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[Thursday
January 10th, 2008 at 9:35pm ] |
Unfortunately, due to GJ apparently self-destructing, I've been forced to switch journals. Again. Gah.
Now I'm over at Scribbld. This journal will not be deleted, since I've got too much fanfiction on here. However, all new stuff will be moved over there. Sorry, guys.
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[Sunday
January 6th, 2008 at 12:32am ] |
( books thus far, 1-93 )
Start Date: August 1, 2007
Finish Date: August 1, 2008
Currently reading: Blood Rites, Jim Butcher; Women in the Wall, Julia O'Faolain; Pledged, Alexandra Robbins, A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin; Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke.
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| Fic: Trading Headaches Part 2 |
[Saturday
January 5th, 2008 at 11:57pm ] |
Title: Trading Headaches, Part 2
Fandom: Dresden Files/Artemis Fowl
Spoilers: Subtle ones for The Lost Colony, but I doubt you'll notice them if you haven't read it.
Rating: PG
Summary: Been there, done that, bought the entire fucking wardrobe.
( Detective-Sergeant Karrin Murphy came skidding around the corner. )
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| Fic: Not a Robot |
[Saturday
January 5th, 2008 at 9:08pm ] |
Title: Not a Robot
Co-authored by Dark Puck
Fandom: Dresden Files
Spoilers: None, really.
Rating: PG
Summary: While we're humanizing Morgan, how about we let the rest of the Wardens know?
Notes: Title refers to a hilarious scene in awanderingbard's Somnus, which you should all read. If Oliver seems familiar, he should; he got punched in Glass.
( Oliver was feeling rather important at the moment. )
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| Fic: Curse Your Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal! |
[Friday
January 4th, 2008 at 2:01am ] |
Title: Curse Your Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal!
Fandom: Dresden Files, references Firefly
Spoilers: Character from Dead Beat, references to Serenity the episode
Rating: G for unmitigated silliness.
Summary: Puck's fault. Drabble.
( This is a fertile land, and we will thrive! )
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| Christmas Fic for Liz |
[Wednesday
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:48pm ] |
Title: Up to Something
Fandom: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Spoilers: Book and musical, pretty much. Neither belong to me.
Rating: PG for unmitigated silliness.
Summary: Marguerite should just stop letting Percy out of the house. Also, Andrew Ffoulkes is apparently a book-only character, but he's so darned cute I just had to include him.
( Sir Percy Blakeney was decidedly unamused. )
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| Resolutions |
[Tuesday
January 1st, 2008 at 1:54pm ] |
Happy New Year!
So, it's time for the annual resolutions.
First of all, from last year:
1) To be more fiscally responsible.
2) To pay more attention to the world.
3) To improve my writing some more. Let's try for writing something at least five days a week.
4) To stop being such a lazy bitch and quit procrastinating on my homework. Hey, it worked a little bit! Who says eighth time's not the charm?
5) While I'm not procrastinating on homework, let's try not procrastinating on RPG posts and emails as well.
6) To be a good GM for Fool's Gold and keep it happy and growing.
7) To be a better friend.
8) To try and take life in stride more. Shit happens, and anyway, who can say what is good and what is bad?
9) To try and exercise more, so stuff like throwing my knee out doesn't happen.
10) To try and achieve more of my dreams.
11) Swear less.
1) I tried. I think I managed for the first half of the year, though the second half, not so much. I finished the summer with more money than I began it with, but first semester of the 2007-2008 school year did not end well. I think I shall stamp this one plausible and add it to next year's list.
2) Definitely didn't succeed on this one. I have this bad habit of retreating into a bubble and not paying attention to worldwide events. It's not a good habit, and I think I still need to work on improving my awareness of the world around me.
3) This I did manage. I wrote rather a lot this year (53 fics and that's not even counting unfinished stuff, the 7000+ words of Kyrie, and all my original fiction). I think I can count this one upheld.
4) Actually, this one seriously worked. I got all my stuff done and turned in on time but for a small problem with a couple of papers that was due largely to my computer dying. I'm doing much better on procrastination all around. Bonus points for me.
5) See 4.
6) I think I was a good GM. FG has grown, anyway, beyond anything I ever expected of it, and it's thriving. I am happy with this one.
7) I tried, anyway. I hope that I succeeeded.
8) This I think I actually succeed at. True, there were times when I needed to rant or speak to someone to regain my equilibrium, but things like a late midterm, or a late flight? Didn't faze me. I think I'm doing well.
9) Heh. Well, I lost a lot of weight. We'll stay with that.
10) I did this. I wanted to learn to knit, and I did. I wanted to begin to learn Mandarin, and I did. I wanted to get a poem published, and I did. I'm actively working towards my dreams, and more and more of them are coming true.
11) Succeeded in this one too. I are shiny Kat who only swore when seriously provoked.
So, for this year:
1) Be more fiscally responsible.
2) Write at least a little bit every day.
3) Read at least a little bit of something I enjoy every day.
4) Start exercising.
5) Stop picking at my acne and use my blemish stick twice a day.
6) Brush my teeth and floss every day.
7) To keep being a good GM for Fool's Gold.
8) To not procrastinate over my homework or other obligations.
9) Attempt to get over my phone issues.
10) To look on the bright side of life and people.
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| Year-in-Fic Meme |
[Monday
December 31st, 2007 at 2:22pm ] |
WARNING: HERE THAR BE SPOILERS for everything under the sun that I write about. Seriously.
( Fics )
( Q & A )
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[Friday
December 28th, 2007 at 10:29pm ] |
So I just saw The Golden Compass. Er.
Is it so very wrong of me to want Sam Elliot in several very wrong ways now?
OMG the accent and the hat and the crooked smile <33333333333 *flail*
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| Presents and Christmas |
[Thursday
December 27th, 2007 at 11:01am ] |
For my own private reference: if you have a burning desire to know what other people gave me for Christmas (and what I gave them), you may look under the cut.
( Present List )
I keep getting the sneaking feeling that I've forgotten something my father gave me, but overall I got everything on my wishlist and I am a very happy kitty indeed. *cuddles all her things of awesome* Everything given to me was given with me in mind, as opposed to my usual collection of, "Hey, I like this, I bet she would too" presents, and everything I gave was very well recieved. If people love me as much as their gifts say they do, then there's very little I can ask for, I think. Merry Hanuchristmakwanzayule, everyone, and a happy New Year!
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[Tuesday
December 25th, 2007 at 12:00pm ] |
Merry Christmas! I just uploaded all the stories I've neglected to upload to my FFN account, and I'm about to go put Snow and Misconceptions up over on the Archive as Christmas presents. Now love me and drop me reviews as presents.
Except for Puck and my boy. Puck and my boy have loved me all they need to this Christmas. *snuggles hoodie and hat of awesome and squees* My pony hoodie and Jayne hat bring all the awesome to the yard, yes they do.
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[Tuesday
December 25th, 2007 at 12:00pm ] |
![[info]](http://img.greatestjournal.com/userinfo.gif) 100moods: Dresden Files, Harry/Murphy.
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[Saturday
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:42am ] |
Due to a combination of sickness, work, newly-discovered cavity, Christmas, unexpected stress of trying to navigate a holiday without my father and brother for the first time, keeping my mother from going completely depressed and remembering why I want to get out of bed every morning,* I'm probably not going to finish my Adventfics.
Very sorry about this, folks. But you will at least have your Christmas fics in some semblence of on time.
*Don't misinterpret this statement. I don't want to stay in bed because I'm depressed, I want to stay in bed because my bed is warm and outside is fucking cold. I'm sure you can agree with this.
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[Tuesday
December 18th, 2007 at 1:43pm ] |
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...I... I think I have a fanboy.
For my original work, no less.
Like, somebody tracked down the editor for an original poem I published several months ago just to pass on his compliments in an email.
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I got fanmail.
....
Wow. This is a very strange feeling indeed.
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| Advent Drabbles #16, 17 and 18 |
[Tuesday
December 18th, 2007 at 12:26pm ] |
Aheh. So in recovering from school I appear to have neglected my drabbles. This is sorrowful. Today you may have three.
Only one of these actually had a prompt, by the way. The other two... well, you'll see.
December 16th
Prompt: Dresden Family Road Trip!
Title: Snow
Fandom: The Dresden Files, Fool's Gold
Spoilers: Well, future plans for FG, but it's nothing y'all haven't heard before.
Rating: PG
Summary: "Are we there yet?"
( There was blessed silence for all of two minutes before Maggie started up again. )
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December 17th
Prompt: This one's been begging to be written for a while.
Title: Misconceptions
Fandom: The Dresden Files, Fool's Gold
Spoilers: Nada.
Rating: PG-13 for implications of sex and domestic violence. And yet it's humor.
Summary: Jen has a chat with her roommate. Yes, this is probably precisely the story you think it is.
( Spit it out, Vanessa. )
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December 18th
Prompt: I was reading The Grand Tour again.
Title: Sons
Fandom: Sorcery and Cecelia series, Mairelon the Magician duology
Spoilers: Sorcery and Cecelia, Mairelon the Magician and Magician's Ward.
Rating: PG.
Summary: Two old friends chat about their irritating sons.
( Sons! )
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| Advent Drabble #15 |
[Saturday
December 15th, 2007 at 11:32pm ] |
Prompt: Wash's heroic tale of valor and fry cookery.
Title: Fried
Fandom: Firefly
Spoilers: References War Stories, but set pre-Firefly
Rating: G
Summary: Wash tries to get hired as a fry cook with predictably amusing results.
( Kid, do you even know how to make a burger? )
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| Advent Drabble #14 |
[Friday
December 14th, 2007 at 4:02am ] |
Prompt: Norrington and the afterlife.
Title: Peace
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Spoilers: At World's End
Rating: G
Summary: There is a calm on the water that you can find nowhere else.
( The first thing he notices is that he doesn't hurt anymore. )
Prompt me. And encourage me. It's four AM and I still have two pages to write on this fucking paper...
Edit: also Pris and Boy, will someone swing by the FG board and do something with the new app? I'm nervous about accepting it myself for obvious reasons, even though Gabrielle's not in the game.
Edit the Second: Six AM, projected three more paragraphs. Guess I'm sleeping on the plane tomorrow.
Edit the final: DONE! It's eight AM, I just pulled the first all-nighter of my college career, the resulting paper sucks, and I DON'T CARE. AHAHAHAHAHA I'M FUCKING DONE.
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| Advent Drabble #13 |
[Thursday
December 13th, 2007 at 4:03pm ] |
Prompt: Murphy/Nicholas Angel, because YES.
Title: Crossbow
Fandom: The Dresden Files/Hot Fuzz
Spoilers: Hot Fuzz, none for the Dresden Files
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Um. Crackshipping.
( I make no apologies for this whatsoever. )
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| Advent Drabble #12 |
[Wednesday
December 12th, 2007 at 1:45am ] |
First off, I must apologize to anyone who was left waiting for me tonight. Adium started hating, and then the internet slowed to a snail's pace and refused to sign me back on, so eventually I gave up. Have some shameless fluff as an apology.
Prompt: Pris is predictable.
Title: Sneaky
Fandom: The Dresden Files
Spoilers: Vague ones for Dead Beat, Proven Guilty and White Night, but if you haven't read the books I don't think you'll catch them.
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Carlos and Molly, sitting in a... closet, actually...
Notes: This is not quite a drabble, but I couldn't bring myself to cut Carlos's last line. So deal. And prompt me.
( This is your fault. )
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[Tuesday
December 11th, 2007 at 4:56pm ] |
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So I still haven't made another dent in any of the things that are due (beyond finishing my evals) but today has been a good day nonetheless. I slept most of the day, woke up in time to go fetch a transcript request so my mom can get a student discount and drop by the post office to pick up my package, then came back, read some of Emma, took a shower, had some hot chocolate out of the package, and sent my mom lots of love from here. She sent me all my comfort foods barring the ones that don't transport well and also sent me some high-energy foods like peanuts and raisens that I'm going to need for the next few days.
I love my mommy. So much.
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