femmenerd's Journal

4:41pm: when I think school uniforms are hot it's not creepy
People! WHY CAN'T I STOP READING HARRY POTTER FIC?????? There are now FIVE PAGES of [HP-related bookmarks] in my del.icio.us. Um. And also why did I have to get all soppy about a canon het pairing? I mean, it was way less mockable when I was obsessed with John/Aeryn from Farscape last month or whenever that was. Now I just might as well have a label on my head that reads: "My OTP is Brainy Girls and the Boys Who Worship Them...awkwardly." :P

I feel like I should write some porn today. Because I'm ALONE for the first time in weeks and weeks. And it's thunderstorming outside, so I'm not going to the gym. Yes, that's some logic for you. :P

I'm not sure what it'll be yet. Probably HP just to make the majority of you roll your eyes at me. Yesterday, kittyzams said she was going to make a Jared P. picspam for me by way of intervention. Haha. It's not like I've FORGOTTEN that Sam Winchester is my one true fictional love. But I should probably make C start back up with our SPN marathon that we had going before I left for the East Coast so that I can get back on track with that Sam/Dean-in-Vermont fic.

Oh and then there's the fact that I should maybe DO SOME FREAKING WORK because there's only a month before school starts up again.

What I have been doing this morning is slogging through all the fics I read offline and FB-ing and bookmarking them on del.icio.us. Hard work, man. That and eating cottage cheese with sunflower seeds and dried cranberries. Oh and snuggling with my kitty, who just can't get enough of me now that I'm back. <33333

Here's some random statistics for you. ( Pairings with the highest incidents of bookmarkage on my del.icio.us account: )

++++I fully intend to do the thing where I cross-post to my IJ and my JF account and ask people a) where are you really nowadays and b) for links to the highlights of what happened while I was gone, both in terms of wankage and also fandom production of the fic/art/vids variety. Oh yeah, and what have y'all been up to. Um, I should probably go over to those journals and like, see who has me friended and what's going on and whatnot.

But I think first I'm going to go take a bath and ponder why more people haven't been giving stoney321 links to awkward!teenage!sex fics. Come on now! Ridiculous, sloppy, hormone-driven frottage ftw! Hee. Kassie emailed me the other day to say that she was putting me on the "porn panel" at winchestercon. Hopefully I won't just go up there and be all, "Uh, I like vaginas and also dry-humping!"

ETA: I was wading through all my mail for the last month and there's a package slip for an oversized letter thing. I'm pretty sure it's my diploma. And I don't at all feel like going to the post office to get it, because the post office where my mail is actually sent is not en route to anywhere that I usually go. Urgh. I still don't have my undergrad diploma either, because it got lost in the mail and I've never felt like paying the twenty-five dollars it costs for the University of California to print up a new one for me.

ETA2: While wading through my del.icio.us I came across [this parody of one of my posts] that kittyzams made. It continues to crack me up. :P

ETA3: My new default icon of Jared lookin' all Ravenclaw-ish is, like that [Sam/Hermione fic] that I wrote, my attempt at straddling the line between obsessions. Making peace, if you will. :P Oh well, at least I've been entertaining myself during hiatus instead of creating wank for no reason (although it seems like there's been less of that since there's been REAL stuff to get riled up about).

ETA4: Does anyone else have the thing where you want to distinguish in quality between the various things you have bookmarked on del.icio.us but it feels weird because people can see? Because sometimes there are things I want to bookmark because yeah, I liked them, and then there are those thing that knock your socks off. Hmmmm. Too bad I can't have TAGS that are sekrit even if the bookmark is public.

ETA5 (mute my ass): Yesterday right after I posted with a link to that [weird-ass Rupert Grint boogying to Shakira thing] I checked my email and mona1347 had just sent me the link with a message that said: *enables* and "I am wrong in the head." I am so predictable that people are predicting me!

7:51pm: Oh dear
It's time for an intervention, perhaps.

Anyway, I'm home now. My cat still loves me. Perhaps there will be substance later. I kind of feel like perhaps I'm experiencing a backlog of not having been around for so long that is resulting in making me temporarily internet-mute. Or something. I'm probably just overwhelmed - this was a pretty confusing month for me to be offline.

Bits:

-I looked at all the pictures on my camera from my trip and realized that all the boys I grew up with really do have beards now! I need to go tell onelittlesleep.

-[insert some rambly, fruity stuff about love/friendship/nostalgia/inspiration/depression/insomnia/stress]

-Shipping leads to the reading of bad!fic. I'd forgotten, because I don't OTP 'ship in Supernatural fandom. Seriously though--ack! Esp. the kind of terrible het fic that uses weird-ass euphemisms for sexual organs, like it can't figure out if it's going to be prudish even though it's step-by-step explicit. I mean, yes, "hardness" is technically a noun but it's not supposed to refer to an object/body part - it's a quality/condition. Also! Ron Weasley is not some macho He-Man who "can't stop himself!" That's not his appeal! He's a grumpy-pants, randy, loyal sweetie-pie!/rant

Um, I did read some good R/Hr fic though, not that most of you care, and now I have some serious FB-ing to do (see: muteness).

*clams up again*

4:50pm: this post brought to you by the fact that greenapricot is not answering her phone
But I had to tell SOMEONE (of the fannish persuasion) about the weird-ass dream I had last night. But first...

Tomorrow night I will be home in Chicago and will invariably make a post asking the question(s): WHAT HAPPENED? Oh, and stories (and maybe pictures?) from my “summer vacation.”

Right now I am in mekka’s kitchen having cleaned the crap out of it in a got-rid-of-dead-bugs-on-the-windowsill kind of way as a going away present (along with a handle of gin, er). This after there was a mad explosion of pickling in here yesterday. I am waiting for disasterboy et al to finish playing music and play with me on my last night in Vermont.

I AM SO TIRED, PEOPLE. And I miss my cat. And my bed. And I have a list of late summer resolutions re: my sanity and health to implement when I get home. Last night I listened to country songs, Billy Idol and Tina Turner on the juke box at the bar with three of the women who are MOST CAPABLE of making me blush in the world, they’ve known me so long. And pondered why I seem to have had so many female BFFs with red hair and freckles in my life. Really, it’s weird. There’s been at least four, including eyesofmyeyes in my current life as well as my childhood BFF with whose daughters I made fairy houses out of ferns and berries the other day.

I also had an epic, post-apocalyptic Draco/Hermione dream last night. Like where Hermione/me was watching as resources slowly dwindled and there was some Draco/Hermione/some-dude X-ratedness involving sex acts I’m pretty sure aren’t physically possible outside of dreams.

WTF?

The other night I was swing dancing to Bob Marley with my dad in the lone meeting house/church in my home town of 900 at my parents’ thirtieth wedding anniversary party (there was also sacred circle dancing, Quaker Meeting and a belly dancing performance - I shit you not - I should make a list sometime of “signs you were raised by hippies in the 1980s”). And having to warn people about how cute my cousins are before they met them. And wondering why said cousins have to look so incestuous and gay every time I tell them I’m going to take a picture of them. And I had to STOP mekka from discussing which of my cousins is Sam and which is Dean because a) ACK! And b) it’s totally obvious.

Um, oh yeah and I totally have a mad fat crush yo on Rupert Grint. But he’s nineteen LJ![/whatever]

When I was in D.C. with mona1347 and Boy I confused a bookstore boy by purchasing the following combination of books: a comic book about Sigmund Freud, the lastest Travelling Pants book and a Gabriel Garcia Marquez book that er, could not be posted on LJ.

Um. *looks at post* Have you missed my randomness? :P

ETA: evalady is really cute and smart and freckled and across the counter from me and annoyed that she was not namechecked in this post even though none of you have any idea of who she is because she just lurks occasionally, reading the FF porn and teasing me in person about how much TeeVee I watch.

Also, ARGH, I think the wireless here is telling me that I should not be online during my last day here because it kicks me off after about a minute every time.

1:07pm: Okay, HI. I'm feeling weird about the fact that I disabled comments on my last post. And er, posted fic right before that. 'Cause I'm paranoid and I don't want it to seem like I'm all, "Don't talk to me unless you're gonna comment on my fic." 'Cause that's not how I roll.

It's just that I've been out of the loop while all this shit went down and I've also spent the last week or so in a really happy fandom place in RL. Interestingly enough ALL of the fangirls I've been spending time with are people I did not meet on LJ (RL or cons, etc.) even though they're all on my flist. So yeah, fandom doesn't begin and end with LJ even if LJ is really fucking convenient.

And so yeah, I'm all filled to the brim with silly and fandom joy while many of the rest of you all have been (legitimately, from what I can see) freaking out.

Here's what I know I'm going to do: start cross-posting all of my LJ posts to my other journals (once someone explains to me how to do that). If I *were* to stop posting to LJ it'll be a slow easing-away process, I think, because I do want to make sure not to lose track of people, etcetera, etcetera. Already before these latest developments I was planning on not supporting LJ financially anymore anyway but still use my free account (due to zee bad consumer relations). And I'm not going to erase my account because were I to erase my posts that would mostly just suck for those people--other fans--who might have them bookmarked.

ANYWAY, I have a million ridiculous things to share and I really do want to get caught up on what's going on but right now I'm at mona1347's and we NEED BRUNCH and this is my one chance to hang out with her (um, until Winchestercon, heh) and I lurv her. And it's my chance to hang out with her Boy who is most excellent. Really. V. smart and fangirl friendly and an excellent host. I mean, I mentioned when I stopped through last week that Bushmills was my favorite kind of whisky and when we showed up last night he plunked down a bottle right in front of me and grinned. And it's the FANCY KIND too. It's so nice when your friends are in love with people who are worthy of them. <3

2:25am: BTW, I *am* aware that a shitstorm hit LJ/fandom while I've been away. And I fret a bit because I still can't be online much right now in order to figure out which way is up because I come home to the east coast once or twice a year and my friends and my parents' thirtieth anniversary next week and blah blah.

So yeah, I have a GJ and an IJ and a Journal Fen account also all with the same user name if you wanted to know. (And eventually I'm going to want to know how to do all that nifty uploading archived entries and cross-posting and copying flists or whatever-type stuff.) So I assume/hope that no matter what happens I'll be able to find y'all and vice versa.

11:51pm: "Bibiliophilia" - Sam/Hermione - Rated R/NC17
Y HALLO THAR FANDOM. I am no longer at the beach. But I am still on vacation. In mona1347's living room. Perhaps tomorrow I will post silly anecdotes about my week minus internet with fangirls in a beach house, and um, where was I before that? Oh yes, in the woods with my myriad highly freckled relatives. (This is if I am allowed to do things besides watch SGA.) ANYWAY, here is a wee fic to remind y'all that I am still on the crack sauce. :P

Also, some v. imp queries:

1. Where is the GOOD Ron/Harry tag team wank fic?
2. Why is there not assloads of One Tree Hill femslash? Because that show is all about girls doing it and um, Chad Michael Murray.
3. Where is the Buffyverse/Fast and the Furious crossover fic that slashes Letty with Faith IN PRISON?

P.S. Ron/Hermione is still my happy place and I have no apologies.
P.P.S. Mona is making me watch weird shit with singing penguins.
P.P.P.S. I am still in love with Sam Winchester.

Title: Bibilophilia.
Author: femmenerd
Characters/Pairings: Sam Winchester/Hermione Granger, implied Ron/Hermione, background Faith/Dean.
Rating: R/NC17.
Disclaimer: Not mine, not for profit, don ‘t sue.
Summary: This is a Glimpses ‘verse/Harry Potter crossover, so SPN/Buffyverse/HP. Should be self-explanatory though if you’re familiar with those three fandoms. Outsider POV on grown-up!Hermione, sort of. Future for all three canons. He immediately knows that they were meant to be friends.
Author’s Note: Hi crack that I take seriously. My-brain!indulgent. Not beta-ed exactly but brandil read it and said that it was “done.” Scratch that, mona1347 just reined in my comma issues.
Word Count: About 1300.

( When he first meets her, it does not even occur to Sam that he will fuck her.  )

12:39am: July Fic Round-up, aka I lied about not posting again before leaving
I was lame this month, and it's mostly just wee ficlets.

+++Now and Later - Gilmore Girls - Rory/Dean - Rated R/NC17 - 400 words.

+++Untitled young!Dean/OFC Ficlet - Supernatural - Rated NC17.

+++Coffee Break - Buffyverse/Friday Night Lights - Faith/Tyra - Rated NC17 - 500 words.

+++Best Laid Plans - Harry Potter - Hermione/Ron - Rated NC17 - 1800 words.

I did hit five fandoms though.

++++

Show tonight was EXCELLENT, but my heart's too full to properly talk about it. It's weird to hear girls you don't know who are standing behind you in the sweaty throng of dancing people cooing about your ex-boyfriend's tattoos though, but as I pointed out to mekka the fact that I'm going to have to work really hard at not proposing when Jeffrey Foucault comes to Chicago next month means I roll my eyes discretely.

Anyway, I'm spending about six hours in the car with my immediate family tomorrow. Yikes!

Oh, and you see my icon? In my head, that's the Impala in Vermont. And though I am FAILING AGAIN at posting my 50 States fic tomorrow I'm thinking that the, er, inspiration of my recent circumstances may allow it to come together in the near future. That is if I don't just Potter out some more and let brandil get me drunk. "Let," haha. :P

2:45pm: And for my next trick...
...I *actually* disappear and stop spamming the Internet. Haven't really been online, have no idea what's going on. Haven't finished replying to comments. Um. Yeah.

Last night: hanging with family. Tonight: going to my friends' show. Tomorrow: driving to family vacation. Then beach with fangirls and intermittent invasion of mona1347 and boy.

See y'all on the 14th? 13th? Something like that.

Be good.

P.S. The Office rules.

P.S.S. If you are someone who knows my cell phone # I'll have that with me.

7:33pm: +++++So what do you guys think? Is it awkward and strange to reply to people's comments about you on the "first impressions meme?" It seems like one of those things where lots of people just don't. Like it's a time for you to just listen.

Hum.

I am SO TIRED. This entire day was full of crazy: nonstop phonecalls and random scheduling and confusion and people around me having vague drama and multiple people wanting me to do different things at the same time and running into ex-boyfriends' parents and people I went to elementary school with on the street. There was all this hugging. IT'S SO HARD BEING POPULAR. Just kidding. ( Blah blah my day blah blah Vermont Vermont Vermont blah blah )

2:19am: All my friends are asleep and drunk but I am awake so I spam
1. Earlier today mekka said semi-seriously that if Sam and Dean Winchester were to appear randomly in rural Vermont, she'd let me and Sam take her bed. THAT IS FRIENDSHIP, Y'ALL. <3

2. Confession: last night I totally stayed up reading relatively OOC Ron/Hermione smut fic where I kept thinking, "Who the hell ARE these people? And they just keep fucking!" But I couldn't stop reading it. This is a breakthrough for me, people - usually I am incapable of reading bad!fic to fulfill my NEEDS...much to my own disappointment. And there were aspects of this that mildly offended my feminist sensibilities. Yet were hot. Eep.

3. In my head Lyla/Tyra will be canon on FNL. I realize that hoping for a slash 'ship to actually happen on your show is mostly an exercise in futility, but I've been wanting all the blonde girls to dyke out on almost every TV show I've watched for years now.

4. I spent the most wonderful afternoon with my mother today. I really don't know if I'll ever have children but sometimes hanging out with my mom makes me wonder, because of the way that she loves me. I really love my mom, but I get from her that the kind of love that she has for my brother and me is something I have never experienced in my life to date. And there's a lot of love in my life. I don't think that one needs to have babies in order to fulfill one's womanhood or some such hogwash but it made me feel good to think that I might want to do something like that for the act of loving instead of the hope that someone would, like, HAVE to love me because I made them in my uterus.

5. I'm really happy right now. Mostly because there are so many people in my life that I love. I love my history, and my family and my "chosen family" and the fact that I have friends who are farmers and punks and hippies who don't watch TV/media/internet, but when they walk into the living room and ask me what I'm doing and I say, "writing Harry Potter porn," just laugh, say "of course you are" and tell me that they love me.

6. I'm still stressed out about the prospect of going home to Chicago and having to apply to academic conferences and etcetera. And I wish I wasn't an insomniac any more. It sucks. And this is a MUCH bigger issue(s) than the two lines that I'm going to allot to it right now.

7. I really miss my cat. Already.

8. I'm quite, er, chuffed at the response to that HP fic I posted yesterday. It's okay to say that out loud, right?

9. My friend J just stopped snoring on the couch to mutter something completely incoherent to me, possibly involving a rabbit. Tomorrow night he is making me marathon the Office S2 with him.

10. The "first impressions" meme is kind of fascinating to me.

10:46pm: I'm a little tipsy, why not
First Impressions Meme.

People who meet me in real life often say that I was "scary" until they got to know me. Especially if they're women. I have no idea about on the Internet. It probably deeply depends.

I'm not entirely sure how you can be scared of someone who snorts when they laugh.

2:16am: SORRY SORRY
Wow, I just spent my first free computer-twiddling evening in awhile replying to comments on ALL of my posts for the last week and more. This is what happens when I go mostly offline yet continue to pop in and make manic posts.

Sorry about that, el jay.

Unrelated, but I am having an icon crisis due to my recent acquisition of new obsessions. It's a problem. I might have to NOT have over twenty icons of Jared Padalecki-shaped people. Eep. Or maybe the other things will just have to suffer. SORRY, OTHER THINGS. Hey, look at *this* icon (by crackers4jenn)--it's something you didn't even know I was crazy about: Piz! (You should not be shocked--I clearly REALLY, REALLY LIKE awkward, earnest young men. And brainiac girls. And all that other stuff that I like.)

Also, I feel like I should apologize to HP fandom for flailing at posting to their myriad LJ communities and spamming them.

4:17pm: Harry Potter Fic: "Best Laid Plans" - Hermione/Ron - Rated R/NC17
Title: Best Laid Plans
Author: femmenerd
Pairing: Hermione/Ron.
Rating: R/NC17 for first-time het sexing, some bickering and some schmoop.
Disclaimer: Not mine, not for profit, don't sue.
Summary: Set AU Book Six-this is basically just a story about some teenagers preparing to "do it." No Lavender, so not "canon compliant" as people in HP fandom like to say. No real spoilers for anything beyond the fact that Hermione is kind of bossy and Ron is, well, a teenage boy. It’s lovely, really, figuring these things out with your best friend. But also somewhat maddening if said best friend also happens to drive you bonkers on a regular basis.
Author's Note: Both acts of beta-duty on this fic were acts of love. Many thanks to oxoniensis for the speedy and thorough Brit pick (despite the fact that she is not the BIGGEST R/Hr fan, heh) and to mekka for the handholding (despite the fact that she “doesn't read Harry Potter fic”).
Word Count: About 1800 words.

( Hermione Granger is a Planner. )

12:40pm: Attn: Brits
Do y'all use the term "hickeys?" Or are they "love bites?"

Um.

ETA: I'm almost done. Anyone up for a quick Brit check/beta? I need to get this out so I can stop thinking about it.

Issues dealt with. :)

3:29pm: nerd alert
Taking a break from sipping Compari and soda with greenapricot and mekka in our underwear and tank tops on the porch to share my crazed crossover rambly thoughts:

( Spoilers for my Glimpses 'verse and Deathly Hallows, although actually not all that severe for either )

2:07pm: Things!
1. Today is amybnnyc's birthday! Thank heavens such an excellent person was born!

2. Vacation is also EXCELLENT. Especially when there is beer, dress up parties, skinnydipping and rampant Harry Potter obsessing to be done! I don't know why I'm so much better and ACTIVE about being lazy and indulgent when in Vermont. I might just be a country girl at heart.

3. Speaking of that, greenapricot and I went to the HP movie again yesterday and she LAUGHED AT ME because I was cooing, squirming and waving my hands about the whole time. Our other friends were all, "Um, yeah, let the fangirls sit next to each other, jesus." (And don't you think that she is not enjoying the crap out of teasing me about all of this. Every time I go off on my "theories" about James Potter in comparison to other characters on unrelated TV shows, she cackles and points.)

4. Speaking of that some more, I am TOTALLY going as Ron Weasley for Halloween this year. I can look like a teenage boy! Heck, I was James in James and the Giant peach in a high school play and I essentially look exactly the same as I did when I was seventeen - which is slightly disconcerting to many people who haven't seen me in awhile. As I recall, however, binding my tits in ace bandages made breathing rather difficult. Now I just need to find me a Hermione. <3 [And side note: I think I should have realized that things would not work out when my ex-boyfriend refused year after year to be the Xena to my Gabrielle.] And mekka says that if I put up a Craig's list ad that said, "femme!Ron seeks Hermione" I would get a sizable response. Heh. But, no. (Also the reverse would make more sense, anyways.)

5. I think I sold Favorite Ex-Boyfriend (different one) on Supernatural last night, which wasn't really too hard because I can't think of a single human being more inclined to be enthusiastic about EVERY aspect of the show--after I said, "hot boys, '67 Impala, cock rock and demon-hunting," he said he didn't really need any more convincing. That did not stop me, however. :P But I have to watch Eureka in exchange because he claims it is like a cross between X-Files, Gilmore Girls and Northern Exposure and it reminds him of me because of that. And he will henceforth be referred to on this journal as disasterboy (except no, because I don't know who the hell that person is who already has that LJ name) because he says that although flattered to be referred to by the former monker he does in fact HAVE screennames of his own. He's nowhere near as much of a disaster as he once was though.

6. Holy crap, dudes, if you don't check your flist for over 24 hours, um, woah. There's just no way. Again, I'll want the highlights when I'm once again looking at the computer for more than a few minutes at a time.

7. I need some Weasley icons, man. Also Luna. Also Ravenclaw.

2:23am: Re: wtf - [OMG, GEM SWEATER]

I am in Vermont. Do you know how I know this?

1. There are trees everywhere.
2. Covered bridges.
3. Kids who can't tell if they're hippies or punks.
4. Every five minutes I see someone somewhere who's all, "omg, what are you doing here!!!11!?" Then there's flailage.

Um anyway, the entire point of this post is simply to say that I finished Deathly Hallows on the plane this morning and I LOVE IT SO MUCH SO MUCH.

( Tiny amount of random spoilery splooge - not that you care, because I'm days late. Plus, my speculation on Harry's conception. Kind of. )

You guys, I can't start reading HP fic. But where is the Ron/Hermione dryhumping fic besides [this one]? You people don't know, do you? You're all Slitherin slash and Snarry and I am a delicate flower who just wants to read about innocent, nerdy young things awkwardly humping each other.

I shouldn't be making this post, because I don't know when I'll get to check LJ again, really. Oh well.

11:24pm: I'm off! I'm off!!
Um, soon, anyway.

By this time tomorrow I will be in mekka's kitchen in Vermont, invariably bouncing around and chatting wildly.

I have been running around like a headless chicken all day running last minute errands and cleaning and such. That is, until E came over to return some books and then we drank an entire bottle of wine and I forced her to watch J2 vids. Oops.

Now I still have to finish packing and READING THE LAST 150 PAGES OF DH, omg. Because I have to leave the book here for C to read while I'm gone.

ANYWAY, I will miss you all as I'm off gallivanting all over the east coast for the next month (except for those of you who live there). Of course, I will pop my head in, since they do, in fact, have the Internet over there, but that three-times-a-day inane spam that you're accustomed to will certainly die down. Be good. Tell me about the exciting stuff I missed when I come back.

♥

Oh, and I LOVE my friends: the people who are catsitting Sammy while I'm gone have big plans to have X Files marathons and HP reading sessions over here while I'm gone while they hang out with my darling feline. I am...really going to miss him. I'm such a dork.

P.S. mona1347, I will call you in the near future to discuss my and greenapricot's upcoming invasion(s) of your home.

3:50pm: Half of you have probably finished Deathly Hallows already. I still haven't started yet, because I want to have every chore or life-logistical detail taken care of before I get into it so I don't have to think about anything else.

But! If you're in SPN fandom and actually paying attention to the Internet right now, you might want to check out this interview with Kripke regarding S3 and fan reactions and what he's excited about and etcetera. I want to hug him, kinda. [Spoilers spoilers spoilers] And this isn't spoilery, but I *really* wanted to hug his little fangeek self when he started talking about "shows he admires" like Buffy and the X-Files (and please to be not talking to me right now about when and how you think those shows jumped the shark because I'm feeling excited and optimistic right now). I wish I had one of my Kripke icons uploaded right now, but I don't. So I'll use my fanboy!Joss icon instead.

ETA: onelittlesleep has some (legitimate) concerns and I also have some further thoughts. [Note: I link to that because I want to keep track of my own thoughts but please, even if you don't agree with Heidi, don't harass her or anything.]

But now! I am TURNING OFF THE COMPUTER and READING MY BOOK ALREADY.

1:59pm: For my own records
( My HP-buying experience )

1:16pm: So I have decided to go and buy Deathly Hallows tonight and read it this weekend. This will be the first time I have ever bought my own HP book instead of borrowing it from someone else a few days after it comes out! But since I am going on vacation with multiple fangirls in two weeks and before then I'll be with friends and family who might not take too kindly to me ignoring them for the time it would take to read the whole book...

[It would basically be inhuman of me to expect greenapricot and brandil to not talk about the book in my presence for a week at the beach.]

Sadly, everyone I know who would be interested in going with me to the bookstore at midnight are unavailable. Curses. eyesofmyeyes even went to New Hampshire to Harry Potter out with her Harry Potter friend. And A, C, D, and E are all also out of town. Meh.

Other things:

++I don't know if I'll be catching up on comments and etcetera before I leave town on Tuesday. If I don't get back to you it's not because I don't like you! I'm just kind of overwhelmed and Internet-ed out.

++Re: the LJ "clarification" and etcetera: I think they're being lame and vague. And they need a PR person. I don't think it's the End of the World but I do care. And I think that joining whatisobscene isn't a bad idea since the original post in lj_biz stated that they were going to use the Miller Test and the Miller Test is community based. I'm not planning on leaving LJ any time soon but I won't be renewing my paid account - however, this was already how I felt before this most recent "incident." (But for the record I think that Insane Journal is the best alternative.)

ETA: Someone reported their own NC17, non-con, underage HP slash fic as a test case and the LJ Abuse Team responded that "The material in question does not violate our policies on acceptable content." So. Hmmmm.

++My issues with sleep/body/stress-for-no-reason are causing me to decide to hold off on writing my lynnevitational fic until it's actually flowing/coming to me. Which ideally means that I'll be posting Buffyverse fic when you least expect it and when a) you aren't reading Harry Potter or b) reading all the other (surely fantastic) stories from the ficathon.

And btw, Captain Jack Harkness is awesomesauce!

10:18am: Sleep is clearly a thing the world is still not willing to afford me...
...and so I bleerily respond to the questions hansbekhart posed to me for that Interview meme y'all were doing like two weeks ago even though I hadn't asked for questions. But I figured, what the hell. hansbekhart, who is from the town where I lived for seven years up until last summer but whom I did not "meet" until after I'd left when I read her AWESOME fic Beach Blanket Poltergeist, which is a totally fabulous plotty gen SPN fic set in Santa Cruz, CA. I read it v. soon after I'd moved and it filled me with homesick in a serious way since it is SO SANTA CRUZ, and she'd even put my BFFs-in-plurals' band on the soundtrack.

( 1. What do you miss the most about Santa Cruz? )

( 2. If you could see anything in a SPN fic, what would it be? )

( 3. Who's better, The Beatles or Elvis? )

( 4. What's something you really love about yourself?  )

( 5. If you could go anywhere in the world, where and why? )

Um, if you want me to ask you questions, I can do that?

And to be the zmillionth person on my flist to post this today, here's a new pic of Jensen from the movie 10 Inch Hero, which is set in Santa Cruz and if I hadn't moved away I would already have seen it since the SC Film Festival is one of the few places it's actually been screened.

( Haha. Those neck tattoos are totally WUSSY compared to lots of actual dudes in Santa Cruz. )

++Oh, and Jared Padalecki turns 25 today. Happy Birthday, Big J! Thanks for giving me such great fantasy material. :P You're only 3 and half years younger than me so it's cool if I perv on you - you know, that and the fact that to all extents and purposes in MY LIFE, you are NOT REAL. But I hope you have excellent and "real" birthday goodness.

11:53pm: [Spam] Because those of you who are actually out there are probably bored anyway
1. I just made oatmeal cookies with cranberries and cashews. I took one bite and just about proposed to myself right then and there. Yum.

2. If I had an icon for cookies, then I *think* I would have as many icons related to baked goods as I do of Jared Padalecki sucking face with girls. :P

2:14am: OK, so the pervs who stalk fecundfic for any and all impregnation!kink or pregnancy!fic already know about this, but:

+++The Second Time by vinylroad - SPN - Dean/OFC - NC17 - The first time Dean Winchester thinks he gets you pregnant is actually the second time he does. Warning: This has unrepentant abortion, dirty talk, and graphing calculators.

So yeah, this is a story in which Dean Winchester knocks up a girl, but it's kind of...different than a lot of other stories out there. For one thing, it's in second person POV which I know scares a lot of people but when done right, I think, can have a really strong impact. This is also not a story that particularly romanticizes pregnancy. Or anything else really. All the same, it's quite touching and the OFC's voice is really distinctive and interesting. If you're *totally* irredeemably squicked by het pregnancy then you'll still be squicked but otherwise... And if you have a moral objection to abortion, you probably shouldn't read it.

In other news! I continued to be productive but I won't detail the minutiae of that. And suddenly I really want to write a story that takes place during the time between Faith's first watcher dying and her arrival in Sunnydale - that journey. I also want it to include some Faith/OFC but...I kind of want to use Sadie who is an OFC from my SPN fic who has a large gap in her timeline after she runs away from home. Urgh. But that would maybe sortof kindof be kinda a crossover so I can't do it for lynnevitational. And I can't read any of the other fics for the 'thon yet for fear of psyching myself out. Urgh.

Work with me here, brain. We are supposed to be friends.

ETA!: Two other things I saw recently that entertained me, both fanart.
++Sam and Dean as Dream and Destruction of the Endless - SPN/Sandman crossover by ieliberte. Oh! And read the fic that inspired it if you haven't (and err, read Sandman comics, or even if not!) by musesfool - That what you fear the most could meet you halfway - It's post S2 SPN with Dean and Sam and Death and it is DEEPLY COOL. So much so that I'm changing my icon for this post.
++In case I'm not the LAST person to see missyjack's Limited Edition J2 DVD Boxset. Hee!

ETA some more: There's going to be Farscape webisodes? Years after it was canceled? Interesting. And potentially \o/.

10:20pm: Ficlet: "Coffee Break" - Buffyverse/Friday Night Lights - Faith/Tyra - NC17
Under the wire for oxoniensis's [porn battle].

"Coffee Break" - Buffyverse/Friday Night Lights - Faith/Tyra - NC17 - About 500 words - Um, a little angsty? Sort of? Porn.

And there are pictures of the hotasses featured in this under the cut, just because.

( What's your name, buttercup? )