! The disappointment I felt on waking up to discover that NHK had not actually made the decision to replay the show and that, you know, the show didn't actually exist, was heartbreaking.
Tags: dreams listening to:Ramble On // Led Zeppelin feeling: sad
Yay, finally I can read my Yuletide story! A sudden loss of internets prevented me from reading immediately. And also forced me to default (via phone internet, ugh), due to not being able to get online to upload; I hated having to default, especially since, you know, my story was finished and I kind of loved it, but c'est la vie. At least my recipient appears to have received a kickass story (muchas gracias, pinch hitter!). Nabbing internets at Starbucks now and freezing to death while doing so (to nab the internets, I have to sit outside and OMG TOKYO WHY SO COLD). But it's worth it to read my amaaaaazing story. I got Emily series fic! A Hundred Visions and Revisions is the Emily and Dean story I have hoped to receive every year. And now I have! It's gorgeous and bittersweet and perfect. Happiness.
Okay, home now. Need to warm up before I go out again in a couple hours (Nepalese food, huzzah).
Just wanted to give you a heads up that I might not be able to read my story right away! My internets at home are dead dead dead, and with work and bonenkai and things, I don't know when I'll get a chance to get online. I'll try my best to see my story as soon as possible, but apologies if it takes a while! I can't wait to read it!
I'm blaming ladyshrew entirely for the fact that I had dreams about Terry Mann all night. Which, okay, it's not like that's the worst thing you could ever dream about. Still, the part where I was hiding in his dressing room wearing a Richard Henry Lee costume and hanging in the closet was weird.
And I woke up humming his Tavish Toy song from Mrs. Santa Claus. INFLICT!
Ugh, one of the smoke detectors is beeping for a new battery. But it's one of the ones that is too high on the ceiling for us to replace, so we'll have to call maintenance. Awesome. Ugh ugh, it's so loud. *turns up YouTube-iness*
Tags: dreams feeling: amused listening to:Falcon in the Dive // Terrence Mann
It's not as creepy as the book, but that's okay. It is a bit creepy and it's gorgeous and, dudes, I heart Henry Selick so freaking much; he's totally genius at what he does, and his movie is amazingly lovely. The colors (THE OTHER GARDEN OH OH OH)! The weirdness! The fact that it's set in Ashland! The cat! The music!
I was unsure about the 3D aspect, because I haven't seen anything in 3D since I was little and that was all just "BOO THINGS JUMP OUT OF SCREEN AT YOU!" But it was put to such good use here, making the world look that much richer.
I've been looking forward to it for so long, what with Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick being two of my favorite people ever, and I was worried that it wouldn't live up to all the anticipation, but I needn't have worried. It was everything I could have hoped it would be and more. I need to see it again; there was too much to take in from just one viewing.
Also, the "Other Father Song" will never ever get out of my head.
Makin' up a song about Coraline She's a peach, she's a doll, she's a pal of mine
She's as cute as a button In the eyes of everyone who ever laid their eyes on Coraline
When she comes around exploring Mom and I will never ever make it boring Our eyes will be on Coraline
Tags: films listening to:Other Father Song // They Might Be Giants feeling: happy
Hey, self, know what would be awesome if in the future if your PS2 won't turn on? Maybe, just maybe, before you freak out and start looking up solutions on the internets, you should check to see if you happened to knock a cord out while you were vacuuming. Because, you know, plugging everything back in right away is much better than not considering that as a possible solution at all and only discovering it much later when you pick it up to try fixing it some other way.
I suck for not yet mentioning the fantastic story I received for yuletide! I got a lovely Kel-centric Tortall story - Unexpected Light - that warmed the ol' heart and which was definitely part of what turned my potentially disastrous Christmas into the Best Christmas Ever. Endless thanks to the now-revealed magic_at_mungos!
And I wrote The Piper Is Gone. I think that fairy tales was the last thing I added to my offers, and I nearly took it off again, but I'm glad I didn't because then I ended up with this awesome request for Pied Piper backstory with the comment that it'd be a bonus if I could somehow work Baba Yaga in. So I did, and it was super fun times to write.
Yay!
Going to check out the New Year Resolutions now. In the oh-yeah-writing-fanfic-is-fun-sometimes afterglow, I always intend to write at least a couple things on the NYR list, but I never actually get around to it (wasn't this, like, an actual New Year resolution last year? FAIL). Maybe this year will be different? I do have things to do that inspire procrastination (getting ready to move! language learning! original writing!), and that's always helpful for writing.
Just a little note for you just in case I'm not able to read my story as soon as it's up on the site (although hopefully I will)! If you don't get any response from me right away, it's not because I hate the story, but because I've run into difficulties with relatives or internet or who knows what. I will be back to normal life a couple days after Christmas and, if I haven't had the chance yet, I guarantee I will devour it as soon as I get home.
My mother has been listening to this Christmas station on TV. Listening to it a lot. Sometimes it's all right, but then there are the times where it feels like they play nothing but different versions of "Sleigh Ride" and Michael Ball songs. Alas, the latter is what woke me up this morning when she turned it on and the volume was louder than expected and his crooning made its way through my door and pile of blankets and into my ears.
Michael Ball Christmas music = not my favorite thing to wake up to.
Although, as I'm writing this, I realize not nearly as bad a thing to have wake you up as the smoke detector in my bedroom beeping and demanding a new battery, which it just started to do. And which would have been the thing to wake me up if loud Michael Ball had not.
Michael Ball Christmas music = a blessing in disguise?
(Also, the fact that I could distinguish it as Michael Ball Christmas music when I was in another room under blankets and with a closed door is kind of lame. O, those long lost days of my youth, when Michael Ball was SRZ BZNS. How they continue to haunt me.)
Seriously, you offered to write one of the things I requested, so you already totally rock. Thank you so much for being awesome!
In general, I like happy (or at least happyish) endings more than not (at least around the holidays), but I will certainly appreciate any other sort of ending, if that's what you want to write. My tastes reach far and wide. Plotty things are fantastic, but so are character explorations. I like bittersweet and sweet; a little fluff is okay, but only if it's not sappy. Sappy very rarely rings true for me, and I really wouldn't want to see it in any of the fandoms I requested. I'm generally pretty hard to squick, but I'm really not cool with non-con.
All that said, if you write something that you enjoy, I promise I will enjoy reading it. Have fun, don't stress out too much (seriously, I'm so ridiculously easy to please), and, again, THANK YOU!
Tags: yuletide feeling: excited listening to:Hellboy II
Finally got around to doing my yuletide signup. Was looking through the requested fandoms list (and feeling all failure-y about how few I'm familiar enough with to offer) and, um, whichever of the zillion people who signed up this year requested Ninja Warrior RPF? I LOVE YOU. Just putting that out into the universe. (Will be shocked if it's actually written, but I love knowing that someone wants it.)
I'm at Starbucks, supposedly working on NaNoWriMo (I am very behind! I sort of started over a couple days ago!). But the internets are distracting and it's kind of freezing in here because people can't seem to close the door behind them when they come in and there are about three loud meetings going on. I give up on being productive.
Ugh, NaNo is not off to a good start this year. I couldn't figure out what to write before I started. I haven't figured out what I'm writing since I started. I wrote 584 words at midnight yesterday.
I've written 2 more since then.
I have a write-in this afternoon, so hopefully that will help. I usually write loads at write-ins. Granted, I usually know what I'm writing about when I go.
UGH.
Tags: nanowrimo feeling: annoyed listening to:Dark Days // Fat Freddy's Drop
Yay, interview over. I think it went okay. I passed the first part yesterday and got invited back for today, and that seemed to go all right. Now for the waiting to hear back part. Oh please let me get it so I can trade one soul-sucking job for another!
Okay, guys, seriously, this is so exciting. I finally found my Dogma DVD! It's been lost for years (maybe 4?)! I've moved twice since then! I have missed it so much! I've seen the movie since then, but the thing I've really missed is the commentary. I totally used to put it on every night as I was falling asleep. Yeah, I have no idea why that became a habit, but it was so devastating when I realized my DVD had gone missing.
I am so excited to put it on when I go to bed tonight! Yay, nostalgia!
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backward! 
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pleased
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