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...without any kind of post from me.

Hello internet! I en't dead.

So, what new and fandomish with me?

I'm watching (which is kind of shocking, actually) and enjoying Sleepy Hollow. ( more thoughts here... )

I'm also watching SHIELD, and I gotta say I don't love it as much as I want to. ( more thoughts here... )

In other news, I'm finally going through and watching NCIS from start to finish (if by "start" you mean "Season 3," which I do, in this case.) We're on Season 8 and I'm starting to see some things I hadn't seen before. It helps having it all in order. Context and all.

NaNoWriMo approacheth, and I'm scrambling to figure out WT-bloody-F to write. I'm leaning heavily towards Harry Potter, though Avengers is not out of the question.

It's the 15th of October and I don't have a story. Hell, I haven't even narrowed it down to a fandom. No need to panic, right?

A Question for the Committee

Here's a question for those of you who post fic on AO3: What is a reasonable Hits to Kudos ratio? If say, 95% of your hits don't leave kudos should you assume that nobody likes it? Or is 5% a pretty good number? What's average? Or do you even worry about the ratio? How can you tell if you're winning?

Update on the NaNo Front

I've managed to be at or slightly above the word count goal every day so far. ::knocks wood:: I am hoping to keep that up (or maybe get ahead) because I know that there are going to be some serious interruptions before all is said and done (and by "serious interruptions" I mean "cooking Thanksgiving dinner for 18+ people" and "my best friend is having a baby and I'm one of her birthing coaches.") So, yeah -- ahead would be good, although so far I've just pretty much been managing "not behind."

I posted one the things I wrote this month night before last (this is not unrelated to the AO3 Kudos/Hits question above.)

Marvel Avengers Movie Universe/Captain America: The First Avengers "Can't Get Warm." Rated Teen. 1358 words. Bucky wakes up cold on a table in a German camp, and he can't get warm. Events in Captain America: The First Avenger from Bucky's POV.

DVD Commentary Meme

I have the DVD Commentary Meme on offer here. I had fun doing inline commentary for "The Lost Boys." Come play with me!

I'm worried that I've lost my mojo. Such as it was.

I'm doing NaNo in two weeks and I haven't the least clue what I'm writing. I asked for prompts two weeks ago and my brain just freezes up whenever I go to write one.

WTF is the matter with me?

MOJO WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?!

(I apparently have not lost the ability to be melodramatic.)

GRRR.

Okay, anyway, right now I have two major contenders for my NaNo novel.

Option #1 is an idea I first came up with in 2010, I think. To wit: Harry Potter Post Epilogue (Next Gen) story. James has cast a spell that prohibits Lily from dating until after Albus does (ala 10 Things I Hate About You/Taming of the Shrew). James thinks he's terribly clever because he knows Albus is too shy to date. Lily actually IS very clever, and knows that Albus isn't just shy -- he is also in love with his best friend Scorpius. I initially thought that this story would be from Albus' POV (as is traditional in the other versions, where Albus = Kate)... but this is totally Lily's story.

OBSTACLES: I need the boy that Lily wants to date. He needs to be an OC, and worthy of our girl. Also, I'm in the middle of a different Lily-centric story, and I want to not cross my streams (neither of these are really obstacles. I'm such a whiner).

Option #2: Avengers fandom. I talked about this a little bit when I wrote my Steve Rogers character study. Steve/Bucky. Steve and Bucky never got together before the war -- there was some interest from both parties, but neither of them realized that the other one would be open to the idea, so unrequited UST of a fairly sweet nature. Then Bucky ships out, and gets captured and Steve changes before they find each other again. In the months that they are raiding together as Howling Commandoes they very nearly have a Moment, but end up having a fight instead. Then Bucky dies. Then Steve dies. And that's really where my story would start. (The story would be mostly in the "now" of story time, modern day after the Winter Soldier is found. The rest is told as flashbacks and memories.)

So, tell me Oh Wise Flist -- which should I write? Please to cast your votes in the comments (preferably with a word or two saying why you'd suggest one over the other). Please bear in mind that I have to date written only about 1500 words of Avengers fic. I've done 4 NaNoWriMos worth of Harry Potter fic (plus some). One could argue that fact in favor of either option above, depending on which way it was spun.

cybermathwitch and I went out for sushi and Avengers (two great tastes that taste great together. Or separately. Or in any combination...I digress) last Tuesday. It was my fourth time seeing it in theaters, and her 389th. It really does hold up. I mean, yeah there are places where it's a little over-done (Hawkeye's uber-dramatic "bow extension" move, f'rinstance), but it's a comic book movie. It's supposed to be a bit over-done, and I still puffy-heart love it.

Pusher that she is, she is trying to talk me into writing a "team bonding" fic that involves Darcy teaching them all how to play Shanghai Rummy.

I'm kind of tempted, if I could get my brain to hold still long enough. I am supposed to be working on editing Neville, and I haven't been doing that either. And now I'm waffling about what I'll do for NaNo. I am terrible at this game.

Hello Eljay! Remember me?

I'm finishing up my NaNoWriMo (I'm about 8K away) and baking a post-Thanksgiving pumpkin pie.

Because I can.

So, what's new with you?

Wow, the upside to Twitter is that it auto-ships to LJ...the downside that it auto-ships to LJ.   Days of Twitter posts, and not much real content to be had.
 

I've been doing some good Work in terms of exploring the direction that I want my religious/spiritual path to take.  There is something incredibly liberating in realizing that it is okay to reject something that you thought you believed (or even genuinely believed) that no longer fits.   I am making it up as I go along, but I'm lucky enough to have some companions near-by taking a similar journey.

In fandom news, I'm driving the crack_broom ... that is to say, FLYING thecrack_broom  for Next Gen recs this month.   I've only managed to get one posted, but I've scoped out more stories, I just need to get them up.  As it were.   ANYWAY.

I'm feeling the urge to write again, and am torn between working on editing either or my NaNos or maybe doing some short stories.    I signed up for the weasley_fest  -- and I'm pretty excited about that.   Speaking of which, cybermathwitch  have you signed up yet?  

And to make this really, really random:  I was thinking earlier about something the_disco_fairy said to me last year.  

"Mom," she says, because I'm her mom.  "Mom.  Is there a type of skirt that looks good on my ass?  Because you've had it longer than I have."   And genties and ladlemen, it's true.  Girlfriend got my butt.  Bless.


 

Two Great Internet Concepts, Destined to Meet...

In the year 2019 there were eight Potter/Weasley children attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.   This caused no little stir amongst the faculty and staff, and was in fact directly responsible for the retirement of Argus Filch, the school's elderly caretaker.  

It was also during these years that staff began the habit of meeting weekly for poker and spirits -- just to take the edge off, you understand.  Just to take the edge off.

Yeah, so.[Poll #1278983][Poll #1278983]

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