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| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | ||
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duowolf |
9:33a | Dragonage: Orgins Started playing Dragonage the new game by Bioware and I have to say I'm really enojying it so far. There are three different species you can be human, elf and dward and each one has 2 subsets which you can choose from giving a total of 6 different backgrounds. Each one starts out differently so if you choose to be a Noble human for instance you have one opening scene but if you choose to be a City elf(like I did) you get a different opening story. These stories change slightly depending on whether or not you are a male or female as well. Each race and subset has it's own starting skill sets as well though you can learn them later if you so desire. I choose the City elf as they started with persuation and I wanted that and stealing from the start as they always make life easier. I also choose them because they gave you the surname of Tabris, I couldn't be anyone else after seeing that. There are tons of sidequests in this game which is never a bad thing in my opinion and from what I hear the downloadable content that is available at the moment adds another 35 hrs of gameplay on top of what is already there. Lastly I checked out the romance options for having a male and female main. The female gets two guys and one girl love interest and the male gets 2 girls and one guy love interst(maybe theres hope for this in Mass Effect 2 after all). Plus if you are planning to play Mass Effect 2 there is a code with the game for a suit of armour that can be used both in this game and Mass Effect when it comes out. Current Mood:  excited |
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 | ||
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shiegra |
10:43p | A-AWESOME IT'S ALREADY OUT. HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS. On the other hand, I was watching it going 'I really hope Lola gets to do more' and she doesn't even appear once. **sulks** This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/56677.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood:  giddy |
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unchainme |
8:38p | Icons: Angelina Jolie, Amanda Seyfried, Ashlee Simpson, Ashley Scott Includes: Angelina Jolie, Ashlee Simpson, Amanda Seyfried, Ashley Scott Teasers:    ( the rest ) & Credit ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} unchainme and/or ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} sodamaged_icons& Comment if/when taking & No hotlinking, redistributing. These aren't bases, but I'm not gonna bitch if you add text, just ask before you do so please? And remember to credit me for the icon & Request are open here |
| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | ||
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tyraarane |
7:33p | NaNoWriMo: Days 3, 4, and 5 Actually, you know...it's probably better if you don't ask about day 5. Suffice it to say that my brain's gone and swanned off for the day. I at least met my quota for the last couple of days. It's also slowly starting to dawn on me that, wait. I'm technically writing two 25K stories here. And the first one's so far been around 7K worth of words of jack-all happening. ...Whoops. Looks like I'd best go find a muse to slam against the plot accelerator. I've also decided to change the Google Docs thing around a bit. Since I can't figure out how to just update a .doc file, rather than upload a new one (yes, I know, copy/paste, but that screws with the formatting, shut up), I went ahead and stuck it in a shared folder. So, yes. New and permanent Google Docs link. It should work the same as before, where you don't need a Google/Gmail account to view the file. Current Mood:  lazyCurrent Music: Hans Zimmer - Hoist the Colours |
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nycscribbler |
3:51p | FUCK MY LIFE FUCK THE WORLD FUCK YOU CAROL BLAZEJOWSKI Minnesota won the #1 and the #4. The #4 was theirs. The #1 was picked up in a trade from LA for Noelle Quinn. LA picked it up from New York for Sidney Spencer. Sidney Spencer for the #1 overall pick. THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS, BLAZE. Please understand, I'm happy for the Lynx. I <3 the Lynx cubs. But that pick should have been ours, except that our GM is mentally damaged. It was a game-changer... and it's gone. |
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dani_meows |
3:27p | *typing away madly at the screen* I'm behind on my word count still but I got 2,000 words typed for it already and I'll be getting more done soon. I hope. I finished my late fandom obligation which finally when I only had 100 words left to type, I finally knew what I wanted to write so someday soon I'll have to finish that but I have other fandom obligations ready to type. So... it'll have to wait now that I posted the rough draft. I've got a fic rough draft due tomorrow that's gone from 0 words to 1,000 words. I've only got 4,000 words left to write. And I've got more caffeine, guarana, ginseng, B vitamins and other goodness in me than I know what to do with. I have two more fest fics in various states of doneness that need to be typed and finished. Off I go to strain my wrists as much as I strained my legs yesterday. Ian and I took a four mile walk to his work and back. My legs are still sore although we did do our usual bare minimum walk this morning. My eyes are blurry and I'm energized tired but I'm going to keep swimming. Current Mood:  geeky |
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dani_meows |
1:51p | Fic: Only Forever (Part one) (Doctor Who/Labyrinth: 10/Rose, Jareth/Sarah) Title: Only Forever: An Underground Gallifreyan Fairy Tale Author: Dani Meows Fandom/Pairing: Doctor Who: 10/Rose Labyrinth: Jareth/Sarah Rating: PG-13 Genre: Romance/Humor Word Count: 5,244 (And incomplete) Summary: After Jackie wishes a teenage Rose away, Rose gets a second childhood with the King of the Goblins, Jareth and Sarah Williams. At her second sixteenth birthday Rose meets the Doctor and the two of them connect. But Jareth doesn't approve and the Master wants revenge. Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who, if I did Rose Tyler and the Doctor would be traveling through time and space forever. I also don't own the Labyrinth or Jareth and Sarah would have ended up together. Beta: I claim every misplaced comma and awkward sentence as my own. Notes: This story is a very late story for October's T_31 big bang deadline. I suck. I'm sorry. It's also incomplete. I have more ideas for what I'll be writing but I finally got it to 5,000 words and I want to get it posted. Feedback: Please! I could use some thoughts on what I should improve when I edit this and add more chapters. Also just one comment keeps me writing. *Looks cute and mostly harmless* ( The last thing she expected was a man who looked like David Bowie, with wild blond spiky hair that looked like he was from the 80's, with eye glitter wearing a pair of tights, in which you could see either his assets or a sock, and wearing a poets shirt with frilly sleeves. Grabbing her glass she prepared to lob it at the intruder even as she screamed, ) Current Mood:  accomplished |
| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | ||
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shiegra |
8:15p | history lesson! I have never read or seen the Dragon Ball, and yet when I saw a page about the history of Honolulu on their site (.gov and everything) that mentioned "King Kamehameha I, who conquered Oahu in a decisive battle..." my mind went straight there. **shakes head** Internet fandom osmosis is no joke. This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/56457.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood:  amused |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | ||
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shiegra |
10:24p | TRUE BLOOD I need to stop getting, like actually angry over the shit Allan Ball does to Charlaine Harris's books, but this just stirred up boiling anger that never left me. Ball said the Vampire King of Mississippi is coming in season three. He provides a contrast to Sophie-Anne, the Vampire Queen of Louisiana (Evan Rachel Wood). “He’s older,” Ball said. “He’s much more mature. He’s much more methodical and grounded. She’s kind of crazy. To me, she’s kind of like Paris Hilton/Lindsay Lohan, where she has a very short attention span and she’s very, very egomaniacal and very self-obsessed and doesn’t really think about her actions, whereas the Vampire King is very much an adult. He has an agenda. He has things he wants to achieve. I think he’s much more formidable than she is.” So basically, he took Sophie-Anne's character and gave it to a man. Who is, of course, this being True Blood, 'much more formidable.' And set her up to take a disastrous fall and have 'higher' vampire authorities PO'd at her. I mean, he spends the entire second season undermining and sidelining Sookie--I'm not even mentioning Calypso being turned into Maryanne--and a fair amount of the first season too, so I'm not surprised, just frustrated all over again. ALLAN BALL. SOOKIE DOES NOT NEED POWERS TO BE AWESOME. SHOVE OFF. (Source.) All I've been doing is complaining lately! This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/56252.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood:  bleurgh |
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shiegra |
8:15p | Merlin 2.06 I'm not sure why Uther being an asshole is supposed to surprise/alarm/set off warning bells for anyone. So he indiscriminately murders his people, but they're shocked if he taxes them? He isn't acting any different than usual, beyond fawning over Sarah Parrish, who is actually kind of awesome. ETA: Guys, I can't help but think that saying 'Uther is good king except for the whole magic thing!' is like saying, 'he's a good boyfriend except for the bit where he stabs me in the face when I breathe in the vicinity of another man!' This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/55841.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood:  grumpy |
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shiegra |
3:32p | On Hating Female Characters. For a while now I’ve been thinking about how many readers seem to hate female characters more than they hate male. Or rather that the same behaviour from a male character is okay but someone inexcusable in a female. NO KIDDING. I read and enjoyed this post a while back, but a link popped up on my flist, and I returned to it and decided in light of some recent comments I'd read that it needs to be sung from the rooftops. She also has a very good post here: The Advantages of Being a White Writer Highly recommended. This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/55794.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood:  tired |
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shiegra |
12:30p | My Multi-Cultural class--a class that tries to teach the students to acknowledge/understand/fight racism, sexism, hetereosexism, ableism, classism (and on)--upsets me, badly. I walk away from every class where I have to interact with my fellow students feeling indefinably sick, with a greasy, twisting knot of anxiety, dissatisfaction and unhappiness in my stomach. I trip over my words. I get upset over the issues and can't express myself properly, especially since my tendency is to shut down and fold inward when upset; they don't even listen to statements the teacher has made five seconds earlier, they're so convinced they're right, why would they listen to me? I went to this class because I thought it would--I don't know, teach me, be a place for discussion, and I have learned and I'm glad for it, but I just. I feel so awful and miserable and twisted up in knots almost every class. This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/55328.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood:  distressed |
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dani_meows |
9:12a | Fic: Never Did Run Smooth (Doctor Who: 10/Rose) Title: Never Did Run Smooth Author: Dani Meows Fandom/Pairing: Doctor Who: 10/Rose Rating: PG-13 or R-ish.. I don't quite get rating systems. Genre: Romance/angst Word Count: 5,077 Summary: After the events of the Girl In The Fireplace, the Doctor and Rose are feeling distant from one another. The Doctor realizes his feelings for Rose and wants to win her heart but a pretty boy is calling. Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who, if I did Rose Tyler and the Doctor would be traveling through time and space forever. Beta: I claim every misplaced comma and awkward sentence as my own. Notes: This story is a very late story for October's T_31 big bang deadline. I suck. I'm sorry. The other late one will be up as soon as the last five hundred words come to me. All sorts of bad things happened while I was trying to write this from health problems to computer problems but it's finally done! Feedback: Please! I haven't got much feedback lately and it's making me wonder if I'm doing something wrong! ( Rassilion's lacy black knickers! If he'd just told Rose any of those times that he'd wanted to tell her then he wouldn't have to worry about.... “Would you like to have dinner with me tonight?” the boy asked, his voice sounded smug much to the Doctor's annoyance. “Oh I'd love to!” Rose replied. She didn't seem to notice either the boys smug tone or the Doctor's irritated face. That. ) Current Mood: accomplished |
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dani_meows |
3:01a | Just a very quick post: mostly begging and nerves Sorry about the lack of commenting.... I've been busy writing up a storm and then soaking my wrists in Epsom salts.... I will comment on posts soon though, probably not today though since my head feels like it's about to burst through my eyeballs and I hurt quite badly. I've also not hit my word count goal for Nano today and I have lots of writing to do. Mostly this is a quick post with a plea: I need your help... I need a beta reader for four separate fest fic stories... and I need some people to calm me down about my anxiety for the fests. I'm getting so nervous that my writing sucks and that those who were unfortunate enough to draw my name are going to be disappointed. I'm getting scared to the point that I'm thinking about abandoning fandom just to avoid the shame of not turning anything in although I've got two of the four fics finished and done with both the hand written drafts and the typed draft. So I could use some reassurance. Now onto the few details about the fics that I can share without giving away to much. Very slight details about the fics: 1.) Involves Snape and Harry- isn't slash... is either Gen or preslash depending on how strong your slash goggles are. (Written and typed) 2.) Harry/Hermione- Porn (Written and typed) 3.) Luna/Hermione- Porn (Written) 4.) Harry/Hermione/Ron- Might be porn... I'm still working on this one... If anyone could please help me out it would be very much appreciated. My husband refuses to read slash so my usual, I can't find a beta reader will you help me, helper can't help for most of these. I've got two fics that I'll be posting today before I go to bed (10am EST) so I apologize for taking up three spaces on your friends page. Current Mood:  blank |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | ||
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shiegra |
11:48p | D.GRAYMAN There's plot! There's plot threads coming together by way of answers! There's the strong potential for some actual resolution! There's not enough Rinali. This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/55254.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood:  crazy |
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shiegra |
10:52p | Well, uh. I made some remark about smug villains/antagonists/anti heroes not being my thing. Then I accidentally watched a clip of Supernatural! Now smug heroes are so far beyond 'not my thing' it's a little alarming. bleurgh, Dean Winchester, why such a misogynistic sack of shit This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/54801.html. Please comment there using OpenID. |
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shiegra |
5:50p | Sort of all around fail Wow I actually cannot believe Joss Whedon ever had the sheer gall to call himself a feminist. GUESS WHAT. YOU'RE NOT. END OF STORY. Spoilers within, but they're warned for before they're reached. I was remembering Nalini Singh's novella in her Angel's Blood series, one about Ashwini and the vampire she hunts on and off. In this, the angel--who is pretty much a carbon copy of Raphael--is treated the way a sane person would treat them. She's creeped out by his come-on, spooked, and hopes to interact with him as little as possible. At the time I didn't put much thought into it, but the only difference I can really come up with between the angel and archangel is that one--the one acknowledged as negative--is black. Mm. Well. This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/54705.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood:  irate |
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tyraarane |
6:24p | NaNoWriMo: Day 2 ...oh hai, again. I'm still keeping on keeping on--squeaked past the word quota today with about ten words to spare. And those were, for some reason, some very hard won words. The rust is trying to creep back onto my word processor. It doesn't help that I managed to break my cemented-in retainer (which I've had for 8+ years, with instructions to leave it in until it falls out which, surprise, it is now attempting to do). Fortunately in a way that doesn't involve my tongue getting impaled, but still. I foresee my doing a lot of writing at the dentist's office tomorrow. Oh, joy. Google Docs link is still here; for those of you who may have read yesterday's installment, the trainwreck continues under the large-ish horizontal divider line. Constructive comments continue to be welcome. Current Mood:  tiredCurrent Music: Cirque du Soleil - Pageant |
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shiegra |
5:40a | I was thinking about white privilege, and racism and all the -isms and the baggage that goes with it. On top of what I have as a white person, even as a girl and a feminist there have been and probably still are sexist views that I've subconsciously absorbed and not yet unearthed or examined. A while back I was reading Anne Bishop and she made a remark about 'feminine' in her books. The quote is on my profile, I liked it so much, and it goes like this: "....the gist of it being whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and whatever she didn't enjoy wearing wasn't."" And I had to reevaluate what I, a girl, thought of as feminine. I mean, what does feminine mean? 1. pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress (I deleted the two between because, to be frank, they very demonstrably displayed the very cultural manipulation of roles that I'm complaining about.) And what is our cultural view of 'feminine', especially in regards to clothing? Delicate. Pink. Satin. Lace. Frivolous. And what cultural image does all that feed into? The 'fragile' woman. The one that needs to be protected. She can't run in it, and it sure as hell isn't going to offer her any protection against the world. The one that needs the man to make decisions for her (frivolous, clothes as too important) and, for example, control her money. So when you're talking about theoreticals, and societal views, and stereotypes and archetypes and tropes, fine. You can use feminine in that manner all you like. But what 'feminine' really means is 'female.' And we can be whatever we damn well want to be. This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/54478.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: tired |
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dandru |
10:21a | RL How to know you spend too much time in fandom... My son made a horrible mess with his play money. Just now, I'm cleaning it up and catch myself thinking, 'Why did I buy him Muggle play money?' I think someone needs a break from writing. :D Current Mood:  amused |
| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | ||
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shiegra |
7:15p | More racism links Wow, I'm crossing 'Warehouse 13' off of my viewing list. Warehouse 13 also treats the idea of history being powerful, dangerous, and relevant today as a crazy, fantastical notion. "Who would think that? Doesn't everyone know that the past is something we tear down and lock away in the attic to make room for the new?" Well, it turns out that not everybody does think that way. Especially people, like indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and other victims of imperialism throughout the world, who had their language and/or history and/or culture and/or lives forcibly removed by colonizing powers. A power like, say, the United States government. An assessment of the artifacts shown therein. Twilight vs Quileute legends: Where it points out that despite Meyer stating she was telling the truth, she just appropriated the name and lied her ass off. It describes the actual legends. Pocahontas. Ohhh, Pocahontas. Too many issues with Disney's story to count, but this one does a pretty good job. And an analysis of the second movie, too. It's like The Other Boleyn Girl for racism. Here is the Powhatan response to the Pocahontas myth. We of the Powhatan Nation disagree. The film distorts history beyond recognition. Our offers to assist Disney with cultural and historical accuracy were rejected. Our efforts urging him to reconsider his misguided mission were spurred. This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/53804.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood:  anxious |
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tyraarane |
8:37p | NaNoWriMo: Day 1 ...oh hai. :D So, yes: as the title implies, I am indeed doing NaNoWriMo this year! Because I have not yet begun to drive myself completely insane. For those who may not have heard, I'm rewriting the The Second Element trilogy (the originals are on my FF.net profile, if you really must see it in all its badfic glory). Which...has now been shrunk down to two novella-sized stories. Or perhaps one novel-length story. I haven't decided yet. Yes, this is going to be fun! For varying definitions of the term. Though the good news is that, after I shook a substantial amount of rust, dust, and dead insects off my word processor and various muses, the writing came surprisingly easy. I hit my word quota for the day, and I'm feeling pretty good about it. Also, I'm trying something a little different this year. I'm uploading the .doc file to my Google Docs account as I go, which means you all will be able to read the trainwreck as it slides, crashes, and mutilates its way into the station. You do not need a Google/G-Mail account to view the file. Obvious disclaimer is obvious: this is a totally unedited first draft. I usually don't let people read stuff this raw because it's, well, raw, and I've yet to take the editing shovel to it. However! I am very, very rusty at this writing thing, to say nothing of writing for Monkey Island. So if you have any constructive input you'd like to give--please leave comments here at IJ! I'd love to know what's working and, especially, what isn't. :) ...By the way? Having just finished Chapter Four of Tales of Monkey Island yesterday? All I can say is that, first of all, it's rather insane--and slightly intimidating--to start working on a major MI fic (which is ignoring ToMI's additions to the canon by necessity). Especially because the only thing I could say for about fifteen minutes after finishing the episode was "OH MY GOD." Because...oh my god, seriously. Chapter Five is officially too far away. Current Mood:  optimisticCurrent Music: Coldplay - 42 |
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shiegra |
4:08p | HUH. On one hand: very pretty. On the other: ooh, white men go into space, land on alien planet, either do a full-body 'blueface' or steal a native's body so they can gather intel on natives, and then make war. Oh, and a beautiful ~exotic~ native woman is involved in a starcrossed romance! Oh, and by doing this they 'fix' a disabled person. I am feeling sour over this. Especially after reading that this twit:  ...is bragging about getting to use a whitewashed film about a Chinese-American martial artist and inventor as his vehicle. Here's what Tommy Zhou should actually look like:  FAIL DETECTED. If anyone's curious, it looks like the entire four-issue comic is online, completely legit at Drunkduck.com This entry was originally posted at http://shiegra.dreamwidth.org/53689.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood:  irritated |
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duowolf |
3:12p | stuff finished in October Here's a list of the stuff I completed in October. I got through a few more books this month thankfully though there's no way in hell I'm gonna be anywhere near 100 books this year. Anime Tears To Tiara - fantasy - 8/10 Babel II - si-fi - 7/10 Prince Of Tennis:Atobe's Gift - sport, comedy - 8/10 Kurokami - fantasy, si-fi - 7/10 Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 - drama - 8/10 K-ON - school life, comedy - 7/10 Books 48. Woken Furies by Richard Morgan - si-fi - 3/4 49. The Forest Of Hands And Teeth by Carrie Ryan - horror - 4/4 50. Child Of A Dead God by Barb and JC Hendee - fantasy, vampires - 3/4 51. Market Force by Richard Morgan - si-fi - 2.5/4 Films Pandorum - si-fi - 3.5/4 Godzilla - si-fi, action - 3/4 Freddie Vs Jason - horror - 3/4 The Exorcist - horror, religion - 4/4 Sleepy Hollow - horror - 3.5/4 Manga Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro - crime, horror - 8/10 Interview With The Vampire - horror, vampires - 6/10 Onegai Teacher - romance, si-fi - 6/10 Kingdom Hearts - fantasy, adventure - 8/10 Video Games The Darkness - first person shooter Puzzle Bubble Live - puzzle Warriors Orochi 2 - action Current Mood:  accomplishedCurrent Music: Love Around - Kaikan Phase |
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dani_meows |
2:19a | Nanowrimo is here Sorry about my lack of both comments and posts, I've been busy trying to get things done so that I can nano. ^_^ Expect a lot of comments tomorrow as I catch up on posts... and perhaps some last minute fanfics as I finish those up tonight. One of my villains is already creeping me out... she's just found out that the child she's just given birth to has magic and she's plotting out how to kill it... perhaps I shouldn't have read a few of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories today. I'm creeped out by my own writing... And this is only the minor villain, the main one is even creepier but he doesn't show up until I'm done with department of backstory. Later on today I'll post a link with a brief summary of my work if anyone is curious. I've just got to figure out how to sum up the story without giving to much away. ^_^ Now however I have to finish a few fandom obligations while the energy drink is still pulsing through my veins. :-) Current Mood:  creative |