amand_r

1. What's with Family Guy's Conway Twitty thing? It started with short clips, and now 7.13 had a whole performance of "I See The 'Want To' In Your Eyes". Not that I didn't LOL, but what up with this? Did Seth MacFarlane get the rights to all Conway Twitty's music or something?

2. The drawback to CLEAN ALL THE THINGS in my house is that I don't want to write. Why does this happen? It happens when I have a shitload of things to do, that's for damn sure. Wholas, kinky krimmas, the twfemfic fest, about six original fic things to do, plus that charity book thing (NO I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN, TWITTER PEOPLE). I need something to jumpstart my ass. OH AND ALSO I HAVE THAT SEASON OF TORCHWOOD WOT I BE DOING. JESUS.

SOMEONE KICK ME IN THE ARSE.

3. My fried egg fu is sufficiently warmed up, so tonight it's stout and cheddar rarebit with fried eggs and the old stand-by, carrots and leeks. Oh carrots and leeks, why can't I quit you? I am using balsamic vinegar again instead of red wine vinegar.

4. My kid is in preschool! She started Monday, and so far so good.

5. This year she wants to be Snow White for Halloween. See Mander drive from one store to another.

6. I SEE THE 'WANT TO' IN YOUR EYES.

7. Ever look at all your junk and become filled with the urge to see how much of it you can sell? Because I think that might be my new hobby.

8. Writing a short story about a unicorn showing up on a midwest farm, and it's not going to have a happy ending. But all this urban or modern fantasy, I have no idea who takes it. My horror is not going over well with the horror markets. All my rejections are like, "This is good, but it's not us. Do you have anything more us?" It's enough to make a girl turn to poetry. Which, oh hai quiet passion.

9. I keep all my books that I'm currently reading stashed about the house in places. I have, at any given time, about 8 of them, and sometimes I substitute more when I get in a new pulp crap thing that I'll do in three days (or hours). So I finished Wharton, and picked up The Abridged Tale of Genji, like a responsible reader. Then I got waylaid by The Murder of Biggie Smalls. BUT THEN I GOT WAYLAID BY LKH'S NEW ANITA BLAKE BOOK. OH MY GOD IF MY READING HABITS WERE A NASDAQ CHART, IT WOULD LOOK LIKE BLACK MONDAY. With any luck I can skim my way through LKH and back into Biggie and then into Genji and the Burroughs I cracked the other day.

10. Okay, I just want to state for the record that I find it humourous, given the general attitude that the lyrics of Death Row records used to have re: the police, that they would only hire off-duty cops for their security. On one hand it's heartening, because it shows that it's possible to believe in the corruption of some of the police dept and still believe in their abilities or that some of them are good. On the other hand it's lol.

11. I have a mental image of Jack teaching Lois, Maggie and Robert how to lindy hop after hours in the atrium, to this song. They all have their shoes off, and they're goofing off in their stocking feet in the atrium. Gwen and Dee are in their offices pretending they don't hear. But they do. Gwen gives in, but Dee puts her head phones in and listens to Barry Manilow. BEANS AND CORNBREAD.

Mum says:

Sassydemon just posted a Dr. Who story on fanfiction.net, and it turns out she did a S/R on melunsinahp's merlin/author fic. So, I'm looking at her profile page on ff.net, and wondering if any of these TW and Dr. Who fics she has there are really other fics she's done the same thing with.

Link:

http://melusinahp.livejournal.com/638885.html

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1894773/sassydemon

1. LIKE A BOSS is a new Torchwood video. No really. I think I laughed so hard I made myself spasm into sneezes.

2. So, apparently Archie is going to/has just proposed to Veronica, and not Betty. As you can imagine, there is a lot of debate. Is Veronica a rich bitch? Is Betty COMPLETELY PSYCHO? Is Ronnie a whore? Is Archie worthy of either of them? As you can see, it's a striating issue. MightyGodKing is in the Veronica encampment, mostly because apparently, Betty is obsessive and vindictive and abusive.

All the irritating gender issues aside (like, who would even WANT Archie? They're two smart hot chicks and they want ARCHIE? RIVERDALE'S GILLIGAN WITHOUT THE FUNNY HAT? I think they should go to college and discover other people. Possibly each other in the communal showers. Oh no, I have objectified Betty and Veronica. OHWAIT.), I think I'd go for Veronica. Not because of her money or anything, but because she's not INSANE. And then it gets into the who do you prefer: Ginger or Marianne, the movie star/princess versus the girl next door (who might be able to suck a golf ball through a garden hose). That said, and because my interest is waning, I have made a poll. It is shallow and everything.

[Poll #1413484]

3. My opinions on JB and the Con and the wank, let me show you them [here]. My opinions on fandom_wank, let me show you them [here]. Now he ded from coke.

4. I had a crazy ass dream that I am too ashamed to share about violence (not sex this time), because the last time I shared one, someone told me that I needed professional help, and then a professional told me that I was fine and didn't need professional help. I would rather not get into that again. It involved a frying pan and someone's face. But to be fair, they were laughing at me uncontrollably. sthayashi you were there (it was not your face, or anyone you knew), but even then, you could not fix my computer. Okay, that's not fair, because you haven't actually tried to fix my computer, not really.

What a way to end my post today. Meh. It's raining outside. Imma going to go get a Slurpee.

amonitrate, have fun with the Russians. Ask them lots of things like, 'In Soviet Russia, would the __________ really ________________? Really? Because we seem to think so. All the time.'

Who will slash ye noo? Comment 78: Methos and Duncan get a stanza.

1. I went to Terminus and saw so many people I couldn't name them all here, and plus I'm very lazy. So, hi peoples!

2. I have no friending policy. This journal, as far as entries, is either unlocked or privacy locked, so I don't get friending notifications or anything. If you friend this journal, you will see every entry I make without me doing anything. My other journal is flocked, and it's a boring life journal and has nothing to do with fandom. If you really want to find that one, it's not that hard, but I don't go out of my way to advertise it.

3. So. Here's the thing about me and fandom: I don't really care. I mean, I live fandom and I like writing fic. I may even read some, but it's not a big thing to me. I have friends that I made in fandom that have moved into RL friends, but that ceases to be a fandom thing. In fact, most of those friends have moved to other fandoms and we keep in contact anyway.

That being said, I don't have any interest in holding grudges. (Okay, I have three people I know/knew in fandom who I would prefer not to talk to. One is J-Blo, another is a person who I fought with because she didn't see slash, which now she exclusively writes, go figure, and another is someone I had a blow out with in RL) But really, I don't care about fandom feuds. Say I was a friend of person A, who was a friend of person B, and they have a falling out. Why would I be involved in that simply because I am friends with person A? More specifically, why would person C, who is a friend of person B, come to talk to me about Person A? When they have never spoken to me before? Or additionally, why would they talk to person D, who is a friend of mine about person A and person B's former relationship? If all of that was confusing, then you, like me, have either failed symbolic logic, or have never watched a soap opera.

People, I can't hold grudges for other people. I just. Don't. Care. Really. I don't have that much invested in fandom. I worry about feeding my kid, cleaning my house, finding a job and GETTING RID OF THE GODDAMN FLEAS IN MY HOUSE. So, if you want to talk to me, just do it. I'm cool with that.

4. While I'm on the record (I always do this, dammit), the reason I locked this down was because of some private wank that revolved around some fandom people I was thrown together with in a fest, and they made a point to go to my journal, which they do not have friended, and then went out of their way to read it and complain to the mods behind my back because I said I wanted to CUT BITCHES. Let me reiterate, now that the fest is over, CUT CUT CUT CUT. Like Mack the Knife. I guess I'm just pissed because I locked my journal. Why are things never cut and dried? Why does every situation have three different POVs and you can never just do what you want to do without hurting someone else's feelings? Hee.

5. I have been playing video games. Kingdom Hearts, actually. And one late night I stopped myself in the middle of a google search for Ansem/Leon/Cloud threesome fic. WTF is wrong with me? I have substituted by looking for Kyp Durron Star Wars slash. This thing I seek. It does not exist (except for a few sites whose fic did not leave me happy and squee). Also of note, writers: never refer to the penis as a pillar unless it's holding up a Greek temple or something.

6. I have seven fics and shrewreader's journal on the table, but the only one that's moving forward is somebody's Highlander Twin Peaks mashup that has the Log Lady and Methos. I keep walking around my house holding bottles of cooking oil and saying "THIS OIL LEADS TO A GATEWAY." The baby thinks I'm nuts. Actually, she just smiles and says, "okay!" I'm glad that I have taught her the proper troll response at such a young age.