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    Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
    musesfool
         		9:52p
    let me be the future
    I was rewatching 4.10 before I left to pick up the kids and I really like ( spoilers )

    ***

    I am so tired and sleepy and warm, sitting all curled up on my couch. Today was very fun and busy, but I am just not made for cold weather.

    I picked up the kids at Penn, and we schlepped up to 86th street, and had brunch at the Popover Cafe, which was really nice. We had to wait for a table, but it wasn't a tremendously long wait. I had the lemon pancakes, Alyssa had the chicken salad sandwich, and Anthony had the French toast. Oh, and the iced chai was really good.

    Then we walked down to the museum, and because BEMC is a corporate member, we got in free and only had to pay for the special exhibits we wanted to see - we chose Climate Change and The Horse, and the guy sent us into the IMAX theatre for Climate Change, except that that was a movie about Sea Monsters. Which was fine and all - very "Finding Nemo" at parts, except with ancient dinosaur-like giant fish things (every time the big giant prehistoric turtle showed up, I was like, "Duuude." and the shark reminded me of Bruce: "Fish are our friends!" - but was not what we wanted to see. Then we wandered upstairs to the horse exhibit, which was far too crowded, but very interesting.

    Then we wandered some more, and finally hit the meteorite, minerals and and gems exhibit, which none of us had seen before. Well, obviously, Anthony had never been to the museum before, so he'd never seen it, but neither had Alyssa and I, and we've been there a few times.

    Well, we spent quite a lot of time in there, and both kids really seemed to enjoy it (Anthony's affinity for sulfur was amusing on several levels). We saw the Star of India, and a smaller star ruby, and a lot of other gorgeous gems, and some really cool looking rocks - pyrite and hematite and quartz and a ton of other stuff none of us had ever heard of, but was really pretty to look at. Anthony was actually considering a future in geology for a bit (he is fifteen and unsure about what he wants to do with his life, though architectural engineering is his current fancy; my dad was a draftsman, so he is kind of chuffed by that idea).

    Then they started announcing the museum was going to close, so we went back out into the cold, where it was even colder, because it was dark, and had dinner at the Shake Shack. The burgers were really good (and so were the fries, I'm told - I didn't have any), but man, they need more seating. Some really rude people left their coats on a table and didn't leave a person sitting there, so I sat on one bench and some other guy set on the other bench, until the people came back (and the moron was like, "I guess my plan wasn't foolproof." I felt like lighting into her, but I didn't. I didn't even make a not-really-sotto-voce nasty comment, though I wanted to. I am growing as a person!).

    After we ate, we took the subway back down to Penn, and I put them on the train, and came back home. It was a good day.

    ***

    Hey, maybe I will attempt to write something tonight! It could happen!

    ***

    Current Mood: content
    Current Music: Dip - THC
    alchemia
         		6:48p
    So I decided to take a look at that archive of our own thing. I click on a fandom of choice and see that I can further narrow down my search by things such as warnings, of which there were only two options to pick

    [_] Choose not to Warn and
    [_] None of these Warnings Apply.

    So I could pick one and be potentially surprised by content I do not want... or pick the other and be potentially surprised by content too uncommon to warrant its own tag which I still may not want? Meh, I will stick to links in friends' recs.
    rivkat
         		11:41a
    Eight Crazy Nights
    It's getting towards that time of year again, so I'm now soliciting prompts for Eight Crazy Nights. You provide fandom/s, character/s, pairing/s if you like, and something else--words, lyrics, tropes. Starting on the first night of Hanukah, I will post drabbles or, if inspiration strikes, something longer, just like last year. I'll do crossovers, timestamps for past stories, or anything else I can make work. Along with the usual suspects (SV, SPN, Buffy, XF) I will try anything I think I can do. Contenders include Chuck, Gossip Girl with appropriate characters (hint: Blair Waldorf must pie; Jenny Humphrey must die), and My Own Worst Enemy. Multiple prompts are fine; I'll just see what I can get to.
    rivkat
         		11:35a
    Reviews: fiction
    ( m/m erotica, alternate reality, Star Trek spinoff )

    Current Mood: crappy
    Current Music: Hey Willpower - Chewing Gum
    Friday, November 21st, 2008
    brownbetty
         		5:47p
    Another entry in our continuing series, Betty Procrastinates
    I mean, TV I am watching.

    Life! Why should you watch it? Because it is due South for the next generation. NO WAIT. I will demonstrate.

    ( Or at least, that's what it reminds me of most. That counts, right? )
    musesfool
         		11:58a
    like a sinner before the gates of heaven
    I keep thinking of things I want to post about and then forgetting them, and then I got my period this morning, and realized, ah, that's why my brain has been wonky all week. Joy.

    One thing I did want to mention is that if you are spoilerphobic, which I am not, really - I am generally plot-twist-spoiler-avoidant. there's a difference. I like casting spoilers, and sometimes I can't resist clicking on other types of things, and also, I don't think TV guide type blurbs are actually spoilers, which I will get to in a second - you probably have already learned not to have the EW feeds on your Google reader. Because yesterday, there were two separate posts with SPN spoilers (well, the same SPN spoiler) in the subject line. I mean, it was something that was obviously going to happen from the preview shown last week, but if you are the kind of person who avoids the previews, then you would probably consider it a spoiler.

    And this is the thing I find interesting - it was something that probably a large number of people would consider a spoiler, and yet it is something that the promo department felt was good marketing to show.

    Now, we all know the promo departments are sometimes godawful at keeping things a secret that should be kept secret - NBC promos are infamous for spoiling the endings of shows - but in the general run of things, what we see as spoilers, they (being the networks etc.) feel is good advertising.

    Dean's going to take off his shirt? Booth and Brennan are going to smooch? Denny is coming back to Grey's? Tell the world, because then more people (i.e., casual viewers) will tune in!

    I mean, we've all seen trailers that basically obviate the need to see the movie, since all the major plot twists and best jokes are included in that two minutes, and that is totally a problem, but sometimes you've gotta dangle a lure, as with advertising that a beloved actor is coming back, or a lot of long-standing UST is going to be R'd, and hope it will bring in viewers who might have drifted away or meant to watch but forgot etc. And yet, I'm sure that they - the networks and the showrunners - also want to keep their secrets. They don't want to show that, say, JDM is going to return to SPN (NOT A REAL SPOILER) if he's going to show up in the last two minutes of a cliff-hanger. The surprise appearance of George Clooney on ER when Carol Hathaway left was awesome. Yet, if he agrees to come back for the ER series finale, I would imagine they'd trumpet that all over the place. Then again, maybe not - maybe the suspense of will he/won't he will be enough to get people to watch.

    The fact that so much more news about entertainment is available to us now - look at how early people freak out about stuff because of sides - makes the tension between giving too much away and giving enough to hook people into watching really interesting.

    And speaking of the impact of the internet and timeshifting and all that fun stuff on entertainment, how dumb is Tim Kring? James Poniewozik and Maureen Ryan both eviscerate his stupid remarks, but seriously, "DVRs are bad for serialized storytelling"? Seriously? What the fuck is Tim Kring smoking? And calling the people still actually watching his show in real time "saps and dipshits" is really poor repayment to the folks who are still actually watching his suckfest and providing the ratings. He's a stutter step away from telling people they're interrogating his text from the wrong perspective.

    *shakes head*

    I knew he didn't understand fandom, or the comics tropes he was mining, but this is a whole new level of dumn (sic).

    Protip to Tim Kring: you are not Aaron Sorkin. The last thing you want to do is emulate Aaron Sorkin's antagonism towards his fans (even Aaron Sorkin should give up his antagonism towards his fans, but at least he's a talented dickwad). It's a bad idea all around.

    Otoh, I am still not sure about how I feel about Kripke-levels of fanservice. Surely there's a happy medium?

    And I am still processing last night's SPN, but I do have one question: ( spoilers )

    Okay, that was one question and one observation and one bit of spec.

    And the phones just went crazy, so I'm gonna hit post now.

    ***

    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: bat out of hell - meatloaf (I am not even joking)
    Thursday, November 20th, 2008
    musesfool
         		11:05p
    a little snake in the pipes
    I worked until 7, then I chose to take the bus because I didn't feel like making the walk home from the subway, and then I missed the bus and the next local bus never came so I ended up walking almost twice as much as I would have had I taken the subway. Sigh. And don't even get me started on the MTA and the way the govt keeps screwing us on this...ugh.

    Let's talk happy things. Like Supernatural: Heaven and Hell.

    ( rambly incoherent and mostly squeeful spoilers )

    I *heart* my show, but I am not sure I can stand an eight week hiatus. *whimper* Let the fic writing begin.

    ***

    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: Like the Way I Do - Melissa Etheridge
    musesfool
         		12:35p
    and i take what i find, i don't want no more
    LJ has just given us another icon slot (145!) and I can't decide what to upload. I am having that itch where I want to weed out the keywords and icons I don't use anymore, delete everything and reupload, in some kind of organized fashion. Maybe this weekend, while I am procrastinating on writing.

    ***

    [info]kestrelsan has an interesting post about story length, and I tend to think that most really long fan-written stories could be cut down by at least 30%, if not 50%. I mean, I tend to write short, and I tend to get betas back that make me add a few hundred words, but even I, in the longest thing I've written (46K words), probably should have cut 6000-8000 words out (even though I can totally rationalize the existence of those scenes, I can also see, especially with some distance, how they do slow the story down).

    So while the complaint that short stories often feel like sketches or broad outlines rather than full stories is not unfounded, I am more likely to complain that a lot of longer stories feel like 4K words of story drawn out over 40K words. And there are a lot of reasons for that – people who post wsip when they don't know where they're going and end up meandering; the proliferation of big bang challenges with large minimum word counts; the inability of a great number of fan writers – me included – who have a shaky grasp of pacing (to put it kindly). And because of the greater time invested in a longer story, to me, the disappointment is more memorable.

    I will say that I have gone back to writing a little longer - and I say "gone back to" because in XMM I did write a number of 10-20K word stories, though I think my comfort zone back then was in the 5K-8K zone, though I don't have the word count on most of those stories.

    The thing is, back when I was writing Logan/Rogue, I needed that length to get them together (not that that is long by most standards). I needed to build that relationship up so it was believable; I had to take the pairing through its paces to make it work. And I enjoyed messing around with all the old romance novel tropes.

    When I got into HP and started writing Sirius/Remus, I didn't feel like I needed to do that. I still occasionally wrote a story that hit 10K words (usually for remix. heh.) but I did a lot of 1200 word PWPs and schmoopy vignettes, because the pairing was SO OBVIOUS and so ROCK SOLIDLY near canon that I didn't feel a need to do a lot of leading the reader or making it believable, because I felt (still feel, later books notwithstanding) that Remus/Sirius lives in the interstices of PoA and OotP (and even GoF), so there was no need for me to do that much work.

    The thing is, before I soured on XMM entirely, I was pretty OTP about Logan/Rogue. So I'm not sure it's the degree of OTP-ness that made me feel like one pairing required a shitload of work and the other didn't, so much as my own feeling of how close to canon the pairing was (or how easily you could get to the pairing by extrapolating from canon - I know in HP circles there was a lot of semantic confusion about near-canon ships because some people thought that meant we expected to see it in canon, while I and other people like me, thought of it as a logical extrapolation from canon, but not necessarily anything that was ever going to show up in the books though, god help me, I kinda sorta hoped it would).

    Obviously, a lot depends on the characters, as well. Much like Logan/Rogue, it takes a lot of work to get Mal and Kaylee, or Mal and River, into a sexual or romantic relationship. So again in Firefly, I was hitting 6K and 9K words (15K in one memorable instance) in order to get them where I wanted them to be. I was still writing occasional 1200 word character pieces and PWPs, but also more gen, which also seemed to require more words.

    Now, in SPN, I tend to write either short episode codas (that may or may not involve Wincest, depending); Dean/girl stories, which take a little bit of set up but don't generally require a lot of words; and more casefile-ish types of things, which do seem to require 3K-8K words a pop from me (I am sure other writers could make them work over a larger amount of words, but plot and I tend to be unmixy and like our associations to be as short as humanly possible). (Oddly, since I can't always predict whether there will be Wincest in my stories - even when I set out with the intention that there will or won't be for a given story - I can't really generalize on how that affects things.)

    So I definitely feel like I am writing longer stories now, and I think I am reading longer stories now – still not the 100K word behemoths that so many people bemoan the lack of these days – but things that go for 8K or 15K or 20K words, and those I do find really satisfying, when they don't feel like there is only 2K words of story amid the 20K words.

    I am not sure all this rambling had a point, but obviously, I can still write a 1000 word LJ post with ease. *snerk*

    ***

    Great day in the morning!

    I have to agree with Sasha Frere-Jones on this one:

    Earliest Christmas Ever!
    As if Obama winning wasn’t enough good news, Coldplay have announced that they are breaking up next year. Chris Martin says that they will "go for it in every sense" until they disband, though, and I fear this going for it will involve another Coldplay album. As a result, my own going for it is going to be severely curtailed. Trips into the outside world will be planned carefully, so that I avoid retail outlets likely to play "The Last Whinge" or "Coconut Diaper" or whatever it ends up being called. This means I will be eating at Mars 2112.

    Perhaps it's time to add "hating coldplay" back to my LJ interests.

    the last time I talked about hating coldplay, something like 12 people defriended me over the course of the next few hours. It was quite traumatic. *braces for impact*

    ***

    Current Mood: thoughtful
    Current Music: Foreplay/Long Time - Boston
    Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
    musesfool
         		11:04p
    she gets the faraway look in her eyes
    R. and I went to see Rachel Getting Married this evening. It was an intense movie, personal and real. I felt like I was at that wedding (though I have never been at a wedding where Robyn Hitchcock played - that would be pretty freaking awesome), and like I knew those people. Anne Hathaway gives an amazing performance; Kym was both repulsive and sympathetic - she's a disaster waiting to happen, a beautiful girl spilling over with toxic narcissism and passive-aggressiveness, a gaping wound crying out for attention. ( spoilers, if anyone cares about that. )

    The movie is sad - the Buchman family, and Kym in particular, is probably never going to resolve its issues - but there is a sense of hopefulness, that love and family do mean something, and that being surrounded by people you love, and who love you, is what makes a great life, issues and all.

    I am annoyed that you can only get Tunde Adebimpe's wedding vow version of "Unknown Legend" by buying the entire soundtrack. I mean, the soundtrack was pretty cool, but I only want that one song. It was pretty fantastic.

    ***

    Current Mood: tired
    Current Music: Land of Hope and Dreams - Bruce
    alchemia
         		7:02p
    Holiday Wishes- Reminder & Request for Promotion Help
    Just a reminder that we do have a </a></b></a>[info]holiday_wishes comm here on IJ. It was set up last year because LJ policies caused some parts of fandom to move over here.

    It's a more relaxed atmosphere than the comm on LJ, and you can post things other than wish lists (holiday virtual cards, links to holiday related charities, tutorials on hand making cards or ornaments etc). If you posted your wishlist to the LJ comm, you can still post here too (but the same wishes of course please).

    http://asylums.insanejournal.com/holiday_wishes/

    On LJ: http://community.livejournal.com/holiday_wishes/
    Wiki: http://holidaywishes.pbwiki.com/

    Now, we need to get the community more active.  The more people on a thing like this, the better!  But I don't know IJ as well as LJ.  Can any of you recommend where or how this community can be promoted?  And please feel free to promote it in your journals too of course!
    musesfool
         		2:45p
    "for every winner there's a hundred losers. odds are, you're one of them"
    [info]spnroundtable is having a discussion about POV, and whether one finds it easier to write from Sam's POV or Dean's, and I feel like currently, Dean's is definitely easier, but I was pretty sure my stories were fairly evenly split between them, so I did a little counting, and this is what I came up with (approximately):

    Dean POV: 63
    Sam POV: 52 (including 8 girl!Sam POV stories)
    Other: 16 (including a bunch of crossovers, as well as Ellen, Jo, Jess, and Mary POV)

    Not as close as I'd thought, but part of that is definitely my inability to get into Sam's head so far this season and also, I had had this idea (possibly false) that most of the casefiles I'd written were in Sam's POV, so I wanted to write a couple from Dean's POV, so there's that. And also, I bet some of those eleven more Dean POV stories are the Dean-het stuff, whereas I am not that interested in writing about Sam having sex with people who aren't Jess or Dean (or Buffy, which, I must admit, I find an adorable combination).

    I think lately because I have started more with "Wouldn't it be cool if..." rather than "I wonder how Dean or Sam feels about..." it's been harder for me to pin down POV. I mean, most of the time, the POV comes with the story when it appears - "Beer and the Highway" and "The Sea Will Open in Your Veins" both had to be Sam's POV, but "I've never been too good with names" and "A Proportional Response" had to be Dean's. Something like "If the Shoe Fits," though, that could have been either, and I only went with Dean's because of the always-writing-casefiles-from-Sam's-POV thing I mentioned up there. And also because it's a funny story, and Dean is just better for comedy. He gets so indignant.

    Because most of my stories boil down to "Sam learns/thinks Dean is awesome!" sometimes I do write from Sam's POV just to show how much he loves Dean, or so he can learn some new awesome thing about Dean (knitting, kite-flying). And if it's porn, since I don't really find Sam attractive myself, it's easier to write from his POV if it's about attraction to Dean. Though since I don't really write Wincest PWPs where Sam is not a girl, that hasn't really been an issue. Heh.

    I guess it really does come down to whatever story I'm working on, which POV I think will work best. Sometimes I'm wrong and I have to go back and rewrite from the other POV, and then it clicks. Usually that's when a story is about something other than what I think it's about. Which happens more often than I'd like anyway. *snerk*

    ***

    We are not the only ones talking about SPN 4.14. ( from Ausiello )

    ***

    Can it be home times now?

    ***

    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: conference calls going on around me
    Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
    musesfool
         		10:38p
    get down, get down
    Things. And also, stuff.

    + I keep thinking that the more I write casefile type stories, the easier they will get, BUT NO. I am still constantly in a state of "BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS!" I still feel like I am much better at writing romances - all the case-stuff in my casefiles feels really half-assed to me, even the ones I really like and think turned out well. I think it's kind of obvious that the cases are always just there so I can hang a lot of banter and emoporn on them (not unlike the show, actually *snerk*). However, as I have a number of casefile-type stores in the pipeline, I will have to keep going.

    + Which brings me to the fact that I think Kripke and I are on a wavelength again, because ( exceptionally mild spoilers for SPN episodes coming up after the hiatus, as discussed in those con vids from this weekend )

    + Speaking of which. ( talk of that spoiler from the 4.14 sides )

    + Speaking of needs, specifically, mine, can anybody share with me either (or both) of the following songs: Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon and/or Keep Yourself Warm by Frightened Rabbit? I would be most grateful and willing to trade if there's any music I have that you need. [eta] All taken care of! Thank you so much! [/eta]

    + This. Yes.

    + I have about half an hour before I need to go to bed. Possibly I will attempt to write.

    ***

    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: Kool & the Gang - Jungle Boogie
    skuf
         		6:31p
    My name is [info]skuf and it's been 11 days since my last post (aka random blather)
    Which is a long time for me. Dude, work kills both my libido and will to post :o(

    I thought I had things in my to-post folder, but apparently only (still) the shit-load of to-recs - from three fandoms now (plus the mentally-only folder of vid recs). So I guess I'll whine about LJ being down right when I have time to go online, yeah?

    How's you? (I always think people don't really mean it/me, so I rarely answer such throw-out questions. But that doesn't mean I don't actually want to hear, if you want to share :o) !) (In other news, I went a bit overboard with the <em>s and parentheses, eh?)

    Poll #2724
    Open to: All, results viewable to: None

    Is it time for another filtered discussion?

    Yes
    6 (100.0%)

    What would you like to discuss?

    eponis 11:32a
    Hrmph.
    No LJ for four hours, I can deal with. But when Twitter goes down for "an hour of maintenance" at exactly the same time? That's annoying.
    musesfool
         		9:58a
    far from the roar of the sun
    As I'm sure you've all heard eleventy million times by now, LJ is going down at around 11am EST, allegedly for four hours (though I am willing to bet that is a very optimistic estimate), so they can move their servers.

    I backed up my LJ this morning (using LJArchive), so I'll have a copy of every post but this one, should the worst happen and all the data gets lost. (Well, technically, I'll have a copy of this one at IJ, so.)

    I've been living an LJ-light existence for a while now. I have limited access now at work, which means I've been acclimating myself and while I am here, it won't be as huge a deal as it once might have been. I still have all the food blogs on my google reader, after all. *snerk*

    And there is also that thing known as writing (I do have this thing I want to write, but I can't figure out how to start), or even, possibly, *gasp* work. Hopefully it won't come to that, though.

    You can always come see me on IJ, but if not, see you on the flip side.

    ***

    I went to bed early last night - 10:15! - and I woke up every two hours like clockwork. Sigh. At least it was early enough that that didn't really matter too much, but still! I wanted a good night's sleep. And then this morning, there were HUGE amounts of traffic and I was twenty minutes late to work. Given that the traffic was due to a shitload of construction, I suppose I am going to have to start getting up and leaving the house even earlier. Fuckers.

    ***

    Have a poem:

    Silence

    There is the sudden silence of the crowd
    above a player not moving on the field,
    and the silence of the orchid.

    The silence of the falling vase
    before it strikes the floor,
    the silence of the belt when it is not striking the child.

    The stillness of the cup and the water in it,
    the silence of the moon
    and the quiet of the day far from the roar of the sun.

    The silence when I hold you to my chest,
    the silence of the window above us,
    and the silence when you rise and turn away.

    And there is the silence of this morning
    which I have broken with my pen,
    a silence that had piled up all night

    like snow falling in the darkness of the house—
    the silence before I wrote a word
    and the poorer silence now.

    ~Billy Collins

    ***

    Current Mood: awake
    Current Music: commercials on the radio
    Monday, November 17th, 2008
    musesfool
         		9:11p
    a story, the intersection of a wish and the tip of a pencil
    *yawn*

    Can it be the weekend now? If the rest of this week is anything like today... no, you know what? I don't even want to contemplate that, though I am totally ready to crawl into bed and not come out again until Christmas.

    One good thing about today was Chuck. ( spoilers )

    I also finally got a chance to read this essay by Michael Chabon, which someone linked me to last week (a couple weeks ago?): Secret Skin: An essay in unitard theory.

    If I were less exhausted, I would totally talk more about it, about the power of narrative, the way we shape our selves, our lives, with the stories we tell, to others, and to ourselves. Chabon says it better than I could, anyway:

    We say "secret identity," and adopt a series of cloaking strategies to preserve it, but what we are actually trying to conceal is a narrative: not who we are but the story of how we got that way—and, by implication, of all that we lacked, and all that we were not, before the spider bit us. Yet our costume conceals nothing, reveals everything: it is our secret skin, exposed and exposing us for all the world to see. Superheroism is a kind of transvestism; our superdrag serves at once to obscure the exterior self that no longer defines us while betraying, with half-unconscious panache, the truth of the story we carry in our hearts, the story of our transformation, of our story’s recommencement, of our rebirth into the world of adventure, of story itself.


    ***

    Current Mood: exhausted
    Current Music: The Old Apartment - Barenaked Ladies
    brownbetty
         		12:01p
    Hypothesis
    People who say "Dogs love me!" are people who have never bothered to notice what any particular dog thinks of them, or, in fact, troubled themselves with the idea that individual dogs might form opinions independent of their abstract category.
    Sunday, November 16th, 2008
    rivkat
         		9:49p
    Double Cross 6/6
    Summary and warnings in <ahref="http://rivkat.livejournal.com/207809.html">part 1</a>.
    Part 5. No longer canon-compliant.

    ( meret made an awesome cover, beneath the cut. )

    Current Mood: uncomfortable
    Current Music: Kaiser Chiefs - from the neck down
    alchemia
         		7:53p
    Ok, so the JKR's "Outing Dumbledore" as the press put it, is old news, but going through my notes from Terminus, I came across this, and thought I'd throw it out ...

    "Virtually all who take a position on outing have qualified the limits to which it is permissible for one to go. The extremes are to out no one, or to out everyone. In between, four intermediate positions can be discerned (Johansson & Percy, p.228)":

    1) Hypocrites only, and only when they actively oppose gay rights and interests;
    2) Passive accomplices who help run homophobic institutions;
    3) Prominent individuals whose outing would shatter stereotypes, and compel the public to reconsider its attitude on homosexuality;
    4) Only the dead.

    Assessing to which degree the outer goes allows insight into the goal striven towards.

    So, which one(s) did JKR do with Dumbledore, and why?
    alchemia
         		4:49p
    WAAAH I don't want to me sick! :(

    BTW, it seems the more I learn about stuff, the more i double triple quadruple analyze my words, and then get so frustrated that I'm probably still oblivious to some privileged position and will end up pissing off half my flist anyway that I never get around to posting...

    anyone else get in a rut like that?
    musesfool
         		3:44p
    nothing but touch
    I have been enjoying the Giants-Ravens game muchly, though their secondary has been ridiculously sloppy and full of holes, and some of the penalties make my soul weep.

    Oh, Eli, no.

    Okay, they should challenge that, because I'm not sure he had control of that ball. They are reviewing it. Woo! Incomplete pass! Tom Coughlin has the best percentage on challenges in the league, I believe. (And I don't really think the Giants are getting much of a Super Bowl champion cushion on calls, the way some teams get, but I admit I am biased.)

    Also, I am having angst over tonight's Redskins/Cowboys game, because normally, I just root for whoever is playing against the Cowboys, but rooting for the Skins is not something I would normally do, either, so if it helps the Giants for them [either them! sadly, they can't both lose] to win... I don't know if I can do it. Also, go Bengals! They were beating the Eagles earlier, and while I doubt that will continue, I can hope.

    Another penalty. Jesus fuck, you morons, stop doing stupid shit!

    INTERCEPTION RUN BACK FOR THE TOUCHDOWN! WOOHOO!

    \o/

    [obviously, the game keeps distracting me from writing this entry. heh.]

    Dude. You've got to hit that guy! You can't just let him run up the field!

    Oh, fuck! SO CLOSE. 77 yard run by my boy Ahmad Bradshaw. *hearts* Too bad he got stopped at the two instead of going in for the TD. Oh, Plaxico. Sigh. That was a great defensive play, though. Sigh. They need to get Jacobs to just bang it in. Sigh. Yeah, I would take the three points, too.

    I kind of LOVE that they are actually playing Earth, Wind and Fire while showing clips of the Giants running backs, who are known as Earth (Jacobs), Wind (Ward) and Fire (Bradshaw). This amuses me tremendously. They have run over this Ravens' defense, too, which was number one in the league against the run before today.

    ***

    I posted fic last night!

    Angel Radio
    Supernatural; Dean/Anna; spoilers through the promo for 4.10; adult; 2,545 words
    "The world could end tomorrow."

    I know Saturday night is a graveyard for fic, but I do not have the patience to wait for a more...propitious time to post. (And considering this is random character het, I don't think it really would have made much of a difference anyway. *shrug*) So I'm really pleased people are actually reading it. Thank you!

    ( spoilers for 4.09 and the preview clips for 4.10 )

    ***

    I am sure I had other things to say, but football! It is very distracting!

    ***

    Current Mood: bouncy
    Current Music: Giants v. Ravens on tv
    brownbetty
         		2:13p
    Sunday slap-fight
    Swiss Cheese: Threat or Menace?

    Show your work.
    Saturday, November 15th, 2008
    musesfool
         		11:35p
    fic: Angel Radio (Supernatural; Dean/Anna; adult)
    Angel Radio
    Supernatural; Dean/Anna; spoilers through the promo for 4.10; adult; 2,545 words
    "The world could end tomorrow."

    Thanks to [info]mousapelli for looking it over.

    ( Angel Radio )

    ~*~

    Feedback would be lovely.

    ~*~

    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: the night like a symphony under the sheets
    rivkat
         		9:34p
    Double Cross 5/6
    Summary and warnings in part 1.
    Part 4. No longer canon-compliant.

    ( Read more... )

    Current Mood: crappy
    Current Music: Morcheeba - What New York Couples Fight About
    musesfool
         		2:19p
    go lightly on the ground
    Okay, NYC people, I need your input. I am tentatively taking my oldest niece and nephew to the Museum of Natural History next Saturday, and while Alyssa is fairly amenable to almost anything, Anthony is a bit particular, so is there anything you can think of that a 15yo boy would be interested in doing? We'll probably start the day off with brunch, then the museum, and while I once knew a few fun bars on the Upper West Side (I went to Fordham at Lincoln Center), I'm thinking that's not exactly teen-friendly. Restaurant recs for brunch before or dinner after are also welcome, in either the midtown Penn Station area (which is where I am meeting them in the morning, and depositing them at the end of the day), or near the AMNH (I'd rather not end up at Uno's), and these days, I am more familiar with the east side, both upper and midtown. I thought about a trip downtown to the Sports Museum, but I'm not sure it'd be worth it to have to go all the way downtown, or that two museums in one day isn't overkill.

    I told them to think about what they want to do, but I'm not sure how successful that will be. We are all sort of hapless tourists in my family. But it will be fun, regardless.

    ***

    Heh. Two things I was planning to write just got rendered totally redundant by the preview and clips for next week's SPN. One can probably be reworked easily enough, but the other... ( spoilers for the preview only of 4.10 )

    Anyway, with the posting of I've never been too good with names (but I remember faces), I can finally cross "the It's a Shame About Ray story" off my wip list. Canon has made the story I was writing for Shibboleth a much more difficult proposition, and possibly I will still write that story, but I will reappropriate that title for something else, because this season has given me some ideas that suit it more than that story, I think. I'm not sure.

    The list currently looks something like this:

    stories where I've actually written something

    = The Crackpots and These Women (the best part of this story is the summary, but it amuses me, so...)
    = Inauguration, which will have to be rejiggered now
    = Shibboleth (pending retitling and also some rethinking)
    = backstreets story (girl!Sam)
    = You Catholic Girls Start Much Too Late (teen!Dean/Catholic schoolgirls)
    = Dean/Cordelia
    = Dean/Veronica x2
    = Mr. Frost (the hockey story)
    = She Got Down But She Never Got Tight (girl!Sam + strippers) and/or Beezlebub Likes Chocolate with Sprinkles (the girl!Sam haunted ice cream cake casefile)
    = The Drop-In (the Dean/Ellen surprise relationship story) and/or In This White House (the Dean/Ellen AU)
    = the one with Madame Makarova, the fake psychic who discovers that the supernatural really does exist

    stories I plan to write but have not yet begun

    = [info]yuletide story
    = catchallathon story
    = Daylight Won't Remember Her (casefile) <- this one is clamoring to be written, though, so it might move up the list quickly
    = Hartsfield Landing (Eric/Tami hotness)
    = quidquid deliquisti (wincest)
    = A Catalogue of Deadly Sins (wincest)
    = The Portland Trip (Max/Alec road trip gone wrong, with the hair washing)
    = The Black Vera Wang (possibly girl!Sam, or not. anyway, a casefile)
    = the girl!Sam one where she has amnesia (I told you, I am hitting as many cliches as possible with girl!Sam)
    = the one where Alec woos Max with heists
    = the Dean/Pepper (from Good Omens) where they compare antichrists and have awkward yet incendiary sex
    = the field hockey story
    = the baseball casefile (Dean/baseball=OTP)
    = an SPN/Bones crossover
    = the other 120 or so West Wing titles. *snerk*

    There are a couple other casefile-type things I came up with when I was panicking about [info]spn_summergen, but figuring out how they relate to the current state of the brothers Winchester means I'm not ready to even put them down here.

    Even if I don't write half of these, it's going to take me a long time, because lately, I can only seem to work on one thing at a time, which is not generally how I'm used to writing. But I will say that Write or Die was really helpful on I've never been too good with names (but I remember faces) - I set it for twenty minutes and wrote about 500 words each time. It helps that I knew where the story was going, that it was just a matter of me forcing myself to sit and write for an extended period of time, which is the thing I have the most trouble with these days. I am easily distracted and when I am all meh about fandom, it's even easier to just give up on writing and play tetris all evening. I need to stay excited about my own stories, which sometimes I find hard. But time writing with an actual "punishment" as minor and ridiculous as it is, has been a good motivator.

    Now I should probably answer comments and maybe think about uploading a few more stories to the wordpress version of my site. Heh.

    ***

    Current Mood: lazy
    Current Music: It Ain't Me, Babe - Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
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