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Doctor Who is a show I love, but I almost never blog about. So, here's a post.

While I had been enjoying the second half of season, there was nothing that blew me away. "The Name of the Doctor" fixed that.

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Having replayed the end bossfights in KH2 (which is possibly the longest sequence I know of? Or at least has more stages than Kefka's whack-the-tower thing), I'm kind of wondering- what in the world is the dragon-ship thing? What is it meant to do, how did it happen?

Also the throne thing is kinda odd, what is all that about. :|a

So, today* darthneko cleared out all but 70 gold from our guild bank to buy the third guild storage tab (500 gold). Then she and I hauled our pandas out to Northrend.

By the time we were finished, we stuffed enough gold back in the bank to buy the fourth tab (1000 gold), with 200 gold left over. Also, we are only five levels away from getting to go to Pandaria. We are hoping to find slightly more panda-friendly armor there, as gear designed for six foot tall, ninety-eight pound elves just looks silly on pandas.

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*yesterday, technically, but I haven't slept yet

Title: Sebastian and the Beast: Ch 8, Pg 11
Rating: Pg-13
Idea/art/writing: Matix
Co-writer/beta: Allie (yume_no_kage)
Summary: Beauty and the Beast with a twist (and a wriggle)
A/N: Also check out the comment area directly under the page for a little omake/extra thing. :3

Sebastian and the Beast, Ch8 Pg 11


[Cover]
Ch 1: 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6&7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Ch 2: 1, 2, 3&4, 5, 6, 7, 8&9, 10, 11, 12&13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
Ch 3 1&2, 3&4, 5&6, 7, 8&9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28&29
Ch 4 1&2&3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43
Ch 5 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
Ch 6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Ch 7 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Ch 8 Cover, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10


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I need a Jane icon, although my monster girls icons will probably do fine in a pinch.

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Brought to you by vodka-induced lack of anxiety

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1. My laptop is dead and my charger has given up the ghost, so for the moment my computer time is...flexible. Let's call it that. That sounds nice.

2. I have a surprisingly wide excitables list for next year. Black Sails, Sleepy Hollow, Gothica, tentatively Almost Human...but like Defiance, I think I'm going to try and wait it out until season one is finished before I start watching. I've discovered I do much better that way? BUT IT'S HAAAARD

3. I'd be excited about Epic - and I'm seeing it everywhere - except Fungus Grotto is a carbon copy of their plot, only progressive. Like, the 'goes to the miniature/otherwise alien-yet-familiar world is a familiar plot points, especially with fairies and lost parental figures and size shifts (I think Alice in Wonderland influenced the form that a lot of Western 'under the mound' type stories take hugely) and it looks like this takes a seriously different form, but at the same time I keep thinking - I saw this. It had a WOC as a lead, with a live and active female beloved parental figure, and I waaaaant that one. Anyway, who knows. It would be a good family film so when it comes out I might use it to tug Mom and Sam out of the house, and I'll keep an open mind.

4. I thought I was fully done with TVD, but I went back out of curiosity to watch the last episode, and now the events of the finale (which I knew better than to watch) have been so vile to hear about I suspect my brief dip in the pool has left me scummy with lingering investment.

5. I am drinking REALLY GOOD VODKA tonight.

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So, for ages I've had the idea of writing a post on what I think each White Collar character's D&D alignment is. If you don't know what the heck an alignment is in this context then look at your life, look at your choices this may help. I'm actually going quote a bit, because I feel it's especially relevant.

The third edition D&D rules define law and chaos as follows:[8]

Law implies honor, trustworthiness, obedience to authority, and reliability. On the downside, lawfulness can include closed-mindedness, reactionary adherence to tradition, judgmentalness, and a lack of adaptability. Those who consciously promote lawfulness say that only lawful behavior creates a society in which people can depend on each other and make the right decisions in full confidence that others will act as they should.

Chaos implies freedom, adaptability, and flexibility. On the downside, chaos can include recklessness, resentment toward legitimate authority, arbitrary actions, and irresponsibility. Those who promote chaotic behavior say that only unfettered personal freedom allows people to express themselves fully and lets society benefit from the potential that its individuals have within them.

Someone who is neutral with respect to law and chaos has a normal respect for authority and feels neither a compulsion to follow rules nor a compulsion to rebel. They are honest but can be tempted into lying or deceiving others if it suits him/her.

There will be spoilers for all four seasons of White Collar.

Now let's go.

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Outside-the-cut-reaction 1: OMG that was awesome!

Outside-the-cut-reaction 2: Oh thank you, I can finally go back on tumblr without fear of being spoiled.

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Read in the past week:

Making Money by Terry Pratchett. It's Discworld. It's Moist von Lipwig and Adora Belle Dearheart. What's not to love? And I thought that Vetinari was an especially magnificent magnificent bastard this time, but I think I always think that.

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. Not as good as Silence of the Lambs, but it's been literally like a decade since I read Silence of the Lambs, so what do I know? I had a post brewing that compared the book versions of Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs to the movie verions, but since it's been a while since I saw the Red Dragon movie, and, like I said, roughly ten years since I read Silence of the Lambs, I'm not sure it would work.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. Really interesting, though certainly depressing. I was shocked but not the least bit surprised by what I learned in this book. Indeed, I feel like Perkins could have hit even harder than he did, but I understand that he had to struggle with a lot of both external and internal forces to write the book in the first place.

Currently reading: The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine. Stories within stories within stories. A novel both about family and the very act of telling a tale. I'm not very far along, but I'm really liking it.

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It's been a few days, I didn't take notes, and my memory is a sad, tragic sieve of forgetting things, so, uh, I will do my best to write a proper reaction. Because this episode deserves one.

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And yet, as I read "many similar groups, always made up of four humans and an animal, have existed," in the Wikipedia article on Scooby Doo! Mystery Inc, I couldn't help thinking, "the Ghostbusters are made up of four humans and an animal ghost."

If I thought I could sit through two seasons of a Scooby Doo reboot, something might come of this.

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Guild of Awesome.

So possibly darthneko is designing t-shirts for our World of Warcraft guild.

Considering it's a guild with four active players (about...3/4 of the members are darthneko's and my alts), the fact that the guild hit level 7 a week ago and is most of the way to level 8 is either impressive, or says something about the state of our social lives. I choose to find it impressive.

Someday, I will remember to make myself a WoW icon. Edit: And so I made not one but THREE WoW icons.

( doop doop thinking sorta grumbly )

On another note! I've been sort of playing along with moogle_university- I didn't get through FF3, to my complete lack of surprise. My impression from the first playthrough was not that great and the second did not exactly improve. Though I guess there's some interesting stuff to play with in it? What is the deal with the Ancients, seriously. On the other hand, all the time stuff gives me headaches, I'm pretty sure no one was actually trying to make it make sense. Not gonna think about it too hard.

I want stories about the Warriors of the Dark, though. I'm not always much for stories of cycles (breaking out of that is sweet though), but I think this could be neat.

FFIV is basically magic after playing FF3, I've got to be honest. Even the deal with Baron itself is hells of more complex, and the kid who asks Cecil if he's a bad guy! That's pretty cute, and I do like that you start off with Cecil looking like that, even if he is dumb as a rock. Then you have the rest of the world and Mysidia and the parts the Crystals play (sentient crystals! yesssss I have no idea what they're actually doing but I don't really worry about it that much). Although Troia is… um. Look, I'm glad they tried to have a women-centric society, but it… didn't really get pulled off that well. Sigh. … I don't think the dwarves were developed much more, really, and Troia doesn't… get a lot of plot really but. It would've been nice!

The difficulty took kind of a weird curve, I think- at one point I was muddling along going '…am I overlevelled? I think I may be overlevelled' and Edge only died once on Leviathan. …And then I hit the Sealed Cave and suddenly everyone needed to be healed between fights just in case the next one was two Chimeras each with an urge to use Blaze. Good times! The Lunar Subterrane is worse- it was kind of manageable until I got to a chest with a fire-based dragon and lost a few floors of progress. So uh not finished with 4 just yet. Sometime soon!

Odin is so much nicer in 4 than 5, man. I think he has more HP, but considering the lack of a time limit, not so much a problem! Gosh I also want summon stories, those are cool.

Started on 5- not that far in yet, though, which is a shame. Lenna seems kind of formal so far, but checking with the SNES translation… I think that probably I was getting her mixed up with someone. :|a And I know the GBA translation is technically the better of the two I have, but on the other hand I've never really been big on Yoshitaka Amano's art for it. It doesn't quite gel for me- I tend to read FF5 as comedy more than anything else, and Amano's art seems kind of more serious. Though some people've noted that the second world has kind of a lot of crap going on there so! Man.

…really though FF5 is basically the breather between 4 and 6. … Well, mostly. …and then we get 7 and 8, which. I guess I'll see!

Further note: so uh hs_worldcup is going to be a thing I guess? May's well try I guess… :x It'd be nice to talk with people and do things, just. Well. oh man signups are open now oh man. WHOOPS.

And finally: eeeeee mail that mail is coming hell yeah /o/!

I appear to have pulled myself back from a complete emotional collapse. I didn't post about it at the time, but it was... ugly. I'm pretty worn down from it. So, if I don't answer a lot of comments, or respond to a lot of posts, that's why.

I'm nowhere near 100%, so I'm trying to be careful with myself. This means no gender meta for month_of_meta, unfortunately. If I weren't working, sure, but I can't put that much on my plate. Self care, it's all about self care. I might write the little D&D alignments meta. That would be much less difficult. But we'll see. Self care! My emotional health is more important than internet deadlines. (And I'm going to keep repeating that until I, hopefully, believe it.)

I'm also not signing up as pich hitter for wcpairings. I know I said I would in an attempt to alleviate the guilt, but like I said, self care. Heh, besides, right now they only have one opening, and that's the space I left, I deduce.

Speaking of internet deadlines, I really need to get started on my big bang. I have other fics I wanted to finish--one very belatedly for the Neal/Sara fest and one or two for whitecollarhc's ComFest, but I don't know how long that could take me. I am such a slow writer. At least I got kink_bingo out of the way. I tell myself that people always like getting fic, even if it's months after the fact. THEY DO, RIGHT? I'M NOT WRONG THERE? Besides, the one was I was working on for ComFest may or may not be crap. (I couldn't tell if I thought it was crap because I was depressed, or if I thought it was crap because it actually was crap. Of course, it might have been crap because I was depressed.)

Now my real problem is actually starting the big bang. This is always the worst part. Actually beginning. I don't exactly have an outline, but I have a list of events that are supposed to happen and some issues I want to deal with. But writing that first sentence... I seem to be having trouble with that part. Starting is always difficult, but it's less intimidating for short fics. I don't have so much to tackle, and there's no pressure on them to hit that word length. (Why did I think this was a good idea?)

In the interest of motivating myself, would the people in my circle who participating in big bang (and those who want to cheer us on) be interested in setting up a time and place to chat? It might be a stupid idea, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

For the moment, however, I'm just going to listen to a lot of sixties music and take some (prescribed, psychiatric) drugs. Maybe I'll try to write a little later. And this evening, I do believe there will be Doctor Who.

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Title: Sebastian and the Beast: Ch 8, Pg 10
Rating: Pg-13
Idea/art/writing: Matix
Co-writer/beta: Allie (yume_no_kage)
Summary: Beauty and the Beast with a twist (and a wriggle)
A/N: Yes, this is me being evil. Just in case you were wondering. :P

Sebastian and the Beast, Ch8 Pg 10


[Cover]
Ch 1: 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6&7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Ch 2: 1, 2, 3&4, 5, 6, 7, 8&9, 10, 11, 12&13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
Ch 3 1&2, 3&4, 5&6, 7, 8&9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28&29
Ch 4 1&2&3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43
Ch 5 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
Ch 6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Ch 7 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Ch 8 Cover, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9


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Just finished:

Rather than describe only the last book I read, I thought I'd post a little bit on everything I read since last Wednesday

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It was a productive week! Well, I needed to make up for those dry months. I don't expect I'll be able to keep this up, but one can always hope.


Currently Reading: Making Money, by Terry Pratchett. It's been too long since I read a Discworld novel! And this one has Moist, who is one of my favorites. Of course, I tend to to think that whichever character I'm reading about is my favorite. If I'm reading Lords and Ladies, the witches are my favorites, if I'm reading Hogfather then Death and Susan are my favorites, and then if I'm reading Men at Arms, Vimes becomes my favorite. But Moist has a place near the top, no matter what, I'm pretty sure.

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