Nasty White Sneakers

We need a pinch hitter! We're looking for someone who can write fluff and AUs/ARs. No dark!fic, sorry. The deadline for the pinch hit will be December 14.

If you're interested, email the Snupin Santa mods at snupin_santa @ yahoo.com. Thanks!

Urf. I am in writing lockdown until smutty_claus is done, because *draws hearts around story* but also *stabs it with a fork* a;slkjdfs.

But! Had to reappear for a moment to point out that the first-ever Harry/Scorpius Last Drabble Writer Standing competition at harryscorp100 just started. Yes, I have a soft spot for Harry/Scorpius, although no, I'm not in this competition. Just an interested observer. I only recently figured out a.) what LDWS things are, and b.) how they work, so now I want everyone to do them. :)

So, there are 15 writers in it, and each week they get a prompt, and then they write a drabble (defined here as under 500 words or so, I think or, in any case, not 100 on the dot), send it in, and they are all posted anonymously mid-week. Then readers vote for their favourite, reveals happen on Sunday, and a new weekly round begins, with one less person. Fifteen weeks later, we have a winner. Fun, yes?

Maybe I'm just addicted to reality TV shows wherein voting for favourites occurs? Hm.

Anyway, I point out this week's Week One drabbles because they are all super good. The first prompt was 'Age Disparity,' so all entries have something to do with the age difference. Scorpius is underage in some but not in others, so read the warnings and go with whatever floats your boat. I had a great time over coffee the other day reading through them and trying to decide on a favourite. No, I'm not always in favour of competitive stuff in fandom, and yeah, it sucks that someone has to be eliminated every week, but hopefully all the participants are okay with that and know not to take it personally. Anyway, if it appeals to you, go have a read through over there and vote!

In other news, I just read through a super awesome story for snupin_santa this morning that made me fall in love with Snupin all over again. Swoon!

*runs back to smutty_claus* Hope all your holiday fest stuff is in and you lot are having a relaxing weekend!

I've spent today trying to balance getting some much-needed rest with getting things done, although admittedly, I'm leaning more to the "getting some rest" side with the justification that I'll feel more capable of getting things done if I'm not exhausted. I'm doing laundry and washing dishes, though, and I'm planning to do a little housework before grading a few papers.

Meanwhile, tomorrow is the deadline for extensions in Snupin Santa, so there's a flood of incoming gifts this weekend. After tomorrow, I have to check the spreadsheet and see who'll be getting poked.

There really should be a drinking game for fandom fest mods. Something like...

Take one drink every time a fest participant asks for an extension.

Take one drink every time a fest participant assures you that they only need a couple of days to finish, but then you don't hear from them for a week.

Take a drink every time a fest participant disappears without warning and isn't updating their journal.

Take two drinks every time a fest participant disappears from the fest without warning but is updating their journal and is blatantly ignoring your emails and comments.

Take a drink every time you email a fest participant to remind them that they've missed the deadline and they tell you, "Oh, I can't do it. Sorry."

Take a drink every time a fest participant turns in their gift with a note reading, "I didn't have time to get it beta-read/my beta was too busy".

Take a drink every time a fest participant turns in their gift with a note reading, "It sucks, but I hope X likes it anyway!" Variation: they manage to slip in a passive insult of X's prompt and/or blame the suckiness of your matching skills for the quality of their gift.

Take a drink every time a fest participant turns in a .jpg with their name in the file name.

Take a drink every time a fest participant asks you a question that is answered in their assignment email (and in the rules post, which you linked to in their assignment email).

Drink the whole damned bottle every time a fest participant threatens to leave fandom forever because of you.

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Пахнет здесь смертью
призраками
намёком на кровь
и гуще всего пахнет болью



Под катом больше размером.

That's right kids! This week's issue of The Skinny Newsletter is out! If you're looking for original m/m or original f/f fiction this newsletter's for you!

This is a completely Gluten free recipe, but don’t let that stop you, I’ve yet to find a single person who didn’t love this cake!

Title: Standing Outside the Fire

Author: azurerosa

( Flourless Chocolate Cake )

Submitted by: azurerosa

The Sims 3: World Adventure ROCKS SO FREAKING HARD!!!!

http://www.almostfabulous.com/ripley/archives/2009/11/again_again.php

Ice got his H1N1 shot today. Might be too late though because I think I've caught it from K.

Spam! Wrote this not long after TDK came out but never posted it. Since the evil twin just wrote Joker/Scarecrow with similar elements, I knew I had to post it as the same time as hers or I'd never do it. Team Porn does Arkham. Arharhrh.


The Frayed Ends
Batman. Batman/Joker. R. ~1000 words. Nolanverse. Violence.
Darkness gathers into a swarm around them and Bruce doesn’t want to let the bastard take one more goddamn breath.


( Read Me. )

Just a little something to get me in the groove for doing homework. Done without access to my usual brushes so there are several big things that make me go DDDD:, but I didn't want to spend more than an hour on this. Warmup means warmup, Pondy.

Avengers. Steve/Tony. G.



( Steve & Tony Warmup Drawing )

( SPN: About last night.... (of course there're spoilers) )

The real "oh no"? SPN's not coming back until the end of January?

Oh no!

Wait, wait. Don't panic. There's still Merlin.

I only have two more holiday fest stories to write, and the only thing that's keeping me from diving into writing my Yuletide story is the fact that it would look pretty bad for the mod of Snupin Santa to be a slack-ass on her own fest. It isn't that I don't like my Snupin Santa story or that I'm not inspired. I am! But somehow, the Yuletide idea has grabbed me by the proverbial throat, to the point that I've had to open a google doc and jot down some lines and ideas so I don't forget them.

The one bad thing about writing for fests is that I can't ramble about the writing process for the stories, because they're anonymous, and by the time the reveal is up and I can talk about them, I've forgotten what I wanted to say. I suppose I could write notes in google docs and post them once reveals are up, though.

I haven't worked on my Snupin Santa story in longer than I'd like, but last night, I re-read what I've got so far to refresh my memory and get the creative juices flowing again. Looking at it with a fresh eye, I really am pleased with the idea, and I'm excited about getting back to work on it. I hope I can sneak in some writing this weekend, but I'm determined to finish the papers from my 10:00 class before I reward myself with fun writing. Or with Warcraft, because OMG I'm going into withdrawal from not having time to play at all this week, and the Pilgrim's Bounty holiday is supposed to start on Sunday.

I'm feeling better today, like I'm regaining some of my equilibrium, which I attribute in part to it being Friday and having all next week off and in part to the Starbucks peppermint mocha I had this morning. Coffee, chocolate, and peppermint: perfection in a cup.

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Spent the afternoon watching episodes of The OC with K.

Ice came home.

Aaaaannnd that's about it.

Attended a benefit dinner last night with J, maiki, and Susan for a non-profit that we've done a lot of work for. Materials that both Susan and I had designed were all over the place and it was really nice to see it all out and looking snazzy. Susan's done a lot to get their informational materials/reports looking clean and professional. I did the benefit's programs, invites, and carried over from last year was a set of promotional posters which I'm still proud of. The project, per usual, made me gnash my teeth at times, but I do enjoy working for them, and it was flattering when people whom I didn't expect compliments from told me they were impressed by the invitations in particular. :D Leading up I had this worry about the pagination on the program booklet since I worked entirely remotely and never saw a proof (or even had time to run one myself!) but everything turned out beautifully and typo-free. By this point, I've done enough recent work to have a solid design portfolio again, so with so few classes left ahead of me it's nice to have that in addition to what's shaping up to go on my reel.

I didn't mingle much, as J and I were introduced to some great people early on and there was no incentive to bother straying away from the interesting conversation to rub elbows with people outside my industry. It was somewhat fascinating attending something like this after so long, and also after now having worked on catering from the serving end! The appetizers, by the way, were awesome. I wish we offered some of them on our own menu, especially the warm cranberries and almonds in phyllo cups. Yum.

My shoes were remarkably comfortable. I haven't worn actual heels in forever and it's nice to confirm that my knee can handle hours standing around in 3" heels.

This was supposed to be anon commentporn, but then it wasn't fulfilling what the OP had asked for so I wrote it for Blue instead.

Boys' Club
X-men RPS. Hugh Jackman/Liev Schrieber/Taylor Kitsch. NC-17. 3400 words.
God, tonight he'd be a slut for it if that's what they wanted.

( Read Me. )

Dragging this SGA Santa story out of me, one sentence at a time.

I whimper at every NaNo post I stumble across. I stalled out early. Too much going on in RL, from temple, to work, to the job search, to WG not sending me my things, to the difficulty in finding time to write, to being several months out of the writing vein from having my life turned completely turned upside down.

This doesn't stop me from hoping that I can write something on this story once I get my mental pen to work.

Working tonight (yay!). I've also received my first paycheck.

I'm exceedingly grateful that I'm off for Thanksgiving Break next week, because I need the time off badly to rest and catch up on grading, which has ground to a screeching halt for the time being. I've got to finish this batch of papers by November 29, though, because I'm taking up their last papers on November 30.

Things I Want to Accomplish Over Break:
- finish grading paper #3
- edit and post the rest of "Takes the Cake"
- work on Snupin Santa story
- upload Snupin Santa gifts to the archive
- put up Christmas decorations
- work on knitted Christmas gifts
- sleep a lot

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K is still sick and I was growing concerned about strep throat because so many of her symptoms matched L's when she had it. Before I left for the funeral yesterday, I called the clinic to see if I could get her an appointment for when I got back. They said no, that I should take her to the emergency room. So I came home immediately after the graveside service, rather than going to the party/wake, and took her to the hospital where, as luck would have it, our new family doctor was on call.

He's very nice and rather young and quite handsome.

He listened to all of her symptoms and said the same thing the receptionist and the nurse said: H1N1. I pointed out that she'd had the vaccine a week ago and he said her symptoms would have been worse without it.

I told him that my main concern was her throat. He checked, said "ew", agreed that it looked like it could be strep and that she sounded like she had strep, and he took a swab. However, he wouldn't write a prescription for it because he said that giving her an antibiotic while she was fighting a virus would make her very very sick and he didn't want to do that unless it was necessary. He said the results would be back in 24 hours and someone would let me know if it was strep. If I didn't hear anything, then we should just treat the symptoms and wait it out. He also gave me an official note for the school.

Nobody called and her throat felt better today so I guess I was wrong. I'm happy about that.

Random things....

K lost her title as the only one of my children to have never visited the ER.

We both took books with us, expecting a long wait, but the time from when I finished with the receptionist until they took her to a room was approximately two minutes. Maybe less. And the wait from when we got in the exam room until the doctor came in was less than five.

K really liked this doctor, mostly because he told her to "eat popsicles and ice cream, lay on the couch, and watch movies."

The receptionist told me to make sure we used the hand sanitizer on the way out.

When we left the hospital, the waiting room was full. I've never seen it like that.

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I'm freaking sick of this being sick shit.

I've been told it takes forever to recover from Pneumonia, that it can take months. I get that. But now I'm actually starting to feel worse again--the cough is worse, the fatigue is worse, I think I pulled a muscle in my chest coughing, I'm using the inhaler again...

Grrrr. I'm going back to the Dr. tomorrow and I'm not really eager about what he might say.