So I was juuust getting ready to go to bed like 45 minutes ago, and was feeding the cat, when I see an ant emerging from the wall behind her food bowl. And another ant. And another, other ant. And long story short, the cat is shut in the powder room (meowing miserably, and yes, I do feel guilty) and I have bugsprayed* the hell out of the kitchen ( Read more... )

I promise I'm still around! I even live-tweeted the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. There were ballet dancers, pretty graphics, and also some spectacular fail that I hope didn't land anyone in jail cell.

So I've had to drop out of i_reversebang, to my disappointment, and probably to my artist's, too. It's not related to her art in the least; I loved her art when I chose it and I still do. But all the ideas I had have refused to coalesce into words, and as of today I've got only 300 (handwritten!) words. My 3,000-word draft is due in a week. It's not happening. ( Read more... )

Someone please try and dissuade me from purchasing yet another skincare product, even though it is the first product I have ever found that gets rid of my perpetual under-eye dark circles and puffiness, and the fact that spending $38 for something that will probably last me at least a few months isn't that bad. I don't actually want to be one of ( Read more... )

Today I did my first 5K walk ever, on two hours' notice, at noon, 80 degree weather, in a pencil skirt and ballet flats. For some reason this feels 100% appropriate.

Posted this on tumblr; thought I'd do it over here, too. :)

Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and stick that selection in a comment. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s ( Read more... )

1. Spent some time being concerned because Fern stopped scratching her post and was increasingly destroying banisters/jumping at walls/risking electrocution by pawing at outlets. Turns out her post was a kitten-sized one and now that we've gotten a bigger post she's scratching at it merrily ( Read more... )

So, does anyone else ever, like, make up names for the people who you see all the time in your office building/waiting for the bus/around the neighborhood, who you maybe talk to sometimes but you don't actually know their names? Like how the guy I always see walking his dogs used to be "Hipster Arthur" (because he looked like Arthur from Inception ( Read more... )

Title: frame the halves
Author: golden_d
Characters: Brooke (Bruce) Banner
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 793
Author's Note: My unending thanks to 51stcenturyfox for being the fastest beta who ever beta'd. <3 Couldn't do it without you.
Summary: Five things that aren’t in Brooke Banner’s SHIELD file, five things that are, and one thing she’s never told anyone. (Rule 63!Bruce)

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