So, my main priority for NaNoWriMo this year is a "Once Upon A Time" future fic where Henry, 24, and Neal, 11ish, get trapped in Neverland and eventually become Captain Hook and Peter Pan 2.0. It's going nicely. I've overcome my qualms about lopping off Henry's hand and my instinct to replace it with a new hand, because "magic!" I also really ( Read more... )

It's been so long since I've visited LJ for anything other than updating my master media list (where I'm heading into year two of watching far more old TV than movies and reading far, far too few books) or housing a piece of a fic I started on my desktop but want to work on from my laptop over dinnerbreak or when out of town ( Read more... )

Tagged by black_sluggard:
** List 10 books that had an impact on you, at the top of your head, and tag some people to do it as well. **

In no particular order, but get ready for some Star Wars:
1. Star Wars: The Crystal Star by Vonda N. McIntyre: This book pretty much discovered and cemented my love of "concerned friends" tropes, as Luke has a little nutty and ( Read more... )

So, I'm kind of ignoring my doctor, but in a good way. He told me to check my blood sugar three times per week. Like, in the morning on Monday, after a meal on Wednesday and before bed on Friday ( Read more... )

On a whim, I decided to check out the Amazon deals of the day.  Ended up with a Brita water filter, because I do spend quite a lot on bottled water. Well, technically I suppose about $5 a month, but that's a lot of wasted plastic, even though I recycle it. But with shipping, it was $27, which was more than I'd be spending if I just went to Target ( ( Read more... )

I've started reading The Magicians by Lev Grossman (after stalling out again on The Martian Chronicles and outright giving up on Secret Grave when the library was ready to charge me for it), and so far I've got a mental cast going that looks liked this ( Read more... )

It's a little old news now, but Television Without Pity is closing its doors, pulling down all of its recaps and articles by April 4 and shutting down its forums May 31. The original founders (back when the site was Mighty Big TV) have a new, similar to the original, site at previously.tv, that -- if migration actually happens instead of users just ( Read more... )

 So, I may have only won NaNoWriMo once in my life (and by kind of devious methods, too), BUT, with the conclusion of a Castle fic, I now have 52,426 words worth of completed stories on AO3. The longest story is 13,815 words. The shortest: 233.

I now have a tetanus shot and a stitch courtesy of my cat. I was taking the trash out about 1 a.m. this morning, and as I was walking through the living room, he comes darting out from around the ottoman, directly under my feet to the point that I step on him. I've  got one foot on him, one foot in the air, he's yowling and the the only way to go ( Read more... )

I know that promo-monkeys often make horrendously misleadinig promos (for which, I hate them) but I just watched this week's Castle, and this is like the third week in a row where the promo has left me worried I'm about to be beaten to the punch. Obviously not in all the details, and probably not even in overall idea, but just in little things that ( Read more... )