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ophelietta

the midnight disease

Aug 24, 2010 01:10

Since I just posted that November fic (hurray for insomniac princesses), I've got sleeplessness on the mind. I find myself regularly afflicted with what Michael Chabon calls "the midnight disease"... midnight, when I'm trying to get to sleep, is usually when I get most of my ideas for fic, and so I blearily switch my laptop back on and enter ( Read more... )

insanity, holic, shoot me now

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evil_whimsey August 26 2010, 18:29:30 UTC

Erm. I suck with accountability, but does it help that I am gibbering and drooling with absolute joy, at the mere prospect of any of these?

And it's fine to blame me for anything. I'm a horrible dirty instigator, and enabler, and given any opening to encourage someone, I will always nudge them toward wickedness and indulging the baser inclinations. (Just ask poor pandoraculpa, to whom I send texts out of the blue consisting of things like "Summary: Doumeki Needs To Get Laid. Please write this for me. It's guaranteed hilarity.")

Oh jeezly crow, Doumeki's parents. I could weep with yearning.

ophelietta August 27 2010, 04:33:12 UTC

Drool is always an excellent incentive. Truly. :D

But the baser inclinations are always so much more fun. As are lolarious text messages of randomosity and fictional sexy good fun times. This world will always need enablers like you, so you can get us into tasty, tasty crack.

(Me and etzyofi just used to text each other Flight of the Conchords lyrics out of the blue. There was also a solid two weeks where all that we texted each other was Courage Wolf sayings, e.g. "BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW. THAN CHEW IT." Or: "CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN. PUNCH THE FACE OF GOD.")

Oh man oh man, I am hammering away at this problem of Doumeki: The Last Generation. I haven't yet reached the research/plotting saturation point where I should Already Be Writing the Damn Thing, but I cannot wait until I hit that moment.

I'll get back to you on that (as always, delightfully epic! and oh so very insightful) comment about the Twilight!fail - but tomorrow morning. I just saw Rachel Getting Married and it messed me up hard; I knew commenting to this would ( ... )

evil_whimsey August 27 2010, 19:04:09 UTC

Oh my god I need to start texting my mom with Courage Wolf sayings. Sometimes she doesn't sleep, and sends me all these loony-headed chain texts and those FWD:FWD:FWD emails from her even more unhinged dad (the latter running all along the common theme of TAKE BACK THE USA, OBAMA IS THE DEVIL'S CRAFTSMAN SCREWDRIVER SET, KIDS NEED TO BE PRAYIN' IN THEIR SCHOOLS, etc. If it weren't for the fact that my grandad is like the cranky 80-year-old self-realized incarnation of the entire John Wayne mythos, whose lunacy is so pure and over the top that it's damn near art, I would so ban that crap to my spam bin in a heartbeat. But anyway ( ... )

ophelietta August 28 2010, 02:04:25 UTC

People still Fwd? stuff? I love my gmail filters, they keep me safe from the horror of Fwd humour. Isn't it kind of beautiful though, how some people can be so completely free of irony or self-awareness during righteous speeches/e-mails of righteousness? At some point the descent into madness just stops making me gnash my teeth and making me laugh.

Anyway, I am going to try to keep my comments today and share my Twilight ramblings with you in that other thread - never fear, you have the all clear to criticize Twilight on that comm, and part of my reply should give you an idea about why. :D